"I can't believe you won!" Casey moans as he scuffs his feet on the ground. He was positive Kyle would lose. Now he has to pay for dinner.

"He didn't just win, he throttled you!" Tamara laughs. "He got two turkeys! Hahahaha." Tamara laughs as she grabs ahold of Kyle's hand. "I never expected you to be that good!"

"I used to go to the bowling alley after school. I had no friends to play with so I would just bowl by myself for hours." Kyle says shrugging his shoulders. "My bullies always went to the mall and that thought bowling was stupid so they were never there." Kyle explains. He then sees the look that all three of them are giving him. "What?" He asks

"Tamara told us about your high school reunion." Casey explains and sees his brothers face drop.

"Right." He replies quietly.

"Do you know what you're going to do yet?" Casey asks. Kyle nods his head in reply.

"Yeah, I'm going to go." Kyle replies which surprises his brother.

"Really? If I were you I would stay as far away as I could from that place." Casey replies only to be hit on the arm by Denny who looks at him in disbelief. "What? I would! Those kids treated him like a punching bag! If I was him, I wouldn't want to face them again."

"I get that Case. But I'm not the same little geek! I'm tall, not a scrawny little geek, I've definitely got more muscles than I did then and I've got a beautiful girl on my arm, something my bullies told me I'd never have. I want to show them that they were always wrong about me and that I am worthy of being alive." Kyle explains.

"They told you that you didn't deserve to be alive?" Denny asks shocked. How could anyone say that to another human being?

"All the time." Kyle mumbles. "They made me feel like it as well, somedays I would go home and ask myself how many people would care if I was to kill myself." Kyle says with tears in his eyes, which he quickly wipes away as they are in public and he doesn't want them all to look at him. "It wasn't a long list." He says sadly. He then looks up with a determined look on his face. "I want to show them that they're wrong about me! That I am loved and that I have the right to live, I need to show them! I also need to show myself that I am strong enough to stand up to them!" Kyle says with determination.

Casey nods his head he understands now why Kyle wants to go . "And you will Kyle, they'll see that they didn't ruin your life, like I assume they intended to." Casey says smiling at his brother as they arrive at the restaurant.

"What I don't get is what they got out of it." Denny says wondering why these ten kids would bully another kid for all those years! Seriously what did they did from all that pain they inflicted on Kyle.

"Well, they got their homework done and extra money. I think they may have just been bored and I happened to be an easy target, I was a lot smaller than them and I had barely any friends." Kyle says to Denny sadly. He hadn't yet openly talked to Denny about his bullying experience.

"I just don't under why some people would do that to another human being! It's just so sad!" Denny says only to be nudged by Casey. He gives her a look, he doesn't think that Kyle will really want to talk about this.

"I honestly couldn't tell ya, they were just jerks. I mean they never gave me a break. " Kyle replies. "They loved to make everyday of my life miserable."

"It's all over now baby. You'll walk into the room and they'll see that you are so much better than them." Tamara says to Kyle and gives him a passionate kiss.

"You guys are cute and all but can this all wait till your alone? If I'm paying for dinner I at least want to be able to stomach it." Casey smirks, the two pull apart.

"So babe! What's the most expensive meal on the menu?" Kyle asks his girlfriend and smirks at his brother.

"Don't push it Kylie." Casey replies with a smile.

They suddenly hear voices coming from a couple of tables away from them. "Oh does the loser want his glasses back? We're doing you a favour! If you can't see your food, then you can't eat it! That way you won't be able to get even fatter than you already are ten tonne Tim!" The toughest looking bully howls with laughter. Kyle freezes, this is all to familiar, sure he never got teased for being fat but he got bullied for being too skinny.

Flashback

Kyle Bennett was on the school field reading a book when the sunlight was blocked by shadows, when he looked up he saw his bullies, all ten of them looking down at him.

"Hey guys." He mumbled. Why couldn't they just leave him alone?

"Hey KyQ. Good book?" Vince asked.

Kyle looked down frowning, this wasn't good. Whenever his bullies started off pleasant it would always end with the worst bullying. "Yeah I like it, it's the second book in the series." Kyle mumbled.

"That's good. Listen, we saw your lunch today and saw you didn't have a lot do we thought we'd help out." Lewis smirked.

"No thanks." Kyle replied, he didn't know what they had planned but he knew it wouldn't be good.

"Hey! We're offering you more food! You need it! You're so skinny! I mean no girl will ever date you if you're that skinny! Girls like a real man with muscle." Bekka laughed. Kyle sighed, well at least they're no longer pretending to be pleasant

"Yeah! And that's something you really lack!" Phoebe smirked.

"Some girls do, some girls prefer brains over brawn." Kyle shrugged. Suddenly he was pulled on his feet.

"You actually think there are girls out there who would prefer a skinny little geek boy like you over me, a guy who beats up the skinny little geek boys." Corey howled his laughter as he reached down Kyle's pants and pulled out his briefs. Kyle yells out in pain.

"Ow!" He yelled. Corey let him go and he fell to the ground.

"Anyway, here we said we'd help you!" Phoebe smirked and they all dumped food all over him.

Kyle looked down sadly as he was covered in food. It just wasn't fair! What did he ever do to these guys?

"Now say thank you, you ungrateful nerd!" Vince yelled.

"Thank you." Kyle mumbled and he could see from out of the corner of his eye that Ryder was whispering something to Corey who was smiling.

Corey leaned over and whispered in Vince's ear. He nodded his head and grinned, sudden Corey and Vince ran to Kyle and pinned him to the ground, each of them grabbing an arm and pinning it down.

"Come on! Let me go!" Kyle yelled as he wriggled around in an attempt to get free.

"No way nerd! We're just starting!" Lewis smirked as he folded his arms over his chest.

"Got one!" Haley yelled out in glee. Kyle turned his head to see what she was talking about, his face fell in horror as he saw she was holding a long dirty worm.

"Please please please no! Chuck me in a bin, swirly me, wedgie me! Just not this! Please! I'm begging you!" Kyle cried out in horror.

"No way nerd! But good idea, we'll do those after!" Corey laughed as he twists Kyle's arm uncomfortably. Kyle yelled out in pain. Lewis grabbed his hair to make sure his head didn't move.

"Okay, open up nerd!" Vince laughed. Kyle pressed his lips together to make sure his mouth stayed completely shut.

"Phoebe give the geek a pink belly!" Vince ordered. Phoebe dropped to her knees and pulled up Kyle's shirt and started to slap his stomach hard. Kyle tries hard not to yell out because he knew as soon as he did the worm would be put in his mouth. But Phoebe doesn't give up and after another ten seconds he yelled out in pain. The worm was immediately put in his mouth and then Vince covered his mouth so he couldn't spit it out. Katie dropped to her knees and blocked his nose so he couldn't breath through it.

"Swallow and then you can breath, if you lie then you'll be grosser things than worms!" Vince threatened. Kyle knew he had no other choice, he swallowed the worm and then nodded his head, Vince removed his hand and Kyle took a deep breath and gagged, that was disgusting.

"There you go nerd! You got to eat more! Now say thank you again!" Trent smirked.

"Thanks." Kyle mumbled with his head down.

"You're welcome!" Ryder smirked and grabbed Kyle's briefs and pulled up hard.

"Not again! Please! You've had your fun!" He moaned. But Ryder only kept pulling soon the briefs had reached Kyle's head and only then did Ryder let go.

"See you next time geek!" Haley laughed as they all walked away. "We'll make sure to give you extra food tomorrow since you were so grateful for it today."

Kyle dropped his head and cried lightly. This just wasn't fair.

End of Flashback

...

Kyle sees Casey approach the boys and grab the glasses off the bully. "Leave him alone!" He yells at the boy.

"Or what?" The biggest kid glares.

"Or things will get ugly! My older brothers are in the River Boys! My oldest brother is actually the leader! You bother this kid again, we will find out and come for you!" Casey hisses at the boy. He has no intention in hurting the kids, he just hopes they all thinks he does. Luckily it works and the boys all run away. "Here you go mate, enjoy your meal yeah." Casey smiles and walks away. As he gets back to the table he sees Kyle's embarrassed and ashamed expression.

"You okay bro?" He asks.

"If I can't stop a bunch of seventeen year olds from bullying a kid how on earth am I meant to stand up to my bullies?" Kyle asks.

"Kyle you can do it. That just would have been way to real for you." Casey shrugs. "But trust me bro, you're tough and you can do it!"

"And I'll be there the entire time!" Tamara smiles as she kisses Kyle on the cheek.