I am in love -Taylor X Travis

Eight

Travis POV

practice went by slowly, we ran drills and fell into a practice match.

"Kelce" i hear someone yell from the direction behind me so naturally i turn around.

"is your girl coming to the game on Monday" Patrick asked cleaning up from practice

"nah not this time" i reply following his lead and packing up the rest

"break up already?" Harrison joked nudging my side i let out a little scoff but mostly ignored him

"wait actually?" he asked again, figuring that my response was an indication that he was right.

"no" is all i say before turning around and walking to the locker rooms

"i thought she finally figured that she wasn't good enough for you man, only a matter of time huh" you know those type of people that you just want to punch yeah well he was one of them. He was always the first to get into people business, but never shy of sharing his opinion on relationships instead of engaging in his conversation i take my phone out and call Taylor

"hey you" she says immediately "how was practice"

"pretty good it felt like it took forever though, how has your day been sweet girl" i say into the phone walking out of the stadium

"it's been okay I've just been relaxing" she started then giggled "would you ever let me come to practice with you?" she asked

"you are on the other side of the world, it doesn't really seem possible does it" i point out

"not right now silly, when i have a break on tour and im with you" she says like its a fact

"i don't know sweet girl it's pretty boring"

the conversation dusted off to just simple small talk, catching up even though it hasn't even been 24 hours since we seen each other. days blended together and both Taylor and i got back into a routine hers everchanging because tour was still happening. i got back into a normal day to day life, seeing family for dinner and training for each game coming up.

It had been a week since i left Taylor to come back to KC and we had talked as much as we could but time zones made that incredibly hard. i was messaging her good morning as she was getting back to the hotel to sleep, i will say i thought it would be easier. Distance seemed like such an easy thing to work around and i thought we would be fine, that was until it became a very big part of this relationship.

Knowing that when i had a hard day and wanted to curl up next to the person i love i wasn't able to do that simply because there was a whole ocean in between us. Taylor was the type of person to always worry, about whether she was doing enough, making sure everyone else was happy before she took a second to think about herself and i love every part of her especially that part but sometimes i think that it might be easier to not have to always worry about her, and if it would be easier for her to not worry about me.

"Hi mama" i say as i walk past her and into her house before turning around and wrapping her in a hug.

"hey what are you doing here" she says returning my hug

"not happy to see me" a hand flew to my chest pretending that she hurt my feelings

"of course" she chuckled "but what's happened you seem off"

"i just- i don't know what to do" i start sitting down across from her

"about?" she asks

"Tay" i start and she raises her eyebrows