December 4th, 1999
Angel Grove California 5:00 PM
Every year on Christmas, Tommy always felt blessed for having loving parents, wonderful friends, family get together, and a loyal girlfriend. But, this year he knew that he was going to have an extra special blessing. Today, he walked into the wedding chapel with his best friend. Half an hour later, they walked out and Kimberly Hart was now his wife. Marrying Kimberly was the best Christmas present that he could ever receive. In his eyes, she was the most beautiful bride ever.
Kimberly couldn't have chosen a better dress even if she tried. She was dressed a pink silk evening gown. Unless you saw her up close, you'd think she was wearing a strapless dress because the spaghetti straps holding up the dress were very thin. Right before the wedding, she had a very difficult time deciding how she was going to wear her hair. But, Tommy was able to help her decide very quickly. He asked her to wear her hair in a voluminous bun, like she did at the winter formal.
"I think I married a princess," Tommy breathed not being able to take his eyes off her. Every stand of hair appeared to be in a smaller spiral shape than they were at the winter formal. Most of her hair was twisted into a bun. However, some of the curls in the front were hanging out near the front and even some curls in the back was hanging out.
"And I married Prince Charming," Kimberly purred turning to look at his appearance. A black suit, white dress shirt, green bow tie and dress vest, a sparkly red rose pin was pinned on the front of his jacket.
"I have the prefect honeymoon planned," Tommy declared as they walked through the mall.
All of the stores that they passed had a beautiful decorated Christmas tree sitting in the window, decorated with sparkly glass ornaments, multi-color lights, and a golden star at the top. However, the Hallmark store had a tree placed in the corner near its entrance covered with all Disney, The Peanuts, and all the other type of cute ornaments that that they had sold throughout the year. Sitting in center of north hall was a Santa sitting in a large chair with a long line of children waiting to sit on his lap and tell him what they wanted for Christmas. A photographer had their camera sat up in front of Santa where they were snapping pictures of each child. Some of the children were smiling the whole time they sat on his lap. While smaller children were screaming and crying. And the disappointed on their parents face when they saw a flashing light take place, knowing that they would have a picture of scared child meeting Santa for that year.
"Tommy, what exactly do you have planned?" Kimberly questioned.
"We're going to go buy a Christmas tree of our own," Tommy explained when they took a seat on the bench. "We're going to pick out what type of tree we want and also pick out items we want to decorate our tree with. We'll bring it home and put it in my...I mean our bedroom."
"But, you parents already have a Christmas tree up-"
"-my parents bought me a small Christmas tree to decorate each year. However, it got lost in one of our moves," Tommy interrupted when he draped his arm over her shoulders. "It's been a long time since I've had any decorations. But, I'm married now and I want to give you a good Christmas experience. I've also got some other things planned, but they are a surprise."
Their wedding night went by quicker than he thought it would. When Tommy brought Kimberly home, he carried her up the stairs and in his bed room. She seemed to be pleased when she saw that he flipped the his bed room light on revealing engulfed of a warm yellow and orange coming from pink and white candles. And in a corner of the room was vase full of pink roses, that he had purchased her. It was safe to say that it went over well, because she kissed him on leaving a pair pink lip prints on his face. He never thought he'd see her look any gorgeous than she already was until she came back into the bed room after she removed her makeup and Jan helped her take her hair out of the voluminous bun.
"Tommy, I can't reach the zipper," Kimberly announced when she walked back into his bedroom, shutting the door behind her. "Could you help me get out of my dress?"
"Sure," Tommy answered as he got out of bed, only wearing his boxer shorts. She turned around and he unzipped the dress. He watched as her dress fell to the floor. She threw it across the room and it landed on top of Tommy's tux and dress shirt. Then she stood before him in a pink silky strapless bra and matching panties.
"Do, I look okay?" she asked when she turned around to face him. "I picked these out a Victoria's Secrets to surprise you on our wedding night."
"You look so...so...gorgeous," Tommy swooned as he started to drawl.
Kimberly walked over to the closet and pulled out a black silk robe and a pink silk robe. "This is a wedding gift from me," she smiled laying the robes on the bed.
Tommy laid on his soft feathery mattress, underneath a green comforter and white plaid comforter. Lying next to him was Kimberly, he gazed at her in beautiful and prefect body. Her head was resting on his chest, while her arm was resting on his chest with her fingers were pressing into his shoulder.
"I can finally stay with you all night," he whispered putting his arm around her when she moved closer to him and her stomach brushed up against his side.
"I love you," Kimberly mumbled in her sleep.
"I love you too," he whispered sleepily just a he kissed on the head and closed his eyes.
The sun light came shining through the open spaces of the window blinds, hitting Kimberly right in the face. She slowly opened her eyes, drowsily and lopped sided as she started smiling when she saw the green walls covered with power ranger posters and dozens of picture frame. An arm wrapped around her shoulders and she smiled. From this point on, she'd be waking up next to Tommy each morning. Ever since she was born, she always woke up alone. Kimberly could remember having restless nights when she would wake up when she heard her parents yelling at each other. And then there was the six-month time frame when she would wake up after having nightmares about Harry. But, those days were over now.
"Good morning," Tommy greeting kissing her head. "Sleep well?"
"Yes," Kimberly answered greeting him with a smile.
"After breakfast, we'll go to the mall and pick out our Christmas tree," Tommy reminded her. "We can get any tree you want and pick out any type of decorations we want. And if you want, we can go buy stuff our new dorm room."
"What kind of tree do you want?" Kimberly asked. "I bet you want a real tree, like everyone else-"
"-Kim, it's okay if you want an artificial tree," he assured as he got out of bed. "Every year 91 billion Christmas trees go up and only 19 percent of them are real trees."
"Really?" she asked raising her eye brows.
"I'm serious," Tommy vowed when he put on a black tee shirt. "We can get a tree in any color."
"I've always wanted a white tree," Kimberly confessed as she slipped on her pink robe.
"So, have I," Tommy admitted walking over to his closet. He carefully pulled out plastic tub with ornaments that they had collected over the past few years. "And we can finally put our ornaments on *our* tree this year."
"What are you adding our collection this year?" Kimberly questioned taking a seat next to him.
"I'm glad that you've asked," Tommy grinned as he opened the tub and pulled out a small card board box. Inside the box was a dark pink heart ornament. In the center it had "First Christmas as the Oliver's 1999," written out in white. "I had this one custom made."
"Tommy, it's beautiful," Kimberly cried. "I love it!"
"I was hoping you would," Tommy said when they carefully put it back in the box. "I was hoping we could put it on our Christmas tree every year-"
"-you know we will," Kimberly interrupted giving him a kiss on the cheek. "And we'll put all the ornaments that you gave me the last two Christmas' too."
She turned and looked inside the tub. Inside laid a pink pterodactyl and a green dragon glass ornament, that he had gotten her back in 1997, when they got back together. And then there was the pink fire bird and the white tiger he got her the previous year.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you, I got two more ornaments for you to add to your collection!" Tommy realized when he handed her a pink gift bag.
"I bet I know what they are," Kimberly smiled when she opened the bag and pulled out a card board box. She opened the open and there was a white falcon and a pink crane ornament inside.
"Do you like them?" Tommy asked.
"I love them," Kimberly expressed when she carefully put them back in the box. "We now have all our zords completed."
"Maybe, we should add a green ranger, white ranger, and pink ranger ornament to the collection," Tommy suggested when he opened his closet and got out khakis, a black tee shirt, and a tan shirt. "But, I don't know about the red zeo ranger."
"Red was one of your colors and you were on the zeo team," Kimberly reminded him when she opened her suit case. She unfolded a neatly pressed off light pink tee shirt, jeans, and a pink plaid flannel shirt. "I don't mind if you add it to our collection-"
"-I didn't like the star on my helmet," Tommy interrupted. "And it was also during the time Harry wrote-"
"-I don't remind if you add it to the collection," Kimberly repeated taking hold of his hand. "And Harry's history now. Remember, we tricked him and dozens of pieces of his stone body is laying under water in that cave."
"If you insist, I will get it," Tommy agreed giving her a kiss on the cheek.
Kimberly always loved shopping. She always loved heading straight towards the lacy and silky bedding supplies when she was buying a new comforter for her room. And Tommy always liked to go look at camouflage or dragon themes when he was going to purchase a new comforter. Those times were over now they were both married. Shopping for a new comforter and items for their dorm room was much easier than they ever dreamed it would be. They found a night sky comforter with pink cranes and white falcons printed all over it. The comforter even came with two matching pillow cases. One had white falcons and the other had the pink cranes. In addition to the pillow cases, it also came with a set of curtains. Both of them really wanted their ranger colors to be present in their room. So, they agreed to have plaid pink, white, and green sheets, a pink heart shaped rug in the dorm room, a green bath rug, a pink bath mat, and a white shower curtain. And when they saw welcome mats were being sold and could be customized, you'd better believe that they purchased a green mat which had "Oliver" in the middle in pink and white letters.
When they returned home, both of them were very pleased with the tree with its decorations that they had purchased, a white tree, pink tinsel, green and red lights, a pink heart tree topper, and a pink, green, white, and black plaid tree skirt. All of the ornaments were in the ranger colors. Half of the ornaments that they had picked out were round orbs and the other half were heart shaped.
"Ready, to put up our tree?" Tommy asked placing the shopping bags next to their dresser. "I know we're going to have fun decorating it."
"Tommy, I've never really got to have fun decorating a tree," Kimberly confessed as she hung her head. "My father was always entering a contest to see who had the best Christmas tree in Angel Grove. He won for several years in a row. All of the ornaments had to be hung with the hook or the loop on a certain branch of the tree. He once let me hang one ornament on a tree. It was a snowman ornament, but it broke-"
"-what happened?" Tommy interrupted putting an arm around her shoulder.
"I put it on the near the edge of a branch and the hook broke," Kimberly sighed. "It hit the floor and shattered. My father told me that ornaments had to hanging in the at the edge of every branch, otherwise, they would fall off and break. I never got to decorate a tree again, because he lost the contest."
"This is our tree," he assured her. "I'm not going to get mad if an ornament break. We're putting the tree up to have fun not to compete with anyone. You can place an ornament where ever you like on the tree."
"Remember back in 1995, when I couldn't hang up the mistletoe and you hung it up for me?" Kimberly asked.
"I remember it really well," Tommy grinned when he hung up a small stick of red berries above their bedroom door. "Remember we kept getting interrupted and then on the third time we were finally able to kiss."
"How could I forget that?" Kimberly answered with a smile. She walked over to the mistletoe and stood directly under it. "We won't have any interruptions now."
Tommy stood underneath the mistletoe and cupped his hands around Kimberly's face. His lips touched her and sparks flew in all directions. The world slowly began to disappear around them, along with their fears, anxieties, and problems. Soft, gentle, and slow; he tasted like hot chocolate on cold afternoon. She never knew that a kiss could be so electrifying. He pulled her closer to him, their kiss deepened with more love. A smile appeared on both of their faces as they pulled apart.
"You taste like hot chocolate," Kimberly stated gazing into his eyes.
"I did," he confessed. "I bought some peppermint hot chocolate and regular hot chocolate. I could decide which one to get so I got both-"
"-I'm fine with just the regular hot chocolate," Kimberly interrupted. "You didn't have to go to all of that trouble-"
"-Kim, it's part of my other surprise for you," Tommy quickly explained as he stripped out of his clothes and slipped on his black silk robe. "Go, get change into your pink robe and meet me in the main bathroom upstairs."
Prefect soapy sparkly orbs nearly reached the rim of the Jacuzzi. Tommy watched the multicolored bubbles float on top of the lukewarm water. He couldn't help from noticing that there were pink bubbles which was big surprise to him, but he was satisfied since that was Kimberly's favorite color. He thought of the prefect name for those bubbles, Pink Princess Kimberly. Then he thought for a minute. Maybe princess wasn't the right term since Kimberly was now his wife. So, if she was once a princess, she would now be queen and he'd be the king. Just the thought of that made him smile, his queen.
Meanwhile, Kimberly neatly folded up her clothes and laid them back in the suitcase. Keeping her clothes looking neat and wrinkle free was at the top of her agenda. She finally reached her happily ever after of her princess story of marrying her prince charming. But, in the back of her head she could her father saying "If your parents' divorce, you are cursed and will be divorced too." He used to say that to her a lot when him and her mother were filling for divorce. Both Caroline and Andrew's parents were divorced and they were now divorced. But, they were both remarried. So, why wouldn't that fear be present inside her. Tommy's had two sets of grandparents who weren't divorced and his parents weren't divorced, so maybe they'd have a better chance of staying married. No matter what it took, she was going to prove her father wrong. She slipped on her pink robe and headed to the main bathroom.
"Hey, Beautiful," Tommy greeted when she stepped into the bathroom. "Are you ready to get in the tub?"
A whole jacuzzi tub full of bubble bath and pink rose petals, just for the two of them to soak in. At the rim of the tub sat two travel mugs. One was black and it said "Mr. Oliver," in pink writing; the other one was pink and said "Mrs. Oliver," in black writing. He had really out done himself.
"Tommy, let me go grab a swimsuit," Kimberly stated. "Or I can even wear a bikini if you want me too."
Just as she was about walk into the hallway, a black robe flew over her head and a few inches outside the bathroom door. "Don't worry about going back to get a swimsuit," Tommy said as he started to walk over to Kimberly in his nude form. "You can just remove your robe and get in the Jacuzzi with me."
"Tommy are you sure?" Kimberly asked as she removed her robe.
"Kimberly, I'm sure," Tommy promised when he picked up the robe and threw it on top of his. "I think you are the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
Tommy carefully lifted Kimberly over the rim of the Jacuzzi and climbed in after her. He stretched out and rested his back against rim of the tub. Kimberly took a seat in his lap and also stretched out, resting her back against his chest. Tommy handed her the pink mug and he grabbed his black mug. They posed their mugs for a toast. "Here's to having a happy, healthy, and successful marriage with my best friend," Tommy said looking down into Kimberly's doe eyes.
"I am all for those things," Kimberly purred as their mugs clicked together.
Warm milk, sugar, and cocoa, sometimes the simple ingredients could actually be the best. Its dark rich taste coats her tongue thickly before it started flow down her throat. The top swirled with a white milk like foam, spotted from cocoa powder could easily pass as a polka dot. If she didn't know better, she'd say it smelled like Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory.
"This is better than champagne," Kimberly smiled taking another sip of her hot chocolate.
"I'm glad," Tommy answered laying his mug on the rim of the tub. He pulled the shower curtain shut and wrapped his arms around her waist. "When I looked for it at the shopping center, they were all sold out. But, I know that you like hot chocolate and thought it would be the prefect substitute on cold day. Angel Grove's weather normally doesn't get down to 40-degree weather. I knew you were hoping to get outside and lounge around in my pool, so this was the closest thing I could-"
"-Tommy, it's prefect," Kimberly assured him. "I always love soaking in a jacuzzi with you."
Author's note:
I looked on the internet and saw that 91 billion Christmas trees go up each year. 81% are artificial and the 19% put up a real tree.
I saw video on YouTube where Jason David Frank stated Zeo was his least favorite season of power rangers because he did not like the star on his helmet.