A/N: This story is going to be based on a list one of my friends emailed to me. The statements are going to be out of the order I received them in so that I can focus on each Ranger in order of events from the show and the MMPR movie. I will focus on every Ranger through Zeo, and some will be focused on more than once.

Setting: MMPR Season 2, before "Green No More"

Chapter One

"Thank you so much for coming with me, Jase," Kimberly Hart said to me as we walked into the bookstore together.

I smiled. "Well, we are working on the English project together. It helps if we pick out the book together so we're not writing about different books."

"Let's go over by the Literature section," Kim told me as she led the way through the store.

"Any idea what book you want to do the project on?" I asked once we entered the American Lit section. I began skimming through the titles on the shelves.

"I was thinking maybe Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights," Kim said. "Miss Appleby said it's so romantic, with all these love triangles and everything."

I raised my eyebrows. "I'm not too into the whole romance thing."

Kim grinned at me. "It's just a thought. What were you thinking?"

"What about Charles Dickens' War of Eighteen-Twelve?"

Kim scrunched her nose. "War?"

I sighed. "I think this project is going to be harder than we both thought it would be."

"Well, I'm sorry. But Tommy wanted to work with Billy so he could get a really good grade, and Trini had already partnered up with Zack. So it was either choose you as my partner, or work as a group of three with Bulk and Skull."

I laughed at that. "That's true. Okay, let's find a book we can agree on."

Kim and I began reading through all the titles on the shelves, arguing about practically every book on the shelf. Eventually, she went off somewhere by herself, but I stayed where I was, running my finger along the books, desperately trying to find a novel that looked at least semi-decent.

I stopped as a found a copy of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath on the shelf and decided it might be interesting. As I pulled the novel off the shelf, I knocked over the book next to it, and it fell on the floor, opening to a random page. Glancing down at it, I realized it was some sort of motivational book, similar to Chicken Soup For The Soul. Somebody must have put it with the literary novels by accident. I picked the book up and went to place it back on the shelf, but I hesitated. A statement on the page the book had opened to caught my eye.

At least five people love you so much that they would die for you.

It was the first statement in a list of "Fifteen Things To Think About." Well, it sure got me thinking.

Usually, I paid no attention to those inspirational, make-you-feel-good-about-yourself kinds of stories, although Trini had always told me that they're very enriching and heartwarming. But when I read that one sentence, my mind started reeling. The names of those five people who would die for me came to my mind not even a second after I finished reading the sentence.

Kim, Tommy, Trini, Zack, Billy.

We're best friends, all six of us. Sure, some of us are closer than others. Me and Tommy, for example, or Kim and Trini, and even Trini and Billy. But when all six of us are together, we're all one big group of best friends. And I trust all five of them with my life, and I know that the trust is mutual among all of us.

It's nice having that kind of trust with people, especially considering the fact that we're all on the same team and I'm their leader.

So I knew right away that the sentence was true. But not only because the six of us are good friends, not only because we trust each other. But because I witness my friends taking hits for each other, and for me, practically every day in battle. Tommy is always jumping in the way of monster's weapons to protect Kim, and sometimes me. And in return, Kim will do anything to help Tommy. Trini seems to always throw herself in front of anything attacking Billy. Zack's just all over the place, blocking everyone else from a punch or a kick whenever he can.

And then there's all the things we do for each other that aren't as big as getting hit by an oversized monster to spare someone else. Like when Tommy rebuilt Kim's float after it had been destroyed by Putties. Or all the times Billy helps us with our science homework. Or Zack's always-present sense of humor that brings smiles to everyone's faces, even if his jokes aren't very funny.

It's both the great and the smaller things that my friends do for each other that make that one statement so true. And even though I would never admit it out loud, I know that my friends all love me, in different ways, and I love them, in different ways. Lord knows I wouldn't hesitate to jump in front of a bullet to protect them, and I know that they all feel the same way about me and everyone else.

"Hey!" Kim's perky voice snapped me out of my thoughts. "What is that?" She peered at the book I was holding.

"Oh, um, just some kind of motivational book," I replied. "Somebody misplaced it next to The Grapes of Wrath, and I knocked it off the shelf accidentally."

"I thought you didn't like that kind of stuff."

"I don't. But I was just looking through some of it and thinking about some things."

Kim smiled. "I knew Trini would eventually rub off on you."

I smiled back. "So did you find anything?"

Kim held up a paperback book. "To Kill A Mockingbird. What do you think?"

"That could work," I agreed. "Let's buy it." I looked down at the book in my hands. "Do you mind if we buy this, too?"

Kim shrugged. "No, not at all."

As I stood in line with Kim at the cash register, I thought about different places at home where I could hide the book. If Zack ever found out I had bought an inspirational book, he would never let me live it down.

And I would have to listen to "I told you so's" from Trini for the rest of my life.

A/N: This is my first time writing from Jason's POV. Please leave constructive criticism if there's anything I can work on, especially since I might be writing another chapter about him later.