Hi everyone. Here is the next installment, it's not the best chapter but it will give you something to chew on until chapter 11, which should be up either friday or saturday. I promise it will be more interesting though. And as always, enjoy. Oh yeah, thanks so much for the reviews. It was really fun to read some of you predictions.

"I'm good man, it's great to hear from you," said the former Red Ranger.

Tommy felt comforted when he heard the sound of his best friend's voice on the phone. He had always admired Jason ever since that day he competed with him in the martial arts tournament back in Angel Grove. The two were meant to be best friends from the start, and although their friendship had taken many detours in the past, it was solid as a rock now, in their adulthood.

"So, what's up?" asked Jason quizzically.

Tommy wanted nothing more than to pour out the events of the last few hours to the guy he trusted more than himself, but he knew it just was not a good idea. In the past he never once hesitated to call Jason in a Ranger emergency, even if just for advice. But this time was different. This time was personal.

If he told Jason of his suspicions of Kimberly then Jason would immediately make it his business and that was just too risky. For one, it would make him a target for Zedd and Rita, too, and he had no powers to protect himself. And second, it was senseless to get Jason involved when the Pink Ranger might not even be Kim. So, Tommy decided to play it cool.

"Oh, not much is going on, just going to work and saving the world. You know how it is," responded Tommy nervously.

Jason knew his friend well and he knew that Tommy was a terrible liar.

"Yeah? How is Ranger business going?" he was going to try to subtly get to the bottom of this first.

"It's...alright. The Rangers are giving it their best and so far so good. I mean the world is still in existence right?"

"Right," said Jason with hesitation. "Well I'm glad to hear that things are going well." He was waiting for Tommy to get to the point of his phone call.

"Yup." Replied Tommy.

There was a long silence.

"So, um, it's not that I don't like hearing from you, man. But I'm just kind of curious as to why you're calling."

Jason did not like the vibe he was getting from the Black Ranger, and he could not understand why Tommy was not being honest with him when he had always been before.

"Um, well," Tommy knew he could not just come right out and ask about Kimberly, but there was no other way he could think of. "I was just wandering if you had, um, K-Kimberly's address." He could not believe how incredibly nervous he sounded. But he realized that he was not nervous about lying to his best friend, he was nervous about finally talking to someone about Kimberly.

Jason was totally shocked and confused at Tommy's request. The last time Tommy asked him about Kim was the summer after high school graduation, and even then he was just being polite because he knew Jason was excited about how well Kim had done in the Pan Globals.

"Um yeah, I've got it here somewhere," said Jason in total confusion as he ruffled through the papers in his computer desk. He had no idea how to react to this. "Just hang on sec okay, let me find it."

As Tommy waited he began to dread the answer to his question. He was honestly expecting Jason to give him an address in Florida or maybe even Paris. But a small part of him knew what he was about to hear.

"You still there man?" asked Jason. He was so dumbfounded by the whole situation that he was not even thinking. He knew Kimberly's address by heart because she now resided in the same house she lived from the time they were small kids up until they were teenagers.

"I can't believe I totally spaced it, but Kimberly lives in Angel Grove, in the same house she lived in back when we were kids. She moved..."

Tommy did not need to hear the rest. He was overwhelmed with an incredible feeling of anguish and hurt. If Jason had said anywhere else he would not be so worried. But it only made sense that Rita and Zedd would have picked a Ranger who was still in Angel Grove to do their evil bidding. The couple would always be drawn back to that city, and all of the Rangers knew that. Maybe that was why none of them chose to stay there. They just did not want to even toy with the possibility of ever encountering the evil duo again.

"Tommy? Tommy? You still there man?"

Tommy's thoughts were interrupted.

"Uh yeah, sorry. I was just trying to remember the house number was all. 256 right?"

Who was Tommy kidding? He knew that address better than he knew his own, and Jason knew it.

"That's right," there was a pause, "I hope you don't mind me asking Tommy, but why'd you need to know? I mean you haven't even mentioned Kim in years."

Tommy predicted Jason would be suspicious, he had to think of something fast.

"Uh, I was just going through some old boxes I had left over from the move. Apparently I hadn't opened them in a while 'cause I came across some old stuff from high school. Some of it was Kim's and I thought she might want it back."

It felt so odd to talk about her again. For a minute he forgot that they hadn't spoken since 1997.

"Come on man, you expect me to believe that line of bull? Something's up, now what is it?" Jason was very serious.

"Nothing's up okay!" Tommy snapped. He immediately regretted it though as he realized that he had just made this conversation a lot harder on himself. "Look, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you, but it's just been a really stressful day." He almost broke down and would have told Jason everything, but he had Jason's best interest in mind.

Jason was not naive, he knew Tommy wasn't telling the truth and he was starting to realize that he probably wasn't going to.

"No, it's cool. I get it. I'm sure it was hard dredging up all those old memories. Would you mind telling me what things of Kim's you found though? Maybe I can tell you if it's worth paying the shipping charge to send them back."

Jason was doing anything in his power to pry any little piece of information out of his friend.

'Crap!' thought Tommy. He should have known Jason would not let him off the hook that easily.

"Just a couple of books, a sweater, a pair of sunglasses, a makeup bag..." Tommy just kept naming things. He figured that if he kept talking then Jason would get tired of listening to him. And he was right.

"Whoa, I get the picture man. That's an awful lot of stuff for you to have had all these years."

"Well, you know girls, they always have a lot of stuff with them. I guess it just all kind of accumulated over those three years. Kim was always forgetting things in my car or in my house, and you know me of course I always forgot to give them back."

Tommy did not want to talk about this anymore, the memories kept coming back. The late nights she spent at his house studying because she said she didn't want to keep the Campbell's up with her light on. Only they never studied. Instead they could usually be found making out in his room with the door closed, or they would just lie on his bed in each other's arms talking. Then they would both fall asleep and wake up at 2 am and realize that if the Campbell's knew Kimberly was at Tommy's house that late then they would have put her on the next plane to Paris.

They left in such a rush that she would usually leave something behind. Then when he would return home after walking or running her home and making sure she got in Aisha's bedroom window safely he would find whatever object she left behind. The next day at school he would tell her she forgot it and she would say, "well I guess I better stop by tonight and pick it up." And she would, but sometimes she never remembered to take it with her when she went home.

"Tommy?"

"Huh, oh sorry man." By now Tommy knew he was treading on thin ice.

"That's the second time you've wandered in five minutes, are you sure everything's okay?" Jason was extremely skeptical at this point and he didn't buy the forgotten items story one bit.

"Yeah. Trust me. Everything's fine, or at least it will be. I mean it." Said Tommy.

"If you say so then I'll believe you. But if something were wrong you would confide in me right bro?" asked Jason.

Tommy paused for a second, "If I needed your help you know I would ask for it."

And Jason left it at that.

Like I said, check back again this weekend for more.