"Nice of you to join us, eventually Barry. Have a nice walk?" questioned the teacher when Barry eventually walked in. "I hope you've got your coursework."

"Er… yeah sir, thanks for askin'." Barry commented, smirking, taking his work out of his bag and dropping it lazily to his desk, before making his way to his chair.

The teacher just shook his head, carrying on with the lesson, well aware Barry wasn't going to pay attention, and that his coursework was going to be dire.

Barry just spent the entire lesson thinking about his family. Kacey, who, while he didn't agree with her choices, was still his sister. And he had let her down massively that day in the bike sheds with Steve-O. How he let him grab her and paw at her like that… Why didn't he stop it? Sure it made Kacey think about her decision and realised she was a girl, but there were other ways to make her see that…

His mum. Buggered off to Liverpool to sort things out with Steve-O's mum now he was out, and his plan to win Dynasty back and take her home… He needed to call her, needed to tell her what had gone on, that Steve-O was now going to be a dead man when he got hold of him.

His dad. The only person Barry had ever looked up to. The man had a temper, of course he did. Took it out on him a few times. But as long as he never laid a hand on his sisters, he didn't mind the beatings. Kacey followed Barry around like a little puppy while Dynasty was always Daddy's spoilt little princess. Got whatever she wanted from him. But he was the same with his mother. But that night… The night his father got arrested because somebody had grassed him up to the police… That night he became the man of the house. Some would say too soon. But he would do anything for his family.

Dynasty… Where did he even begin with her? Apart from Kacey, she was the only person who had been his closest friend. He could rely on that girl for anything, all he needed to do was ask. She knew how to keep him in line, gave him a slap when he needed one. Hugged him in one of those rare moments he couldn't handle it and cried. The shining light in his life. That was his sister. Family ties didn't get any stronger than that. They bother had to be strong for each other, because while they may have had everything they wanted, their childhood wasn't full of love and hugs and feelings. If you cried you got a slap for it. Neither of them could go to their parents for a hug or just a chat around the dinner table. But they stuck together. Because they were family.

The women in his family were the only women he had any respect for. The only woman outside his family he respected was Ms Boston.

Too lost in his thoughts Barry barely heard the bell. He was nudged out of his thoughts by someone tapping him on the shoulder as everyone else stood to leave. Barry jumped out of his seat and bolted out the door before the teacher could make him stay behind. As Barry legged it down the corridor, he saw Connor and Kevin outside, looking like they were heading out of the school gates. He smirked, his plan was in action.

"Barry? Have you seen Dynasty anywhere?"

Barry turned in the direction of the voice and looked directly down at Imogen. "What does it matter to you?"

"She's my best friend. I need to see her it's important." Imogen answered.

"No I haven't seen her but she's probably with Kacey." Barry looked at her, and watched her walk away again. He didn't even know why he tolerated the girl sometimes. She was just one of those people that just instantly annoyed him, and he didn't have a reason for it. He supposed he tolerated her because, as she had said, she was Dynasty's best friend.

Unaware of what his sister's best friend was about to tell her, and what was about to follow on after, Barry decided it was time to make his way down to the docks, where he came face to face with Steve-O once more, and the sounds of Connor and Kevin arguing.

Barry allowed Steve-O make himself known to the boys, gun in hand. Barry's hands twitched, wanting to pick something up and cave Steve-O's head in with it for what he did to Dynasty, but he remained calm.

Eventually Barry walked from where he was hidden to face them.

"How could you! After what he did to your sister!" Kevin snapped, his voice high with distress.

"You just gonna let him do this?!" Connor questioned.

"You were gonna do it to 'im." Barry said calmly. He couldn't blame them for thinking he'd betrayed them. In a sense they had. But he'd also betrayed his "mate" as well.

"It pays to know who your friends are." Steve-O stated.

Barry had to bite his tongue. If he lost it now…

There was what felt like an eternity of tense silence… but it couldn't have been more than a few seconds before Kevin broke the silence. Goading Steve-O on.

'Kevin if you don't shut up now…' Barry thought, momentarily forgetting that he'd taken the bullets out of the gun.

"Dynasty doesn't love you! Nobody would miss you if you disappeared!" Kevin shouted, and the three boys could see Steve-O start to crumble, but not before he snapped and pulled the trigger, shouting for Kevin to shut up. He pulled the trigger a few more times. Nothing happened.

"You set me up!" Steve-O snapped, looking back at Barry. "It's empty!"

"Dynasty said you never did anything to her." Barry said, still looking completely calm despite the anger bubbling inside him threatening to boil over. "But I know her! And I know when she's lying!"

"Did you think I was gonna let you get away with it?" Steve-O asked, walking toward him and raised his arm to take a swing at him, but Barry threw him instantly to the side, wanting to grab hold of him and punch him until he was unconscious, even as he could hear the sirens coming closer. But no. He was better than that. His sister deserved him to be by her side, not locked up beside the monster that attacked her.

"You raped my sister!" Barry said, starting to walk backward. "Did you think I was gonna let you get away with that?"

As the headlights grew closer toward them, Barry turned to Connor and Kevin. "I was never here. This stays between us three!" he told them before running from the scene.