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someone.  If they failed to live up to their father’s expectation, there had been hell to pay in the form of beatings.  Of course, never where anyone could see, that would never do.  The appearance of a loving upper middle class family meant everything to their father.  Mark never was one to conform and bucked his father more often than not.  Brin asked him once why he did it, and Mark explained if he pissed off their father, he would leave her alone.  His last rebellion had been joining the military, but Brin had been proud of him anyways.
    When he r brother died her father went on a rampage, everyone was to blame for him losing his only son.  Granted, Mark had not been talking to them at the time, in fact Mark had gone so far as to tell his father he was no longer part of the family.  That didn’t change the relationship he had with his sisters.  Covert meetings and vacations were becoming the norm before he died.
    The last time she saw him was when he snuck into town for her graduation party.  She had been ecstatic, and when he brought Jessie with him, Brin had been excited.  Seeing Jessie over the years, and having a schoolgirl crush on him made it so much more important that she looked grown up.  He had only seen her as his best friend's sister, untouchable.  That night she proved to him just how grown up she really was.
    From the first moment she saw him, teasing and flirting with him, Jessie had not recognized her and she played on that, keeping an air of mystery.  But it had come back and bit her in the ass when the following morning she woke to an empty bed.  She had planned the whole thing so well too.  Get him into her bed and then tell him who she was.  He would be shocked but then calm down.  They would talk about how she had changed from the shy, mousy little girl to a confident woman.  Jessie would be shocked that she was under his nose the whole time and he ignored her.  Then it all went to hell when the rabbit died and she was left without her older brother to talk to.
    She felt the tears gathering in her ey es when she heard a shuffle of feet in the doorway.  Grant, the vet, stood their looking good enough to eat, she was a little freaked out about the attraction she was having for Grant as well as Jessie, and it was like her mind refused to forget Jessie, and her body was in tune with Grant.  She gave a hesitant smile.
    “ Hey,” she said.
    “ How are you doing, Brin?”  During the short ride to the hospital, they had bonded over listening to Jabo and Sassy argue.  It had been entertaining keeping her mind off the pain, but a little strange as well.
    “ Fine, where did they end up putting Sassy?”  She laughed when she saw the pained expression on his face.
    “ Lucky you, right across the hall.”  Grant laughed and looked behind him.
    “ Hey, girl, how you doing? I am at a three!” Sassy yelled.
    Brin rolled her eyes and responded , “At a two.”  Yes, they were yelling their dilation numbers out for everyone to hear.
    “ Cool, we can suffer together.  You know these men are gonna abandon us the first time they see anything funky.”  Sassy laughed loudly.  Then Jabo protested, which started them on another argument totally.
    Grant shook his head and stepped in closer.  “ Nah, I won’t abandon you.”
    “ What?!” she shrieked and then looked at the man who had walked all the way into her room and took a seat next to her bed.
    He shrugged.  “ Hey, you need a coach and I so happen to know what I am doing.  I helped my brother-in-law with my sister.  I am an old hand at this.  Besides, you don’t know me well enough to call me those mean and nasty names yet.  I am safe.” 
    Brin laughed as he continued to tease her and tell her stories about the gators around there.  Sassy and Jabo yelled back and forth a few times.  I guess she couldn’t argue that she was alone, maybe with strangers, but they were better than being alone.
    “ So what is your