Forever Pink and White ch1
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Clasping a beer bottle in his hand, Tommy sat on his front porch, gazing at the night sky.
Emotions were running through his body like fishes in the sea and he wasn't sure if he could control them.
His emotions were clearly undetected to his senses to and that's what made it all the more difficult to decipher. Was it sorrow? Pain? Loneliness? Regret? Confusion?
What ever it was, it as making him depressed and he didn't like it.
"I hate mail.?" He thought with a sigh.
"Who decided to put stupid post men on this earth any way? Don't they know that mail just breaks everyone's hearts? Have they no mind?" he added to his thoughts.
He never would have come to this conclusion if he hadn't received another one of those heart breaking letters in the mail this afternoon.
It was from Kim. How she managed to get a hold of him still baffled his mind but what she had wrote to him was what crushed his heart.
She was married now. Happily married with a little boy and another on the way.
Tommy couldn't say that he wasn't happy for her, he was but, why was he feeling the things he's feeling?
He established long ago that he didn't have feelings for her anymore. Why did it upset him so much to hear that she was married with a family?
Was he jealous? Did he still love her? Was he in denial?
Too many questions ran though his head and with the influence of alcohol it wasn't making his situation any better.
Tommy wasn't normally one to drown his depressions in drinking, he'd normally try a calming kata, or try to sleep it off or something but, this, this was a special occasion.
Taking another swing of the beer Tommy scrunched up his face only to find that it was hot. No longer wanting to finish the now warm beverage, he flung it off his porch and into the bushes.
"Note to self Tommy, stop littering." He thought getting up to go back inside until he heard something rustle in the bushes.
Dropping into fighting stance Tommy awaited the intruder only to drop his defenses when he saw a white cat, make it's way onto his porch.
Tommy smiled some picking up the white cat and bringing him inside.
"Hey Kitty Kat, you're hungry aren't you?" he asked setting the cat on the kitchen floor and digging in the cabinets for the cat bowl and the food.
Upon moving to his house, Tommy found a small white kitten living around the area as a stray. He couldn't stand to see the baby cat, linger around the bushes and forests alone, and fending for it's own food so he decided to keep her as his little pet.
Just looking at the fur and the color texture of the cat reminded him so much of Katherine, hence the name, Kitty Kat.
Katherine. There goes another reason towards his depression.
When she was going off to London to a dance academy, Katherine had broke it off with him explaining to him that it wasn't fair for both of them to have a long distance relationship and only get to see each other once in a year.
It was apparent that she still had feelings for him and vice-versa but the distance away from each other was what made the relationship impossible.
And now that it was almost a decade later, she was probably happily married with a kid on the way as well.
Tommy sighed pouring some cat food into the bowl.
He couldn't understand why he was so unlucky when it came to women.
Here he stood, 5"10 and 26 years old and only dated 2 women that left him to be cross-country and even cross-global. Was he that bad to be around?
Putting the food down in front of the cat and giving her one quick pet, Tommy sighed making his way upstairs and to his bed room, in hopes of dreaming his depression away.
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The next morning was a Saturday morning and Tommy wished he could sleep the day away but he already had Saturday duties he had to accomplish. Grade papers, clean up the house some, training with the team and all the above.
Tommy sighed rolling off his bed and heading to the shower.
After stripping off his clothes, he stepped into the warm shower letting the water cascade down his body.
He sighed grabbing his rag and lathering it up with soap and starting the day ahead.
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After showering, feeding Kitty Kat and eating breakfast, Tommy looked at the clock that read, 10:15. The gang should be coming over any minute so he figured he might as well clean up some.
First entering the living room, Tommy looked around only to find that it was clean, nothing really changed about that room because he hardly ever used it. He watched tv most of the time in his lab or in his room so the living room was pretty much useless.
Moving on to the dining room, Tommy sighed at all the dust that had collected on his dining set.
He had no idea why his mother gave it to him and put it there. It had absolutely no use because he never ate on it.
Most of the time it was only him in the house and if he did have a guest for dinner it was always Kitty Kat, or Haley, why in the world would he want a dining table?
Tommy sighed grabbing a cloth and dust spray, and getting to work.
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About half an hour and 23 sneezes later, Tommy finally managed to get the pesky dust off the table and was about to head to the next task until he heard a knock at the door.
Tossing the dirty cloth in the garbage and putting the spray back in it's proper place, Tommy answered the door and wasn't surprised to find his team standing there.
"Hey Dr. O!" Conner greeted with a smile on his face.
"what's he so happy about?" the black ranger thought for a minute before allowing the team in.
"Hey, guys. You guys could get started on your warm up outside while I………where's Kira?" he asked noticing the yellow ranger wasn't there.
"She doesn't feel to good, so she's at home." Haley explained and Tommy nodded in understanding until Conner spoke up.
"But I thought she was just upset about Hunter braking up with her yesterday at cyberspace for another girl, I didn't know she was sick too. Wow, she must have it bad." The red range voiced out openly causing his other two male teammates to grasp their for heads with their hands.
"Conner!" Trent and Ethan cried in unison.
"What?" he asked wondering what he did wrong.
"What!" Tommy asked in utter disbelief and shock that the former ranger did something like that.
No way did he just brake up with Kira for another girl. There was no way! He went to a karate school didn't he? Didn't they teach him respect?
Tommy cared for Kira like one of his own, almost like a daughter and if someone was going to brake her heart, than they were going to pay.
"Why when I get my hands on that slimy little worm, I'll make him wish he was still a ranger." He thought in anger only to have his thoughts set to a halt when Haley placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down Tommy, they're teenagers, they do things like this, it's ok, she'll get over it." She said trying to calm him down some but Tommy was still in protest.
"But…"
"No"
"And…….."
"Uh-uh"
"He………"
"I don't want to hear it Oliver. Let it go. Kira's strong she can deal with this. She doesn't need Mr. Over protective ranger looming over her life all the time." Haley said.
"I'm not over protective of her." He protested.
"Yes you are." All four of them said together causing Tommy's face to fall. OK he was a little over protective of her, so sue him, she was the only girl on the battle field and he wanted to make sure she didn't get hurt. He was the same way with Trini, Kim, Kat, Aisha, and Tanya, it was just a habit.
"Fine, I'll let it go this time but next time………I won't." he said not to sure what he would to if it were to happen again.
Haley rolled her eyes, c'mon let's get to work." She said ignoring her lab partner's comment.
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Meanwhile in the depths of the city Reef side, a young woman dragged her luggage up the stairs of an old apartment building that was to be her new home.
She sighed at the lack of class here in California. Back in London, men would jump up at their feet to help a lady with her things but now that she moved back into the states, she was off to rude and self centered people.
Taking the keys from the pocket of her white shorts, the blonde opened the door only to find the condo was a complete dump.
She sighed once more. This looked nothing like the picture online.
The floors were dirty, the pre-set furniture was also covered in dust and dirt, the sinks where covered lime and rust, and not to mention that the room looked three times smaller than what she expected. She really did not want to explore the rest of the house afraid she might find rats or something else.
Dragging her luggage inside 25 year old Katherine Hilliard looked out the window to her new home, Reef side, California.
"At least there's a great view of the city." She thought to herself before jumping back at the sight of a spider, crawling it's way onto the window.
She sighed after getting over the shock and glared at the spider. "Stupid lousy condo." She thought before turning to get at look at what she needed to fix around the place, or at least what she could fix today.
"This is going to be a long day."
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Monday morning at Reef side High was of course as always, bustling with students yapping about their weekend.
Tommy always let his class socialize as they filed in the class until the bell rung signaling the start of first hour.
Even though the talks of, who had the latest STD, "I banged this chick last weekend", and who's dating or who brake up with who really gave him the biggest headache at the start of the day, it wasn't fair to have them come in his class all silent because they had to stay quiet for a whole hour and fifteen minutes anyway.
Finally the bell rung and the conversations slowly died down and Tommy sighed a happy sigh he didn't have to hear anymore of it.
"Good morning class, welcome back to another glorious week of school." He began as the students groaned at the mention of another whole week back in school.
Tommy chuckled some, he had to agree with his students on this one, he really didn't want to be in school for another whole week of school.
"Alright, I hope you guys had a fun weekend but now it's back to our discussion on the 'big bang theory'. But before we get to that, I need to take roll." He added grabbing a pen and his planner of his desk.
"Ok, Lisa Amana?"
"Here"
"Doug Bents?"
"Here"
"Christy Bonny?"
"Present"
"Cameron Barns?"
"Here"
"Cassidy Cornell"
"Announcements." The students said in unison reminding him of the reporter who did the daily announcements.
"Oh right, Devin D?" he asked abbreviating Devin's last name on the count it was so long.
"Here"
"Trent Fernandez?"
"Here"
"Kira Ford?"
No answer. "Kira?" Tommy repeated looking up to her assigned seat only to find it empty. He sighed. She was probably still upset about Hunter. He couldn't blame her though. He knew what it was like being dumped for some one else.
"Alright, Mindy Harrison?"
Before he could get a reply, he was interrupted by the buzz of the P.A system coming on.
Tommy sighed sitting on his desk now, as he knew it was the beginning of the morning announcements.
"Good morning Reef side Seagulls!" came the voice of none other than Cassidy Cornell over the P.A
"And welcome to another fabulous week at reef Side high!" she exclaimed.
"In today's news, Principal Randall has ordered a mandatory lice check for all students in grades 9-11. Lice checks will be given this week before and after school in the school clinic or during lunch hour on your free time. You must have this examination complete to avoid any cases of lice headed children to our fellow students." She said as Tommy rolled his eyes. Leave it to Principal Randall to create demeaning little rules to make the students suffer.
"In other news, the Reef side Seagulls football team one another game against the California Herons17 to 6. Go seagulls!"
"And of course a reminder from Principal Randall her self, she has ordered that no more gum is to be chewed anywhere on campus at all. If you are caught chewing gum anywhere on campus then it is an automatic detention." She said as several students in Tommy's first hour quickly tossed their gum in the garbage.
"Attention female seagulls, if you are interested in tap, ballet, jazz, hip-hop and even belly dancing join the new Reef side High dance team a.k.a RHD today. There will be a brief meeting today in the auditorium from 3:00 to 3:30 hosted by the newly hired dance teacher."
"And of course fellow seagulls that concludes out morning announcements and i hope you all have a fabulous day!" Cassidy chirped before the P.A cut off.
Tommy sighed. "Alright class now back to our….."
"Dr. Oliver, please report to my office NOW!" boomed the voice of Mrs. Randall over the announcement system as it came on one final time.
"Oh what does she want now?" he asked himself.
"Alright class, open your books to page 313 and read the text, we'll discuss it when I come back. Hopefully I can trust you to do that and stay quiet for a few minutes." He said as the class pulled out their text books.
He knew they were going to talk, but he let anyway before Principal Randal became any more angrier.
As Tommy walked the halls to Principal Randall's office he was trying to figure out just what he had done wrong.
He hadn't bothered her any, and he did come to school everyday on time, what could he have done to make her so angry? Then again, what could anyone have done to make her so angry in the first place?
So lost in his thought, Tommy didn't see a young woman apparently trying to head in the opposite direction as he turned the corner, there by resulting in a crash to the floor for both of them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you, you have to excuse me, I have sort of a lack of attention sometimes." He apologized helping the woman pick up her things that had dropped to the floor.
"It's ok, honestly." The blonde woman said also picking up her things, an Australian/British accent falling out of her mouth.
The two continued picking up everything that were splattered all over the floor, having yet to look at each other's faces until both of their hands graced on a picture lying on a stack of papers.
Looking down at the picture, Tommy instantly recognized it as the turbo team at Kat, Adam and Tanya's graduation. But what would she be doing with it?
Both of them looking up into each other's eyes they both gasped at what they saw.
"It can't be"they thought at once.
"Tommy?"
"Kat?"
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