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The Loser's Club Ch. 1
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I Disclaim.
Pilar's heart felt full at the sight before her.
Miguel and Charity were dancing closely on the basketball court/dance floor in the backyard of their newly repaired home. Now, that Charity was back to her old self, their relationship was as strong as ever, and their wedding was eminent.
Pilar caught sight of Theresa and Ethan along with Gwen talking by the door to the kitchen, and felt the tears of joy fall on her cheek. Had Gwen not found the original tape from the Crane security camera, that revealed Rebecca as the murder, Theresa would be on death row right now. Although Theresa and Ethan were nowhere close to reconciliation, she was free and almost back to her normal behavior or as normal as Theresa can be.
The most joyous news however had to be that if Sheridan. Seeing her son and his fiancée laughing as they sat underneath the tree, made all the sadness Pilar had felt just fade away. Not only had she been living in Bermuda with no recollection of who she was she had unknowing found Antonio, and talked him into returning him to his family.
The only downside to the return was Antonio or, Brian, as he likes to be called now, feelings for Sheridan. Pilar had seen the look in her oldest sons eye when Luis and Sheridan had their reunion, and while she didn't have her memory back she was clearly in love with Luis. Leaving poor Brian out in the cold, and he relationship with Luis was already rocky, but being in love with his fiancée seemed to push the brothers back past any progress they ever made.
As worry about her son began to cloud her mood, Pilar instinctively began looking out for Brian, but she couldn't find and wondered where he was.
Brian wasn't enjoying himself, he was glad to be back with his family, but nothing that happened made up for the fact that the woman he was planning a future with was his brother's not so dead fiancée. Stepping away from the happy scene in his mother's back yard Brain began walking towards the woods behind the house and up the little hill to a spot that overlooks the train yards. So focused in his own thoughts that he almost didn't notice the girl sitting by a tree.
"Go away."
At the sound Brian looked at the girl and recognized her as a Bennet, it was a hard feat considering the last time he saw any Bennet kids they were under ten years old, and covered in mud, but the Bennet kids had eyes that just haunted you. "Little Kay Bennet?"
Kay looked up form her position on the floor and stared at the intruder. She couldn't really make out his face in the dark, but he was tall and broad shoulder like her dad, but his voice reminded her of Luis' and Miguel's, but she knew it was any of those people. They probably hadn't even noticed that she had left the spare of the moment party to celebrate the Lopez-Fitzgerald's' recent trend of good luck. Getting up form her seat under the tree Kay steeped into the moonlight and found herself looking at Antonio, Miguel's oldest brother. "I'm not in the mood to speak to a Lopez-Fitzgerald, so run along back to the party."
"Well if it helps I don't think anyone but my mother considers me a Lopez-Fitzgerald." Brian seated himself across from Kay, and watched as she digested his words.
"Fine, I guess you can stay." Kay retook her seat and went back to staring out at the darkening summer sky.
"So, can I ask why you aren't at the party?" Brian had tried to stay quiet, but she had this sad defeated look on her face that was similar to one Theresa would get when she was little and Luis would tell her that fairy tales weren't real, and just as he was younger he wanted to remove the look.
Kay drops her head from the sky and returns it to Antonio." No, you can't, if you're going to stay here the first rule is that you can't speak." "You sound just like him, and I don't want to hear his voice."
"Who's him?" Brian was going to drop the conversation, but now he has intrigued, he remembered when he was younger how Kay would always be running around his house he had always thought she had a crush on Luis, and the idea of someone to commiserate with was drawing fast appeal.
Kay gave a frustrated sigh and blew some fallen hair out of her face." You know who him is, everyone in town knows, except for my deluded boyfriend Reese and the object of my affection a.k.a your stupid brother Miguel." She glared at Antonio, when she saw the look of confusion on his face. "God, you're as clueless as your brother, did Pilar have any smart kids?"
Brian straightens at Kay obvious anger and thought back on his time in Harmony this past two months, and sure enough she was right. Whenever he had saw he little brother he had been accompanied by two females Charity and Kay, and both girls had looks of love adoration on their faces. " Paloma was pretty bright."
Kay laughs at his attempt at humor. " Well admitting you have a problem is the first step to fixing it."
The smile that lit her face was what got him, he would do anything she wanted if she would just keep smiling like that." Thanks, I'm sure with your help, I can conquer my stupidity." She laughs again, but her face once again takes on a sad look. "What's wrong?"
Kay had been holding the tears and emotion inside, refusing to cry and give Miguel anymore of her tears, but the simple question was her undoing. "What's wrong is that I fell in love with my best friend, only he waited forever to try to ask me out, and right before he was going to he fell in love with this ditzy blond." Kay looks up and sees that she now has he full attention and continues. "Then I find out that the ditz is my cousin, she moves in steals the man I love and basically my life, forcing me to do despicable and horrible things to try to win him, and you know what really pisses me off Antonio?"
"Call me Brian, but no what?" He had been feeling her pain the entire time she started speaking, and he understood her feelings.
"Well Brian, I was seating here thinking back to all the things I've done and all the things I've seen and I discovered that he isn't worth it." The thought had occurred to Kay about twenty minutes into her pout, but she didn't want to say it, but it had to be said.
"Really?"
"Yeah." Kay watched the fascination on his face as he listened to her answer, and she began to wonder why Brian had left his family's party. "Why aren't you at the party?"
"Same reason as yours, except replace best friend for brother's amnesiac fiancée."
Kay nods her head. " Well, welcome to the Loser's club, Brian, membership cards will be handed out at the next meeting."
"Thanks, so now I'm member what do we do now?"
" Well, I'm going to change, I've said this before, but this time, I think the I have finally reached the turning point."
"What's different this time?"
"Well for one, I'm tired of being Cupid's b****, but mainly I'm just tired of lying to myself."
"Yeah, I know that feeling." Brian stood up and walked toward the edge of the hill. "I ran from Harmony thinking I would do so much better if I was alone, but I am the same place I would be had I stayed." He feels Kay move beside him, and turns to look down at her. "The truth is it isn't the place, or my family, it's me holding me back." Kay rubs her arms as the cool night air becomes uncomfortable, and Brian takes off his jacket and puts it around her shoulders. "You're right Kay, it's time for a change."
