Disclaimer: While I don't own the overall concept of Power Rangers, Zords, and all else that goes with it, I, along with the friends that are involved with the story, do own Power Rangers Literati itself and its components.

Author's Note; All the chapters of this serving of "Alphabet Soup" were written before the first chapter was ever posted, meaning that certain characters would only be gotten to eventually, including one that I've recieved reviews and requests for. Now in this, the penultimate chapter of "Alphabet Soup" for now, I present to you... Tommy and Kim.

Power Rangers Literati
"Alphabet Soup"
'Y is for Yesterday'
By J.T. Magnus, "Turbo"

It's that 'Picture' song again. I hate this song. Why? Because every time it plays, people who know start giving me looks that say 'take the hint, Tommy'. I don't need any hints, what I need is for Jason and Trini, Adam, Haley, even the Dino Rangers to take their own hint and stop pushing it. Even when David was dying, my brother was concerned that I needed to make peace with my past...

I don't need to make peace with my past because it's just that, my past. My taking the Dinogems with me when I left Angel Grove was a favor to Zordon, my becoming the Black Ranger was the Black Dinogem's choice, not mine. It was bad enough when Trent and Kira began dating, but now every time I talk to any of my old so-called friends they make it a point to compare Trent and Kira to me and her and ask when I'm going to talk to her.

Not 'if', 'when', like it's a foregone conclusion that I want my ex-girlfriend - who is the one who dumped me, by the way - back in my life again. I've heard it all, 'taking it too personally', 'forgive those who wrong you', 'give second chances', 'she's hurting too'...

Where were they when it first happened? Bundling me off to a ski resort and into a relationship with Kat. The truth now is that I can't trust them to act in my best interests and not out of some feeling of assumed guilt...

'Assumed'. I'm a paleotologist, not an English Major, but I know it's a word with two meanings, 'believed to be' and 'taken on'. They believe they should feel guilty, but the only one who should take on any guilt is the one person I would have died for once, that now I'd rather die than see her two-faced... face... both of them...

I will not live in the past...

'Picture' is playing again. I get so depressed every time I hear this song... I'm the one who wrote the letter in the first place. I admit, it probably wasn't the best idea, but I was scared that he'd hate me for tying him down without being there. I didn't want to come back to Angel Grove and have him hate me because I kept him from moving on.

Instead he hates me for an entirely different reason. The same reason that I hate myself. I could have said something on Murathis, I could have picked up the phone and called him any number of times, Trini keeps making sure I have his number...

But I can't.

I can fight evil space aliens, walking clay men, Tengu warriors; be kidnapped not once or twice, but three times, turned evil on one of them...

But I can't admit to the man I still... care about... that I destroyed our relationship because I decided to play one of those 'if you really love me' games with him. 'If you really love me, you'll come after me or be there waiting when I come back.'

But he didn't and he wasn't and it's all my fault for starting it.