His Little Brother

Chapter 3 (Edited)

The next day Cal wakes up and goes into the living room. He sees Stiles sat there on his phone. "I'm ready when you are." Cal tells him "Come on then." Stiles says walking out to the jeep. Cal jumps in and gives Stiles the address of Zac's House. After a while they reach the house, Cal freezes when the engine stops and starts biting his nails. "Cal!" Stiles says making Cal jump out of his thoughts. "You alright?" Stiles asks. Cal shrugs and looks at the house seeing Zac's mum, he jumps out and walks to the door. "Cal!" she says hugging him. "Hey Florence." Cal responds hugging her back. "Come in. This must be your brother." she says as the boys walk in. "Yeah this is Stiles. Stiles this is Florence." Cal introduces them. "Your stuff is in the living room. I've also sorted some pictures of you and Zac for you to take with you." Florence tells him. "Thank you Florence." Cal says as he walks in with Stiles following. He sits next to a box and sees pictures, he shuts the box quickly. He grabs his Lacrosse stuff and takes it to the car, after that he takes the boxes. When he's done he walks in to see Stiles and Florence talking, "You got everything?" Florence asks. Cal nods and looks at a picture of Zac on the side. He stares until he feels hands on his shoulders, he turns and sees Stiles "We better be off Cal." Cal nods and turns to Florence. "Thank you Florence." Cal tells her. "You're welcome Cal. If you ever need anything you know where I am." she tells him. Cal nods and hugs her before heading to the Jeep. Stiles jumps in and looks at him "You okay?" he asks. "It was just hard seeing her and all the pictures she's given me." Cal explains. Stiles pats his shoulder and starts the engine.

When they get back to Beacon Hills Cal jumps out the jeep and goes straight to his room before he shuts the door and locks it. He slides down the back of the door and puts his head on his knees and cries. A few minutes later he hears a knock on the door. "Cal, can I come in?" Stiles asks. Cal moves away from the door and unlocks it so Stiles can get in. Stiles walks in and shuts the door, sitting down on the floor next to Cal. "Want to talk?" Cal shakes his head and looks down crying. Stiles pulls him into a hug and holds him while he cries. The bell rings and Stiles goes to answer it. "CAL." Stiles calls. Cal gets up wipes his eyes and walks into the living room. When he walks in he sees Lydia, Scott and Isaac. Lydia stands up and hugs him "You don't have to talk but if you ever want to I'm here." she tells him. "Thanks Lyds." he says hugging her back. He sits with her on the sofa and picks up a box to look through. Opening it he sees a picture of him and Zac at their annual summer cabin break, from a few summers ago. He smiles and moves it out the way to see Zac's Lacrosse jumper. He picks it up and holds it to his face breathing in his scent. Lydia puts her arm round him and he leans into her. "I'll go get some drinks for us." Stiles says. "We'll help." Isaac and Scott say at the same time. Cal looks at Lydia "I really miss him Lyds. He wasn't just my best friend, he was a brother and a father aswell. He was the only one who didn't take the mick out of me for being in a higher grade. He acted like everything to me. He was a few years older than me but treated me as an equal." Cal says crying. Lydia hugs him tight "It will get better Cal. I know it doesn't seem like it now but it will." she tells him as she kisses the top of his head. Cal hugs her back crying softly into her top. He slowly stops and pulls away from her sitting up properly and wiping his eyes.

Lydia smiles "You want to tell me about this picture?" she asks holding up a picture of Zac and Cal with make up on and in pink dresses. Cal laughs "Our friend Louise decided to do this fundraiser. So in order to help we wore those dresses and let her do our makeup." Lydia smiles "Is Louise..." she trails off. "God no she's basically an older sister to me." Cal smiles. He pulls out another picture of Zac and Louise throwing him into the lake at the summer cabin. He smiles and put his finger on Zac rubbing it. Isaac walk in and looks over Lydia's shoulder laughing at the picture of Cal and Zac in make up. "I'm not going to ask." he says sitting opposite them. Cal smiles and pulls Zac's lacrosse jumper on. Stiles walks in the room with Scott handing Cal a lemonade. He sits down and pulls a red bear with a purple ribbon out a box, Cal smiles when he sees it. "I gave that to Zac one year. Louise kept telling us we acted like an old married couple. So one valentines I gave him that bear and he gave me a purple one with a red ribbon." Cal tells the older teens. Stiles smiles at his brother and hands him the bear, Cal takes it and holds it tight. "Can I look through?" Scott asks making Cal nod. Scott pulls out a small bag which Cal recognises and smiles. Scott opens it to find different stones making everyone look confused. Cal laughs "We had this thing where when we went to the cabin we'd get a stone from the nearby lake." he tells them. "Uh there should be.. Ah found it." Cal hands them a photo.

"It's a place called Lake Mcdonald in Montana. We went every summer, sometimes in winter aswell. Here's one from winter a couple of years ago." Cal explains showing them another picture.

"It's beautiful." Lydia says. "Yeah we should go sometime." Stiles says smiling at everyone. Cal nods and finds a picture of Zac at the lake.

He smiles at how Zac was pretending to be serious but then burst out laughing straight after the picture was taken.