How Could You?

Andros and TJ made their way to TJ's room and the blue ranger went straight to his closet.

'I have some red stuff still left here but they might be a bit big for you,' TJ told Andros.

'I'll be fine with them, thanks,' Andros told him.

'So you serious about Ashley huh?' TJ asked suddenly.

'Umm… yeah I think I am,' Andros told TJ while smiling at himself. 'I mean she is amazing and gorgeous. She's special you know,' Andros told TJ and the blue ranger found himself smiling.

'You're good for her. I've known Ashley since we were both eight and I've never seen her so happy with a guy like she is with you,' TJ said to Andros honestly. Andros began to blush deeply as TJ said this. The blue ranger watched his friend and began to laugh. 'Here,' he said after he finished laughing and handed a red long sleeved top and blue jeans.

'Thanks. I'm going to go change then I'll meet you at the bridge in ten minutes OK?' he said and walked away. Andros walked towards his room when someone's hand stopped him. 'Cassie?' he questioned.

'I'm sorry to get in your way I just wanted to come and apologize for everything I've done to you and don't worry I'll go apologize to Ashley too. I just hope we can be good friends,' Cassie told Andros. Andros stared at Cassie in shock and confusion but soon was able to speak.

'It's OK. I'd really like being friends with you Cassie,' he said and went to give her a hug. Just then Ashley came through the hall.

'Cassie,' she said and watched as the red and pink rangers come apart.

'Hey Ash. I was just telling Andros how I am really sorry for what I did to you and I see how happy you two are together,' she told her friend. Ashley began to tear up as she gave Cassie a big hug.

'You're forgiven. I missed you so much Cass. Its great to have my best friend back,' Ashley screamed. Ashley broke the hug when Andros tapped her shoulder.

'Talk with me later?' he asked her and she knew what was coming. She shook her head yes and gave Cassie a smile. Andros began to walk away so he can change when he suddenly turned around. 'Oh and umm Cassie… I meant what I said it would be really good to be friends with you but you have to promise me something,' he told her.

'Shoot!' Cassie said and Andros saw the look of confusion on both girls.

'Please…' he began. 'Can you please lay off the kissing…' he said and caused both girls to laugh. 'I mean it is kind off Ashley's job!' he said and Ashley stopped laughing. Andros saw the look in Ashley's eyes and began running. Ashley laughed as he ran off and turned to look at her best friend.

'You two are great together. I haven't seen you smile like that in so long,' Cassie told her best friend.

'Yeah. We're good,' Ashley said before walking off with Cassie on their way to the bridge. * Maybe he's different. Maybe Andros is the one. * She thought as they entered the room. She sat on Andros' chair and looked at Earth from where she was. She was happy. She would see her friends, her school and her family. Everything was perfect.

****

TJ, Cassie, Ashley and Trey had all been gathered in the bridge when Andros came in. He wore a red t-shirt that came up to his thighs. He then had blue jeans and black and red trainers.

'Dude you look awesome!' TJ exclaimed.

'Thanks man,' Andros told his friend as they came to a one-arm hug.

'How can you come to Earth for the first time and look better than me!' TJ said and caused the rest of the team to laugh.

'You look nice Andros,' Cassie said innocently.

'Thank you Cassie,' he said as he moved to his place in the bridge. 'Ashley can you please move from my chair?' he asked the yellow ranger nicely. Ashley stared at the man standing before him and was speechless. Ashley always thought Ashley looked great in his uniform but now seeing him like this she thought he was amazing.

'She can't speak cause you look too fly for her eyes,' TJ screamed from the corner and received a play full punch from Cassie. 'Ow!' he said and the laughs that came from Trey, Cassie and Andros caused Ashley to snap back to reality.

'You like what he's wearing Ashley?' Cassie asked with an amused tone to her voice. Ashley gave her best friend an evil look before answering the question.

'Umm… yeah he looks alright.' She said simply.

'Just alright?' Andros asked her trying to sound hurt.

'Yeah, just alright,' she told him and Andros gave her a pout. Andros looked at her with a look that told Ashley he was going to do something. Andros smiled at Ashley before leaning down to pick her up from the chair and putting her up on his shoulder. Ashley's screams caused all the rangers to laugh. Even Trey was laughing at his "girlfriend's" screams.

'ANDROS PLEASE PUT ME DOWN!! PLEASE!' she said in between his screams.

'Answer Cassie's question first. How do I look?' he asked her and Ashley knew he was smiling,

'YOU… LOOK… GREAT AND AMAZING!' she screamed and Andros smiled in victory before putting Ashley down. As soon as Ashley was down she went to hit Andros but he caught her arm and swing her into a hug. Ashley stood there for a second before hugging him back.

'Stripy!' Trey yelled as he got up and tore Ashley away from Andros. 'I told you to stay away from her and I meant it. She is my girl and not yours,' he said and forced Ashley to kiss him. Andros felt as if someone had taken his heart away from him. Ashley pushed Trey away from him and wiped her lips.

'Come on, lets get down there. There all probably waiting for us,' TJ said.

'Yeah lets go,' Cassie said in joy. They all stood there together waiting for Andros to say the words.

'Deca, teleport five to Earth,' he said and glanced a look at Ashley before they disappeared.

****

The rangers reached to Earth to find Justin, Aden, Mark and Jase waiting there for them. Ashley ran straight to her brother and gave him a hug.

'Hey!' she exclaimed as she pulled away from him.

'Hey to you too,' he said. 'You go off in space and when you come back all you can say to me is "hey". You haven't changed a bit Ash,' he said as he looked at his little sister. Cassie and TJ went to hug Justin as Jase went to give a quick handshake to Trey while Ashley moved to hug Mark.

'Who's this?' Aden asked shortly after. Ashley turned at that second and moved to Andros.

'This is Andros,' Ashley said and Aden saw how her sister smiled as she said his name. 'Andros let us stay in his ship when we crashed on a planet,' she told her brother then turned to face Andros. 'Andros, this is my brother Aden,' she told the red ranger and he shook hands with her brother.

'Nice to meet you man!' Aden said and smiled. Trey watched this and got angry. * When he met me he didn't even want to look at me. Now he's there being best buddies with stripy. I don't believe it! * he thought. He watched as the rest of the team moved to meet Andros.

'This is Justin,' Ashley continued introducing. 'He was the blue ranger for our team. He's like a brother to me I guess,' she said.

'He might be but not as great as me right?' Aden asked as he messed with Justin's hair. The group laughed at the two an Justin fixed his hair.

'When you're done with interrupting me ADEN!,' Ashley began and Andros couldn't help but smile at how she yelled at her brother but a sad feeling was with him as he wondered if this was how he and Karone would've turned out. Ashley turned to look at him and immediately saw the sadness in his eyes. He smiled at her and she began to continue. 'Anyway that over there is Jase,' she said as she pointed to the guy standing next to Trey. 'He is Trey's best friend and went to my school when we were younger,' she continued and Jase came to give a one-arm hug to Andros. Andros returned it and smiled at Jase. 'Finally, that's Mark,' she continued and motioned the boy standing next to Cassie. 'He is Cassie's ex – boyfriend an now is just a good friend of ours.' Ashley told Andros and the red leader went to shake Mark's hand.

'Well now you're done with your introductions and that. Mom is making pancakes and wants us there in ten minutes,' Aden said.

'So you let us stand here for all this time while your mum was making PANCAKES? Is there something wrong with you Aden?' TJ screamed.

'I didn't have to say anything. I would've left you find somewhere else to eat and tell my mum you weren't interested you know?' Aden said to TJ as the group walked towards Ashley's house. As they were laughing Ashley stopped Andros and let the group move forward before making Andros face her.

'What's wrong?' she asked him.

'Nothing's wrong Ashley. Lets go eat umm…' he began.

'Pancakes,' she finished for him. 'Your lying to me, I saw it in your eyes. Please tell me what's wrong,' Ashley asked him as she moved closer to him.

'Ashley…' he said and sighed. Andros watched the girl in front of him and leaned in to kiss her. She returned the kiss with the same passion and she pulled back to early for his liking.

'Tell me then. What is it?' she asked him. Andros looked at her and gave her a kiss on her forehead.

'Remember the talk we were going to have?' he asked her.

'Yeah,' she told her.

'When we have that talk I promise I'll tell you OK?' he told her.

'You promise?' she asked him.

'I promise,' he told her before kissing her forehead again.

'Hey! Happy couple lets go!' Cassie yelled to the two rangers. Ashley and Andros pulled back and ran to catch up with the pink ranger.

'Where's everyone else?' Andros asked.

'They went. I noticed that you two were gone and I told the rest of the guys I would catch up with them so lets go before Trey shows up,' she said and Ashley groaned.

'Cheer up! I'll sit next you if it makes you feel better,' Andros told Ashley sweetly and she groaned louder. Andros gave her a hurt look before moving to kiss Andros' cheek.

'Only joking. Come on,' Ashley said while grabbing Andros' arm. Cassie watched the two and let then followed closely behind them.

****

The rest of the group had already got to Ashley's house when Ashley, Andros and Cassie came in.

'Where were you?' Aden asked.

'Can I have my pancakes now?' TJ asked Ashley's mum and she gave a nod. All the boys apart from Aden ran to the kitchen to get their pancakes.

'Hello,' a woman said to Andros and he gave her a handshake. 'You are?' she asked him and Andros didn't know what to say. Ashley noticed this at once and said,

'This is Andros. He's our red ranger. He's really great!' Ashley said and Andros began to blush.

'It's nice to meet you Mrs. Hammond,' he said politely.

'Pleasures mine and please call me Anna,' she said. Just then middle-aged man walked in the room.

'Andrew, what you doing home?' Anna asked her.

'Oh I'm going to do some work here at home,' he said as he went to kiss his wife's cheek. 'Oh…' he said when he saw Andros. 'Ashley, this your new boyfriend?' he asked his daughter and Ashley blushed a deep red.

'Dad!' Ashley yelled. 'This is Andros our team leader!' she said to her dad.

'So you're not denying that he's your boyfriend?' Aden said joining he's dad's game.

'Will you two leave them alone look at how they're both blushing,' Anna said and began to laugh as they all made their way to the dining room. Ashley sat down and Andros went to sit next to her and TJ. Ashley gave him a smile before passing him a plate. Andros looked at what was on the plate and gave a disgusted look.

'It's a pancake. Try it,' Ashley told him and he turned to look at her. ' I promise it's good. Trust me,' she told him and after she said that he immediately took the pancake and ate it. * He trusts me * Ashley thought with a smile.

'It's good to have a break with all the drama that's been going on,' Cassie said and wished she had kept her mouth shut. She knew Aden or Andrew would ask what happened.

'What drama?' Andrew asked.

'Nothing dude,' TJ said.

'Don't lie to me man. What happened?' Aden asked. Ashley saw her brother begin to anger up. Cassie looked at Ashley and when Aden saw them he knew it had something to do with Ashley. 'Ashley what happened?' he asked his sister. Ashley saw her brother go into over protective mode and looked at her mum begging her to stop him. Andros looked at Ashley and saw the embarrassed look on her face. 'You!' Aden screamed at Trey. 'What did you do?' he asked and got up from his seat.

'Aden! Come down!' Anna screamed at her son. 'We have guests don't be so disrespectful,' she told her son.

'It's OK Mrs. Hammond,' Andros spoke. 'I'll tell him,' he said and Aden came to sit opposite Andros. Ashley put her hand on Andros' shoulder and he turned to look at her. He gave her a look saying he was OK and turned to face Aden. 'When the rangers came to the ship they all helped me in some way but Ashley helped me and broke down walls I had build a long time. Trey saw how I got close to Ashley and got angry. He attacked me and me and Ashley's friendship grew closer. We became really good friends and we got really close when she broke up with Trey. Me and Trey agreed to fight for his morpher but he wanted Ashley if he lost. I didn't want to agree but Ashley agreed to it. Trey cheated and messed with my morpher. When he morphed he attacked me broke a couple of ribs and had lost consciousness and now Ashley is forced to be with Trey,' Andros said and Ashley squeezed his hand.

'HE DID WHAT?' Aden screamed.

'Aden calm down,' Anna said even though she felt herself anger up.

'No he shouldn't calm down Anna. This boy has caused my daughter pain and now he's FORCING her to be with her!' Andrew yelled from across the room. Ashley began to cry and Andros put his hand round Ashley. No one missed how she stopped crying as soon as she was in Andros' arms.

'I warned you Trey. I warned you if you ever hurt my sister I would re-arrange your face. You will pay!' Aden screamed as he grabbed Trey and pushed him towards the front door. Andros watched how Ashley's parents and brother protected her. The rest of the table made their way outside and the only two people left in the room were Andros and Ashley.

'I should help your brother!' Andros said suddenly.

'Andros you can't you just got back from nearly the attack and you want to go fight some more! Why would you do that?!' Ashley screamed at him as he began to make his way outside.

'Because… I LOVE YOU! I love you Ashley Hammond,' Andros said as he left the house. Ashley sat there in silent. * He loves me * she thought. She got herself off the table and began running when she heard,

'ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!'


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