Always//Tanner Fox

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I stared at my phone and waited for the notification that tanner uploaded the video to show. I sighed and reached over for my water when I heard a ding come from the phone. My heart started to race and I picked up my phone. There it was, the YouTube notification 'tanner fox uploaded a video "something we need to tell you" 12 sec ago'. It felt like my heart stopped.

Not even two minutes later, my phone started blowing up with dm's, messages, and comments from all kinds of people.

I felt tears come to my eyes and I couldn't even bring myself to look at them.

"Baby? Are you alright?" Tanner asked walking into my room

"I think so?" I said as more of a question than an answer

"You know you'll have to read them eventually, right?" He asked walking towards the bed.

I sighed heavily and nodded my head. "Yeah"

"Let's read them together" he said grabbing my laptop and laying down in between my legs. I sat up straight and he placed the back of his head on my stomach. When he logged on, he had thousands of notifications and they were still going off.

We both sighed as he clicked on the video and he scrolled down to the comments. There was the usual 'first like' and 'first comment' comments. But when I saw the first comment about the baby, my heart started beating out of my chest.

'Congrats you guys! Can't wait til the baby is here'

Most of the ones I saw were helpful and supportive, like one I saw 'now that we know about the baby, will you bring skylar back into the videos? I miss her sooooo much'

And the one I saw from another teen mom 'I went through the whole teen pregnancy thing a couple of years ago, and I want you to know that you are beautiful. Don't ever feel ugly and don't ever feel ashamed of this baby. It will be a wonderful thing so don't be scared or nervous. I promise you will never be blessed with a better gift'

I felt a tear fall and tanner placed his hand on my knee.

Then I started to see some hate comments like 'that baby is an abomination' and 'you're too young, you'll just ruin the baby's life'

But to my surprise, there wasn't many hate comments, at least not as many as I had expected.

"See babe, it wasn't as bad as you thought, huh?" He asks tilting his head up to look at me

I took a sigh in relief and shook my head. I kissed him then closed the laptop

"What did you do that for?" He asked looking back up at me

"Come here please" I said, motioning for him to come closer

He rolled over and crawled over me and I wrapped my arms around his lower back and stared into his eyes.

He smiled at me and ran his fingers through my hair "I love you, sky" he said kissing my forehead

"I love you" I replied and smiled at him

We both looked over at the door as it swung open and Jacob appeared in the doorway

"Hey...did I interrupt anything?" Jacob asked hiding behind the door

"No, no, you can come in Jacob" tanner said looking at him then rolling off of me

"Ok good" he sighed in relief then came and sat in the chair across from my bed "so, tanner...I know you have that meeting soon"

"Yeah?" Tanner said sitting up

"I was wondering if I could take skylar to chili's today? She's been talking about craving chips and salsa all today and yesterday" Jacob asked glancing over at me then back at tanner