Best Friend's Brother
Chapter 1: The Meeting
Jennifer Cates was in nursing school when she met Cade Stetson. He had been a patient she was treating as part of her internship at a hospital. Cade was a business man and had been talking on his phone and got hit by a bike messenger one day. He had ended up needed a few stitches. When the pair met, it had been love at first sight.
The two dated and married quickly. They were happy. Jennifer finished nursing school and became a bonefied nurse. When Jennifer got pregnant, Cade became distant. The surprise work visits ended. The romantic dinners stopped. Cade worked more. After Jett was born Cade couldn't take it. He left and Jennifer had been left on her own to raise her son.
Jennifer took Jett and moved home into her parents house for awhile. Jett was happy and Jennifer eventually got a nursing job at a local hospital. Everything was going good for the two.
Jett was four years old when Jennifer announced she was getting married to another man and that she was pregnant. Jett did not really know his father, so he gladly welcomed Kenneth Knight into his life. He was really nice and treated Jett nice too. Jett was happy that he was going back to have a little brother or sister. He wanted someone to play with.
Nine months later Kendall Donald Knight was born. Jett, now five remembered sitting in Kenneth's lap and holding his baby brother for the first time. He remembered feeling so cool and so happy to finally meet him.
By the time Kendall was four, Jett couldn't stand him. He was annoying and always wanted Jett to play with him. Jett hadn't been thrilled when Jennifer announced she was pregnant again. He put on a happy face and the small family welcome Katherine Claire Knight to the family not long after.
Once Kendall started school he made a new friend, Dak Zevon. Dak was over at the Knights house so often he practically lived there. Jennifer and Kenneth didn't mind having him over either. They liked that Kendall had made a friend and told Jett he should try and make friends. Jett just rolled his eyes and would walk away.
One day Dak was over. Him and Kendall were playing with cars. Jett thought it was childish and decided on watching TV, which was hard to do when you had two loud mouthed five year olds in the room. The two started rough housing a bit and Kendall got hurt. Dak panicked and Jennifer came running. She looked at Kendall who had cut him finger on glass from a broken picture frame.
"I sowee, we didn't mean to," Dak said his eyes welling with tears.
"It's ok sweetie," Jennifer said kneeling down in front of Dak. "It was an accident, just remember next time no playing rough in the house, ok?" She said in a sweet voice. Dak nodded his head. Jennifer smiled and told him to go watch TV while she bandaged Kendall's cut. She left the room with her son.
Dak grabbed his toy cars and walked over to the couch. He sat down next to Jett. Jett ignored him until the kid spoke.
"You got pretty eyes," Dak said. Jett turned to look at the kid.
"Um, thanks I guess," Jett said slowly. He looked back to the TV.
"Do you wanna play cars?" Dak asked.
"No," Jett replied.
"You can be the blue one," Dak said holding it out to the older boy. "It my favorite one, but you can play with it cause you cool," he said. Jett arched a brow at the boy before holding his hand out for the car.
The pair moved to the floor and started playing with the cars. They raced around the coffee table. Jett smiled as he watched Dak talk and play. Kendall ran into the room with Jennifer who had a broom and dustpan. Jennifer cleaned up the broken glass. Kendall asked to play and Dak allowed him. Jett rolled his eyes but continued to play with the two.
"See Kendall I told you he not mean," Dak said.
"What?" Jett asked.
"That cause you don't live here," Kendall replied. Jett shoved Kendall. Kendall glared at his brother and the two started fighting. Dak tried to stop them but was unsuccessful.
Jennifer came back into the room. This time she wasn't as forgiving. She sent Jett to his room scolding him that he should know better and not fight with Kendall. She then told Kendall to be nice otherwise Dak would have to go home.
Jett stomped out of the room. It was unfair that he was getting punished for what Kendall started. It was just unfair. Jett fell down onto his bed and laid there. He wasn't sure how long it had been before the door opened.
"Go away!"
"I just wanted to say sorry."
Jett sat up and saw Dak standing by the door. He was looking at the floor and had his hands clasped in front of him.
"It ok," Jett sighed. It wasn't Dak's fault. It was Kendall's fault.
"Really? I didn't mean to get you in trouble, if I had knowed that was gunna happen I wouldn't ask Kendall to play," Dak said quickly.
Jett sat there a moment. Kendall was Dak's friend not him. Why was Dak being so nice to him.
"Don't you mean me? I thought Kendall was you're bestest friend in the whole world," Jett said.
"He is, but I don't like seeing you sad and you looked happy when you were playing," Dak said walking into the room. He climbed up onto Jett's bed and sat down beside him. "Kendall can be mean an' I told you mom he started it."
"Thanks kid," Jett said smiling slightly. Dak smiled from ear to ear. He then threw his arms around Jett in a hug. Jett was shocked but gave the kid a small pat on the back. Dak sat back and looked at Jett.
"You are nicer then Kendall says you are," Dak said with a big smile.
"Sure," Jett shrugged.
"Dak, you mom is here to pick you up!"
Dak quickly said good bye to Jett and ran from the room. Jett sat there a moment watching where Dak had left. He hadn't expected the kid to be so nice to him. Jett hadn't really been nice to Dak much over the last few weeks since he had met him.
-Best Friend's Brother-
Jett was sitting in his bedroom alone. He had just had the weirdest conversation with Jennifer. She has explained to him that Kenneth wasn't his biological dad. That mean he wasn't the man that made her pregnant with Jett like he had with Kendall and Katie. Jett was confused and wanted to know who his biological dad was. Jennifer explained everything about Cade to him. She also mentioned that he had moved back to town and wanted to see Jett.
"Why now?" Jett asked confused.
"I don't know sweetie," Jennifer said sadly.
"He didn't want to know me as a baby so I don't want to know him now," Jett said logically. If this man wasn't nice then he didn't want to meet him.
"I can't force you Jett, but he would like to meet you just once," Jennifer said.
"Why?" Jett asked again.
"I can't answer that sweetie, but just think about it," Jennifer said placing a hand on his shoulder. Jett nodded his head and promised to think about it.
So here he was laying in bed wondering about his real dad. Why hadn't he wanted to be a part of his life before? Why did he change his mind all of a sudden? Jett had so many questions. He didn't know what to do.
His door opened slowly. Jett sat up and looked at Dak. He had that big goofy smile on his face. Jett gave him a small smile. Dak wasn't as annoying as Kendall. The kid was starting to grow on him.
"You ok?" Dak asked climbing up onto the bed.
"Yeah, I guess," Jett sighed.
"What wrong?" Dak asked looking at Jett with those big greenish brown eyes of his.
"I just found out my dad isn't my real dad and my real dad wants to see me," Jett said knowing the kid would understand.
"Do you wanna see him?" Dak asked.
"I don't know, he didn't want me before," Jett said.
"Neither did my daddy at first, but mommy told me he wants me now. I like my daddy he nice," Dak said quickly.
"Really?" Jett asked. Dak nodded his head.
Jett sighed, if this five year old could forgive his own dad, why couldn't Jett. Maybe he did really want to be a part of his life now. Maybe he was ready to be a dad now.
-Best Friend's Brother-
Jett looked to the door as he waited for his dad to show up. He was so nervous about meeting him. What if he wasn't nice? What if didn't like Jett? What if Jett didn't like him.
"Jett," Kendall said walking up to his brother. Jett looked down at the kid. He didn't know what was going on.
"What do you want Kendork?" Jett asked his brother.
"My name is not Kendork," Kendall said glaring at his brother.
"Go away, I'm busy," Jett said quickly. Kendall sighed and walked away. That had been easier than Jett thought. Jett decided to watch TV. Maybe he wouldn't be so nervous.
Eventually Cade showed up. He took Jett to the zoo and they talked and had fun. Jett didn't call him dad though. It didn't feel right. Kenneth was his dad, not this stranger, no matter what Jennifer had said. Once Cade brought him home he promised to take Jett out again. Jett like that, it seemed like it might be fun.
As Jett walked inside Kendall and Dak were right there waiting to hear about his trip to the zoo. Dak wanted to know if he had fun and if Cade was nice. Jett explained his day to the two and said that Cade wanted to take him out again.
A week passed and Jett didn't hear anything from Cade. He asked Jennifer if he had called, but he never did. Jett kept asking and waiting, but after no call came he started to lose hope. He stopped sitting by the phone and he stopped running to the door every time someone knocked.
One day Jennifer and Kenneth sat Jett down to talk to him. They explained how Cade wasn't ready to be a dad. That Jett shouldn't get his hopes up anymore.
"I don't care," Jett said glaring at the floor. He then looked up to Kenneth. "He's not my dad, you are."
Kenneth looked shocked at that. He recovered quickly and hugged Jett. "You don't have to see him anymore if you don't want to," he said.
"I don't," Jett replied.
Jett excused himself from the room and headed up stairs to his bedroom. He shut the door and felt a tear trickle down his cheek. He didn't know why he was crying. He barely knew the guy. He just felt so unwanted. Jett fell onto his bed as he tried not to cry.
Someone knocked on his door. Jett didn't move to open it. It opened on its own. He looked up to see Dak standing there. He walked into the room and climbed up onto the bed.
"Are you ok?" Dak asked.
"I'm fine," Jett said stubbornly as he sat up to look at the younger boy. Dak quickly gave Jett a hug. Jett smiled at the action. He didn't know why this kid comforted him so much. It made him feel better over this whole deal with Cade.
"Come on let's go play outside," Dak said grabbing Jett's hand. Jett sighed and allowed the kid to led him from his room to the back yard where Kendall was with some other friends he had made. They all welcomed Dak and he introduced Jett to them. They all quickly started talking about hockey and started playing a small game in the back yard.
So there you go an introduction chapter. We get to see a little bit of Kendall and Jett's relationship with Dak. More to come and I hope you like this.
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