AUTHOR'S NOTE:

So sorry everyone, this story is almost finished :(

I really enjoyed writing this next chapter and I think it shows the brotherly relationship well, I think it's very touching and really emotional and hope you all enjoy it and don't get too teared up with aww like I did.

Please let me know what you think :D

(I may not get the chance to upload tomorrow if I can't expand more on the next chapter)

Chapter 93: Celebrations

Casey's nerves ran through his body, it was the first day of his final HSC exams. Casey walked into the kitchen and saw Heath and Brax having breakfast.

"Morning mate, you ready for your exams?" Brax greeted.

Casey shrugged as he paced the kitchen floor. "Ready as I'll ever be."

Heath laughed, "Slow down squirt, you'll wear a hole in the floor with all that pacing."

"Here" Brax handed Casey a piece of toast but Casey waved it away.

"I can't. I'm too nervous." Casey replied anxiously.

"Case you have to eat something to keep that brain of yours working for your exam." Brax said, causing Casey to take the toast.

"Morning." Kyle greeted as he walked into the kitchen and saw Casey looking anxious.

"Relax Casey, you'll be fine. Just remember all the things we went over." Kyle smiled.

"Yeah right. I'll be lucky if I remember my name." Casey replied.

Heath and Brax smiled at their brother's comment. "You do your best. You're smart Casey." Brax encouraged.

"Yeah better than us two dingbats who dropped out." Heath added with a smile and gestured to Brax and himself.

"Thanks guys." Casey smiled and turned towards the door.

"Good luck Case." Brax nodded and Casey grabbed his bag for school and left.

"So you ready to start at the restaurant today?" Brax asked Kyle.

"Yeah. Look Brax thanks for getting me this job." Kyle said and Brax shrugged.

"I look out for my family what can I say. Maybe if you're good I'll let ya play some of your own music at the restaurant sometime."

"Really? That would be great." Kyle smiled.

"I said only if you work good." Brax replied. Heath chuckled as he watched his brothers.

A few weeks passed and Casey had finished his exams, Kyle had picked up regular shifts at Brax's restaurant and Heath was working through his personal trainer's course.

Heath sat at the bar of his brother's restaurant and sipped his beer. He turned to see Kyle waiting tables.

"How's new mate doing?" Heath asked.

"He's got potential." Brax replied.

"You better watch out, next he'll be fighting his way to the top management position." Heath joked.

"Not while I'm around." Brax smiled. "How you going with your personal training work?" Brax asked and received a shrug from Heath.

"I can't get my head around this anatomy stuff. You know I ain't the brains of this family."

"Stick with it mate." Brax encouraged.

"I was talking with the owner of the gym and he said he was interested in giving me a traineeship." Heath explained.

"That's great Heath." Brax smiled.

"Yeah, but it doesn't change that I still have to complete my theory."

Brax smirked and went back to cleaning glasses when Casey came running into the restaurant holding a piece of paper and slammed into the bar. Heath chuckled and slapped Casey on the back.

"Ease up squirt, you almost ran straight into the next room." Heath joked.

"Why the rush?" Brax asked.

Casey stared up at his eldest brother with a beaming smile and held up the piece of paper he had in his hand. Brax gave a confused look and Casey handed the paper to him.

"It's my HSC results. I got my certificate." Casey beamed.

Brax scanned over Casey's results and saw he had averaged just over the pass mark for all of his subjects. Brax looked back at Casey and smiled in amazement. Heath slapped Casey on the back again.

"Well done squirt. We're proud of ya!" Heath smiled proudly.

Casey's smile beamed further, for once in his life he felt he had really accomplished something and made his brothers proud.

"I couldn't have done it without you." Casey spoke as he looked Brax in the eye with admiration.

"Kyle helped ya too." Brax pointed.

"Yeah but if it wasn't for you always pushing me to go to school and study and having faith in me...I probably wouldn't have gotten one at all." Casey added.

Brax nodded in understanding Casey's appreciation.

"Eh that's what big brother's are for right? I say it's time for a drink to celebrate, for all of us! 'ey Kylie, get over here and have a drink with us!" Heath smiled and yelled out to Kyle.

Kyle turned to Heath as he picked up glasses off a table. "Heath I can't, I'm working."

"Come on, you have to celebrate Case's HSC success." Heath yelled.

Kyle saw Casey at the bar. "Hi Casey. Congratulations."

"Thanks and thanks for all your help." Casey smiled.

"You're welcome." Kyle replied and continued to pick up glasses and plates from the tables.

"Kylie...Come on..." Heath groaned. "I'm sure boss man will let you off for five minutes to have a drink with ya brothers." Heath smirked at Brax.

Brax rolled his eyes and saw Kyle turn to him. "Kyle." Brax beckoned Kyle over.

Kyle walked over to the bar and Brax poured out four beers for his brothers.

"Here's to Casey completing his HSC, now the little squirt can go out in the world like the rest of us!" Heath raised his glass.

"Heath do you have to keep calling me squirt. I mean I'm not a little kid anymore." Casey spoke.

Heath chuckled. "Nup, you'll always be my little squirt no matter how old you are."

Casey shook his head.

"And here's to Heath's trainee at the gym." Brax added.

"What?" Kyle asked.

"Heath's been offered a traineeship at the gym." Brax explained.

"That's great." Casey smiled.

"Told you, you could do it if ya tried." Kyle smirked.

"Yeah alright, don't get all I told you so on me or I'll have ta introduce you to my fist." Heath joked.

"No need for that." Brax warned in a playful tone and raised his glass and his three brothers followed suit.

"To Casey's HSC, Heath's opportunity of a lifetime, and Kyle's job." Brax announced.

"And to you Brax, for always being there for us." Casey stated and Heath nodded.

"Yeah and for keeping us in line." Heath added.

"Well I had to didn't I? Couldn't have you two terrorizing the place." Brax smirked.

"To us." Kyle cheered.

"The Braxton brothers." Heath added.

All four brothers clinked their glasses and took a drink.