Текст книги "Love Me Back"
Автор книги: Michelle Lynn
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“I promise you Trent, we will get you back to where you need to be. I will be here for you.”
“Promise Maddy?” He whispers.
“I promise.” I’m not sure what I just agreed to but Trent being upset has always made me do desperate things. Even if I pick Gabe which I’m not so sure right now, I still want to be there for Trent. He is my best friend and I can’t desert him, not when he needs me so much.
Trent turns around and hugs me wrapping his strong arms around my waist. I forgot what it feels like when he would rest his head on top of mine burying me into his chest. His naked chest smells of his soap making me close my eyes savoring the moment. I pick up my head to stare at him and see he is doing the same. We have weaved in and out of a love relationship but our friendship has always remained. We let that falter this year but I won’t let it happen again and from the look on Trent’s face he won’t either.
Just when I am about to move away, I hear a key go into his lock. Before I can grasp what is happening, I hear bags crashing to the floor. Trent and I turn around and my body runs cold. Gabe is standing in the doorway pale faced with glass bottles broken all around him. I see how he looks and I know he is fearing the worst.
“Sorry, I didn’t mean to interrupt. I was just coming by to drop off the alcohol for the bachelor party. Guess I will get out of your way.” He turns around slamming the door behind him. I am surprised he got all that out because I am still speechless.
“Gabe!” I scream after him, unlocking my arms from around Trent I start my way to the door but Trent grabs my wrist.
“Let him go Maddy. Don’t worry, he will move on.” He pulls me back to him. How could he be so callused? Gabe is his brother.
“What? Move on?” I don’t wait for his answers. I am already jumping through the glass tip toeing my way to the door.
“Come on Maddy, don’t do this. You belong here, with me.” Trent isn’t following me, just assumes I will listen to him, like always.
I don’t turn around to him or answer him, I swing the door open running down the hall and I am thankful to find Gabe at the elevators. His face is red and he is holding his hand with his left while blood drips down his forearm. He hears me coming and tries to slip in the elevator when it dings but I am able to slide in before the doors slide shut noticing the huge dent in the wall I gather from Gabe’s hand.
“Gabe, please listen to me.” I get right in front of him. I forget how intimidating he can be up close. His shoulders much broader than Trent’s and his biceps much bigger.
“No Maddy, I don’t want to hear it.” He is talking so soft I can barely hear him.
“It was late, I just spent the night because we had both drank.” I am talking so fast because I know when the doors open he is gone.
“How convenient. I don’t want the details of your drunken fuck Maddy.” He clenches his teeth.
“No, Trent slept on the couch. It wasn’t like that.” I am pulling on his arms trying to make him look at me. The elevator is dropping floors so fast I can almost feel him leaving me already.
“You just happened to bring pajamas with you?” He raises his eyebrows.
I stare down at my tank top and pajama pants. The ones Trent never got rid of.
“No!” I scream. “Trent had these in his drawer from before.” I can tell he doesn’t believe me though.
“I’m such a fool Maddy. I actually thought you picked me yesterday. I should have known. It’s always been Trent, hasn’t it?” He starts talking louder.
“No, I do. I pick you.” I answer in a panic. Third floor passes by and I can’t have him leave like this.
“Answer me one question Maddy.” He finally looks me right in the eye and I want to breakdown right there. I have torn this man apart; his eyes are turning dead right in front of me. “Do you still love Trent?”
The bell beeps and the doors open. I don’t answer Gabe, I can’t. I do love Trent but I don’t know to what degree or in what capacity.
“That’s what I thought. Good-bye Maddy.” He sneaks past me and out the doors.
“Please Gabe.” I beg falling to my knees in front of the door. I can’t hold my cries in any longer. I move over on my knees to press Trent’s floor, then collapse against the wall staring at Gabe’s blood drops on the floor. What have I done? I think I just let the love of my life slip through my fingers.
Chapter 17 – College Junior Year
Finals are over and I can’t be happier. One more year left and I will be a college graduate with a Bachelor of Arts. I am packing my dorm room because Mackenna, Bryan and I rented a house for our senior year. I am thankful I don’t have to spend another summer at home with mom and her boyfriend of the week. No more cleaning her mess or locking my door at night in case a stranger stumbled in. I won’t have to wait in my room until I hear her leave for work or act like I am sleeping when she returns in the middle of the night with some guy smelling of booze and cigarettes.
I already lined up a job at the rec center, a requirement from my dad since he is paying my rent along with tuition. He will be coming out in a couple weeks to see the house he has only seen in the pictures I sent him.
My clothes are all packed in suitcases, my books in boxes. My closet still has a mass of miscellaneous things scattered across the bottom. There is the purple plaid box in the corner. I forgot all about it, transporting it home and back the last few years. I open it and then shut it quick. I shouldn’t do this now. This is going to be a happy day, moving on my own. Don’t ruin it I tell myself but I open it anyway.
The pictures are scattered in the box along with little trinkets from the trip. It includes a bottle of sand with seashells in it. It isn’t the one you bought in a souvenir shop, we made them together, each taking one home. As a tear runs down my cheek I realize I should have listened to myself, I shouldn’t have opened this box.
After that night in Cancun when Gabe kissed me, he showed up at my doorstep at nine o’clock the next morning.
“What on earth are you doing here this early? It’s vacation.” I rubbed my eyes opening the door but crawling back under the covers.
“We have four days, twenty-one hours, thirty six minutes and eighteen seconds get your lazy ass out of bed.” Gabe pulled the comforter off of me.
“What the fuck is Asshole number two doing here?” Mackenna asked throwing a pillow over her head.
“Let’s go, both of you. It’s vacation we have places to be.” Gabe striped us both of our blankets.
“Where?” I asked reluctantly sitting up.
“Breakfast, pool, beach.” He jumped onto my bed crossing his ankles resting his arms behind his head. “Now go get ready, I want to spend every waking hour with you before we leave here.” He whispered in my ear.
My face turned a nice shade of pink and I automatically stood up digging for my swimsuit. Gabe and I were standing by the doorway waiting for Mackenna to join us but she threw a pillow at us to get the fuck out. Laughing we left the room and I shut the door and Gabe pushed me against the wall kissing me. “Good Morning Maddy.”
“What a nice morning it is.” I smiled.
Gabe and I spent the next four days together. We hung out at the pool, went parasailing and shopped. Gabe showed up every morning at my room and kissed me goodnight every night at my door. Although we did nothing more than kiss each other it was the most intimate time for me which is why it surprised me the morning Kenna and I were to leave to find a note from him tucked under my door.
Maddy,
I hate that I am writing you this letter instead of telling you. I tried a million times tonight but I couldn’t say it.
Let me start off my saying how amazing these five days have been. When the boys dragged me down here I never thought I would not only run into you but be able to spend almost the whole trip with you.
Being able to touch you, grab your hand or kiss you whenever I want has been a luxury I’ve wanted for a long time. I meant what I said on the beach that night, my feelings for you run deep. Even though I can’t explain them completely, I know you could be the one for me. You could be the one that makes me forget all others and live happily ever after.
Unfortunately, I am not the only one that feels that way. I hope you understand why I have to do this. You could never hate me as much as I hate myself for walking away from a woman so perfect for me but my brother saw you first. I have to honor my promise to him. I have to let him have his chance with you. Let him prove us both wrong. Let him prove he does deserve you.
I ask that you give your whole self to him and see where it takes you both. As much as it kills me it won’t be with me I hope you find happiness with him.
I will love you always Madgirl.
Gabe
I fold the letter back up putting it in the plaid box. Wiping the tears in my eyes I contemplate how I let him slip out of my life. I have only seen Gabe a handful of times after that letter and we gave each other politely awkward hellos and good-byes.
I took Gabe’s advice after that letter and starting talking to Trent about a month after we got back from spring break. He came home that summer for a month and I let him court me but like always Trent was more concerned about his life than my own. When he got a call to play in Europe for the rest of the summer he was on the next plane swearing we could do the long distance relationship.
The phone calls went from daily to weekly to finally it had been two weeks and I hadn’t heard a thing. When I would call him it sounded like a party, with girls and guys hollering in the background. Trent too distracted to have a true conversation. He never came home that summer before he went back to Thrayer University and I didn’t hear from him until about a month after school had started.
I had already written Trent off at that point but like always he begged for forgiveness stating if he wanted a career in soccer he had to take this serious and couldn’t be distracted. Of course I forgave him and we rekindled our friendship. We didn’t talk every day or every week. We lived out the next two years of our college life as friends, e-mailing and texting with the occasional phone call. We never asked if either one of us was dating someone not that I was anyway.
Now as I put that box away in my duffle bag, Colt walks into the room to grab my boxes. Colt is Bryan’s new best friend and will be moving in with us as well.
“You ok” he asks noticing my tears.
“Yeah.” I wipe my face.
“Great, one day and you already have pms. Should be a fun year.” He grabs another box heading out the door.
The four of us get into an easy routine of household chores, although Kenna and Bryan do the majority since they are usually home more often than Colt and myself. Surprisingly it isn’t awkward sharing a bathroom with Colt which was my biggest fear going into this.
I have finally become myself again. I came to terms with Trent and Gabe each holding parts of my heart but I let them both go. Trent has to pursue his dream of soccer and Gabe needs to find a girl who can give her whole heart to him. I made peace with this decision and am content with it.
The four us are having a roommate dinner on Sunday night, a tradition Bryan made us adhere to. Regardless of plans we all make our way back by seven o’clock, he even made a rotating schedule so two people cooked the meal but it varied on who it was. Tonight it is Colt and Kenna’s turn and since neither one is not even close to a chef we get a pasta salad and burgers. I don’t know what Colt will make when winter comes and he can’t grill.
Although Bryan tells us all to shut our phones off I must have forgotten when I hear it ringing in my bag on the couch.
“Don’t even think about it Maddy.” Bryan warns me with his fork.
“Let me just turn it off.” I say to him having no intention of ignoring the call.
“Make it quick.”
“Ok Dad!” I say to Bryan and the table bursts out in laughter.
I dig through my bag realizing I missed the phone call but hear the ding indicating I have a voicemail. I dial it up really quickly and am happy to hear Jack’s voice.
“Hey Maddy. I need you to call me back right away, ok? Please Maddy.” Jack’s voice is desperate and pleading.
Before I can redial his number, I hear Kenna’s phone ringing. Bryan tells her to shut it off but she gets up from the table laughing holding it up to answer and Bryan starts chasing her. Colt seems completely oblivious eating his third burger. Bryan wraps his arms around Kenna’s waist as she says hello.
“Hey Jack” her voice confused to why my brother would be calling her. “Yeah, she’s right here hold on.” She hands me her phone even though I am still holding mine in my hand.
“What’s going on Jack?” I ask.
“Listen Maddy, I need you to come home.” Jack sounds upset and sad. I automatically think my mom has finally done it, she has killed herself by drunk driving or she overdosed.
“Why?” I whisper back to him.
“Just please come home.” He begs me.
“I want to know why. Did she finally fuck up her life even more? What did she do now?”
“It’s not mom, its…Dad.”
I drop the phone and sit on the couch with my head in my hands. Mackenna hurriedly picks up the phone talking to Jack. I don’t hear the conversation or what they are talking about. Bryan sits by my side taking me into his arms assuring me everything will be alright even though he knows nothing. Colt even puts down his burger coming over to the couch to see what all the commotion is.
Mackenna hangs up my phone and I feel Bryan stare up to her before he hugs me harder sliding away letting Kenna take his spot.
“We need to go home Maddy.” She whispers in my ear while her arms hold me tight. “Your dad is in the hospital.” She waits a couple minutes while I breakdown before she continues. “Let’s go upstairs and pack a couple bags.” She inches me up leading me to the stairs.
Kenna packs our bags and the four of us pile into my Jeep. Bryan drives while Colt sits shotgun. Kenna texts the whole time while I stare looking out the window. She tries to tell me what is going on but all I register is that my dad passed out at Jack’s and he had to call the ambulance. Kenna says my dad hasn’t woken up but the doctors are taking blood and doing some tests to figure what is going on. I just want to get there. I know Bryan is driving as fast as possible but I want him to warp into some tunnel so I could instantly appear next to my dad.
Two hours later we finally pull up to the hospital. Bryan drops Kenna and me off at the entrance then he and Colt go to park the car. Kenna has taken complete charge which I can’t thank her enough. She rushes to the receptionist to find out where we need to go. She is practically dragging me since my body won’t move. I can’t believe I am here to see my dad lying in some bed unconscious to the world around him. She hits the elevator button then pulls out her phone to text someone.
The elevator door opens to the waiting room and Lindsey embraces me. “Oh thank god you made it. Come with me.” she pulls me away from Mackenna. I look back at the room seeing Mr. and Mrs. Basso, Doug and his wife, Lindsey’s parents, The Edwards and lastly my eyes notice the blue eyes staring back at me filled with so much sorrow I almost breakdown. He is telling me with his eyes, the news isn’t good. Making sure that I prepare myself before going in. He doesn’t walk towards me giving me the distance he knows I need right now.
Lindsey practically throws me into the room and my dad is lying there with tubes and wires hooked up to his body. There is a beeping sound coming from the machines next to him. Jack is sitting next to him holding his hand, his head down on the bed. If it wasn’t for the beeping of the machines meaning my dad was still alive I could have thought he was dead. Jack picks his head up with relief that I am there.
Jack’s hair is in a million different ways showing how many times he ran his hand through it. I hear the streaks of the chair across the linoleum floor, I know Jack is coming and I will the tears not to come. When his big warm arms surround me they release in a gush. I sob into his chest while he smooth’s my hair telling me we will survive this. He tells me our Dad is a fighter and everything will be ok. The problem is Jack’s appearance doesn’t match what he is saying and we both know it.
I take a chair on the other side of my dad from Jack while Lindsey stays by the windowsill. Jack fills me in what is going on. The doctors don’t know much yet, says they are still running tests but they think he had a stroke. An hour later a nice male doctor who doesn’t seem much older than Jack tells us our dad actually suffered a heart attack and they need to take him to surgery right away. Right as the young doctor is telling us the specifics of what happened and what we can expect my mom comes bursting in the room.
She trips over the doorframe falling into the doctor.
“Oh…nice.” She remarks looking the doctor up and down as he catches her. “What happened to him?” she nods her head in my dad’s direction. I can smell the cigarettes and alcohol on her. She is wearing a tight black skirt that hangs just past her ass along with a black halter-top. Her hair is down and curled and her eye make-up is as smeared as the red lipstick across her teeth. I roll my eyes in exhaustion giving Jack a questionable look to why he called her.
“I’m sorry, are you related to Mr. Jennings?” The doctor turns to my mom.
“I’m his wife.” She remarks and I gasp.
“Ex-Wife” I declare staring at her with what I assume my most evil eyes.
“Madeline!” She says my name curtly indicating she wants me to shut-up and I do but mostly to keep her mouth shut as well.
The doctor doesn’t skip a beat, he must be familiar with dysfunctional families. He instructs us to go to the waiting room, the surgery will take approximately four hours and he will come and get us when it’s over. We each take our time saying good-bye to dad conveying our love of him with our assurance we will see him come out of this. Jack goes first and then he and Lindsey leave making me thankful he will have to deliver the news to the waiting friends but upset that I am stuck with my mom. I go second as my mom instructs me insisting she should go last for some absurd reason. Does this woman not remember she divorced him?
I walk down the long hallway alone while nurses stare at me with grief in their eyes. Do they know something they aren’t telling me? I don’t want to face all those people in the waiting room but that’s where this hallway ends I can’t escape them now. Rounding the bend my heart is beating faster than a race horse.
Mrs. Basso is the first to embrace me whispering in my ear how sorry she is and they will do whatever I need. I nod in the shoulder of the woman I consider my mother. She holds me tight and I don’t think she is ever going to let me go and relief washes over me. The people in this room love me, love all of us and that is why they are here to support us in any way we need them.
Mr. Basso pats me on the shoulder in his silent way telling me the same as his wife. All the other family members hug me and reassure me my dad will be ok, that he is a fighter. I know they can’t guarantee my dad will survive but what are they supposed to say.
Bryan and Colt are sitting with Mackenna next to the Edwards, Kenna lets everyone touch me before she steps in. She puts her arm around my shoulders and I think she is going to lead me to the vacant chair next to her but she turns at the last minute and releases me into Gabe. The feeling of his welcoming arms eases my shoulders letting them collapse while he holds me steady. He sits down in a chair encircling his arms around me on his lap. His hand keeps my head firmly placed in the crocked of his neck. He doesn’t assure me everything will be ok or that my dad will pull threw. He doesn’t say my dad is a fighter. He just assures me he will be here for me regardless of what happens. That he will get me through this nightmare to the other side with or without my dad. Those words mean so much to me and the fact that they came from Gabe means even more.
Gabe and I stay like that for an hour. No one interrupts us. No one comes by us. I hear conversations being carried on around us but I don’t want to leave my security in his arms. Gabe doesn’t seem very interested in letting me go either.
“Do you want me to get you something to eat or drink?” He whispers softly to me.
“No but if you want something I can get up.” I go to get up from his lap suddenly feeling awkward. I haven’t had a real conversation with him for over two years.
“No, I don’t need anything.” He pulls me back down intertwining his hands with mine. “I know this isn’t the right time, but I am enjoying the hell out of this.”
I start cracking up laughing and the room looks over at me but I can’t control myself. I don’t know why it isn’t as though what he said was funny. Maybe it is the tension in the room or the fear of something happening to my dad but it feels so good to laugh.
“You’re making me look like a schmuck.” He bites his lip to keep the smile at bay.
“I’m sorry, I don’t know what is wrong with me” I put my head back in his neck trying to conceal my laugh.
“Madeline.” I know the cold voice that states it; I don’t need to lift my head in acknowledgement so I don’t.
“Sorry Mrs. Jennings. I made a careless joke making her laugh. I meant no disrespect.” Gabe speaks for me since I refuse to look up at the woman who shouldn’t be here.
“Please keep it down and Jesus Madeline sit in your own chair.” She hisses before turning away.
I get up to crawl in the chair besides Gabe but he holds me firm. “Don’t even think about it.”
I must have dozed off because by the time the doctor comes out it is only Gabe, Jack, Lindsey, my mom and Kenna there. I stood holding Kenna’s hand with Gabe’s hands resting on my shoulders from behind. Jack holds Lindsey close to him while my mom stands to the side.
“He’s out of surgery but it is still touch and go for a while. We will know more in the morning. He is in the ICU, let him recover for tonight and come back in the morning.” He instructs.
I don’t feel right leaving but everyone guarantees me it is for the best. I reluctantly leave to spend the night at Jack’s. I take the guest room and Gabe goes home for the night. I think my mom thought I would spend the night at her house but I have no reason to be with her. She probably went back to the bar after she left the hospital anyway.
Jack tells me Gabe is in town visiting his family when they got the call but he is supposed to be leaving to go back to Florida in two days. I ache thinking of him leaving me again but I wouldn’t hold him from his dreams. Jack discloses to me later that evening that Gabe and a couple buddies bought a house on the beach and are in the process of flipping it to use the extra money to start a real estate company. I know Gabe wants to be his own boss and I am not surprised he is already attaining it.
The next morning Gabe is already at Jack’s to pick me up for the hospital. Kenna wanted to stay in town but I told her to go back with Bryan and Colt and I would call them with any changes. Although classes haven’t started yet, they all have jobs and I don’t want them to lose them on account of me. She grudgingly left saying she has a couple days off at the end of the week and she will come down.
Gabe and I follow Jack and Lindsey to the hospital. They won’t let Gabe into the ICU since he isn’t family, Lindsey is only allowed since we told them she is Jack’s wife. The nurses say not much has changed in my dad’s condition but to be patient it can take some time.
I go from the waiting room to my dad’s the whole day. I told Gabe to go ahead and leave but he insists this is where he should be. The last time I went out to check on him he is on his cell phone. His back is turned to me looking out the window so I stand silent waiting for him to be done.
“It’s not that big of a deal, only a couple days.” He is angrily talking to someone. I assume his buddies in Florida.
“That is nothing, come on, this is ridiculous.” He puts his hands through his hair leaning against the wall.
“Listen, get your ass up and stop thinking about yourself for once.” His voice is escalating and I don’t want him to make a scene with the other visitors in the waiting room so I tap him on the shoulder. His eyes dart to mine and they shift from narrow and mad to sympathetic and apologetic instantly telling me who his talking to. I put my hand out for him to give me the phone and he does.
“Hello Trent.” I say.
“I’m sorry Maddy, I just got word about your dad. I wish I could be there but they won’t let me out of practice.” He rambles on.
“That’s ok Trent.” I don’t cry even though I am on the brink. Gabe looks at me in disbelief that I am letting him get away with not coming.
“You know I would if I could Mad. Its senior year and all. You understand right?” He asks.
“Yeah I understand.” I say and Gabe turns around throwing his hands up in the air.
“I love you Maddy. Call me if you need me ok? I’ll keep my phone by me.” I can tell he already wants to cut the phone call short.
“Ok, bye Trent.” I say.
“Bye Maddy. Can you give me back to Gabe now?” He asks.
“Sure” I hand the phone over to Gabe. I am so frustrated with him I feel the tears welling up in my eyes desperate to find a release but I push them back. I will not cry over Trent Basso again.
Gabe takes the phone and walks over in the corner of the room whispering. Although I can’t hear his words I see the pent up fury he in unleashing on Trent. Then he points like Trent is right in front of him resembling a father scolding their child and hangs up the phone throwing it into one of the chairs.
I hurry back to my dad’s room before Gabe sees my reaction to Trent not coming. He needs to cool down and I need to push my tears away. My dad holds priority right now not Trent. When I get back to the room Jack is smiling and looking hopeful. Lindsey had gone down to the cafeteria to get them something to drink.
“Was there a change? Did Dad wake up?” I desperately ask.
“He squeezed my hand.” He exclaims. “The nurses said that is a good sign.”
“Oh my god, really?” I sit down across from Jack taking my dad’s hand but he doesn’t squeeze it.
Jack and I hold on to each of my dad’s hands waiting for some movement. We talk about memories of when our parents were together, family trips we took and holidays spent together. I forgot how many happy times there were when my parents were together. I know the divorce was my dad’s fault as much as my mom’s but that doesn’t change the fact that she is not a mother to me in any way. Talking about her makes me realize she hasn’t even come to visit today.
Lindsey and Gabe come in about an hour later. They are laughing but stop suddenly when they enter the room seeing Jack and I staring at them confused.
“I told them he was Maddy’s fiancé and they said he could come in.” Lindsey smiles knowing she deceived the nurses.
“Breaking the rules Mrs. Jennings.” Jack laughs waiting for Lindsey to come over and join him.
Gabe walks over putting his hands on my shoulders. “Any change?” He asks.
Jack excitedly tells him the news about my dad squeezing his hand. Lindsey kisses his head hugging him in happiness.
“You guys go get something to eat, Maddy and I will stick around here.” Gabe tells them.
They look at each other assessing the other. “Thanks Gabe.” Jack gets up taking Lindsey’s hand. “Call me if anything happens.”
“We will, just go relax.” I instruct them.
We watch them leave looking more at ease, at least the calmest they could look under the circumstances.
“Get up.” Gabe taps me on the shoulder indicating to get out of the chair.
“Why?” I question still sitting down.
“Because.” He takes my hand leading me out then sits down in the chair pulling me onto his lap. “I am taking full advantage of the situation.”
“Oh I see.” Wrapping my arms around his neck. “You have my permission to take as much advantage as you want.” Resting my head on his shoulder.
We talk about my school and where I want to live after I finish. Gabe tells me about his friends and the house they bought. He says they have a whole business plan together and hopefully he will be his own boss one day. He misses his family and Belcrest but since two of his business partners are Grady and Ryan, his two best friends from college it helps being so far away.
An hour later my dad’s machines start going off. Alarms and beeps are blaring and my dad’s body starts thrashing around. Gabe runs out of the room to get the nurses but a medical team is already running towards him to get in the room. They tell him to take me out in the hallway so he grabs my hand pulling me out the door and I see a nurse coming in with a crash cart.
I huddle next to Gabe waiting for them to come out and tell me he is ok but instead ten minutes later a doctor leads me to a private room down the hall and tells me the news I feared since the first call from Jack. My dad is dead. He suffered a stroke that took his life.
I am surprised to find I shed no tears. My eyes are dry as the desert. Jack comes up after Gabe texts him and he breaks down crying while Lindsey holds him close whispering in his ear. We are each able to go into the room to say goodbye. Jack takes ten minutes to my two. I can’t stand to see him lying there limp and pale. He is not the father I know and I don’t want to remember him like that.
Two days later we were burying my dad. Gabe stands by my side the whole time. Kenna, Bryan and Colt come down from school to attend the wake and the funeral. Kenna helps Lindsey plan the luncheon after the funeral. Doug, Jack, Mr. Basso, Mr. Edwards, Bryan and Gabe are the palm bearers. It is a nice quiet funeral with family and close friends. Trent never comes home.
