"On your knees you look up, decide that you've had enough, you get mad, you get strong, wipe your hands, shake it off then you stand." She belted out as she tried to make to her destination without killing herself. Today was not Kaite's day, first her boyfriend decided that he needed space and kicked her out and then she found out that her last foster mom had been killed in a robbery. "Fuck." She cursed as she almost hit a car trying to pass her. She lifted one hand from the wheel of her Escalade and wiped at the tears that were falling. Finally reaching her destination she stopped the car and tried to collect herself. She had to be strong and put on the brave front that she always had. She knew that she would have to be the stone cold person that everyone knew her as, granted no one's seen her for almost 5 years.

She sighed and got out of the car and slowly walking towards the sea of black that were standing close together to shelter themselves from the cold. She wiped her now sweaty palms on her black skirt cursing herself for wearing a skirt on such a cold day and quickened her pace towards all the people at the cemetery grieving over Evelyn Mercer, the Saint of the neighborhood. She bit her lower lip trying to keep it together; she was always the strong one just like Evelyn's son Bobby Evelyn used to tell her when Kaite stayed with her for that short year and half before going away to school in Chicago.

Kaite had met Bobby once or twice during her stay and something about him drew her to him. She always wondered why Bobby was so cold towards her when he was home, he treated her almost like the enemy that was about to attack and kill everyone in his sight. He had made her almost want to just throw in the towel and screw it up so she could leave. Kaite jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder and sighed in relief when she saw Jack's sad face peering down at her. She smiled a reassuring smile and wrapped her arms around him letting him cry on her shoulder. 'This is why I have to be the strong one.' She thought as the ceremony started and everyone started to cry. Kaite looked for Bobby and saw him standing by a tree looking as pissed off as the moment he had met her. It almost made her want to go over to him and smack the look off his face but she was going to be on her best behavior today for Evelyn.

After the funeral everyone headed back to Jerry's and Kaite was reluctant to go, she didn't know how Bobby would handle with her being there and all considering he hated her and all. "Are you coming?" Jerry finally asked growing impatient waiting for her to answer.

"I don't know, Jer. I think it be best if I didn't."

"Why not?" Jack asked shocked that she was going to leave him to fend for himself with all those people.

"You know how much Bobby hates me so I think I should just bow out and let you guys do your thing." She whispered trying to keep it all together, it didn't bother her that Bobby hated her because a lot of people hated her after all the shit she's done over the years but what did bother her was why he hated her because she didn't recall ever doing anything to warrant his hatred.

"You're coming that's final." Jerry growled a little mad that she even thought about not going. Even though she wasn't with Evelyn for long she was still considered close to the family and Jerry was going to make sure that Bobby knew to treat her well. He sighed and told Kaite to bring Jack to his house since he was going to talk to Bobby.

Bobby slowly walked to his car, he didn't expect to see her here. The last he had heard was that she was doing the college thing in Chicago and how she was getting pretty serious with some guy named George or Joe something like that. He sighed in frustration hoping that he wouldn't have to see her again. He knew that she didn't like him and even he'd admit to not liking her the first time he met her because she was the new kid and when he found out that Evelyn was taking in a 16 year old girl he had to meet the girl that was going to throw off his sense of security that came from his family.

But when he had met her he noticed that she wasn't looking for a family just a roof over her head and food to eat and he decided not to open himself up to her like he had to his brothers. His thought was if she wasn't staying there was no need to get to know her but he was wrong because something about her drew him to her. Like he just couldn't ignore whatever it was ad before he actually got the chance to get to know her she was gone off to school.

He saw Jerry approaching out of the corner of his eye and knew that he was going to ask about Kaite and he quite frankly didn't want to talk about it. He didn't want to open himself up to his brother right now when he was dealing with losing his mother, the only one that actually gave a damn about him, and then facing the girl that he's been thinking about for years since he last saw her.

"Not now Jer." Bobby warned cutting Jerry off before he even opened his mouth and Jerry sighed frustrated with his brother for being so damn stubborn.

"There's a fine line between love and hate and you're flirting with it." Was all he said before making his way over to Camille and the girls. Bobby just looked at him shocked that Jerry would be that blunt with Bobby. Bobby sighed figuring Jerry was right and maybe it was time for her to know the truth.

After everyone had left Jerry's house, Jerry led the group back to Evelyn's house, he was nervous to leave Kaite and Bobby alone in the same house but when he saw Angel he knew that maybe things would be alright at least through the night. The group walked into the house and everyone stopped reliving memories about growing up and Bobby stole a glance at Kaite who looked like she was on the verge of tears. Bobby scoffed in his head and picked up his bag. "Jack, Angel you take your old rooms I'm taking Ma's." Kaite looked at him watched him go up the stairs, he didn't even acknowledge she was there. She looked at Jerry and he shot her an apologetic look. She shook her head and set her bag down and hung up her coat before going into the kitchen to make something to eat.

She stood in the kitchen for a good 10 minutes crying at the sink just letting everything wash over her. She remembered that on the day she found out that Evelyn had died she was going to call her and remind her that her flight was coming in 1:30. She knew that Evelyn would be excited to know that she was coming home from visiting with her boyfriend well now ex-boyfriend. Finally the tears stopped and she whipped up some food for everyone figuring they were hungry. She walked up the stairs and knocked on Jack's door first letting him know that there was food downstairs before continuing onto Angel's room. "Hey Angel before you go to Sophia's there's some food downstairs." He stopped buttoning his shirt and looked at her.

"What are you talking about?"

"Angel I may do some dumb things but I'm not stupid. We all know that you're going over to see Sophia, but I warn you her boyfriend could probably kick your ass. Oh tell Bobby there's food downstairs." She giggled a little bit at Angel's shocked face.

"Why don't you?" He countered getting revenge on her for making fun of him. He knew that they couldn't stand each other. She stared him down hoping that he would give in and do it for her, finally after standing there for a few minutes she sighed throwing her hands up and stormed out of the room and towards Bobby's room. Taking a deep breath she knocked softly on the door in case he was sleeping or something. She was praying that he was sleeping but her prayer went unanswered when Bobby flung the door open looking that he was about to pounce on whoever disturbed him.

"What the fuck do you want?" She looked up from the floor confused.

"There's food downstairs asshole." She threw the dish towel she had on her shoulder at him and stormed off grabbing her bag and jacket on the way out.

Bobby just stood frozen in the door, the towel lying on the floor in front of him. He didn't think that she would somewhat blow up on him and storm out of the house. Angel and Jack stood at the top of the stairs unsure of what had just happened between Bobby and Kaite. Bobby stood there for a few minutes before getting pissed at Jack and Angel for standing in his way and making his way downstairs and out the door.

He found her at Charlie's sitting at the bar talking with some guy who looked like he was about to pounce. Bobby decided to sit close enough to keep an eye on her but far enough away so she wouldn't see him there. He may not "like" her but he wasn't about to let her get raped or killed. He sat sipping his beer watching the poor guy trying to get Kaite to leave with him and each time she would slam her drink down and say no. Laughing to himself along with Charlie the bartender Bobby just sat there sipping his beer waiting for the slam her drink down again.

Bobby sat there for 2 hours as Kaite just kept downing shots of whatever she could get her hands on. He saw guy after guy try to pick her up using her intoxication to their advantage, both Charlie and Bobby were sitting ready to pounce in case it went too far. When last call was called Bobby paid Charlie for both his beers and her drinks before going over to her and throwing her over his shoulder despite her drunken murmurs of protest. "You can throw off guy after guy but can't stop a guy from picking you up, interesting." Bobby mused to the now passed out Kaite.

When he got home, he couldn't feel his shoulder that much anymore and he just wanted to throw her on the couch but he knew how uncomfortable the couch was so he took her up to his old room and set her on the bed taking her shoes and jacket off throwing them to the floor laughing to himself at the picture in front of him. He threw a blanket over her and left the room laughing out loud at the mental picture in his head.

He knew that she was going to have one hell of a hangover tomorrow so his nice side made an appearance and brought her water and extra strength aspirin before crashing downstairs in front of the TV. Jack just sat in the hallway trying to understand what had just happened, had Bobby really just put Kaite to bed?

The next morning Kaite woke up with a splitting headache the memories of last night slowly trickling into her mind. Bobby fight, throwing a dish towel, bar, drinking, was all she could remember not that she really wanted to remember what happened. She slowly got up out of bed carefully putting her sunglasses on to blind her from the light. She hoped that Bobby wasn't home because she didn't want to put up with him right now. After she inched her way down the stairs and made her way into the kitchen Kaite thought she was in the free and clear and started to make herself some toast when Jack and Angel came bursting into the house. Squinting her eyes hoping to stop the pain wasn't helping and deciding that self inflicting pain was okay just this one time, Kaite opened her mouth to yell at them.

"Could you guys make anymore fucking noise?" Bobby screamed getting up from his position on the couch a pissed off look frozen on his face. He saw her out of the corner of his eye and bit back a small smile. There was a fine line between love and hate and boy was he dancing on it.

A/N: Should I continue? Was it good?