Chapter 4: Can't Help Falling in Love

By: UB40 (great song)

Next morning

With the sun shining, Kimberly groaned and covered her head to the sound of her alarm clock. She looked at the numbers and sighed. Kimberly just wanted to lay there, not caring about the world outside these covers. She hated her alarm right now, why did she have to set it for school. 'Wait a minute' Kim thought. She reached to stop theannoying ring, when a hand stopped hers from hitting snooze, by clicking the alarm off.

"Whoa…wha?" Kimberly turned to see Mrs. Oliver sitting beside the bed, looking at Kimberly.

"Good morning."

"Whatever." Kimberly pulled for her covers more.

"So, where were you last night?"

"What?"

"Did you go out?"

"For a little while, yea."

"Without my permission?"

"Yes, why!" Kimberly sat up.

"Did you get drunk last night?"

"Did Tommy tell you! Gosh, he is such an…"

"Tommy didn't tell me anything. But this morning, I did notice a skewed car parked in the driveway. Being the car is your car, I had to ask."

"Yes! I went out! I got drunk! Happy!"

"I will not have you speaking to me in that manner. I will have to call your mother."

"Like I care."

"Do not talk back to me like that. I will not take that talking from my own son, and you sure as hell will not speak to me like that. Now, what is going on with you?"

"I have nothing to say to you." Kimberly stood up.

"Then you will have to stay here until you do." Kimberly looked at Mrs. Oliver, whether it was the nausea or anger, it overwhelmed Kimberly causing her to sit down to her bed in defeat. Kim sat facing away from Mrs. Oliver as she cried.

"I don't know what to do," Kimberly whispered.

"What?"

"I don't know what is wrong with me. I am just so confused AND MAD, so mad! And... and hurt…and I don't know how to fix it."

"Why?"

"Because I feel alone!"

"You are never alone, dear. I am here. Maybe you don't know how to fix it, because it is something you cannot do alone."

"I don't understand."

"Maybe we need to have that talk."

"I don't know. But I do know I screwed up everything by coming back. Everything was great until I came back. I screwed it up, like I always do."

"You have screwed up nothing." Mrs. Oliver sat beside her.

"Yes! Yes, I have! I didn't even ask to stay here, Tommy basically had to tell you I was barging in! And here I am, free of charge, no question asked, allowing me to stay in your home and I act like…I can't do this! Everything is my fault." She cried on Mrs. Oliver's shoulder.

"You never have to ask, my dear to stay here. You are welcome in my home anytime. You were always like a daughter to me," Mrs. Oliver said rubbing her back and head. "Come on, I may not be your mother, but I will listen if you talk." Kimberly looked up at her. "But I can only do that, when you open up and talk to me, okay." Kim nodded.

At that day school
Bulk found Skull leaning up against the wall near an alley in the halls.

"Skull, what are you…"

"Shhhh!" Skull pulled at Bulk.

"Did you just hear…" Skull covered his mouth. Moaning and kissing could be heard clearly now. Bulk slowly leaned over just as Skull did and they found Kimberly and Tommy kissing. Tommy was holding Kim's wrist against the wall, his other hand at her waist. Kim's other hand on his shoulder. Tommy found himself grinding harder and harder into Kim as their kissing deepened with each moment that passed. Kim's hand moved from his shoulder to the back of his head, as he pressed her to the wall tighter. Tommy's tongue fought against Kim's mouth, both tongues reacquainting with each other's mouth. Bulk faked puking and walked away. Skull stayed a bit longer, before following Bulk. He wondered how Katherine would take this news.

All of the sudden, Tommy's communicator went off. Both groaned, Kimberly especially, remembering well too many time such an interruption occurred during this time. She held Tommy's face, which made Tommy not want to break the kiss. They didn't, kissing with the same passion. Both communicators went off, this time louder. Tommy pulled away quickly and hit the button.

"Yes!"

"Glad to see you two separate yourself away from one another," Billy said quite ignored about what he just watched.

" Very sorry," Kimberly said hitting her button as well.

"Yea, sorry man. Go ahead, Billy. What's wrong?"

"Mondo has sent down an army of cogs near the outskirts of the woods. They are setting up some type of machine. You two are the only ones free to handle it. I suggest you two handle it quickly, they look almost done."

"We're on it," Kimberly said. Tommy nodded. He looked around the halls and saw it was still empty. He grabbed Kimberly by the waist and kissed her again, while also hitting his communicator. They teleported out in purple and red mix.

"Billy, are you sure its here?" Tommy asked as they walked around, not seeing or hearing anything.

"Watch out!" Tommy pulled Kimberly aside from a blast by a cog. He shielded them with a tree as the cogs went to attack them.

"I guess we should morph."

"You think!" Kimberly looked up at Tommy with a smile. He stepped away from one side of the tree, Kimberly to the other side.

"It's morphing it!" They flicked their wrist, morphers being activated. "Zeo-Ranger 5: Red!"

"Zeo-Ranger 6: Purple!" They battled the cogs, King Mondo sending down an monster to stop the 2 rangers from keeping his machine from becoming activated.

Back at the Command Center, the center shook. Billy quickly went to the screen.

"What in the world is that!" A ship appeared and disappeared once going through the Earth's atmosphere.

Tommy fought the monster, and had it nearly defeated.

"You may have me down, Red Ranger, but you won't be able to save her," the fallen monster said setting up a shot to the purple ranger. Kimberly was too busy dealing with stopping the cogs from activating their machine.

"Kimberly! Move!" Tommy yelled as several shots were fired at her. The purple ranger looked up just as the shots aimed for her, blasts rightbefore her. Kim's eyes closed. All the shots landed right where she was. "NO! Kim!" As the smoke cleared, there was nothing left. "Kimberly!"

the end for now...

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Red Ranger pounded the ground, only to look up to a cliff. A sigh of relief came over him. In the arms of another ranger in a black and gold costume, the purple ranger was unharmed. Tommy a little confused about the presence of another ranger. Kimberly opened one eye first and found herself safe. She clung to the figure holding her. Kim raised her head to look at the person holding her.

"Are you okay?" The gold ranger asked.

"Yes. You saved me. Thank you. Who are you?"

"Gold Ranger, Kimberly."

"You know my name?"

"I know everything about you." Kimberly was thankful for the helmet to block her blushing. He put her down slowly,as Kimberly held his shoulders. "We will meet again." He jumped off the cliff. Kimberly watched as he defeated all the cogs and the monster with ease with his golden staff. Purple Ranger jumped down to the Red Ranger after the ranger disappeared. They demorphed.

"You okay?" Tommy rubbed her arms, checking for any injuries.

"Yes. Yes! I'm fine," Kimberly said moving away slightly, as she looked up to the skies. "He was so brave and powerful." Tommy rolled his eyes, thankful for the helmet. "And cute."

"I wonder who he is."

"Billy?"

"No way, you think." They went back to school, since their next class would be starting in 5 minutes.

Kimberly and Tommy went to the Command Center after school with everyone else to talk about the mysterious Gold Ranger. Billy informed them that a ship disappeared once getting into the Earth's atmosphere, shortly before the new ranger appeared. He would be looking more into it and get back to the rangers when he finds out more.

Tommy stood with Kimberly outside his house. She had stopped before the steps.

"What?"

"I think we should talk about earlier, Tommy."

"What?"

"We can't do…"

"Why not!"

"Because I am not the same Kim and you are the same Tommy!"

"We are the same! Our love is still here!"

"We are not the same! If that was true, you would never have kissed another girl when you are already in a relationship!"

"You are not just another girl to me."

"I know! I know that, but look, we can't be together!"

"I'll break up with Katherine…"

"NO! No, don't do that to her, just to be with me!"

"But I have to! I can't help falling in love with you. All over again. I know you do just as much as I do."

"You don't love me!"

"What?"

"You can't love me! You don't even know me! And I can't trust myself with you."

"Why not!"

"Don't you see, we were best friends, told each other, everything before…"

"And we can be that again. And much more!" Tommy held her shoulders. "We can be that together again."

"NO!"

"No!"

"NO! Not now, not until…no, we can't do this!" Kimberly walked away and sat on the porch. Tommy sighed and followed to sit beside her.

"Do what, Kimberly?"

"This! You and me! Kiss!"

"So what, we go back to the beginning, flirt with each other."

"NO! We can never go back, only forward. We can never get back what we had before, because are not those same individuals anymore. Many things have changed Tommy."

"So, what now?"

"All we can do now is, well, well we can get back to knowing each other again. As friends."

"You want to be just friends?"

"Yes. Friends."

"Friends, but eventually we will be together, right?"

"No."

"No?"

"No, I don't know. I can't see the future, but what I can see and feel is that right now, there can be…no more of what happened earlier."

"I can't kiss you."

"No. That's right; we can't kiss, touch, and lay with each other. Nothing as a couple would do, because we are friends."

"Because we are friends."

"Yes, Tommy. We are working on friends."

"Okay, friends. I can do that."

"Good." She held her hand out for him.

"What?"

"Take my hand." Tommy did. "Hi."

"Do I really have to…"

"Just do it, Tommy."

"Hi."

"So, tell me. What has happened the past 8 months when I left?"

"Well, we were going to celebrate Katherine birthday, when an evil came into our lives and turned us all into children."

"Children?"

"Yes children. And we had to find new powers to combat the evil of the Machine Empire….and we all finally became Zeo Rangers."

"You?"

"Training was hard, especially be away from all of you guys. One night, I broke a window out of anger…"

"Broke a window?"

"Yes, and met this very interesting old man. He trained me, helped me find myself again. One day, as I was training, a light drew me in…."

TBC

This is a short teaser of Ch 4. It is much longer and to be complete after holiday break. Since I will be moving out of school and going back home to Jersey for the holiday. It's offically, college graduate:P Med school next challenge.

I have decided to leave the story at this junction, and yes, yes. I know, I know. EVIL! Bad me, but trust me, when I say, once I return, you will happy. You will finally see how and why Kimberly is given the purple Zeo crystal. So tune in,when I will be back to pick up the rest. Thanks for all the love and support guys. Have a great holiday everyone. Hoping the holidays brings joy and love to everyone!

Happy Christmas and Happy New Year!

Catch ya on the flip side

Babyee

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