SEEING CASEY IN SO MUCH PAIN AFTER THE REVELATION HE MAY BE A BARRETT WAS TOO MUCH FOR BRAX TO BEAR WHILE THEY WERE BOTH IN THE GYM AFTER CLOSING

WHILE IN THE RESTAURANT BRAX HAD FOUND A PICTURE OF CASEY AS A BABY IN THE BARRETT'S POSSESSIONS. HE'D ARGUED WITH ANDY, WHEN THE LAD REALIZED BRAX WAS LOOKING AT A PICTURE OF A LITTLE BOY THAT HAD BEEN WITH HIM. PUSHING HIM AGAINST THE BAR, ANDY HAD A GO AT HIM, SAYING THAT IS A PICTURE OF HIS SECRET BROTHER.

UNABLE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, NOT WANTING TO GIVE AWAY WHO THE PICTURE WAS OF, HE SAID HE FOUND IT AND HAD NO IDEA IT WAS HIS PICTURE.

WITH JOSH AND CASEY WALKING THROUGH THE DOOR, BRAX HID THE PICTURE IN HIS BACK POCKET, NOT REALIZING IT IS NOW ON THE FLOOR.

CASEY AND JOSH STOOD BESIDE THEIR BROTHERS WHILE THE BARRETT'S SPOKE ABOUT THE PICTURE THAT BRAX HAD. BRAX NOT WANTING TO TALK ABOUT IT TRIED TO CHANGE THE SUBJECT. BUT THEN THE PICTURE ON THE FLOOR CATCHED CASEY'S EYE. HE PICKED IT UP AND RECOGNIZED IT WITHOUT MENTIONING IT.

PANICKING, BRAX TRIED TO GRAB IT, BUT CASEY PULLED IT AWAY MENTIONING IT WAS HIM AS THEIR WAS A PICTURE THE SAME AT HOME IN A PHOTO ALBUM.

ANDY HAD LOOKED CONFUSED, AND JOSH'S FACE WAS UTTER SHOCK. SAYING THAT ISN'T HIM, IT IS THEIR BROTHER, ANDY TRIED TO MAKE SENSE OF IT.

CASEY HAD LOOKED AT BRAX WITH WONDER IN HIS EYES. KNOWING FROM THE REACTION ON HIS FACE, CASEY LOOKED AT HIS NEW BROTHERS NOT BELIEVING A THING.

THERE WAS A SCUFFLE BETWEEN THEM, AFTER CASEY SAID HE IS NOT RELATED TO THEM AND THAT PICTURE IS HIS.

AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED, LOOKING OVERWHELMED, CASEY HAD RAN. TRYING TO FIND HIM, BRAX FINALLY CAME ACROSS HIM AT THE GYM SOME TIME LATER.

AT PRESENT, THEY WERE SAT ON THE FLOOR, CASEY'S SHIRT OFF AFTER BRAX HAD RIPPED IT WHILE SEEING CASEY BEAT THE PUNCH BAG LIKE HIS LIFE DEPENDED ON IT.

THEY SPOKE FOR A WHILE, ABOUT WHY BRAX HADN'T TOLD HIM, AFTER CASEY HAD BANDAGED HIS TATTOO AND SAT ON THE FLOOR.

HE HATED SEEING HIM SO UNSURE OF HIMSELF, WHO HE WAS, WHAT HE WAS.

HE JUST CRIED SILENTLY WHILE REFUSING TO BELIEVE ONE THING OUT OF BRAX'S MOUTH.

CASEY SAID OVER AND OVER THAT HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE BOND BETWEEN THEM IF HE WASN'T BRAXTON. OF COURSE BRAX SAID THAT WOULD NEVER CHANGE, BUT WITH HIM SHAKING HIS HEAD, CASEY PUT IT IN HIS ARMS, AND GAVE A HUGE INTAKE.

BROKEN FROM THE SITE OF HIM, BRAX PUT HIS HAND ON HIS LITTLE BROTHERS SHOULDER AND REASSURED HIM.

WAITING FOR HIM TO REACT, HE LOOKED AT HIS FACE, ALL PALE, HIS EYES RED RIMMED. STARING AT EACH OTHER, ALL BRAX WANTED TO DO WAS MAKE HIM BELIEVE THEY WILL BE CLOSER THAN EVER.

CASEY JUST WIPED HIS FACE AND LET BRAX HUG HIM. RUBBING HIS BACK WITH ONE AND STROKING HIS CHEEK WITH THE OTHER.

CASEY COULDN'T CONTROL HIS TEARS, STILL TRYING TO MAKE THEM STOP, RESTING HIS FACE ON HIS BIG BROTHERS SHOULDERS.

A LITTLE WHILE LATER BRAX AND CASEY FINALLY BROKE THE EMBRACE. HE DIDN'T KNOW IF HE HAD GOT THROUGH TO HIM. BRAX COULDN'T TELL. HE JUST STROKED HIS FACE AGAIN, TRYING TO COMFORT HIM MORE. WANTING MORE THAN ANYTHING TO KNOW WHAT TO DO.

CASEY JUST LOOKED AT HIM FOR A WHILE. HE WASN'T SURE WHAT TO DO NEXT. ALL CASEY WANTED WAS TO FEEL CLOSER THAN EVER. PLACING THEIR FOREHEADS TOGETHER, GIVING EACH OTHER GLANCES NOW AND AGAIN UNTIL ONE GLANCE LASTED LONGER.

GIVING HIM AN URGE BIGGER THAN BEFORE TO HAVE HIS BROTHER ALL TO HIMSELF, CASEY PECKED BRAX ON THE MOUTH.

BRAX WASN'T SURE THAT WAS WRONG AS IT WAS JUST A PECK, BUT SINCE THEY HADN'T MOVED, CASEY WAS KISSING HIM AGAIN. ANOTHER PECK, A COUPLE OF SECONDS LONGER THAN THE FIRST. BRAX HAD NO TIME TO REACT. HE JUST WANTED HIM TO BE OK, SO HE WENT THROUGH WITH IT.

THEIR THIRD KISS WAS LONGER. THEY KISSED EACH OTHER AND LET THE MOMENT TAKE THEM.

MAKING OUT WAS JUST A WAY TO MAKE CASEY FEEL BETTER. GRABBING HIS HAIR, BRAX KISSED HIM DEEPER, THINKING NOTHING MORE OF BUT CASEY. CASEY, THE GUY HE REALIZED THIS VERY MOMENT HE LOVED MORE THAN ANYONE. (NOT IN THAT WAY). ANYTHING WAS WORTH IT TO MAKE HIM HAPPY.

CASEY PUT HIS HAND BEHIND BRAX HEAD AND THE OTHER UP HIS TOP AT THE BACK.

WHEN HE TOUCHED HIS BARE SKIN, BRAX PAUSED, STARED AT HIM WITH THEIR LIPS A CENTIMETER APART THEM GRABBED HIS FACE WITH BOTH HANDS AND KISSED HIM LIKE HIS LIFE DEPENDED ON IT.

LONGER IT LASTED, 5 MINUTES, 10 MINUTES. TONGUES POKING IN AND OUT NOW AND AGAIN.

CASEY HUGGED HIM TIGHTER, CLOSER, RUBBING HIMSELF AGAINST BRAX. WANTING THEM TO BE ONE PERSON, SO NEVER TO BE PARTED.

BRAX MOVED ONE HAND DOWN CASEY'S BARE CHEST, THE OTHER IN HIS HAIR, STROKING HIS STOMACH. LISTENING TO HIS BROTHER MOAN THE LOWER BRAX GOT GAVE HIM AN ANSWER TO WHAT CASEY NEEDED.

HE STROKED HIS PANTS, FEELING HIM HARD, CASEY MOANING LOUDER, TAKING A DEEP BREATH AND KISSED HIM HARDER, STICKING HIS TONGUE IN MORE.

KNOWING CASEY WANTED MORE, BRAX SLOWLY UNZIPPED HIS PANTED, TEASING, TAKING HIS TIME, PLACING HIS HAND INSIDE, OVER HIS BOXERS, SLOWLY RUBBING, KISSING THEN STROKING HARDER, MASSAGING EACH OTHERS TONGUES .

BRAX RUBBED HIM FASTER AND HARDER UNTIL CASEY BROKE THE KISS, LEANED BACK AND MOANED LOUDER THAN BEFORE. BRAX PLACED HIS HANDS INSIDE CASEY'S BOXER AND RUBBED HIM, WATCHING HIM TAKE DEEP BREATHS.

STRANGELY, BRAX LOVED WATCHING HIM MOAN, WANTING MORE. BRAX WAS MORE HAPPY TO OBEY.

IT WASN'T LONG UNTIL CASEY FINALLY CAME. A HUGE MOAN, A BIG INTAKE OF BREATH AND HIS EYES CLOSED, HIS CHEEKS RED, AND BRAX ZIPPING HIM BACK UP. IT HAD NOT SUNK IN YET WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS WRONG.

BRAX GRABBED HIS CHEEK, CASEY KISSED HIM, AND THEY JUST HELD EACH OTHER, KISSING, STOPPING FOR A BIT EVERY COUPLE OF MINUTES, LOOKING AT EACH OTHER WITH NOTHING BUT A CLOSENESS, APPRECIATION, LOVE, (BROTHERLY LOVE IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW). THEY CARED DEEPLY FOR EACH OTHER, HAD NO INTEREST FOR MORE, JUST WANTED THEIR BOND TO BE STRENGTHENED, AND IT HAD. IT HAD.