Overcomer (complete)

Ch. 29 New Job, New Place, New Life

Trey Pov*

Taylor: So you're really doing this. You won't even tell me where you're going.

Me: I can't. I'm sorry. It has to stay secret.

Taylor: I'm going to miss you.

Me: I will miss you too, but this'll be good for me. We'll text, just promise me one thing.

Taylor: Anything.

Me: Don't text or call me until I text or call you.

Taylor: Why?

Me: Because just trust me.

Taylor: You aren't the most trustworthy guy, Trey.

Me: Please, Tay.

Taylor: Fine.

Lexi: Come on, Trey, we gotta go.

Lexi had decided to move back to Hawaii and was taking the boys with her. The house was being left to Mac. Lex and I argued about it for a long time. I didn't want Mac to live there anymore, but Lex finally convinced me that if we ever want to come back to live here, we don't want our house to be sold to someone else.

Trevor: So Mac really isn't going to say goodbye to us.

Lexi (hugging his neck from behind and leaning down on him): No. You fucking brother pissed her off.

Me: Shut the fuck up, Alexis.

Lexi (glaring at me): You haven't called me that since we were little. Never call me that again.

Taylor (hugging me, turning my attention back to her): I don't want you to leave.

Me (wrapping my arms around her small body): Taylor, I have to.

Taylor pulled away a little and looked into my eyes with tears filling her own. One tear escaped and I wiped it away.

Me: Please don't cry.

Taylor (with mor tears falling): I can't help it. You're my best friend. I'm going to miss seeing you everyday. School is going to be awful and I just got you as my boyfriend and now I'm going to lose you. It feels like part of me is leaving and never coming back.

I hugged her tighter. I felt bad about leaving, but I had to leave. I also had this growing sadness and guilt building in the bottom of my stomach. My mind trailed to Jordan and when I had sex with her when I thought Taylor was cheating on me. I hated myself for doing that. I wish I would have never done it. I felt so bad. Taylor didn't know still. No one did. Actually I take that back, Mac did. We never told her, but she knew. That's why she wasn't saying goodbye to me now. She can't stand the way I treat girls. She told me when I started dating Taylor, if I did anything that would crush her and break her heart, Mac would kill me, reincarnate me and then kill me again. She knows that Jordan and I had sex, so instead of killing me, she disowned me. If you ask me, being disowned is worse than being killed.

Me (quietly): I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Travis: Trey! Let's go!

Me (to Taylor): Bye. I will call you when I land.

Taylor (pecking my lips): Bye. I love you.

I got into the car and looked at her. She looked at me with confusion and sadness in her eyes.

Taylor: Are you gunna say it back.

I looked at her with all of my guilt coming out. I felt so bad that I was going to do this to her. Mac is gunna kill me.

Me: I'm not sure I am the guy to tell you that. Tell Jordan that she has to tell you. I can't bear to see you face when you find out. I am so sorry, Taylor.