Chapter 3 The Secret

"What?..........Dylan………Cheated on Brenda…..with………Kelly?" Brandon looked at Andrea in shock

"I know…. I ran into them at the beach and they were acting really strange, there were sleeping bags but they said they just ran into each other. Then yesterday at school I heard the two of them talking about it."

"I can't believe him…. cheating on my sister with her best friend." Brandon raised his voice.

"Shhh Brandon they'll hear you." Andrea moved closer waving her hands for him to keep it down.

"Who will hear me? Brenda should hear me."

"No Dylan is here."

"Of course he is." Brandon said shaking his head, "What am I suppose to do? This will break her heart."

"I know…maybe we should give him a chance to tell her himself." Andrea said calmly

"Yeah, your probably right….thanks Andrea, I know that you aren't the gossiping type and since it involved Brenda it had to be hard to tell me. You're a good friend to us both."

"No problem. I should go, see ya in school tomorrow…..hopefully for the morning Blaze meeting." Andrea gave a sneaky smile

"We'll see." Brandon gave her a weak smile.

Brandon sat on his bed and anger came over him. Dylan was his best friend, he trusted him with his sister. He thought he had been pretty decent about him dating his sister. He had warned him about hurting her and he did exactly that. Brandon went in to the bathroom and noticed Brenda's door was closed. He knocked gently. "Bren?"

"Yeah Brandon, just a minute."

Brandon slowly opened the door, "Can I come….?"

Brenda was standing facing the wall buttoning her shirt while Dylan sat on the edge of her bed.

"Sorry to interrupt." Brandon glared at Dylan.

"Hey B."

"Yeah" answered Brandon

"So what's up?" Brandon leaned against Brenda's desk

Brenda looked at her brother suspiciously, "Nothing, did you need something?"

Dylan looked back and forth at Brandon and Brenda, "Hey I should get going anyway." Dylan got up from the bed and walked over to Brenda. He put his arms around her waist and kissed her gently. Brandon rolled his eyes.

"See you tomorrow" Dylan whispered

Brenda smiled and nodded

Dylan leaned in and whispered in her ear. "Its going to be ok, I love you."

"I know, me too" Brenda answered back

"Later B." as Dylan walked out of the bedroom.

Brenda looked at Brandon, "What's up with you?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to make sure you were alright."

Brenda looked confused, "Why wouldn't I be? Bran is everything ok, your kind of scaring me."

"Everything is fine." Brandon went in to hug his sister.

"Ok" Brenda still looking confused, "Well goodnight."

"Night Bren." As he walked through the bathroom.

Brenda was so confused, what the hell was his problem. She wasn't going to worry about it, she knew her brother better than anyone, and he would tell her if he wanted to.

**

Dylan got to school early and waited in his car for a sign of Kelly. He waited and waited but only saw Brenda and Brandon. Dylan got out of his car and walked over as Brandon Parked his car.

"Hey beautiful." As he opened the car door for Brenda

Brenda got out of the car and wrapped her arms around him, "Did you miss me?"

"Not really, I was waiting for my other girlfriend but you are more punctual than her."

"HA HA" Brenda snickered leaning in to a kiss

"I don't doubt that." Brandon murmured

"Are you ok B?" Dylan seemed concerned

"Whatever, I got to go." Brandon grabbed his books and headed to school.

"Hey Bren, I will catch up with you later, I am going to go talk to Brandon." Brenda nodded

"Hey B, wait up." Dylan said running toward Brandon trying to catch up with him, "Brandon what's your problem?" Dylan caught up and grabbed Brandon's arm swinging him around.

Brandon pointed in Dylan's face, "You're my problem. How could you do that?"

"Do what? What are you talking about?"

"Dylan, I trusted you, Brenda trusted you."

"Brandon, what the hell did I do?"

A crowd had formed now since the boys were yelling and Brenda noticed from afar the commotion.

Brandon didn't care people were looking, Steve had come up by now, "Brandon….McKay, what's going on?"

"Tell her man or I will." Brandon pointed one last time in Dylan's face before walking away with Steve.

Dylan swallowed hard, he knew, it hit him like a ton of bricks. Brenda ran over, "What the hell is going on with you two?"

"Nothing Bren, it's done." Dylan put his arm around her and led her in the opposite direction. "I have to talk to you later. After school ok?"

"What is it, why is Brandon mad at you?"

"Bren, I tell you later." Dylan kissed her on top of her head and walked toward school.

Donna and Kelly came walking up as they watched Dylan walk away. "What happened? Donna said innocently.

"I don't know, Brandon and Dylan were yelling at each other. I have never seen my brother like that."

"Did he say why?" Kelly said quietly

"No he said he would tell me later."

The first bell had rang already and the second warning bell telling everyone they were going to be late had sounded.

"We better go." Donna said

They made their way to class.

**

The day seemed like it was taking forever to pass. It was finally lunch and Dylan had to find Kelly. He waited outside her tech class in hopes of getting to talk to her at least for a second before the girls met up for lunch.

"Kel, I need to talk to you." Dylan said quietly looking over his shoulder.

"What is going on with you and Brandon?"

"He knows Kelly, he knows about the summer. He said if I didn't tell Brenda he would."

Kelly took a deep breath and tears started to form in her eyes. "What are we going to do?"

"Look, I told Brenda last night I was with someone over the summer, but I didn't tell her with who. I have to tell her. I don't want her to hear it from Brandon."

"Want me to come with you?"

"No I think that will seem like we are ganging up on her."

Kelly looked down, "She is going to hate me." She said sadly

"She is going to hate me too. I am going to go home, tell Bren I am bailing but I will pick her up after school." Dylan said as he walked away.

Kelly watched him walk down the halls with his head down. She watched as he disappeared down the hall and around the corner. Kelly went to her locker, put away her books and grabbed her lunch. She saw Brandon out of the corner or her eye.

"Hey Brandon wait up."

Brandon rolled his eyes, "I have to be somewhere, what?"

Kelly stopped in her tracks and took a deep breath, "Brandon please."

Brandon took a deep breath, he was so angry with her but he didn't want to say anything that he would regret. The truth is he was not only mad that Dylan and Kelly for betraying his sister but he was jealous. He liked Kelly ever since the Spring Dance, they had always flirted with one another and when he first met her, she seemed stuck up and conceded but now she had changed so much in the last year or so. He was just waiting for the right time for something to happen.

Brandon slowly turned, "What?" he sounded annoyed.

Kelly saw the disappointment in his eyes and sadness. "I am sorry"

"You don't have to apologize to me; you're not my best friend."

Kelly swallowed hard but stood there, now that she got his attention she didn't know what to say. He just stood there staring at her. Her eyes welled up.

"I got to go." Brandon said turning around and walking away from her. He didn't want to see her cry. It broke his heart. He didn't want to face Kelly or Brenda for that matter. He decided to go eat lunch with Andrea at the newspaper and stay clear of the gang for the afternoon.

Kelly now had tears falling down her cheeks; she was so upset she didn't notice Brenda and Donna come up behind her.

"Kelly, what's wrong?" Brenda said concerned.

"Nothing." as she wiped her tears away.

"Kelly, come on your crying." Donna said sincerely

"Look I don't feel well I think I am going to go to the nurse." She started to walk away, "Oh Brenda, Dylan said he was bailing but he will pick you up after school." She kept walking not even waiting for a response from her.

Brenda looks at Donna, "What is going on? Everybody is acting so weird."

Donna looked at Brenda and shrugged. "Come on lets go eat lunch."

**

School was over finally and the day seemed to drag on forever. Brenda couldn't even remember what the teachers were talking about in her last two classes because she couldn't get Brandon, Dylan and Kelly out of her head. She headed out to the parking lot and there he was in his car, just where he always parked waiting for her. Brenda walked up barely looking at him and got into the Porsche.

"Dylan….What's going on?"

Dylan just sat quiet and drove to the park near the Walsh house.

"Want to take a walk?" Dylan said calmly

"I guess." Brenda's voice was shaky.

They both got out and Dylan reached out and held Brenda's hand while they started to take a lap around the park.

"Dylan?" Brenda stopped and looked up at him.

Dylan leaned in and kissed her gently on the lips, Brenda pushed him away.

"What?" Brenda now yelled it. She was sick of being nice about it, there was something going on and she wanted to know now.

Dylan looked at her sadly, "Remember last night I told you I was with a girl this summer...."

"yeeeeah" Brenda said slowly

"The girl...was Kelly." Dylan looked away, he couldn't look at her.

Brenda's mouth dropped and she couldn't felt her lungs getting heavy, as tears began to pour out of her eyes. Brenda had no control over herself she reached out and slapped him as hard as she could across the face. She felt her hand sting and she dropped her face in her hands and cried. Dylan tried to reach out to her, hold her in his arms but she pushed him away.

"Brenda please, I love you, please dont leave me." He begged her.

Brenda wanted to yell at him, she didn't have the energy. She looked up and looked him straight in the eye, her eyes were red and puffy.

"I never want to see you again, you deserve each other." And like that brenda walked away leaving Dylan in the middle of the park. He tried to run after her, "Let me explain..."

"No" she screamed, "Leave me alone. I hate you!" she yelled

Dylan stood there, and lowered his head. Brenda had never talked to him like that. In all their fights they have had which at this point seemed minimal. He knew he deserved it, he deserved all of it. Dylan slowly got into his car and drove home.

EEEEK poor Bren, this was a hard chapter to write. Brandon isn't coming out like Brandon to me. But I am trying. Let me know what I can do better and what you think. Thanks for reading.