Til Death Do Us Apart

part two - Travis

"What." Taylor said sharply

"My family thinks we're dating." I repeated

Lie, Lie, Lie

"Travis! What the fuck! How, wh- why, what?!" She stuttered "Why would you tell them that?"

"I didnt! I wouldn't!" I countered

"Then why does your family think we're a thing?"

They dont.

"Taylor I think we should talk about this later." Lowering my tone. Some people had caught on to our yelling and were obviously invested.

"okay, just- just leave me alone for a minute." Taylor scoffed

Why. Why did I have to blurt that out at Taylors birthday party? Where there are people, lots of them. Lord help me.

I left Taylor alone for a while — per her request — since i knew when she said that, she meant it.

"Travis?" I heard a familiar voice ask

"Yeah?" I said, looking around

"What the hell happened?" Taylors best friend, Abigail, said

"I- I dont know. But I think you should go find Tay, she'll need someone to talk to." I admitted. As much as I wanted to go after Taylor, I caused this and I would just make it worse.

"Kay." Abigail nodded and turned to the direction Taylor had ran

I sighed to myself. My family didnt actually think we were dating. I had made it up. And now, I had to go with it.

I hoped that if I told Taylor, we could actually date.

8 years ago i made a promise with Taylor.
"If either of us aren't married by 25, lets marry each other. That way we will never be alone. Would you want to do that?"

"Of course, yeah, I think thats a really great idea Travis."

"promise?"

"promise."

I had originally asked her to do that, not for the reason id told her, but because I really liked her. I always knew she was the most beautiful girl in the world, but I also knew that I would never have a chance with her. Romantically, that is. And here we are, eight years later, 25 years old and single. I knew Taylor didnt want to marry me. But maybe she eventually would. She wouldn't brake the promise, hell I dont think shes ever broken any. One time, in middle school she cried over a pencil that she had borrowed from her friend and promised to give back, but then lost it. She keeps a rock in her pocket that I'd given her probably 10 years ago, shed promised to keep it forever. And now she could be mine, would be.

I snapped out of my haze when I heard a shuffle

"Hey." Taylor said quietly

"Tay, I- Im- Im sorry for what i said. I shouldn't have said it, not here atleast." I said after a long minute

"Yeah. Do they really think that were dating?" She asked

Come on Travis, be honest.

"um, yeah, yeah they do. My mom had seen us uhh.. at- at the park a couple weeks ago and apparently seen that id kissed you." I lied

"But you didnt"

"Thats what I tried telling her, but she wouldn't buy it"

More lies

"Oh okay, well, I guess It could be true." Taylor mumbled.

"What?"

"I mean, think about it. We have to get married now anyway, so might as well start dating, right?"