Disclaimer: I just own Samantha Hart and Brandon Kent.
SUMMARY: The year's 2013. It's a new school year for the ex-ranger Dr. Tommy Oliver. After the island explosion that almost took his life in 2003, some of his old friends were told that he had died. Well, at least they thought he was. Boy is two of his oldest friends in the shock of their lives. It had been years. Why didn't Tommy tell them?
Chapter 2 The Truth Revealed
Sam had been really studying the last name 'Oliver.' Why did that name sound so familiar? Thinking about it was making her go crazy.
"That's it," she said to herself. "Tommy Oliver was one of Mom's best friends back in high school."
She pictured her science teacher with longer hair, and the resemblance was frightening. Sam raised her hand.
"Yes, Ms. Hart,' the teacher asked.
"May I go to the rest room," Sam wondered.
"Take the pass," her teacher said.
"Thank you," Sam smiled.
She ran out of her government class. Sam went to the far end of the restroom and pulled out her cell phone.
"Hello," a voice asked.
"Hi, Uncle Jason," Sam said.
"Samantha, what the hell are you doing calling me during school? Your mom would kill you," he replied.
"Please, this is an emergency, Uncle Jason," Sam cried.
"Alright, you don't have to yell. What is it," he asked.
"Now don't deny it. Is or is not yours and Mom's friend Tommy Oliver dead," Sam wondered.
Jason became silent. Why did Sam doubt his death? What did she know that he or Kim did not know? For all he knew, Tommy had died. If he was not, why didn't he contact him?
"Sam, you know Tommy's dead," Jason sighed.
"This is just so weird," she said.
"Why," Jason asked
"I went to school and saw my science teacher for the year. I pictured him with longer hair, and he looked like him," Sam said.
"Now why would you do that for," Jason asked.
There was a long pause.
"He's last name's Oliver," Sam responded.
Jason swallowed hard.
"Well, before Tommy passed away, he had cut that long shit off," he laughed.
"You see. It has to be him," Sam said.
Sam remembered seeing the TV program that day, so Kim had to tell her that her father had died in a car accident and that this Tommy person was a friend. The fact that Tommy could be alive scared Jason to death. What would happen when the two met for the first time?
"Listen, Sam, just go back to class and don't worry about it," Jason said.
"But wouldn't it be great if he was alive," she asked.
Jason laughed.
"That'd be damn great girl," he said.
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Sam took a deep breath and walked into her third period class. She never looked at her teacher as she took her seat.
"Why are you so nervous," a guy asked.
Sam turned to answer him. But when she faced him, she could not speak.
"First day jitters," he predicted.
"Um, yeah," Sam blushed.
The guy was really cute.
"I wonder if Mom felt this way when she met my dad," Sam thought to herself.
"By the way, I'm Brandon Kent," he said.
"Samantha Hart," she answered.
A spark of electricity ran through her body as they shook hands.
"You go by Sam or Sammy," Brandon asked.
"Just call me Sam. All my friends back home call me that," Sam said.
"Sorry to say I don't have any. Nicknames that is. So, where did you come from," Brandon asked.
"Angel Grove," Sam said.
"Cool," Brandon smiled. "I hear this teacher was from there too. Freaky, right?"
"Just a little," Sam said.
After attendance, Sam knew what was coming next.
"Did I miss anyone," Dr. Thomas Oliver asked.
Sam raised her hand.
"What's your name," Tommy asked.
"Samantha…" she began.
It was Tommy, and he looked so much like her. She swallowed hard and took a hold of her necklace.
"I don't have a Samantha. Let me see your schedule," Tommy said.
Tommy walked over to her desk and looked it over.
"Well, it does say you go there. Just got here today," Tommy asked.
"Um, yes," Sam said.
Tommy's eyes then fixed on her neck.
"Where did you get that necklace? I like it. It looks like one I used to wear back in my high school years," he said.
"Huh? Something you used to wear," Sam asked herself.
That comment made her think.
"If you don't mind me asking this, Dr. Oliver, what's your first name," Sam asked.
"It's Thomas, but I go by…" Tommy began.
He gasped as he saw her last name.
"What's wrong," Sam asked.
Brandon glanced their way.
"Nothing. My ex's last name was Hart too, but she doesn't live here anymore," Tommy responded.
"No way, it's couldn't be, could it," Sam asked herself.
Brandon kept looking at Sam in confusion.
"What name do you go by? You never said," she said.
"Oh, Tommy," he responded.
Sam lost it and began yelling.
"You want to know where I got this necklace," she snapped.
Brandon bit his lower lip. This girl was going to be in big trouble.
"Parents," Tommy guessed.
"My mother! And do you want to know who gave it to her? My father, for her sixteenth birthday," Sam said.
"Samantha, I'll like to have a little chat with you after class," Tommy replied.
"Fine, but I want some answers from you as well," she said.
Brandon looked down and laughed. He had to admit, the girl had guts.
"This can't be. Her father gave her mother that necklace for her birthday, and just not any birthday, her sixteenth birthday. Just like… no, she's in Florida. Isn't she," Tommy asked himself.
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Sam and Brandon walked up to Tommy's desk after class.
"Catch you later," Brandon said.
"Okay," Sam smiled.
She looked over at her teacher and sighed. Sam could not believe she had gone off on her teacher like that.
"Dr. Oliver, I just want to apologize for my behavior today during class. It's just that…" she began.
"Samantha, I thank you, but it's totally understandable," Tommy said.
"Understandable? I totally went off on you for no reason," Sam cried.
"I was like that too at your age," Tommy smiled.
There was just something about the girl that Tommy could not get mad at.
"Really," Sam asked.
"Yeah," Tommy replied.
"I just want my mom and Uncle to be happy again. They lost two people they cared about years ago," Sam said.
"What about your father," Tommy asked.
"That was one of them," Sam said.
"So, he died," Tommy asked.
Sam did not like talking about it much. It hurt to know he never knew he had a daughter.
"Yeah, but he never knew about me," she sighed.
"I'm sorry to hear that. Who was the other person," Tommy asked.
Sam couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"You," she yelled.
"Me," Tommy asked.
Would Kim really lie to this poor child and not tell her he was her father? She had to be. They looked so much alike it was scary for him to even keep eye contact with her.
"Yes, you. In that explosion on the island," Sam replied.
"How did your father die," Tommy asked.
"Mom said a car accident, but I don't buy it one bit," Sam said.
"Why," Tommy asked.
"Because, she told me right after you died that he had died. There wasn't even a funeral for him. Come to think of it, there wasn't one for you either," Sam recalled.
"You know why," Tommy questioned.
"Yeah, cause they never found the body," Sam said.
She let her head fall down. Sam was looking at that supposed dead body now, and it freaked her out.
"Right, Samantha. I didn't die in that explosion, and your father didn't die in that car accident," Tommy said.
Tommy just knew that he was standing face to face with his daughter.
"Why didn't you tell my mom or Uncle Jason," Sam asked.
"Did you ever know anything about your father," Tommy wondered.
"Stop changing the subject," Sam yelled.
"Alright, I heard that everyone thought I was dead, but I thought they found out sometime that I really wasn't," Tommy said.
"Do you know how much pain my mother was in after she found out you had died? Damn it, Daddy," Sam yelled.
"Hey, I know your mother taught you not to use that language. Wait, what did you just call me," Tommy asked.
"I called you Tommy, Tommy," Sam said.
"No, you didn't," he replied.
Sam swallowed hard. She did not want him to know she thought he was her dad.
"Tell me, how are you my father," Sam asked.
Sam knew deep down he was, and it was all because a one little object around her neck.
"You know that necklace you're wearing right now," Tommy asked.
She looked down and nodded.
"I was the one that gave your mother that before she left to Florida," Tommy said.
"It's true then. You… you're my… my father…" Sam gasped.
Tommy caught Sam in time before she fell to the floor.
"Mother like daughter," he sighed.
He had to contact Kim. Tommy searched for her name on Sam's phone, and then stopped at Jason's name.
"Kim's more liable of fainting than Jason," he said out loud.
He was glad he had next period off.
"Sam, how many times do I have t tell you to stop calling me at school," Jason asked.
Tommy took a deep breath.
"This isn't Sam," he sighed.
"Aw! No, you… you're dead! This can't be Tom… Tommy," Jason stuttered.
"Get used to it," Tommy said.
"You ass hole! How the hell could you do that to Sam and Kim? Me too! You scared us like hell," Jason yelled.
"I didn't know you still thought I was dead," Tommy said.
Tommy could imagine the tears forming in Jason's eyes. He had to admit, he would be acting the same if he had just found out his best friend he thought was killed ten years ago was alive.
"She knows, doesn't she," Jason asked.
"Yeah, she's a smart girl. Just like her mother. Damn, Jason, I'm so sorry for everything," Tommy apologized.
"Why are you calling," he asked.
"Samantha's on the floor right now," Tommy said.
Tommy could hear a little laugh come from the other line.
"Let me guess… she fainted when it all sank in, right," Jason asked.
"Right," Tommy said.
"Just like her mother. I'll get Kim and we'll be there as soon as we can," Jason replied.
It took a while for Tommy to respond. Knowing he was going to seeing Kim today was a little too much to take in all at once.
"Whatever you do, don't tell her, not yet," Tommy said.
AN:
Chapter 3 will be up soon.
