Chapter 10

It was some hours later before Taylor had calmed down enough to satisfy his brothers that he wasn't going to kill himself. Even so, they made a point of saying (and Walker and Diana heartily agreed) that they wouldn't be leaving Taylor by himself again.

Diana also took his anti-depressants and he would only be given them now in the prescribed doses and times.

So here he was, just before they left for the sound check, on his computer. He checked into this e-mail where he noticed a message from Moira.

Taylor? Please tell me U R there.
I mean, if it turns out U R not, then I hope someone knows UR password for this e-mail account and reads this because otherwise I'm going to go crazy wondering what happened to U.
I hope U R still there tho. Because as much as making up bogus e-mail addresses is fun, most of the time they don't exist or they do and no one replies. Which is really annoying.
Tay, I'm assuming U R reading this. And I promise I would never betray UR trust.
~+~+Moira+~+~

Taylor read this a few times under Zac's eagle eyes. He remembered something that Rebecca had said to him the night before:

"Tay? I don't care who you tell but tell someone ok? If only to get whatever is bothering you off your chest. You'll feel so much better for it believe me."

He bit his lip, took a deep breath, hit the 'reply' button and started typing.

Hi Moira,
Sorry if I scared you. Zac stopped me before I could go through with it. And I was that close too! Now I feel like a prisoner. They keep watching me and they won't leave me alone. Ike has even threatened to follow me into the bathroom - but I don't think he'll go thru with it. Well, unless I 'scare' them again.
Ok, ok, I can't believe I'm going to do this. I haven't told anyone this - not even the shrink they tried sending me too. But ok, I'm going to tell you, because, I don't know, I just feel like I can tell you.
I guess it all started when that day I met Olivia

~FLASH~

Taylor let out a low whistle.

"All right, she's hot." He commented.

Isaac grinned.

"Oh, look Tay, time to start blushing - she's headed this way." He teased.

Taylor gave his brother a look.

"Hey boys." Olivia said, giving them a wink.

~FLASH~

It was not hard to notice her, she's just one of those people you HAVE to notice. A few weeks later I finally got enough nerve to ask her out on a date. And she said yes. We went out a couple of times before we officially became an item.
A few weeks after that I told her we were going to

~FLASH~

"New York?" Olivia repeated. "For a whole week?"

"Yeah, we have a couple of appearances we're going to do."

"Can I come?"

"Umm, well, no. I'm sorry. I tried conning Mom and Dad into it, but, obviously to no avail."

Olivia did not look happy about that.

~FLASH~

Chapter 11