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Outline: Who catches the eye of Jason and Adam? What's up with Kim?

Chapter 13 New Friends

As Rocky, Adam, and Kim were walking into class, Adam noticed Bulk and Skull were bothering a new student. He looked at them in disgust.

"I'll handle this you guys," Adam said. Rocky and Kim looked at each other as Adam walked over to Bulk and Skull. "You guys never learn, do you?"

Bulk slowly turned his head.

"Why don't you go back to your geek friends?" he said.

"Not until you leave the lady alone," Adam commanded.

Adam had to admit he was acting braver than he felt. He had always been so shy.

"Oh yeah, who's going to stop me?" Bulk asked.

"I am," Adam said.

"All right, Bulk and Skull, return to your seats," came the voice of their teacher.

"All right, Mr. Regan," Skull said.

Bulk rolled his eyes.

"Are you all right?" Adam asked.

The girl looked up at him and smiled.

"Thanks to you I am. Thank you…um," she started.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Adam. Adam Park."

"Nice to meet you, Adam. I'm Tanya Sloan."

"Um, is anyone seating here?" he asked.

Tanya looked at the empty desk and shrugged.

"Not that I can see," she smiled.

Adam blushed.

"Cool," he replied.

Kim tapped Rocky on the shoulder.

"Look at our Adam over there," she smiled.

"I'm seeing, but I'm not believing," Rocky said.

"Oh come on now. I think it's cute," Kim replied.

"To you, maybe. Why are you so interested in it anyway?" Rocky asked.

"Tommy never told you?" Kim inquired. Rocky shook his head. "That's how we first met, too. Well, we were in the hall. He saved me from Bulk and Skull."

"Now it's all making sense," Rocky laughed.

xxx

Everyone but Jason was at the Youth Center when Adam and Tanya walked in.

"Hey guys, I'll like you to meet Tanya," Adam said.

Kim jumped off the beam and walked beside Tommy.

"I've already met Kimberly and Rocky," Tanya said.

"Oh please, call me Kim," Kim insisted.

"I still haven't learned to do that," Billy joked.

"Hey, where's Jason?" Adam asked.

Wherever he looked, he could not find him.

"Oh, he's on his way," Tommy said.

"Yeah, he'll be here in a second," Trini added.

"He's worse than Tommy," Aisha joked.

"Very funny," Tommy laughed.

You could tell Zack was getting a bit uneasy. Everyone was somewhat worried about their friend.

"It's not going to be funny if he's late to class. Him and I are teaching a class in twenty minutes," Zack said.

xxx

Jason was on his way to the Youth Center when he ran into a young blonde haired girl.

"Oh I'm sorry, Miss," he apologized. "Let me help you up."

Jason bent down and grabbed her bag.

"Oh…" she began. When their eyes met, they both could not speak. "Um… thank you."

"Yeah… no problem..." Jason said.

Jason began walking away, a bit embarrassed falling over a beautiful girl like that. The young women took him by the hand, which shocked him.

"Aren't you going to tell me your name?" she questioned.

Jason cleared his throat.

"My bad. I'm Jason Scott."

"Nice to meet you, Jason. I'm Katherine Hilliard. Just call me Kat."

"Are you heading anywhere?" he asked.

Jason had totally forgotten about the class.

"Well, no. See, I'm new here," Kat said.

"I'm heading to the Youth Center if you'd like to join me," Jason offered.

"Sure, why not," Kat said.

"Great," Jason smiled.

They began their way to the Youth Center.

xxx

"I can't believe he missed class," Zack said.

Aisha put her hand in his shoulder.

"I'm sure he has a good reason," she said.

"I think he brought his reason with him," Kim pointed.

Her finger was pointing to Jason and Kat walking in.

"First Adam, now you, Jason," Tommy joked.

He gave him a puzzled look.

"What are you talking about?" Jason asked.

The Black Ranger walked up to Jason with Tanya by his side.

"Jason, this is Tanya," Adam said.

Jason extended his hand to shake hers.

"Nice to meet you," he said.

Kim had a smile on her face. It was nice that two of her best friends had found someone.

"Same here," Tanya smiled.

Kat looked up as Jason as he smiled at her.

"And this is Kat," he said.

After the greeting, Tanya and Kat still needed to know some things.

"All right," Tanya said. "Kat and I still need to know everyone's names."

"Okay," Jason laughed. "You know Adam and me already. The longed haired dude is Tommy. The girl next to him is Kim, and behind her is Rocky and Aisha. At the end are Trini, Zack, and the brain of the group, Billy."

"Well, it's nice to meet you all," Kat smiled.

"I'll forgive you this time on missing class," Zack laughed.

"I totally forgot, Zack," Jason said.

"It's cool man. But you have explaining to do tomorrow with the kids."

"I know I do," Jason sighed.

Kim looked down and put her hand on her forehead.

"Hey, you okay?" Tommy asked.

"I probably have a little bug, no big deal," Kim said.

"You're not pulling a Billy on us now are you?" Rocky joked, but at the same time concerned.

"Oh, no. I didn't…" Kim began. Kim stopped herself, forgetting Kat and Tanya didn't know about them being Power Rangers. "I don't have what Billy had."

"That's good to here," Tommy said.

Summary to the next chapter: What happens when Kat and Tanya are attacked? The Kim factor is still being played out.