New story: I'll always be there for you

Chapter 1

A mixture of sound and music clashed together in the spacious living room. Little hands grasped the round device tightly and his face was held in concentration and determination. The flashes of images and moving objects blurred in his mind like a million pictures trying to fit in one place. His arms and hands worked as one, pushing buttons when necessary and moving the vehicle swiftly and smoothly like a cat running through narrow passage ways.

Draven grinned as he was getting ahead and laughed. “Looks like I beat you Dad!”

Suddenly, an object came out of and hit Draven’s car, knocking it off the road and plunging it into darkness. Chester grinned as his car crossed the finish line. “I told you that Bowser kicks butt!” Chester exclaimed while looking at his not-so-happy-son and watched as his character received a golden trophy.

“Nun huh! Mario beats Bowser every time! You just got lucky with that shell!”

“It’s because I am the master at Mario Kart! No one can beat me! Not even the legendary Phi-phi!”

Draven exploded in laughter at the nickname that Chester gave to Phoenix. “Phoenix isn’t gonna like you calling him that Dad.”

Chester grinned wickedly. “Oh yeah, well he can go suck a co-.“ Chester stopped himself just in time. Talinda would have his head if he taught Draven those words, or if he got caught saying them around him for that matter.

The front door opened and Chester smiled as his beautiful wife walked though the door. In his eyes, she was an angel when the brilliant rays hit her back, or when she stood in the dim light of their living room, the invisible wings of silk flapping behind her. She was always stunning in Chester’s eyes. This time, however, her eyes were hazed over by sadness and despair while looking at the 3 year old clutched tightly in her arms, his eyes red and puffy. Her eyes were full of sorrow and pity. Chester knew that something was wrong.

Closing the gap between them, Chester strode over to Talinda and looked down at his son and gasped when he saw a blackness swirling around his son’s eye. “Talinda, what happened?”

Talinda sighed unhappily. “Some kid beat him up at daycare. He was playing with some blocks and some brat came over and told Tyler to give him the blocks and that no one was supposed to play with them but him. Tyler refused and so the kid decked him.”

Draven sat watching this with brown fire raging like a storm in his eyes. His hands trembled as they burned with fire. Who could do this to his helpless little brother? Draven didn’t understand who could hurt Tyler, a little boy whose eyes always shined and glowed with happiness, completely innocent.

Chester took the red-eyed child from Talinda’s arms and held him close as Tyler wrapped his arms around his neck and buried his head in Chester’s chest, letting out a sob. Draven watched as Chester murmured words that he couldn’t make out and then he walked over to the couch and sat down. Draven crawled on the soft couch over to where they were and started to rub Tyler’s back like Chester was doing. Chester reached over and ruffled his son’s chocolate hair. Draven grinned sadly back at him and began speaking softly to his baby brother. “Hey Ty. It’s me, Draven.”

Tyler poked his head out from Chester’s chest and looked at Draven with tears pooling under his eyes. “Draven.” The toddler spoke softly as another sob racked his small frame. Little arms emerged and stuck out towards the smaller body on the couch. Draven reached over and took his brother away from Chester and held him closely to his body. Chester watched as Draven whispered some words to Tyler and then kissed him softly on the head. Tyler arms came around and locked themselves around Draven’s neck as the tiny tot’s body began to relax and his breathing slow. Draven watched as the brown eyes disappeared and then turned to his dad. “I’ll put him to bed, dad. He’ll be ok.”

Chester nodded as a smile suffused every inch of his face. “I know he will. You didn’t have to tell me that.”

Draven slowly got up and held his brother close as he walked to his room. “Don’t worry Ty.” Draven whispered as he opened the door to his room. “I’ll make sure that bully gets what’s coming to him.”

Draven walked into Tyler’s baby blue room filled with race cars and transformers toys. Colored paper littered the floor and his bed was a blue ocean of pillows and blankets. Carefully, he unlocked Tyler’s hands from his neck and layed him down on the blue mattress. He then covered the tiny frame with a blanket that had a wave swimming across it and multi-colored rainbows above the white foam. Draven kissed his brother’s wet cheek one last time before turning off the light that caused the night light to come to life and closing the door behind him. “Sweet dreams, little brother.”

End

A/N: Well how do you like it? I’m planning on writing a next chapter to this if this turns out to be good! Please review!