Could you please do some head canons for pro player! Nash X single mom! Reader (Nash is in his early 30s and reader is slightly younger and has s toddler)?
pro!nash has been used to having 100% of his s/o’s attention in previous relations - relationships where the girl drops everything when he calls - so dating a single mum is a bit of a culture shock to say the least
but he’s not a particularly jealous sort, especially not when the ‘opponent’ is a 2 year old, and he likes dating someone who has their own life and responsibilities and isn’t always clinging to him
the only problem is that it’s hard finding time to meet up
he’s either practicing or travelling to matches, and you’ve not got much time spare between your work and your kid
during match season in particular, a lot of the relationship is just texts and late night facetimes, sending you flowers and chocolates, and getting you tickets to local matches so the two of you can spend some time together at last
he’s a big fan of surprise visits as well
mostly at your doorstep, but, one time, he decides he’s going to ramp up the surprise element x10, and picks your kid up from nursery
between your kid’s face lighting up when they see nash, and nash turning his charms on the nursery staff, it’s no wonder that they let him take the kid
but, naturally, you freak out when you arrive at the nursery and find out that a man who claimed to know you has already picked the child up
you don’t talk to nash for a day, and nash says he’ll pay for the best nursery around, because the current one’s security clearly sucks
in general, nash does a lot of paying for the kid
he may not like children much, but this one’s ‘his’ and it’s not like he’s got anything better to pay for
so nice clothes, top schools, daytrips: that’s nash’s card footing the bill
(sidenote: nash is 100% the kind of person to have experienced how damaging it is for children to attend highly competitive schools, and yet he’ll still pay for the kid to do the same)
and, of course, he can’t send the kid nice presents without buying you something nice to wear or read too
anyway, back to the child
nash may not be the kind of person who warms to children - he doesn’t find anything particularly interesting about their babble, and he doesn’t care about first steps - but he’s still good with them
and he’s particularly good with yours
naturally, the kid has a phase of wanting to be like his dad when he’s older, so poor nash patientially puts up with hours of teaching this kid how to play basketball
thanks to the belial eye, and societal restrictions on using streetball moves on literal 2 year olds, this basketball training is ridiculously boring for nash
but he still puts up with it :’)
in contrast, the kid worships the ground nash walks on and tells everyone his dad’s a magician because he can make the ball disappear when dribbling
it’s a trick that never fails to amuse the kid, even when he’s in the middle of a tantrum
yeah nash tries to be a good dad, especially during the off-season, to make up for the amount of time he spends away
anyway, final note
nash makes sure to keep the relationship very private
after all, he’s got a brand and “nash gold jr, the suave player who can be a right dick on the court” is not synonymous with “dating a single mum”
it’s not that he’s ashamed of you
he just doesn’t want you or the kid getting harassed by the media, or being tainted by association
and he likes having your home as a safe space where he’s free from being nash gold jr, pro basketballer
where he can just be nash, lover and dad
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