Chapter 2

Kim slowly made her way to her last period class, wondering why she had to get 3rd period off and not forth, just her luck she thought. It was her first day at Reefside High, and it was already her longest day of her life.

After winning gold in the Pan Global's, she was all set to head to the Olympics. But that's when she got a call from her mother. Her father had been in a car accident, and had passed away. Kim was on the first plane back to California. After the funeral, she decide to spend some quality time with her mother. It had been a very long time since they had seen each other, so she decided to leave Coach Schmidt and spend the year with her mom in France.

In that time off she came to the decision that she would do with her life. After the year was up, she headed back to California where she attended UCLA and got her Masters in World history. After she graduated she went to teachers college.

She didn't want to stay in Los Angeles, but she didn't want to head back to Angel Grove either, too many memories. After she left for the Pan Global's, the team sort left her. She barely heard from anyone, all her calls went unanswered. When they would, all she would hear about was how well Kat was fitting into her role, and how well she was getting along with her boyfriend. Kim was frustrated, it was like she didn't matter anymore.

Tommy never called, and never wrote. Kat would call her once a week telling her how well she was getting along with Tommy. When she did hear from Tommy all she heard about was Kat. He rarely asked her how her gymnastics was going, all their phone calls would be interrupted.. That's when she wrote him the letter. He was slowly breaking her heart. He didn't love her anymore. She hated writing the letter, especially since there was no other man, but she wanted to hurt Tommy as much as he was hurting her. She wanted him to know what it felt like to be replaced.

When she and Jason got kidnapped by Divatox, she thought that her and Tommy would maybe be able to clear the air. But when she saw him and Kat together, she knew her feelings of Kat and Tommy together were correct. After that she left, the team barely spoke to her, and she to them. She was hurt at how easily they forgot her, and little they cared. She hadn't heard from Jason in years, he was off some where doing God knows what.

This is why she decided on Reefside, she was far enough, and close enough to her home town. She found a small house on the water, it was close to the beach and the school. She liked the small house, she knew it was perfect for her the moment she saw it. She laughed picturing her car parked out front. She had bought a 2004 Acura RSX, and she had it detailed with as much pink as she possibly could. On the outside she had them put an outline of a crane, of course in pink. She thought it was fitting, the crane after all was her spirit guide, not Kat's. It was her good luck charm.

Kim entered the class and looked around at the students who were sitting in their desks. "Good afternoon, my name is Ms. Hart. As you know Mrs. Collins is very ill, and the school allowed her early retirement. Therefore I will be your new teacher for the remainder of the term"

The students look at the new teacher, "Are there any questions?" The students shook their heads. "Alright, looking at Mrs. Collins's notes I see that you are on chapter 3, Rise of the Roman Empire. If you'll open your notebooks I will begin."

Kim waited until everyone had their notebooks before she started on the history of the Roman Empire. Kim lectured for most of the class, taking questions every now and then. 15 minutes before the bell, she stopped, "Alright, this is a good place to end. We still have a lot still to cover, but I think that for the next to classes we will watch Gladiator. It's a good movie that summarizes what we've been talking about today, and what we will continue to talk about for the next few weeks."

She heard the class cheer as she made the announcement, "Alright, settle down, since I'm showing this movie, I want you all to finish reading chapter 3 by the end of the movie, so we can move along a bit quicker." The class nodded. Kim's eye was caught by three young students, one girl wearing yellow, a boy wearing blue and another boy wearing red. She quickly shook her head, your just caught up in your thoughts of the past. She smiled. "Alright, as soon as the bell goes you can leave, and I will see you all tomorrow."

With that the bell rang and the kids quickly left, being last period and all they wanted to get home as soon as possible, she remembered when she was the same way, except her and the gang would head to the juice bar after class, and she would work on her gymnastics, while the boys would practice their martial arts. She smiled to herself, those were the good old days.

She packed up her belongings, and looked up to see the three kids deep in conversation, "You know when I was in high school, I couldn't wait to leave at the end of the day."

The three kids smiled and laughed, "Ya sorry, I guess we just got caught up in our conversation." The young girl said.

"Don't worry about it, but you should really get going, you don't want to miss your busses." Kim smiled, as the three kids nodded.

"Thanks Ms. Hart." the boy in red said. Kim nodded, "No problem, umm.?"

The boy smiled, "Conner, this is Ethan and Kira." Kim smiled, and nodded at each of the kids, "Nice to meet you all."

The three nodded, "Thanks for letting us watch that movie next class, it's really cool of you." Said Conner.

Kim smiled, "Hey I was in high school once, I know how boring it can be." The three kids laughed. "We should really get going." Ethan said. Kim smiled and nodded, as she watched the kids walk out.

She decided that she needed to clear her head, she was going to change out of her work clothes and decided to do a work out on the beach. The water was calming, and always helped her clear her head, and right now all she wanted to do was forget.