Chapter 2

The Brotherhood
Never mess with family

At the club everyone was getting ready for the meeting, when suddenly they heard yelling outside. "Get the hell off of me" yelled Zach. "Or what you're going to tell your brothers on us. You're pathetic and so are they. You're a worthless piece of trash and nobody cares about you." The kid yelled at him punching him in the face multiple times. "Come on punk get up." The bigger kid yelled. At this point Zach had enough and got up, but he pulled something out of his pocket. "Alright you little ass holes back the hell off or else" Zach yelled holding a gun in front of them. "Hold on man, we'll back off just don't shoot us okay." The big kid begged him as he and the other kid took off running. Zach dropped the gun and fell on his knees crying. "What the hell was that?" asked Hunter. "I don't know we'll go check it out" said Taker.

Him and Kane walked outside to see where the yelling, came from when they found Zach on the sidewalk. Taker walked up to him, "Zach what happen?" he asked him as he saw the gun beside him on the ground. "Those punks from school jumped me from behind and started beating me in the face." he told him holding his head. He also had a black eye he was trying to hide from him. "So you decided to pull a gun on them, Zach what were you thinking." Taker asked as he helped him up, Zach just looked at him but didn't say anything. "Come on let's get to the club and get that eye checked out, plus your brothers are going to want to hear about this." he told him as they started walking towards the club but was stopped by Kane outside. "Hey what happen, Zach?" asked Kane as he was looking at Zach's eye. Zach didn't say anything he just held his head down."Come on let's get inside." he told him. They walked inside and Shawn was the first to notice his eye. "Zach what the happen to your eye?" Shawn asked him as he saw the gun in Taker's hand. "Zach is that your gun?" Shawn asked him pointing at Taker's hand.

Zach shook his head, "I took it from the warehouse behind the club. I wasn't going to use I just wanted to scare those kids that's been picking on me.

"Some punk ass kids jumped me while I was walking from school. So I pulled the gun out my pocket and told to back off or else and they did. They took off running like cowards." He told him. "I told you this morning some kids were picking on me. Then I get beat up walking from school, when I didn't want to go anyway. So I took matters into my own hands." he finished.

Hunter walked over after hearing everything and seeing his little brother upset."What is this I hear about you having a gun?" Hunter asked him. "Don't worry about it I handled it, they won't mess with me again." Zach told him.

"Just let us deal with this Zach." Shawn told him. "No, that will just make things worse, having my big brothers fight my battles for me. If they mess with me again tomorrow, I'll handle them." he told them. "Fine, But don't do anything stupid Zach, you know Kelly will be mad if you get into a fight or finds out that you had a dam gun at school understand." Hunter told him looking him right in the face. Zach nodded his head, "Look just let Lita look, at your eye, and cover those bruises on your face than go do your homework in the back room." Hunter told him as he took the gun from Taker.

Zach nodded again and walked towards the office upstairs, where Lita's office was at. She was the club's nurse and made sure that anyone who got seriously hurt, she fixed them up. "I can't believe he had a gun Hunter, we have to keep a close eye on him now." Shawn told him rubbing his face. "I know but if Kelly finds out about this, she's going to kill us both. You know how protective she is of Zach every since that night." Hunter told him. Shawn nodded as they walked towards the bar, they needed a drink even if it was in the middle of the afternoon.

The next morning Zach left for school before everyone else woke up, "Zach, are you up yet?" asked his sister. "Zach?" she asked again this time knocking after about ten minutes she open the door and saw an empty bed. "Shawn, Hunter get up Zach's gone." She told them. Shawn came out of his room wiping his eyes. "What's going on sis?" asked Shawn walking towards her. "Zach's gone and he never ate breakfast. Did you or Hunter say anything to him yesterday." she asked him. Shawn shook his head no.

"What happen yesterday, that you don't want me to know?" she asked this time with her arms crossed. Shawn didn't know what to tell her. "You know what, where's Hunter" she asked going towards his room. "Hunter, get up now!" she yelled banging on the door. She heard loud noises from inside then cursing, "What?" he yelled opening the door.

"What happen to Zach yesterday? and don't tell me nothing because he's not here now and he never leaves for school this early." she asked upset. Hunter looked at her, than at Shawn, "Some kids from school picked a fight by jumping him from behind while he was walking to the club. Mark and Kane found him on the sidewalk with a black eye.

"Why didn't he tell me what happen?" She asked. "Because he does not want us fighting his battles, he's sixteen Kelly, he has to learn how to fight on his own." he told her.

Kelly just looked at him in tears, "I don't care how old he is, he's our baby brother and it's our job to protect him, especially after what happened to mom and dad. Remember we promised that we will watch out for him. If I wouldn't have quit school, he would have been in foster care, remember. Zach was only six when our parents died." she told them going down stairs.

Shawn and Hunter just stood there, Kelly was right they were suppose to watch out for Zach no matter what nobody messes with your family.