AUTHORS NOTE:

Kyle appears in the next few chapters to come and Danny's anger takes a violent turn for one of his boys.

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Chapter 30: Picnic fun

Heath and Casey were getting ready, while Brax was organizing his backpack, ready to take on the picnic. Brax had told his brothers if Heath had behaved all week at school and Casey at home he would take them for a picnic at this special place he knew. Brax held Casey's hand as Heath walked beside them. After walking a few blocks Heath got tired.

"Are we there yet?" "Almost mate, it's just up here."

They continued to walk until they reached a bush area, covered in rocks, and which had a small lake. It was a place one of Brax's friend took him too when he was in late primary school and Brax realized it was a nice secluded place where you could leave all your troubles behind and just have fun.

"Where here." Brax announced. Casey squealed.

"Where are we Brax?" Heath asked.

"It's called Shipman's Rock."

Casey and Heath ran off excited. "Heath! Casey! Stay away from the edge!" Brax shouted. The only problem with this place was that it was situated on a cliffs edge.

Casey ran back to Brax and grabbed his hand. "Come on Bax."

Brax placed his backpack down and ran after his brothers. After running around exploring the place, the boys became tired and sat down beside the lake to have some lunch. Once Casey had finished his lunch he started getting antsy and fidgety, looking at his brothers he got up and tapped Heath. "Tag" and ran off.

"Hey, I'll get you." Heath laughed getting up and chasing after Casey.

"Be careful you two." Brax yelled, smiling as he watched his brothers play.

"Ah!" Casey squealed as Heath caught him from behind and tackled him. "Now you're it." Casey wriggled out of Heath's arms and tagged him again, running to hide behind Brax.

"Is that how you wanna play?" Heath ran towards his brothers. "Bax!" Casey shrieked. Brax grabbed Casey in his arms, wrestling him.

"Bax!" Casey giggled. Heath laughed. "Looks like you're trapped Case."

"No!" Casey tried wriggling free. Heath approached and tagged Casey. "No fair!"

"Hard luck Case" Heath laughed and ran off. Brax released Casey and looked to Heath.

"Don't think you're getting away that easily." Brax quickly stood up and chased Heath, wrapping his arms around his upper body and tackling him.

Casey saw his two brothers wrestling and laughing and ran towards them and jumped on top of them.

"Ah!" Heath laughed and Casey bursts into a fit of giggles. "Come here you two." Brax said. Heath and Casey tackled Brax to the ground, leaving all three boys exhausted from laughing.

Brax looked at his watch, it wasn't long before sundown, and he didn't want to be walking his brother's home at sundown. He packed up the backpack and yelled, "Heath! Casey! It's time to go!"

"We wanna stay here!" Casey yelled and ran off.

Brax knew Casey was getting tired as he was starting to act up. Brax quickly ran after Casey. Casey tripped over a bunch of rocks and stumbled but instead of falling down, Brax caught him in his arms. When the boys started walking it wasn't long before Casey stopped and tugged Brax's hand.

"Piggy back, piggy back!"

Brax lent down for Casey to climb onto his back. "Geez Case, you've gotten heavy." Brax stood back up, lifted up the backpack, and continued on the way home.

"Hey what about me?" Heath asked. Brax scoffed. "No such luck mate. I ain't giving you a piggy back?"

"Why not?" Heath playfully replied. Brax gave Heath a playful shove.

About a street away from home Brax felt Casey get heavy as he slumped on his back and drifted off to sleep. Heath smiled at Brax.

"Can we go there again sometime? That was real fun."

"Sure thing mate." Brax ruffled Heath's hair. The boys entered the house and Brax placed Casey down on the couch.

"Why don't you take a shower before dinner?" Brax told Heath.

"Thanks for today Brax." "You're welcome mate. I'm glad you boys had a good time." Heath left to have his shower and Casey stirred, rubbing his eyes.

"Are we home already?" Brax chuckled. "Yeah Case, you fell asleep on the way home." "Oh."

Brax reflected on the time he had with his brothers, it was wonderful to see both his brothers so happy and he missed not having that all the time.