Recap: Kelly who is a friend of Kim's and also Bobby's cousin is now living with Kim. Kelly had shown up at the firehouse to see Kim. Kelly didn't want to go in and see everyone there because it had been the last place that she had seen Bobby alive.
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It has been a couple of days now since Kelly had arrived. The day after Kelly had come Kim had off of work so she showed Kelly around town.
Kelly had just woken up and was walking into the kitchen to get her-self some breakfast. When she walked into the kitchen she saw that Kim was already awake and dressed and was pouring herself a cup of coffee. "Good morning." Kelly said to Kim.
Kim turned around and responded, "Same to you. Did you sleep well last night?"
"Yeah."
"Do you have any special plans for today?" Kim asked as they both sat down at the table.
"I was thinking about looking for a job. I don't want to just hang around doing nothing everyday." Kelly told her.
"Do you have any ideas of what you want to do or where you're going to look?"
"I was thinking of looking in the newspaper and I wanted to work either at a daycare or a preschool. I have always enjoyed working with children and I thought that it would be fun."
"That sounds like a good idea." Kim told her.
"Also I was thinking about coming by the station today."
"I'm working my usual shift today so I can give you a call when I'm there and I can meet you outside and then we can go inside and I'll introduce you to everyone."
"Sounds good to me." Kelly said.
"I meant to tell you last night but I forgot. I told Jimmy that you were here. He had asked how you were doing and he told me to tell you he said hi." Kim told Kelly.
"You can tell him I'll be coming by the firehouse today. Tell him I said hi."
"Ok, I will. Joey is going to be here tonight. My mom is picking him up from school and then I'm going to pick him up after my shift."
"If you want I can pick him up and bring him her. There's nothing that I was going to do tonight that I can't do another day."
"That sounds great. If you're sure you don't mind. I know Joey will be happy about it." Kim said to Kelly. "It will be better than picking him up at my mom's so late and having to wake him up."
"Don't worry it will be fun. Just think of it as me earning my keep." Kelly told Kim.
"Ok. You can pick him up around eight thirty. That way he'll have eaten and you won't have to worry about feeding him. It's Friday so he won't have to go to bed too early. I'll leave my mom's address on a piece for you. I'll leave her number too, incase you can't find her house. Well I have to pick-up some things from the store before I go to work. So I'm going to get going."
"Alright. I'm going to take a shower now then I'm going to get started on looking for a job." Kelly said as she got up from the table. "I guess I'll see you later at the firehouse."
Kim had grabbed her purse and was walking towards the door when she said to Kelly. "Good luck on the job search and I'll see you later."
"Ok, thanks. Bye." Kelly said as Kim walked out the door.
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It's later in the same day and Kim and Alex are riding in their ambulance. They are on their way back to the firehouse from the hospital after they had dropped off their patient there. Alex is driving and looks at Kim and says to her, "Doc was talking yesterday when we rode together and he told me that some girl had come by the house to see you. He said you said she was an old friend of yours and her name was Kelly but he didn't know anything else about her and she left pretty quickly when he came back to the ambulance."
"Yeah. She is a good friend."
"How did you meet? And Doc also said she looked pretty young." Alex said.
"She almost nineteen. Her birthday is in about a month. I met her a couple of years ago when Bobby introduced us. She's his cousin." Kim got quieter as she mentioned Bobby. "Her full name is Kelly Caffey."
"Wow. I had no idea." Alex said with a hint of sadness in her voice. She knew how close Kim was to Bobby.
"We had grown pretty close after Bobby died. I had seen her several times before he died because she and Bobby were close. He was like her only family because her parents had died a year before he did and she had no one left besides him." Kim said.
"Oh my god." Alex said as she sensed the pain in Kim's voice. "It must be so hard on her to loose her parents and then Bobby too. How is she doing?"
"Pretty good. It was really hard for her too, at first. She was almost ready to graduate from high school when he died." Kim said quietly. She's staying with me now."
"That's good." Alex said.
"She's going to be stopping by the firehouse later." Kim told Alex. "I'm going to introduce her to everyone there. She was only there twice before and was only there to see Bobby so no one else knows who she is. She does look a lot like him though so they will probably guess that she's related to him."
"I'm looking forward to meeting her." Alex said.
Alex and Kim then got a call so their conversation about Kelly ended.
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It was now around five o'clock and Kim and Alex had returned to the station after their last run. They had just parked their bus and were walking towards the house when Kelly approaches them from behind and said, "Hey Kim!"
Alex and Kim turned around when they heard her Kim said, "Hi Kelly. Glad to see you made it."
"Thanks." Kelly said.
"Alex, this is Kelly. Kelly, this is Alex." Kim said as she introduced them to each other.
"Hi Kelly. Nice to meet you. Kim has told me a lot about you." Alex said as she was thinking about the amazing resemblance between Kelly and Bobby.
"Same to you." Kelly responded.
"Do you want to go inside and meet everyone else?" Kim asked Kelly.
"Yeah, sure." Kelly said as she followed Kim and Alex inside and upstairs. They had just reached the top of the stairs and saw no one else there except for Jimmy who was getting him-self a drink at the sink. "Hi Jimmy."
Jimmy turned around and said, "Hey Kelly. Good to see you again. How have you been?"
"As good as I can be, I guess." Kelly said.
"Kim told me that you were staying with her." Jimmy said.
"Yeah. I am."
"Jimmy, do you know where everyone else is?" Kim asked him.
"They're outside I think." Jimmy said. "We're having steak and potatoes for dinner tonight. Your welcome to stay if you want to Kelly."
"That sounds good. I think I will stay and thanks for offering." Kelly responded.
"Do you want to see the rest of the house?" Kim asked Kelly.
"Yeah, sure." Kelly said.
"I'll start by showing you up-stairs." Kim told Kelly as she motioned towards the stairs. Once they got up-stairs Kim said, "I know this isn't exciting but this is where we sleep and everyone has their own closet next to their bed." Kelly started to walk along looking at some of the pictures people had on the closets.
Kelly had stopped in front of Kim's closet and was looking at the pictures she had up. One was of Joey, and another one was of Kim, Jimmy, and Joey. The next picture she saw was of Bobby. When she saw this one she reached her hand out to touch it.
Kim came up behind her and quietly said, "Kelly," as she placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Bobby." Kelly whispered. Tears were now forming in her eyes.
"Kelly? Are you alright?" Kim asked her. Kelly turned around and looked Kim in the eyes. Kim could see and feel the pain that Kelly was in.
"It's just that…" Kelly started to say as she was crying. "It's…" Kelly then collapsed into Kim's arms as her whole body was trembling as she cried. Kim tried to comfort her as they sat down on a bed.
"I know it's hard." Kim said as she was trying to calm Kelly down.
A little while later Alex had come upstairs and saw Kim and Kelly sitting on the bed. She saw that Kelly was upset. Alex interrupted by saying, "Is everything okay up here?"
"I think it will be." Kim said.
"Well, I had come up here to tell you guys that they're starting to cook dinner and they wanted to know how you wanted your steaks." Alex told them.
"Ok. Well be done in a minute." Kim said. Alex then went back downstairs. Kim then said to Kelly, "Do you think you want to go downstairs yet?"
"Yeah. I'm ready." Kim and Kelly then stood up and walked downstairs together. When they got downstairs Kim had introduced her to the rest of the crew that Kelly hadn't met yet.
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Author's Notes: Please Review! I would greatly appreciate it if you would tell me what you think of this story so far.