Chapter 6.

As Tommy walked up the stair, he suddenly stepped on something hard and he jumped, and then fell down three or four steps before regaining his balance. He looked upwards and noticed a doll lying in the stair. He sighed. He would have to get used to this things lying around if they got a girl he thought, and even if they would get a boy, there would still be toys lying around everywhere in the house. He continued to walk up the stair, his foot a bit sore still. He walked into Kelly and the girls' room, tossing the toy inside. He looked around in the room, and then he looked around in the living room. No other toys. He found this a bit weird, if Ella or Sarah had been playing with that toy, why just a single toy, and why was it lying in the middle of the stair. Tommy sighed, shrugged his shoulders and got into the shower. He turned on the hot water, soaking his body. He let his mind wander off, remembering when he and Kris were together for the first time. It was another lifetime.


"Come on, just ask her out, what is the worst thing that could happen?" Rick Carter said, shoving Tommy towards the blonde woman standing on the other side of the hallway, holding a pair of books towards her chest, talking to some friends of hers. She had gotten her braces off just a few days ago, and now she was constantly smiling. As she stood there talking to her friends, one of her hands went up into the hair, twirling it around her finger. Tommy could feel his heart beating faster, she was so beautiful, and he just wanted to grab her by her waist and kiss her right here on the spot.

The hard push from Rick Carter made him wake up from his daydreaming and he looked back at him, mad.

"Stop it, I'm not going to ask her out."

"Yes you are, you've been looking at her for weeks now."

"So has every other man in this school too. I mean, come on, look at her!" Tommy drooled, looking her up and down, swaying slightly on his feet as he got to her chest area. Oh teen boys.

"Why would she say no to you? Come on man, have some self-esteem. You're a quarterback for God's sake. And If you're not asking her out, I will." Rick smiled, taking a step forward. Tommy put his hand hard on Rick's chest.

"You wouldn't dare."

"Then you do it!"

Tommy took a deep breath, then walked up to the girl. She looked over at him when he came, and now it was her time to look him up and down, stopping slightly at the chest. He was only wearing a white shirt and you could see a well trained body underneath it. Oh teen girls.

"Hi." Tommy said, not even bothering the other girls who were giggling, taking a few steps back.

"Hi." The girl answered, twirling her hair faster now when she got nervous.

"Eh… You're Kristine, right?"

"Kris, yes."

"I'm Tommy."

"I know." Kris smiled gently at him.

"You do?"

"You're the quarterback in the school team." She smiled, and he stretched his back proudly.

"Yes I am."

"And we sit almost next to each other in Biology."

Tommy's face turned pale. Oh gosh. Yes. They had had several classes together; they had even been lab partners from time to time. Of course she knew his name. `How stupid of me!´

"Oh, eh, hum… Yeah, t-that's true." Tommy stuttered.

Kris smiled pleased, big sister Jill had thought her a lot about how to get men to lose their threads and she had succeeded.

"Did you want anything?" She asked.

"I, eh… No. Well, yes. I wonder if… no…"

"Wonder if I would do what?"

Tommy looked up at her, staring straight into her eyes. `Kiss me, touch me, marry me, have my babies?!´ Tommy's mind was running around frantically in circles, it gave him a headache and it was hard to concentrate. The giggling from the other girls behind him, and the well too pleased smile on Kris' face made him feel dizzy. `Just get it out!!!´ His mind screamed, and he blurted it out in one breath.

"Accompany me to the school dance?"

Kris looked at him, then smiled. Not the same, pleased smile as before. This smile was happy, and it was gentle.

"I would love to."

Tommy's jaw dropped, and now there were a thousand trumpets and drums playing in his head. `Did she just say yes?´

"Pick me up at seven?"

Tommy nodded, then gave her a short smile before he walked back to Rick, who was just staring at him, and the two of them hurried outside, where the rest of their gang was.

"Guys, guess who Tommy just asked to go with him to the school dance?" Rick laughed.

"No way!" The gang began shouting. "Not Munroe, huh?!"

"Yes!" Tommy smiled proudly. "Kris Munroe is accompanying me to the school dance."

The following second, they heard the sound of girls giggling to the edge of hysterical laughter, and when Tommy turned around, Kris and her girlfriends had walked right behind him when he'd made the statement. Tommy felt like sinking through the ground, rise to his feet in China and never return to his homeland. He would never have a chance on a girl like her.


When the hot water suddenly turned cold, Tommy came back from the collage time and tossed himself out of the shower. How long had he been there? Could the water have turned cold that fast? He reached in his hand, realizing that it was hot and nice. He stepped back in, a confused look on his face as he poured some shampoo in his hair. Just as he begun washing it out, the water turned freezing cold again, and for the second time, he tossed himself out of the shower, almost slipping on the now wet tile. He reached in his hand again into the shower, finding it hot and jumped in. He quickly showered out the shampoo, and the second it was out, the water turned freezing again, and he jumped out, and this time he didn't have the same luck with the wet floor. He fell on the floor and hit his head towards the sink.


Kelly was in the kitchen downstairs, playing with the sink faucet. She knew very well that Tommy was in the shower, and she couldn't help herself. When she suddenly heard a loud crash from upstairs, she immediately turned it off and ran upstairs. She knocked the door to the bathroom.

"Tommy? I heard a crash, are you alright?"

"Just… give me a minute…" Tommy said, and Kelly swallowed hard. She was just toying around with him, wanting to make sure he could handle a little stress and practical jokes. Whoever wanted to marry her best friend had to prove himself first. and she had a lot of tests planned for him.

The door opened to the bathroom, and Kelly looked with wide eyes how Tommy walked out of the bathroom, wearing a bathrobe. He held a towel against the side of his head, and there was pouring out blood.

"Jeez, what happened?"

"I slipped when I got out of the shower and I hit the head in the edge of the sink." Tommy said.

"Come on, let's get you downstairs, I'm sure Bri has a first aid kit somewhere." Kelly said, offering to help Tommy downstairs, but he pushed her gently away.

"I'm okay Kelly, it's just bleeding a lot, heads do that." He said, making his way downstairs by himself.

Kelly nodded, and decided to take a look at it before she called an ambulance. Maybe he didn't need one. Tommy sat down in the kitchen, leaning his head to the side and pressed the towel against it, as Kelly walked out to the front door. The big gang was out in the garden.

"Ladies, a minute." Kelly said them, and Bri, Jill and Kris followed her inside as Bosley and Anton stayed out with the kids. As they got into the kitchen, Kris gasped and hurried towards her man.

"Oh my God, what happened?!"

"I slipped on the wet tile." Tommy said softly. "Don't worry, it's not as bad as it looks."

"Bri, do you have a first aid kit?" Kelly asked, and Sabrina nodded and disappeared, entering a few seconds later with a kit in her hands.

Kris removed the towel from Tommy's head, giving it to Sabrina who handed her a new, clean one. Kris washed the gash on his head, studying it before putting a compress towards it.

"It's not deep." She said, relieved.

Sabrina looked at Kelly, who was leaning towards the sink, holding it tight with her hands, face slightly pale. As Kris said it was not deep, Sabrina noticed her exhaling. Sabrina looked from Kelly to Tommy.

"What happened really? You just slipped?"

"Well, yeah, I think there's something wrong with your hot water though, it kept turning itself off, so it was hot, cold, hot, cold and so on, and I jumped out of the shower every time it got cold and the last time I just slipped, hit the head on the sink."

Sabrina nodded, then looked back at Kelly. Oh, they so needed to have a talk.