Hi again folks well here is the start to my new story this was gonna be a one-shot but as i started writing it i could not stop and it turned out bigger so there will be more chapters to it and yes while it is another letter story this one has a very surprising twist to it. I hope you all enjoy this first chapter let me know what you think good or bad.
Disclaimer I do not own power ranger Saban entertainment does.
June 15 1996 Gunther Schmidt Training facility Miami Florida.
It was midafternoon Kimberly had been practicing all day as the Pan Global games were less than 3 weeks away, as she was doing her parallel bars routine she kept missing the lower bar or messing up her dismount and coach Schmidt was getting annoyed with it.
"Kimberly you need to focus these are simple exercises you are doing why do you keep messing up." The Coach asked her with an angry scowl on his face.
"I'm sorry coach I will do better it's just I have a lot on my mind right now." Kim said to her coach with a dejected look on her face.
Coach Schmidt was getting aggravated with the excuses and was tired of the fact that things happening back in Angel Grove was messing with one of his gymnasts not performing to her fullest.
"Kimberly you need to focus on what is in front of you not what is happening on the other side of the country." The coach stated.
As the coach was disciplining Kim another one of the gymnast's looked over at what was going on, his name was Jim Torres he was the pride of coach Schmidt's male team and one of the best, he was also extremely attracted to Kim, when the coach had finished his tirade on Kim Jim decide to assist his coach and walked over.
"Kim don't worry about the coach's rant he is just worried about the games, he is right though you have been distracted for the last two days are you ok?" said Jenna one of Kim's friends at the gym and her roommate in the dorms.
"Yea I am it's just I'm worried about things back home is all." Kim said as Jim stayed back a little to listen in.
"Is it Tommy sweetie is everything all right with you two back home?" Jenna asked her.
Kim just looked up with a little bit of sadness in her face. "Yea it's just we have not talked much in the last few days I know I shouldn't worry he is busy with finals and all, it's just we talk almost every other night and now all this week we have only talked once." Kim said sadly.
"It's alright honey like you said I'm sure that he is just busy I have heard you 2 on the phone at night and I know he would not just ignore you for no reason like this I'm sure everything will be fine." Jenna said putting her arm around her friend trying to comfort her.
"JENNA GET OVER HERE!" Coach Schmidt screamed across the gym to her as it was her turn to practice the balance beam and the coach was not going to hold up for anything.
"Sorry Kim but the General needs me he he." Jenna said with a giggle at the nick name her and Kim gave him for his strict military like way of training.
"It's ok Jenna I'm just gonna go hit the showers and trying to relax I will be ok." Kim said with a half-smile on her face.
"Ok Kim if you need anything let me know ok." Jenna said and then headed over to the coach as he screamed for her again.
With that Kim started heading for the locker room the coach had told her to take the rest of the day off to let her get her priorities straight, as she was about to enter the locker rooms Jim had walked over to her.
"Hey Kim everything ok." Jim asked.
"Huh oh yea I'm just a little tired is all." Kim said to him they had become friends while she was there but she was not as close to him as she was to her male friends back home.
"Hey listen I have finished for the day I was wondering if after you are done in the showers if you would like to go out and get something to eat you know you get your mind off things." Jim asked.
"I would love to Jim but I think I am just gonna go back to my dorm and just relax I'm sorry another time maybe." Kim said to him.
Jim not really liking the answer he had wanted Kim for a while but she only wanted to be friends as she put it, but he was not satisfied with that answer he would get her one way or the other and he had just the idea on how to do it.
"That's ok Kim sure another time that would be great." Jim said.
"Ok great listen I got to go so I can grab a shower and head back to my dorm." Kim said.
Jim nodded his head and turned to walk away thinking in the back of his mind of the little plan to get what is his as he put it.
Kim took her shower and headed back up to her room to try and again call Tommy since it was Saturday he should be home right now at least she hoped he would be and not in another battle against the machine empire.
"Hello Oliver residence." Said the older sounding woman on the other side of the phone.
"Hi Mrs. Oliver its Kim was wondering if tommy was home." Kim said.
"Yes he is dear hold on one second." Mrs. Oliver said as she went over to bring the phone to Tommy.
"Hey beautiful how's things going." Tommy stated.
Kim just melted into the phone when she heard her boyfriend's nickname for her. "Hey Tommy they are going ok although I have been distracted lately cause I have been worried about you guys back home is all." Kim said.
"Kim you don't need to worry about us back here we are all ok and I'm sorry I have not called more I really am but you need to focus on your dream right now." Tommy said.
"I know Tommy but I just do I'm sorry for disappointing you." Kim said sadly into the phone.
"Kim I could never be disappointed in you I am proud of you no matter what, do you know why?" Tommy asked.
"Why is that Tommy?" Kim said playfully.
"Cause you mean the world to me as does your happiness and because I love you that's why." Tommy said.
This had caught Kim by surprise she expected the first statement but not the 3 words that followed it even though she felt the same about him she had not expected him to say it to her , she was surprised but very happy.
"Tommy I love you too you know." Kim said to him.
"I know you do beautiful I know you do." Tommy said as all of a sudden his communicator went off. "Oh crap sorry Kim gotta go I love you." Tommy said.
"I love you too now go save the world and Tommy thanks for cheering me up." Kim said into the phone.
"Anytime Kim talk to you later." Tommy said then hung up the phone.
Kim hung up the phone and laid back in her bed with a big smile on her face that had really helped her bad day she was just lying there drifting off to sleep dreaming about her white knight, she was completely unaware of the fact Jim had been standing outside her door hearing her conversation and was not happy in the least bit.
After about ten minutes Jim knocked on Kim's door waking her up from her little nap, she groggily got out her bed and answered the door, she looked up and saw to her surprise that it was Jim.
"Jim what are you doing here?" Kim asked him.
Jim stood there for a moment taking in the view there was Kim the object of his desire standing there in a t shirt that just covered her thighs. "Coach sent me up to get you he says he needs to see you right now." Jim said.
"Um ok did he say why?" Kim asked.
"All I know is it something to do with the way you have been performing and that you are to get down there now." Jim stated.
Kim was surprised by the news but nodded to him and closed her door to change, she walked over to her dresser and grabbed a pair of jeans and a bra and put them on and went back out into the hallway to head to coach Schmidt's office.
She arrived and knocked on his door. "Come in." He said.
Kim opened the door and walked in after closing it Jim just smiled. "Finally with this news she will get rid of that Tommy and she will be ripe for the picking and she will be mine." Jim thought.
In the office Kim looked at her coach and was very nervous. "You wanted to see me coach?" She asked.
"Yes Kim I did after careful thinking I have 2 options to present to you." Coach Schmidt stated to here with a stern look on his face.
"Ok." Was all that Kim said.
"Well you have been distracted Kim and some people have told me why and I do not like the reason, so you have 2 options you can forgot about your life back in Angel grove and break off contact with the people there or you can pack up and leave to go back." The coach stated to Kim's horror.
"But coach everything is ok now I can do better now I'm sorry I got a little distracted coach please this is my dream but I also can't just walk away from my friends back home either they mean the world to me." Kim pleaded with her coach.
"No Kim they are just obstacles in your way to great success you need to be rid of them in order to succeed they are the reason you are performing poorly and I will not have that here in my school I train champions not people who cling to their childhood." The Coach argued to her.
Kim just looked at him with shock and sadness she wanted to achieve her dream but not at the cost of completely walking out of her friends lives essipeclly Tommy they finally confessed there true feelings to each other she was not about to lose him.
"Kim you are distracted because you are still in contact with them and cannot leave them behind as you move forward and become something great unlike them they will finish school get a job and that's it you will be world famous, but if you cannot cut your ties I will have no choice but to expel you from my school and send you back there." The coach stated to her.
"Coach please I promise they will not be a distraction anymore but I cannot cut them out of my life." Kim pleased.
"No they are nothing now they will be nothing but if you make the right choice you will be something great you will be better than they ever could be so what is your decision." The coach asked her.
Kim upon hearing the insults he said about her friends back home was livid to say the least. "No coach you are wrong they are already something great something you will never understand and if that is how you feel about my friends they are what drive me to be better than I was they are the ones who give me hope they give me love and they give the passion to perform." Kim yelled at him.
"I will start packing I would rather walk out of here with my dignity and be with my friends than to be as stuck up as you I quit then coach that is my choice." Kim screamed at him.
"Very well Kimberly I will arrange your transportation back to California it will take a few days you have till then to finish packing." Coach Schmidt said.
"Fine." Kim spat at him as she turned to walk when the coach spoke up again.
"I hope you realize what you are throwing away Kim you will never get a chance like this again I promise you that." The coach stated hoping to change her mind.
"What I am walking away from is not worth throwing my friends and those I love away coach have a good day." Kim said as she walked out of the door of his office to head to her dorm to pack.
Jenna looking over at her best friend having heard Kim yelling went to walk over to here and make sure she is alright when Coach Schmidt intercepts her. "Now Jenna you still have practice to finish you go back to your dorm when you are finished." The coach spat at her.
"Ok Coach." Jenna said sadly as she watched Kim head to the dorms. "I guess Kim will have to wait till I am done damn dickhead of a coach treating her like that." Jenna thought to herself as she went back to her practice routine.
Jim having heard her decision was not happy at all he had hoped her desire for her dream would win out and she would choose to stay but now she was gonna go back to those loser who would never amount to anything like him he thought.
Thinking quickly Jim ran over to Kim. "Hey Kim everything ok I heard you and the coach yelling?" Jim asked her knowing full well what had happened.
"The coach told me to choose my friends or the pan global." Kim said to him.
"What did you choose?" Jim asked trying to act concerned.
"I chose my friends I am going back home to Angel Grove." Kim said.
"What are you crazy you're going to throw all this away for a few people?" Jim said knowing not to insult them to much as it will drive her away.
"No Jim my friends and Tommy mean the world to me to hurt them by pushing them out of my life is not who I am it would devastate me if I lost them forever for a pipe dream I had as a little girl." Kim ranted.
Jim thinking quickly remembering all those conversations she had with Jenna about how her friend's approval means everything to her and that she could not give up because she was afraid they would think less of her if she did figures out the perfect way to break her.
"But Kim what will they think of you if you just quit and ran home just because things got a little rough and you had to make a tough choice, what do you think they would think of you then you know if they are the kind of friends you say they are then they will understand the sacrifices that need to be made to make your dream come true." Jim said.
Kim just stood there letting what Jim said sink in and a slight fear crept into her as she thought about it and in her current mood she was vulnerable and Jim knew this was the right time to strike.
"Listen Kim I know it sounds cold to cut them out like this for your dream but you once said that they told you that they did not want to hold you back from achieving your dream." Jim said as Kim looked at him with sadness.
"But Jim I can't just cut them out I can't they are my family." Kim said as tears crept into her eyes.
"Yes you can Kim I had to make this decision once and I chose my dream and they were ok with it listen Kim I will help you through all of it I will be here for you so that you can achieve this dream and when you do you will be happy that you made the right choice in the end, trust me staying here is the best thing for you." Jim stated.
Kim just looked at him confused at what she should do remembering that Tommy and all of them said they did not want to be the reason to hold her back.
"I don't know Jim this is a lot to take in right now I really don't know what I should do right now." Kim said as she dried her eyes and tried to regain her composure.
"You should do what you think is right but I know this if you walk away you will regret it forever and be trapped in a life where your biggest dream was washed down the drain because you worried about people that you even said did not want to be the reason to hold you back." Jim stated.
"Yea but what Tommy I can't just leave him he means everything to me." Kim said.
"Kim think of it this way he said he did not want to hold you back but if think about it you are holding him back from being happy being all the way on the other side of the country and he is unable to achieve happiness being tied down to this and neither can you." Jim said to her.
"What do you mean?" Kim asked him.
"I mean you have to let go of him just like he needs to let go of you so that you both can have happiness trust me Kim it will be for the best and I will be here for you to help you along the way." Jim said with his hand on her shoulder.
Kim thought long and hard and finally came to a decision. "You are right Jim Tommy said he did not want to hold me back and I am holding him back by staying attached to them I will go tell coach that I will stay I just hope they can all understand me for this." Kim said.
"I know they will and when you achieve your dream they will be proud of you for being strong and making the right sacrifice for your dreams." Jim said.
Kim nodded and walked back over to her coach to tell him she changed her mind, afterwards she had gone back to her dorm to figure out how to tell them all.
Then she relied what she has to do and picked up a pad of paper and started to write a letter to Tommy, after she was done she had went and mailed it after getting back to her dorm it finally sunk in to her what she had done and she broke down into tears she had just not only cut out her friends from her life she had just broken Tommy's heart, the man who not early had confessed that he loved her and now she broke his heart it hurt her.
She started crying and could not stop she had cried herself to sleep.
As Jim sat outside of his dorm he watched as Kim mailed the letter. "Finally now you will be mine after all I have been through I will have the one girl I want Kim and you know deep down you belong with me." Jim said to himself as he started to smile.
Well here is the end of the first chapter please remember all reviews are welcome here although i would like your opinion on the character Jim i created for this story. i look forward to your reviews catch ya on the flip side