Missing you

Chapter 7 - Secrets

The storm that seemed to have gone in the afternoon came up at night as a severe thunderstorm. The shriek of the wind awoke Kimberly, who found it

impossible to close her eyes again. She gazed at the clock on the bed table, it was half past three a.m.

She walked downstairs and saw Skull lying onto the couch by the fireplace, he had fallen asleep, one arm was over his stomach and the other one hanging on one

side of the couch. He held a book that was a few inches from the floor, she walked over to him and took it from his hand. He did not awoke.

She sat at the coach in front of him. She knew very well that book, it was her Dear Diary. She felt curious about what part of her history Skull was reading. She

remembered when she wrote that pages, it was the day after she had come back from the mountains.


Kat tip toed through the first floor corridor towards Kimberly`s bedroom, she could hear Beethoven being played really loud, so she knew her sister

was already awake. In fact she was eagerly writing in her Dear diary and as Kat knocked on the door Kim intermediately shut it down.

"Who is it?" She asked

"It´s me Kat" a voice answered behind the door

"Come in!" Kim yelled as she hid the diary beneath her pillow.

"Good morning sister" Kat said stepping into

"Good morning Kat, when did you arrive?" Kim asked her

"Last night, but you were sleeping by the time" Kat said and jumped onto the bed beside her sister.

"You look very cheerful this morning" Kat commented and smiled narrowing her eyes.

"How was your flight?" Kim asked avoiding the commentary

"Fine, I assume for the look in your eyes that you had a really good time at the mountains" Kat sighed running her fingers through her blonde tangled hair.

"It was fine" Kim answered as she stood up to turn down the volume of her audio set

"Well, are you going to tell me or not?" Kat asked anxious

"I´d love to, but have you checked the time?" Kim asked while putting on her shoes.

"Damn it!" Kat sighed watching the clock on the bed table , she was still in her pajamas.


The wide aisles of Angel Grove high filled with thousand of students once again, you could guess who were the new ones, wandering around looking for the their

lockers and asking for the classrooms.

Kimberly and Tommy got lost into the crowd, it was their last first day at Angel Grove High, the last year they walked through the corridors and meet the same

familiar faces. Everything was going to change the following year and we all know how uncomfortable Kimberly felt about changes, which was pretty ironic since

butterflies were her favorites. They walked towards her locker.

"What are you doing after school?" Tommy asked

"Well, you know I´d love to go to the conservatory" she explained

"No, I mean today, this afternoon" Tommy cleared it up laughing

"Oh, I have piano practice today, why?" Kim answered

"I´m working at Ernie´s again and I thought we could meet at the youth center, but it´s okay, maybe some other time " He said

"Yeah maybe some other time, I´m sorry" She answered in a guilty tone

"You shouldn´t feel bad about that" He said

They saw Billy coming out from the multitude, so they changed the topic as soon as he approached and they even started behaving in a peculiar way

"Hi, how are you doing?, Is everything okay?" He asked noticing the change in the mood

"Hey Billy, yes everything is fine!" Tommy answered and high fived with him

"Hi Billy, have you seen Trini?" Kim asked Billy

"She´s probably not coming for a couple of days, she´s got a flu" Billy explained

"Oh no, poor Trini" Kim sighed

"Yeah it started after we returned from the mountain; remember the storm? . . . " Billy trailed off when a guitar riff began to come out from the loudspeakers and

everyone turned silent.

Students looked at each other clueless.


Kat rushed through the aisle and met Justin and Tanya before stepping into the classroom.

"What´s it going on?" she shouted at her friends, they turned to her and just shrugged

When the electric guitar riff trailed off a deformed voice spoke through the loudspeakers "Welcome to a new year, Angel Grove High rocks yeah!"

Principal Kaplan used to greet students the first day of class, it was a classic, however, this year someone else seemed to have overtaken him.


Mr Kaplan hurried through the corridor and opened his office´s door, but found no one in there.

Every year one student performed some kind of prank the first day of school to get everyone´s attention, but nobody had gone that far to brake into Principal

Kaplan´s office.


A bunch of teenagers hurried into the classroom laughing and commenting the recent events.

Strangely enough Bulk and Skull were already at the classroom sitting quietly and with their English books wide opened. Kimberly, Tommy and Billy gave each other

a look.


On their way home Kat kept talking about Tommy and the Prom

"Do you already have a date for the ball?" Kat asked Kim

"There´s a lot way to go for the ball yet" Kim stated

"Not so much, you´d better do something to let Jason know what you feel or somebody else could overtake you" Kat warned Kim

"I´m not willing to go with Jason" Kim stated

"I´m just saying, Do you know Cassidy Cornell?" Kat asked

"Yes, she is cheerleaders´s captain" Kim answered

"Well, she´s got an eye on Jason, I wouldn´t waste my time if I were you" kat adviced her

"I´m going with Tommy, Trini is going with Billy and you are going to be the only one without a date" Kate commented

"Has Tommy asked you? Kim asked

"No, but I´m sure he will" Kat said "You can always go with Skul, who is asking you for sure, but you know . . . it´s Skull" she added


Skull opened his eyes and sat straight at the couch, the red flames reflected on his blue eyes.

"Kim, I thought you were sleeping" Skull sighed rubbing his eyes.

"Well I couldn´t . . . I see you decided to take an eye on the past" she said

"Oh, I´m sorry, I just read a few pages, um . . . I thought you would not care after all this years" Skull apologized

"No problem, but for the future I would appreciate that you ask me whatever you wanna know" Kim answered

"Well, . . . actually there is one thing I want to know" He said

"What?" she asked

"Was my kiss really that bad?" he asked

She laughed and did not answer

Kim noticed a folded paper between the pages, she unfolded it. Skull recognized his handwriting and took it from her hands.

"You keep it?" He asked

"Yes, I thought it was a nice piece" She answered

"You never told me" He said, "When did you realize it was mine?" He asked


Kimberly was at the High School library reading her English book when she found a piece of paper between the pages. It had an unknown handwriting , she could

only read the first two lines before Tommy arrived. It seemed to be a love poem.

"Hey beautiful, how are you doing?" He gazed around and then kissed her.

"Studying for your piano exam?, when are you sitting for it?" He asked

"Oh no, I´m not, the exam is two weeks before the prom" She answered

"The prom yeah . . ." He smiled

Other students complaint about they talking aloud in the library, so they became silent

Tommy opened his English book and started writing in one of the pages, then he elbowed Kim´s arm to get her attention to the book page.

´Do you have a date for the Prom?´ she read in silence

´Not yet´ she wrote below and handed him the book back

´Would you be my date?´ he wrote while she smiled sweetly at him, then slipped the book onto the table towards Kim

´I´d love to´ she wrote and smiled at him

Kat walked over to them and took a seat beside Tommy, he turned the page of his book discretely.

"Um, I ought to go" Kim said, she stored her book in the handbag and stood up "See you later" she whispered and left


As soon as Kim arrived home she placed the piece of paper onto the music rack and sat down.

She vocalized what was written as she improvised a melody with the piano.

"Good! what a beautiful song" Skull sighed clapping. She had played until the second verse

Kim turned round

"What´s the song´s name?" Skull asked

"I don´t know, lyrics are not mine" she answered "What are you doing here?" She asked

"Your father invited me and my parents for dinner and then to the piano concert" Skull explained as she looked disappointed

Kim had waited the whole week to go to the piano concert and now Skull would spoil the night.


Luckily for Kim, Skull behaved well when his parents were around.

"I apologize again for the incident during Kimberly´s birthday" Dr Hart told Mr and Mrs Skullovitch

"No problem Dr Hart, fortunately Eugene´s nose is healing and we have gotten rid of that barbarian guy" Mrs Skullovitch said

"Had I use my real force nothing would have been left of him, but I´m a gentleman" Skull commented

Kim felt sick when she heard the way they were talking about Tommy, but pretended to be sympathetic.

"Kimberly regretted having invited him, didn´t you honey?" Her father asked fixing his eyes on her

She just smiled, but said nothing.

"It´s okay sweetheart we have already forgotten about it" Dr Skullovitch told her sipping some wine

"Kimberly is working so hard for her piano exam, only the best marks are accepted at The Royal College of Music in London" Dr Hart showed off

"I have no doubt that she´ll do great" Skull sighed

"Neither do I" Dr Hart answered "What are your plans for the future Eugene?" Dr Hart asked him

"Yale University of course" Dr Skullovitch answered before Skull could swallow the piece of meat.

Kimberly had to take a sip of water to avoid laughing, ´Skull applying for Yale?, oh yeah I forgot his father´s got money´ She thought


After dinner they went to the theater, it was a bless that Skull slept most of the concert, so Kim did not have to listen to his ridiculous remarks.

Before they said goodbye Skull leaned forward to Kim "I think Clear blue day is a good name for the song" He whispered in her ear.


The following day at the English class Kimberly opened the book, in the first page before the prologue there were drawings of skulls and the word "Skullovers" was

written several times in letters of different shape and size, in the other side of the same page she read ´Clear blue day´. She hadn´t noticed it before, otherwise she

would have known it wasn´t her English book. She had a certain idea who might it belonged. But how did it end up in her handbag?


She remembered the first day of class, she was walking down the corridor together with Tommy and Billy when Skull came running from behind and hit her on the

right shoulder, her English book slipped from her hands and fell down together with Skull´s book. Tommy got really mad at him, he picked up both books and

confronted him, however neither Skull nor Bulk react at it, Skull just took the book, apologized and ran away. Which she found so weird.


Kim met Skull at his locker after class that afternoon

"Skull" She called him, Skull was wearing headphones so did not listen to her

"Skull!" She called again, "Skull!" She tried once more tapping on his shoulder

"Oh, Kimmie?" He sighed startled and took off the headphones.

"Finally" She sighed

"I´m sorry, were you saying something?" He asked

"I think it belongs to you" She said raising the English book

"Really?" He grabbed it and opened it. "Oh you´re right" he said and threw it inside his messy locker.

"Would you give me back mine?" She asked

"Sure" He said and started searching inside his locker "It has to be somewhere in here, I´m sure" he commented

He took out all kind of objects from his locker. "Would you?" He asked and handed her in a pair of stinky boats, some chains, a metallic skull, a bowling trophy,

sunglasses, a skate, more sunglasses, and a power ranger action figure.

Kim could not believe that all that stuff actually fit into one locker.

"Here it´s" He grabbed the book and turned to Kim. "I´m gonna miss it, I just had to read the underlined sentences" he said, she gave him back his stuff and took

the book.

"I think it belongs to you too" Kim sighed and handed him in the piece of paper.

"No, you keep it" He rejected the paper

"But it´s your poem" She said

"Actually is a song, you were doing well with the piano, even when it was originally written for electric guitar" He explained

"You play guitar?" She asked

"I do, and I also play piano, but not as well as you, of course" He answered, she was still surprised that Skull had actually a soul.

"No, no, it´s yours, you wrote it" she said and stretched her arm to him.

"Oh my God, was it you?" Kim asked

"What do you mean?" He asked

"The electric guitar on the loudspeakers the first day of class, it was you, right?" She queried

"Shh, it´s a secret" He said

"You should perform at the Prom" she suggested

"No, that´s a part of me that I´m not intending to share" He sighed with a hint of sadness.

"Why not?" She asked scowling

"Didn´t you listen to my father?, I´m going to Yale" He reminded her

"You should tell him that´s not what you want" She suggested

"Yeah, as you told your father you don´t wanna go to London" He retorted

"Who says I don´t want to go?" She asked

"Your face, when he mentioned it during the dinner" He answered

"My face had nothing to do with that, I was tired" She explained "It´s a completely different thing because I love music, it´s not my father´s dream, music is my

life" she remarked

"But not your whole life, have no doubt that you love it, but you don´t wanna go to the Royal College of Music in London, you know that" He stated

"How can you be so sure of that, you don´t know me as much as you think" Kim got mad and waked away taking the book and Skull´s song with her.


"Actually I knew you so well by the time, I wrote the song thinking of you" Skull sighed staring at her brown eyes that reflected the flames of the fireplace

"Luckily you did not follow my advice and became a lawyer after all" She said

"Why do you say so?" He asked

"If you had followed your dream maybe you wouldn´t have the kind of live you have today" She said

"No, but I would have been happy maybe" He sighed

"Aren´t you?" She asked him

"Look at me Kim, I´m thirty, divorced, I hardly see my son, I´m all alone in this big house" He sighed

"Well, I followed my dream and . . . I don´t know if I´m happy either" She said

"You haven´t forgotten him, have you?" He asked, she rubbed the pink gem hanging on her neck and remained in silence. He needn´t to hear the answer


Skull kissed her on the forehead goodnight and went to bed. Kimberly stayed up reading her diary and watching old photos.


There was a battle inside herself, on one side she wanted to go to London to pursuit her dream and on the other side she didn´t want to get apart from Tommy.

The part of herself that wanted to stay conspired against her unconsciously, she found it hard to concentrate on her lessons, she couldn´t sleep well at night, so was

so tired during the day. Dr Hart was harder on her than ever and got very irritated with the slightest mistake. Every night Kat heard her sister crying in her

bedroom. She was pushing herself so much, even when she was already brilliant, however for being admitted at The Royal College of Music brilliant wasn´t enough.


That night during dinner, Kat noticed that her parents were the only ones at the table,

"Where is Kim?" she asked

"Upstairs" Dr Hart answered bluntly, her mother was quiet looking down at her plate

"Has she had dinner already?" Kat asked

"No, and she wont come downstairs for tonight" Dr Hart stated

They remained silent for the rest of the dinner


"Okay sweetheart I believe you are the next, show them who you are" Kim´s father said and kissed her forehead

"Kim, play with your heart as always" That was her mother advice

"Good luck!" Kat sighed and before leaving arranged the bow in the back of Kim´s waist. She was wearing a long black silk dress and her hair tied up in a bun.

Mr and Mrs Hart walked away together with Kat leaving Kim alone.

"Hey beautiful" a familiar voice came from behind

"Tommy what are you doing here?" She sighed turning round

"I wanted to be here tonight for you" He said, she wrapped him into her arms tightly

"Thank you" She sighed

"Tommy you know that if I passed my exam I´ll be on a plane in a few days" She said

"It´s not going to be forever, we´ll write each other every week and when you come back I´ll be waiting for you" He said, she nodded yes

"Now go and show them what you`ve got" He said and kissed her


She walked into the big room, a brand concert piano waited for her in the center and a row of judges watched form one side. She stood in front of them and bowed,

then sat at the piano and performed her magic. When the examination was over they asked her to perform a piece of her choice, anything.

She surprised everyone with ¨Clear blue day¨


The following night at Jason´s apartment

"So it´s hard to go back to the routine, isn´t it?" Jason asked as he took some Chinese food from the fridge

"Yeah it´s" Tommy answered eating the Chinese food Jason handed him in

"Well, I was trying to make some conversation, but I don´t see it´s working" Jason said

"I´m sorry buddy it´s not you, it´s just that, um,. . . " Tommy said

"Things are not working between you and Kim?" Jason asked

"No, it´s not that, actually things are working well, but she´s attending the conservatory next year and I . . . " Tommy trailed off when the doorbell rang

Both looked at each other as they weren´t expecting visitors

Jason picked up the tube of the electric doorman system "Hello" he said

"Kat?" He sighed and looked at his friend who shrugged


"Hi guys, I hope you don´t mind that I haven´t told you it was a last minute idea" She apologized as she came in

"It´s okay you are welcome whenever you want" Jason said "Chinese food?" He offered her

"No thanks, I told my father you would help me with my science project" She told Jason

"My pleasure" Jason said

"But don´t worry, I actually came to get his help" She pointed out to Tommy, the smile of Jason´s face vanished

"You know the Prom Ball is coming and if my notes keep going down my father wont let me go" She said as she took a seat beside Tommy

Tommy placed his books onto the table. "Did Kim received the letter from the Academy?" Tommy asked her

"Not yet" Kat answered

"Tommy this isn´t the science book, it´s your English book" Kat said as she opened it, but he did not listen.

The doorbell rang again and all of them looked at each other.

"Hello?" Jason spoke through the electric doorman system

"Dad? What are you doing here?" He asked, Tommy could see that Jason´s face expression changed radically. Meanwhile Kat glanced through Tommy English´s

book. She recognized her sister handwriting on the pages accepting Tommy´s invitation to the Ball. She blushed and wanted to leave at once but Jason´s family had

arrived.

Jason´s father walked in followed by his wife and son, Jason´s younger half brother. Mr Scott handled a long wooden stick, but certainly he needn´t it, he was a

man on his late fifties and was dressed up in a formal suit.

"Good night, why are so surprised to see me? Can your father come to visit you in your birthday?" Mr Scott asked

"Your birthday?" Tommy asked

"It´s tomorrow" Jason answered

"Hi Jase!" His brother hive fived him

"Hi Jason you have a lovely little place" Mrs Scott said, she was an stylish and elegant young woman in her middle thirties

"I have an idea, why don´t we go out for dinner" Mr Scott said "Your friend and his beautiful girlfriend are invited too" He added

"She is not my gir . . . " Tommy sighed and got interrupted by Jason

"Dad we already had dinner" Jason said

"This is what you call dinner son, come on" Mr Scott sighed


Jason, his family, Tommy and Kat went to an exclusive restaurant of Angel Grove

"So you are the famous Judge Scott I read about the case you are currently handling, it´s in all newspaper´s cover" Tommy commented

"Yes well, I´m not allowed to talk about the cases outside the court" Dr Scott said

"Oh yes I know, I just didn´t figure out you were my best friend´s father" Tommy sighed

"Well, now you know, but tell me about you, what do you do for a living?" Sr Scott queried

He told him about his job at Ernie´s as a waiter and Mr Scott did not seem to be alarmed by that fact, instead he made a positive remark on his concern about

future.

"I hope you have enjoyed the family cottage at the mountain" Dr Scott said

"Oh I didn´t know it was the family cottage, it´s a nice place, we had a very good time" Tommy commented noticing Jason was pissed off with that comment

"You´ve been at the cottage too? I thought you had a summer job?" Kat said looking also pissed off

"Yes, but I was pretty near to the cottage" Tommy answered, he realized about his mistake a little too late.

Dr Scott took them out from that uncomfortable conversation and insisted about buying a bigger apartment in town, but Jason rejected all kind of help from his

father.

When the dinner was over and they went back home Jason asked Tommy and Kat not to say a word about who his father was.


Kat came into Kim´s bedroom in anger

"Why didn´t you tell me Tommy went to the mountains with you?" Kat asked

Kim was speechless, her eyes were red and wet.

"I didn´t know he was going too" Kim just said

"I encouraged you to go to get closer to Jason, what a stupid" Kat stated

"I told you I was planning to go to the ball with Tommy, but you just didn´t care" Kat continued "At least you should have told me that he had already asked you

before I played the lovesick school girl"

"I´m sick of you playing the innocent and sweet girl that everyone loves, when you´re nothing but a traitor" Kat said

"Come on say something" Kat asked

"I´m not going to the Ball with Tommy" Kim said

"It does not change anything, go with him if you want, what is done is done" Kat said

"No, I mean, I´m not going at all" Kim cleared up "I received the letter from London, I´m flying next Thursday" She said

"Are you missing the prom?" Kat asked surprised

"No, just the Ball" Kim answered

"So this argument is pointless, you can go with Tommy if you like, I´m sorry if I hurt you" Kim sobbed.

"You don´t get it, I´m tired of being your replacement. Too late for apologies sister" Kat said an slammed the door


At Angel Grove High School

After Mr Kaplan´s speech finished he started calling each students to the stage, the first one was Billy Cranston, who graduated with honors, second highest

point average was Tommy´s and the third belonged to Trini Qwan.

After the ceremony students decided to go out to celebrate together, Skull suggested the youth center, merely to humiliate Tommy who had to work there.

Although Ernie had told Tommy to take the night off, he had decided to work.

Justin and Tanya had talked to Kat into going, after all it was her sister prom.

"Everything is on my own tonight so feel free to ask Tommy anything you want" Skull announced

"Come on Kimmie let´s get crazy tonight" Skull pulled Kim close to him, she pulled him apart and walked to the counter where Tommy was.

"Hey come with me" Tommy told her. He asked Richie to replace him at the counter for a while and went upstairs with Kim.


Tommy unlocked the door at the end of the stairs and asked Kim to come in

It was Ernie´s attic , there was a lot of boxes and stuff, in the middle there was a sofa and a wooden table.

"Ernie allows me to stay here some nights when I have to close the place" Tommy said

"It doesn´t look like but it´s very comfortable" Tommy said pointing at the old sofa

He walked closer to her and took a lock of her hair.

"I can´t believe you´re actually leaving tomorrow" He sighed downcast

"Don´t start crying, because you´ll make me start crying" Kim said and her eyes turned wet

"Are you gonna forget about me?" He asked

"Do you really think that could ever happen?" She asked staring into his brown eyes

"I don´t know, I mean . . . " He mumbled

"What?" Kim asked

"You are gonna meet lot of new people with same interest like you, and four years is a long time" He said

"I´m gonna love you forever, Tommy Oliver" She whispered and kissed him

He kissed her back and placed his hands on her waist. He deepened the kiss

Without pulling apart they walked over to the table, he helped Kim up onto the table and got into the middle of her legs wide opened.

"Tommy, Tommy . . ." She sighed as he went down her neck, he stopped and look into her eyes

"Tommy I never . . . " She whispered

"Do you want me to stop?" He asked and she nodded no

"Don´t worry beautiful I´m taking care of you" He whispered and kissed her

He unbuttoned his green shirt and then took her pink tank top off. Tommy´s lips went across Kim´s smooth skin as she moaned.

She helped him to take off his shirt as he unbuttoned her bra and rubbed her breast gently with both hands, while his tongue dug into Kim´s mouth.

Kim wrapped up Tommy´s waist with her legs and he pulled her body closer to his chest. He could feel her heart beating side by side with his, that was the most

beautiful feeling he had ever felt. He wished this moment to last forever. He picked her up and carried her towards the sofa where both laid down.

Tommy had to unbuttoned his trousers before he continued. He laid on top of her kissing her stomach

"Oh Tommy . . . " She moaned, she was getting hot.

He ran his hand along Kim´s smooth legs, which turned him on, "I love you" he whispered in her ear and the following second he was inside of her, he moved gently

"Tommy I love you" she moaned.

He could not let her go now, it was going to be hard to say goodbye henceforth.


To be continued . . .

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