New Start
By Didi
Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers or any of the characters.
Summary: They're all grown up and separated. Just when you thought it was all over for the old gang, fate throws them together once more.
Rating: R for language and content at times.
Acknowledgements: Love life and liberty, is the only way to go. Faith, hang in there darling. Oh and I have chocolate you can come get any time you want.
Note: I am writing this story so I'm not tempted to throw something hard and deadly in frustrating moments. I'm not sure where I want to take this story but I promise to try to make it fun and interesting for everyone that reads it.
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Chapter Thirty-Seven
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July 30, 2004
Jason Scott's Residence
138 Haven Ave.
East Brunswick, New Jersey
"Okay spill your guts buddy cause you are likely to suffer indigestion if you don't." Adam said as he poured out wine for everyone.
"I have no idea what you're..."
"Oh god, not another one." Jason groaned and leaned his head back. "Rocky, you know that we care and you know that we are a family, why the hell else would we have gone through all that trouble of locking you guys up last night. And most importantly, you know that you're a terrible liar. So just talk and get it off your chest so we can help."
Rocky gave him a look that said that he was not going to be thankful for that little friendly intrusion into his private life.
Zack smiled encouragingly. "He's right, especially about the bad liar part."
"I don't know how we all managed to keep our identities a secret while we were Power Rangers. None of us can tell a straight lie without turning the color of a tomato." Tommy commented as he savior the fine wine. "By the way Jase, I put a couple of bottles in your stock."
He shrugged. "We weren't actually lying then you know."
Billy nodded his agreement. "Yeah, we were merely not telling the whole story."
"See," Zack grinned. "We were merely withholding a few facts. No one actually asked us out right if we were Rangers."
They shared a good laugh in remembrance of all the time people were in search of the identity of the Power Rangers. Those were the days when they're lives seem to trivial compared to the greater scheme of things. But they've done their duties to the world and this was their reward, a normal life. Well, as normal as it can get anyways.
"So, Rocky." Adam grinned. "Don't think you're getting off that easily."
He shook his head and answered woodenly. "She wants to be friends."
The others winced in pain, the worse possible brush off was the "Let's just be friends" line.
Adam snorted in disbelief. "If she just wants to be friends with you, I'll eat my medical bag."
"Adam, I know that you want to believe that she and I may have something but..."
"I don't believe, I know." Adam's eyes suddenly came together in determination. "Rocky, we've been friends for longer than I care to remember. I have always been straight with you. You know me better than anyone else in this world and I know you. And I also know Aisha. You two need to talk, really talk."
Billy nodded his head. "I have a question to put to you, Rocky."
"What?"
"Do you love her?"
He sighed. "I can't remember a time when I didn't."
Billy grinned suddenly and exchanged looks with Jason and Tommy. "Tell her."
Rocky looked at his friends and their nodding heads. "How?"
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July 30, 2004
Trini Kwan's Condo
168 Apple Grove Drive #A
East Brunswick, New Jersey
"I feel like I've been crying more on this trip than I have my entire life." Aisha sniff pathetically into a tissue. "God, why can't I just accept it and move the hell on with my life?!?"
"Cause you're in love," Kimberly patted her sympathetically in the back. "Must have cried for three months after I mailed off that letter to Tommy. I thought I would die of a broken heart."
"What did you do?" Aisha asked desperately.
"I threw myself into my practices and won a medal for the Pan Global Championships." She shrugged. "But that didn't do any good. I was still hurting very badly inside."
"Me?" Trini set down a plate of cookies and enough ice cream to feed an army but just enough for a broken hearted young woman before sitting down on the coach. She winkled her nose for a moment and made a face, then got up again to move to the loveseat. "I dated all the wrong guys and ended up with a lot of emotional scars."
"How is that going by the way?" Aisha asked needing to think of something else other than Rocky Descantos. "And do we get to meet Mr. Mysterious before we leave?"
"Yeah!" Tanya sat up and crossed her arms. "I can't believe you shared with Jason before you shared with your girls!"
Trini wanted to laugh. "I'm almost ready."
"Ready for what?" Kimberly asked, her eyes all a glow.
She bit her lip. "I really love him. And I mean really, really, really love him."
"Thinking about moving in with him?" Tanya asked with one brow raised.
"No," she smiled dreamily. "I thinking of something a little more permanent."
They stared at her stunned. "Are we talking about the big M here?"
She nodded her head enthusiastically.
"ARE YOU NUTS?!?"
"What?" her eyes wide with confusion.
"Trini, you haven't even introduce this guy to us yet and you're thinking of popping the question to him?" Kimberly couldn't quite wrap her brain around that particular fact. "Please, please, don't rush into anything that you may regret at..."
"I'm not going to regret this, Kim." She sighed and sat back, swinging her legs over the side. "You ever get that feeling that everything in your life is perfect but it was missing something. Like there was a small speck of darkness in a completely rosy picture?"
Kimberly wanted to say something, anything that isn't want Trini wanted to hear. Aisha and Tanya looked torn. Trini's obvious happiness was impossible for them to quench and none of them really wanted to. The girl was practically glowing.
"Is he good to you?" Tanya asked, worriedly.
"He loves me so yes it's very good to me. He worries about me, he cuddles me, and he feeds me." She smiled, still amused that he did. "I know it in my heart and soul that he loves me."
Kimberly felt like crying. She was afraid for her friend. But she would never try to come between Trini and someone that could make her so unbelievably joyous. "Trini, if you're sure..."
"I'm sure." Her eyes held the love there. "He's the missing element and I'm not going to let him go. I love him."
Aisha smiled and hugged the happy woman. "Then I'm happy for you and may your love see you through anything and everything in life."
"Thank you," she touched Aisha's arm. "And may you find peace and love in the man that you love."
She shook her head. "I don't think that's going to be possible."
"Nothing is impossible, my friend." She smiled. "And I know it from experience."
"I'm not you."
"No, you're not but you're strong like me. And you are always a yellow ranger. I think your future has a rosy forecast."
"Trini, I'm at a point where if he so much as look at me with any hint of anything I would get on my knees and beg." She felt the hot tears come again. "I love him. I know in my soul."
Kimberly and Tanya traded looks. "Then tell him that point blank."
"What?"
"You have to," Trini agreed with a nod. "You need to."
Aisha studied each of their faces. They were perfectly serious and knew what they were talking about. "Then I need a favor."
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July 30, 2004
Jason Scott's Residence
138 Haven Ave.
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Jason got up as the phone rang. "Keep talking guys, I'll get it." He shook his head as Zack suggested Rocky declared his love by having it sky written. "Hello?"
"Jase," Kimberly's voice came through loud and clear. "Need help."
"What's up?" He glanced over at Tommy and motioned the man over.
"We want to do something about Aisha and Rocky, of course."
"Of course," he grinned at Tommy as he stood by him. "Your girlfriend wants to do something about the two idiots."
Tommy grinned. "Tell her to go for it."
"What do you need?"
"We need the use of your house for the night. But not for those two as we did yesterday." She glanced over at the packing Tanya and Trini, who were both trying to keep Aisha from talking herself out of her little scheme while giving her little suggestions on her course of action tonight. Tanya offered jumping in feet first approach while Trini offered seduction advises. "Tanya, Trini and I are coming over for the evening, leaving the house empty for Aisha to be with Rocky. I think she's going to have that out that we've all wanted them to have."
"Really?" Jason frowned. "Are you sure it's wise to leave them alone in a house that neither of them have any hold on. I mean, they could bolt at any moment."
"No, I don't think so." Kimberly shook her head as Trini physically sat Aisha down and wiggled her finger at her. "I think that Aisha is going to do it. Either that or she's going to face the combined wrath of Trini and Tanya."
"Something I highly doubt she's too thrilled about." Jason nodded his head. "Okay, you need beds, we've got them here. What would you like us to do?"
"Get Rocky boy here."
Jason frowned. "That may be a tough one. Let me work on it. When do you guys arrive?"
"Whenever you give the word."
"Keep your cell phone handy then. I'll give you the signal."
"Right."
Jason hung up the phone and glanced over at Rocky. Tommy stood there quietly, having heard most of the conversation. "So, do we go for the subtle and trick the boy approach into going or do we go ahead and tell him that this could be it, the final stretch of the inning?"
"I don't think he'll forgive us if we try that trick thing again."
"True." Tommy sighed. "So we tell him that the ladies would like him to come over for something."
Jason nodded. "And fail to mention that that the girls are clearing out of there to give him and Aisha room."
Tommy nodded wisely. "Right."
"Right."
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July 30, 2004
Trini Kwan's Condo
168 Apple Grove Drive #A
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Rocky rubbed his palm against his pant legs feeling his heart racing at an unnatural speed that was destined to give him a heart attack. He wasn't sure why the girls wanted to see him but after some urging from the guys, here he was standing at their door.
Tanya stood on the other side eyeing him through the peephole. Why is he just standing there? She wasn't sure how she was going to get herself through this but she promised the others that she would. you can do this. You can be the seductress that Trini and Tanya coached you to be. Besides which, she rather not die in her sleep if she were to chicken out now and have Tanya and Trini find out about it. Come on girl, you've never walked away from a fight before. Now is not the time to turn yellow.... Oh for the love of...
The doorbell jarred Aisha out of her thoughts. Taking a deep breath, she pulled open the door a little too fast and hit herself with it.
Rocky felt as if someone smashed a fist into his stomach. In all the nightmarish scenarios he had imagined while walking over, he hadn't actually expected her to open the door, and in that manner either.
She could almost feel her face go up in flames. Real smooth there, Aisha. Why don't you just paint a sign on your forehead saying that you're about to jump out of your skin at any little provocation? "Hi." Oh yeah, real smooth.
"Hi," he tried to smile but knew that he came out all wrong. He probably looked like he was grimacing.
She thought he looked adorable, which his smile all crooked and unsure. For some strange reason, his discomfort seems to relax her. At least I'm not the only one nervous. "Come on in. Trini backed a pie to relax. Want some? It's apple, your favorite."
He sighed, glad for her lighthearted manners. "Sure, some apple pie would be..." He looked around the room. "Huh... Where are the others?"
She paused with her hand holding the knife steadily over the pie. "Gone."
"Gone?" He's mind was wrapping itself around the idea. "What do you mean gone? Are you saying that we're here all..."
"Alone." She finished for him as she neatly placed a piece of pie topped generously with whipped cream into his hand. "I'll get you fork."
He stared dumbly at the pie in his hand. They were here alone, by them selves, with no one around to.... To what, Rocky? Interfere? Interrupt? Save you?
"Here," she placed the fork gently in his hand seeing that he seemed to have fallen into a coma with the thought of them here, all by themselves. It kind of gave her courage is some perverse way. "You all right?"
Rocky blinked. He glanced at her then put the plate down before he dropped it. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just didn't realize that they had gone out and..." He frowned and shook his head. "Where did they go?"
"Jason's." She answered simply before dipping her finger into the whipped cream and bringing the sweet topping to her lips.
He nearly swallowed his tongue watching as her finger disappeared between her sweetly pouting lips the reappearing clean and shining with her own... Head out of that direction! "Why did you guys call me here if you were all going to Jason's?"
"We weren't all going to Jason's," she smiled and offered him a bit of the pie with the fork since he seemed incapable of feeding himself now.
"Huh?"
Oh, she was enjoying this game now. Trini had been right, touch upon a man's senses and turn them inside out. "I wasn't going to go so you were wrong to say that everyone was going to Jason's."
He frowned having some trouble following the direction of the conversation. "Then..."
"I was waiting here for you." She smiled at him sweetly, tilting her head slightly and ran her hand index finger lightly of his lips to wipe away crumbs. That little touch sent a jolt through her system with enough energy to light up the Eiffel Tower. Okay, let's keep hands off of him until we get the problem resolved.
Rocky swallowed hard feeling his system completely electrified by that simple gesture. "W...w....why?"
"Why what?" she asked as she place the plate back down so not to give her shaking hands away. Play it cool, don't let him see you rattled. You're the seductress. The woman that's going to win her man with her... Oh, you're an idiot and you are going to do whatever it takes tonight to make him see that you want more than just a friendship from him. Then you're going to pray to god that you're friends are not wrong and that he does have at least a little spark of interest in you.
"Why were waiting here for me?" His head cleared a little as he shifted his mind away from what her hands were doing. "Why am I even here?"
Now or never, kid. "Cause I asked the others for some time to be alone with you."
Breath Rocky, just breath. "Oh." Okay, don't breath. Just think a little more clearly and try not to answer with such stupid monosyllables. "Can I ask if there is some particular reason that you wanted to see me alone? I mean not that I won't have agreed to come or anything. But we did spend about half a night in an attic yesterday with nothing to d but stare at the walls and sleep. Why would you suddenly have..."
She found the most effective way to shut a man up is simply by distracting them with a pair of warm hands and a set of warmer lips. She didn't really know what possessed her to be so bold all of a sudden. Maybe it was all that encouragement from Tanya and her little "jump the boy" theory of approach to guy-problems. Or maybe it was the fact that it's been so long since she's gotten to feel that kind of wonderful fire that his kiss had ignited in her that one and only night they had been together.
Rocky didn't know what to do with himself. He wanted to hold her, to bring her closer to him, to feel that wonderfully beautiful body pressed up tight against his. God, I can't breathe. And he didn't want to either.
The hesitant hands slowly crept around her and she shivered in reaction. She had imagined a hundred times of how he would hold her again but it was nothing compared to feeling the real flesh and blood body that she was being pulled again.
They both loathed the fact that oxygen was a necessarily part of what could potentially be a wonderful night between them.
He took big gulping breaths, trying to clear his mind from the heavy mist of passion that had surrounded it. "Aisha, I..."
"I don't want to be friends." She whispered against his lips, her body still pressed against his. "If you tell me you just want to be friends, I'll either have to kill you or commit suicide. And since, I'm religious oppose to taking my own life, you'd be in serious danger."
He gave a reluctant laugh as he tried to breath more easily over the sudden tightness in his chest. He had a strange sense of déjà vu. Now, you idiot. Tell her now. "I don't want to be friend either. I don't kind I'd live through our friendship, especially not after that thinly veiled threat."
Aisha gasped for air. She had expect a thousand answers, maybe in a million different one where her heart would be broken and she would end up smashing something hard against something fragile. But to have her words thrown back at her was the one that she hadn't expected, the one that she had allowed herself to dream being returned to her. He lips trembled as his caressed her cheek, the way he had done in Monte Carlo. "Rocky..."
"I've loved you since the second grade. You're the most beautiful thing I've ever had the pleasure of seeing in my life. Would that the world was as beautiful as the beauty God has bestowed upon you, this would be paradise." He smiled, skimming his lips along her jaw line. "I believe that those were the exact words I said the night that we made love."
She stared at him, completely stunned.
Rocky traced her brows with his blunt fingertips. "I told you, I remember everything about that night." He grinned suddenly. "Well, except the part about how you got up upstairs in the first place cause I highly doubt you could have carried me up there."
She blinked. "I leaned you up against the elevator and then kind of pushed you down the hall way." She shook her head. "You remembered that night." She couldn't seem to understand that part quite yet.
"Yeah, I remembered." He kissed her eyes shut. "I remember everything that we did, every time we kissed, every time we touched."
She could feel herself being seduced. Hey, aren't I suppose to be the seducer here? Opening her eyes, she stared into his. "Do you regret it?"
He almost laughed. "Do I look like I regret it at all?"
"Rocky..."
"I love you." He brushed her hair back, still holding her close to him. "Do you think you could ever feel anything close to what I feel for you now?"
Aisha wasn't sure if she was suppose to laugh or cry. Reaching over, she clicked on the CD player and picked just the right song that she and Tanya thought would have been appropriate for Rocky's seduction. But now, it was just right for showing him everything there was to know.
He felt his heart shatter as she pulled away from him. You idiot, what made you think that she would ever...
She could see the pain there as she turned back to him. She kissed his lips softly and leaned her brow against his. "Sh... just listen to the song for a minute."
I must be crazy now
Maybe I dream too much
But when I think of you
I long to feel your touch
To whisper in your ear
Words that are old as time
Words only you would hear
If only you were mine
I wish I could go back to the very first day I saw you
Should've made my move when you looked in my eyes
'Cause by now I know that you'd feel the way that I do
And I'd whisper these words as you'd lie here by my side
I love you, please say
You love me too, these three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Till the end of time
So today, I finally find the courage deep inside
Just to walk right up to your door
But my body can't move when I finally get to it
Just like a thousand times before
Then without a word he handed me this letter
Read I hope this finds the way into your heart, it said
I love you, please say
You love me too, these three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Till the end of time
Well maybe I, I need a little love yeah
And maybe I, I need a little care
And maybe I, maybe you, maybe you, maybe you
Oh you need somebody just to hold you
If you do, just reach out and I'll be there
I love you, please say
You love me too
Please say you love me too
Till the end of time
These three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Oh, I love you
Please say you love me too
Please please
Say you love me too
Till the end of time
My baby
Together, together, forever
Till the end of time
I love you
I will be your light
Shining bright
Shining through your eyes
My baby
He felt incredible humbled by that. And his heart.... His heart felt as if a great weight had been left from it. He felt so alive and he wanted to....His hand cupped her face. "Let me make love to you."
She smiled, that same smile that seduced him that night so many years ago. He felt skipped a beat and he wanted to drop to his knees to beg. She must have read his eyes cause she chuckled. "Why do you think the girls are gone?"
Rocky suddenly felt like laughing. "Were you planning on seducing me, Aisha Campbell?"
Shrugging casually, "Seems like the best way to get you in bed again." She answered honestly.
The twinkle in his eyes seemed to light up the whole room. "Don't you know that all you ever had to do was ask?"
"I do now."
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Teaser line from the next chapter: "Why do I have a feeling that I'm not getting the whole picture yet?"
By Didi
Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers or any of the characters.
Summary: They're all grown up and separated. Just when you thought it was all over for the old gang, fate throws them together once more.
Rating: R for language and content at times.
Acknowledgements: Love life and liberty, is the only way to go. Faith, hang in there darling. Oh and I have chocolate you can come get any time you want.
Note: I am writing this story so I'm not tempted to throw something hard and deadly in frustrating moments. I'm not sure where I want to take this story but I promise to try to make it fun and interesting for everyone that reads it.
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Chapter Thirty-Seven
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July 30, 2004
Jason Scott's Residence
138 Haven Ave.
East Brunswick, New Jersey
"Okay spill your guts buddy cause you are likely to suffer indigestion if you don't." Adam said as he poured out wine for everyone.
"I have no idea what you're..."
"Oh god, not another one." Jason groaned and leaned his head back. "Rocky, you know that we care and you know that we are a family, why the hell else would we have gone through all that trouble of locking you guys up last night. And most importantly, you know that you're a terrible liar. So just talk and get it off your chest so we can help."
Rocky gave him a look that said that he was not going to be thankful for that little friendly intrusion into his private life.
Zack smiled encouragingly. "He's right, especially about the bad liar part."
"I don't know how we all managed to keep our identities a secret while we were Power Rangers. None of us can tell a straight lie without turning the color of a tomato." Tommy commented as he savior the fine wine. "By the way Jase, I put a couple of bottles in your stock."
He shrugged. "We weren't actually lying then you know."
Billy nodded his agreement. "Yeah, we were merely not telling the whole story."
"See," Zack grinned. "We were merely withholding a few facts. No one actually asked us out right if we were Rangers."
They shared a good laugh in remembrance of all the time people were in search of the identity of the Power Rangers. Those were the days when they're lives seem to trivial compared to the greater scheme of things. But they've done their duties to the world and this was their reward, a normal life. Well, as normal as it can get anyways.
"So, Rocky." Adam grinned. "Don't think you're getting off that easily."
He shook his head and answered woodenly. "She wants to be friends."
The others winced in pain, the worse possible brush off was the "Let's just be friends" line.
Adam snorted in disbelief. "If she just wants to be friends with you, I'll eat my medical bag."
"Adam, I know that you want to believe that she and I may have something but..."
"I don't believe, I know." Adam's eyes suddenly came together in determination. "Rocky, we've been friends for longer than I care to remember. I have always been straight with you. You know me better than anyone else in this world and I know you. And I also know Aisha. You two need to talk, really talk."
Billy nodded his head. "I have a question to put to you, Rocky."
"What?"
"Do you love her?"
He sighed. "I can't remember a time when I didn't."
Billy grinned suddenly and exchanged looks with Jason and Tommy. "Tell her."
Rocky looked at his friends and their nodding heads. "How?"
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July 30, 2004
Trini Kwan's Condo
168 Apple Grove Drive #A
East Brunswick, New Jersey
"I feel like I've been crying more on this trip than I have my entire life." Aisha sniff pathetically into a tissue. "God, why can't I just accept it and move the hell on with my life?!?"
"Cause you're in love," Kimberly patted her sympathetically in the back. "Must have cried for three months after I mailed off that letter to Tommy. I thought I would die of a broken heart."
"What did you do?" Aisha asked desperately.
"I threw myself into my practices and won a medal for the Pan Global Championships." She shrugged. "But that didn't do any good. I was still hurting very badly inside."
"Me?" Trini set down a plate of cookies and enough ice cream to feed an army but just enough for a broken hearted young woman before sitting down on the coach. She winkled her nose for a moment and made a face, then got up again to move to the loveseat. "I dated all the wrong guys and ended up with a lot of emotional scars."
"How is that going by the way?" Aisha asked needing to think of something else other than Rocky Descantos. "And do we get to meet Mr. Mysterious before we leave?"
"Yeah!" Tanya sat up and crossed her arms. "I can't believe you shared with Jason before you shared with your girls!"
Trini wanted to laugh. "I'm almost ready."
"Ready for what?" Kimberly asked, her eyes all a glow.
She bit her lip. "I really love him. And I mean really, really, really love him."
"Thinking about moving in with him?" Tanya asked with one brow raised.
"No," she smiled dreamily. "I thinking of something a little more permanent."
They stared at her stunned. "Are we talking about the big M here?"
She nodded her head enthusiastically.
"ARE YOU NUTS?!?"
"What?" her eyes wide with confusion.
"Trini, you haven't even introduce this guy to us yet and you're thinking of popping the question to him?" Kimberly couldn't quite wrap her brain around that particular fact. "Please, please, don't rush into anything that you may regret at..."
"I'm not going to regret this, Kim." She sighed and sat back, swinging her legs over the side. "You ever get that feeling that everything in your life is perfect but it was missing something. Like there was a small speck of darkness in a completely rosy picture?"
Kimberly wanted to say something, anything that isn't want Trini wanted to hear. Aisha and Tanya looked torn. Trini's obvious happiness was impossible for them to quench and none of them really wanted to. The girl was practically glowing.
"Is he good to you?" Tanya asked, worriedly.
"He loves me so yes it's very good to me. He worries about me, he cuddles me, and he feeds me." She smiled, still amused that he did. "I know it in my heart and soul that he loves me."
Kimberly felt like crying. She was afraid for her friend. But she would never try to come between Trini and someone that could make her so unbelievably joyous. "Trini, if you're sure..."
"I'm sure." Her eyes held the love there. "He's the missing element and I'm not going to let him go. I love him."
Aisha smiled and hugged the happy woman. "Then I'm happy for you and may your love see you through anything and everything in life."
"Thank you," she touched Aisha's arm. "And may you find peace and love in the man that you love."
She shook her head. "I don't think that's going to be possible."
"Nothing is impossible, my friend." She smiled. "And I know it from experience."
"I'm not you."
"No, you're not but you're strong like me. And you are always a yellow ranger. I think your future has a rosy forecast."
"Trini, I'm at a point where if he so much as look at me with any hint of anything I would get on my knees and beg." She felt the hot tears come again. "I love him. I know in my soul."
Kimberly and Tanya traded looks. "Then tell him that point blank."
"What?"
"You have to," Trini agreed with a nod. "You need to."
Aisha studied each of their faces. They were perfectly serious and knew what they were talking about. "Then I need a favor."
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July 30, 2004
Jason Scott's Residence
138 Haven Ave.
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Jason got up as the phone rang. "Keep talking guys, I'll get it." He shook his head as Zack suggested Rocky declared his love by having it sky written. "Hello?"
"Jase," Kimberly's voice came through loud and clear. "Need help."
"What's up?" He glanced over at Tommy and motioned the man over.
"We want to do something about Aisha and Rocky, of course."
"Of course," he grinned at Tommy as he stood by him. "Your girlfriend wants to do something about the two idiots."
Tommy grinned. "Tell her to go for it."
"What do you need?"
"We need the use of your house for the night. But not for those two as we did yesterday." She glanced over at the packing Tanya and Trini, who were both trying to keep Aisha from talking herself out of her little scheme while giving her little suggestions on her course of action tonight. Tanya offered jumping in feet first approach while Trini offered seduction advises. "Tanya, Trini and I are coming over for the evening, leaving the house empty for Aisha to be with Rocky. I think she's going to have that out that we've all wanted them to have."
"Really?" Jason frowned. "Are you sure it's wise to leave them alone in a house that neither of them have any hold on. I mean, they could bolt at any moment."
"No, I don't think so." Kimberly shook her head as Trini physically sat Aisha down and wiggled her finger at her. "I think that Aisha is going to do it. Either that or she's going to face the combined wrath of Trini and Tanya."
"Something I highly doubt she's too thrilled about." Jason nodded his head. "Okay, you need beds, we've got them here. What would you like us to do?"
"Get Rocky boy here."
Jason frowned. "That may be a tough one. Let me work on it. When do you guys arrive?"
"Whenever you give the word."
"Keep your cell phone handy then. I'll give you the signal."
"Right."
Jason hung up the phone and glanced over at Rocky. Tommy stood there quietly, having heard most of the conversation. "So, do we go for the subtle and trick the boy approach into going or do we go ahead and tell him that this could be it, the final stretch of the inning?"
"I don't think he'll forgive us if we try that trick thing again."
"True." Tommy sighed. "So we tell him that the ladies would like him to come over for something."
Jason nodded. "And fail to mention that that the girls are clearing out of there to give him and Aisha room."
Tommy nodded wisely. "Right."
"Right."
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July 30, 2004
Trini Kwan's Condo
168 Apple Grove Drive #A
East Brunswick, New Jersey
Rocky rubbed his palm against his pant legs feeling his heart racing at an unnatural speed that was destined to give him a heart attack. He wasn't sure why the girls wanted to see him but after some urging from the guys, here he was standing at their door.
Tanya stood on the other side eyeing him through the peephole. Why is he just standing there? She wasn't sure how she was going to get herself through this but she promised the others that she would. you can do this. You can be the seductress that Trini and Tanya coached you to be. Besides which, she rather not die in her sleep if she were to chicken out now and have Tanya and Trini find out about it. Come on girl, you've never walked away from a fight before. Now is not the time to turn yellow.... Oh for the love of...
The doorbell jarred Aisha out of her thoughts. Taking a deep breath, she pulled open the door a little too fast and hit herself with it.
Rocky felt as if someone smashed a fist into his stomach. In all the nightmarish scenarios he had imagined while walking over, he hadn't actually expected her to open the door, and in that manner either.
She could almost feel her face go up in flames. Real smooth there, Aisha. Why don't you just paint a sign on your forehead saying that you're about to jump out of your skin at any little provocation? "Hi." Oh yeah, real smooth.
"Hi," he tried to smile but knew that he came out all wrong. He probably looked like he was grimacing.
She thought he looked adorable, which his smile all crooked and unsure. For some strange reason, his discomfort seems to relax her. At least I'm not the only one nervous. "Come on in. Trini backed a pie to relax. Want some? It's apple, your favorite."
He sighed, glad for her lighthearted manners. "Sure, some apple pie would be..." He looked around the room. "Huh... Where are the others?"
She paused with her hand holding the knife steadily over the pie. "Gone."
"Gone?" He's mind was wrapping itself around the idea. "What do you mean gone? Are you saying that we're here all..."
"Alone." She finished for him as she neatly placed a piece of pie topped generously with whipped cream into his hand. "I'll get you fork."
He stared dumbly at the pie in his hand. They were here alone, by them selves, with no one around to.... To what, Rocky? Interfere? Interrupt? Save you?
"Here," she placed the fork gently in his hand seeing that he seemed to have fallen into a coma with the thought of them here, all by themselves. It kind of gave her courage is some perverse way. "You all right?"
Rocky blinked. He glanced at her then put the plate down before he dropped it. "Yeah, I'm fine. I just didn't realize that they had gone out and..." He frowned and shook his head. "Where did they go?"
"Jason's." She answered simply before dipping her finger into the whipped cream and bringing the sweet topping to her lips.
He nearly swallowed his tongue watching as her finger disappeared between her sweetly pouting lips the reappearing clean and shining with her own... Head out of that direction! "Why did you guys call me here if you were all going to Jason's?"
"We weren't all going to Jason's," she smiled and offered him a bit of the pie with the fork since he seemed incapable of feeding himself now.
"Huh?"
Oh, she was enjoying this game now. Trini had been right, touch upon a man's senses and turn them inside out. "I wasn't going to go so you were wrong to say that everyone was going to Jason's."
He frowned having some trouble following the direction of the conversation. "Then..."
"I was waiting here for you." She smiled at him sweetly, tilting her head slightly and ran her hand index finger lightly of his lips to wipe away crumbs. That little touch sent a jolt through her system with enough energy to light up the Eiffel Tower. Okay, let's keep hands off of him until we get the problem resolved.
Rocky swallowed hard feeling his system completely electrified by that simple gesture. "W...w....why?"
"Why what?" she asked as she place the plate back down so not to give her shaking hands away. Play it cool, don't let him see you rattled. You're the seductress. The woman that's going to win her man with her... Oh, you're an idiot and you are going to do whatever it takes tonight to make him see that you want more than just a friendship from him. Then you're going to pray to god that you're friends are not wrong and that he does have at least a little spark of interest in you.
"Why were waiting here for me?" His head cleared a little as he shifted his mind away from what her hands were doing. "Why am I even here?"
Now or never, kid. "Cause I asked the others for some time to be alone with you."
Breath Rocky, just breath. "Oh." Okay, don't breath. Just think a little more clearly and try not to answer with such stupid monosyllables. "Can I ask if there is some particular reason that you wanted to see me alone? I mean not that I won't have agreed to come or anything. But we did spend about half a night in an attic yesterday with nothing to d but stare at the walls and sleep. Why would you suddenly have..."
She found the most effective way to shut a man up is simply by distracting them with a pair of warm hands and a set of warmer lips. She didn't really know what possessed her to be so bold all of a sudden. Maybe it was all that encouragement from Tanya and her little "jump the boy" theory of approach to guy-problems. Or maybe it was the fact that it's been so long since she's gotten to feel that kind of wonderful fire that his kiss had ignited in her that one and only night they had been together.
Rocky didn't know what to do with himself. He wanted to hold her, to bring her closer to him, to feel that wonderfully beautiful body pressed up tight against his. God, I can't breathe. And he didn't want to either.
The hesitant hands slowly crept around her and she shivered in reaction. She had imagined a hundred times of how he would hold her again but it was nothing compared to feeling the real flesh and blood body that she was being pulled again.
They both loathed the fact that oxygen was a necessarily part of what could potentially be a wonderful night between them.
He took big gulping breaths, trying to clear his mind from the heavy mist of passion that had surrounded it. "Aisha, I..."
"I don't want to be friends." She whispered against his lips, her body still pressed against his. "If you tell me you just want to be friends, I'll either have to kill you or commit suicide. And since, I'm religious oppose to taking my own life, you'd be in serious danger."
He gave a reluctant laugh as he tried to breath more easily over the sudden tightness in his chest. He had a strange sense of déjà vu. Now, you idiot. Tell her now. "I don't want to be friend either. I don't kind I'd live through our friendship, especially not after that thinly veiled threat."
Aisha gasped for air. She had expect a thousand answers, maybe in a million different one where her heart would be broken and she would end up smashing something hard against something fragile. But to have her words thrown back at her was the one that she hadn't expected, the one that she had allowed herself to dream being returned to her. He lips trembled as his caressed her cheek, the way he had done in Monte Carlo. "Rocky..."
"I've loved you since the second grade. You're the most beautiful thing I've ever had the pleasure of seeing in my life. Would that the world was as beautiful as the beauty God has bestowed upon you, this would be paradise." He smiled, skimming his lips along her jaw line. "I believe that those were the exact words I said the night that we made love."
She stared at him, completely stunned.
Rocky traced her brows with his blunt fingertips. "I told you, I remember everything about that night." He grinned suddenly. "Well, except the part about how you got up upstairs in the first place cause I highly doubt you could have carried me up there."
She blinked. "I leaned you up against the elevator and then kind of pushed you down the hall way." She shook her head. "You remembered that night." She couldn't seem to understand that part quite yet.
"Yeah, I remembered." He kissed her eyes shut. "I remember everything that we did, every time we kissed, every time we touched."
She could feel herself being seduced. Hey, aren't I suppose to be the seducer here? Opening her eyes, she stared into his. "Do you regret it?"
He almost laughed. "Do I look like I regret it at all?"
"Rocky..."
"I love you." He brushed her hair back, still holding her close to him. "Do you think you could ever feel anything close to what I feel for you now?"
Aisha wasn't sure if she was suppose to laugh or cry. Reaching over, she clicked on the CD player and picked just the right song that she and Tanya thought would have been appropriate for Rocky's seduction. But now, it was just right for showing him everything there was to know.
He felt his heart shatter as she pulled away from him. You idiot, what made you think that she would ever...
She could see the pain there as she turned back to him. She kissed his lips softly and leaned her brow against his. "Sh... just listen to the song for a minute."
I must be crazy now
Maybe I dream too much
But when I think of you
I long to feel your touch
To whisper in your ear
Words that are old as time
Words only you would hear
If only you were mine
I wish I could go back to the very first day I saw you
Should've made my move when you looked in my eyes
'Cause by now I know that you'd feel the way that I do
And I'd whisper these words as you'd lie here by my side
I love you, please say
You love me too, these three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Till the end of time
So today, I finally find the courage deep inside
Just to walk right up to your door
But my body can't move when I finally get to it
Just like a thousand times before
Then without a word he handed me this letter
Read I hope this finds the way into your heart, it said
I love you, please say
You love me too, these three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Till the end of time
Well maybe I, I need a little love yeah
And maybe I, I need a little care
And maybe I, maybe you, maybe you, maybe you
Oh you need somebody just to hold you
If you do, just reach out and I'll be there
I love you, please say
You love me too
Please say you love me too
Till the end of time
These three words
They could change our lives forever
And I promise you that we will always be together
Oh, I love you
Please say you love me too
Please please
Say you love me too
Till the end of time
My baby
Together, together, forever
Till the end of time
I love you
I will be your light
Shining bright
Shining through your eyes
My baby
He felt incredible humbled by that. And his heart.... His heart felt as if a great weight had been left from it. He felt so alive and he wanted to....His hand cupped her face. "Let me make love to you."
She smiled, that same smile that seduced him that night so many years ago. He felt skipped a beat and he wanted to drop to his knees to beg. She must have read his eyes cause she chuckled. "Why do you think the girls are gone?"
Rocky suddenly felt like laughing. "Were you planning on seducing me, Aisha Campbell?"
Shrugging casually, "Seems like the best way to get you in bed again." She answered honestly.
The twinkle in his eyes seemed to light up the whole room. "Don't you know that all you ever had to do was ask?"
"I do now."
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Teaser line from the next chapter: "Why do I have a feeling that I'm not getting the whole picture yet?"