Author Notes: It was so sad when Kieron died so here is this fic; Posted on this site in loving memory of Father Kieron Hobbs.

I started writing this fic a while ago, it is basically a look at Kieron's life before he came to Hollyoaks.

Kieron is age 15.

I hope you like it.

Life Before John Paul

Part One

The boy was tall with blonde hair and blue eyes, Kieron couldn't help staring at him. The boy caught his eye and grinned; Kieron automatically grinned back, but then immediately felt annoyed with himself. He had been battling feelings like this since he was thirteen and he had thought he was winning.

His parents were very old fashioned and strong Catholics, therefore from the minute Kieron had found out what a homosexual was it had been drummed into him that this was a sin, therefore it was absolutely unthinkable that he would become one.

With immense difficulty Kieron pushed thoughts about the good looking boy out of his mind and tried to concentrate on what he was doing. He had volunteered to help out with a church bring-and-buy sale and he was supposed to be trying to encourage passerbys to buy the rubbish that was on the stall he had been put in charge of. Unfortunately he could not bring himself to persuade people to buy old McDonald's happy meal toys, even if it was for the poor.

Out of the corner of his eye, Kieron noticed the blonde boy he had been staring at leave. He felt a rush of disappointment, at the back of his mind he had been sure the boy would come and speak to him, or maybe he had just been hoping the boy would come and speak to him.

Over the next week hardly a minute went past where Kieron wasn't thinking about the great looking blonde boy. It frustrated him that however much he tried he just couldn't seem to get that particular person out of his mind. What was wrong with him? How could he be so infatuated with a person he hadn't even spoken to?

Even though Kieron had hoped he would see the boy again the realistic part of his mind assumed he never would. Therefore he could hardly contain his surprise when he spied him over the top of his hymn book at church the following Sunday. What shocked him even further was the fact that the boy was staring right back at him and when he realized he had got Kieron's attention he gave a cheeky grin and a wink. Kieron blushed deep scarlet without being entirely sure why he was so embarrassed.

Once Father William's sermon had ended and everyone began to file out of church, Kieron silently panicked, wondering what he should do. Would the boy expect him to go over and talk to him, or should he wait to be approached? Or would the boy just walk out of church without giving him a second glance, leaving him feeling more confused than ever?

Unsure of what to do Kieron got up to follow his mother out, when she was called back by Father William.

"Mrs. Hobbs, have you met my nephew?" He gestured to the blonde boy standing next to him, who, to Kieron's horror and delight, was the boy who he had been thinking about for the past week.

"All of you meet Thomas my brother's eldest son," Father William said beckoning to the whole of Kieron's family.

"Thomas this is Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs and their three sons, Luke, Kieron and Nathan." Thomas said a polite hello before the priest continued, "Thomas is staying with me for a while because his mother is in hospital and unfortunately he doesn't exactly see eye to eye with my dear brother, so he decided he would prefer to come and stay with me for a while. We are all praying Alicia gets well soon, but I'm afraid Thomas may be around for a while so I was hoping your boys could show him around because they are of a similar age and I'm sure he doesn't want to be stuck with me all the time."

Part of Kieron jumped with joy at the Priest's words because part of him wanted to spend as much time with Thomas as possible. However the other part of him was annoyed, why couldn't Thomas go away, disappear, so that Kieron could forget him and forget about all the confusing feelings he had for him. Before Kieron could work out which part of himself he agreed with most his mother had arranged for Thomas to come round their house that afternoon.

Author Notes: Please Review and tell me what you think.