Year ago. 

Rain was working on her homework when she heard a loud noise outside her window. She opened the window in her room to have a look outdoors despite the persistent rain. She noticed Jade, a stray cat that was poking something close to her stomach while it was resting under the bench. Rain walked outdoors with an umbrella in hand to check on her out of curiosity. Fortunately, her parents were away on business, allowing her to let Jade inside the house.

Rain is in awe of what she witnessed.

"Jade, what are you doing? Who's kitten is this?" Rain asked, concerned.

Jade was not poking something on her belly but was forcing a kitten to sip milk from her breast. The kitten has continued to cry out loudly, perhaps due to hunger. Jade simply stared at Rain and returned her gaze to the kitten that Rain is now holding in her hand. She meows softly at Rain while placing her paw within the kitten's body.

When the three of them enter the house, Rain momentarily places them on the doormat and quickly searches her room for old clothes for them. When Rain arrives, she sees Jade still forcing the kitten to drink.

"Jade, how is it supposed to drink? You're not a mother yet, and you don't have milk," Rain asked as she walked down the stairs. 

As she dries Jade with the other cloth, Rain turned the fabric into a tiny nest in which the kitten, who is still wailing, was placed. When Rain hears the kitten cry, she is unsure of what to do. She is aware that the only milk left in their refrigerator is chocolate milk, which they are unable to consume. As she considered her options, she remembered something as she looked at Jade. She wrapped the kitten in the blanket and carried it to her arm, grabbed her umbrella, stepped outside, and knocked on a door.

"Sara!" footsteps can be heard within the home, and the doors are eventually opened for her.

"Why? What happened? Oh my word! Is that a kitten? By whom?" Rain handed the kitten to Sara, folded the umbrella, and went inside.

"Rain, whose kitten is this?" Sara asked again.

"I don't know, can't you tell I'm freaking out? It's crying so loudly there's nothing to eat in my house, can you help me?" Rain pleaded.

"Of course, chill, I got you, but seriously, what happened?" Sara returned the cat to Rain and took a syringe with no needle.

"I simply heard a loud noise outside, I assumed it was Jade but I saw her lying below the bench. She was busy on her belly when I saw her, the crying was not diminishing so I decided to go out. Maybe Jade was hurt and can't stand up. Then when I looked at it carefully, she was forcing this kitten to drink on her breast when she didn't have milk." Rain stated as she handed the kitten to Sara and fed the kitten with a syringe filled with milk.

"Perhaps it's hers."

"Sara, Jade has been living in our backyard; I'd know if she's pregnant, so did that kitten suddenly arrive here by magic?"

"Rain, nothing is impossible. Oh, what a gorgeous kitten with white, orange, and black fur. Wait, orange? Hey Dean! Is this your child?" Sara asked, looking at Dean, a four-year-old cat.

"Sara, your cat has been neutered." Rain said.

"Oh... well, at least it's not him, or else he'll have to pay child support," a smashed glass was heard in the room. Dean shattered a glass on the kitchen counter before leaving.

"Dean!" Sara shouted.

Another cat jumped onto Rain's lap. Ian is an 11-month-old cat who lives in Sara's.

"Hey, maybe it's him." Rain remarked

"Rain, Ian is not mature enough, and we planned to neuter him, as he's been getting unwell," Sara says as Rain strokes Ian's head. 

While Ian has orange spots and white fur, Jade, his sister, has black spots and white fur. Both of them also have a single spot in their back, and spots covering both of their ears and a colored  tail making them look more like a yin and a yang.

"So, what are you going to do about this?" Sara asked.

"I don't know. Can't you keep the kitten, you know my parents won't like this, right? Jade can barely step a paw inside the home, let alone that kitten. Can you please keep it?" Rain begs.

"I'm sorry, but I can't. I'm too busy for college, and my parents can't devote their complete attention to this because they have jobs. It's a kitten, and it needs a mother."

Following that, the room fell silent. Sara had prepared some food for the kitty. After all, Rain is powerless to change Sara's situation. Simply persuading her parents will allow her to keep the kitten.

Dinner also arrives with Rain's parents.

"Rain, I told you not to let Jade inside the house, it's from the outside, kick her out," the mother said when she saw Jade laying on the kitchen mat.

"Ma, she has a kitten," she said softly.

"A what?" her father asked.

Rain shows them the kitten. The two appear surprised by what has happened.

"I found it with Jade, can we keep it?" Rain requested.

The couple agreed to retain it as long as Rain accepts full responsibility for it. Happy, Rain cleared out a section of her room and placed the kitten there. Even though she gets to keep the kitten, Jade stayed outside and became pregnant six months later, finally being invited into the house a week after giving birth. Rain also gets to keep the only survivor of Jade's cat, later time, and she's pregnant again. Once Jade kittens were born, the Scotts opted to have her spayed. The kitten was given the name Nikki, while Shawn was given to the lone survivor.