Kimberly was a twenty-one year old girl from a family of four kids. The oldest, Paul fourteen years her elder and Kimberly were very close, so when he was diagnosed with cancer Kimberly was devastated because she did not want to lose the one brother she was close to. Paul was the kind of guy Kimberly could talk to about anything, including boys, drugs, sex and school, and Paul would not judge her at all based on what she told him.
John nine years her elder and Kimberly were close but not as close as her and Paul were. John was not judgmental, but not very open minded about his baby sister having sex, using or experimenting with drugs, he was alright with her talking to him about boys, he did not want to see his baby sister get hurt.
When John learned Paul had cancer he came home from college to be with Kimberly and the rest of his family. John was the one that was studying to become a doctor in the family while the other kids had not made up their minds on what they wanted to be.
Mark twenty-six, five years Kimberly's elder, had decided to enlist in the military which made his mother cry and his father told him that he was proud of him for wanting to serve his country. Mark told his mother that he wanted to give back to the country that had made him proud to be an American citizen, when he put it that way she seemed to understand but still was not very fond of the idea of her youngest son serving in the military.
Mark got the call at the military base in San Diego, California telling him that his brother Paul was sick with cancer and they were not sure how long he had but that it was not good. Mark got an emergency family medical leave to be with his family, and arrived home the day that Paul had taken a turn for the worst.
Kimberly spent all day and night by Paul's side to make sure he was comfortable and had everything he needed that day. When Mark and John arrived at the house, Kimberly was in tears because there was nothing she could do to ease her brother's pain. Mark came into the bedroom, picked Kimberly up and swung her around in a big bear hug, then he put her down and told her that he would take over if she wanted so she could have a break. Kimberly told him that it would be great if she could go for a run and then have a shower.
Mark told her that John was downstairs and wanted to talk to her. Kimberly came down the darkened staircase intent on finding her brother John. She quietly stepped though the main room and she could see the faint light on in the fridge. As she expected she saw John bent forward as he shifted some of the leftovers aside while rummaging for a midnight snack. Suddenly the floor creaked underneath her feet.
John nearly jumped out of his skin, "Damnit Kimberly!"
She laughed and asked what he wanted to talk to her about, he told her that it could wait until she came back from her run as he knew she needed to get out and get some fresh air. She said she should only be gone an hour but that when she got back they could talk after her shower and he agreed to that.
Kimberly started stretching so that she would not injure herself while on her run, and Mark came down for a minute to get some ice water, seeing his sister stretching with her back to the door he snuck up and swatted her ass.
Kimberly nearly jumped out of her skin, "Damnit Mark."
She then went for her run in the park which was about four blocks from the house, and told her brothers that she would be taking her cell phone in case they needed to get a hold of her. They told her to go and have fun, not to worry to much while she was on her run, and that she should take her discman so she could listen to a cd while she was running.
Kimberly took her discman and put in her favorite workout cd, then left on her run telling them she will be back in an hour. She ran to the park, through the park and stopped when she felt her phone vibrate, as she had set it to vibrate so that she did not have to worry about missing a call.
She pulled the earphones off and answered the call, it was her brother Mark saying that Paul was getting worse and asked how far from the house she was. Kimberly told Mark that she would be there in ten minutes, and to let Paul know she was coming home.
Kimberly got home in five minutes and ran straight upstairs to Paul, curled up beside him and he held her in his arms saying he loved her and that because she was known for singing that he wanted her to sing her favorite song for him.
She sang her song that she had written years ago, she told him that it was his song and only his. Paul had also whispered to her that when he was gone she was to take his room, because he knew she would leave things as they were. She sang the song Little Angels, and cried when she looked to see that Paul had died in her arms while she was singing her song.
She could not believe the one brother she could always call on when in trouble was now dead, and did not want to leave his side, but her brother John came and pulled her away from him. John had been in medical school for three years and was doing his practicum at the local hospital and had gotten permission to take a mild sedative with him because he knew his sister might need it.
He told her that if she wanted he could give her something to help her rest for a bit and she was adamant about not taking anything. He understood and told her if she changed her mind that he had something she could take to help her rest, and she looked him straight in the eyes and said, "If you think I am going to take something just so I can rest you are crazy."
He smiled at her and told her that it was okay to take something should she need it, but she was so damned stubborn that he knew he may just have to give it to her any way. Kimberly said that she would be back in an hour or so and when asked where she was going she did not say but put her headphones back on and grabbed her phone.
She knew where she was going and knew they may not approve of her going to see her foster family because as her family had often told her they were undesirable people that she did not need in her life any more. Kimberly had run away from home many times when she was younger and was finally placed in foster care, when the judge asked why she ran away and she told him it was to get away from her abusive step-mother.
Kimberly was then placed in a foster home that was all bikers, but she did not care because at least she was not at a place where she was being verbally, physically and emotionally abused.
Kimberly came to call the bikers her family and knew that no matter what even after she was no longer a ward of the court, that she could return to talk to them about her life, any problems that came up or just to talk in general. Kimberly ran to their house, and when she got there Jason was outside working on his bike.
He spotted Kimberly running in his direction and when she got to the house she ran right past him into the basement. Kimberly had asked her foster father for the gravity boots after her accident, so she could regain the strength in upper and lower back in order to regain the use of her legs. Then got herself set up to use the gravity boots she knew they had kept because they told her they would not get rid of them in case she wanted to use them again.
When she had the boots on, she hauled herself up and hooked them to the bar, hung upside for a bit. Jason came into the basement and scared her when he tapped her leg, she pulled her headphones off her ears, growled at him for scaring her and told him she needed time alone.
He asked her what had her so upset and she told him she would tell him in a bit, but that for now she needed time alone. He respected that and told her not to hang there for too long or she would pass out because she was no longer used to hanging upside down like that.
She laughed and told him he was wrong that she was attending school at night and working on the military base during the day where she was learning to fly jets. Jason looked at her and smiled saying that he was proud of his baby sister, which got her crying again and she then put the headphones back on, cranked up the tunes on her cd and hung upside down again.
Jason went upstairs and looked for his father, Kimberly's foster father to let him know she was there and in a mood, but had asked for time to be alone.
Jason was glad to see his baby sister even though she was his foster sister, he considered her more of a sister than a foster sister and that made Kimberly feel like she finally belonged to a family.
Jason found Raymond, Kimberly's foster father and told him that she had come running up the front steps, straight into the basement and hung upside down in the gravity boots. Raymond was concerned and went to see her, told her to get her ass out of the boots, stand up, look at him and tell him what was upsetting her so. She growled at him and told him she needed to have some time alone, then answered her phone as it had started to vibrate against her hot sweaty body.
It was her brother John making sure she was okay and not in any kind of trouble, she assured him she was fine and would be home in a couple of hours. She hung up and put the headphones back on, only to have Raymond take them off of her, tell her to get out of the boots, stand up and tell him what was upsetting her so. She did as she was told because she respected her foster father, and did not want to upset him any more than he was already, so she sat on the steps leading to the basement and proceeded to cry.