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A/N : I'm not out to confuse you with this chapter, though I just might, so I'll explain a few things ahead of time. Kat and Zack are friends, nothing more…implications in earlier chapters may have lead to other conclusions, and I'm sorry for that if that was the case, I was debating on pairing them up and decided not to half way through this chapter. Zack is dating a girl by the name of Brandy and Kat is dating Isabel's older brother Donny, actually they're engaged but that's another story all together. I still haven't made it to Tommy and Kim's car accident so you will have to hang on just a bit longer to find out what has happened there, bear with me and thank you to all of those who have read this and special thanks to all of you who have reviewed. I greatly appreciate it. Now, without any further adieu, on with the story….

THE POWER RANGERS IN :

THE HARDEST THING I EVER DID

PART 2

Chapter 5 : Giant Revelations

Jason's POV :

I pulled the car into the parking lot, surprised at how busy the store was in the middle of the week. "Do we really have to go to this one?" I asked Trini as I maneuvered into a parking spot. Shopping of any form was not in the top spot of my list of what I considered fun. "Seems kind of busy today, sure you don't want to go someplace else instead?"

She just glared at me, "We have to go to this one Jase," she said in her tone of voice that told me there was no room for debate on this particular topic. I sighed as I threw the car into park and turned the engine off. "Besides," she continued, either not hearing or choosing to ignore my sigh of resignation, "they're having a sale on Kim's favorite kind of ice cream." she finished and just looked at me expectantly.

I pocketed the car keys and climbed out of the car, sighing once again. There had to be a way to get out of this. "Exactly how many stores are we gonna go to today?" I asked as I followed her up to the grocery store.

She turned around and fixed me with yet another glare, "I believe you have me confused with Kim. I'm not the shopoholic." She grabbed a shopping cart and briskly walked into the store, not even bothering to see if I was following her.

I sighed, again and followed her into the store. "Trini!" I called to her just before she got into the indoor entrance for the store. She stopped, turned around and looked at me raising one of her perfectly sculpted eyebrows. "I forgot the cell phone in the car." I turned around to walk back to the car.

"Jason, we're just going into the store, you don't need that phone," she said, her hands planted on either side of her hips. "They can leave a message if anyone does call anyhow." I was just about to argue the point until she started to glare at me once more, she seemed to be doing an awful lot of that today. For some reason I had this odd feeling down in the pit of my stomach that this was going to be a really bad day. "Jason!" she yelled, sounding just a bit exasperated. "Rocky is probably still at the house-eating everything, and Tommy is probably on his way back from taking Kim to where ever it was she had to go today. You have nothing to worry about, so come on!"

There was no arguing with her so I followed her into the store. Immediately she headed for the chips and soda, which confused me. "Um, Trini?" I started to say as she turned around to look at me, a two litre of Code Red Mountain Dew in one hand and two litre of Wild Cherry Pepsi in the other.

"What?" she asked as she looked from on soda bottle to the other, as if deciding which she should get.

"I thought we came in here for ice cream," I said.

She just gave me 'The Look'. "Jason," she said as if she were talking to a small child, "We didn't come in here to just get the ice cream. There are other things we're going to need as well, and since the ice cream is cold we're going to get the other items first."

I just looked at her blankly, "Oh, okay." I said, still completely confused.

"Jason, it's nearly ninety degrees outside and probably seventy or eighty in here, the ice cream would melt before we ever made it to the checkout lines." she said, again with the voice like she was talking to a small child.

"I understand that," I said, using the same voice on her, "so why don't you just use those ice cream bags that are provided over there?"

She actually rolled her eyes, "Jase, Hon, those things never actually work. We'd have soup long before we ever made it to the registers. Just trust me, ok?" She smiled brightly and held up two bags of chips for my inspection. I looked down into the cart and realized that she had put both bottles of soda into the cart during our exchange of words. "Sour Cream and Onion or Barbeque chips?" she asked looking from one bag of chips to the other. She looked up at me, awaiting an answer.

"You know I like Barbeque chips," I answered.

"So does Kim, and Tommy I believe…what about the others?"

"Rocky will eat anything you put in front of him; Adam I think likes Salt and Vinegar, so does Brandy-"

"Is she going to be back?"

"Zack says her plane is suppose to be arriving later this evening." Trini nodded her head in understanding.

"What about Kat and Isabel?" She had her back toward me, contemplating the chips and other junk food.

"Um, I've seen Iz eating that knew kind of Lays chips over there." I pointed to a bag of chips that read in bold letters Hickory BBQ. She grabbed the bad and threw it into the cart. "Um, you'd better get more than one bag."

She turned around to look at me curiously. "It's a super sized bag, won't that be enough?"

"No, last time Iz had a bag of those she refused to share them with anyone. Rocky tried to steal them from her several times and each time he got his hands smacked. It was interesting to say the least." She raised an eyebrow in interest. "You'll have to ask Rocky about it." I said and smiled.

"Ok," she said as she grabbed another bag of the chips and threw them into the car on top of the numerous brands and flavors of soda she'd put into the cart. "So, what else?"

"How am I suppose to know?" I asked. She just looked at me. "Well, you know some of them just as well as I do." I said.

"Oh really?" she asked, once more arching an eyebrow. "You've known some of them longer than I have."

"Not by much." I responded.

"Well still-"

"Just get a little of everything. Some Doritos and pretzels, don't forget the tortilla chips and salsa…" I paused, thinking of what else you would get for a party. "Oh, and don't forget the cheese and baloney. Did you think of a cake?"

"A cake?"

"Yeah, a cake. No party is ever complete without a cake. Kim likes chocolate, doesn't she?"

"I actually hadn't thought about a cake…" Trini said as she stood there and contemplated the idea. "What do you think, should we get a full sheet or a half sheet?"

"With the way Rocky eats? You'd better get a full sheet cake, but even that might not be enough."

"What about Donny?" she asked, referring to Kat's missing Beau.

"How should I know? Ask his sister or girlfriend, they'd be able to tell you." I answered back.

"You don't know when he's coming back?" she asked.

"Nope. Kat or Isabel would know the answer to that question." I answered.

"Oh, well ok. So, we got some Code Red Mountain Dew, and Wild Cherry Pepsi-"

"Did you get some regular Mountain Dew?" I interrupted her thoughts.

"Yes, I got a twelve pack of that." she answered and pointed down into the cart. "I also got Cherry Coke, and some 7-Up…oops, can't forget the regular Pepsi," she quickly grabbed some off of the shelf and threw that into the cart, being careful so as not to shmoosh any of the chips. "Barbeque chips, Salt and Vinegar, that Hickory BBQ, and also Sour Cream and Onion…" she continued to mumble off what was in the cart and adding something if she found she had forgotten something.

"Ok, time to go and get the cake." she said and headed off toward the front of the store, then veered off quickly to the left once she had reached the front.

"I'll be over looking at the magazines when you're done." I said, she just nodded her head and continued on her way. Once she had disappeared from my line of sight I headed outside to the car. Pulling the keys from my pocket I unlocked the passenger side door. Slowly opening the door so as not to hit the car parked next to me I sat down on the car seat and opened the glove compartment box and pulled the small red cell phone from it's sheath.

I pushed the power button and waited momentarily for the tiny phone to warm up. It beeped quickly then the messages icon began to flash. I punched in a series of numbers and held the small device up to my ear and waited for the messages to play back.

{Message number 1 : 9:48 am}

{Mr. Scott, this is Shirley Kizer from the dojo, I tried getting a hold of both Mr. Oliver and Mr. DeSantos and got their voice mail also…it seems there is some problem with the heating systems this morning, they're not working correctly. If you could be so kind as to call as soon as you get this message, I greatly appreciate it.}

Beep

{Message number 2 : 10:01 am}

{Mr. Scott, hello it's Shirley again…I'm sorry if I worried you, but Mr. Park was in earlier, just shortly after I called and he found out what the problem was. It seems one of the kids did something to the thermostat or something…anyway, please disregard the prior message. Thanks.}

Beep

{Message number 3 : 10:28 am}

{Jase, it's Rocky…um, we're on our way over to County General. There's been an accident, we don't know how bad right now. Iz took the call, she's pretty shook up right now so we can't get a lot of information out of her. Um, if you want to meet us over there…we'll see you there. We'll meet you at the Emergency Room…see you when you guys get there, bye.}

Beep

{End of messages.}

I bolted back into the store to find Trini, we had to get over to the hospital right away. I didn't know exactly what had happened or who had been involved, but I knew from the feeling within the pit of my stomach that it couldn't be very good. For Rocky to leave a message on my voice mail led me to believe it was even worse than I dared to even think. I had the strangest feeling coarse through my body that one of my friends was about to die…

Cliffhanger if I ever saw one…Ok, so exactly what happens and does someone die, you're all probably wondering right now, aren't you? Someone does die…I will give you that much. But I'm not going to tell you who or how…you'll just have to wait for the next chapter. Remember, please review…and please don't get to mad at me for what I am about to do…it'll have a happy ending anyhow, that should give you some sort of measure of comfort…maybe. Well, catch you all on the flip side and stay tuned for the next chapter.