Tommy sat in a darkened room staring out at a full moon in a sky full of twinkling stars. It was 4 am, too late to go to sleep and too early to go to work. He didn't really care though he wasn't tired and he wasn't thinking about work. He was thinking about her, that girl who stole his heart all those years ago. Tommy knew it was past time to move on but he couldn't. He couldn't let go of his past because it haunted his present.
It had been a while since he'd sat up like this. She always visited him in his dreams but he had been sleeping through most nights these past few years. Yet, not tonight, he knew why too. He had seen her today. Well, yesterday, he had seen her yesterday. Okay, and not in person either, but close enough.
He had been at his friend Haley's when it happened. Kira had turned the TV to MTV. Tommy had never taken Kira as the kind of girl that watched MTV, but TRL was on and Kira was a musician. That guy, whatever his name was that hosted TRL these days, came on screen and asked the audience to help him welcome their special guest, Anne Crane. Tommy knew instantly who this girl was. As soon as she walked out he realized Anne Crane was no other than Kimberly Hart.
Tommy knew he himself had looked different when they were young. Still, he couldn't believe how much Kim had changed. She still looked about 18, far less aged than Tommy, but she had changed in other ways. She was no longer a valley girl cheerleader; she'd already been out growing that when she left for Florida. However, she didn't look like an Olympic gymnast or even a former power ranger for that matter either. Kim, although recognizable to Tommy, seemed to have changed into on of those anti-conformity, rebel, rocker chicks; and Kira's latest idol.
"Isn't she great?" Kira asked as she began to perform for the crowd.
"Yeah, she's awesome." Tommy answered, because to him she really was.
"You really like this kind of music, Dr. O?" Kira looked at him kind of weird, but silence was his only reply.
"OMG, " Haley had looked to the screen, she knew Tommy wasn't usually into this type of music and made the same connection Tommy had. "Tommy, are you going to be okay?"
Finally snapping out of his trance, Tommy told Haley he'd be fine. He was glad Kim had made it big, and the past well that was the past. After assuring her he'd be fine he quickly left. He needed to be alone, to think.