Chp 3
Kieran's POV

I worriedly sat at the kitchen table, eating breakfast. Will hadn't come home all night, and although he could have most probably 'gone home' with Kathy or that other girl he met up with before we left he would have sent a message to say he wasn't coming home.

I was too busy wondering where he was that I didn't realize Tony had come in till he was snapping his fingers in front of my face. I looked at him and he gave a little smirk. "What's up?" He asked, going to get coffee. I sighed. "I'm just wondering where Will is." I said.

"Don't worry, he can take care of himself." He said, assuringly. We looked up as the door was unlocked. I hoped it would be Will but it was just Percy coming in after staying the night by Annabeth. She was very nice and they suited each other.

Percy was a great guy - not arrogant or show offish, not snotty and air headed and not rude. He not only had a nice cool and collected attitude, he also had good manners with ladies, no matter if it was with his mom, his girlfriend, girls at university or lady lecturers. I had a lot of respect for people who treated girls right.

And Annabeth was just a lovely person. She wasn't the type of girl who got upset if Percy went out with us instead of her, she didn't get jealous easily, she was very intelligent and bubbly and wasn't the type of girl who wanted to shop for hours and hours. My girlfriend was a lot like that.

My heart ached as I thought of Kirsten. We had always been labelled cutest couple at school, partly because we were 'Kieran and Kirsten'. She was so amazing, in every way possible. I remember seeing her for the first time in grade nine when she moved to my school.

I had always admired her pretty face and petite figure from a distance till we ended up in quite a few classes together and free periods in year eleven. We were friends for a while, then started to date in that summer.

We had been on and off for the first two months but we were steady through Christmas and the first part of the year before we had to split when I moved. I missed her so much.

I looked up as Percy stretched and leaned against the counter. "William hasn't shown up yet?" He asked. I shook my head. Perfect timing, the door opened and in came a tired looking Will.

He dropped his keys on the table and slowly walked to the bedroom. "Hello to you too." Tony said. He flipped him off and went into our room. Within five minutes we could hear his heavy breathing. Odd much?

Percy went for a shower and got dressed. Meanwhile, Tony sat and got all his stuff together. I glanced at the recipes he was putting away and the special set of knives. The love of food was his passion.

I on the other hand was studying to be a journalist. I loved getting to interview people for school projects and even going around and snapping pictures of people at school or my neighborhood and writing up stories on them.

I looked up as Percy asked Tony, "You ready?" He nodded and they both said goodbye, leaving me to my own devices. I felt excited as I thought of something to do. I got out my laptop and sat on the couch in the lounge.

I got onto Skype and start a video chat with my girlfriend Kirsten. She answered and my whole mood brightened at her beautiful face. "Hey beautiful." I said, smiling at her. She gave a smile and said, "Hey."

That was odd, as she was usually very perky. "Everything up there good?" I asked, ignoring it. "Yeah, the usual. Saw your mom yesterday, she's doing well." She said. "And the big apple? Enjoying it?" She asked.

I nodded. "Everything's great here, been a bit busy but it's fun stuff." I said, smiling. She nodded and cleared her throat. "I'm happy you Skyped as I needed to tell you something face to face." She said. "And you have to promise you won't get mad."

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Kirsty, what's going on?" I asked. She looked down for a second. "About a month after you left I found out I was pregnant." She said. I felt my whole head go blank. I felt the supreme guilt and anxiety build in my stomach like butterflies.

"What?" I asked. She put up a hand. "I didn't tell anyone, but I had an abortion." She said. "Wait, you got pregnant and you didn't tell me?" I asked, feeling heart broken she didn't even tell me. "I told you to not get mad." She said, looking as if she was going to cry.

"But why didn't you tell me? I would have come up." I said, furrowing my eyebrows. "Kieran, you have your studies, and it would have made your relationship with your family bad if they found out we slept together and I didn't want that to happen. And my dad would've killed me."

It was all so overwhelming. "But let me finish." She said, wiping her eyes. "So I got an abortion and that went fine. But a while ago I - um." She couldn't get it out. "Kirsten." I said, urging her to tell me.

"I met someone else." She said. She looked at me and I felt my heart shatter. I felt like someone was standing on my wind pipe. "Kieran - I'm so sor-" she started but I slammed the laptop closed. I stood quickly and paced the room.

My phone rang but I ignored it, knowing it was her. I didn't want to hear about it. I grabbed my jacket and phone and left. I had to walk the anger and hurt off. All she had said swarmed my brain.

~ Six in the evening ~

I opened the door and went into our apartment. Not even the smell of a stew cooking perked me up. Tony looked up from the kitchen. "Hey bud, you okay? You look a little, uh, worn." He said, frowning.

I nodded and hung up my jacket and keys. I noticed Will and Percy looking up from the lounge, obviously seeing whatever Tony saw. "You wanna talk about it?" Tony asked as I went to the fridge.

I got out a beer. "I dunno." I simply said. I opened the beer and looked at him. He eyed me for a few moments but decided I would talk if I wanted to. I put my phone down on the counter, and it started to ring yet again.

Tony looked at me expectantly. "You gonna answer it? It's your girlfriend." He said. "I know." I said, looking over a post it note on the fridge. I looked that way as I heard the phone hang up and Tony returning to his stew with a slight tenseness in his shoulders.

"Did you guys have an argument?" Percy asked. "More like a break up." I said, feeling the words coming off my tongue sting more than when she told me. "Oh, I'm sorry man. What happened?" Tony asked.

I didn't know if I wanted to say the whole thing. I didn't have the strength in me at the moment. The house phone rang and I picked it up as I was closest. "Hello?" I asked.

"Don't hang up, please Kieran." I shaky voiced Kirsten said. I resisted the urge to block out her voice and listened. "The last thing I wanted to do was hurt you. I didn't ever want to -"

"Why did you tell me about the abortion now and not when it happened?" I asked. "I told you! You would have dropped everything and come here. I didn't want that." She said.

"But you had to top that off with saying you met someone new?" I asked, feeling the anger bubble and dissolve away all my care and love for her. "I'm - I'm so sorry. It's just you were gone and I expected you'd probably meet someone new." She said.

"Who was it?" I asked. She went very quiet. "I can't tell you." She said. I clenched my hand. "Kirsten, I swear -" I started. There was a knock at the door and Will answered it. I got a little shock but slightly calmed down when my brother, Henry, stepped in. I remembered he was going to be down for the week as he visited a good friend.

"It was Henry." She said, softly. "But I swear we -" she carried on talking but I stared at my brother. His smile fell as he realized I found out. I hung up the phone and put it down. "You asshole!" I shouted walking towards him.

Will quickly held me back before I attacked my brother. "Kieran, it's not like it sounds." He pleaded. "You've been seeing her? You never once thought about me, did you? You selfish -" I started.

"Hey, I've thought about you plenty." He said. I glared at him. "Okay - I think we should all just calm down here." Percy said, trying to be a peacemaker. "I think that's a good idea." Henry said, trying to calm me down.

"Calm down? You were seeing my girlfriend!" I said, rubbing my forehead as I walked away from him. "Well I've just driven a really long way and would like some relaxing." Henry said.

"Hey, uh, supper is ready." Tony said, trying to lure everyone away from our argument. "Yeah, let's do that." Will said. We all sat down, Tony handing us our plates with stew, rice and carrots. It tasted like cement in my mouth as I was so mad.

Henry was twenty five, my big brother. He had always ended up going out with girls I liked. And then he got a girlfriend around the same time I asked Kirsten out for the first time. And he became friendly with her when we started going out.

But thinking about it I wondered if they had been seeing each other long before. Was the baby even supposedly mine? That set off a whole new bunch of questions. The main one just revolved around the image in my brain of her looking at him the same way she looked at me.

~ Later on ~

I sat on the stool in the kitchen and clenched my teeth slightly as Henry joined me, standing across from me. The others were in the bedroom as Henry was going to be sleeping on the couch.

"Can we talk about this?" He asked calmly. I took a deep breath. "When did you start seeing her? Was it while I was still there?" I asked. He hesitated for a second. "There was once where we were at a party and she had mistaken me for you, but we were both drunk and hardly anything happened."

I nodded. "Why did you start seeing her when you knew we were dating? I asked, the biggest question on my mind. He thought for a moment before getting a slightly angered look on his face.

"You're such an idiot!" He said suddenly making me frown. "You got her pregnant?" He said, rubbing his temples. "I thought you knew boundaries. That's why I told mom and dad they could trust you two alone when you went to Hawaii with her aunt. But no - you had to let your irresponsible self take advantage of the fact you two would be alone most of the day."

I felt slightly guilty. "Look, it wasn't meant to happen but one thing led to another. And why are you so mad? What happened to you sneaking girls into your bedroom when you were sixteen?" I asked, not sure why he was making this all my fault.

"You were meant to learn from my mistakes." He said, simply. "What mistakes? You never got caught?" I said, raising an eyebrow. "Trust me, dad found out in a really and way. It was stupid to be doing it anyway, I was being a complete idiot."

"Well I'm sorry I didn't get a very good role model. You used to just grin and put your finger to your lips every time I saw the girl leaving the house." I said, grumbling. He waved it off. "But the point is you actually got her pregnant." He said.

"That could have been her whole life gone, having to pull out of university to mother your child at nineteen." He said. I swallowed, the guilt still there. "You don't know how many times I wanted to tell mom and dad just so you'll understand it isn't funny to play around when you shouldn't. You know mom would have made you keep the baby so you would learn a lesson a bad way."

I nodded. "But how does that explain you two getting together?" I asked, getting back on track. "She came to my apartment and told me about what happened. I went with her the next day when she got the abortion."

I swallowed. "It was hard for her so I had to be there as you weren't. The one day we were just at my place and then stuff happened. I knew it was wrong but it felt so right." He said. I rubbed my eyes, the day wearing on me.

"And I think I'm in love with her now. I'm sorry that you found out how you did and that we didn't say anything when it first started, but I really do love her. And you're my brother no matter what. I just don't want you to hate me forever." He said.

It was a lot to consider. My brother being in love, whether I could trust him anymore, my relationship with Kirsten and if I was okay with letting go of Kirsten. I nodded. "I don't want to hate you - I don't. I just hate what you did because you guys hurt me. But if you want to see her than you can." I said.

He gave a little smile and came around. He pulled me to my feet and gave me a hug. I hugged him back, sighing. "Head to bed." He said, pushing me in the direction of my room.

Going into relationships and the side of back stabbers - sorry Kieran and sorry Henry and Kirsten :( But it makes for a good story so yay! (i guess?)

P.S. : Are you guys still mad at me?