Disclaimer: I own ONLY AnneMarie, Fabiola, Madam Velosomikh and Madamé Císerosa.
Summary: This may be out of order in whatever way, but hey, its my story, I get to decide how it goes. ;-) Sorry if it takes a while for me to get it posted, but I've been writing it in whatever time I get between classes and stuff and I'm laptop less so its all scribbled down on paper and I've actually gotta find time to type it all up. But hopefully I'll find enough time somewhere. =) Also, I've decided to make it easier on people to let me know what they think, and give me more ideas of what to write. If you would like, I can be reached via email or Yahoo! messenger at AdorableKittens2002@Yahoo.com or via AOL instant messenger as PrincessSpzMnky . Feel free to drop me a line if you'd like. =) Happy Reading! =)
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Working & Reminiscing
"Hey Tommy, will you hand me that box of blouses, please?" Kimberly asked as they worked togther to set up the store.
"Sure . . .Where do you want these skirts?" Tommy asked as he passed her the box.
"Over on the rack by the purple wall."
"Hey Kim! Where do you want these chairs?" Jason asked, carrying a chair in the door with David.
"Just put them back by the fitting rooms. I think I'm going to do that area last. There should be 4 of those straight back chairs. Did you guys get the mirrors?"
"They're on the truck. The delivery guys are coming in to install them as soon as they get them all unwrapped."
"Oh Good! That's perfect! I was thinking you guys were going to have to figure it out yourselves. But I'm glad you don't!" she said relieved.
"Man, we need tunes!" Rocky whined as he painted a wall with Tanya.
"Then turn some on ya Big Baby!" Tanya told him.
"Kimberly?" AnneMarie started, walking in the door with another box.
"Just add it to the pile!" Kimberly answered, gesturing to the ever growing pile behind Tommy. "Same with you Adam."
"What about me?" Daniel asked, as he carried in a 4 way rack.
"Oh perfect! Give that to Tommy. Those skirts can go on it."
"Ok, everybody look out!" Adam called as he helped the delivery guys haul in the large mirrors.
"I think somebody wants her Mommy!" Christine said, walking inside with a crying Mariah.
"Oh Baby! Do you want Daddy?" Tommy asked in a baby voice, as he reached for his daughter.
"Tommy, I think she's hungry."
"Mariah loves Daddy, doesn't she?!"
"Tommy, she's hungry." Kimberly said, seeing Mariah rubbing her face in Tommy's shirt. "Come here Sweetie. Mommy will feed you."
"I love you Princess!" Tommy said giving Mariah a kiss, as Kimberly lifted her out of his arms. Rocky flipped on the cd player and began to sing, as everyone continued working, setting up the store.
Distractions all around me
Problems I must face
Troublesome things surround me
So I must strive to win the race
I must learn, through practice, to be all
The good things I can be
All I need is turbo
To ensure my victory
So I'm shifting, into turbo gear
there's nothing that can stop me
For I have no fear
The pedal's to the metal
And I know I'll persevere
As soon as I shift into turbo gear
The fog is getting thicker
And I'm running low on gas
Need energy to concentrate
So I do not crash
Life's a dark and winding tunnel
At end my goals will be
All I need is a turbo charge
Of light so I can see
So I'm shifting, into turbo gear
there's nothing that can stop me
For I have no fear
The pedal's to the metal
And I know I'll persevere
As soon as I shift into turbo gear
I'm shifting, into turbo gear
There's nothing that can stop me
For I have no fear
The pedal's to the metal
And I know I'll persevere
As soon as I shift into turbo gear
I'm shifting, into turbo gear
There's nothing that can stop me
If steadily I steer
The pedal's to the metal
And with a little help from my peers
Together we'll shift into turbo
Together we'll shift into turbo
Together we'll shift into turbo gear
"Rocky, you're such a Dork!" Aisha laughed, as he danced around while working.
"Hey, a guy needs to have fun sometime! Life isn't about just work, you know! Besides, with Kimberly as the slave driver, the only person getting a break here, is Mariah!"
"That's because we like her better than you!" Tommy said, chucking a wad of crumpled packaging tape at him.
"Oh, someone is asking for a beat down over there!"
"I dare you Rocko!" Aisha said, mocking her friend.
"Hey Adam, let's get him!" Rocky said, dropping his paint brush.
"I'll help!" David said, joining in on the chaos.
"Don't even look at me! Y'all are on your own!" Jason said, putting his hands up in mock-surrender. "I don't even like the look on Kim's face!"
"Like we're afraid of her!" Rocky laughed.
"You should be!" Aisha warned them.
"Oh please! I've lived with her!" David said cracking up. "She's just a big whimp!"
"Oh, you did NOT just say that!" Tommy warned. "Don't even make me put a beat down on you!"
"Bring it on baby brother! I can take you!"
"Oh, you think so, do you?" Rocky, David and Adam smirked, dropping what they were doing, and moving toward Tommy. "Bring it on then! All three of you! I'll drop kick all your butts right here, right now!"
"Tommy!" Kimberly said sternly.
"Don't worry Honey, this will only take a second. I promise, I won't get blood on anything."
"TOMMY!" she said again.
"Kim, I promise! You have my word!"
"Boys, take it outside!" Christine said calmly, stepping between Tommy and his advancing friends.
"Oh come on Mom!" David whined, with a pout.
"You three can take it outside! I am not going to let you four roughhouse in here! Especially not with Mariah here! We're supposed to be helping Kimberly set up her store anyway. So either get back to work, or take it outside and let Kimberly kill you all later."
"Ok, we'll take it outside then!" David whined.
"Come on Tommy! Bring it on!" Rocky said, backing toward the door.
"Tommy, you walk out that door, and I'll kill you!" Kimberly warned, as he started toward his friends.
"WHIPPED!!!" Rocky coughed, David making a whipping sound as Tommy stopped in his tracks.
"Naw, I just have to live with her! You try sleeping on the couch and tell me how much you like it! It ain't all that comfortable!"
"BULL!" David challenged. "That couch is comfortable as heck! You sleep on it all the time!"
"He's got way too much to lose!" Jason laughed as Tommy stepped back toward his work, setting up racks.
"WUSS! You're no fun!" Rocky whined.
"No, he's just smart!" Aisha laughed.
"Rocky, shut your pie hole and get back to painting!" Tanya said, chucking the was of crumpled packaging tape back at him.
"Tanya, I'll put a beat down on you too!" Rocky warned.
"Somehow I seriously doubt that! Now get your butt back over here and help me!"
"YO YO YO!!!" Zack's cheerful voice said as he practically danced through the door. "Look what I brought you guys!"
"Hey Zack!" Jason said, helping his friend with the boxes in his arms.
"Ernie sends his love!"
"Zack, I love you!" Kimberly said, seeing Jason pull food out of the box.
"I think he got everyone's usual orders too! Well, except for Dan and Chris, but he made them something good anyway!"
"Excellent! Its chow time!" Rocky said happily, quickly moving toward the food.
"No way Rocky! You're last!" Aisha said grabbing his shirt, pulling him back so every body else could get some food before Rocky dug in.
"Here Sweetie." Tommy said holding a burger up to Kimberly's mouth for her to take a bite, as she fed Mariah.
"Thanks." she smiled, taking a big bite.
"See, what did I tell you? He's whipped!" Rocky laughed, rolling his eyes.
"No Rocky, he's just decent! Kimberly needs to eat too!" Tanya said slapping Rocky upside the head as he reached for his own food. "You're such a Jerk Rocky!"
"Just goes to show why I'm happily married and you aren't!" Tommy laughed.
"Hey Jason, I have an idea for that wall over there!" Kimberly said as Jason sat down on the floor next to her.
"Oh really? And what's that?"
"Remember when Trini did that modeling thing when we were 16? Those pictures would be PERFECT over there!"
"Do you think her parents will let us borrow them?"
"Probably. I think I have one of them somewhere. We'll just have to get them blown up."
"It would be cool to paint them onto the wall." Aisha mentioned.
"Yeah, but the only person capable of doing that, is Kim. And she's a little busy." Tommy added.
"That, and it would take about a week or more per picture." Jason agreed.
"I think they'll be good framed. Aisha and I can go find some really cool poster frames somewhere." Kimberly told them.
"Do you want me to call Trini's parents?" Jason asked.
"If you want . . . I was actually thinking of stopping by there today though. I can ask them and get the pictures for you to have blown up. I told them I would take Mariah to see them anyway."
"You haven't done that yet?!?" Tommy asked. "You promised them you'd take Mariah over, weeks ago!"
"Actually, Mariah and I go over there like twice a week. Sukki and Tio have adopted her as their own granddaughter. They buy her more stuff than my mom does!"
"They do? How come I didn't know that?"
"Honey . . . See the outfit Mariah has on? And the carseat in your car? Sukki bought those!"
"I knew about the carseat . . ."
"Sukki and Tio love Mariah! They begged me to let them be her honorary grandparents."
"Come on Tommy, even I knew that!" David teased him.
"Well I know they love her as their own granddaughter, but I didn't know they constantly buy her stuff! I just figured Kim and Aisha were doing that on their own!"
"Have you not seen your credit card bills lately?!?" Aisha joked.
"Actually, no! Honey???"
"Oh get a life! You paid them all last night, remember?"
"I did?"
"Yeah . . . Took you 3 hours too!"
"Oh yeah!"
"Yeah . . ." Kimberly laughed. "I think you're starting to lose your memory again."
"I guess that's what happens when you only get about 3 hours of sleep a night!"
"Something like that!" Jason laughed as Kimberly just shook her head.
"Anyway! I'll go visit Sukki and Tio later today, and see if I can borrow some of Trini's pictures."
"So you want me to have them blown up to poster size?" Jason asked.
"Yeah. I think they would look really good over on that wall over there. And it'll be really cool to have Trini here all the time. It'll be like she's watching over the store for me, just like she's watching over all of us."
"She would have wanted to be a part of this." Zack added. "Trini loved doing this kind of stuff. The entire time we were in Switzerland, she always wanted to open her own little fashion boutique."
"Yeah, she was always whining about how the clothes in all the stores sucked. And then she'd spend HOURS telling us all about how everything would be in HER store!" Jason agreed.
"That was Trini for you!" Kimberly laughed. "Always the perfectionist!"
"Being a part of this store would have been her dream." Zack told them.
"She IS a part of this store. Just like she's a part of all of us." Tommy smiled. "Trini is everywhere we go, because she's in our hearts. But she's definitely in this store! I'm glad you decided to include her Honey."
"Me too. A lot of my designs, she helped me with. And every time I've had to make a decision, I've asked myself, 'what would Trini do?'"
"She's definitely here . . ." Jason said softly.
"And you wanna know what the coolest part is?" Kimberly said softly
"What's that?" Zack asked.
"My main line of clothes . . . I gave it the name 'In Memory of Yusuko'."
"After Trini . . ." Jason said calmly, a smile spreading over her face. "Yusuko Tuyen Ha.nh Phu'c Nhu Hu.eˆ Kwan . . . . . She would have loved it . . . . ."
"Its funny," Tommy started. "Up until she died . . . I never even knew her whole name . . ."
"Not many people did." Zack told him. "We all just knew her as Trini. It was kind of just an unwritten rule, to never call her by anything else."
"And no one could pronounce her real name right anyway." Kimberly added.
"So basically, its in memory of Trini . . ." Aisha said, joining the group.
"Yeah . . . I like to keep her close by . . . " Kimberly said with a warm smile. "Just like she always was . . . . ."
To Be Continued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Author's Note: Hehehe, I gave Trini a really long name! =) It actually has a meaning too. According to Trini's "name" means:
Yusuko- (nothing, I made it up lol)
Tuyen - Angel
Ha.nh Phu'c - blessing from above, as in good family; also happiness
Nhu - Gentle, Peaceful
Hu.eˆ - lily flower; intelligence; mental brilliance; enlightenment
Kwan - (I couldn't find anything, but Kwan was her last name in the series, so I left it.)
Anyway, I just thought it was a pretty cool name. Just never ask me to attempt to pronounce it! LOL =)