While the girls were talking about pranks and dinner, the guys were down on the beach enjoy their time in the water.
"Come on Kyle! I promise you won't get hurt." Casey told his brother.
"Yeah Kyle, we are all here to help if something happens," Matt said then noticed Casey facial expression "Not like anything is going to happen to you. I mean you're a Braxton, surfing is in your blood mate."
"Ok, fine but if I injure myself I'm blaming you all when the girls start complaining. Got it?" Kyle told his friends who all nodded.
With that the guys headed back into the water after teaching Kyle the basics of surfing while they had stood on the sand. Xavier hung back on the beach knowing full well that if he went in the water, he would want to take his surfboard off Kyle and use it himself to catch some waves.
In the water
"Kyle, just remember that when you're ready, turn your board around and start paddling forward. Then will probably catch a wave. So when you do, make sure you put your hands on the board and then lift your body up onto your feet. Start off crouching low and then slowly stand up with your arms out for balance. Then stay like that until you get to shore or you fall off." Casey shouted to him.
As soon as Casey was finished Kyle put what he learned to practice. At first he missed the wave as he didn't get up on time but the second time he tried he got up and started to ride the wave…
"Kyle!" Shouted the guys all the same time.
"Kyle!" Casey shouted again hoping Kyle was ok.
Suddenly he saw a head pop up from under the water, he quickly realised it was Kyle and he started to swim over to where he had just seen his brother's head.
"Kyle! Come on mate, where are you?" Casey shouted as his brother disappeared again.
As soon as the words left his mouth, Kyle's popped up again coughing and spluttering everywhere. By this point all the guys had gathered in the one spot to lead a hand, even Xavier who had seen everything from where he sat on the beach.
Eventually they all got back to the shore and were helping Kyle, who had instantly gone pale as soon as they got out of the water.
"Are you ok?" Casey asked panicking, thinking about how he was going to explain this to the girls.
"Yeah, I'm fine Casey." Kyle told his brother as he looked at worry in his face.
"Mate, you've gone all pale. Are you sure you are ok? Its alright if you're not considering you just got eaten alive by the waves." Oscar asked him.
"Honestly I'm fine. You lot are worse than Brax, the girls and my foster parents put together." Kyle replied then suddenly he realised what he said.
Crap! There goes not telling anyone about the fact I was in care. What am I going to do now? I made sure not to let anything slip, how could I be so careless? I can't cover up what I just said because from the look on their faces they heard me perfectly. I guess I just have to hope they don't ask me anything or to repeat myself for that matter.
"What did you just say?" Josh asked his friend as they all stared at Kyle with a look of curiosity.
"I said I'm fine and that you all as bad as the girls and Brax."
"Yeah and you said 'foster parents'." Casey told his brother as he wondered why he didn't tell them all he had been in care.
"No I didn't!"
"Yeah you did, mate!"
"No I didn't. I swear!"
"Come on Kyle! We all heard you clearly."
"Ok fine! I said foster parents it's not a big deal got it?" Kyle told his friends as they continued to stare at him "Can we get back in the water now please, because you promised you'd teach me to swim Casey for my birthday present and I really want to master it so I can join you, Heath and Brax when you all go surfing."
Quickly getting to his feet, Kyle picked up the surfboard and headed back into the water wanting to avoid the question that usually follow when people find out you were a foster kid.
Why didn't he tell us? I can understand not telling the others but he could still have told me. I thought we were brothers? Hang on, does Phoebe know? Surely she knows as she known Kyle longer than the rest of us. He always tells her everything, there again Kyle does seem a bit like a closed book. WE his family don't know anything about his life before Brax and Heath brought him back to the bay to help me out. I feel hurt by this.
Broken from his thoughts the other guys asked him if he knew that Kyle was in foster care.
"I swear guys. I don't know anything, Kyle never told us about his life before he saw our dad. Now I know why." Casey told them.
The first to respond, Aden said "I wonder why he didn't tell you and your brothers? After all you are his family."
"Maybe he was worried that one of would take the mick. He already gets annoyed when Heath calls him 'Kylie' and I mean he gets annoyed the last time he called Kyle that, he threw a plate at Heath's head." Casey told them "Anyway I think we should get back out there to keep an eye on him incase he falls off again and actually injures himself this time."
As soon as he had finished talking, Casey took off in the direction of his younger brother to make sure he didn't get into more trouble. The other guys who were all still confused by what had just slipped out of Kyle's mouth followed after the two brothers.
30 minutes later…
"Yes Kyle." They all shouted as Kyle eventually stood up and surfed all the way back to shore.
Running out of the water the guys all congratulated Kyle and eventually mastering one of the most important skills a guy could have. Once they had finished cheering, they stood the surfboards up in the sand and headed back into the water, where they all continued to mess around by pushing each over and just being typical lads. Still none the wiser to the impending danger that would soon descend upon them and the national park.
