Time Line
1973
Friday, July 12, 1973
Jin "Jet" Kimura is born in Okinawa, Japan
1975
Monday, April 14, 1975
Banyan is born in San Fernando, California.
1992
May 1992
Banyan runs off from her parents and meets Jet in Hawaii. Jet is serving in the military in an attempt to help secure his permanent American citizenship.
1993
Monday, September 6, 1993
-Kashi is conceived at a drunken Labor Day beach party between the eighteen year old Banyan and a twenty year old Jet in Hawaii.
Saturday, November 13, 1993
-Banyan tells Jet she's pregnant. The terrified teenager is relieved when Jet proposes to her.
Friday, December 17, 1993
-Banyan and Jet are married in a civil service in Honolulu, the capital of Hawaii.
1994
January 1994
-Banyan takes several part time jobs cleaning houses to supplement Jet's income from being enlisted in the Marine Corp.
April 1994
-Banyan notes how the baby inside of her never seems to stop moving and it tires her greatly. Her doctor confirms that she is carrying a boy and that he will most likely weigh at least ten pounds at birth. Banyan is forced to quit her job in mid April when her advancing pregnancy makes things too difficult.
Tuesday, June 21, 1994
-After a lengthy and arduous labor that Banyan never lets her son forget, Kashi is born two weeks late in Honolulu. Other than his above average birth weight he is completely healthy and taken home the following day.
1995
January 1995-December 1996
-Banyan stays at home and tends to Kashi while Jet continues to serve in the Marines. He is away frequently, but the family is more than able to support itself in this way. As a baby, Kashi begins to display the voracious appetite and exuberant energy that will characterize most of the rest of his life.
Wednesday, June 21, 1995
-Kashi turns one year old.
1996
Friday, June 21, 1996
-Kashi turns two years old.
Tuesday, December 31, 1996
-Jet receives a General Discharge from the Marine Corp. He does secure permanent citizenship (both through his marriage to Banyan and his service), however this cuts off most of the family's income. Banyan suggests that they move to the mainland where there might be more opportunity for Jet to find work while they still have the means. He agrees.
1997
February 1997
-Kashi's family moves to Los Angeles when he is two years old. His father finds work as a local mechanic, although it is not as much as when he was in the Marines. They move into a small apartment in LA, although money is still tight. This forces Banyan to take on part time jobs while still attempting to care for Kashi.
February 1997-June 1998
-Cracks begin to appear in Jet and Banyan's marriage. Jet has resorted to drinking and carousing with friends. Banyan and Jet frequently and loudly squabble over money and his drinking. Banyan accuses Jet of being a lazy drunk who is distant from his own son. Jet accuses Banyan of coddling Kashi too much and of nagging him to death.
Saturday, June 21, 1997
-Kashi turns three years old
1998
Sunday, June 21, 1998
-Kashi turns four years old.
August 1998
-Jet wants Banyan to put Kashi in preschool. Banyan refuses. Jet again accuses Banyan of coddling Kashi.
Friday, October 16, 1998
-Jet loses yet another mechanic job for showing up to work late and intoxicated. Banyan, reluctantly, takes a job cleaning hotel rooms. She now regrets not putting Kashi in preschool and is apprehensive to leave him with Jet, alone, for extended periods of time.
1999
January-May 1999
-Banyan becomes more and more wary of Jet's friends. They are rough and motorcycle enthusiasts like he is. Banyan does her best to shield Kashi from them, but she knows that she can do nothing when she is forced to go to work. She is forced to work more and more unsavory jobs and seedier places, even taking a waitressing job at a local truck stop in addition to her job cleaning hotel rooms. Rumors swirl that she is undertaking even seedier activities to pay the bills.
Monday, April 5, 1999
-Willow is conceived.
Monday, May 31 1999
-Banyan is forced to work the busy Memorial Day weekend and leaves Kashi in Jet's care. With the wife out, Jet throws a party. They leave beer and food everywhere, both of which a four year old Kashi gets into. Needless to say, Banyan is furious when she returns.
Sunday, June 6, 1999
-Banyan tells Jet she is pregnant again. They have their largest fight to date. Anticipating such an event, Banyan sends Kashi to stay with their neighbor across the street, Mrs. Johnson. Banyan has Jet thrown out of the house when he accuses her of sleeping around and claims that the child in her belly is not his.
Monday, June 21, 1999
-Kashi turns five years old
Saturday, July 3, 1999
-Jet, who had been living with his friends for the past month, is arrested and charged with murder. He secretly takes the fall for one of his gang member friends. Plea bargaining down the charge to manslaughter. A pregnant Banyan tells Kashi that his father is most likely never coming back.
July-December 1999
-Banyan is forced to work grueling hours to support Kashi and herself now that Jet is completely gone. She served him with divorce papers and wanted nothing more to do with him after his conviction and prison sentence. Unfortunately, Banyan has to work almost up until her due date; however she finds her current pregnancy easier than Kashi so it is not as difficult.
August 1999
-Kashi begins Kindergarten. Much to Banyan's shock, Kashi tells her he likes school especially lunch.
August-December 1999
-Kashi's weight balloons sharply as he enters school and Banyan cannot figure out why. It is only discovered at the end of the semester that he has been sneaking into other lunch periods during the Kindergarten nap time and helping himself to second and sometimes even third lunches.
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
-After a relatively quick and vastly easier labor compared to Kashi, Willow is born two weeks early in Los Angeles. She is not healthy after several days of monitoring she is allowed to go home on the 25th. Five year old Kashi pouts that she was the worst Christmas present he ever got.
Saturday, December 25, 1999
-Banyan's neighbor from next door, Mrs. Johnson drops by with a small cake as a Christmas Gift. She had taken care of Kashi in the past and volunteers to help take care of Willow and Kashi and spare an exhausted Banyan. Kashi discovers the cake in the kitchen and spirits it away to his bedroom. The two women later find Kashi sleeping, covered in cake, having devoured the entire thing.
2000
Thursday, January 6, 2000
-Banyan catches Kashi trying to mail his new little sister 'back to Santa Claus.'
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
-Kashi turns 6 years old.
August 2000
-Kashi begins First Grade
Thursday, November 23, 2000 (Thanksgiving Day)
-Money is tight at the house due to Willow's birth. As a result, Kashi makes rounds, of his own volition, to the neighbor's houses in an attempt to eat Thanksgiving Dinner with them, despite the fact that Banyan has already given him a more than adequate meal. After suckering two huge additional meals out of two other families, Mrs. Johnson catches Kashi when he tries to solicit a fourth meal from her. Taking note of the extremely swollen belly sticking out from under his shirt, the food stains on his face and the knife, fork and spoon in his pocket she brings him home to a very embarrassed Banyan.
Thursday December 21, 2000
-Willow turns one year old.
2001
May-August 2001
-Banyan enrolls Kashi in swimming and surfing lessons at the beach to try to curb his energy…and because he is driving her crazy. He takes to swimming and surfing naturally and thoroughly enjoys it. However, now the only thing he wants to do is go to the beach and badgers Banyan constantly to take him swimming. The swimming also helps to curb Kashi's weight, which had been increasing steadily since kindergarten. He slims back down to a more normal weight range.
Thursday, June 21, 2001
-Kashi turns seven years old.
August 2001
-Kashi begins Second Grade.
-Banyan finds Willow playing with Kashi's First Grade reading books; she learns Willow can read and recognize single words and simple sentences.
Wednesday, August 21, 2001
-Kashi makes friends with Samantha after she lets him kiss her. They are friends throughout the remainder of their shared school days.
Friday December 21, 2001
-Willow turns two years old.
2002
Friday, June 21, 2002
-Kashi turns eight years old.
August 2002
-Kashi begins Third Grade
August 2002-June 2003
-Kashi begins to earn more and more friends as his reputation for being genuinely friendly and highly amusing spreads.
Wednesday, September 18, 2002
-Kashi taken to the Principal's office for paying girls in skirts a quarter to climb on top of the jungle gym while he lay in the sand underneath them. This antic earns him the friendship of Brandon and Justin, who along with Samantha, are some of his oldest friends.
Saturday December 21, 2002
-Willow turns three years old
2003
Saturday, June 21, 2003
-Kashi turns nine years old.
August 2003
-Kashi begins Fourth Grade
-Banyan places Willow in Preschool. The preschool staff marvel at her reading aptitude.
Sunday December 21, 2003
-Willow turns 4 years old
2004
Monday, March 15, 2004
-Kashi is suspended for a day for attempting to launch himself on top of one of the school's buildings from the playground swing set and for harassing a nurse as she tried to treat his wounds from his failed attempt.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
-Kashi's appetite becomes notorious among his peers as undertakes a bet to eat six other children's lunches at school. He, incredibly, wins. This prompts his teacher to call his mother about his appetite and increasing weight. He is now one of the biggest and heaviest kids in his class, although he could not quite be considered fat, his weight has increased significantly and he has become noticeably greedier through the year. As a result he has grown rather pudgy, especially in the belly.
May-August 2004
-Banyan, concerned about Kashi's appetite, takes him to multiple doctors. All of them diagnosis him as normal, if not just a tad overweight. To attempt to curb his weight, Banyan again enrolls Kashi in swimming and surfing lessons as well as Pee Wee Baseball and Soccer in hopes that exercise will help. It helps somewhat, and Kashi's weight decreases to a normal range as a result of his increased activity and a growth spurt.
-Willow starts to ask Banyan to go to the library. Banyan cheerfully assigns Kashi the task of seeing his sister back and forth.
Monday, June 21, 2004
Kashi turns ten years old.
August 2004
-Kashi begins Fifth Grade
-Willow begins Kindergarten. On the advice of the preschool staff, objections that she should wait a year are waved as reading aptitude tests show she is already reading on a Third Grade level.
Tuesday December 21, 2004
-Willow turns five years old.
2005
Thursday, June 2, 2005
-Kashi finally launches himself on top of the roof of his Elementary School. His goal was to take a dive off the top of the roof into the fountain in front of the office. Unfortunately, Kashi misjudges his jump and ends up in the sticker bushes surrounding the fountain. He is, somehow, miraculously unharmed except for scrapes and bruises. He is suspended for the rest of the school year…a whole one day.
Saturday, June 18, 2005
-While playing soccer in the park, Kashi is approached by a strange man who compliments him on his aptitude and skill with the ball. This man had been slowly warming up to Kashi for weeks. He has become increasingly complimentary of Kashi before finally remarking how pretty he is, and that he has a very girly face and a slim, girly build. The man even says Kashi isn't a boy, but a 'tomboy.' Kashi, enraged and fearful, kicks his soccer ball in the man's face and runs away. He vows that he will never be thought of as 'small and girly' again and, as he is embarrassed, he tells no one of his experience.
Late June-August 2005
Kashi vows to never be thought of as 'girly' again after his encounter in the park. He vows to make himself as big and 'boylike' as possible. As a result he quits the soccer team and joins a peewee football team. He begins to gorge himself unmercifully to increase his size.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
-Kashi turns eleven years old.
August 2005
-Kashi begins Sixth Grade (Middle School)
-Willow begins First Grade
August 2005- May 2006
Kashi's weight continues to climb rapidly as he is exposed to the larger portions and greater selection of the Middle School Cafeteria.
Wednesday December 21, 2005
-Willow turns six years old
2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
-Kashi turns twelve years old.
August 2006
-Kashi begins Seventh Grade.
-Willow begins Second Grade
September 2006
-Kashi has swollen to an incredible weight. He is not losing weight as he unusually does and Banyan becomes even more concerned than ever after Kashi finds Willow's secret stash of money when he causes her book shelf to fall over. He blows sixty dollars on food and spends an afternoon mindlessly stuffing himself. A furious Banyan catches him and diverts his allowance to Willow until he has repaid his little sister.
Thursday December 21, 2006
-Willow turns seven years old
2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
-Kashi and his equally heavy and ravenous friend Justin stay the night at Kashi's house. The pair devour almost every scrap of food in the house between them and make an incredible mess in the process while Kashi's mother is away. Banyan is at her wits end with what to do with him.
May 2007-August 2007
-Banyan enrolls Kashi at the local YMCA. Kashi loves the place. He travels to the facilities at the YMCA using his skateboard practically every day that he can. He enters basketball programs, a soccer league, uses the swimming pool and even joins a few weight training courses that he is able to qualify for due to his age. Playing sports, working out and the fact that Kashi is going through puberty do wonders for his physique. He goes from being fat, but exuberant, to generally muscular and athletic.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
-Kashi turns thirteen years old.
August 2007
-Kashi begins Eighth Grade. His class mates are astounded at his physical transformation from fat to being the only kid in his class with abs. He signs up to participate on the JV football team.
-Willow begins Fourth Grade, skipping Third Grade on the recommendation of the school.
Friday December 21, 2007
-Willow turns eight years old.
2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
-Kashi turns fourteen years old.
Friday, July 4, 2008
-Banyan catches Kashi having sex with a neighborhood girl in his room. She threatens him by saying she will make him join the marines if he gets a girl pregnant. She will make this threat numerous more times.
Monday, July 7, 2008
-Banyan makes Kashi attend a seminar at the health clinic on proper condom use, the threats of STDs and pregnancy in an attempt to deter his libido. The tactic fails. Banyan does, however, give him a pack of condoms and makes sure he knows how to get more from the free clinic as she is, at heart, a realist.
August 2008
-Kashi begins his Freshman Year of High School
-Willow begins Fifth Grade
Monday, August 25, 2008
-Kashi and his friends sign up to be on the High School Football team. Out of the three of them, only Kashi is selected as a first string player as a Cornerback. He also sets his mind to play on the school's soccer team in the spring.
Sunday December 21, 2008
-Willow turns nine years old
2009
February-May 2009
-Kashi's first year of High School Soccer. He is made a Center Forward and he excels at the position.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
-Kashi turns fifteen years old.
August 2009
-Kashi begins his Sophomore Year of High School. Kashi again signs up for the football team and well as the Soccer and Baseball teams in the spring, where he becomes known as a power hitter.
-Willow begins Sixth Grade (Middle School)
Early November 2009
-Willow comes to her mother she gives her mom the three hundred dollars she has 'saved' up and asks her mother to get a new computer for her on Black Friday as a combined Christmas and birthday present. She and Banyan camp out during the sale to get a good deal on a bundle.
Monday December 21, 2009
-Willow turns ten years old.
2010
Febuary 2010
-Willow finishes a program she started at the beginning of the school year. She leaves bots on the school server that she can route control of to the house. Now she only needs to collect or drop off data when at school. This ends her staying after school.
Monday, June 21, 2010
-Kashi turns sixteen years old.
August 2010
-Kashi begins his Junior Year of High School. His popularity increases further as he becomes known not only as a jock, but as a stand up guy who won't suffer anyone else being put down or bullied in his presence.
-Willow begins Seventh Grade
Tuesday December 21, 2010
-Willow turns eleven years old.
2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
-Kashi turns seventeen years old.
August 2011
-Kashi begins his Senior Year of High School
-Willow begins Eighth Grade
Wednesday December 21, 2011
-Willow turns twelve years old.
2012
Friday, June 1st, 2012
-Kashi after having a horrible day, ends up in the wrong place during a shooting. Kashi takes the two bullets to the chest while shielding another person. He unexpectedly gains Solar exaltation rather than a trip to the morgue.
Thursday. June 21. 2012
-Kashi turns eighteen years old.
August 2012
-Kashi begins his First year at UCLA.
-Willow begins Ninth Grade.