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Ultimate Hero: Thank you for the review and I have gone back and tried to improve some of my first chapters, but I couldn't really think of another way to get Kim and Tommy back together, sorry. I hope that you think it develops into a better pairing when you read the rest of it.
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Now, on with the story!
"Rocky, would you mind coming with me to pick up some more fabric?" Kim asked, not being able to find any of the other guys, as they had all been trying to stay out of her war path, even Tommy was at this point.
They had begun assembling the decorations for the gym and this first day was about to drive Kim, and all of the others, crazy. She was almost glad for her fabric miscalculation, as it gave her an excuse to leave and recompose herself, before having to return to the controlled insanity.
"Sure," Rocky said, feeling relief at being able to leave. He had always heard about Kim's elaborate plans, but had never been involved in one, until now. It was more than obvious that they would have to pull a full days work, everyday, until the night of the ball in order to get everything done. That was alright, as far as he was concerned, it kept his mind off of other things that were bothering him, namely, his rather lackluster love life.
It hadn't exactly come to his mind exactly how bad it was until he saw all his friends. They were happy and were finding people to spend the rest of their lives with. He was firmly avoiding any contact with women, except the rangers that he saw so often. He wanted a relationship, but he wasn't ready to make the leap and he didn't know when he would be ready.
"How have you been doing, Rocky?" Kim asked, picking up Tommy's keys and heading towards the faculty parking lot.
It was only eleven o'clock and Kim was hoping to end at three today, so she could do some last minute shopping, for a dress. Yes, Kim had always loved to shop, but this was one thing she had put off, mainly because she had no clue what she wanted. She knew that she wanted it to knock Tommy's socks off, but at this point, she thought that would be impossible to find with the amount of time she had left unless she pulled something drastic this afternoon.
"I've been better," Rocky said, glumly hopping into the jeep, as Kim adjusted the drivers seat to fit her much shorter frame.
Over the last five weeks, he had become more depressed and Kim was not the only one who had noticed. They all did, and they were all worried about their usually chipper friend acting like this, but none of their attempts to cheer him seemed to work. They also hadn't been able to get anything out of him as to why he was acting like this, but Kim didn't see what the harm would be in asking one more time.
"Well, what's been bothering you?" Kim asked, looking over at her friend and then pulled out of the parking lot, into the narrow one lane road.
"I don't have anyone," Rocky stated simply, keeping his eyes situated on the scenery outside his window. He didn't want to look at anyone, all he wanted to do was continue to let this depression go on and it would eventually pass, like it always did and he could blame it on his powers starting to go away if anyone really wanted something to shut them up. They all were feeling the effects of having the powers taken away now.
"Rocky, you have all of us. I don't understand why you think you don't have anyone. You're not alone Rocky," Kim said and all she could think was that Jason and Tommy were right when they had talked about what had been bothering Rocky. Of course, the two of them had plenty of experience in this area, not that they were very willing to admit that to just anyone.
"That's not what bothers me, all of you have someone special. I don't," Rocky said, looking over to see Kim staring at him for a moment before making herself look back at the road.
'Wow, Rocky. I didn't know, none of us did,' Kim thought.
She was surprised that he hadn't told Adam about how he had been feeling, but guys weren't always the most receptive to hearing something this emotionally charged. Kim wasn't even sure that she was going to be able to give him good advice, what with everything she had caused in the past.
"Don't kill me for asking, but what happened between you and Tanya?" Kim asked.
When Jason had been the Gold Ranger, the two of them had been almost inseparable and Kim had just assumed that they were still close. Tanya didn't show up when they came back to Angel Grove, so that was the first sign that something had changed, but no one seemed to know the story of what had happened, not even Adam.
"College and James happened," Rocky said, with a forced smile on his face.
What else could he say? That when he was no longer able to be a Power Ranger that he changed more than anyone could possibly know? That being a Power Ranger became his life?
No, there was nothing to say other than the most obvious; she had met James Barfield. Rocky could honestly say he didn't hold anything against either, because they still talked, every once in awhile and he still wasn't sure about what he had felt for her. He had never been as upset as Tommy when they broke up.
"Who's James?" Kim asked, trying to think if she should know this person, but she had never heard of this person before. But she wouldn't be surprised if he was Rocky's best friend, for all she knew. She hadn't kept in touch, so she had to catch up with everyone, not just Tommy.
"He's a guy she met during college," Rocky simply stated, not wanting to go into great detail about the man. It wasn't that James was cruel or anything, but it just brought up too many bad memories for him. "By then we were on the rocks, anyway. We mutually agreed it was best to break up, we're still friends, but you always have the 'what might have been' scenarios playing in your mind."
"Yeah you do," Kim said and sighed. She had experienced her fair share of 'what might have been' type daydreams, but she had been able to keep most of them out of her mind, lately.
Regret is an evil problem to have to live with and she knew she would have rather stayed with the rangers than gone through the regret of breaking up with Tommy. The Pan Globals had not been worth losing the power and her trust in her love; nothing was worth losing all of that.
"But you don't anymore," Rocky said, rather pointedly. She had gotten Tommy back, but he knew that he would never get Tanya back. She loved James and there was nothing he could do about that. "How do you get over someone who makes you feel complete? I've been on some dates, but no one makes me feel the same and I don't know if anyone ever will."
"Well, when you find the right person, you'll just know Rocky. That's the way it is," Kim said, knowing how it felt to compare everyone you date to one person. It was definitely frustrating, but it seemed like Tanya had moved on and Rocky would do the same, eventually. The thing question is, when would he be ready to truly move on and how long would it take him to do that?
"Yeah, that's what everyone has said and it still hasn't happened yet," Rocky said, as they pulled into a parking space in front of Fanny Abbott's store. He had talked with Tommy and Adam, but neither could give him much more advice than what she had just said. He just wanted to give up and not worry about love anymore, but he couldn't do that, something deep inside of him kept him looking for that special someone.
"Well, it's the only advice we can give you and love comes when you least expect it," Kim said, as she opened the door to Ms. Fanny's shop and saw someone she hadn't seen in years.
Behind the cash register, stood a petite redhead, but unlike Hayley, her hair was cut short and flipped at the ends, while her blue eyes sparkled as she noticed the new customers. She was wearing an old, lime green, gymnastics T-shirt and a pair of blue jean capris, with a pair of flip-flops. Ally Jameson, known as A.J. or Ally Mae, had been a member of the Pan Global team with Kim and had now decided to move in with her grandmother.
"Kim?" Ally asked, upon seeing her old teammate walk into her grandmother's store.
Kim hadn't changed much since the Pan Global's, but something seemed different, besides her not wearing make up and she couldn't quite put her finger on what it was. It almost seemed that her eyes shined with everything that was happening, something Ally hadn't seen since the beginning of their training, when she had been dating Tommy or whatever his name was.
"A.J., what are you doing here?" Kim asked, giving her a hug. Kim then looked over at Rocky, who seemed a little more dazed than he had been over the last few weeks. She then giggled when she figured out whom Rocky was staring at; maybe his luck was changing after all.
"I should be asking you the same question," Ally said, looking down at Kim. The last she had heard Kim had been teaching in Miami and was trying to get a grant to open a gymnastics academy, but obviously something or someone had made her return to California. She then remembered a boy named Tommy that Kim had been in love with and wondered if he had come with her, even though this man did not look anything like the boy in the pictures, although he did look vaguely familiar. "That's not Tommy, is it?"
"No, that's Rocky," Kim said as she watched the Ally's eyes sparkle to know that, maybe he was free after all. Ally had always been a bit on the reserved side, but it was fairly obvious that college had changed her a little bit. She would not have talked to Kim before or made her last remark, so Kim was glad that she finally felt comfortable enough to come out of her shell. "You'll get to meet Tommy later, that is if you are planning on staying here for awhile."
"I am, so what brings you to my Grandma's shop?" Ally asked, fiddling with a few strands of hair. It was always in her eyes, but she liked it this length, even if somedays she would kill to be able to pull it back in a ponytail. Today, happened to be one of those days.
"Fabric, well actually it's more like I didn't buy enough ribbon or fabric," Kim said, slightly embarrassed. She had always prided herself in her calculations, but this time her calculations had come well short of what she was actually going to need, but there was a first time for everything.
"Well, I'm sure Grandma would love to see you. She's in the back," Ally said and Kim then left Rocky and she alone. For a few moments, Rocky contemplated whether to follow Kim or stay put. He decided it would be best to stay put, as he was likely to get in the way and what would it hurt to get to know this new girl? "So, are you always this quiet?"
"No, usually I talk a lot more," Rocky said with a smile. He hadn't been able to take his eyes off of her and he was surprised that he didn't feel guilty, usually by now Tanya's face would pop into his head and he would stop paying attention to whoever he was looking at. Today his mind did not even seem to know that Tanya existed. At least when he was looking at Ally, it didn't have the slightest clue about Tanya, which was something he was not sure how he needed to take.
"So, how do you know Kim?" Ally asked, sitting on a stool. It had been a lazy day at the fabric store and she was glad to finally have someone to talk to, especially someone as nice looking as he was.
"We went to high school together," Rocky said and had to mentally restrain himself from saying anything else. They may no longer have the powers completely intact, but it was too soon to let anyone know who he really was.
Billy had not destroyed their powers, yet, but he had significantly weakened them. He had decided it would be best to keep them for a short time period, because who knew if someone else would show up and they didn't want to take any chances. From everything they had been told, they knew there was not another power source available and they would always need Power Rangers, unless the evil stopped attacking and that probably wouldn't happen.
"So, you were there when Tommy got the letter?" Ally asked and saw he looked shocked at her question. How did she know about that letter? From what he knew, the only ones that knew about it were the rangers and some gymnasts in Florida. "Sorry, I guess I should explain that we were on the Pan Global team together. I felt so sorry for both of them; it had to be hard on him. Before she got the idea that he might like someone else, all she would do is talk about him and some other people, but she rarely said their names. They all seemed to be such close friends, but after that letter, most of them wouldn't talk to her. I guess I would have done the same thing, but it really did hurt her a lot."
"None of us could risk it, Tommy was too upset. At least, you didn't have to spar against him," Rocky said with a shake of the head. Tommy had been vicious, getting out all of his frustrations on his sparing partner. It got so bad that at one time, Jason, Adam, Rocky, and Billy had to spar with him in shifts. They would risk injury if they sparred with him alone for too long and none of them could be injured with everything that was going on around them. "He about killed me and three of our other friends for about three months after it was sent. Then he settled down, but we still didn't mention her, it hurt him too much."
"So Tommy does martial arts?" Ally asked, having a light bulb click on in her head. One of the male gymnasts had been following Kim and she when they first started, then one day he attacked them. Why? She didn't know, but she knew that it scared her enough to not get any closer to him than the length of the gymnasium that they were forced to share. It now made sense why Kim had been able to do what she had done, even if some of it did seem to stem from somewhere other than martial arts, but she did not know where the other source could have come from and the ideas that she had gotten, were just too far fetched. "No wonder Kim was able to fight that guy off."
"What guy?" Rocky asked, confused.
Kim had never said anything about being attacked and that was probably a good thing. Tommy and Jason would have gone after the guy, no questions asked. Even now, it seemed like they would do that, so it made a lot of sense to leave that piece of her past, in the past.
"I've said too much. Sorry, but I really can't tell you until she does. It's her business, not mine," Ally said, quietly.
She was comfortable talking about it, but it didn't seem that Kim was. Of course, Ally had always thought that Kim had told Tommy before their breakup, but it was now obvious she hadn't told anyone. This made Ally wonder what Tommy would have done if he had known, because whatever it was probably would not have been pretty, not after how Rocky had described Tommy's sparring when angry.
"That's alright," Rocky said, with a reassuring smile. He was not sure that he really wanted to know about all of it right now, although he was sure he would eventually get it out of Kim. "So what really made you come to Reefside?"
"My gymnastics career ended and after going through college, I decided I wanted to come out here to work with my Grandma. I always loved California more than Florida, so why not move here?" Ally asked, offering another stool to Rocky. She had forgotten about it and was now feeling bad for not offering it any sooner.
"So you are going to stay out here?" Rocky asked, sitting down on the stool.
"Yes, I am planning on it, unless something unexpected happens," Ally said, as Kim and Ms. Fanny walked back into the front room, lugging a bolt of fabric between the two of them. They both seemed to not be paying attention to their conversation, but their entrance stopped it. Neither Rocky nor Ally felt comfortable continuing with either in the room.
"A.J., you want to come with us to the charity ball?" Kim asked, putting the bolt of fabric on the counter with a little help from Ms. Fanny. She had easily found more of the fabric, but Ms. Fanny and she had decided to watch Ally and Rocky for a few minutes before walking back into the store and they were happy with what they were seeing. "It would be fun and you'd get to meet some people from around here."
"A ball?" Ally asked, shocked. "But I don't have anything to wear."
"I don't either, at this point. How about I pick you up and we'll go shopping after all of the work gets done for today?" Kim asked, knowing she had neglected to buy any clothes and now had only four days to find the right dress for the occasion.
"Go, Ally Mae," Fanny said, using the nickname she had bestowed upon her granddaughter, many years ago. "You need to have some fun and maybe you'll find that person you've been talkin' 'bout."
"Alright, I'll go," Ally said, turning slightly red at her grandmother's insinuation. Rocky seemed to notice as well, but simply shrugged before giving her another smile, which she gladly accepted and then returned one of her own.
"I'll be here at about three. I don't think we'll all be able to take any more than that today," Kim said, turning to look at Rocky, who seemed to gone off into Rocky-land for a little while. "Rocky. Rocky, we gotta go."
"Oh," Rocky said, shaking himself back into reality and he then helped Kim pick up the bolt of fabric.
"See you later," Ally said with a smile.
"Yeah, I'd enjoy that," Rocky said, as Kim and Ms. Fanny exchanged a look, before Kim and Rocky disappeared out of the store.
"Now, Ally Mae, he seems to be nice enough," Ms. Fanny said, with a mischievous grin. She had noticed where her granddaughters eyes had traveled as the boy exited and thought it would be fun to let her know. "Nice butt, too."
"Grandma!" Ally exclaimed, slightly shocked by her grandmother's musings. Of course, her grandmother had always been to the point about almost any situation, even boys' butts, especially if she noticed Ally's actions.
"Don't say you weren't lookin', missy. I saw you with my own two eyes and I'm just statin' the obvious, you know that," Ms. Fanny said, pointing her index finger in Ally's face, with an amused smile. "While I'm statin' the obvious, I might as well tell you that he likes you, Ally Mae. You did pick up on that one, didn't you dear?"
"Sure, Grandma," Ally said, jokingly.
"Don't you 'sure Grandma' me. I saw the way he was lookin' at you, sweetie," Ms. Fanny said, gathering steam with each word that came from her mouth. "He likes you, a lot Ally."
"Grandma, I've only been here two days," Ally said, pleading for her to not push this anymore. She knew her grandmother was serious, as she was not using her nickname any longer. "I'm not sure I'm ready for something like this."
"Ally, don't try to confuse me with crap like that. You wished when you first met Kim that you had what she did and does have, this may be your chance and I don't want you to miss out on it, sweetie," Ms. Fanny said.
"So you don't mind me taking the rest of the day off?" Ally asked with a sheepish grin.
"Honey, you can have a week off if you promise you won't run away from this guy," Ms. Fanny said, giving Ally a tight hug. She was her oldest grandchild and Ms. Fanny was hoping that she'd live to be a great-grandmother, but it might take some prodding to get that moving along.
"Grandma, I wouldn't do that," Ally said, with a smile and happily sat down on the stool, once again. She knew that she wasn't going as Rocky's date, but spending an evening with him was sure to be fun.
"You think that she'll come?" Rocky asked, as they piled the fabric into the back of the jeep. He was trying to not make it seem that he was as interested as he was and thought he had succeeded, for about a millisecond.
"Yes and she'll dance with you if you ask," Kim said with a smile, as she watched Rocky's expression turn into one of shock.
"Kim, how could you tell?" Rocky asked.
"Well, you were quiet and I knew you weren't staring at the fabrics, Rocky," Kim said, as Rocky's face reddened some. Had he really been that obvious?
"So you're right. Is there anything I can get for her?" Rocky asked.
"Yeah, a sheet of paper with your number on it, would be more than appreciated," Kim said, as they pulled out of the parking lot. The rest of the afternoon went rather smoothly, with the load of sewing being finished only a few minutes before three o'clock. Since they had vehicle constraints, Kim and Trini were going to be dropped off at the fabric store. Both of them had not gotten a dress yet and they were both worried about finding something suitable.
"A.J., you ready to go?" Kim asked, walking into the fabric store with Trini trailing behind her.
"Yeah," Ally said grabbing her purse and car keys.
"You don't mind driving, do you?" Kim asked.
"No, I get to go shopping," Ally said. "And besides you have to explain to me about Rocky."
"So this is who Rocky has been talking about ever since he got back from the fabric store?" Trini asked with a smile. Rocky had been talking almost non-stop since he had gotten back and they all could tell that this girl had really gotten his attention.
"Yeah," Kim said. "Let's go, we don't have a lot of time and Tommy is expecting me to get home by nine."
"You have a curfew?" Ally asked with a laugh. As long as she had known Kim, she had never listened to what time she was supposed to be home. She just got there when she got there, which meant Tommy must have a huge pull on her.
"It's not a curfew, it's something else," Kim said. To be honest, the main reason she needed to get back early was because Tommy had to teach the next day and she didn't want to wake him by getting in too late.
"Oh, like the 'something else' that happened the last time you were in California?" Ally asked, having sensed that Kim had not told anyone the complete truth about what had happened and maybe the only ones that really knew were sitting right in front of her. It had really bothered her when Kim came back and was more depressed than before, but she wouldn't explain it, to anyone and they all tried to get it out of her.
"No, it's not that type of 'something else'," Kim said with a smile. She was very grateful that she had not been captured, otherwise she probably would have had a nervous breakdown. It would have reminded her too much of her last trip, when all hell broke loose. She still couldn't get over being evil and what it had caused for all of them, especially Tommy. She knew that she wouldn't have been able to live with herself if that had happened again. "I'm sorry, Trini this is Ally, Ally this is Trini."
"Did you try to talk her out of the letter?" Trini asked, as Kim glared at her. Trini knew that many of her friends at the academy had tried to talk Kim out of it, but she was too stubborn to listen, to anyone. If she had been stopped, then Tommy wouldn't be so nervous about proposing, because they would already be married.
"Yes," Ally said, quickly turning her head towards Kim. "But she sent the damn thing anyway. So, is Tommy happily married to the person she thought he had fallen in love with?"
"No, he's actually taken Ms. Hart here back," Trini said, as Kim's glare become more predominant across her features.
"Enough, ya'll," Kim said, as Trini and Ally both sighed in defeat. They would have loved to continue picking on her, but she was obviously not in the mood for it. "Has Jason talked to you, Trini?"
"Kinda, but he keeps avoiding whatever it is he wanted to tell me," Trini said with a sigh. She was honestly starting to believe that Jason didn't care and they would have been best off like they were before. Of course there was the little thing of Billy liking Hayley. It was just starting to become depressing, no matter how many times Kim reassured her that Jason did like her, but he was not sure how to say it.
"Who's Jason?" Ally asked, as they go in her car. The name sounded familiar, but she couldn't place who he was.
"You met him. He was the one who came and got me to go back to Angel Grove last time," Kim said, watching as Ally drove towards an open air mall on the outer edge of the town.
"Oh," Ally said, as Trini and Kim giggled. "Don't make fun of my not so impressive vocabulary."
"We won't," Trini said, trying to stop herself from laughing.
"You have anything in mind, A.J.?" Kim asked.
"Yeah, I do," Ally said. "What about the two of you?"
"I have no clue, other than it is going to be a cocktail dress," Kim said, knowing she had been debating whether to wear pink or white. She did want to shock Tommy, after all, and a color change would surely do that.
"Neither do I," Trini said.
"Trini, how about red for you?" Ally asked, as the other two girls looked at her with obvious shock gracing their features. That color had always been off limits, for multiple reasons, but it was definitely something that would grab Jason's attention and they both knew that. Jason had never seen Trini in red and her showing up in his signature color would stun him in more than one way. "What? Did I say something wrong?"
"No," Kim said, having recovered first. "That's just not a color either of us would usually think of."
"Okay," Ally said and saw them let out sighs of relief. "But that's all? No other reasons behind red being an off limits color?"
"That's it," Trini said, glad that they had arrived at the mall. The car had begun to feel stuffy over the past few seconds, mainly because she had never been in such a heated discussion about why she only wore a certain color.
"Where do you want to go?" Ally asked, looking around at the ten or so stores. They had to be able to find something here, or it would not be good for them.
"How about that one?" Kim asked, spotting a little boutique that seemed to specialize in semi-formal wear.
"Sounds good to me," Trini said and they quickly started making their way towards that store.
"So do you know what color you want to wear?" Kim asked Ally, having decided that Trini was going to wear red, whether she liked it or not. Now the problem was finding a style that would most compliment her and would definitely make Jason speechless, which was pretty hard to do.
"I really don't, but I have a feeling my Grandma would want me to wear green. She says it 'compliments the hair' and that I should flaunt this with all that I have," Ally said, swinging her short hair, as the other two girls laughed. "She would really like for me to find something stunning, but I'm not sure that I'm on board with that idea."
"So, Ms. Fanny picked up on that too?" Kim asked, holding in the laughter that was trying to escape her mouth. Ms. Fanny had made an impression on her the first day she met her that she could pick up on minute details very easily.
"Yes, you should have heard some of the things she said," Ally said. "She was very observant of some of my actions and called them out to me and the whole world for that matter."
"So, you were looking at his butt?" Trini asked, with a sly grin. There were only two areas she looked at when she first met a guy and that was one of them, even if you couldn't judge a guys character by his backside.
"Yeah," Ally said, turning slightly red. "She caught me, too."
"How about this one?" Kim asked, pulling a crimson colored strapless dress off of the rack and holding it up for Trini to see.
"Maybe," Trini said, taking it into the growing stack of red dresses that were being picked out for her. She had never been one to take this big of a risk, but it would definitely be worth it. "The two of you don't have much to try on."
"Don't worry about us, Trini," Kim said picking up a white dress, which had some small pink squares of silk ribbon coming up in random patterns. This was definitely a compromise between wearing all white or all pink, which made her happy. "I have a pretty good idea of what I want."
"Same here," Ally said.
"White?" Trini asked, looking at the dress Kim had picked up.
"Well, maybe Tommy will enjoy this more than the pink I would usually wear," Kim said, with a shrug of the shoulders.
"Someone explain to me why all of you wear only certain colors," Ally said, thoroughly confused. She always just picked whatever color she liked and it seemed like they stuck to certain colors.
"A.J., there are some things that can't be explained," Trini said, trying to slam the door shut on the color issue. "Both of you are managing to get me out of yellow, so don't worry about it."
"So, you ready to try on clothes?" Ally asked, feeling that she would never find out, but that would be alright, for the time being.
"Yeah," Kim said, feeling that they had combed the store well enough.
"You are sure about red?" Trini asked, looking at herself in a bright red, knee length halter dress. She did not like this one bit and could only hope that they knew what they were doing.
"Maybe not that red," Kim said, walking out in a pale pink halter dress, this made her appear to be even shorter than she already was.
"No, definitely not," Ally said, walking out of her dressing room in a light green halter that had a collar secured firmly around her neck. The dress had dark green, horizontal pinstripes and it's hem feel slightly above her knee and with her deep auburn hair, it just fit; with a killer pair of black heels and some diamond earrings, it would be perfect for this occasion.
"So, we all agree this one is a no?" Trini asked, confirming what she felt with her fellow shoppers.
"Agreed," Kim said, as Trini let out a sigh of relief. "Ally, you really need to think about getting that one, though."
"Yeah," Ally said. "But you need to ditch that dress Kim, it does nothing for you."
"I know," Kim said, as she went back in her dressing room. "I'm really thinking about branching out to another color. Black, white, something else besides pink."
"You'd shock Tommy if you did that," Trini said, taking the next dress off of the hook and carefully slipping it on.
"And you'd knock Jason dead if you walked in wearing any shade of red," Kim said, picking up the white and pink dress, as it was the only other one she had gotten to try on. She was much more worried about finding Trini the perfect dress and did not really care what she bought for herself, although Trini was determined to make sure Kim would look nice, as she knew some more things than Kim did about that night.
"From pure shock," Trini chimed in.
"And some other things," Kim said, knowing Trini could definitely think a few of those other things right off the top of her head.
"I know who Jason is, but what are the two of you talking about?" Ally asked, walking out of her dressing room. They had been talking about Jason off and on, but it had never been made clear what Jason and Trini's relationship was.
"She likes him, he likes her, but both haven't said anything to the other. We're hoping to either make him speechless or stutter so much you can not understand him, if we do that then we will have found a good dress," Kim said, emerging from her dressing room in the white and pink dress.
This dress had pink stitching and pale pink ribbon peeking up through the fabric every few inches. The dress had small spaghetti straps, with a modest v in the front that bunched slightly in the middle of her bust. It came down snuggly over her waist and then curved out with her hips. From her hips in continued straight down, until it was an inch or two below her knees. She had found a pair of white kitten heels, which made her about a half-inch, taller, but suited the dress well. She had also picked up some pink, square-stud earrings and a bracelet that matched the earrings perfectly.
"Okay and you're going to get that dress, by the way," Ally said, in a no-nonsense tone of voice. Trini then walked out of her dressing room, not appearing to be happy, at all.
"I know," Kim said, rather satisfied with her choice. "And you are going to get that first one you put on."
"Yeah," Ally said.
"I don't know about red, anymore," Trini said, walking out in a rust colored dress. Trini's face told it all, she hated the dress and was hoping they would let her go back into her comfort zone, but to no avail.
"Trini, try the strapless dress on and if you don't like it, we'll go find you some yellow," Kim said, knowing that dress fit Trini's personality better than the others.
"Alright," Trini said, as they all turned to go back into their dressing rooms. Trini had another dress to try on, while Kim and Ally were getting back into their street clothes and gathering the garments and the accessories they planned to purchase.
"Trini, what's taking you so long?" Kim asked, after they had been waiting for almost ten minutes. Trini was staring at her herself in the mirror and wondering if they would like the dress as much as she did. The deep crimson colored dress, accentuated her curves, and made her feel like she could rule the world. Kim had gotten her a pair of crimson stilettos, which gave her just enough height to pull off this mid-calf length dress. They had also given her a pair of teardrop shaped, diamond earrings and a bracelet to match. When she finally did walk out in front of Kim and Ally, she was surprised to see that their faces where astonished at the dress.
"Do you like this one?" Trini asked, trying to hide the smile she had forming on her lips.
"Trini, you have to get that one," Kim said, rather certain that Jason would be speechless or a blubbering fool one, either of which would be perfectly acceptable.
"Yeah, you do," Ally said, as Trini smiled broadly at the two of them.
"Well, I guess that I only have to wait three days before I know how he feels," Trini said and turned to go back into the dressing room. After a few minutes, she emerged and they went to purchase their finds, all wondering what Friday night would bring for them.
AN: That is all for this chapter and the dance will be covered in the next two chapters. So, stay tuned if you want to find out the rest of this story. For those of you who like Tanya, please do not thinkI am bashing her, I just wanted to make an old relationship that had died down. Also, Ms. Fanny is Southern, so I am trying to give her the correct dialect. I hope that you enjoyed this one and that you feel comfortable enough to review! Thanks for reading!