Crossed Paths

Chapter one

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Chapter one.

It had been two days since the Julian Noble Show, it was all Kevin Chalk could think about.

"If only they knew, if only he'd told the truth." He thought to himself as he lay in bed on a sunny Saturday morning.

It had all started seven years ago, up until then he was a normal kid with a mum, dad and brother.

"Oh how things changed." He thought.

His mum never cared about him, not really. His brother was always the favourite.

Kevin knew how childish it sounded but in his case it really true.

He loved his brother, truly he did. They were close they'd talk all the time and he send him money when he could.

This is all his mums fault Kevin thought angrily to himself. If only she hadn't of broken her to him, her promise to come back, back for him.

He wouldn't be in the situation now, he knew his secret couldn't come out.

If it did so many lives would be ruined and he would never be able to to live with himself that happened.

He was scared of what would happen to his mum if people of his existence.

His mum had told him that if he ever told, they'd take him away and he would never see her again and that scared Kevin more than everything because despite everything he loved his mum, he cared for her. He wanted to protect her.

He almost felt wrong loving his mum, because he knew she didn't love him, even though he was her son.

No his brother always came first in her eyes, never could do nothing wrong, her precious baby she called him.

To her Kevin was an inconvenience, a problem.

But despite everything he had gone through he had his girlfriend, he smile at the thought of Dynasty.

She was way out of his league but he didn't care, she was his girl and he intended to keep her for good.

Kevin cringed at the thought of his headteacher, Rachel Fleet.

If only she knew, would it make a difference?

Would she view him in a different light?

What would she say?

What would she do?

No she's married, she doesn't need some kid hanging around.

"She wouldn't believe me anyway." Kevin thought to himself, as a tear rolled down his cheek.

It was back to school on monday and that's when Kevin would see him, he'd see his brother and he knew it was all going to go down hill from here, question was.

Was he ready?

The next two days passed in a blur, soon it was Monday, and he wasn't sure if he could face meeting his brother again let alone facing the whole school after his 'past' was unveiled.

It was a daunting thought, meeting his brother again after five years, his brother may have helped him in more ways than one can imagine, without him his life would be far worse, money would come seemingly out of nowhere.

Kevin wasn't even sure where the money came in the first place, they had gradually grown away and then an e-mail arrived out of the blue for no reason whatsoever.

The whole school was under the impression that someone called 'Daisy' was his mother but that wasn't true Daisy was just some person pretending to be his mother, they had invented some story just for the show, none of it was true apart from the fact that he got kicked out when he was ten.

He felt sorry for Daisy when Carol slapped her, but he couldn't show it, but it was Carol's way of accepting him into the family.

He was grateful to them, and every day it pained him to lie to them, but if he told them the truth, it would make his situation seem more real.

His life was a lie; Dynasty, Carol, Barry, Imogen, Connor, Mrs Fleet they all believed the story Julian Noble spoon fed to them, he was after all a pretty convincing liar.

"Kevin?" A voice said, and even after seven years Kevin recognised it in a heartbeat.

"Philip?" He said, smiling at his brother's presence, his brother was now in his twenties and he was finishing university.

"You came back," he whispered, when his brother hinted about coming to get him he never believed he'd actually do it, it was shortly after the Julian Noble show aired that Kevin got the e-mail that could alter his life forever.

"Course I did, I promised didn't I?" Philip said uneasily that was when Kevin realised something, his mum had moved on; something had happened, something had happened Kevin was sure of it...

"Anyway, how old are you now? Seventeen?" Philip asked.

Kevin nodded his head numbly,

"you'd best get to school then, where do you go to school?"

"Waterloo Road," Kevin replied in a mere whisper.

"But that's it Rochdale!" Philip exclaimed confused.

"They moved to Greenock last year," Kevin supplied.

"Really? I remember going to Waterloo Road when I was your age..." Philip said.

"You did?" Kevin replied before asking the question that had playing tricks on his mind, "how's mum?" he asked, Philip's face darkened.

"She's okay, she got herself a new bloke a few years back, they had a kid- a daughter," Philip said nervously as if he was treading on bombshells, Kevin was amazed...

He always knew his mum would move on sooner or later, but to know that it actually happened was like being knocked over by a ton of bricks.

"Kev, I'm sorry," Philip said, Kevin bit his lip, honestly he expected it to happen, but how did Philip fit into this equation?

"When did this happen?" He asked.

"About four years ago, a-a year after you left," Philip said bowing his head, Kevin couldn't believe it he had a sibling and he didn't even know about her?

"Oh," was all Kevin could manage, "I'd better get going to school."

"It's off to Waterloo Road we go!" Philip said whistling away trying to lighten the spirits, today was the day he was reunited with his brother, yet somehow his bright eyed ideas weren't exactly going according to plan...

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