Chapter 3
Kyle was sitting on his bed playing his guitar when there was a knock at the door.
"It's open." He calls.
"Hey Kyle." Bianca smiles.
"Hey Bee." Kyle smiles.
"Here we got you something." Bianca smiles handing Kyle a CD.
"Thanks but you didn't have to get me anything." Kyle smiles.
"Well I bought something for Heath, Ricky bought something for Brax and we got Casey something for his birthday, we had to get you something." Bianca laughs.
"Cheers." Kyle grins.
Bianca sits on his bed next to him.
"What's it like having your Uncle back after all these years, has anything changed?" She asks.
Kyle thought about this for a moment.
"No nothing has changed." Kyle replies.
"That's great Kyle, I'll leave you to play on your guitar." Bianca smiles.
Everyone was still oblivious to what was going on even Bianca. If Bianca believed everything was okay then everyone would.
After a while Kyle lay down on his pillow and fell to sleep, he was exhausted, but it was the worst sleep he had, had since he was young.
flashback
"Get up you little ****." Duncan screams.
11 year old Kyle struggled to push himself up but he finally managed to, his Uncle grabbed him by the arm and held it hard.
"Please." Kyle sobbed.
"What do you say then, you little thief." Duncan snarls.
"I'm sorry for taking food without asking." Kyle sobs his uncle was tightening the lock on his arm.
"Why did you do it?" Duncan snarls.
"I was hungry, please you haven't feed me in 4 days." Kyle whines.
"Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, and how dare you pass the blame on to me." Duncan screams and with one last movement he snaps Kyle's arm. Kyle falls to the floor and he can feel tears dripping from his eyes.
Duncan looms over a sobbing Kyle.
"I will make the rest of your life a living hell." Duncan laughs grabbing Kyle and taking him up to the attic.
"Please I need a cast." Kyle begs.
"Jackson, Anton, Joseph get in here." Duncan calls.
Kyle's gigantic cousins walk in.
"Yea dad." Anton asks not taking his menacing eyes off Kyle.
"I'm taking your pathetic excuse of a cousin to the hospital, he's crying over a broken arm." Duncan laughs wickedly.
"What a wimp." Joseph laughs.
"please look after the house we won't be long." Duncan laughs and grabs Kyle by his broken arm.
"Owwww." Kyle yells.
"Will you quit being a baby." Duncan snarls grabbing Kyle by the shoulders and shaking him, he stops and looks Kyle right in the eyes.
"You tell the doctors you tripped." Duncan snarls.
Kyle just nods his head he was scared of his uncle and knew that if he told the doctor what actually happened, his uncle would find a way to punish him.
After returning home from the hospital Kyle is taken to the attic.
"You've earned yourself 4 days in here." Duncan laughs as he padlocks the attic door.
Kyle looked around the room, all that was in there was a bucket and one blanket, his uncle did bring up a bottle of water each day but other than that there was only walls. Kyle sat down and erupted in loud sobs.
end of flashback
Kyle woke up with a jolt, standing over him was Ricky.
"Sleeping Beauty, it's nearly dinner time." she laughs.
"Funny. " Kyle smiles.
He gets up and follows Ricky into the lounge, his uncle was back.
"Kylie, i'm back early. " he grins punching Kyle lightly in the shoulder.
"Uncle Kyle come play with me." Darcy smiles.
"Sure Darc." Kyle smiles happy to get away from his Uncle.
"Dinner." Ricky calls after a while.
They all sit down around the table.
"So Duncan, tell us about Uncle Kyle " Darcy asks.
"Well, he did well in school, he wasn't really into sport and he always knew that his actions had consequences." Duncan smiles.
"What sort of consequences?" Bianca asks.
"No guitar, No TV, the normal things." Duncan lies.
Kyle smiled along with everyone else but he didn't mean it.
After dinner everyone went their separate ways, Casey took Sasha and Rosie home, Heath and Bianca went to drop Darcy off at Cheryl's and Brax and Ricky went next door to the flat. This left only Kyle and his Uncle.
"Why are you back early?" Kyle asks.
"None of your business." Duncan snarls pushing hard past Kyle to get to his bedroom.
Kyle goes to his room and shuts the door, he lies back down on his bed and falls asleep once again.
When he wakes up the next morning only Bianca is home.
"Hey Bee, where is everyone else?" Kyle asks.
"Surfing." Bianca laughs.
Kyle got his bowl of cereal and sat down next to Bianca.
"Kyle, when's your birthday, i don't think we have celebrated it since you've lived here?" Bianca asks.
"August 15th." Kyle replies.
"That was last month! why didn't you tell us?" Bianca asks.
"I don't like making a big deal about it." Kyle shrugs.
That was a lie, he wanted someone at least one person to say happy birthday to him when it was his birthday, but his uncle and cousins didn't care, his birthday was actually the worst day of his life growing up because each year his Uncle and cousins would punish him simply because he was born on that day.
"How old are you now?" Bianca asks.
"B, does it really matter?" Kyle asks.
Bianca softly hit Kyle around the head.
"How old?" She asks again.
"I'm 23." Kyle smiles.
"Well happy 23rd last month Kyle." Bianca smiles as she pats Kyle on the shoulder and goes to hers and Heath's room
"Thanks Bee." Kyle smiles to himself.
Ever since he found his family he has finally stopped feeling like a waste of space like he did growing up.