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Chapter 19

3 days later

7:30 am

Kimberly sat at the island eating cereal, Tommy was forced this rainy morning to take the puppies.

"You know puppies take a lot of time and patience. You have to house train them, feed them, walk them, bathe them..." Kimberly stared off as Jason went through his daily speech of 'Why roommates shouldn't get dogs'.

"Jason! Hush! We have Dash and Napoleon, okay. They will be staying here, okay. I am not going to be waking up every day to hear you say this again and again. We will keep the apartment clean, I promise."

"And the barking!"

"Barking?"

"In the middle of the night, they are puppies."

"I know, we'll keep them in our room if they start barking, don't worry. I don't complain about your noise!"

"MY NOISE!"

"You and Aisha."

"Hey! I heard that!" Aisha said coming down the steps. She was in one of Jason's shirts after showering. "We never complained about you and Tommy!"

"Tommy and I are discrete."

"Riiight." Aisha shook her head. "Oh oh oh, Tommy, yes, yes, yes, right there, oh, yes, oh, oh! YES! TOMMY!" She faked an orgasm.

"I don't sound like that."

"Yea, you do," Tommy said closing the door as the pups ran after he put them down.

"Like you are any better, you groan so freaking loud."

"Not to mention that constant thumping and slapping," Jason added.

"Constant slapping, like you two are beating each other." Tommy smiled.

"Whatever."

"I don't want to live with 2 puppies!"

"Oh, I love the doggies," Aisha said picking up one. "I tried to get mister to get me one over break, but he refused."

"Yea, well, if Tommy wasn't so wound around Kim's pinkie, he would have stuck with his balls and not caved in!"

"Excuse me?"

"Whatever." Jason put his mug in the sink and went upstairs to his room.

"He's just mad that you two got puppies and he couldn't," Aisha said putting the terrier down. "Don't worry, I'll fix him."

"Thanks," Kim said. She was already dressed, yellow raglan tee, pink 'Rebel' sweat pants, and white/pink Converse hi-tops. Tommy went to get dressed. Aisha waited until Tommy lifted.

"Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," Kim said.

"What type of birth control do you use with Tommy?"

"Uh, the Yasmin, why?"

"No reason."

"Aisha.."

"No, it's just, I think I'm ready with Jason you know, but I'm..." Kim smiled.

"Really!"

"Yea, I'm just a little afraid, I don't much condoms and birth pill, other than high school health. I would be lost if I had to do this alone."

"I hear you. You know, for the first few times, Tommy and I never used anything. Only until we got to college, did I go on the pill. We have one scare back in July, but I wasn't pregnant thank god, and the nurse gave me brochures on different types of birth control."

"Is it hard to remember?"

"Not really, I don't have Tommy syndrome. Want me to help you pick out one?"

"Please, I'm so clueless this crap.."

"Jason is a good guy, trust me, when you go on the pill, life is so much simpler."

"Thanks girl."

"No problem. We can go after our chem lab, ok?"

"Yea."

After finishing classes on Tuesday, Tommy was sent over to the girls' suite to search for Kim's lucky spankey, she wore beneath, when she was going out for a special spot. Katherine came out her room and found Tommy shoving the puppies away as he searched Kim's room.

"What are you doing here?"

"OH! God, Katherine, don't scare me like that!"

"Who's dogs are these?" Kat picked up the bulldog.

"Mine."

"They are cute."

"They are Kim's and mine, we brought them over break. Kim picked them out."

"Oh," Katherine put it down.

"Dash and Napoleon." Tommy went back under Kim's former bed. "I swear that girl." Tommy sighed.
"What are you looking for?"

"Kim's lucky spankey."

"Spankey?"

"Yea, she's going to talk to the coach and set up a training workout, but she swears she left it here. I have searched this room for 20 minutes."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Okay."

"What is it about her that makes her the most important thing to you?" Tommy sat there.

"You don't want to know that, Katherine."

"Okay, fine. What is it about me that made me the least important thing?"

"It wasn't about you or Kim. I love Kimberly. I always have, god, I think, I know, she was the one from the first moment I kissed her, I told her 'I love her'. I look in her eyes and I know the truth. We see into each other's souls. Ninjor told me after we went on our Quest, that the crane and falcon flies as one, our love connects us forever."

"So, it wasn't something I did or was?"

"No. You weren't the reason, don't blame yourself, okay. It's all my fault. I never should have led you to believe that I could love you like that."

"I'll help you."

"Thanks."

6pm

Aisha was going over the book with her new birth control pills when Tommy came back from picking up the pizza and movies. She was rubbing the terrier's stomach on the table. Kimberly in his room finishing up her chem write-up to turn in tomorrow morning.

"Hey." Tommy put the pizza boxes on the counter. "Whatcha got there?"

"The pill."

"Oh. Wow, I didn't know..."

"We're not, yet." Tommy smiled. Rocky came over and took like 5 slices and went to his room to work on his homework in quiet.

"Pizza and movies are here."

"I'll be right there." Tommy came into the bedroom and sat on the bed.

"What's wrong, Beautiful?"

"Nothing." She wrote the last solutions and closed her lab book. "My mother called."

"Why do you let her bring you down?"

"I don't mean to, she was just..."

"Tell her, this is your decision! You shouldn't have to please the likes of her!"

"She's my mother, Tommy!"

"So, she calls just to make you upset."

"She just want me to be happy!"

"Gymnastic is not the only thing in your life that makes your happy!"

"It was!" Kim rubbed her neck. "Please, I don't want another headache." She got up and walked out, the bulldog behind her. Kimberly grabbed some pizza and looked at the movies. Tommy handed her a plate. They kissed. Jason came downstairs from a shower after the gym. He lifted the white case, as Aisha continued reading.

"The pill?"

"Yea, Kim took me today to figure which ones I wanted."

"Why?"

"Because I need them."

"Once again, why?"

"I want to be careful."

"It's a waste of money, Aisha."

"Okay."

"I'm just saying, condoms are much more cheaper and do the same job."

"It's not a waste of money, unless you want little Jases running around," Kim said smiling.

"I didn't ask for your opinion."

"Wow. Harsh, Jase."

"Why would you push her to do this!"

"Hey, don't talk to her like that," Tommy said.

"I didn't push her! She came to me!"

"Look, Aisha and I aren't like you and spikehead, okay. We don't have to have sex every minute of everyday."

"Excuse me," Kimberly got up and went into the room.

"You were way out of line, bro. Don't ever do it again." Tommy closed the door behind him.

"What's your problem!"

"I don't want my girlfriend being pressured into birth control!"

"I wasn't! I asked her! I thought I was ready...after seeing you act like this...there is no way!" Aisha grabbed her books and stormed out. Jason sighed and put his hands on the counter.

"Shit."

Teaser: Flashes of '96 Olympics flooded her mind. She took a deep breath and ran down to the beam. Kim did a punch pike onto the beam. She had a slight pause. She went into some jumps and a spin. Her sequence, 2 back walkovers. Kim nearly came off the beam, her feet gripping it. Kim did her dance steps and low beam work. She ended with a simple full twist dismount.