Chapter 4
Kyle was making his way to work, he really needs to clear his head,he doesn't know whether to stand up to his uncle for the first time in his life or to keep being his puppet. If he stood up to his uncle he would probably be beaten to a pulp but if he keeps being a puppet his uncle would never leave him alone. Kyle was still scared of his uncle even though he is not a kid anymore and if he stands up to his uncle it will only make his situation a whole lot worse.
Kyle didn't notice that he was being followed until he was shoved against a wall.
"Hey Kylie." Anton sneers.
He was way bigger than he was when he was 18 and even then Kyle was scared of him.
"Anton." Kyle manged to spill out.
"Boy's over here, guess what Kylie is shitting himself" Anton calls.
Around the corner comes Joseph and Jackson.
"There he is, how have you been?" Jackson sneers looking down at Kyle.
"Fine." Kyle mumbles.
"Look boys he's still scrawny." Joseph laughs holding Kyle tightly by his upper arm.
"Got the money yet?" Anton asks pushing Kyle hard against the wall.
"I have till Friday." Kyle winced.
"Dad changed it, you have to have it by tomorrow." Jackson laughs.
"I can't get that kind of money in one day." Kyle mutters but regretted it instantly when Anton gave him a punch in the gut.
"I'm a MMA fighter now, can you tell." He laughs as Kyle tries to catch his breath.
"Now here's what going to happen Kylie, either you give us $10,000 by tomorrow or we will come back for you and hunt you down," Anton sneers.
"It was $5000." Kyle moans.
"Well now we want five grand as well so it adds up to ten grand." Jackson laughs.
"I know that, i'm the only one out of us that actually passed school." Kyle yells but he knows he said the wrong thing straight away.
"Do you want to repeat that." Joseph snarls taking Kyle off Anton.
Kyle shakes his head.
"No, didn't think so, still a waste of space aren't you Kylie." Jospeh laughs and shoves Kyle hard against the wall causing him to hit the wall with such force that he fell the the ground.
The boys all walk way and Kyle finally manages to push himself up off the ground.
Kyle thought he would be used to this it happened nearly every day when he was younger, he was consistently being beaten up and bullied by his cousins.
Flashback
13 year old Kyle was putting his books in his locker before 3rd period when he heard footsteps behind him.
"Hey Kylie." Anton smiles.
"Look guys, one day is all i ask please just leave me alone for one day." Kyle begs to his much bigger and stronger cousins.
"How about no." Jackson laughs as he shoves Kyle in his locker and padlocks it.
"Please, let me out." Kyle begs.
All he could hear was laughter from the outside and then silence, they must have walked away.
"Help." he calls.
Suddenly he hears footsteps.
"Is someone in there?" he heard a voice.
"Yes, please let me out." Kyle begs.
"Code?" The kid asks.
"18, 68, 31" Kyle replies.
Suddenly the door swings open.
"Thanks." he smiles.
"Who put you in there?" the kid asks.
Kyle decided to lie because the kid would probably tell a teacher and that would make thinks worse for him.
"Just a bunch of older kids." Kyle lies.
"I'm Hamish." the kid smiles.
"Kyle." Kyle replies.
"Wait are you, Anton, Joseph and Jackson's cousin?" Hamish asks.
"Yea." Kyle mutters he knows what is coming now it happened all the time.
"Look you seem like a great guy, but i want to make it through school without being shoved in a locker so i'm sorry but your cousins can't know i talked to you, can you just stay away from me." Hamish mutters and races off the class.
That afternoon when Kyle was walking home from school he was tripped over by Anton who was hiding behind a tree.
Suddenly he feels Jackson sitting on one shoulder and Joseph sitting on the other.
"How'd you get out of the locker?" Anton asks sitting across Kyle's chest.
Even though Hamish said he didn't want the boys to know he helped him and he told him to stay away, Kyle could completely understand and decided to lie.
"A teacher." Kyle sighs.
"What did you say to that teacher?" Jackson snarls.
"That an older kid put me in there, i promise i didn't dob you in." Kyle whimpers as Anton puts more weight on his chest.
"You better not have." Anton snarls.
"Please, i promise i didn't." Kyle begs.
They all get off him, but Anton gives him a kick in the ribs.
"See you at home Kylie." Joseph laughs as they all walk away.
It take a while for Kyle to get up but when he does he falls to the ground again, his ribs are killing him.
End of flashback
Kyle remembered that he did get home that night but it took a while, and when he got home he was punished for being so late home from school, it was a huge beating that left his life hanging in the balance.
He walked into the restaurant.
"You're late." Brax sighs and looks at Kyle with a worried expression, Kyle was never late.
"Sorry, i got held up." Kyle sighs.
"You know your uncle is so awesome he bench pressed 300kgs earlier today." Brax smiles.
Kyle knew from experience how strong his uncle was but acted surprised anyway.
"Really." He smiles.
"Yea, hard to believe he's related to you." Brax smiles.
"How come?" Kyle asks.
"Mate you're my little bro and i would never say anything hurtful to you but lets face it, you're not built for fighting or heavy lifting." Brax smiles he pats Kyle on the back on goes and checks on the chef.
Kyle knew that Brax wasn't meaning to hurt his feelings but growing up with his cousins he got so much abuse and teasing just for not being strong.
Just then his Uncle and cousins came in.
"Kylie." Anton laughs.
Kyle just struggles for words.
"Duncan, can i help you?" Brax asks.
"Yea, table for four please." Duncan grins.
"Kyle will show you." Brax grins.
Kyle makes his way to a free table and places four glasses on it.
"I'll come back soon to take your order." Kyle sighs.
"Mate are they your cousins?" Brax asks.
"Yep." Kyle replies.
"Four boys under one roof, your poor Uncle." Brax laughs as he walks to take a tables order.
"Yep, he had a horrible life." Kyle mumbles sarcastically as he checks the accounts are all in order.
The night didn't feel like it lasted that long. His Uncle and cousins didn't give him any trouble but that's probably because Brax was there.
"Mate, since you were late getting here you can clean up." Brax smiles.
"Fine Brax." Kyle sighs.
"See you at home." Brax smiles leaving Kyle alone in the restaurant.
Kyle had finished cleaning up for the night, now all he had to do was check that the money was all in order.
Suddenly he remembered that he had to give ten grand to his uncle and cousins, looking at the money in the safe Kyle sighed and locked up the safe for the night.
Kyle hoped he wouldn't regret not stealing the restaurants money, he was afraid of what his Uncle and cousins would do to him tomorrow but at least he didn't steal from his brothers.
As Kyle shut the restaurant for the night he wondered if he was ever going to get rid of his Psycho Uncle and his jerk cousins.