Just Like Always

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been best friends for as long as either of them can remember.

They grew up in neighbouring houses, raised by parents who were just as inseparable as they were, and spent most of their lives assuming they would always be there for each other. And they were, through college, adulthood, heartbreak, and eventually, through Travis becoming a father at twenty-three.

Five years later, Travis is raising his daughter, Phoebe, on his own, and Taylor is still exactly where she's always been, in the middle of his life.

To Phoebe, Taylor is bedtime stories, school pickups, and home after a bad dream. To Travis, she's the first call he makes for everything. To Taylor, they're just... hers.

It's normal. It's easy. It's just like always.

Until one day, it suddenly isn't.