Memories: The Beginning
Chapter Seven: Scheme
By angellwings
"Guys, seriously, this isn't working. Me being in Peace Haven and you guys in Angel Grove. I feel like I'm not doing any one any good all the way over here." Maurhee said over her communicator while hiding out of sight in her closet, "We need to find a way to make me a permanent Angel Grove resident."
"Well, you're an artist right?" Kim asked, "We've got an awesome art program. Maybe you'll parents will let you transfer for that."
Maurhee scoffed at that idea, "A good art program is not enough, and neither is anything that has to do with Martial Arts. To convince my mom it would have to be something about volleyball."
"You play volleyball too?" Jason asked, "Isn't that a little much?"
"Please, this from the guy who does martial arts, plays football, basketball, AND fights intergalactic crime on the side? I think we're all over achievers here." She said with a chuckle.
"Our volleyball team is very good as well. Conference Champions two years in a row." Trini informed her, "We could use another good player though."
"Are you on the team?" Maurhee asked.
"Yes, it's really the only game I'm good at." Trini announced with a light laugh.
"Okay, so the two of those things put together might work with my parents."
"And you could stay with my family." Tommy told her, "You know your parents adore my parents."
"Yeah, but for that angle to work I'd need to play the 'tired of being in this huge house alone' card, and then your parents would have to call mine." She said thoughtfully.
"We can pull that off." Tommy said excitedly, "Trust me."
"Wait, huge house? Alone? Do your parents travel a lot or something?" Zack asked.
"Something like that, ever heard of Peterson Office Organizer version 6.0?" She asked.
"I have; it's an excellent program." Came Billy's voice.
"Yeah, well, they invented it." She said with a sigh, "I love them to death, but they're always on some sort of business trip. I have a better relationship with their car phones than with them."
"Your parents are the Peterson software moguls? Geez, you must be like super rich." Kim added in awe.
"Not by choice." Maurhee grumbled, "It's definitely not all it's cracked up to be."
"Look, just call your parents and tell them you don't like being by yourself so much and then call me and we'll 'talk' about it on the phone when my parents are around. They'll offer to let you come stay with us. Trust me. They love you. Almost more than me." Tommy told her with determination.
"Okay, we'll try that, but if that doesn't work then what'll we do?" She asked.
"It will work." Tommy said again.
"Yeah, we'll even be there when you call to play it up." Zack announced, "You know make it sound even more dramatic."
She heard her name being called from down the hallway, "Guys I gotta go. Mom's coming. See you guys later."
She stopped communication and quickly scrambled out of her closet and pulled out a magazine before launching herself onto her mattress in order to look relaxed.
"Darling, how was school this week?" Her mother asked as she entered the room and sat down on her bed beside her.
"Normal, but for goodness sake mom…I'm beginning to feel like I'm attending boarding school or something. Actually this is worse than boarding school because I spend a majority of the time alone in this house, and, really, could you and dad have built this thing any bigger? It's kind of creepy."
"I'm sorry, dear, really I am, but you know your father and I have to go to these things."
"I know…it's just sometimes I think these things would be easier if I had a brother or something. Just someone to be here with me you know?" She said hoping that she was planting the seeds for the Olivers to water.
The next day she called Tommy to "vent" about her situation while the rest of the gang was there to sympathize. After school the next day she rushed home to get ready for Volleyball practice, and was stopped from heading back out the door by her parents.
"Maurhee, we need to talk to you." Her father told her.
"Now? I'm late for practice." She whined.
"We won't to propose a possible plan to you." He continued.
"What kind of plan?"
"The Olivers have offered to let you stay with them in Angel Grove. Now…before you object, let's think about this. You won't be alone in this house anymore, Angel Grove has one of the best Volleyball teams in the state, and I've heard their art department is very capable as well." Her father told her in a businesslike manner, "It won't be for very long just until you get out of high school."
"This way it's like you have that brother you told me about, sweetheart." Her mother told her softly.
She hid a grin and "reluctantly" agreed to move in with the Olivers. Their evil plan had worked. She almost felt guilty. Almost. Because the truth was…she really was lonely in that monstrous house, and it's not like she had a TON of friends here. She had more friends in Angel Grove than she did in Peace Haven anyway.
She was moving to Angel Grove, and she was a Power Ranger…all before graduation.
Life really was full of surprises.
Ta da! The Rangers evil plot succeeded! Maurhee is moving to Angel Grove! And now for more action!
Enjoy!
Angellwings
p.s. I've been posting deleted scenes from this trilogy on my Live Journal and on PR United Forums. I will not be posting them on here. These are LJ and PRU exclusives. So if you want to read them head over to one of those places and look me up. (The link to my LJ is in my profile)