Chapter Six
Tommy hurried up in the shower, washing the sweat off himself. He turned the water off when he was done, grabbing the towel that hung over the towel rack, and dried himself off. Wrapping it around him when he stepped out of the tub.
He turned the bathroom light off and left, heading to his room to get dressed and to make that phone call he had been wanting to make for a while now.
He was home alone. His parents were gone for the evening to a business dinner for the company that they both worked at, leaving the whole house to him. Not often his mom and dad were both gone at the same time, but when they did, he took full advantage of it.
He walked over to his bed, grabbed his boxers and slipped them on, letting the towel drop to the floor, then put on his black jeans and towel tried his hair. He reached for his phone, picked it up and dials the number. He waited and waited, ring after ring, there was no answer. He sat down on his bed. In a way kind of glad there was no one home. He wasn't even sure why he was calling her. Maybe to just hear her voice again, how he missed her sweet voice, or maybe it was the small hope inside his heart that they would be together again.
Tommy was just about to hang up the phone when someone picked up the phone on the other end.
"Hello?" Came a soft female voice.
Tommy took a deep breath. "Is Kimberly there?" He asked, nervously.
"No she's not," She told him.
He felt his heart sink to the bottom of his stomach. Thinking that she was out with her new boyfriend. "Oh, do you know when she'll be back?"
"Kim went out of town for a few days. She said that she had to fix something," She said. "She should be back by Sunday. Can I take a message?"
"Can you tell her that Tommy called?"
"I sure will."
"Okay. Thank you. Bye," She said.
"Bye."
He hung up the phone and stood up. Grabbing his red t-shirt off the bed and left to go downstairs.
He walked into the TV room and sat down on the couch, not bothering to turn the TV on. His thoughts wander. Wondering where she had gone and what she had to fix. He hoped that everything was all right, because he couldn't live with himself if anything ever happened to her. They may not be together, right now at that moment, but he still cared about her and wanted her to be safe. And happy, even though it's hard for him to admit it, he just wants her to be happy. He would give his shirt off his back, his right arm to her if it made her happy.
His thoughts were broken when his communicator beeped. He stood up.
"Tommy here," He said into the communicator.
"Tommy, I need you to come to the power chamber," Billy's voice came through.
"Okay. Is everything okay?" He asked, concerned.
"Yes, everything's fine. I have something that you need to take a look at."
"Okay, I'm on my way," He told him. Tommy made sure that it was clear and hit a button on his communicator and teleported himself to the underground power chambers.
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"Are you sure this is going to work?" Kimberly asked, turning to face Billy, who stood next to her, afraid that their plan won't work. That one look at her, he would turn and leave before she could tell him why she was here in the first place.
Billy turned to look at her and smiled. "Yes, I'm sure it will. But, we'll have to wait and see. Tommy will understand."
"Thanks Billy, for everything," She said, giving him a hug. "I couldn't do this without you."
"You're welcome," He said, returning the hug. "Now go take your place. He'll be here any second now."
"Okay," She said, walking away going in the far back in a room. Shortly, Billy will be sending him in here to take a look at something and she will see him again.
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Her heart pound hard in her chest, nervous as all hell, when she heard voices. One that she recognized as Tommy's. She walked deeper into the dark shadow area and waited, praying that everything goes as planed.
"Now you got me here, what did you want me to take a look at?" He asked, as him and Billy walked towards the room that Kimberly was hiding in.
"It's in this room" Billy told him, as they walked in the room and he flipped on the light switch. In the middle of the room stood a red cycle.
"Whoa, what is it?" Tommy asked, walking up to it, to check it out.
"It's your new Zeo cycle," Billy told him. "It's up and running so anytime you want to take it out for a test drive, go ahead."
"This is so cool. How long have you been working on this?"
Billy smiled. "A few weeks now. Alpha is working on getting the other 4 on line for Rocky, Adam, Kat and Tanya. He should be done soon."
"I think this has to be one of the best things you've came up with," Tommy told his friend.
"Thanks man," Billy said, blushing. Anything for his friends.
