Isn't That Sweet? | Tayvis Stories

Betting On Us Two (6/6)

March 2025

"Travis, don't you think you're putting a lot of pressure on this?" He heard Jason's voice come through the phone while he was nervously stacking clothes into his suitcase. He had just finished talking to his nieces before they went off to bed when his brother decided to ask him if he was excited for his vacation, which at this point was just code for the proposal.

Naturally, that sent him off on an anxiety induced tangent where he tried to mentally go through the plan enough to verbalize it. Both his and Taylor's families had heard this at least ten times, but Travis didn't care anymore. "No, it has to be perfect." He folded more clothes into his suitcase.

He was packing early for his trip with Taylor. She was currently in New York, finishing up some things she had been working on in the studio, before she flew back to Kansas that evening. Two days later, they would be hopping on a flight to go to a private beach resort, a well deserved vacation after she had finished up her tour and he had come out of the football season. They had just gotten that coveted third-in-a-row win, and he was still running off the adrenaline from it, fueled even more by the fact that he would finally be proposing to Taylor.

Kylie's voice had come through, saying, "I think she will be thrilled no matter what you do. And you know, logically, that it's not going to go exactly as you plan it."

"Not with that attitude it won't." He didn't really care what everyone else had to say at that point. He had a plan, and he was going to follow it step by step. It was romantic and grand. He hired a private chef to make Taylor's favorite meal, then planned a walk on the beach where they would get to a boat full of candles, flowers, and wine. He would get down on one knee, make his rehearsed speech, ending with that one special question. And it would all be caught on camera by one of her security guys, so she could relive that moment even years after. He would make it the best for his girl; Taylor didn't deserve anything but his full effort.

"I think you're being a little dramatic." Jason had used that line several times before, and Travis really did not want to hear it anymore.

"Don't know why you would think that. I'm being perfectly normal about this. I'm just nervous. Anyone would be nervous in this situation." He was trying to convince himself that it was okay to be this anxious.

He caught the look Kylie gave Jason over the Facetime call, before she asked, "Jason, were you this nervous before you proposed to me?"

Jason shrugged, "Honestly, I was just trying to get it over with."

"But I don't want to just get this over with. I want it to be special, memorable." This wasn't just any small moment. He only planned on proposing one time in his life, and as far as he knew, Taylor only planned on getting proposed to once as well. He had to make it count, for both of them.

"Travis, the special and memorable part isn't going to be where and how you do it. It's going to be the fact that you did it in general. Taylor is so chill, and she's fucking obsessed with you. You could propose to her by a dumpster, and I think she would still swoon." Jason scoffed, and Travis would get frustrated, but secretly he knew how neurotic he was being over this.

But, he wouldn't admit that and give his brother the pleasure of being right, so he simply replied, "That's ridiculous."

Then Kylie turned into the voice of reason, "Jason, just leave him alone. He wants to make it nice for her. It's endearing that he's so nervous."

He could see Jason roll his eyes, giving in. "Don't understand why you would be so nervous when you know she is going to say yes, but by all means, keep stressing yourself out for no reason."