Chapter Two – Wyatt's Gift

"Well I didn't." Wyatt said with a smile.
Chris sniffled. He shook his head and bent over and placed his head on his knees.
"Dude." Wyatt said, rubbing his back, "Its gonna be okay, Dad loves you remember that."

Chris listened, but didn't pay much attention. He hated coming here…but Wyatt wanted to pay his respects and so did his father. There were so many nights that Pipers death haunted Chris' dreams. He'd wake up with a sweat, breathing hard, or screaming. It took him nearly a year to get himself out of that…and now he's back where he started. As Chris' head rested on his knees, he told Wyatt, "I wanna go home."

Wyatt sighed and got up from the bench and knelled down infront of his brother. "Chris look at me."
"Take me home, please." Chris replied not looking at Wyatt.
"Christopher, look at me." Wyatt said sternly placing his hand on his knee. "Please."
Chris lifted his head; a tear had fallen down from his left eye. He looked into Wyatt's eyes; he could tell that Wyatt was hurting too.
"I love you, Chris." Wyatt said.
"Oh man…shut up." Chris said, embarrassed.
"No I am serious…if you feel that Dad doesn't love you…then take my love." Wyatt said with a small shake in his voice.
"Just take me home, please!" Chris pleaded.
"No I need to tell you this." Wyatt said, "When Mom died, I didn't know how to move on…she was always there for me and you and she always handled everything; school work, those nights where she would help us in our homework, demon hunts, cooking, and just being our very best friend." Wyatt closed his eyes, trying to stop them from coming. "The one thing I always did around you was stay strong…cause I know how hard it was for you, and you needed someone strong. But in those moments when I wasn't, I was right here where you are."
Chris looked at his brother, he was shocked. "You cried?"
"Like a baby…there were nights where I thought if I ran away I could escape it all, and never think of it again…but do you know what kept me from all that?"
Chris listened. Waiting.
"It was you, Chris." He said taking his hand. "You became the best friend I never had, and you were the reason I woke up everyday and I watched over every night while you slept."

"You watched me sleep?" Chris said raising an eyebrow.

"Once or twice."
"Ew."
"Not like that moron, but it was because looking at you, I see Mom, I see her loyalty her bravery and her soul." Wyatt then wiped a tear from his eye, "All I know is, if I had lost you too that day…I can say for sure I wouldn't be here right now."
Chris was amazed. His brother shared all these feelings for him, he wasn't sure whether to thank his brother or give him a hug. How did all of this surpass him, way didn't Chris see this before? Those mornings where Wyatt would make sure he had enough money, those nights he finished his homework on time, or even driving him back and forth to practice.
"Those nights," Wyatt said, "Where you cried after mom's death…I stood outside your room until you stopped. I knew you wanted to be alone, but not totally alone."
"What did you do when I stopped?" Chris said
"I prayed for you…and went to bed." Wyatt said.
Chris fought his own tears back…he had no idea that his brother loved him this much.
"I love you too, Wy." Chris said, and Wyatt leaned forward and hugged his brother.
"Okay, let's go to your birthday party." Wyatt said into Chris' ear.
"What party?" Chris said.

Wyatt grinned, took his brother's hand and orbed home.

Wyatt and Chris orbed onto the front porch.
"Why didn't we orb into the house." Chris asked.
"You'll see." Wyatt said. He opened the door. As the two boys walked in, everyone of Chris' friends yelled out, "Surprise!"

Chris was shocked. He looked around and saw everyone he knew. Balloons and Streamers hung all around. His best friends, Bianca Summers, Jesse Orlando, Zack Tyler, Thomas Paine, Trey Young, Ashley Huddle, Corey Sanchez, Jason Lee, and Ariel Price were all around him. Bianca and Ashely came up to Chris and each one kissed him on the cheek and put a purple floral lay around his neck. Trey came up and took a picture of it.
"Happy Birthday, babe!" Ashely said giving him a hug.
Chris smiled. "Thanks."
Ashely noticed Chris' red eyes. "Are you okay babe? What's wrong?"
"Oh." Chris said, embarrassed, "Wyatt and I just visited our mom."
"Oh." Bianca said, "That's so sweet a guy who shows his emotions. We should reward him Ash."
Ashley laughed, "We should…but we both got boyfriends."
"Yeah." Bianca replied, "Sorry birthday boy." She laughed as she put a wild purple and yellow hat on his head.
"Hey…what they don't know doesn't hurt em." Chris said going up to the girls.

"Yeah, but sorry babe." Bianca said. "Come on!"

As Bianca and Ashely took Chris' hands and led him into family room, Wyatt walked around and found his friends Luke and Sky.
"Hey man." Sky said. "How's your bro doing?"
Sky was a tall, bald headed pro-skater. He was two years older than Wyatt, but knew Wyatt from his freshman year.
"Oh he's good. Better then about a few months ago." Wyatt said sitting down in the Solarium.
"Yeah." Sky said

"How are you doing?" Luke asked

Luke was a tall, blonde hair green eyed, surfer.

"I am good. Tired, but good. I wanna thank you guys for getting everyone here this morning."
"No prob, anything to help bring Chris back up to spirits." Sky replied. "You're aunt told us were you guys were so I told everyone to cut Chris some slack."

"Oh you didn't need to do that." Wyatt replied, "He's a strong kid."

"Yeah, but just incase." Luke said.

"So Chris." Said Jesse, one of Chris' oldest friends, he was on the Swim Team with him, "How was your morning."
Chris who was drinking a Pepsi, looked at Jesse weird, "It was fine. Why you ask?"
"It's just-" Jess was at a loss for words.
"We're all here for you Christopher." Kim said, "You don't need to put on a strong face."
Chris gave a fake laugh. Oh man…isn't this weird! He thought. "No I am fine." He said looking at everyone. "Really. I am."
"Okay." Ashely said, "but Remember, we all love you!" She said. With that, everyone tackled Chris and did one big group hug. "AHH!" Chris said under everyone.

Chris looked up and saw Bianca on top of him.
"I like this view." He said with a smile.
"Cut it, boy. Or I'll burn your ass." She said

"Oh…how?"

"Like this!" Bianca grabbed his ear and twisted it.
"OW!" He yelped.

With that everyone got up and the doorbell rang. Wyatt went to get it, and moments later Wyatt came back with about five pizzas. He dropped four by Chris and his party.

"Enjoy guys." Wyatt said taking the fifth pizza and joining his friends.
"Wy." Chris said getting up. He and Wyatt went over by the stairs.
"Thank you…for all this." He said

"No problem it was more of Sky and Luke's doing."

"Well anything thank you."

With that Chris joined his friends and went back to his 15th Birthday party….