"Well," Kim said, a gleam in her eyes, "With the wedding next week, I need to go shopping, you could always carry my bags."
"No," Zack insisted, "I'll be good, please no shopping!"
"You like shopping?" Mrs. Harmon asked with a little bit of a smile, perhaps they could find something that they could connect with each other with.
"I use to be a shopaholic when I was a teen," Kim confessed, "But becoming a mother has mellowed me out, I had to drag Tommy away from the toy section in Wal Mart the other day."
"I thought the girls would like that dollhouse," Tommy protested.
"That dollhouse was over two hundred dollars," Kim pointed out, "We don't have that type of money."
"Wow," a new voice said as Jason appeared, setting down his three-year-old daughter, who scampered away to play with Kim's girls, "I remember several times that Tommy had to pull Kim away from a purchase that she didn't need. Never heard of it being reversed." At this point, he stepped up next to Kim, and gave her a bear hug and whispered into her ear, "I'm sorry Trini couldn't make it."
"What's wrong?" Kim asked Trini had been sick on and off for over a week now, at first they had thought it had been one of those bugs that was going around, but now, Kim was starting to think it might be something else.
"She's fine, it's just morning sickness," Jason said with a grin, Trini had just done a test that morning.
"I know how that goes," Kim confessed, thinking about that morning and the nausea that she had experienced, and, more importantly, what Jaslee had said about it, but she kept it to herself. She wasn't sure how to tell Jason what she had been told, and she also didn't want Mrs. Harmon to hear about Jaslee's powers. It would just convince her that the rumors about Kim being a power ranger were true.
"Hey, Jason," Zack called out, nudging his former leader on the shoulder, "I'm surprised that you haven't tried to finish what you started at the Youth Center. She's right there," he insisted, pointing out Mrs. Harmon.
"Uh, yeah, sorry about that," Jason muttered, he wasn't sorry, but he knew that Kim would make him apologize if he didn't do it himself. "Everyone says I get a bit too overprotective when it comes to my baby sister here."
"A little," Zack demanded, "You know they're still looking for that jerk that whistled at Kim in middle school."
Jason rolled his eyes, "That kid was a creep, he did a whole lot more than whistled, you weren't there, you didn't hear what he was suggesting. As for my little chat with him, he got suspended and then the dad was transferred."
"To be fair," Kim muttered, "You got suspended too for giving him a black eye."
"It was worth it," Jason grunted.
Mrs. Harmon made a mental note not to do anything to anger the man dressed in red, "I thought you were going to talk about wedding plans."
"We have to wait for the others, Aisha had an emergency pop up at her clinic."
...
An hour later found Mrs. Harmon watching a handful of little kids while Kimberly talked to the others about the wedding plans. Apparently they were planning an outdoor wedding at the park, with a luncheon afterward at the Youth Center.
Jason listened to Rocky, who was going over the menu that he was providing. Everything was in place, all Kim needed to do was buy the dresses, everything else was covered. So why did Tommy look so worried, it wasn't like this ceremony was going to cost them a dime, their wedding present to them was the ceremony, luncheon, and reception. Everybody was chipping in, even Ernie and Mrs. Stone, who had been their favorite teacher in high school, Ms. Appleby, had pitched in. Even complete strangers had pitched in.
He stepped back, pulling Tommy away from the group, "Okay Bro, spill, something is obviously on your mind."
"I'm getting married in a week," Tommy said, his voice a little shaky.
"No," Jason pointed out, "You've been married for three months now, almost four, you're just having a public ceremony."
"I know, but," Tommy began.
"But nothing, you're four months too late for cold feet, don't you think."
"I know, but what happens when they find out that I'm the whole reason that the whole Luke fiasco happened," Tommy glanced down at his feet, "I love Kim and the girls, I don't want to lose them again."
"Whoa, whoa whoa," Jason exclaimed, "Kim loves you, the girls love you, why are you worried about that?"
"I'm the reason Kim was with Luke," Tommy pointed out, "If I had tried at all to talk to her about the letter I would have learned about Luke and Goldar, and Zordon could have easily helped us take care of the threat."
"I'm just as guilty," Jason pointed out, "I've always been her big brother, and where was I when she needed me most, halfway across the globe!"
Over by the picnic table, Aisha and Kim exchanged looks, "Looks like the Guilty Party Club is having a meeting." Aisha said glancing across the pavilion to the two men.
Kim shook her head, "Tommy is driving me crazy, he's paranoid that's something bad is going to happen. The other day he tried to keep Jaslee home from school and wanted to take Inya into the doctor for an ear infection. Honestly, there isn't anything the doctor could tell us to do than I already know."
"It cleared up by itself?" Aisha asked, smiling sweetly, she could tell that her former roommate was a little irritated at her husband at that moment and felt that a change of topic was needed.
"Yes, but still, he's so paranoid," Kim exclaimed, "I'm surprised he hasn't suggested a security pat-down for everyone at the wedding."
"He didn't need to Rocky and Adam volunteered."
"Aisha," Kim groaned, "I'm serious, he's so paranoid that something bad is going to happen to one of us that I'm afraid that he's going to hurt himself or something."
"Why?" Aisha started.
"As the green ranger, he would think that I was in trouble, jump in to save me, and then get hurt. He had limited powers, I didn't."