AN/ Phoebe is in this fic but she is not her usual self.
Kyle looks down at his hands wishing he hadn't opened his mouth. Heath and Brax were both staring at him seriously and Casey was smirking at him.
"You nearly killed yourself." Heath gasps, he knew that Kyle didn't have the best childhood but he knew nothing about the bullying or the self harm.
"I…. um… it doesn't matter." Kyle shrugs, his anger was gone and now he was just lost and regretting even speaking.
"Yea it does Kyle. Come on out with it." Brax pushes, Kyle was his little brother and since he couldn't be there for him when he as a kid he had to help now that he did have him.
"Seriously it doesn't matter… just forget I said anything." Kyle mumbles but he could still feel three pairs of eyes on him.
"You'reembarrassed…. Let me guess you got bullied by a girl! A younger girl!" Casey laughs, he didn't know why he found joy in his brothers pain.
"Casey! Go to your room, you're acting like a juvenile so until you act like an adult I'm going to treat you like a juvenile so grow up!" Brax yells pointing to Casey's room.
Casey shakes his head in disgust. "Not my fault he can't take a joke." He makes his way to his room and slams the door loudly.
"Out with it." Brax pushes, wanting Kyle to explain what happened back in his childhood.
"Kids were just jerks alright, nothing else to it… just forget it please." Kyle begs looking up at his big brother with his eyes begging them.
"No! Who and why and for how long?" Heath asks in a voice that Kyle never argues with.
"It was all through high school… a group of boys and girls." Kyle shrugs. He hated talking about it, he was the only Braxton that didn't run high school and it made him feel like such a loser.
"Why?" Heath asks, wondering what on earth his brother did wrong to deserve this.
"Why do you think.. because I'm a nerd." Kyle groans.
"What did they do to you?" Brax asks wondering how they bullied his little brother.
"I. Don't. Like. Talking. About it" Kyle says very slowly as he really hates embarrassing himself especially in front of his older brothers.
"Too bad. Please Kyle." Brax looks at Kyle practically begging him. He never knew it would be this hard to make a victim of bullying talk.
"They shoved me around. Called me names , made me do their work and all the usual bully things." Kyle shrug. He begins to play with his hands cracking them and swirling the thumbs against each other.
Kyle hated high school and wished that it never happened.
Flashback
"Hey KyQ." Vincent (Vince)Gray yells as he catches up with Kyle. Kyle hated the name KyQ. Vincent's crew were not far behind.
"Hey guys." Kyle whispers Looking at his feet and nothing else.
"How's our favourite little nerd today." Bekka Samson laugh as she shoves Kyle against a wall.
"Fine, I guess… you?" He asks, still not even looking up. He was scared he hated these kids.
"Ohhh such a little gentleman. Thanks I'm brilliant… I'll be a lot better when I get my A+ math homework back." She sneers, suddenly turning into her normal self, Shoving Kyle into two more bully's. Corey and Ryder Willis.
"Yea I did it, you should be fine." Kyle mumbles as he grabs the work out of his bag and hands it to Bekka.
"Such a nerd." Katie Smith.
"Ohhh he's such a good nerd." Lewis Hayes laughs.
"Such a little sweetie." Harriet Milne grins.
"Ohhhh so cute." Anne Bailey giggles.
"At least he's usefulfor something." Phoebe Nicolson laughs. Phoebe used to be Kyle's best friend but as they grew older and Kyle's label for nerd grew they grew apart. Now they hated each other. More so Phoebe hating Kyle.
"Yea... how's your social life KyQ. Got any friends." Trent Wilson laughs.
Kyle felt lost, here were 10 ofthe most popular kids in his year, surrounding him making him feel pathetic.
"I have Tyson Bates." Kyle shrugs naming his only friend who was known to also be bullied by this group of jerks.
"Well Tysons an emo freak! So stop hanging out with him, or you'll be having a lot more dates with the bin." Vincelaughs. Shoving Kyle hard in the chest causing him to fall to the ground. He was smaller then these jerks and was smart in him. Which was a lot said to stop hanging out with Tyson but his heart told him that Tyson was his only friend and not to losehim.
"So KyQ are you going to stop hanging around with the freak?or are you going in the bin?" Lewis asks, grabbing Kyle by the scruff of his shirt.
"Bin." He mumbles quietly. Oh how he wished he could stand up for himself.
"What was that KyQ." Trent asks, leaning down and hissing in Kyle's ear.
"Bin, I'm not going to stop being friends with Tyson." Kyle whispers, he knew it was going to be bad but he could abandon his only friend.
"Ohh the wittle nerd doesn't what to loose his only friend… how adorable." Ryder chuckles as him and Corey lift him up.
"Wait… I need to give him my English first." Harriet smirks, putting her English book in Kyle's bag. "It's due Monday." She laughs and nods her head for them to continue.
The twins throw Kyle in the bin, it was one of the huge ones so Kyle fell fully in. after the lid was shut Kyle waited a minute to make sure that they were gone and then tried to get out only to find out that someone was sitting on it.
"Come on! Please." He begs, banging on the bin. Whoever it was kicked the bin angrily.
"Shhh you little twirp." Ryder threatens, Kyle sits down and says nothing else. If these guys told Kyle to jump he would, he was so scared of them.
"Hey Mr Franks, we're just hanging out and talking about the history lesson today." Corey says to the teacher and Kyle keeps quiet knowing that he would get beaten up bad if they got caught.
"I'm glad you all enjoyed it, have a nice weekend." Mr Franks repliesand makes his way to his car and drives off.
Kyle hears them all talking and their voices fading. He pushes open the lid and gets out, he picks up his bag which was thrown on the ground and makes his way home.
End of flashback
"Kyle.." Brax starts horrified that someone could treat his brother like that.
Kyle felt lost, all he could think about was his bullies.
"Just forget about it…. Agh all I can think about now is them and calling my KyQ." Kyle moans, looking up at his brothers angrily. Why'd they make him talk.
Unknown to the boys Casey was back and listening quietly from around the corner.
"So what does KyQ mean?" Heath asks curious where they got KyQ from.
"My name is Kyle and I have a high IQ." Kyle shrugs, they used it as a way of calling him a nerd without having to actually call him it.
"That's kinda creative." Heath shrugs then holds his hands up in defence when he sees Brax looking at him angrily. "What I said it was creative, I didn't say I agreed with it." He protests.
"Yea, well… I never thought it was creative." Kyle grunts looking down at his hands.
Brax and Heath look at each other.
"Mate, maybe you should go and stay at the Caravan park for a little while, you and Case aren't going to work things out anytime soon. So best to give each other a bit of space." Brax sighs knowing that this conversation is going to go south quick.
"But I'm not the one causing the problems." Kyle moans, he felt like a child but he didn't care. Why'd he have to go? Casey was the one being a dick.
"Kyle I'm sorry but it'll be easier if you go." Brax sighs hating to admit that he would much rather have Casey at home. He did care for Kyle, but not the same as Casey. They weren't as close.
"You know what! Fine! I knew it was all an act. It's Casey… it's always going to be Casey! As hard as I try. It'll never be me that you think about as the little brother that you protect more." Kyle yells, he was frustrated, Casey was the one being a
/jerk!
"Kyle.." Brax starts, he wanted to tell Kyle that it wasn't true but Brax couldn't lie to Kyle. It would only hurt more.
"Forget it Brax, I'll go and yes. I'll make sure that Tamara and I have no sleepovers." Kyle grunts shoulder barging both Heath and Brax as he goes.
Casey quickly runs back to his room, hiding from Kyle, he got back to his room
"Dude." Heath moans as Kyle makes his way to his room and slamming the door. Heath looks at Brax angrily. Like Kyle, Heath was unloved by their Dad, Heath knew that Kyle felt unloved. Brax wasn't helping.
"Nice work" he hisses at Brax walking over and knocking on Kyle's door.
"Who is it?" Kyle asks, not wanting to let them in if it's Brax or Casey.
"Me." Heath calls through the door. Kyle could talk to Heath because Heath understood, and he thought that Heath might actually be on his side.
"It's open." Kyle sighs, he was searching around for his leather jacket.
Heath opens the door, Kyle was frantically searching around for something. Heath guessed it was his much loved leather jacket. Laughing he picks it up from under Kyle's work bag and chucks it over his little brothers head.
"Thanks." Kyle sighs shoving it in his bag and finally zipping it up. He throws it over his shoulder. He looks at Heath and shrugs.
"I'll drive ya." Heath smiles, Kyle didn't have a car. Which was weird because he did have his licence.
"Cheers." Kyle sighs as he walks out of his room. Casey was now back in the lounge smirking lightly.
"Don't let the bedbugs bite KyQ." He laughs.
Kyle clenches his teeth, throws his bag to the ground and before either Brax and Heath can stop him punches Casey straight in the face.
Brax grabs him away from Casey, and shoves him into Heath and punches him in the gut.
"I said no hitting." Brax points at Kyle who was groaning in Heaths arms. Heath glared at Brax. That wasn't fair.
"He called him KyQ Brax, the little snoop." Heath hisses at Brax as he picks Kyle's bag up off the ground. He pulls Kyle out of the house giving Brax and Casey one last glare.
Casey smirks and gets a whack on the head by Brax.
"You're a dick Casey. Grow up." Brax hisses and runs out the door after his other two brothers.
"Ky!" He calls and chase after them only to see that Heaths car is already gone.
Running his hands over his face, Brax knew that he had to make it up to Kyle.
Kyle and Heath arrive at the caravan park and go and see Alf.
"Hey young fellas, what can I do for you boys today?" Alf asks, The Braxton's had grown on him. They were actually pretty nice guys.
"A van? Please we are having complications with Casey and Kyle." Heath sighs, Kyle looks at his feet, and doesn't even look up.
"Ahh well you're not going to bring any trouble are ya young fella?" Alf asks. Looking at Kyle who looks nothing short of miserable.
"No, of course not Mr Stewart." Kyle sighs, he shoves his hands inhis pockets and looks up at Heath.
"I'm at work most the time anyway." Kyle mumbles and shakes his head uneasily.
Alf looks uneasy, if there was problems between Casey and Kyle he didn't really want WW3 breaking out in his caravan park, all caused between Braxtons.
"Please Alf, look Ky's a good kid, he won't be any trouble." Heath smiles lightly. He didn't want to make Kyle feel like he's anymore unloved.
"Okay, here's your key." Alf smiles handing Kyle a key.
"One person van?" Alf checks, Kyle answers with a nod.
"Thanks Alf." Kyle smiles. He and Heath make their way to the caravan.
"I'm sorry about Brax mate." Heath apologises feeling bad that Kyle had got a punch in the gut.
"Forget about it, I was an idiot to think that Brax actually cared for me like he did Casey." Kyle grunts.
Not knowing what else to say Heath decides that it's time to go.
"Take it easy yea mate… I'll catch up with you late yea squirt." Heath laughs ruffling Kyle's hair.
"I'm taller than you." Kyle sighs chucking his bag on the bed.
"I know.. but your just a little baby." Heath laughs. Kyle smirks at Heath and shakes his head.
"You better go mate, before Casey thinks that you like me better." Kyle sighs starting to unpack is bag.
"Maybe I am at the moment Kylie, unlike you Casey's being immature. I may of known him a lot longer but seriously Ky. If he wants my respect back he's going to have to earn it. Especially after he called you KyQ." Heath sighs, ruffling Kyle's hair onemore
time. "Nice right hook by the way little bro, glad to see you had it in you." Heath chuckles and walks out the door shutting it behind him.
Kyle chuckles to himself. Heath was a great big brother. It sounded like Heath was on his side.