Kyle jolts awake and breathing heavily and grabbing his t-shirt to feel his heart beat. It was fast. Too fast really. He was covered in sweat and he felt sick to his stomach, he raced to the bathroom and threw up in the toilet. God he felt sick, Mason
was runningthrough his head and he couldn't think of anything else, he knew that he couldn't go back to sleep. He would have to play the guitar. That would calm him down, it always did. There was something about music that just calmed him downand
made him feel safe and as long as still had that, he knew that he would be able to fight through this. He walks back to his room and grabs him guitar and begins to play it. Strumming away and trying his best to make the memories of hispast to
goaway, it was helping at least a bit, his heart beat had calmed down but Mason was still back and he knew that he would have a lot more nights like this. He looked at the clock 3:23, well at least he wasn't working tomorrow thatwould
not havebeen easy. Suddenly Denny appears in his doorway.
"Hey bubs, you okay?" She asks sitting down next to him and looking at him worryingly.
Kyle nods his head. "Yea just had a nightmare and had to clear my head." Kyle replies but regrets it right away. Now there was going to be a whole string of questions that he would have to answer.
"But you're okay now?" Denny asks worried for Kyle. She loved him and the thought of him in pain hurt her.
"Yea." Kyle sighs, he knew that Denny wouldn't leave him alone until he gave her all the answers that she wanted to hear.
"But you're covered in sweat" Denny points out, she wanted to prove her point that Kyle wasn't okay and that he had to talk about it.
"Den I'm fine." Kyle mumbles the last thing that he wanted to do was dive deep into his nightmares about his brother it would only bring the memories back and the more he talked about nightmares the easier it was for them to cone back.
"Do you have nightmares often?" Denny asks still wanting to know more for the hope that she'll be able to help Kyle through it.
"Not more than anyone else?" Kyle mumbles, it might have been a lie. Sure he didn't usually have them but he knew that he would have them a lot more in the coming few weeks.
"But most 25 year olds don't have nightmares for no reason." Denny pushes she knew that she might possibly be pushing Kyle to far but he hadn't given her any answers.
"It's not that uncommon." Kyle sighs. He loved Denny but he never wanted her to leave more.
"What was you're nightmare about?" Denny asks finally asking the question that she wants to know the answer to.
"Den." Kyle sighs rolling his eyes not quite knowing how to answer the question. He sucked at lying. He always had to find some truth in the things he said otherwise he would stutter and refuse to look in the eye of the people he was lying to.
Luckily he was a quick thinker and he had a lie in mind.
"What was your nightmare about Kyle?"
"It was about Mason, I had a nightmare about... him dying and that I lost him again." Kyle lies it hurt to lie but he had to. Mason would literally kill him if he blabbed. And he had a new family a new life he didn't want to die. Ask himseven yearsago
when he was going through his rough depression patch and he wouldn't have cared but now he had the life that he had always wanted and he didn't want to give that up or lose it.
"Oh Ky." Denny sighs and pulls Kyle into a hug. She was so hurt over all the pain that Kyle was feeling. He was so scared over the thought of losing Mason again and it hurt her. He loved him and was so happy when Mason finally came back intohis
life.
"So.. I'll just leave you to clear your head yea Ky. I know that music is the only way and I'll just leave you to do that." Denny smiles and kisses Kyle on the cheek. "Try get some sleep though yea, your brother is a tough guy, he's notgoing anywhere."
/Denny smiles and walks away.
"Just great." Kyle mumbles and continues to play on his guitar. He had to calm himself down or he wasn't going to get even a hint of sleep. He continued to play on his guitar for at least two hours before finally settling in for more sleep.
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Brax wakes up in the morning and sees that everyone except Kyle is up which isn't that uncommon. Kyle always slept in when he got the chance.
"Ky, getting his beauty sleep." Brax yawns and sits down at the table.
"Ahh give him a break. He struggled to sleep last night so he played his guitar." Denny sighs.
"Only Kyle." Heath chuckles and takes a sip of his coffee.
"What do you mean?" Mason asks curious to know that they are on about.
"Kyle uses his guitar as a release from everyday life. You know like we do with surfing." Heath shrugs.
Mason smiles lightly but behind it is an evil thought going through his head, he was going to take that pleasure away from Kyle.
After a while everyone went their own ways leaving only Heath, Mason and Duke.
"So Heath, you and Ky, are you guys close? You seem pretty different." Duke asks as he knows that Heath is the one brother most likely to prefer Mason.
"Don't get me wrong. I love Ky, He's a great kid. But you're right we are just so different. I hate to say it because I really do love him but I just feel closer to you, we are more similar you know what I mean. Ky's just such a work focussed guy,
/always doing everything that he can to impress Brax. And he's just so smart and then there the guitar and the singing. No one else in the whole family even have the thought of playing an instrument and it's Kyle's life.
"Yea I get that. I mean when I was younger it was sport, sport, sport and girls for me and with Ky it was books, books, books, books. We were just so different." Mason sighs lightly. Faking the fact that he was laughing on the inside about how hisyounger
brother had not changed one little bit.
"Can you not tell him I said that, Kyle worked so hard to get into this family, if he knew that I already liked you better and I had only just met you it would break him and when he's broken he looks miserable and his stupid puppy dog eyes take effect
/and then make me feel guilty and plus. I don't want him to feel that way. It's not fair on the kid.
"Yea sure no worries and why would I want to hurt my bro." Mason smiles lightly, although Heath could not see the evil in it.
When Kyle woke up in the morning he looked up at the clock and saw the time. 11:33. He lay back down and sighed. He was going to hear so much from this. He sits up and rubs his eyes. He starts walking out to the lounge but stops abruptly and looks inthe
mirror.
He runs his hands through his soft brown hair and plays with it slightly trying to make it a little less perfect. When he slept sometimes he slept like a rock and that's exactly what he did after his solid two hours of guitar playing,it did calm
/him down but now he was in a living nightmare. His life with his brother.
He walks out to the lounge and is immediately hit with teasing.
"Heyyyy getting lots of beauty sleep." Heath teases.
"Or did you get lucky." Mason teases it to be more accurate mocking him, Duke laughs loudly mocking him as well. Kyle knew that he was not what someone would call a lady killer. He was romantic in relationships sure. But he wasn't romantic in that
just knew that Mason knew that as well. Luckily Heath stepped in and saved him, well kind of saved him. He would save him from one teasing subject and stick him right into another one.
"Not the best comment to make mate, Kyle broke up with his girlfriend 10 months ago. They were perfect for each other and were going to be together forever. But they had to go their separate ways, Kyle's still struggling." Heath points out.
Kyle eyes stare at his older brother. This was the last thing he needed he had already brought up Phoebe once now the teasing was going to be worse.
"What? Masons your twin he has a right to know." Heath shrugs.
"Ky, who was it aye. Did I know her?" Mason asks wondering if her knew the girl that Kyle had dated. What was she a geek, a goth. Or was he just lucky.
"Yea you know her. Phoebe Nicolson." Kyle sighs and shuffles his feet uncomfortably. This was not good. Not good at all. Phoebe was popular and Kyle well he wasn't. Mason would bully him so much that it would drive him made.
"That's great bro, I'm so happy that you got someone there for you when I couldn't be." Mason smiles lightly.
"Well Ky, Rick, Brax and Bianca are at work. Casey and Denny are out all day shopping and I'm going to Yabbie for the day for an opening of a new gym and testing out all the equipment to see if there is anything that we can get do we're all out for thewhole
day. You three troublemakers have fun and hey you two go easy on my baby bro yea. He's fragile. See ya later Mason." Heath smiles and gives Mason a hand shake. "Later squirt." Heath smiles lightly and ruffles Kyle's hair.
Kyle starts walking back to his room but is stopped by Duke who grabs him by the neck.
"Firstly. You're such a bloody pretty boy. Secondly I'm stillso surprised that you got a girl and that it was a popular one. Thirdly you're pathetic and fourthly get changed, we are going for some brother bonding time." Mason smirks evilly and punchesKyle
in the gut. Kyle leans over in pain, he hated when Mason hit him it was still sore for at least a hour afterwards.
"Now! Or shall I show you to your room." Mason barks, glaring down at Kyle. Kyle slowly slumps his way to his room and quickly gets changed, choosing very carefully what clothes he picks. Jeans were a must. Followed by one of his lightweight long sleeveshirts.
This was a way that he could a hide his bruises and make sure that Mason could tease him too much over his smaller muscles. He stares in the mirror and realises that he can't go into town with hair like this, he quickly fixes it and goesinto
the bathroom to clean his teeth.
"Ahhh always Mr responsible. Don't you get tired of always being a straight up geek." Mason laughs as Dukes passes Kyle by shoulder barging him.
"Don't you ever get tired of being a bully I mean that must take quite a bit of brain power." Kyle hisses and tries to get past Mason only to be grabbed in a chokehold.
"What was that?" Mason hisses and lifts Kyle off the ground so he struggles to breath even more.
"Sorry Mason." Kyle splutters chocking and going purple in the face.
"That's right you are, just remember next time. I won't give you a second chance just remember that." Mason hisses and lets Kyle go.
Kyle leans on the ground and coughs loudly.
"Now lets go." Mason hisses and grabs Kyle by the arm and drags him out to the car. He had a tight hold on Kyle's arm too tight for Kyle's liking.
"Come on Mason, please let me go. I'll come I won't fight. But please just let me go." Kyle squeals lightly as he feels pain in his arm and he knows that it is going to bruise.
"Stop being a little wimp." Mason laughs but lets Kyle go. "Just get in."
Kyle slumps in the back seat knowing that this wasn't going to be fun. His brother was going to hurt him. He was only proven this when Mason looks back at him and smirks. "This is going to be fun."
Denny and Casey are at the mall eating lunch. Something had been playing on Denny's mind.
"Babe, how happy do you think that Kyle is about Mason being back, I mean you would expect him to be over the moon but he just basically gave up time to catch up with him last night. He went to bed. Don't you think that that's odd?" Denny asks.
"Kyle's an odd guy." Casey shrugs and laughs lightly. He shakes his head lightly and smiles up at his girlfriend, who glares at him.
"Look, it'll probably just be overwhelming for him. I mean, he's lived so long without his brother and now that he's back he's probably worried that Mason has changed. He's probably scared that he won't get that relationship with his brother again."Caseyshrugs.
/He had to admit that he hadn't seen a difference in Kyle. But if it calmed his girlfriend down and made her see that Kyle wasn't having any problems with his brother he would make sure that she knew that Kyle was happy and just nervous.
Denny sighs and slumps her shoulders, kind of believing her boyfriend but still having a bad feeling in the back of her mind.
Kyle, Mason and Duke arrived at the surf club and started playing some pool.
"So Ky, I hear that you play on the guitar as an escape." Mason smirks, staring at Kyle with his mocking eyes. Oh how they mocked Kyle. Staring at him like he was some sort of alien that was different to everyone else on earth.
"Yea. I guess?" Kyle sighs feeling sick to his stomach. He knew his brother would do something. Something to hurt him.
"What's the matter, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm not that cruel. Hey you're my baby bro. I wouldn't deliberately hurt you." Mason smiles lightly and pulls Kyle into a one armed hug and slapping him in the chest.
"I'm pretty sure you would. When we were eight and you got beaten on one on one basketball with Levi and you gave me a wedgie and hung me by it on a hook and continually punched me, then you told mum I was at a friends house so that she didn't get suspiciousandyou
/left me hanging there all night. So yea I'm pretty sure you would hurt me." Kyle sighs.
"You're right. Now what have do you strum with?" Mason asks glaring hard at Kyle.
"Strum. My ….left." Kyle lies he doesn't know where exactly this is going but he doesn't really want to find out.
"Oh so it's your right because you such at lying. So that means you play the chords with your left hand… is that right?" Mason asks.
Kyle cursed his luck but he's not that surprised he really can't lie. Suddenly he is grabbed from behind by Duke who shoves him against the pool table and grabs his left hand and puts it on the table.
"What are you…. Aghhhh." Kyle cries out in agony as Mason smashes a pool ball at his hand. He couldn't bend his fingers. Not at all, he couldn't even feel his fingers.
"What's going on here? Gezzz Kyle you alright?" John asks, panicking as Kyle is grabbing his hand with tears rolling down his face.
"He just put his hand on the table, I didn't have time to stop. Gezz Ky, lets get you to a hospital aye." Mason sighs putting on his fake worried face.
"Excuse me but who are you?" John asks before they can leave.
"Can't you see the resemblance?"Mason asks holding on to Kyle tight that looked friendly but it really wasn't.
"Wow, are you two…." John starts not quite knowing how to say it.
"Twins yea… now sorry I need to get my little bro to the hospital." Mason smiles lightly and walks out to the car and shoves him against the door.
"Ow!" Kyle hisses. He stares up at Mason and still had tears in his eyes.
"Oh please, harden up and when we get to the hospital you tell them what I told that old man. Got it." Mason stares down at Kyle intimidating him.
Kyle nods slightly and rubs his fingers with his other hand and hisses in pain.
"Oh please, just feel lucky that it was your hand and not your precious guitar. Now get in!" Mason growls and Kyle quickly jumps in the back seat before Mason can hurt him.
