Kyle was sitting silently in the X-ray room. The X-ray didn't take long and now he was just waiting for the results. He knew it was broken he has had broken bones before and it hurt exactly like this. He couldn't let Nate know that Mason was the one that did this to him. He would kill him, not kill him like kids say when they break one of their parent's lamps or something. Like seriously kill, he would be dead. He was nothing compared to his twin. Mason even felt way too big to be his twin. He hated it, every single day of his life was humiliating. He grew up with an older brother who could literally hang him upside down. In fact, he even did. He was ten minutes older but most of the time it almost felt like ten years.
Flashback
"How's it hanging geek." Levi laughs as a fourteen-year-old Mason and one of his stupid friends were holding Kyle by his feet. All the boys were laughing at Kyle they all thought that he was a major geek and thought that he deserved everything he got from Mason.
"Come on lemme down," Kyle begs as he's swinging side to side, he felt sick. He got car sick a lot and this was almost the same since it was movement.
"Nerdddd." They laugh and start throwing bunches of grass at his face.
"Was there a please in there." Mason laughs as he and the other kid whose name was Matt spin him around.
"Pleaseeee." Kyle squeals he was feeling extremely sick. He was getting so dizzy. Suddenly he threw up and all the boys laughed even harder.
"Gross what a loser." Austin laughs and walks up to Kyle bad punches him in the gut. Groaning with agony Kyle had tears running down his face. Why was he like this. Why was he picked on so intensely? He was just a normal kid, he wasn't an alien, he was a normal fourteen-year-old. Why? There were other kids that were smart so what made him a target for everyone to pick on.
Mason and Matt swing him around again but this time let him go so that he gets thrown. He falls on the ground and cries out loudly as he hits the ground.
"My arm." Kyle sobs, he grabs ahold of it. It wasn't broken but it still hurt.
"I hope you learned your lesson nerd." Mason laughs. "I'll finish with you at home." Mason laughs lightly then completely loses it when Austin and Levi tip their chocolate milks all over Kyle.
"Maybe the calcium will actually give you muscles." Levi laughs as Kyle shakes his hair around to get the milk away.
"Hey, even milk can't do miracles." Austin laughs as they all walk away laughing.
Kyle sits up and cries lightly, ever since their mum died Mason had gotten so incredibly bad that Kyle couldn't even put the number of times he had cried himself to sleep. He hated his life.
End of flashback
Nate comes in and sees Kyle staring at his hands, he was never the happiest of guys especially since Phoebe left but something just didn't feel right to Nate. He sits on the bed next to Kyle.
"Kyle is something happening I don't think I've ever seen you this quiet and shut off." Nate sighs hoping to get some reaction out of Kyle however he doesn't know that Kyle has picked up the skill of a poker face. He looks up at Nate without even changing his facial features and shrugs. "I'm fine, so is it broken?" He asks needing to know if his hand was broken or not.
"Yes, Kyle your hand is broken. I need to get you a splint. You'll need to wear it for probably three weeks. Do not play the guitar with it on and no heavy lifting. So when you work at the restaurant only waiting on customers and doing the books." Nate instructs and starts putting on the splint that the nurse just handed to him.
"Yea will do." Kyle sighs looking at his feet. He lightly shrugs his shoulders.
"Or you know don't work at all." Nate sighs worryingly Kyle seems so off.
"Yea." Kyle mumbles. "I mean no I'm fine I'll be able to work." Kyle sighs correcting himself before Nate gets too worried but it was far too late for that. He whines lightly as the splint is put in and his hand was bumped lightly.
"Sorry, Kyle. So what is going on? You're really freaking me out." Nate sighs trying to look Kyle in the eye but he doesn't let him.
"Kyle! What is happening? Are you eating? Feeling sick at all?" Nate asks trying to find out what on earth is up with Kyle.
"I'm fine Nate okay! Yes, I'm eating. No, I'm not feeling sick." Kyle smiles lightly hoping that it will keep Nate out of this so that Mason won't get caught out and then kill him.
"Okay, but you need to promise me that if you ever feel at all off you will get either one of your brothers or one of the girls to take care of you," Nate instructs and finishes putting on the splint and pats Kyle on the back.
"So your twin aye. He isn't what I would expect your twin to look like. Maybe a bit shorter and less solid. Your faces are the same through but that's the only thing. I would think that he was at least three or four years older than you." Nate smiles lightly at Kyle who looks up slightly and smirks. Nate even though a really smart man can't read Kyle's expression, he thinks that Kyle smirked because he was right and that it was true that Mason was way too big to be 25 and too big to be Kyle's twin. But the real reason why Kyle smirked was all because of the sick fear that he had for Mason and that he was so scared that if he said anything his brother would end him.
"Yea he's always been big." Kyle sighs lightly and puts on his best fake smile for Nate. A smile that Kyle had truly practised and had had a whole lot of experience with. He didn't really want to talk about this but knew that he had to put a brave face on if he was to keep his brotherly love story with Mason going.
"So no offence mate but where did he get his size, cause you don't really have it." Nate sighs being very careful with his words. He knew that growing up with a brother like that and now growing up with the Braxton's would make him wish that he could be a bit bigger. He was not tiny, but Nate was sure that Kyle wished that he could be a bit bigger.
"My Dad, that's why the boys are big. Mason got my Dads size. I was more like Mum." Kyle sighs and slows his speech down when he starts talking about his Mum. He looks back down at his hands.
Nate looks at Kyle who had backed away from the conversation with the mention of his Mum. "You miss her?" Nate asks. Both of his parents are still alive and he had no idea what it would feel like to have no parents. Sure Kyle had an odd relationship with his Dad but he had lost his Mum as well who by the look on Kyle's face he loved.
"More than anything." Kyle sighs. He felt tears coming from his eyes. He couldn't stop them they just feel. He quickly wipes them away and blushes as he sees Nate watching him. "Am I all good to go know?" He asks not only did he want to get away from Nate before he accidentally blabbed about something that could get Mason caught but he didn't want Mason to get mad if he took too long and thought that he blabbed.
"Yea sure mate, just call in if you have any other problems but I need to quickly give you your meds. You'll need to take them once every six hours. Only that these are really strong painkillers." Nate sighs as they walk to the front table and he hands Kyle his subscription. "Look after yourself mate. See ya." Nate smiles lightly at Kyle and then waves at Mason and Duke.
"See ya." Duke smiles as he walks behind Kyle and slaps Kyle on the back.
"What took you so long squirt, you didn't blab with the pretty little mouth of yours did you?" He hisses in Kyle's ear.
Kyle shakes his head and makes his way to the car. "Can we please pick up my pain relief on the way home?" Kyle asks feeling stupid, why was he asking this. There was no way that Mason would ever pick him up pain relief.
"No! Now get moving before we break the other hand." Mason laughs and glares down at Kyle when no one is watching.
Kyle stares up at his brother just wishing that he had the guts to punch him. But with Duke standing right there. He had no chance he didn't even have a chance against Mason. If he was being completely honest with himself he didn't even have a chance against Mason in his dreams. Lowering his head he slouches off to the elevator.
"Yea that's what I thought baby." Mason laughs as he and Duke laugh lightly behind Kyle.
No words were needed Kyle knew that they were laughing at him.