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Chapter 9: You and Me Song
by: Wannadies
The day of the meet, Kimberly stood up as Tommy sat on her bed, holding a mirror, as she applied make-up. Gymnastic meet was about 4 hours away.
"Hold it up a bit more to the left... there," Kimberly said applying eyeliner. Her hair sticking in every direction with the clips. Tommy smiled, as she was in a state that Kim never dares to show anyone else. Though to Tommy, with or without make-up, Kimberly is still beautiful. Kimberly fumbled through her make-up bag again. "Tommy!" Kimberly moved the mirror again.
"Do you really need all that stuff?" Tommy asked as Kimberly got glitter for her eyes as well as cheeks.
"Stuff! Baby, this is what makes me so beautiful."
"You already are so beautiful, Kim."
"Sweetheart, I already love you." Kimberly applied lip gloss.
"Good." They kissed lightly. Tommy helped her with her hair, as all the girls on the team had to have braids either curly or spiral curls for the meet. Tommy helped with the blue and white ribbons. Kimberly zipped up her blue jacket and followed Tommy to the car.
The meet would start with Angel Grove on vault, moving to bars, beam and finally on floor. Every home team always ends on floor. Competition today would be against Jefferson High. Kimberly folded her pant's waist down as she warmed up. She opened her bag to get her water bottles and fill them up, when she found a rose and note. She opened the note and smiled.
"Awww...is that a love note?" Becky said. Kimberly nodded. Jasmine came over and took it.
"Oh, how lovely. 'Good luck, Beautiful.' Isn't that sweet?" Kimberly snatched it back.
"Just jealous." Kimberly pulled her water bottles out to be filled.
"Of you and Tommy? Ha." Jasmine walked away.
The teams were given time to warm up on each apparatus before competitions. Kimberly was on beam going through some simple jumps. She wanted to test her new dismount before she got off. She knew she was rushing, only having 10 more seconds left. She knew she was supposed to take her time, but of course didn't do that. Kimberly did her double back from a cartwheel, and landed badly on her back. Though she got up pretty fast after the fall, Tommy could tell she was a bit shaken up by the fall.
"You okay?"
"Yea, just a little stinger."
"I keep telling you, don't you know you're supposed to land on your feet." Kimberly hit him with her elbow, though she rubbed her neck. "You sure you're okay?"
"My neck." Tommy started massaging there. Kimberly winced.
"I saw the fall, are you okay?" Coach Thorne said.
"Her neck."
"Tommy! I'm fine, Coach. Just a stinger."
"Eric, bring an icepack!" Eric was working on spotting Jasmine on bars and nodded to Coach Thorne. "Ice it for now to numb the pain and get Eric to find you a warm patch for later." Kimberly nodded. The assistance came over with an icepack. Tommy took it from Eric and pressed it against the back of Kim's neck. He rubbed her back as well. Kimberly skipped her turn on vault, knowing she would be fine, just muscle memory to stick her landings. Before moving to train on bars, Kimberly was feeling a bit dizzy. She was putting on her armbands, when she gasped.
"What?"
"N-nothing." Tommy held her up as she swayed a bit against him when she walked to bars. Tommy stopped her quickly.
"No, you need to be checked out now."
"I'm fine."
"C'mon!" Tommy pulled her over to where the coaches were. "She's dizzy," Tommy said to Coach Thorne.
"Eric, the salt please."
"Right, boss." Eric went to the back lockers. Coach Thorne examined and rotated Kim's head and neck.
"You feel any pain?"
"Not really, too much. Just dizzy a bit." Kimberly checked her armbands for bars.
"Go back to bars, I'll be right there."
"Okay." Kimberly powdered her hands, with her turn for bars coming up shortly. Coach Thorne was handed the salt and came over.
"Take a quick sniff." She nodded and was given the salt.
"Woo! Whoa!" She pulled away quickly after a quick sniff. Coach Thorne made her take another sniff before he put it away. "Whoa. I'm good." Kimberly waited her turn for bars.
The team started strong on vault, Jasmine and Kimberly tying with the score of 9.8. Kimberly only got that score and not a perfect one due to her large step forward from her dismount. On bars, Kimberly came close to missing the high bar on her delta release move, grabbing it by her fingertips barely, but was able to pull through. Coach Thorne let out a tiny gasp, when that happened, as did Tommy, knowing that was a close one. She did a simple double layout to end, earning a high 9.9.
Coach Winters came over to Kim as Eve was performing on beam. Jasmine a little upset she was no longer allowed to be the last one. Her father felt her scores would be stronger used early, so to build on it for the other girls. Jasmine felt as though her parents were giving Kimberly too much power and control over the team. And with the other team on floor, they were earning high scores. Both teams going back and forth with the lead with each passing performance.
"Way to go, Eve!" Kim yelled. "Good!" Eve did her dismount, ending with a smile. Every girl clapped and cheered her as she came over to wait for her scores.
"You're up last Kim. Be strong, take smart. No pauses, toes pointed, arms full of grace, and stay on the beam."
"Sure thing, Coach. You can count on me." Kimberly pulled off her jacket. She was used to going last, but Coach Winters has been giving that job to her daughter, since she was the strongest competitor, but with Kimberly back, she took the leader role as if it was always hers. The team had a slight lead and Coach Winter knew a 10 from Kimberly would boost her team and put more pressure on the other team as the competed on beam. Kimberly took 2 breaths before she mounted the beam with a front flip. Everyone clapped. Tommy was on his hands, the entire routine, though Kim was flawless as usual. She landed perfectly after falling on the dismount earlier. The team averaged a higher than 9.85 on beam and won it with floor. Kimberly winning out top all-around scorer for today, beating Jasmine by just .05 points. Katherine could tell by the way Jasmine watched Kimberly receive her trophy and kiss Tommy, the war was far from over.
Kimberly came downstairs from her shower. Tommy had her trophy at the table. She laughed as he faked to shine it.
"You were so beautiful out there," Mrs. Oliver said putting a bowl down for her. "That was the best beam work I have ever seen since that perfect 10 at Olympics."
"Thanks. I think so too. I feel like I am getting back to those good ol' glory days when I hit everything when I competed." Everyone had treated Kimberly to dinner at Applebee's to celebrate. Kimberly made herself a bowl of ice cream.
"How's your neck?" Tommy asked putting whip crème on his ice cream.
"Just a little tight. God, I am so embarrassed. Never fell like that from beam in a crowd like that, maybe bars, but not beam."
"Hey, but you came back like the champion you are," Mr. Oliver said.
"Yea, thanks to you all cheering me on." They ate their dessert. Tommy and Kimberly retired to bed early. Tommy massaged Kim's neck and back.
"Can we go shopping tomorrow?"
"Shopping?"
"You and me. After church and IHOP?" Kim put her bottom lip out as she looked at him with puppy dog eyes and a pouting lip.
"Oh, okay." Tommy always caved into Kim's pout. She smiled.
"Great."
"But not all day!" Kim pouted again. "No, not all day!"
"Okay,6 hours max."
"4 hours!"
"5 hours!"
"4 hours! We have homework to do."
"Fine! Scouts honor," Kimberly said giving the salute. "Only 4 hours." Tommy kissed her, and didn't see Kimberly's crossed fingers at her back.
"Good."
"I love you, tiger."
"I love you, Beautiful." They kissed again and again until falling asleep.
Next morning, during church, Tommy's communicator went off. Tommy covered it quickly.
"We'll be right back," Tommy whispered to his mother. She nodded, though curious as Tommy and Kimberly got up fast. Kimberly took his hand as he led her out. They met up with the rest as King Mondo was attacking the city again. By the time, Kimberly and Tommy sneaked back in and sat down, the priest called it for the day, as church was over with.
"Where did you two go?"
"Bathroom."
"For nearly 45 minutes!"
"Long line?" Kimberly said.
"Right."
"Sorry, I had forgotten..."
"Tommy forgot about having...having to drop off some things for Ernie and he called asking about them."
"Oh, you and your memory." Tommy shrugged.
"Yeah, what a horrible thing." Kimberly winked and smiled at Tommy as he glared at her. He was fine that she was able to come up with a great story to his mother, but to make him look so bad. That was irritating and he was going to make her pay for that later on tonight.
"Well, we are off, Mom."
"Where are you two going now, I thought we were going to have lunch together?"
"You and Dad have fun without us. Kimberly wants me to take her to the mall."
"Fine." Tommy smiled and kissed his mother's cheek.
"Thanks, Mom. We'll see ya later."
"Fine, go have your fun." Kimberly kissed Mrs. Oliver's cheek as well. Tommy grabbed her hand and they hopped to his car.
They almost made 4 hours, almost. Tommy shook his head, as Kimberly took them to as many shops as she could, having him carry the multiple bags. After nearly 5 1/2 hours, they went home to relax before dinner. They changed into some swimwear, Kimberly into her newly purchased bikini since it was half off due to out of season wear. Kimberly stood in her lavender halter top with tan suede bottoms. Tommy came up from the water and his mouth dropped.
"You like?" Kimberly said posing with her hair gathered up. "I almost don't want to get it wet. It's so beautiful and makes me look like I have boobes." Tommy got out of the water, dripping wet. "Do you like it?" Kimberly smushed her breasts together at Tommy. He arched his brow. Maybe right now was a good time to get her back for making him look bad earlier. "Oh, no! I know that look."
"What look?"
"I don't want to get wet, yet!"
"Then you shouldn't have worn that suit!"
"Tom-Tommy!" Tommy quickly grabbed her by the waist and pulled her in. She screamed the whole way into the water, but came up gigging with Tommy. She splashed him. "Meanie!" Tommy splashed her back. They swam around before resting a bit.
"So will you tell me why my mother thinks she is coming here for Thanksgiving?" Kimberly asked as she was sitting on the edge of the pool as Tommy was between her legs. She massaged his shoulder and ran her fingers through his locks, combing his hair.
"Uh, it might be because I invited her. OW!" Kimberly squeezed her legs around him tight after she thumped the back of his head. Tommy rubbed the spot.
"Why? Why would you do that!"
"It seemed like the nice thing to do!"
"Unbelievable."
"Why?"
"Oh, you'll see." Kimberly pushed him off her. Tommy turned as she slid into the water.
"What did I do?"
Monday morning sun rose to the couple kissing. Tommy had clicked the clock off before, wanting more time with the love of his life. Kimberly giggled as Tommy tickled her sides, as he rolled her on top of him. Kimberly moaned and sat up straight on him. She shook her hair out before laying back down on him.
"You are all I every want and need," Tommy whispered, kissing her forehead. Kimberly raised her head to look into his eyes. "I'm sure I told you this hundreds of times. You're probably sick of me telling you this." Tommy laughed.
"Yeah, you do say it a lot, but I still love to hear it. I could never get tired of you telling me how much you love me. It makes me feel so happy"
"I never will stop loving you."
"Me either."
"I never will let you go again."
"Never say never Tommy."
"You know what I mean."
"I do." They kissed passionately on the lips. Kimberly held his face. "We better get up."
"But the alarm hasn't even…" The room was filled with the beeping of the clock for the second time that morning. Tommy clicked off the alarm clock. "You are too good."
"I know." Kimberly snuggled against his chest after Tommy rolled her under him. The covers tight around their bodies to ward off the cold chills in the air.
"Do we have to go to school today, this feels too good to leave," Tommy said snuggling his head against her hair. Her body wrapped around his perfectly. They both sighed and loved this feeling. The closeness of their bodies, their hearts, their love.
"Tommy! Kimberly!" Tommy's mother yelled from downstairs.
"Just ignore her." Kimberly giggled. "We can skip one day. The world won't end if we spend one day just like this."
"No, we can't do this."
"Yes we can!" Tommy held her tighter, rubbing her back and butt. He gave her bottom a squeeze.
"Kimberly! Tommy! You two are going to be late!"
"See, so get off me." He kissed her and pushed her back to the bed.
"No, you're mine!" He pulled the covers over them, causing Kimberly to gasp. Kimberly moaned, as Tommy's hands worked their magic again.
Kimberly arrived to school down the halls with Tommy hanging all over her. Tommy was kissing her neck, when Kimberly looked to find that her locker busted open. All her belongings in a mess on the ground around her locker. Kimberly stomped her foot, as she rushed to her locker.
"Damnit! Who would do this?" Tommy looked at her locker door and saw the lock was busted over. Her things scattered around.
"Who ever did this will pay," Tommy said helping her pick up her things. Rocky came over with Tanya after seeing the mess. "We can share a locker until we find out who did this."
"Okay, thanks," Kimberly said handing over a stack of notebooks to Tommy.
"Don't worry, Beautiful. They won't get away with this. I promise you." She smiled and kissed his cheek.
Next day, it was a week before Kim's mother and stepfather would be coming to Angel Grove for the Thanksgiving Break. Kimberly was not getting as excited as she probably should be to see her mother and stepfather. Kimberly and Tommy having not found any clues to who broke into her locker. And with there being no more meets for the girls until after break, which was a blessing for Tommy and Kimberly, the days seem to fly by. Kimberly loved the days off to rest a worn down body, not competing only training was fun. The stress comes from competition, not training. She knew she wasn't prepared to come back as fast and as good as she did. It would take her body and mind time to get back adjusted to competition and being great again.
"So, how about dinner and a movie tonight?" Tommy asked as they sat on the bench. Kimberly sighed, as his arm went around her. He kissed her forehead.
"Uh, can't today. Practice," Kimberly said. She kissed Tommy went he made a pouty face.
"But you don't have a meet this week. I wanted to have fun before your mother gets here."
"I know, but I want to work on a new floor routine."
"Isn't that a danger to change things mid-season? Especially if what you have is going so well?"
"It can be to some people. But only if you let it. I just feel like that routine is so Olympics and I want a fresh one."
"To that new song on the radio we heard last night, right?"
"Yea, the beat was hot and I have used this music for a nearly 6 months now, I am sick of it. I didn't' think I would ever say that, but the music is tiring. Time for change. Besides, Em and I were talking and we want to do the doubling again."
"With Jase?" Tommy asked.
"Who else! Of course, silly! Last time was great. You and Jason had fun."
"Oh, yea, Sushi and a chic film, what a great night." Kimberly hit his chest.
"Ha ha. You loved it."
"Right."
"Well, we all can't love Steven Segal movies!"
"Steven Segal's movies are always great."
"Right! If you like ass kicking all film long."
"I do! And you like that movie too."
"NOT!"
"You like the movie last Thursday we watched together," Tommy said.
"I like what happened during and after the movie." Kimberly touched her locket that Tommy gave her. Tommy smiled and kissed her head again.
"You just didn't want me enjoying my movie."
"Oh, I'm pretty sure you enjoyed that more than some silly movie."
"No lie there."
"Come on, we still got Math." Tommy kissed the side of her head again as followed her as she got up. He put his arm around her and they walked down the halls together. Jasmine closed her locker and smiled at the happy couple.
"Soon princess."
After school, Kimberly was at the gymnasium training. She showed Thorne her new floor routine. He was pleased, only giving pointers with a little add-ins here and there. Kimberly was on beam to end her afternoon in the Youth Center.
"Tight, Kim. Point those toes, you are getting lazy." Kim nodded and did a better double spin. Her leaps were not high, but she was still a bit winded from floor and bars earlier. Tommy came to pick her up around 6 pm. He stood by the beam as she did a single back layout off the end.
"Great job, Beautiful."
"Thanks." She kissed his cheek. "Give me 5 minutes."
"Take your time." Kimberly smiled and went into the locker room.
Kimberly and Tommy stopped by the library to get some resource for their projects, a rough draft due before the Thanksgiving break. Kimberly worked on moving some of her things from her room to Tommy's room, since she was giving her mother and Pierre her room during their stay with the Olivers. Tommy turned around from his computer to find Kimberly sitting Indian style on his bed. He smiled. She was biting on her pencil, thinking deeply over her paper. Tommy decided to go ahead and type up his first.
"You shouldn't do that."
"Do what?"
"Biting on your pencils. You're eating lead."
"Yes Daddy."
"Don't ever call me that."
"Yes Daddy."
"Stop it."
"Yes Daddy." Tommy got up and tickled her down to the bed.
A week later
Kimberly and Tommy stood side by side in the airport. The flight from Paris just landed. Kimberly was fidgety and uneased as she waited for her mother to appear down the runway. Tommy was holding her hand to try and calm her down.
"How do I look?" Kimberly said turning Tommy to face her quickly.
"Beautiful."
"Tommy! Honestly! How do I look?" She tried to straighten her top, and her jeans.
"You look great. Always do." He cupped her face. "Gonna be okay, Beautiful. Just be calm." They kissed. Kimberly smiled as he held her face, kissing her many times.
"Kimberly!" Kimberly gasped and pulled away. She looked pass Tommy and saw her mother. She let out a squeak like she did last Christmas.
"Mommmy!" Kimberly ran to her. They hugged tightly. "Oh Mom!"
"Oh, my babygirl." Mrs. Dumas pulled away from the hug and fixed her top. She looked Kimberly down. "You are far too skinny."
"Mom!" Kimberly frowned. "Mommy, remember Tommy?"
"Of course. Hello, Tommy." Kimberly and her mother hugged again before she turned to Tommy.
"Mr. Dumas. Mr. Dumas," Tommy shook Pierre's hand first before turning to Kim's mother. Kim went and hugged Pierre.
"Tommy, how many times must I tell you, you don't have to be so formal with me," Pierre said. "You can call me Pierre."
"Sorry, Mr. Dumas."
"Oh and my beautiful Kimberly. I have something for you." Pierre picked up the bag after he turning from his wife.
"What? A present! I love presents!"
"Open it." Kimberly took the bag and pulled out the painting.
"Oh, my gosh! Is it an original!"
"Of course!"
"Wow! It's lovely! You didn't have to give me this."
"I made it especially for you."
"Thank you." Kimberly hugged her stepfather again.
"Let's go get your luggage," Tommy said. Tommy took the bag to carry for Kimberly after Kim's mother put her arm around her daughter.
"Now, talk me about why you jumped up and left Florida so quickly?"
"Mom, you know why. I did what I had to do in Florida. I trained, I compete at Pan Global and won. Then I won in Atlanta. There was nothing left for me in Florida. No more reasons to stay. Besides, I missed that lug and my friends too much..."
"So, you left Florida to be with Tommy?"
"NO! Not all. Not at first." Kimberly noticed her mother's bags and pointed them out to Tommy. "Everything was just so hectic in Florida, with winning Olympics. I never got a breath. I was being pulled every direction with interviews. I couldn't walk down the streets without being hounded, which I admit was pretty amazing, but scary at times too. I needed to be home. I needed to get out of there."
"And move in with your boyfriend?"
"Tommy and I just recently got back together okay, Mom. I didn't come back just to be with Tommy. I came back, because this is home. This always was home to me."
"And Paris?"
"You said I could stay before and finish up the school year, which I am doing now."
"Then you will come to Paris after high school?"
"I don't know now."
"What do you mean?"
"I want to stay here with Tommy. Go to school here with him."
"What?"
"Can we talk about this away from the airport? Like later?"
"Yes, we do have a lot to discuss now." Kimberly sighed. Tommy kissed the top of Kim's head, when her went down. They walked behind Kim's mother quietly.
Author's Note: Taking a short break here. That's why this chapter is so long. I'm graduating from college this weekend! Yay! And YAY me! Biology major completed, medical school this the fall hopefully. So thank you! Anyhoo, back in a couple weeks so expect updates coming in June! Catch ya on the flip side! Babye!