Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers, or the settings where they have taken place. They are owned by Saban. I don't wish to get sued.
Authors Note: Here is the next chapter of a story that I have neglected unfortunately. It will not be neglected any more! Please R&R!
Kimberly's POV
Aisha and I for the first time in a while spent the night at each other's house. I miss living with her. I love my roommate Renee down in Florida, but she is just a friend… Aisha is my sister. I lived with her for almost a year when my mother moved to Paris, and I really miss it. She was one person that I could tell everything too with no second though, and Renee, well she just wasn't. I tell her a lot, but not everything.
"Kimberly! Hurry up!" I hear Aisha calling from her room.
"I'm coming." I smile, shaking my day dream away.
"Rocky will be here in about ten minutes!"
I look at the clock and realize she is right. Our plane left at 9:00, and we wouldn't get to Hawaii till almost 3. It was 7:20, and Rocky was always on time, especially if he wanted to get somewhere. "Aisha! Do you know where my brush is?"
"Which one?" She says, laughing, walking into my room.
"The purple one."
"In our bathroom I think."
"Ok." I say, going into the bathroom. I see my brush just sitting there. I quickly run it through my hair and do my makeup. "I think I'm ready… do we have everything?"
We look around my room, "Yeah." She says. We each are bringing one large suitcase and a carryon bag. We grab them and walk down the stairs.
"Have fun girls." Mrs. Campbell smiles, kissing both of us.
"We will." Aisha says.
"Call me when you get down there."
"Ok." I smile.
"Hello!" We hear a voice call.
"Hi Rock." Aisha smiles.
"Hi Rocky." I say.
"Hi girls."
"You take good care of my girls now ok Rocky?" Mrs. Campbell kids.
"Of course I will! you don't have to worry about a thing." He smiles, kissing Aisha's mom's cheek.
"Good. Now get going and have fun!"
"Bye Mom/Mrs. Campbell" we all say, and Rocky grabs our bags and we head out the door.
"I can't wait to get there!" Aisha smiles, jumping in the front seat.
"Me neither."
"Do you have our tickets or does Tommy?"
"I think Tommy has them…" Rocky says, trailing off.
I felt their eyes on me, so I decided to joke and say, "Well, it will be a miracle if we get them."
They laugh and continue to drive. We get to the airport and meet everyone out front. Aisha immediately attaches herself to Zack, like usual. When she first told me that they were dating I was thrilled. I always thought that they would make a cute couple. They both have tempers though, and are both stubborn, but they definitely make a cute couple.
Jason comes up next to me and smiles. I smile back. I am so lucky that I have such a great friend… between him and Rocky, I don't think I could have asked for anything more. They are there for me in thick or thin. Tommy passes out the tickets quite randomly, and we go into the airport. We board the plane and I find my seat… and who was it with! Tommy and Hannah…
"Kim, do you want the window seat?" Hannah asks.
"Um, no, that's fine, I'll take the isle."
"Ok." She smiles and shoves into the window, leaving Tommy in the middle and me on the end. Talk about uncomfortable; I have to spend almost 5 hours next to these two. I look over to Adam, Trini and Rocky, who just shrug at me. Trini asks without words if I want to switch with her, but I shake my head no. I really did want to move, but I didn't want seem weak… I didn't want them to win.
I sat there, reading my book in silence the entire time. I didn't know what to say. I got very tired so I put the book down and closed my eyes.
Tommy's POV
I should have given her another seat. I don't want her to feel uncomfortable. Why the hell didn't I give her another seat. Look at her, she is beautiful. What was I thinking… what am I thinking? I can't do this! I loved her for so long… and now Hannah came… I'm sitting between the two girls I like more than anything.
I watch her sleep for a little bit, before turning my attention over to my right and out the window. Hannah was sleeping next to me too, her head on my shoulder.
We hit some turbulence about half way through the trip, and Kim awakes with a start, grabbing my arm in alarm. "You ok?" I ask. She quickly gains her bearings and quickly pulls away.
"I'm fine."
She never like turbulence, and always said how flying the crane really freaked her out at times because of it. She gets up quickly and goes back to the plane. I feel my friend's eyes on me, and I don't bother to turn around. Rocky comes over to me, and sits in Kimberly's seat, "What did you do?"
"What did I do! Nothing!"
"Why has she been in there for like ten minutes?"
"Beats the hell out of me… why don't you go back and check."
"I have a better idea, why don't you go back and check."
"Rocky…" I say.
"Tommy…"
"She doesn't want me back there. I was thinking about it." I tell him honestly.
"That never stopped you before." He says, standing up and walking back to his seat. I sigh and sit back. I wait a few more minutes, and then carefully slide out of my chair, not to disturb Hannah, and walk to the back of the plane. I open the door to the bathroom and close the door, splashing water on my face. I feel awful about what Kimberly is going through, but I do like Hannah. I made up my mind, why can't I just stick with my decision! What makes everyone so damned special that they can tell me what I should and should do? They are very understanding, but not as much as I want them to be. I dry my face off on a paper towel and open the door, knocking into someone, "I'm so sorry!" I say, as I close the door, and see Kim standing there rubbing her forehead.
"It's fine." She mumbles, "Some timing huh?"
"Yeah… we were always good on that." I laugh, "Let me see your head."
"It's fine, really." She says.
"Come on." She sighs and takes her hand away, and I see a red spot, "Ouch."
"It's really ok."
I don't know why I did what I did, but I bent down and kissed her forehead. "Better?"
Kim looked like she was taken back a bit, and I realized what I did, "Yes." She says, giving me a smile.
"Good." I say, and we head back to our seats. She lets me in and then takes her seat, not really looking at me. Hannah woke up and saw us sitting down, she looks at her watch, and smiles up at me, "We should be getting there soon."
"Yup." I said to her, as she leans up against me again. I smile at her, and watch Kim put her headphones on, and close her eyes again.
It was another two hours before we landed.
No one PoV…
"Good afternoon, we will be landing in approximately 30 minutes, with temperatures of 80 degrees and bright blue sky's. The time is 2:30." The fight attendant smiles and she hangs up the microphone.
Kimberly took off her earphones and put them in her carryon bag. The rest got ready to land and in about thirty minutes, they were off the plane and walking into the airport.
"Wow, look at this place!" Aisha smiles, as she pulls Kimberly next to her. "Can you believe this!"
"It's great." Kim smiles.
"Oh, Aloha!" Rocky smiles as he sees the girls passing out leis. "God I love this state." He says, quickly making his way over to the girls, getting a kiss and giving one back.
"Rocky…" Trini laughs.
"That boy." Aisha says shaking her head, as she too is presented with a lei.
"Where are we meeting your Uncle Tommy?" Adam asks.
"Out front. We're going to grab our luggage and head out front for him to pick us up."
"Cool." Rocky says.
They go over to baggage claim and wait for their luggage, "Damn, Aisha, Kim how much did you two bring?"
"Two bags, why?" Aisha asks.
"And a carry on bag… and a small suitcase."
"Ok, so two bags each." Kimberly says laughing.
"Yeah, shut up Rocky!" Aisha says, pushing him, "Or you WILL be carrying mine."
"That's what Zack's there for."
"What ever happened to the term Bro's before bitches?" Zack laughs, "I think since you are her "bro" you should be carrying her luggage… because I sure as hell ain't."
"You would if I asked you too." Aisha says quite sure of herself.
"I would not."
"You would too." Jason laughs.
"Thank you Jason." Aisha laughs as she and Kimberly grab their luggage.
"Alright, lets jet." Tommy says as he and Hannah head the gang out to where his uncle would be. Jeff was waiting for the kids, just as he said, smiling at them, with a stretch limo. He was a very successful hotel chain owner, and Maui was where his most popular hotel was, which was where his penthouse was.
"Tommy, it's good to see you kid." He smiles, hugging his nephew.
"Hi Uncle Jeff, how have you been?"
"Fine, you?"
"Great. You remember everyone right?"
"Right… except for this one."
"This is Hannah."
"Hi Hannah." He smiles, as he extends his hand, "It's nice to meet you."
"You too." She smiles, shaking his hand before taking Tommy's hand again.
Kimberly knew Jeff the most out of the friends, and she really likes him. He reminds her a lot of Tommy and his father. They are great people to be around… usually.
"Kimberly, how have you been honey?" He asks, giving her a hug.
"Fine Jeff, how about you?"
"I've been good! How's gymnastics going?"
"It's ok." She says, forcing a smile onto her face.
He could sense she didn't want to talk much and knew that if she didn't want to talk not to force her. He looked over to Hannah and Tommy and put two and two together, and shook his head, "Alright everyone, pile in. We'll be to the hotel in about twenty minutes." He smiles, as they all get into the 18 seat limo.
"This is awesome Jeff." Zack smiles, as he sits inside.
"Yeah, you really didn't have to do this." Jason replies.
"Sure I did. It is my pleasure." He grins. "I have set aside 4 rooms up on the seventh floor. You have two beds and a hide-a-bed in the other room, so no one will have to sleep in the same beds… if you don't want too…" He quips, "You all can figure out how you are going to divide each other up."
The girls glance at each other, and Aisha speaks, "Kat, why don't you and Hannah take a room, and then Kimberly, Trini and I will grab the other?"
"Sure." Kat says, nodding.
"Sounds good." Hannah says.
"Then you guys can figure it out." Trini smiles.
"We should room according to colors." Rocky grins.
"Colors?" Hannah asks… a bit confused at the notion.
"Yeah, with the colors that we are wearing." Jason says, trying to clear up confusion with out letting the secret out.
"What about, Rocky, Jase and Tommy in one room, and Adam and I in the other room." Zack smiles.
"Sure."
"Well you guys got that figured out fairly quickly." Jeff says as they pull into the hotel, and get out of the car, "Alright, rooms 700-704 are yours. Go ahead up and I'll check in on you guys later. Order anything you want, and let me know if you need anything."
"Thanks a lot Uncle Jeff."
"No problem Tommy." He says, and hands the kids their keys.
They break off into their rooms and smile, Kimberly was amazed at this hotel, "Can you believe this room! It's huge!"
"No wonder it costs so much." Aisha smiles, and sits on one of the beds. "This place is great!"
"It's a good thing Tommy's uncle owns it." Trini smiles.
"You're right. Did you know him well Kim?"
"I know him better than all of you do, but I don't know him too well. He's a nice guy though."
"He must be, giving up four rooms to ten freeloaders." Aisha giggles.
"Yeah." Trini agrees.
"Our rooms are joined with the "Red" room."
"Wonderful… so we'll have them banging our rooms down every ten minutes… and they won't allow us to sleep in." Trini says.
"I'm sleeping in. I don't care what they say, it's a vacation, and on vacation I sleep in. I have to get up and be at the gym by 6:00 every morning!"
"You said it girl."
"Look at this view." Kim exclaims as she walks out onto the balcony and sees the white beaches and bright blue ocean. "I am going to spend a lot of time out here." She grins.
"The hell you are, you are spending a lot of time shopping with us." Aisha grins, and goes into the hotel room to finish unpacking. Kimberly walks back inside to do the same.
"I'm going to see how Adam and Zack are fairing." Aisha smiles.
"We won't see her for a while." Kimberly mutters. "I'm sure we'll be seeing Adam fairly soon though."
"Kimberly…" Trini says, laughing, which gets Kimberly going, and leaves Aisha to giggle as she walks out. "So…" Trini says.
"Yeah?"
"Are you alright?"
"Fine…"
"Kim."
"I'll be fine Trini… I have to get use to it."
"That didn't answer my question."
"I'm ok. I mean, I want Tommy to be happy… I don't want to hold him back from someone he likes…"
"He is confused."
"I don't want to wait around Trin."
"I know Kim." She sighs.
"Can we drop this?"
Trini senses the urgency in her voice and sees her eyes brim with tears, "Sure. So what should we do first?"
"I dunno, we should ask the guys."
"Knock on the door." Trini says, as Kim opens the double door.
"Yo?" Rocky says.
"Open up."
"We don't want the likes of you people in the room."
"Rocky?"
"Kimberly?"
"Open the door, or I am going to come in there and seriously kick your ass."
"Well fine then." He laughs, and opens up, "Well hello."
"What do you guys wanna do?"
"I dunno… Jason?"
"What?"
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know really. We'll have to wait till Tommy gets back."
"Where is he?"
"Went up to talk to his Uncle for a few seconds."
"Oh." Kim says.
"We should walk around the hotel and just check it out. I mean it's huge in here!"
"That sounds good." Trini says, "Should we go see if the others want to wonder?"
"Where's Aisha?" Rocky asks.
"With Zack."
"Well, let's go see if Adam wants to go."
"We should ask the others too…" Jason says, trailing.
"So?" Kimberly says. "Go ask them." When no one moves she says, "Fine, I'll ask them." And goes across the hallway to the other two girls room, knocking, "Katherine."
"Hey." She says, opening the door, "What's up?"
"We are going to walk around the hotel, do you want to go?"
"Sure." She smiles, "Hannah are you coming?"
"Yeah!" She says, as they leave the room. "Where's Tommy?"'
"Up with his Uncle." Kimberly replies, quite cold. "Is Adam coming?"
"Yeah, he's on the way." Rocky smiles, "I can't believe he lasted in the room that long with Zack and Isha there."
"Neither can I." Adam smiles, as he walks towards them, "Let's go."
"Ok." Jason smiles.
As they walk around the Hotel Grounds, Tommy was busy talking with his uncle.
"So, are you and Kimberly… broken up?" He asks his nephew.
"I think so…"
"You think so? What does that mean?"
"It means I'm not sure… but I'm leaning towards yes."
"What happened between you two?"
"Florida…"
"You guys didn't even make it a year."
"I know… she was only down there for about six months. Then Hannah moved here, and she was all I could think about. I told Kim the first chance I got, well… not the first chance, but the second she got home. I'm actually surprised she came."
"How is she taking it?"
"She's here isn't she?"
"That doesn't mean anything."
"I know…"
"So you just feel out of love? Just like that? After two years?"
"No… I still love her, but…"
"Hannah."
"Yeah, and she is so close."
"Well, what ever makes you happy…"
"I know." He sighs, "So where's Josh?"
"He's around here
somewhere. You'll see him later on tonight if you are around."
Josh was Tommy's cousin, they grew up together till he moved
with his father down to Hawaii. They were two months apart, and did
everything together until they were 13.
"So, how's your mom dad and sister?"
"They are fine. Morgan's driving me crazy because Kim's up and she has seen her once."
"Can you blame her? You two dated for almost three years."
"No, I guess not."
"Well, have fun none the less. You should probably go on back down and spend some time with your friends."
"Yeah. They are probably all over the place taking in the sights." He smiles.
"Probably. There is a lot to see."
"Alright, we'll I'm out of here. Send Josh down if you see him."
"I will. See you in a while Tommy."
"Right, bye." He says, and heads down to the rooms to see if anyone was around, when they weren't he walks around the hotel to try and find them.
"There's Tommy." Hannah immediately says, as she spots him, "Tommy! Over here." She calls.
"There you guys are." He smiles, "I was looking all over for you."
"Didn't look hard enough didcha?" She teases.
"Guess not." He laughs, "What do you guys wanna do?"
"We are just gonna look around the hotel first." Adam smiles.
"Where are Aisha and Zack?"
"In my room." Adam says, groaning.
Tommy shakes his head, "Those two together may not be trouble."
"No more then us." Hannah says. Kimberly's face drains of color, but she quickly redeems herself.
"They will probably be looking for us soon." She says, as she quickly walks out the hotel doors with her friends following. "Just keep moving Kimberly, just keep moving. What ever you do don't cry. Don't let them see you cry." She keeps telling herself as she walks outside. The warm air hits them like a wave in the ocean. Kimberly is able to keep her emotions at bay as they all walk around to check out the outside of the hotel.
They see the pool, which is quite large with a huge waterfall that pours into both the shallow and deep end. You can see the ocean from the pool. There are a ton of beach chairs that surround the pool and a snack bar that you could swim up too. There was a large hot tub about ten feet away from the pool that you could easily fit about 20 people. There were jogging trails all over the place. There are even horse stables there so people can take a ride on the beach if they choose to do so.
"This place is amazing." Trini smiles.
"It really is." Aisha replies.
They walk back inside to finish scooping out the scene. There are five restaurants, two gyms, and three indoor pools each with their own small hot tub.
"You going to be working out this vacation Kim?" Jason asks.
"Probably." She smiles.
"Great for relieving stress." Tommy mutters getting an evil look from his friends that quickly shuts him up.
"I wonder how far the nearest mall is." Aisha smiles.
"About ten minutes from here." Tommy replies. "It's a great mall too, or so I am told. My cousins love it so, who knows."
"Maybe we'll be lucky and have a rainy day, so it will give us a reason to shop." Kim laughs.
"You'd love that wouldn't you." Rocky says, rolling his eyes.
"We would love that." Kat smiles. Trini is a bit different than the other girls. She likes shopping, however, it wasn't that big of a deal if she didn't go to the mall, especially when there is so much other things to do.
"What about you Trin, do you want to shop?"
"Sure." She smiles at her fellow yellow. She and Aisha have become closer since she moved back to California, and Kimberly left town. Kim was still her best friend, but Aisha was a close second.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm starving." Rocky says.
"Big surprise." Adam quips, getting a shot in the arm.
"I never liked you Adam." Rocky smiles, patting his friend on the back.
"I'm kind of hungry too." Hannah smiles.
"I could eat." Jason shrugs. The others agree and they head into one of the restaurants to eat an early dinner.
By the end of dinner, Kimberly had just as much of Hannah and Tommy as she could take. She was getting very stressed out and starting to not talk as much, almost going into a shell that no one has ever seen her in. She didn't say a word to either Tommy or Hannah and would seem to not hear them if they talked to her. This was beginning to irritate Tommy and it was showing. Around six, they decided to head to the pool and swim for a while, all but Kimberly. She insisted that she is tired and instead of swimming with the others she goes back into her room.
"Are you sure you don't want to come Kim?" Aisha asks.
"I'm positive Aisha. I'm really tired." She says, lying down on the bed.
"Oh come on Kim…" Trini says, "Come swimming. It will be fun."
"Tomorrow, I promise. Right now, I think I am going to rest and then maybe work out a bit." She smiles fakely, "Besides, I have to call the coach and see what time I need to be back on the 14th."
"Well, ok, but if you change your mind, meet us down at the pool."
"I will Trini, I promise."
As soon as the girls leave the room, Kimberly lets her fake smile fall to the ground. She lies face down on the bed and sighs heavily, "Come on Kim…" She says, "Don't let them ruin your time here." The pep talk didn't work. She was still too upset at the fact that Hannah was there with her ex boyfriend. She decides to call Renee down in Florida and see how things are going, " 'Nee, it's Kim."
"How are you!" She asks, smiling.
"I've been better, how are you?"
"Ugh, exhausted. Kim, since you are on vacation, Coach has been riding me 10 times harder than he ever has."
Kim laughs, "You should expect that."
"So, how's Tommy hmmm!" She asks, not expecting the silence that was on the other end, "Kimberly?"
"We broke up." She says, her voice shaking.
"What! Why?"
"He likes this girl Hannah, and now we are all down in Hawaii… all of us."
"Are you ok?"
"No… but I will be."
"Kim, I'm…"
"Don't say it. It happened. Now I have to get over it." She sighs, wiping a tear away from her eyes, "It totally sucks Renee."
"I bet it does." She says, not knowing what else to say, "I don't know what to say Kimberly."
"You don't have to say anything. They are all swimming, and I just couldn't bear to see them together, so I am sitting in the hotel room, alone."
"You can't do that Kim. This is your vacation. Don't let them ruin that."
"I can't shake him Renee."
"It will get easier Kimberly."
"I know it will." She sighs.
They talk for a few more minutes before Renee has to get to practice. They say goodbye and hang up. Kimberly goes out onto the deck and sits down on the chair. She looks out at the ocean and sighs, "It's going to be a long week." She thinks. She decides to go down to the gym and work out a bit, but when she gets there she sees Tommy's cousins Josh and Kelsey. She starts talking to them as she works out and gets more worked up over the situation than she was.
Meanwhile, out in the pool, everyone was busy swimming and having a good time. Hannah was all over Tommy as usual, and he didn't seem to mind. Jason looks at the pair and sighs, "It's all her fault." Aisha says, seeing Jason staring.
"No, it's not all her fault, and it's not all Tommy's fault either. It happened."
"It sucks Jason…"
"Yeah, it does." He says, "But we need to respect the fact that they are together."
"But Kimberly's turning into a hermit."
"Only for now. She'll get use to it. She's hurting."
"Maybe we should go back and hang out with her, I mean I feel bad not being there…"
"You know that is not what she needs right now."
"Yeah, your right." She says, sighing and diving under the water.
"You coming Jason?" Kat asks as they swim to the other side of the water.
"On your tail." He smiles, catching up with the rest of the group.
"What do you think Kimberly's doing?" Hannah asks.
"Probably sleeping or working out." Rocky says.
"I think the later." Trini replies.
"She should be out here with us, why isn't she?"
Aisha bites her tongue, "Because of you." She wants to say, but instead she says, "She was tired."
"Well if she was tired she is probably sleeping."
"If only you knew her…"
"That will happen in time Aisha." She smiles sweetly, placing her hand on Tommy's shoulder.
After an hour of relaxing they head back into the hotel, "I'm gonna go see if I can find Kimberly." Rocky says, after changing.
"Check the gym." Tommy replies.
"I was going to." Rocky says and heads out the door. He walks down to the gym and finds her, "Hey."
"Hey." She say.
"What say you get off that machine and come with us."
"Where are you going?"
"To get coffee."
She thinks for a while, then turns off the machine, "Alright, but let me get a shower first."
"I think Aisha is in there now."
"Anyone in yours?"
"No."
"Ok, I'll steal yours then."
"It'll be hard to steal a full shower…"
"Rocky…" She warns, playfully.
"Ok, ok. It's all yours, unless someone is in it."
"Then I'll steal Adams or Kats."
"I'm sure they'll appreciate that." He smiles, as they head out of the gym and up to their room.
"Look what I found." He laughs as he enters the room, "Where's Tommy?"
"Over in Kat's room" Jason replies.
"I'm borrowing your shower." Kimberly says, "Aisha's in mine."
"No problem, just please, leave it as it is. I don't want any of that girly shit all over the place." Jason teases.
"Thanks a lot Bro." She laughs, bringing all her things into their room. When she is done, Tommy is back. She comes out with a towel wrapped around her and heads into her room to change. Tommy watches her every move.
"Dude, quit your drooling." Rocky says, slapping him upside the head.
"I'm not." He says, defending himself.
"Uh huh." Rocky says, rolling his eye, dodging a pillow that is thrown at his head.
In the girls room, "Aisha, grab me my purple tank top please." She says, as Aisha throws her the tank. She has on a matching pair of lavender shorts and white healed sandals, which enhances her height by about three inches.
Kat comes into their room sighing, "This damn braid won't work." She complains as she tries to tie her hair back again.
"Sit down Kat." Kimberly says, "I'll try to get it."
"I usually can get it…"
"Don't worry about it." She says, and quickly French Braids the Australian's long blonde hair.
"Thanks." She smiles.
"You can French Braid Kimberly?" Hannah asks surprised.
"I can do almost anything with hair." Kim mutters.
"Will you braid mine?"
Kim groans on the inside, "If you bring me a hair tie." She says with little to no expression. Hannah is a nice person, but Kim still can't get use to her. She doesn't know if she ever can. Hannah sits in front of Kimberly and she quickly does the braid. She doesn't put nearly as much effort into the girl's hair as she did to Kats hair, but still it comes out almost perfect. "Thank you so much!" Hannah smiles.
"Uh huh." She says and goes over to fix her own hair. They hear a banging on the door, and Aisha opens it up.
"What did I tell you about leaving your girly shit in our bathroom." Jason shouts playfully at her.
"You need a bit of estrogen in there." Kim laughs.
"Get this poofy thing out of here, I mean come on, a poof!"
"It's pretty!" Aisha smiles.
"It's… pink!"
"And you're wearing a version of pink." Kim smiles, "Add a bit of white to that and it will be pink."
"Hell no." Jason says, throwing her things onto the bed, "Are you girls almost ready?"
"Almost." Kim says, tying her hair up, out of her face. "There, I'm ready." She smiles.
"It's about time." Rocky calls from the other room, "I want my coffee."
"Boy, you have enough energy! You don't need coffee." Aisha cracks as they walk out the door. Tommy bypasses Kim to get to Hannah and takes her hand, shooting a look at Kimberly. She does a great job of hiding her feelings, though Tommy knows it is killing her.
"I've tried to be discrete and look where it's gotten me." He thinks to himself, "Might as well show it off."
They went out for coffee, then Tommy and Hannah went for a walk on the beach. The others stayed in and watched a movie, and then everyone crashed for the night. At 7:30, the sunlight flowed in from the window, hitting Kim smack in the face. She woke up instantly, something that she used to not do. She jumps up, thinking she was late for practice, but quickly remembers where she is, "Relax Kim." She says, sighing. She tries to roll over and fall back asleep, but after ten minutes, she realizes it is useless. She pulls on a pink sports bra with a skimpy white tank top, and a pair of black and pink shorts. She then pulls on her running shoes, leaves a note, grabs a key, and quietly leaves her sleeping friends in the room. She takes the elevator to the ground floor, walks out into the warm, but breezy air and runs. She has always loved running. She feels so free. She runs down the path that leads her to the beach, passing other runners on their way. She hits the sand and keeps going. Tommy had the same idea as Kimberly, only he started earlier. He was heading back when he sees Kimberly. He stops and calls out her name. She turns around and sees him, "Shit." She mutters. She stops and he catches up to her.
"Good morning."
"Hi." She says, coolly, stretching her legs out a bit.
"It's a nice morning for a run isn't it?"
"Yup."
"Did you just wake up?"
"A bit ago."
"I've been out here for about an hour."
"Oh." She says shortly.
Tommy was getting frustrated with this, "Where are you running too?"
"I don't know."
He was beginning to lose his patients with the girl, "There is a nice path down the way a bit."
"Oh?" She asks, now not making eye contact with him.
"Dammit Kimberly!" He finally blows, "I'm trying to make conversation with you, and all you are doing is giving me short to the point answers."
"I have nothing to say to you." She says.
"What the hell is up with you Kim!"
"Up with me! Tommy, you…"
"Un-fucking-believable Kimberly. The least you can do is fucking talk to me."
"Me talk to you! It is all your fault Tommy. You expect me to talk to you and treat you the same way I did when we were together! You expect me to act like everything is ok between us? Well, I have news for you Thomas Oliver, it is not fine, everything is not fine, and I am not going to stand here and make nice with you and with the girl who you cheated on me with and didn't tell me about it, just to make you feel good!" She says, getting up in his face.
"You are so selfish Kimberly…"
"Selfish? ME!"
"Yes, you. You can't even be happy that I am happy."
"Oh forgive me Tommy. I didn't know that you needed my approval to be happy, I mean you sure were happy cheating on me."
"Things happen Kimberly!"
"And I am not going to tell you that it is alright Tommy because it isn't."
"This isn't just my fault Kim… if you didn't move to Florida…" He says.
"You told me too! I didn't want to and you said, 'You have to follow your dream Kim' or don't you remember that!"
"Don't you dare put all this to blame on me. I am trying to be civil towards you, and you are acting like I don't exist, that Hannah doesn't exist. Well you know what Kim… I'm happier with Hannah now then I've ever been with you."
Kimberly looks like she is hit with a ton of bricks, "Go to hell Tommy." She says, and runs off, leaving him in the dust.
"Dammit." He say, kicking at the sand. "What the hell…" He sighs. He didn't mean to lose his temper with her, but he did. "Idiot." He says, about himself.
Kimberly continues to run, as fast as she can. Tears were flowing down her cheeks, but she still pushes on. She runs for about an hour before she arrives back at the hotel. The girls were just waking up with their alarm and Kimberly was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a bottle of water.
"What time did you get up?" Trini asks.
"7:30." She says.
"What's wrong?" Aisha asks, hearing her friend's tone of voice.
"Nothing." She replies.
"Nothing my ass, what's going on?"
Kimberly sighs, and begins to cry as she tells them about Tommy and her conversation out on the ocean. She doesn't even want to see him again after that meeting but knows she can not get away.
Meanwhile, Tommy is over with the guys, and he tells Jason. Jason was furious. He didn't even know where to start.
"Jason… say something." Tommy says, as he watches his best friends eyes glow with anger.
TBC…
I'm back! After months of having writers block… yeah I know it's been over a year for this story, but its back! I hope you all enjoyed it! Please read and Review… I need reviews to continue writing!
Thanks!
LUNA
