Author's note by SpecialK92:
This story will be co-written by me and catlovingmermaid. The first half of the chapter is written by me and the second half of the story is written by catlovingmermaid.
Why hadn't she come to see Tommy sooner? Was it because she was scared he wouldn't believe her when she told him that her mother and step-father were behind the break up letter? Was it because she was afraid to face her friends, when would start questioning her about how she could purposely hurt Tommy? Or maybe was embarrassment that of how she would explain it?"
"I found out that Coach Schmidt wrote the break up letter and it was my mother's and step-father's idea for it."
"Who would believe that? Pierre, Caroline, and Coach Schmidt were all so good at forgery and had gotten away with it long before the break up letter ever happened. Okay, maybe all these reasons added up to be one big burden on her shoulder and she was simply scared. She had come back with Jason after he encouraged her to talk with Tommy. Jason had been like an older brother to her ever since she moved to Angel Grove. At times, she wished that she could wished that Jason was her brother and the Scotts raised her. But, it didn't matter now. Her and Jason got kidnapped by Divatox and were going to be sacrificed for some person that she wished to marry. But, the power rangers saved them. During the whole karate tournament, her eyes were fixed on the clock. Once the tournament was over, she was going to go talk to Tommy and try to tell him about the letter.
But, it was too late. Kat ran over to him after the tournament and hugged him. That sent a signal to her that Tommy was now dating Kat. How long? Probably not long after his heart was shattered after that break up letter. She hated Pierre Dumas. She didn't consider him to be her step-father or even a father. He was nothing to her. All he did was cause trouble for her life. He told Caroline to keep their relationship a secret, even from her own daughter. How could her own mother go behind her back and keep something that important a secret from her? She didn't allow Kimberly time to get to know Pierre or form an opinion about him. She kept it a secret until, Pierre asked her to marry him and to move to Paris. And to top all of that off, Pierre wanted to adopt her. He wanted her to start of fresh, a new home, a new family, a living in a new country, and find a rich boyfriend. She was over 18 and she was able to say no. Otherwise it would have happened.
All these thoughts had been going through Kimberly's mind ever since she left the karate tournament. Tommy had been talking to Kat. What about? Probably that he was surprised to see her and that he wasn't going to take her back. She thought coming to the beach would clear her mind. But, it didn't. Ever since Kimberly stepped out of the beach house in her pink bikini, all she thought about was Tommy. If they were still together, he'd be telling her how beautiful she looked in that bikini. Her eyelids fluttered close when she fell tears running down her cheeks. She wiped her tears, and kicked off her pink flip flops. Then she continued to walk along the shore line alone. Scrunching her toes, she felt the soft damp golden sand between her toes. "He didn't want me to go to Florida," Kimberly thought as she continued to walk leaving her foot prints in the sand.
"I don't want to lose you, Kim. But, I can't hold you back from your dream. It wouldn't be fair."
Those words echoed through her brain constantly. Tommy always thought of someone other than himself. But, when she left, she left a Tommy with a broken heart behind. Why hadn't she had asked him to go with her? He would have jumped at that opportunity and he probably would have found someone to take over as the white ranger. In fact, they over 18 when she got the chance to go to Florida. They could have been able to go to the court and gotten married before she left. He always talked about how he wanted to marry her. But, if that had happened, she wouldn't have gotten to spend as much time with Tommy as she would have liked. She spent most of the day training and always came back to her dorm room very tired. No wonder she got kicked off the team, she collapsed during practice several times. Until Coach Schmidt told her to pack up and leave.
If she had it to do over, she would have stayed in Angel Grove. At least it would have saved her relationship with Tommy. True, her mother and her mother decided that she'd move to France at the end of her Junior Year. But, when she came home to visit her at Christmas, she told Kimberly that she was going to let her finish school, since she only had one more year of school left. That would have been a dream come true. She would have gotten to graduate with her friends and attended the senior prom with Tommy. He had told her after high school, they were going to get married and go away to college together. By now she'd have an engagement ring on her finger and planning her wedding. That would have been another dream come true. At the end of the summer, they'd be married and be getting ready to move into their dorm room together.
She huffed, kicking up some of the sand, fate had a cruel sense of humor. After all they had gone through together, His green ranger days, meeting Adam, Rocky and Aisha, saying good bye to Jason, Zack and Trini, losing their powers, gaining new ones. How many times had they lost everything and kept fighting to gain it back? She didn't know what hurt more, the fact Coach Schmidt wrote the letter, the fact her mother was the one who came up with the idea, or the fact that Tommy, Tommy who fought Zedd one on one for her, didn't challenge it or tried to find out what it meant.
"Help! Help! Somebody help!" Kim jerked her head up, scanning the horizon, a good five feet off shore a girl who looked to be eleven or twelve years old was thrashing in the water. Kim quickly scanned the beach, of course the last life guard of the day at already went home and no one else was around.
"Please help!" the girl called again before the top of her red head disappeared under the water for a scary twenty seconds.
As soon as she resurfaced gasping for air, Kim hurried forward flinging her beach bag to the ground, "Hold on! I'm coming!"
Kim ran into the water, allowing it to slosh up to her knees before she dove in and swum with strong strokes toward the girl. At least Jason had insisted that she learned how to swim when she first moved to Angel Grove. she was only a yard away.
"No wait!" a voice called out. Kim ignored it, now she was a foot away, the girl disappeared under the water.
Kim was about to take a deep breath and dive under the water when she heard a loud, "NO!" there was a large splash nearby as a woman around her age jumped out of the water, her tail flashing in the dying sunlight.
Seeing a mermaid was shocking, so much that Kim forgot about the drowning girl, "What?" she demanded.
"Get away from there!" the mermaid shouted. "IT'S A TRAP!"
Kim quickly started to swim away but the current caught her, spinning her round and round deeper and deeper until Kim was dragged under the water.
Kim was stuck in a whirlpool of colors and sounds that came and went so quickly she couldn't tell just what they were, she was in trouble that was for sure. This was bad, very, very bad, hopefully Zordon saw what happened and sent help. If Kim could get enough air she could probably start laughing, she had only been back in Angel Grove for less than thirty-six hours and this was the second time she needed rescued. She thought this kind of stuff would die down once she handed her powers over to Kat, silly her.
Suddenly Kim's head broke the surface, gratefully she took a deep gulp of air, where in the world was she? Or should she ask where in the interdimensional universe was she?
The place almost looked like Angel Grove, almost. All the buildings where in the right places, but something, Kim couldn't quite figure it out, was different. The trees in the park were even the same. Except, she stopped in a clearing, and looked around, she remembered the battle that was fought here, she was surprised that there weren't any scars on the trees still from the blaster blasts. It was as if the battle never happened. That was what was missing, no boarded-up windows waiting to be fixed, abandoned buildings and warehouses were the Dragon Zord had rampaged during the evil green ranger days.
"It's as if there were never any monsters' attacks," Kim muttered, looking around for something, anything, out of the ordinary for her to latch onto.
"Looking for something Pink Ranger?" a cold voice behind her sent a cold shiver down her back.
She whirled around, "Goldar," she exclaimed, dropping into a fight position.
A/N: Catlovingmermaid here, Well I figured we could leave it as a cliffhanger, so enjoy and don't forget to review.
