Kyle lay on his bed flipping through a book. Sighing loudly he slams it down and runs his hands through his hair and looking at the time it read 7:39pm. He slowly got up and called Angelos, after hearing it ring three times Brax answers.

"Hey Angelos, how can I help you?" He asks.

Kyle stays quiet for a bit wondering if Brax was still mad at him. Suddenly his hunger took over him and he answered.

"Hey Brax it's me." Kyle sighs cautiously, he didn't really want to be yelled at especially since he didn't deserve it.

"Kyle, mate! Hey I'm so sorry, listen mate why don't you have dinner with us tonight. It's a barbecue and it would be really nice if you were there. I made a huge mistake punching you, sorry mate." Brax apologises hoping his little brother can

forgive him. Although he knew it would take a lot more than a ten second apology for kicking him out.

"Na Brax I'm alright. Anyway I don't really want to deal with Casey's teasing all night. Anyway you guys have get used to living without me. Ahh meat lovers please with…" Kyle starts.

"With extra barbecue sauce and a medium bottle of coke." Brax laughs on the other side of the line.

"Yea." Kyle laughs lightly. He always had the same thing when he ordered alone and he never got sick of it, it was just so good.

"Yea no worries mate and don't worry I'll pay for it. It's the least I can do now that you have to pay for a caravan. So I'll get Matt to deliver that soon. Talk soon, you're working tomorrow right?" Brax asks. Brax knew that he had been to

hard on Kyle, he hoped he has a chance to make it up to him.

"Cheers Brax and yea double shift." Kyle sighs in reply. He hated working double shifts so much and he had to keep doing them especially now that he would have to buy himself dinner every single night.

"Ah right, yea. Sorry about that mate, it's just I need you to work those hours it's just manager and all." Brax sighs. He hates the fact that Kyle had to work so long, it was kind of ridiculous, but he had to it was the law and Kyle needed to be

there to help.

"Yea I know I'll see you later Brax." Kyle sighs. He hangs up the phone and grunts he had to work from 8am till 12am. 16 HOURS. It was the longest shift possible and it was hard to believe that it was legal.

He lies on the bed and thinks about calling Tamara but he didn't want to cause anymore problems with Casey.

He starts reading the book again and waits for his pizza to come.

Back at the Braxton's Tamara knocks on the door, wanting to talk to Kyle to see if he's okay. The talk was pretty intense and it looked like either Kyle was going to kill Casey or Casey was going to kill Kyle.

Casey opens the door and smiles at Tamara. "Hey Tam. Wanna come in?" He asks.

"Sure, how are things here. Calmed down yet." Tamara laughs. Sitting down on the couch and Casey comes and sits down next to her.

"Is Kyle around? I'm worried about him." Tamara sighs, she didn't even really want to talk to Casey after his taunting words towards Kyle. She just wanted to see if her boyfriend was alright.

"He disappeared a while ago but I'm here." Casey flirts leaning in towards Tamara.

"Casey! No!" Tamara pushes him away from her, she loved Kyle not Casey why couldn't Casey get that.

"Why not? You would seriously date that loser over me." Casey groans and shakes his head with laughter.

"That loser is your brother. He loves me and I love him. Get it through your head! So suck it up Casey." Tamara hisses.

"You used to love me more, used to think he was a waste of space. So what's changed.. seriously we used to diss him all the time." Casey laughs.

Tamara turns to Casey and sighs, yes she did used to diss Kyle but that was before she realised what a sweet guy he actually was.

"I've realised that I love him." Tamara hisses, Heath comes out and pulls Casey away from Tamara.

"Kyle's at the Caravan park but keep your distance please Tamara, we need to sort this whole thing out sorry." Heath apologies, he wants more then anything for his brother to have his girlfriend with him but they couldn't risk it at least notuntil
Casey grew up a bit.

"Yea keep away from him he says he hates you." Casey grins. Heath glares at him. His youngest brother was being so incredibly immature.

"He loves you Tam, I can promise you that. He just wants to keep his distance. He doesn't want to stuff things up anymore. If he sees you he'll fall in love and want let you leave. I know my brother." Heath smiles lightly. He wishes thatKyle wouldlet
Tamara stay with him but he just always wanted to please Brax. It was annoying the extent Brax sometimes used it too.

Bianca and Ricky walk in the room completely oblivious to what has happened today.

"Hey Tam, you staying for dinner, it's a barbecue. We have steak, kebabs, sausages and chops." Ricky lists feeling ridiculous in how much food there was but then again the Braxton's loved their food.

"Yeah Tam, stay, it'll be lovely to have you." Bianca smiles at her brother in laws girlfriend.

Tamara stares at them shocked but came to the conclusion that they must not know that Kyle was at the Caravan Park. Tamara stares at Heath as if to say 'tell them.'

"Ahhh baby, Ky's moved out." Heath sighs running a hand through his hair and knowing he's about to get a major lecture even through it wasn't his fault. The girls loved Kyle and had excepted him as family, he was like their little brother.

"He what!" Bianca yells, Kyle was a part of the family and he didn't deserve to be kicked out which she knew would have happened. Kyle would never move out unless he had too. "What happened?" She asks Heath angrily.

"Him and Case were fighting again and Brax decided to kick Kyle out instead of Casey." Heath sighs, thankful that he wasn't at all to blame for Kyle being kicked out.

"Do you guys really care, I mean he's not even your boyfriends real brother, he's just a half breed." Casey huffs as he sees that Bianca and Ricky are angry about Kyle being kicked out.

Ricky turns to Casey and glares at him. She knows that he has had it tough but was no reason to talk about Kyle the way he did. "Casey seriously leave your brother alone. Brax and Heath have seen that Kyle and Tamara love each other, why can't you?"Rickyasks,
wondering why Casey just can't accept Kyle and Tamara. They were both obviously very happy and Tamara had begun to act like more of a girl when she was with Kyle and started to wear dresses a lot more. It was kind of cute.

"Because I'm better than him, why can't you see that Tamara." Casey blurts angrily at his ex. He wants her back so bad.

"LOOK CASEY, I love your brother okay! So please except it, I need to talk to him okay." Tamara sighs and starts to walk out of the house.

"You can't, Brax says that we all have to keep our distance." Casey blurts wanting more than anything for Tamara to stay here rather than go and see his brother.

"How about you stay for dinner. Kyle is working at the restaurant all day tomorrow so he'll probably nearly be in bed anyway." Ricky smiles lightly. She just wanted to look after Tamara and make sure Casey doesn't push her any further.

"You sure Kyle won't mind that I'm having dinner with his family and he isn't." Tamara wonders knowing that if it was her she would be very hurt.

"He'll be in bed soon anyway and he'll probably just want to be left alone.

"Okay, thanks." Tamara smiles she sat down next to Heath and avoided Casey's eyes.

Kyle is lying on his bed, flipping through a magazine when there's a knock at the door.

"Hey boss, its me. Mr Stewart said that you were in this caravan." Matt calls through the door.

Kyle's pushes himself up and goes over to the door and opens it. "Cheers Matt." Kyle smiles lightly taking the pizza and coke off Matt.

"Last delivery done!" Matt smiles and starts to walk away. "See ya boss, have a nice dinner." He smiles.

Kyle suddenly realises that he didn't really want to spend the night eating dinner alone. "Hey Matt, do you want half the pizza?" Kyle asks really not wanting to eat alone and he could hardly call his family or Tamara.

"I've got a girlfriend." Matt smirks using his usual line when anyone asks him anything like that.

"Funny…" he groans but then looks up at Matt with his big brown eyes. "Come on man.. I was kicked out, I just want to hang out with someone." Kyle sighs.

Matt can see that Kyle was hurt by being abandoned by his brothers and nods his head. Kyle was a nice enough guy and he had given him a job.

"But I get half the coke as well." He smirks and he hears a chuckle from Kyle as well.

"So Kyle, why'd you get kicked out anyway?" Matt asks as Kyle grabs two glasses and evenly divides the coke.

"Casey and I were fighting all day over Tamara and Brax decided that we couldn't live under the same roof so he kicked me out even though Casey was the one being an absolute dickhead." Kyle huffs and grabs a slice of pizza.

"I can't really see Casey as a dickhead, what did he say that makes you think that?" Matt asks.

Kyle sighed loudly and grabs a slice. "Just stuff about my mum and my childhood. Pretty rude and inconsiderate really. But he's their full brother and I'm their half brother. In the end I knew that they would choose Casey. Sure they care but just

not enough not Brax anyway, Heath on the other hand he cares but Brax is the leader, he makes the rules." Kyle mumbles drowning half his coke in one go.

Matt looks at Kyle not knowing what to say but wanting to know more about his mum, he just found it hard to ask. "So your mum..." He starts off hoping that Kyle will take over and help him.

"You want to know my story don't you. About my mum and how I was born?" Kyle asks looking up at Matt without even a hint of shock, everyone wants to know his story most were just too polite to ask.

"Yeah kinda ." Matt admits he knew it was rude it dive into people's personal lives but Kyle's was so mysterious it was hard not to ask.

"Well my mum found it hard to find love. Then she meet Danny and got drunk with him and then 8 months later I came into the equation…." Kyle starts before Matt interrupts. "You mean 9." He stats. He was sure that a pregnancy lasted

9 months.

Kyle glares at him as if too say 'you wanna hear it or not.' He sighs loudly and turns to Matt. "I was slightly premature." He shrugs and then after giving Matt time to set that in in the mind he continues.

"Mum loved alcohol I mean sometimes I felt like she loved it more than she loved me. So she needed money fast. She was beautiful and an easy way for a beautiful women to get money fast when they are raging alcoholics are to sell themselves for

mum had one condition… it had to be clean so that she couldn't get any diseases. So she was shown as a whore and a slut and yea that's what Casey was talking about her like, he said it runs in the family.. so you can think Casey is a good guy allyou
want but just don't get on the wrong side of him." Kyle huffs and grabs the last slice of pizza and finishes his drink.

"After you were born, how was it.. was your mum…" Matt starts. Not exactly knowing how to finish.

"I was lucky. My mum had had a night out the night before she found out that she was pregnant with me. She tripped and fell and had to go to hospital, that's when they told her. If she hadn't of fallen I would be dead. But she stopped. She alwayswanted
a kid even though she always yelled at me to shut the hell up when I got too loud, the first time she had a hangover while I was alive was when I was 3. My Nana had to come and take me to hers because I had been crying in my bed for hours but mymum
didn't want to come anywhere near me with her headache. It only got worse from there." Kyle mumbles and opens the fridge but remember he doesn't have anything and slams it shut.

"So your mum, is she still in Melbourne?" Matt asks, he hasn't heard Kyle's past before and he was wondering what ever happened to his mum,

"She died when I was a kid.. I was 14. Alcohol poisoning. On my birthday." Kyle sighs, it had been the worst day of his life. Even though he knew deep down his mum didn't care about him

Flashback

Kyle Bennett slumps his way home even though he didn't really want to be there. His mum was in a bad way not like most kids mums bad ways when they are just sick no her own bad way. She had started drinking a bottle of vodka before Kyle had gone bed and was still drinking it when he had got up in the morning.

He had arrived at school early but Trent, Corey and Ryder were already there and they quickly grabbed him and shoved him into the boys bathrooms. Trent stood guard while the twins shoved his head in the toilet and gave him a swirly.

"Happy birthday KyQ." They smirked after shoving his head down a couple more times Ryder reaches down his pants and finds his underwear and pulls up hard.

"Ha the dork still wears briefs." He laughs and hangs him in the coakhook on the toilet door. He then locks it and slides under the door followed by his brother leaving the door locked until Kyle eventually fell or got found by a nosy kid.

It had taken a whole hour for Kyle to fall down and he had to come up with a pretty lame excuse which managed it get him out of detention but not a letter home. His mum was going to kill him.

He walks in the door and finds his mum on the couch passed out. He figured that it was now or never and tried to nudge her awake. She was cold.. freezing cold, Kyle's heart felt like it had stopped. He had just touched a dead person. He had just touched his dead mum.

End of flashback

"Mate.." Matt starts but not exactly knowing how to finish.

"Only my family know that story and they don't even know that I was nearly not born so I would really appreciate it if you don't tell the whole town that I was a bullied nerd that found his dead mum and freaked out." Kyle mumbles. "The

boys didn't even know the bullied nerd bit until today. Please Matt. I get stares enough as The River Boys half brother who can't surf. I don't need anymore attention." Kyle practically begs.

Matt can see the desperation in his eyes and he knows that he wouldn't want a secret like that getting out of it was him. "No worries boss, see ya tomorrow." Matt smiles and walks away.

Back inside Kyle grabs his towel, spare pair of shirts and boxers and his soap. He gathers it all and puts them in his toilet bag and heads towards the community showers to have a shower before bed just so that he doesn't have to get up even earlierin
/the morning.

Ricky cleans up everyone's plates and put on the jug so she can make everyone a cup of tea. Tamara had gone home and Casey had gone to his room as everyone was pretty angry towards him and he didn't see that he did anything wrong.

"I still think that you guys shouldn't have kicked him out. How's that meant to make him feel, he's your brother. Ky already feels like an outsider enough as it is. He's your half brother, he's always going to feel like he's the fourth wheel. Now

you have just kicked him out. Just like that, he didn't even do anything wrong! Now he's there alone, probably wondering if he had just not stuck up for himself and let Casey walk all over him, what's that teaching him. I know he's grown up but he'sstillthe
newest Braxton, he's even new to family. You can't just kick him out, Kyle is quite sensitive Brax, you know that. Say anything about his past and he'll flip, Call him Kylie and he gets all defensive and upset Kick him out and he's going tobe
feel rejected and he's going to lose it. He's your little brother Brax." Ricky points out.

"Look Brax I don't care if he sleeps on our couch, if that's okay with Heath but please Ricky is right. You know that Kyle hates the fact that he's not fully related to you. She's right. You know that he's quite sensitive. Just please bring him back,
/he's family and he did nothing wrong." Bianca begs and her and Ricky both look at their boyfriends practically pleading with them.

"Hey you got no arguments from me especially not after you punched him." Heath shrugs and glares at Brax with the last part.

"You punched him!" Ricky and Bianca both yell at Brax furious that Brax could hit the younger Braxton. Kyle would have been hurt by that. Not only physically with Brax being a fair bit bigger and stronger than him but emotionally too as he looksup
to Brax. He was more of a father to Kyle than Danny ever was. Now that Brax had punched him who knew what he would be thinking, the feeling of abandonment was so strong that who knew how it could end.

"Yea, look I know it was wrong and I've apologised, Kyle understands and I just know that Casey and Kyle can't live under the same roof. An apology is enough and Kyle understands so I don't see what the big deal is." Brax sighs running his handsthrough
his hair.

"Apologies don't mean much when you get them your whole life whenever you get hurt Brax, especially when nothing changes." Bianca sighs as she and Heath get up and go to bed.