Okay here is chapter 2!
Due to a review that I received about the first I have tried to make the chapter longer.
Chapter 2: Persuading Kyle
The two brothers nodded at each other before Brax knocked on the door. A young woman with blonde hair answered the door. She looked at the two men who stood before her and asked, "Can I help you?"
Brax replied, "I hope so. I'm looking for a bloke named Kyle Bennett."
The woman once again looked at the two men and said, "Sorry, I don't know anyone by that name."
Heath said in a voice that showed that he didn't believe her, "Is that right?"
The woman replied, "Yeah, sorry." She began to close the door on them. However, Heath was too quick for her and he put his foot in the door to stop it from closing.
Brax said, "Look, we're not here to cause trouble, we just want to talk to him. He's our brother."
The woman digested this information before replying, "Kyle doesn't live here anymore but I can give him a message for you. I'm Mac; Kyle's a good friend of mine."
Brax smiled, glad of the progress and said, "I'm Brax and this is Heath," as he pointed to himself and his brother who was stood next to him, "We just wanna talk to him."
Mac nodded, "Okay. If you give me your number, I can contact you after I've spoken to him and let you know what he wants to do."
Brax dictated his phone number to Mac who inserted it into her phone.
"Thanks for this. Just tell him that we wanna talk, that's it."
Mac responded, "I will do."
"It was nice to meet you," Heath said with a checky grin. He then removed his foot from the door as Mac closed it. The two brothers walked away from the door and went back to their motel room, waiting for the phone call.
A couple of hours later
Brax fished his phone out of his pocket as it rang.
"Yeah, it's Brax. Yeah that's fine, we'll be able to find it. Thanks"
Heath looked at his brother as he ended the call.
"That was Mac," Brax explained, "She wants us to meet near a bridge at 3 o'clock."
"Is Kyle gonna be with her?" Heath questioned.
Brax shrugged in response, "I guess we're gonna have to go to find out."
Brax and Heath were sat on the beach waiting. They had set off early leaving plenty of time to find the bridge where Mac had arranged the meet. Brax had repeatedly told Heath to let him do the talking seeing as he had already briefly met Kyle in the desert when rescuing Casey. They noticed a small figure with long blonde hair coming towards them and they both stood up to greet her.
"You're early," Mac said, acknowledging the two men standing in front of her.
"So are you." Brax replied. Looking around, the place is deserted. "Where is he?" he questioned.
"Just so you know, when I told Kyle that you guys had turned up, he didn't want to meet you but I asked him to meet me here so he will be here at 3 but he won't be expecting you two to be here."
"Thanks don't get me wrong, we appreciate it but why are you going behind his back?"
"I've known Kyle for a long time and he has always said he wanted to get to know his brothers and I just don't want him to regret anything."
"Yeah, thanks for doing this."
Mac just shrugged, not wanting to take any credit, especially not until the meeting was over.
"Listen," she said, "When Kyle comes, let me talk to him first."
"Yeah sure," Brax replied.
A tall figure was coming towards the bridge. As he came nearer, his features were easier to make out – his brown hair pointing upwards as he continued walking and his scowl imprinted on his face.
He saw the two men and one woman waiting for him. He recognised one of them, Brax, and he began to run. Brax and Heath chased him but Mac stayed where she was, sitting on the bench. Kyle turned around to see that Brax was hot on his tail. Looking forward again, he saw Heath coming at him. He stopped, defeated, trapped between the two men he didn't want to see.
Nobody said anything but Kyle knew that escape was no option, wherever he went, one of them would match his movements.
He heard Mac's voice calling his name and realised that she was now coming towards them.
"Kyle, just listen to them please. Just sit down over there and see what they have to say."
Knowing that he had no other option, Kyle nodded and began his way to the bench that Mac had pointed at with Brax and Heath following in his wake.
Kyle sat on the bench but the rest of the remained standing in front of him in a semi-circle with Mac in the middle, like guards who would prevent him from escaping.
Mac broke the silence first, "Listen Kyle, I know that you didn't want to meet them but I didn't want you to have any regrets. Just hear them out." She looked at Brax who then started to speak.
"Listen, mate," Brax started
"I'm not your mate Darryl, okay." Kyle responded, anger evident in his voice. "What do you want?"
"We want you to come back to Summer Bay with us and testify in court to say that it was your fault that Casey missed his court date."
"Yeah, and what do I get out of that?" Kyle asked, amused.
"Listen, it's your fault Casey missed his court date so you owe him."
"I don't owe him a damn thing Darryl, he killed Dad and if it wasn't for you, I could have killed him too!"
Kyle noticed that this comment affected Heath more than Brax who was more composed.
Looking straight at Heath, Kyle said, "Well, no brains and all fists, you must be Heath. Dad told me about you, he said you were a waste of space."
Heath moved towards Kyle, his fists clenched when Brax pulled him back by his shirt.
"Remember Heath, we're here for Casey, yeah," Brax reminded his brother as he let go of his shirt.
Kyle laughed, "Yeah Darryl, keep them in line. That's what you do isn't it, keeping your little brothers out of trouble. Except, it didn't work did it? Casey still gets done for armed robbery and the murder of our dad!"
Mac stepped in and shook Kyle by his clothes, "Kyle, what are you doing? You've always said how much you wanted to get to know your brothers so do this for them and maybe you can. Don't mess up this chance."
"Yeah, she's right," Brax agreed, "If you don't do this for Casey, then we're done with you, for good."
"Okay," Kyle decided, "I'll come back to Summer Bay with you."
Brax and Heath let out a sigh of relief, it has worked. They could stop Casey from getting set down with Kyle's testimony. They stood back in order to give Kyle and Mac space to say goodbye. They could still hear some of the conversation between the two.
Mac was saying, "Just don't mess this up," and then she asked something starting with, "Do they," but Brax couldn't make out the rest of the question. Kyle shook his head as an answer to Mac's question.
Kyle said something along the lines of, "Look after her and I'll be in touch soon," and Mac nodded in response. They briefly hugged and they both walked towards Brax and Heath.
"Kyle, I hope it goes well with your family," and then looking at Brax and Heath, "Good luck."
They all nodded in response and walked away; leaving Mac behind hoping that it would go well for Kyle. She remembered the promise she made to Kyle as they were saying goodbye. She walked away, making her way back home and to fulfil her promise.
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