On February 26th, 2001, Bobby Caffey, one of the paramedics working at the 55th got shot. It was a life threatining gun shot wound. He was shot by his lifelong friend, Paulie. Bobby had a difficult childhood. Paulie and him would always run away and hide whenever their parents fought. After Bobby was shot, Paulie was caught and then he was sent to jail. Bobby's partner and best friend for 5 years, Kimberly Zambrano helped him through everything. She stayed with him while he was in the hospital, and invited him to come live with her after he was out of the hospital. They became closer and closer with each day going by. To this day, they are still partners and best friends. After dating for 2 years, they decided to get married. A few months later, Kim had Bobby's child. They named her Katie. They moved in together. Kim had a husband before she married Bobby. She was previously married to Jimmy Doherty, a firefighter at the 55th. They worked together and had a child together, Joey. Joey usually stays with Kim, but he also stays with Jimmy on weekends. The story starts off with Katie's first birthday.

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to Katie! Happy Birthday to you!" Everyone from the 55th sang. It was Katie Caffey's first birthday. Kim's mom, Catherine, was there for her granddaughter's first birthday, and so was most of the 55th. As soon as the song finished, there was a knock at the door. Bobby excused himself from the table to go answer the door.

"Hey Bobby!" Matty yelled just as Bobby just opened the door.

"How are ya? I thought you said that you couldn't make it." Bobby said.

"Well I changed my mind for my neice and bro." There was a long silence. "Well... aren't you gunna invite me in?"

"Ohh yea, sure... come on in. We were just gunna have cake." He took Matty's coat and put it in the closet.

Matty had a long history of drugs. Bobby tried to help everytime, but he just couldn't do it. Matty would always have a source of drugs. Bobby trys to send him to rehab but he won't go or he would go and then leave. Bobby didn't know what to do anymore.

Everyone said hi then they all took a piece of cake and went into the living room, everyone except Matty. He went into the washroom, locked the door, and then he put his back pack down. It was filled with drugs. -Shit! I wanna do it so bad!- He thought of Bobby, Katie and Joey and he couldn't do it. Bobby needed him. Katie and Joey needed an uncle. He picked up his bag and walked into the kitchen again. He saw Joey and Katie sitting there grabbing cake and then stuffing it into their mouths. They turned their heads and saw Matty. They stopped. -I am so dead- thought Joey. Matty just kept walking through the kitchen and then to the closet. He put his bag by his coat. He headed back to the living room, going through the kitchen again, and seeing Katie, and Joey stuffing their mouths.

"Hey Matty. Can I talk to you for a sec?" asked Bobby.

"Yea. Sure." replied Matty. They both went into another room.

"Ok give me the drugs, Matty. I don't want drugs around my wife or kids so give me the drugs now or leave!"

"I don't hav-"

"Come on Matty! Don't lie to me! I can smell it all over you!"

"Seriously I dont!" -he lied, then he decided to tell the truth.- "Okay, I was smoking a bit before I came and that's it."

"Yeah, whatever!" Bobby stormed out of the room. -How stupid does the think I am? And to bring drugs near my kids. What an ass!- Suddenly an odd thought seemed to have smacked Bobby right on the head. -Maybe he doesn't have anything on him. Maybe for once he was telling the truth. No that doesn't matter cause he smoked before he came.-

They both returned to the living room pretending that nothing had happened. Nobody had noticed that they had been fighting or either of them was upset. They were all talking about their childhood. Bobby didn't want to join the conversation because he had a bad childhood. Bosco wasn't upset at all. He actually enjoyed letting it all out.-What's the matter with Bosco. He actually likes talking about his childhood. Weird...- Kim stood up to go change Katie's diapers. Katie and Joey were in Joey's room. Katie was watching Joey playing with the Playstation. Joey wanted his sister to play, but realized she was too young. Kim picked Katie up and then they both went to Katie's room to change her diaper.

Kim finished changing Katie's diaper and then put her back down with Joey and then she went back to the living room where the rest of her co-workers were. Ty was in the middle of his story and all about how he would play with his BMX bike. Joey was thirsty and Katie wanted her bottle so they both went into the kitchen. Joey took out some milk and poured it into the bottle. Then he put it into the microwave to heat it up. While the milk was heating he took out some coke and got a glass and filled it with ice. He was pouring his coke and then he dropped it. Nobody heard it and Joey wanted to clean it up fast before anyone found out.

Katie was just sitting there bored so she went for a crawl. She liked hiding in the closet, especially when her and Joey were playing hide and seek. She decided that she wanted to play now, so she went to hide in the closet. She was in there. All by herself. There was a nice black bag in there that was unzipped. Katie took it and then dumped it on her head, and pretended that it was a hat. Bags of white powder spilled all over the place. Like babies are, she took at and started putting it into her mouth. Joey then opened the closet and found her. Joey didn't know what the white stuff was considering that he was only 10, he took what was left of the white powder and put it back in the bag and then he zipped it up. Joey had just reached the kitchen and then Kim walked in.

"Joey, what did you do?" Asked Kim.

"Nothing mom. i just spilled some pop. I'll clean it up"

"Okay. If you need help just come and get me." With that being said, Kim went back to the living room.

When his mom left, he finished cleaning up. After that, both Joey and Katie went back to bed. Nobody noticed that Katie had ate the drugs.