Trevor

Trev is the son’s friend who is asked for a secret during the scene under the pines. Trev, revealed as Buford’s grandson, works on the farm to escape his grandfather. Trevor appears as a teenage farm worker drinking neon‑yellow Gatorade, openly hating his dad, wearing a WWII army helmet, and discussing the low‑grade tobacco crop. Trevor is mentioned as the narrator’s friend who watched him dance in the tobacco barn. Trevor accompanies the narrator on the night bike ride, smokes a cigarette, shares a Snickers, and comments on the rumored presence of Ray Allen in the hills. Extensive new details about Trevor's background, actions, appearance, and attitudes are revealed, including his age, reckless driving, scar, likes, violence, and relationship with the narrator. Narrator learns Trevor died the night before his arrival in Hartford; flashbacks reveal his drug use, scar, job, and their pact of never saying goodbye. Trevor’s overdose death is confirmed; details of his favorite media, Jolly Ranchers, Call of Duty, and his seizure scene are provided. Flashback to an intense sexual encounter with the narrator in a barn, followed by a river scene; Trevor is already known to be dead earlier in the narrative. Trevor appears half‑asleep beside the narrator, discusses buffaloes, asks existential questions, and playfully punches the narrator’s arm.