Years After
Author's Note: Thanks for all of the reviews & emails! Love you guys! My sincere apologies for the slow updating. I'm working on it…
Disclaimer: I only own lil Annie, Jonathan, & Tom… and not forgetting my story and plot.
Now on with the story…
Kimberly looked at her reflection in the mirror. She had on a pink top, and white pants. Nothing fancy, just casual looking. That's just the look she's going for.
"DO I look ok?" She asked without averting her eyes. Trini and Aisha, both giggling at the back, came up to her sides and each put a hand on her shoulder.
After having visited Kimberly numerous times between these few months, the bond between these three women grew, although Aisha might not know the full story yet, but she is contended with what she gets now. Spending time with them, and getting to know a little more about her current feelings… Both Kim and Aisha regretted not keeping in contact all those years ago, and promise to make up for it.
"You look find girl. Though, you could loose the hair band." Aisha's hand moved swiftly up till Kimberly's pink band that nestled on her hair, and gave it a little tug. Soft caramel colored hair fell nicely down around Kimberly's face. "There, much better."
"Now you're reminding me of the day, you & Tommy went on your 1st date…" Trini smiled. "But of course… You were all dressed up… Trying on every single outfit you had in your wardrobe, picking the best one out of them. Hmm, how long did it take?"
Kimberly stared at Trini's image in the mirror, sending her a "That was so not funny." message through her stare. Kimberly's expression changed to a one with a serious look. She threw her hand in the air. "What am I doing!" She backed away from the mirror. "What am I doing!"
Aisha now looked at her friend, puzzled. Trini on the other hand, had a good guess with what's on Kimberly's mind, started walking towards her friend.
"I'm not supposed to be doing this. It's just a meeting, a reunion with an old friend. Why am I acting like it's such a big deal? I had numbers of them with Billy, Zack…"
"Kim, its ok… You know why you're doing this. You just do not want to believe it."
Aisha, finally caught up with what's going on, laid a comforting hand around Kimberly's shoulder.
"Relax. It'll be ok. After you're done with this, the whole thing will be lifted of your chest… But, how it goes on from there on is not for you to determine. We'll leave it in God's hands."
"I feel awful… He's with Kat now, but I'm… I'm… having these feelings…"
"Did I ever tell you, that he thought Tom was your boyfriend?" Aisha joked, trying to lift the mood.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Trini smiled, receiving a nod from Aisha followed by a small laugh. "Though I have to admit, you two do look kind of good together. Hey Kim, have you ever consider…"
"Stop! Don't even go there…" Kim scrunched up her face. "That's like… INCEST!" A small smile crept onto her features.
"Hey Kim." Kimberly looked up at Aisha with curiosity. "Thinking like that does not make you evil. I'm not saying that it's a green light for you to hurt Kat's feelings either." Aisha joked. Then she turned serious again. "Although I don't know what the reason is for all of those things to happen… But the main point is I can tell that you've never stopped loving him… By the side glances, the little smiles…"
Kimberly cut in playfully, "Gee, I did do that?" Two pairs of eyes stared at her, answering her question. "And I thought it was not that obvious." She sighed.
"It's not. I bet you a hundred bucks, none of them noticed… You have to be as observant as US to find out. Plus, I would not call us best friends for nothing you know." Trini received a slight nod from Aisha. All three of them laughed at that little comment.
- Jason's place -
"She did?" Jason asked with raised eye brows as he lifts his head to face his friend. The news reporter talking to them from the television screen has totally been ignored at this point.
"Yea... Wait, is there…. something you wanna tell me bro? Well, it's not that there's anything, but… You've been giving me these weird feelings lately… You know."
Jason's raised his eye brows again, which prompted Tommy to continue, "Like your current reaction to this situation."
Jason's features relaxed as he explains. "I am very surprise Tommy, I mean; Kim has been sort of avoiding you since you two met again, well no offence to that but… I know I've been prodding you to get things settled and all and yea now that she agreed to go out …" he let his sentence trailed away, not bothering whether did it made any sense. Unknown to Tommy, Jason's mind was preoccupied with another question of his own. Ok Kimmie girl, what are you up to now.
Tommy did not quite get what Jason meant but he sighs in defeat. "At least now we could finally get a closure and just maybe get some slight info on what's bugging her. She just seems so distracted… and she's just so different now. The light in her eyes… the…"
"People change Tommy." Jason cut in. Tommy just nodded in respond.
"Well, what are you sitting around here for? Got freshen up and start figuring what to wear." Jason gave Tommy a little push.
"Jase, you're making it sound like I'm out on a date." But up in his head, Tommy is already figuring the right outfit to wear later.
"Well, you were the one analyzing her like she's your girl friend." Tommy's expression was a message of "Not funny Jase," Jason could not help but chuckle at his expression.
"Ok. I'm just joking. I would not want Kat to pounce on me later. You did tell Kat bout this right?" That last sentence brought Tommy out of his thoughts. Jason continued, "You know how the female species could get when dealing with this stuff…"
"Yea, as if Adam was not a good enough example." Both men chuckled at that little memory.
Tommy made a mental note to remind him to call Katherine later.
Well, that's all for this chapter. Hmm, don't think it came out that well, but anyway, you know the drill. Review or write me, k? P
I know, I know, you're probably screaming "When on earth they are going to meet!" … Don't strangle me. Definitely next chapter. So hold on there.
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