Chapter 10: Kimberly's back

"So Kim, where's Jason?" Tommy asked.

"Oh, he'll be here soon. He was auditioning for a motorcycle ad and told me to go without him," Kimberly answered flipping her blonde hair and fixing her pink dress.

"That's the Jason I remember."

"So Tommy, how have you been?"

"Great, just great-now that your here." They laughed and Evelyn took off the Dino bracelet, set it down on Tommy's kitchen counter, and ran out the front door.

She made sure no one was able to see her and her eyes became blurry. Tears were slowly falling from her face, but she didn't react to them. Instead, all she focused on was getting home and waking up from this nightmare of reality.

"I can't believe he would do this to me. He invited that skank."

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"So, what's it like in Florida?"

"Hot and stormy." They laughed like old times. "But it's nice. I really missed Tommy."

"I missed you too, but you know what, you and Jason will make each other happy."

"Yeah, I guess we will. So, how are you dealing with teaching?"

"It reminds me how we use to be, but other than that I enjoy it. I like teaching, especially since she has helped me a lot."

"She who?" Kimberly furrowed her eyebrows.

"Oh, this new teacher came in several days ago and the students are attracted to her."

"So, she's been a big help to you?"

"Yeah, come on I'll introduce her to you." They walked back inside and Tommy looked around for Evelyn. Then Hayley came from upstairs and Tommy questioned her.

"Hal, do you know where Evelyn went?"

"The last time I saw her, she said she was going to talk to you about something."

"Those were her exact words?"

"Not exactly, but she just needed to talk to you about something."

"Oh, Hal this is Kim." They shook hands and Hal continued what she was doing. Tommy sighed and walked into his living room and saw his four couch potato students blinded by the television set.

"Conner? Kira? Ethan? Trent?" Tommy asked politely, before shutting off the tv.

"Dr. O, I think we were watching that."

"How come you guys are not home yet?"

"Hayley said you were going to take us."

"Oh Christ!" Then Tommy remembered that he left his jeep at Evelyn's house when she showed him the place where the gem was. Tommy rushed into the kitchen with Kim and ran his fingers in his hair. Kim rubbed his shoulder.

"Tommy calm down, you probably had a tiring day."

"You can say that again." Kim saw Tommy staring at her, but actually he was staring at the bracelet he gave Evelyn that apparently she left on his kitchen counter. "Kim, I'll be back." Tommy left out the front door as Kim chased after him.

"Tommy, where are you going?"

"Stay here," he said sternly and ran through the forest. He was probably half way inside the woods and decided to walk. He was headed toward her house and was going to kill her for leaving her morpher on his counter. At that moment, there came his jeep with Evelyn driving it. She stopped in front of him and got out the car.

"I thought you might want this," she referred to the car.

"Why did you leave this on my kitchen counter?" He held up the purple bracelet and she sighed.

"I thought you were going to add something to it." She lied. He knew she was lying to him, but he couldn't tell why. He didn't want to press the matter further, because they were both tired and needed some rest. Although, he noticed that her eyes were slightly puffy and red.

"Have you been-?"

"No," She lied again, but this time she responded before he finished the question.

"You didn't give me a chance to finish my question!"

"Because, I knew what you were going to ask me!" Tommy was shocked, he never heard her yell before especially not in this way. He didn't know what he did wrong that made her feel so despicable about his presence here. She looked down, surprised that she practically shouted in his face.

"Eve, look at me."

"Don't call me that."

"Wait a second; about twenty minutes ago you didn't mind that I call you Eve. Now you complain that you don't want to be called by that name. I'm pretty sure many men that you've hated in the past called you Eve."

"You know what Tommy this is getting us nowhere, so if you please take your jeep and go."

"Not until you tell me what is going on." Tommy walked closer to her and was looking down at her.

"What do you mean what's going on?" She fired back.

"All of sudden you don't mind that I call you something, now you can't stand to be near me." She stepped back and he was hurt when she did that.

"I can't take this responsibility, I can't."

"Yes you can, take the bracelet Eve." He held the bracelet in front of her and she took another step back.

"I don't want it."

"It's yours."

"I don't want it! God damn it Tommy, just leave me alone okay." She started to head back before he grabbed her arm and pulled her against his body. She struggled against him, but stopped restlessly. "What do you want from me, Tommy?"

"I want to know what your problem is."

"Oh, so now I have a problem?"

"Yes and the issue deals with me, doesn't it?" She stood quiet and tried to avoid his eyes. "You want to know what I'm just going to say it, I love you." She looked at him and he did the same and all that she could think of what she wanted to do at this moment was to kiss him. They gazed into one another's eyes before Tommy claimed her lips. She wrapped her arms around his neck and played through his short hair. He wrapped his arms around her waist and was kissing her from her nose to her collarbone.

They shared a few gentle kisses that turned into hot and passionate ones. Then she roughly, but gently pushed his back to the Jeep and he grabbed her leg and place it on his hip. They broke the kiss very slowly and Tommy whispered, "I'm sorry for what I said."

"Me too." She nuzzled her nose with his before adding," I love you too.

I am now called ZGemini23. I think it was time to chage my username. OMG KIM IS BACK! WHAT WILL EVELYN DO?