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Chapter Three

"I guess this is good-bye," I said sadly to my friends after hearing the announcement that my plane was beginning to board.

Kim hugged me tightly. "I'm going to miss you so much!" she cried.

"I know. I'll miss you, too." I turned to the rest of my friends. "I promise you guys, I'll write and call as often as I can. And I'll visit over the summer, if I can."

"We'll write to you, too," Billy assured me as he embraced me next. "We'll fill you in on everything that goes on here."

I stepped up to Tommy after Billy and I hugged. "I'm sorry for leaving like this. I know you think I'm a quitter-"

"Stop right there," Tommy interrupted me. "Don't you even think that, because I definitely don't. We're all going to have to move on sometime or another…and now's your turn. But you are not a quitter."

"Kim told you that, didn't she?" I said with a slight giggle as I stood on tiptoe to hug him.

"Yes," he admitted sheepishly. "But I know she's right. It won't be the same fighting without you, though."

I smiled sadly and turned to Tanya, who had come with the rest of the group to the airport. "I know. But I believe I left my powers in good hands."

"Don't worry. I won't let them - or you - down," Tanya reassured me as she, too, hugged me.

"I know you'll make a good Ranger," I told her softly.

I took a deep breath as I stepped up to Rocky. Wordlessly, I threw my arms around his neck.

"I don't know what I'm going to do without you. I love you, Ish," Rocky whispered in my ear as he hugged me back.

"I know." I closed my eyes as tears rolled down my cheek. I wanted so badly to say those three special words back to him, but I just couldn't. In fact, I couldn't really say anything; I had said everything I needed to say last night.

I pulled away from Rocky and stepped in front of Adam. He took my face in his hands and dried my tears with his thumbs. "I'm really going to miss you," I said over the lump in my throat.

"I know. I'm going to miss you a lot, too. I love you so much, Aish."

Glancing at Rocky briefly out of the corner of my eye, I saw jealousy flash across his face. Looking back up at Adam, I whispered, "I love you, too, Adam."

He leaned down and kissed me passionately. (I don't think he cared that my parents were right there. I know I didn't. I was more worried about how Rocky felt about seeing us kiss than what my parents were thinking.)

When we broke away, he hugged me tightly as if he never wanted to let go.

"Aisha, come on," my mother urged me as she lightly squeezed my shoulder. "We've got to go."

Adam and I reluctantly pulled away from each other. With tears streaming down my face, I grabbed my purse and the small duffel bag I was taking with me on the plane and said one last good-bye to all my friends. Then I followed my parents on to the plane, without looking back once.

* * * * Rocky's POV * * * *

She's gone.

Aisha's gone.

The girl I loved most in the world was gone. How was I going to survive not seeing her every day anymore? True, I wouldn't have to see her with Adam. But I would rather see her with Adam than not see her at all.

A part of me wonders if Aisha really will keep in touch with us. She had promised she would, and Aisha's never broken a promise to anyone. But she didn't turn back once as she walked onto the plane. Did that mean she wanted to forget Angel Grove and the people in it completely? Did she really want to forget all of us?

I feel so lonely. I know I have the rest of the Rangers, but it's not the same without Aisha. For the first time since kindergarten, Aisha and I were more than ten minutes away from each other. We were even more than ten hours away from each other now.

I can't imagine how Adam feels. Actually, I don't think he's as lonely and upset as I am. He went off somewhere with Tanya when we got back from the airport earlier this afternoon. I have the impression that she has a crush on him, and I think he might be attracted to her, too. But I could be wrong. I know how much he loves Aisha, and he's definitely not the type of guy to cheat on his girlfriend even if she's in a different continent.

I wish I could tell someone how I'm feeling, how much I really love Aisha. I just want to tell somebody, anybody, about everything that happened between us. The weight of telling Aisha I loved her had been lifted from my chest weeks ago, but it was replaced with the weight of not being able to tell someone else everything that I felt. But who can I tell? Definitely not Adam. Billy and Tommy aren't the type of people I usually confide in. If I told Kim, she'd probably tell everyone else. And I haven't known Tanya long enough.

So I guess I'll just have to live with the feeling that Aisha will never love me back and that nobody will ever understand how I feel forever.

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