Surf Club - Angelo's
"So Emily has been invited to the wedding and no one knows by who?" Kyle asks, briefly glancing down at his hands.
"Yeah, we wanted to tell you sooner, we just didn't know how to." Lucas says. "We were going to tell her not to come, but the girls said we couldn't do that to her. They were actually acting pretty weird about it all."
"They said that?" Kyle asks, Lucas lightly nodding. "Do you think they'd still be at Irene's?"
"Who, the girls?" Lucas frowns.
"Yeah." Kyle nods.
"Well, yeah, I guess. They're having their hens night there with Rocco and Henry so we could have the stag night here with alcohol. And don't worry, Tyler said he'd be sober with you tonight." Lucas says.
"Okay, although I wouldn't have minded if he wanted to drink as well." Kyle says.
"Don't worry about it, he was fine with the idea. Should we head back out and join them now?" Lucas asks.
"You go, I've got some things to sort out first." Kyle says before rushing out of Angelo's.
"Where's he going?" Heath asks as Lucas walks back over to his brothers and Blake.
"I don't really know, he said he had something to sort out first. He asked if the girls would be at Irene's, so maybe he went there." Lucas says.
"Why would he ask that?"
"I told him about Emily being invited to the wedding and how they said we couldn't tell her not to come. Maybe he's gone to ask them about it." Lucas says.
"Wait, since they broke up, Kyle's always gone out by himself for sometimes hours at a time. Where does he go?" Tyler asks.
"He said he comes here a lot." Casey says.
"No he doesn't." Lucas says, having started working a lot more over the last year to start saving more money up for his future. "Kyle only comes in here when he's got a shift or picking up an order."
"He's been lying to us?" Casey frowns.
"No, he wouldn't do that. Lying isn't part of him, and I've always been able to pick up when he's lying to me." Brax says.
"Well maybe he's technically not lying, just curving around the truth. He wouldn't be lying if he told you he was coming here, and then going somewhere else, he'd just be avoiding saying that he wouldn't be here the entire time." Lucas says.
"Case, go follow him and don't make it obvious." Heath says.
"Really?" Casey groans.
"I'll do it." Tyler laughs. "I'm t-total tonight anyway." He says before quickly walking out, hoping he'd be quick enough to work out if Kyle really was going to check in with the girls.
"You think Tyler's the best guy to stalk someone?" Casey scoffs, having done it if he was bribed with something like money.
"Yeah, he's good at that stuff." Lucas says.
Surf Club - Angelo's
About an hour later, Tyler had returned first, not wanting to make it obvious he'd been following his brother. He didn't have enough time to tell the others what he'd seen before Kyle walked in, heading straight for them all as if nothing had happened. It wasn't until Kyle and Blake went into the kitchen to get some food that Tyler saw the perfect opportunity to reveal everything he found out.
"He's back with Emily, and I'm guessing he's the one that invited her." Tyler says, not wanting to dawdle about telling them.
"He's what?" They all exclaim.
"Wait, but it wasn't his handwriting on the invitation." Lucas frowns.
"Well I don't know about that, but I know what I saw. She snuck out of Irene's house and they were heavily petting each other before going to his car. There was no way I was watching that, so I decided to hang out with the girls for a bit." Tyler says.
"And they bought that, did they?" Casey frowns.
"They thought I was going to strip for them." Tyler frowns. "Then Bianca told me to tell Heath that he doesn't need to send his brothers to check up on her, she isn't doing a runner yet." He informs, all of them laughing apart from Heath.
"What about when Emily went back in, did she not see you?" Heath asks to get the attention off him.
"I left before she did and told them to not mention me being here to anyone. I made some jokes with them so they wouldn't get suspicious about why I was really there, and they were making jokes back not wanting me to know Emily was there." Tyler says.
"So she's actually part of the bridal party?" Lucas asks.
"By the looks of it, yeah." Tyler nods. "But then she could have just been there for the hens night. I'm not sure."
"So are we going to make it known that we know Kyle is back with Emily, or keep it between us?" Casey asks.
"Definitely keep it between us. I want to know if he's going to tell us before the wedding or not. If not, it's going to be really awkward for him having her there and not being able to do anything about it." Brax says, although he wasn't happy that Kyle didn't feel like he could tell them about it with everything that had happened between him and Emily in the past.
"I agree, it's going to be like torture for him if he doesn't tell us." Casey smirks, just as Kyle walks back out with Blake.
"What's going on here?" Kyle asks, sensing something off with his family.
"Nothing." Brax says, glancing at Kyle before walking around the bar. "Who wants another beer?"
"Go on then." Heath smiles, them all agreeing apart from Kyle and Tyler who stuck with cokes.
"So what did I miss when I went out?" Kyle asks.
"Not a lot. Where did you go anyway?" Brax asks, wanting to know if Kyle would tell them now or not.
"Oh, I just went to check on the girls to see if they wanted help with Rocco and Henry." Kyle says, knowing Brax saw straight through his lie, and he couldn't even think of anything else to back it up with. "I just thought they might want a break or something to celebrate themselves, but they said for me to come back here and enjoy our night."
"And it took you an hour to do that?"
"Well… No, I guess not." Kyle mutters.
"Anyway, may as well make the most of Angelo's being shut up the night." Brax says, grabbing a bottle of whiskey from the shelf before pouring himself a large glass, downing it in one gulp.
"Woah, calm down big fella, the night's still young." Heath laughs, even though he could sense something was up with him since Kyle was lying to them about Emily.
"It's a celebration, Heath. What's the point in this night without kids if we're not going to get drunk." Brax glares, taking the bottle of whiskey and the glass out onto the balcony while Casey turned the music up louder.
"What's up with Brax?" Kyle asks.
"Things are different now, well we thought they were." Heath shrugs before deciding he was going to enjoy his stag night instead of standing around gassing with his brother.
"What does he mean by that?"
"Well the fact that you just lied to us about why you left is a reason, but can we not do this tonight? We're here to have fun, so let's do that!" Casey says, Kyle walking out onto the balcony to talk to his brother, seeing a good part of the whiskey was already gone.
"I'm sorry for lying, I just didn't see the problem with me going over to Irene's." Kyle mutters.
"That's not what I've got a problem with. Just go back inside." Brax mutters, staring out at the moonlit waves.
"Then what's the problem, Brax? You make me talk about my feelings all the time, why won't you tell me what's up with you?" Kyle asks.
"You're just the baby brother, Kyle, I don't have to tell you anything. You don't tell me everything, and you're becoming a pretty good liar lately. I don't feel like I know you anymore." Brax shakes his head.
"Is this still about me hiding the migraines from you? Cause I only did that so you wouldn't worry as much." Kyle says.
"It's not about that, well not much of it anyway. All I want to know is what changed between us since you and your triplets got this strong bond?" Brax asks, having noticed things getting distance between them since that happened just under a year ago.
"Nothing, I tell you a lot more than I tell them."
"That might be true but who knows with you these days!" Brax laughs.
"Why're you being so mean?" Kyle frowns, not knowing what was going on.
"Why're you being so secretive?" Brax glares before drinking some more whiskey, Kyle deciding to go back inside in the hopes Brax would calm down if he's left alone.