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House of Power Rangers
Chapter 19: House of Amnesia
"I am getting sick of you rangers always destroying my friends! After what you did to my brother, I'm finally able to put a stop to that!" The Nighlok yells as Nina fights her relentless group of moogers with her spin sword while Emily attempts to defeat their latest threat; Preascor. He had and orange torso as well as blue arms and legs, with red gloves and clown shoes to finish them off.
"Stop terrorising people and we'll stop fighting back," Nina retorts.
"Or you could just forget to do so," the Nighlok yells, Emily hitting his arm.
"Not a chance!" Emily exclaims.
"You want to bet?" Nina hears Preascor snarl before hearing Emily yell,
"No!" Getting worried Nina takes out her lightning disc before attaching it to her spin sword.
"Lightning fury!" She exclaims, slashing through the moogers, destroying them, creating a clear pathway to the Nighlok and Emily… and Jayden laying on the floor, demorphed.
"Actually, I'm feeling a bit parched now. I think I'm going to go have a soak. See ya!" He waves, jumping through a gap before Nina can get to him but almost as soon as he's gone, he's forgotten as Nina runs to her leader, dropping her morph on the way over. The moogers surrounding her other teammates disappear a moment after the Nighlok.
"Jayden! Jayden wake up!" She says as the yellow ranger pulls his head into her lap.
"Nina?" Mike says from behind her before seeing the fallen ranger. "Jayden!"
"What happened?" Antonio asks running over.
"I don't know! I couldn't see," Nina explains as Kevin and Antonio move to lift the red ranger.
"The Nighlok took off his glove and was going to attack me but Jayden appeared to push me out of the way but when the Nighlok touched him he demorphed," Emily explained.
"Okay, let's just get Jayden home so we can deal with this there," Mia suggests giving Emily a hand up.
Before they arrived at home Nina had called Shaylee to ask her to find as much information as she could on Preascor. However by the time they'd arrived she'd not been able to find anything and Jayden was still out of it. Shaylee had checked on him, shooing the rangers away the train so she could have some space.
"You guys, I know you're worried but I've checked all I can until he wakes up. Everything seems to be fine though she may have a slight concussion," she'd told them.
It was a couple hours later when Nina and Emily entered the room to check on their teammate. They'd stayed by the door just watching him for a few moments, knowing there wasn't really anything they could do for him. Nina was partially there for herself (to see Jayden's okay), for Jayden (once again just to check he's okay) but mainly for Emily. She knew the yellow ranger felt that Jayden was in the situation because of her and she felt awful. Nina wanted to support her and assure her that no one blamed her for it even if she blamed herself. Jayden starts to shift in the bed, the first time anyone's seen him move since he got back. Emily's eyes widen as she takes a few steps forwards.
"Jayden?" Nina says, seeing if he's awake. However, she doesn't get an answer, he just stops moving, his breathing evening out. Sighing in disappointment, Nina leans against the wall while Emily goes closer. She takes his hand, sitting by his bed.
"I'm sorry Jayden. I promise, I'll help you get out of this," she says quietly, but the purple ranger still hears her. She gives his hand a final squeeze before getting up and walking back over to Nina. "We should go. Mia's out with mentor buying ingredients for dinner. We should eat before they get back"
"Yeah, you're right" Nina agrees, slinging her arm over Emily's shoulders, giving her a reassuring hug as she reaches forward to open the door.
"Where am I?" A voice that's not either of theirs says. It's from behind them. Turning around, shocked, the girls see Jayden beginning to sit up. They both speed over to his bed, Emily giving him a hug.
"I'm so glad you're awake!" She says pulling away quickly before turning to Nina. "I'll go and call Shaylee."
"Okay, I'll wait here," she replies as the yellow ranger leaves the room.
"Why am I here? What happened?" Jayden asks Nina who sits on the bed next to his.
"You're stupid, noble self blocked Emily from being attacked by a Nighlok but you got hit yourself and demorphed. Also be careful not to move to suddenly," Nina says getting up to put a hand on his shoulder as he tries to get out of bed. "You fell without your suit so you might have a concussion." Shaylee enters the room with Emily close behind her.
"Demorphed?" Jayden says furrowing his brow.
"Jayden, thank God you're awake! I'm just going to run a few tests to make sure you're okay," Shaylee says, opening a couple of drawers to look for the equipment.
It doesn't take too long for Shaylee to finish checking him, both Nina and Emily waiting in the room. Mia and Mentor still weren't back yet, Antonio had gone fishing so he was on his way back and Mike and Kevin were just changing; they'd been training so Shaylee had made them go and shower before they came in.
"Okay, you should really be good to go," Shaylee says putting her torch away. "How do you feel?"
"My head actually feels a little bit weird but I think I'm okay," he replies.
"You probably just need a bit more rest. You're okay, Jay," she smiles but as the blue and green rangers enter she can see his slightly confused look. "What's wrong?"
"It's just… how do you know my name?" Shaylee furrows her brows this time.
"...I mean we're kind of related so it would be weirder if I didn't," she replies slowly.
"You're my sister?" He asks causing Nina and Emily to look up suddenly, Shaylee's eyes flicking between the two of them, clearly just as confused. The boys had no clue what was going on.
"What? No, I'm your cousin," Shaylee says.
"Jayden, do you know who I am?" Nina asks, the red ranger turning to her. He hesitates before answering, shaking his head.
"No. You were here when I woke up." Nina inhales sharply looking between the girls who seem just as lost as her.
"Jayden, what's the last thing you remember?" She asks. He opens his mouth, taking a breath as though to answer but exhales shortly looking away even more lost. He seems to genuinely have to think before he turns back to her.
"I have no idea," he breathes. "What happened to me?" Nina gets up placing a hand on his arm.
"Okay Jayden, I'm Nina. I have an idea so I might be able to help you but I'm going to need help and it may take a bit of time," she said to him before looking at her other teammates, locking eyes with Emily. The yellow ranger nods, ushering the blue and green rangers out while Nina moves away, Shaylee steps forward to check on Jayden.
"I'm going to need help researching into this. I know we couldn't find anything before but now I think I know what to look for and we might need the others to help when they get back too," Nina says.
"Yeah, of course," Kevin nods.
"I do need one of you to stay with Jayden though, just so he's not alone," Nina says and Kevin opens his mouth the answer but Emily beats him to it.
"I'll do it."
"Awesome," she says before grabbing the boys wrists before either of them can argue. "Let's go!"
"I'm sorry this must be super weird for you," Emily says. It's just her and Jayden in the hospital room now. Shaylee left to help the other rangers with their research so Emily had been trying to help him remember things.
"You mean finding out that apparently I'm not only a 'power ranger'," he says putting air quotes around the words. "But the leader of a whole team or not recognising any of the people I've lived with for over four months now or the house I've spent my whole life in? It's a bit weird, yeah," he replies before sighing. "Sorry."
"It's okay," she says getting up from the bed next to Jayden's. "We've been in here for a while now and Shaylee said you're okay so if you want, I could show you around the house," Emily suggests.
"Yeah!" Jayden exclaims, clearly wanting to leave the room. "That would be great. Maybe I'll remember something." He gets up and out of the bed, putting on shoes besides it (Emily assured him they were his) before the two leave the room.
Meanwhile, Nina, Kevin, Mike and Antonio were all in the main room reading through the books. When Nina had seen that Jayden had appeared to have lost his memory alarm bells started ringing in her head. She'd read about a Nighlok like Praescor before.
"'Amniscor's poison'," she'd read out. "'Is contained in his hands. One touch will take away his victims episodic memories, Nighlok included.' That must be why he wears the gloves, so he doesn't take away other Nighloks memories!"
"Okay, but we're not fighting Amniscor," Mike pointed out moving besides her to read over her shoulder. "It says right here that the rangers destroyed Amniscor years ago."
"Yes, but don't you remember when we were fighting Praescor earlier, he mentioned something about rangers destroying his brother. I'm willing to bet that this is him," Nina replied.
"That makes sense actually! I just read something about the cure the rangers were able to make for the people that had been affected," Kevin said, moving back to pick up his book, flipping to a specific page. That was how the team found themselves spread out so far now. When Mia and Ji had got back, Mike explained the situation to them. They'd made a list of the things they needed but there were still a few things missing. Unfortunately, the book they'd found was quite old and part of the page that was in English had been stained so only the Japanese translation was left but Ji had already left to collect a rare but vital herb for the serum and the only other person would could probably understand as much as Ji couldn't even remember his room. Luckily the rangers weren't completely hopeless. Nina's grandmother had taught her a bit of Japanese when she was younger but as she began focusing more on training and technique the lessons became less frequent until she left for England then they stopped altogether but the purple ranger could still roughly translate some of the things. However, with the Wi-Fi conveniently being down today, it took a while for them to get all the answers they needed.
Shaylee had gone to the hospital so see how many people have been admitted for spontaneous amnesia; this way they'd know how much to make. One of the ingredients was fatty fish oil so Antonio had naturally been the one to volunteer to collect as much as he could. Mia had gone with Nina into town to buy a few more things while Kevin and Mike had raided the cupboards back at the house for missing ingredients. Once the rangers regrouped there was one item left on the list that Nina just couldn't translate. 芳香性樹皮香辛料
"Guys, I don't know. All I can get is spicy and aromatic."
"But that could mean anything," Mike points out as the three of them walked to the kitchen where they see Mia cooking. Grimacing at what he smells, Kevin turns to the other two.
"I really wish we ate while researching," he whispers, knowing Mia's only going to make more now to keep their energy up.
They'd almost been around the whole house at this point. Jayden hadn't remembered much but he did seem to recognise a few things for example before they entered the indoor dojo Emily stopped the two of them, in front of seven wooden plaques, each with their elements on them.
"I've seen these before," Jayden says.
"We've seen a few around the house," Emily tells him, but he shakes his head.
"No, not then. I mean before," he says, stepping forwards to touch one. Fire. "Fire, Air, Water, Earth, Forest, Lightning and Light."
"That's right. That's exactly right!" Emily grins as he touched each one in turn. She places a hand behind his shoulder, making him turn to her. "Come with me. I want to try something." She leads him to the inside dojo, by the weapons holder, picking up two wooden katanas, handing one to Jayden.
"This is a katana," Emily explains taking a few steps back.
"A Japanese samurai sword," Jayden nods.
"Exactly," Emily smiles. "You're usually amazing one of these in your hands. The best of us, the only ones even coming close are Kevin or Nina." He could put the names to the faces by now. "Do you remember using one of these?"
"No. I don't even know where to -" he begins but cuts himself off when Emily swings her sword at him, and he easily parries it away causing the blonde to grin wide.
"How did I do that?" he asks, almost dropping the sword in shock.
"Muscle memory. I guess your body still remembers how to fight," she says as he blocks another swing. "Even if your head doesn't." She moves forwards to take his sword from him before putting the two of them away.
"How long have we been doing this?" he asks her.
"Well, all of you guys started a lot younger than I did, maybe around six or seven. Nina's the youngest of us so she started around five. I wasn't actually supposed to the yellow ranger. My older sister, Serena, got sick so I only started training to take her place about two years ago, so while I am pretty good with my sword you guys are definitely better. But I have definitely improved since we first came together," she says moving forwards, but her foot gets caught on the wheel of the weapons holder causing her to begin falling. While Jayden's reflexes kick in and he reaches out to catch her, Emily's flailing causes them both to fall. Jayden lands on top of her, almost crushing her but luckily, he was able to catch himself on the arms before he could do so.
"I'm also usually pretty clumsy," Emily laughs, blushing slightly partially due to embarrassment but mostly due to the fact that Jayden's face in mere inches from hers.
"Noted," he laughs too, rolling to the side to he's laying on the floor beside her now. "I imagine that's not my most graceful moment either," he points out making her smile. They simply lay there in silence for a few moments before Jayden speaks up.
"Why did you volunteer to help me today?"
"What do you mean?" The yellow ranger asks, turning her head to face the red.
"Earlier when I was in the hospital room and Nina took everyone outside except me and my cousin, the door wasn't shut so we could hear you guys," he explains. "Not that I mind at all because I don't! I was just wondering…"
"Honestly, it's kind of my fault you're in this situation," she begins, Jayden now turning his head towards her confusion in his eyes, urging her to elaborate. "When I was fighting the Nighlok, it was stronger than I could handle, and it was supposed to hit me but you pushed me out of the way and got hit instead."
"So, you've spent your day with me out of pity? And here I was thinking that you just cared," he teases, making her giggle.
"Hey," She say pushing his shoulder lightly. "I do care."
"I'm kidding," he grins. "but I don't blame you. You don't seem like you wanted me to get hurt and besides, if it's anyone's fault it's mine. If I am as good as you've made me sound, then I must have known what I was doing when I made my decision to protect you."
"That's the thing though. I don't need protecting but you've always got my back when I need it. I just hate when you happen to get hurt for my sake."
"Well, we're on the same team, of course I'd always have your back. Besides, from what I've seen and heard it seems as though you're important to me," he says, causing Emily's breath to hitch before she exhales. She doesn't know how to respond and luckily, she doesn't have to because just then a voice comes from the door, making her sit up and turn to it.
"Hey guys," Nina says. "Mia said to call you guys. Dinners ready." Emily nods at Nina before turning to Jayden.
"Okay, so let me tell you something about Mia's cooking."
After calling Jayden and Emily to dinner Nina, went back to the living room to grab the book with the ingredients. She'd seen Mia begin to dish out the food and the sounds it was making just weren't appealing. She also seen her add chocolate and anchovies to the same pot before topping it with cheese. She was hoping that if she could distract herself with research at the table, Mia wouldn't notice when she didn't eat much. Taking a seat at the end of the table, next to Jayden she opened the book in front of her and began reading it again.
"Hey Nina, any ideas on what it could be?" Mike asks, looking over at her as he puts his fork down. He already knew the answer, but Nina figured she'd save him from the meal too.
"No. I'm still just getting spicy and aromatic. There's another word but I just don't know what it is," Nina sighs just as Mia walks over to her with two plates. She slides one in front of Jayden who thanks her before pulling the book from Nina's hands. The purple ranger tries to resist but soon relents.
"None of that talk at the table," Mia says, leaving the book open but placing it slightly further away Nina, to her left.
"But Mia, we need to figure out how to make this cure and the answer to that is the mystery Japanese ingredient," Nina argues.
"You can look at it after you eat. You've been working all day! You need energy."
"Not from this she doesn't," Kevin mutters causing Nina to glare at him.
"What did you say?" Mia asks but Nina saves him.
"It doesn't matter. What does matters is that we're able to get this cure for Jayden and all the other people who've been affected," Nina explains.
"Fifty-four," Shaylee says entering the kitchen, her jacket hung on her arm. She must've just got back. She flinches when she sees the food but quickly recovers. "Fifty-four other people have been affected."
"See! We have to-" Nina cuts herself off suddenly because she was sure she just heard Jayden mutter something. She slowly turns her head towards him. "What did you just say?"
"Hōkō juhi supaisu?" He repeats. No way…
"Jayden, can you understand what that says?" The purple rangers asks and surprisingly the red ranger nods.
"It says 'aromatic bark spice.'"
"You still understand Japanese," Nina states.
"Apparently. Not that I remember even learning it," he shrugs.
"You have no idea how big of a help this is. Thank you," she smiles softly.
"That's great! So all we need to do now is wait for the Wi-Fi to come back on so we can find out what this aromatic bark spice is," Mike grins but Nina shakes her head.
"No need. It's cinnamon," she says.
"You're sure?" Emily asks. Nina nods her head.
"It's always cinnamon," she mutters shaking her head to herself, remembering her last year at Anubis house. One of the tasks down in the tunnels, required them to figured out the 'sweet smell of mourning essence' and of course it had been cinnamon then too!
It wasn't too long after they figured out their missing ingredient that Antonio arrived back with the fish oil (which reeked!) so Nina used that as her excuse to leave dinner and begin working on the cure, promising Mia she would eat later. It ended up taking her longer than planned to create the mixture, since she had to do some math to work out the new measurements and even though it smelled pretty bad, she actually didn't mind too much. It was actually kind of interesting to mix them all and see it turn different colours; it made her feel as though she was in a potions class in Harry Potter. That though however lead to her thinking about school which inevitable reminded her of the school work she was yet to do that day. Luckily, it reached a point in the process of making it were she had to leave the mixture to stand for forty-five minutes so she used this time to grab her textbook and notes from her room and bring it out to the patio, where she was working. It was when she had been working for just over thirty-five minutes that she heard someone else step out. Looking up she sees that it's Jayden.
"Hey," she says.
"Hi," he replies. "Is it cool if I sit?"
"Yeah, of course!"
"What are you doing?" He asks, looking at her notebook.
"I went to a boarding school in England before but I had to leave at the end of last year for this whole ranger thing but it's supposed to be my last year where I'm meant to graduate, so with a lot of pleading and convincing from Mentor and gran I'm still enrolled, but I'm allowed to study here. I just have to try and stay on top of it all," Nina explains. "Hopefully, we'll be able to stop Master Xandred before my final exams, they call them A-Levels there, but if not… well we'll deal with that if it gets to that I guess."
"So your a part time power ranger, part time student?" He summarises.
"More like full time power ranger, most time student," she corrects.
"That sounds like a lot for a…" he trailed off but Nina thinks she knows where he was going with his sentence.
"Seventeen. I'm seventeen," she reminds him. "And it is but I'm used to it."
"Seventeen. Right... and everyone else..."
"Emily and Shaylee are both eighteen, while you and everyone else except Mentor and Antonio are nineteen. Antonio's twenty but I don't think Ji would want me to say. Don't worry, at this time tomorrow, you'll know plenty about all of us," she assures him.
"You seem really dedicated to helping me get my memories back."
"Well, yeah." Nina puts her notebook on the chair beside her, knowing she's probably not going to get much more done. "I just figured your memories might be something you'd want. Especially in our profession."
"Right as power rangers. It'd be useful if I remember a bit more about all of you guys."
"Oh well, I could help you with that," Nina says shifting in her seat slightly.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, ask me what you want to know about us and I'll do my best to answer."
"Okay then," he says, looking away for a moment as he thinks before looking back up. "What am I usually like? Like with the team? My relationship with everyone?"
"Well, with the team, like when we're all together, you're an amazing leader! You know that you're a better fighter than all of us but you don't rub it in our faces. You train with us and help to become so much better and you learn things from us too! We're definitely much stronger than when we first started, you included.
"Mentor Ji practically raised and trained you so he's a sort of father figure to you. The two of you have a special bond. It's pretty sweet especially because it's clear how proud of you he is.
"Shaylee, is what we like to call our assistant mentor but she's also your cousin. I was friends with her when we were younger too. She moved to Australia with her parents when she was five though, hence the accent. She only recently came back but the two of you are still pretty close. Especially since she's actually a pretty good fighter herself so you guys train together sometimes.
"You and Mia are good friends. She's very maternal but still sees you as our leader. You both have great respect for the other but one thing none of us do is tell her how awful her cooking is. It would hurt her feelings but when your training late and she makes you something, you usually at least attempt to try it even if she's not watching because you really do appreciate it.
"Mike and Kevin are basically your younger, polar opposite twin brothers. Kevin is very dedicated to the samurai way of life and looks up to you. He likes to learn from you but he is definitely an incredibly good samurai and he knows that too. Mike on the other hand, is a great samurai too, don't get me wrong. He just likes to have a lot more fun while doing so, on occasion too much but he never forgets to remind us all to enjoy ourselves hence him taking you to the arcade to teach you how to play the games when we're free.
"Oh and Antonio! He was your childhood best friend but he had to move away. However, you gave him a zord when he did and he continued to train so he could come back and fight with you. Now he's here, and even though you've both grown up and spent so much time apart it was like he never even left. Apart from the fact that now he spends a lot of time doing his favourite hobby; fishing and you, training.
"You and Emily are pretty close too. You've probably already noticed but she's such a sweetheart and she tries to take care of us all. She's so nice but she won't take attitude from anyone and can definitely hold her own. You two are interesting, honestly. We all defend each other in battle, we're a team and we look out for one another but the way you and Emily protect each other or take care of each other is unique. You guys may be quite different with your styles of fighting but the two of you together is a unique combo because you complement each other so well."
Jayden smiles fondly as she speaks but when she ends he squints a bit. "And what about us?"
"Our relationship?"
"Yeah," he nods. "Like you said you knew my cousin too. Did we know each other?"
"We actually lived in different states. You were here in California and I was in Ohio. Shaylee's parents travelled between the two a lot. She lived in Ohio but she was here with you a lot after the big battle; the red and purple rangers were lost that day so you and I both lost our parents and she was trying to be there for both of us. She did talk about you sometimes. You and I have a good relationship now though. We talk a lot about a lot of things. Sometimes to do with being a samurai but a lot of the time it's other things. We also train together sometimes especially because in the afternoons I sometimes end up training later than the others because I have to try and fit in some school work especially if there's been an attack. Most of the time you say you've just been planning on training late but I have to admit, sometimes I think you're waiting for me because you know I like training with you." Jayden can't help but smile. He's glad he gets on well with his team, even if he doesn't remember. "We fight in a similar way so who else to offer advice than someone's who's made the same mistakes before."
"That's true," he nods. After a moment, Nina speaks again,
"When we're in battles… you look out for me. More so than the others. You think I don't notice but I do. I think you do it because I'm the youngest," she says, just as her timer blares out suddenly. "Ooh, could you pass me that bowl of mashed blueberries please. I need to finish off this." He picks up the bowl in front of him with a purple-ish puree in it which he assumes to be the blueberries.
"Thanks," she says, taking it a scooping it into the bowl with a spoon before mixing it.
"Do you mind if I help?" Jayden asks, causing Nina to glance up, a small smile on her face.
"Sure. And just, for the record, I look out for you too."
It takes the red and purple ranger about half an hour more to finish the mixture. At this stage, it's ready to be stored until Mentor arrives with the final herb which will activate the whole thing. Unfortunately, he doesn't arrive before Praescor emerges from a gap again. The rangers begin getting ready to go into battle, Jayden included. He even woke up early that morning to train with the team. Admittedly, he wasn't as good as he usually was but he could put up a decent fight. However, going into battle with the Nighlok, Nina had made him promise not to go for the Nighlok just for safety reasons. Luckily, he was able to take down most of his moogers before Mike came along and helped him too. The other rangers were able to destroy the Nighlok but just as the explosion, signalling his destruction went off, there was the sound of a motorbike revving and following the sound the rangers so Mentor Ji approaching.
"Nina! Here! This should be enough for Jayden," he says quickly, handing a handful of dried green leaf to the purple ranger along with a small vial filled with a sickly green coloured sludge.
"Thank you!" Opening the vial she added the leaf before plugging it back up and shaking it.
"We don't really have anything to mix this into so you're going to have to drink it straight. I'm sorry," she says holding it out to him. Checking that no one's around the morphed red ranger takes off his helmet before taking the vial. He unplugs it before grimacing at the smell before throwing his head back and downing it without breath. Shaking his head, he puts the cap back to the vial before throwing it away. The rangers are all focused on him as he puts his helmet back on.
"So, how do you feel?" Mia asks.
"Like that recipe should never be replicated. Also…" he says, now turning to Nina. "I actually do just plan on training late." Nina just scoffs while the other rangers look around in confusion.
"He's fine. He remembers," she says shaking her head.
"And apparently just in time too!" Mike says, pointing up, where a mega Praescor is appearing.
"I think it's time this Nighlok gets a taste of his own medicine," Jayden says drawing out his samuraizer to activate his folding zord.
Almost as soon as the rangers got back from their battle, Nina went to her room. She'd hardly done any work over the past week and it was already Friday so she had a lot to catch up on. It was in the evening right before dinner when she decided she could may as well go and train for a bit, if for no more reason than to avoid having yesterday's leftovers. Stepping out of her room she began making her way to the outdoor dojo. Emily steps inside just as she reaches the door and stepping out she sees Jayden. At first his kind of seems to be in a bit of a daze but once her notices her, the corners of his lips begin to tug up.
"Okay, so it's possible, I like training with you too."
"Oh, I already knew that. But that doesn't mean I mind hearing it out loud," the purple ranger grins picking up a wooden sword. "Ready?"
"Of course," he nods but once they begin fighting it's clear his heart's not in it. "What's up with you?"
"What do you mean?" He asks as she jumps over his sword.
"I mean," she says, trapping his sword under hers so she can look up at him while she speaks. "You're heads not here and it's insulting if I only win while you're distracted so what's wrong?" The red ranger sighs before moving his sword away so they can both stand up straight. When he doesn't seem able to find the words Nina tries. A single word. A name.
"Emily?"
"What?" Jayden says, eyebrows raised.
"It is isn't it," she questions but all she sees is the colour rise in his cheeks. "I know you have a crush on her."
"Hey not so loud," he warns.
"I was basically whispering," she replies but lowers her voice nonetheless.
"How long have you known?"
"Well I've suspected probably longer than you've known but I wasn't really sure until Christmas." Amber had clearly rubbed off on Nina much more than she'd realised.
"I was going to tell you," he begins but Nina puts up her hand to silence him.
"Its okay. Really. Besides it was more fun figuring it out myself. Anyways, I'm no relationship guru but I do know you so talk to me."
"It doesn't really matter. It's just a little crush. Besides, I'm pretty sure she's kind of with Mike."
"Actually, don't be so sure about that. They did go out a few times and they're still good friends but figured they'd stay friends. Good friends and teammates. And of course it matters! Jayden Shiba can't concentrate? We have to get to the bottom of that," Nina says dramatically.
"Well, it's possible that while I didn't have my memories I told her she seemed important to me."
"What? We were together for a good two hours yesterday and you didn't tell me I was important!" Nina gasps, the red ranger shaking his head at her antics but smiling.
Yay Chapter nineteen! I went through almost all the rangers before deciding to settle with Jayden. The mighty red ranger with no memory?! Anyways, this was a fun chapter to write so I hope ya'll enjoyed it. See you on Friday and thanks for reading!
