At the Campsite
While Kyle and Aden were on their way to the activity centre the other teens resumed their conversation on Kyle's fear of snakes.
"So Phoebe, what exactly did Kyle say to you?" Belle asked her.
"Well he basically told me that getting bit by the snake was his fault." Phoebe told them all.
"How was it his fault? You said he told you that he was 6 years old when it happened." Maddy asked Phoebe.
"Yeah he was only 6 when it happened but he said to me that he went in his foster brother's bedroom when he wasn't meant to and..."
"Hold up! Kyle was in foster care at the age of 6?" Casey said to Phoebe with a look of surprise.
"Yeah he said that he had been with them for two months when he got bit."
"I didn't realise he was that young when he was foster care." Casey spoke "It seems like he had been in foster care all his life before he came to us."
"He never actually told me how he ended up in the foster care system." Phoebe said as she got up and walked away from her friends.
Watching her leave, Matt asked the others: "Do you think she's ok?"
Maddy replied: "I don't think so. Maybe me and Tamara should go and talk to her."
"Let me talk to her." Casey said as he got and followed Phoebe.
Just Outside The Teen's Campsite
Phoebe who was usually so stronger was sat on a tree trunk (that had fallen over at some point in the last couple of months) crying over everything that her boyfriend had told her.
"Hey, are you okay?" Casey asked her noticing that she was obviously crying about something.
"Yeah I'm fine Casey. Go back to the others, I just need a minute." Phoebe replied to her boyfriend's brother.
"No you're not Pheebs. It's obvious."
"Okay I'm not alright."
"What's wrong then?"
"I guess Casey that I just realised that there's a lot about Kyle that I don't know."
"That's funny because I was thinking the same thing."
"Really?"
"Really. I mean me and Kyle over the last couple of years of him being here in Summer Bay, have become really close and I thought I knew everything about him but since coming on this trip I feel like I don't even know him at all."
"I get what you mean, it's like when you think you know everything about him you find out more stuff. I know that I knew he was in foster care but I didn't know he was in the system when he was 6 years old."
"Hang on you knew he was in foster care but didn't tell anyone?!"
"Yeah I didn't know when I first met him because the house he lived and the people he lived with he called mum and sister but five months into our relationship he decided to tell me the truth."
"So even you thought that they were his real mum and sister?"
"Yeah, hang on how do you know about Danielle and Callie?"
"I have over heard him on the phone to the quite a few times and he said mum so I just assumed."
"Nosey little Braxton aren't you."
"Yep and don't you forget it." Casey laughed.
After that the two of them sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Phoebe spoke: "Casey do you think one day we will eventually know everything about Kyle like he does about us lot?"
"I do hope so. I think it's just going to take time for Kyle to trust us enough to reveal everything, I mean he has just started trusting Brax enough."
"What do you mean?"
"Well yesterday morning before we got ready and left the house to come and meet you lot so we could come here, he told Brax that the guitar was the best present ever since getting the old one from one of his foster families."
"SO you found out this morning about him being in foster care."
"Yeah but that was the first I had heard of it. I figured Brax might have known and chose not to tell me as it was Kyle's secret to share not his."
"Okay."
With that Casey and Phoebe just sat thinking about what else there is to know about Kyle that they don't already know like:
How did he end in foster care?
Did he have any other siblings?
Was everything family he lived with nice or were they bad?
