The next couple of hours went by without a hitch. Kimberly found that the unloading of her truth that had been weighing her down since arriving in Angel Grove had allowed her to think about the other big thing in her life she needed to face, seeing Tommy. Kimberly hadn't allowed herself much time to think about Tommy since breaking up with him. She found this the easiest way to cope and it lessened the pain of her having to live with her own stupid mistakes. It would have been far easier to get over Tommy if she had a reason to hate him, but all she was able to do was hate her past actions. Could it be too good to be true that he wasn't angry with her? Kimberly guessed that he had had time to come to terms with everything, and if he was with Kat now, why would he care about her? That then led Kim on to her next worry, how was she going to act seeing Tommy and Kat together? Her own insecurities about them two had led to her breaking up with Tommy, but she knew she had no right to be annoyed that they then did eventually end up getting together. Kimberly would be polite to them, but try and avoid any moments where she would have to be around the two of them alone.

"We're nearly here!" Jason yelled, thankful that his driving stint was coming to an end. As they made a turning off the main road, they followed a windy lane lined with tall trees, with the passenger side of the car looking down on a sheer drop to the valley below. Kimberly winced at the thought of a wrong move from Jason and them falling to their deaths. The trees then started to thin out to a clearing with a sign saying "Mountain Oak Camp Site". Kimberly was thankful for Trini's hand that crept over to squeeze her knee in support. Jason of course hooted his horn letting the group know they had arrived. Kimberly looked out the window to see Billy, Zack, Adam, Tommy, Rocky and a girl Kimberly didn't know but assumed to be Tanya, looking up from the tent that they were trying to put up. Kimberly noted that Kat wasn't to be seen but assumed she was in the bathroom or something.

Once parked up next to the other cars from the group they made there way over to the group of boys who had put the down the tent for now. Kimberly hung back a little bit behind them, apprehensive to what their reactions would be. She needn't have worried as it was a pleasant reception. Billy made a bee line for Kimberly and gave her a hug before she had a chance to utter hello,

"Stop worrying, it's going to be fine." Billy whispered in to her ear. Kimberly always was bad at masking her feelings, she smiled to herself with her head resting on Billy's shoulder. She had missed him so much.

"You don't know how much I needed to hear that Billy, I've missed you." Kimberly replied as she gave him a tighter squeeze in the hug.

"Hey Billy, some of us also haven't seen Kim in forever and would like to get a hug in at some point," Rocky called from behind Kim. They broke away from their hug as Kim was engulfed in a rib crushing hug from Rocky which caused Kimberly to yelp a little, drawing Aisha's attention.

"Boy, you don't need to lock on to Kim, she won't be running away from us any time soon," Aisha called resulting in laughter from Rocky and Kim.

Kimberly went round the rest of the group greeting them annoyed at herself for putting this off for so long. She should have known they would have been okay with her coming back and it added to the list of things she was annoyed at herself at for over-thinking. That was until she was introduced to Tanya. Kimberly couldn't say it was a rude introduction but she definitely felt some hostility against her as Tanya opted for a handshake rather than a friendly hug and kiss on the cheek. The last person for Kimberly to greet was Tommy. She had been avoiding his eye contact from the moment she got there, but despite that all she had felt was his eyes burning on her. Kimberly was fairly certain the rest of the group could sense the awkwardness as they all decided to get on with grabbing bags from Jason's car or attempting to put up the tent. Kimberly had her arms wrapped round herself not knowing what to say or do. Tommy had his hands tucked in to his back pockets also acting just as nervously.

They both bit the bullet at the same time and a mixture of "Hi Kim," "Hey Tommy," came out between the pair. They laughed and Kimberly finally allowed herself to properly look at Tommy. He was looking down at her and Kimberly could the feelings of butterflies in her stomach as she looked into his chocolate eyes surrounded by those long eye lashes that made every girl envious.

"It's good to see you. I'm glad you came," Tommy said, breaking the silence between them.

"Thanks, I'm glad I made the journey too." Kim replied, Tommy's kindness surprising her. She for sure thought he would be a bit hostile towards her. There was an awkward silence that seemed to go n for eternity. It was at that moment Kim found the over whelming need to apologise to him for what she had put him through when they broke up.

"I... I'm sorry I left it this long. Can we talk later? Maybe when there aren't so many prying eyes around?" Kimberly said as she caught Jason watching them out of her spherical vision. Tommy looked around at his surroundings to see what Kim meant.

"Sure." Tommy said, "I should go help the guys with their tent before they give up and say there gonna crash in my tent." Kimberly stood in the same spot and watched him walk away. She let out the biggest breath that she hadn't realised she had been holding. Tommy still looked just as handsome as he had when they were together, potentially even more now that he had filled out a bit. She had noticed Tommy had cut his hair, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but was definitely a big difference. Kimberly was snapped out of her gaze and analysis of Tommy as he walked away by Aisha who had hurried over to her.

"So... how did it go?" Aisha asked.

"Oh, fine. Well, it was awkward, but it was always going to be wasn't it? I'm going to talk to him later and apologise for the letter."

"And how are you planning on doing that without telling him everything?" Aisha asked with one eyebrow raised questionably.

"Haven't got that far yet, hence the speaking with him later. When did my life become such a mess?" Kimberly asked with a feeble laugh.

Aisha roped an arm round Kim's shoulder as she ushered her to the rest of the group, "Ever since you thought that the Florida sun was going to be better for your Cali tan than Angel Grove," and the girls laughed.

The group set up their tents in the shape of a horseshoe which looked out on the top of an opening, over looking the valley below. Adam and Rocky were sharing the farthest to the left tent, Zach and Billy next to them, then Aisha, Trini and Tanya, Kimberly and Jason, and then Tommy was on the farthest right. Nobody had mentioned to Kimberly, but it was becoming evident that Kat had not come on this trip. Kimberly wanted to know why she hadn't come, but also didn't want to seem like she cared. She would wait to see if it came up in conversation later, and if not ask Jason later when they retired to their tents to sleep.

It was coming up to dinner time and the group had settled in to their camp chairs, accompanied by drinks whilst Trini and Rocky prepped their meal. "So what's the itinerary for the next few days?" Kimberly asked with a raised eyebrow, having been kept out of the planning due to only deciding last minute she was coming. "I'm a little concerned as to why Jason said to pack clothes I don't mind getting wet or ripped," which had the group laughing. Kimberly surprised herself with how she was settling back in to her old routine with her friends.

"Over to you, oh Fearless Leader," Jason prompted.

Tommy blushed. Jason knew how much Tommy hated him calling that, but it only encouraged him to use it more. Tommy took a swig from his beer, "Well, tonight was just a chilled evening for us all to catch up, heading out early tomorrow, Billy's found an amazing lake for us to spend the day at where you can hire kayaks and that, it's a bit of a hike to get too but apparently well worth it. Then Sunday will be the day we'l hold our memorial for Zordon. The plan is to hike to the top of this peak," he said whilst pointing towards it, "so we can watch the sunset - I hope everyone brought something with them that they wanted to leave for him at the spot we're going to do it," Kimberly looked round and noticed everyone nodding. She had totally forgotten to bring something that reminded her of Zordon which she could leave behind. "Don't worry Kim, we have you covered." Jason said quietly next to her. Kimberly reached over and squeezed his hand in thanks.

Tommy continued, "Then that brings us to Monday, I figured people could do what they wanted that day, and then we'l head back home Tuesday morning."

"And with that beautifully put together itinerary," Zack said to the group whilst pouring out shots for the group, "I'd like to say a toast, to Zordon, who brought us all together and gave me a second family," Zack handed out the rest of the shots, "Cheers!" As the group called and knocked back their drinks, followed by some spluttering and 'Eugh' noises from some members. Kimberly drank hers with ease and sank in to her chair more as she relaxed, feeling the warming effects of alcohol taking over her body. As the evening went on Kim kept relatively quiet, rather enjoying listening to everyone talking and being in their company again. Kim could hear a conversation between Tanya and Adam taking place and heard Kat's name mentioned a couple of times.

"Well, don't tell anyone, but Kat is pretty pissed at Tommy. She asked him if he could change the weekend of this as it over lapped with an audition that she needed to go to if she wanted to go to England. I mean, I get it was short notice but I don't think it would have been that big of a deal asking everyone to postpone the trip so that we could all be together," Kim heard Tanya saying, a little too loudly for something that no-one else was meant to know. Kimberly looked round and saw that everyone else was to distracted by other conversations to hear them.

Adam replied to Tanya, "That surprises me. Tommy was pushing hard that we all needed to be here for this. I would have thought he would have moved it."

"Well, personally I think it's because a certain someone had been invited who had to arrange travel here." Kimberly heart sped up at the comment, wanting to hear more. Unfortunately she wasn't able to listen to anymore of their conversation as Rocky rather drunkenly shouted across to the campfire to her,

"Hey Kim, tell Aisha, don't you think she should let me take her out on a date," Kimberly laughed, and whilst Aisha was objecting she could tell that it was her trying to be coy rather than actually not wanting too.

"Oh, absolutely!" Kim giggled back. Aisha rolled her eyes playfully but was thankful that the fire light didn't allow the others to see her blush at this public display of affection towards her. Whilst Kim was watching Aisha and Rocky playfully flirt with each other it brought her back a sense of longing. Those early stages of the relationship were always so fun and light, something Kim was deeply missing from her life. She thought back to when her and Tommy were at that stage when they were younger. Is this what the others had felt like around us? Kimberly looked round the circle at Tommy and noticed he was already looking at her, he smiled at her of which she returned. Fire lighting really was a blessing for masking feelings.

Around 10 o'clock Kimberly decided to call it a night, letting Jason know she was going to get ready for bed. It had been a long, emotionally draining day - in positive and negative senses. She just hoped she would get a better night's sleep than she had yesterday. Heading in to the tent to grab her wash bag and sleepwear, Jason followed her in so that he could make sure he had everything to hand for when he decided to retire for the night.

"So, how you've found it?" Jason asked Kim as he went through his bag.

"I couldn't really ask for better friends could I?" Kim replied smiling, "I wish I hadn't put off coming back for so long."

"We can't live in the past, but let's make a promise to ourselves that we don't drift from each other again," Jason said turning to Kim holding out his right pinky finger.

Kimberly laughed at the sentiment of Jason doing the promise handshake they always did as kids,

"Deal" Kim said reaching out her finger as they shook on it.

"Erm, so... Tanya's interesting..." Kimberly said dancing around the real subject she wanted to discuss.

Jason chuckled, "She's okay, she just takes a bit more warming up to. It's probably weird for her watching some new girl come in that everyone already knows and she doesn't."

Kimberly nodded, wondering whether to bring up the conversation she had overheard Tanya have with Adam.

Before she had the chance to make up her mind, Jason changed the subject to Tommy.

"And with Tommy? Told you everything would be okay with him."

"Yeah, I mean we haven't really spoken other than in the group. But I think we'l be fine. As long as we can be civil that's the main thing, right?" Kimberly said lying to herself. There was nothing more that she wanted to be able to slot in to her old ways with Tommy. She had always felt secure around him, like nothing could hurt her.

"Have you been sitting around the same campfire as me tonight, Kim? He hasn't been able to take his eyes off you. I tell you, lucky that Kat couldn't make it for yours and his sakes as I don't think she would be happy."

"Oh give over Jason," Kimberly said trying to ignore what he had said.

Jason shrugged playfully and winked at her as he was leaving the tent, "Whatever you say, Kimmie."

Jason's comment had thrown Kim off a bit, had Tommy really been looking at her throughout the evening? She had been so focused on not wanting to stare at him that she had avoided his end of the circle pretty much for all of the night. Trying to not get caught up in her own thoughts she grabbed her stuff and headed to the toilet and shower block.

As she got there and started unloading her wash bag at the sink, Tommy came round the corner from the men's toilets.

"Hey," he said, "Turning in already?"

Kim turned to him while taking off her make up,

"Yep, can't handle the late nights anymore haha"

"That's a shame, we didn't get a chance to talk." Tommy replied, Kimberly looked up at him.

"Well we can chat now if you like," Tommy smiled to this although his face soon dropped as they could hear Tanya and Aisha's voices getting nearer "Or perhaps tomorrow?" Kim said smirking at him.

"I guess I'l have to wait till then," Tommy smiled stepping forward to hug Kim goodnight but stopped when Tanya and Aisha came through the doorway to them. Tanya's face did not look happy, whilst Aisha seemed none the wiser and carried on to the female bathrooms.

"Night Kim," Tommy said as he left the shower block.

Kim turned herself back to the mirror and sink and started getting her toothbrush out, as Tanya walked over to her.

"Don't think I don't know what you're doing - just remember that I'm Kat's best friend,"

Kim nearly choked on her toothpaste that she was brushing around her mouth. She spat out what was left in to the sink and replied,

"I'm not sure what you think is happening, but I can assure you that you are very mistaken," Kim defended the accusation. The two girls were left glaring at each other when Aisha came back out of the bathroom.

"Errr everything okay here ladies?" Aisha said looking at the two.

"All good," Kim said turning away and putting more toothpaste on her toothbrush and continued brushing her teeth.

As Tanya and Aisha left Kim could hear Tanya saying "I just don't trust her" which caused Aisha to sigh. Aisha really didn't want to get caught up between her cousin and friend. Kimberly could make out Aisha saying "It's just because you don't know her yet, watch, by the end of the weekend you'll love her."

Packing up her stuff and walking back to the tent, Kimberly said her goodnight's to the rest of the group that were still round the fire and got in to her sleeping bag. She was thankful that Jason had opted for the individual camp beds rather than the double blow up bed. She didn't fancy being catapulted up when Jason probably drunkenly collapsed in to bed later.

Laying in her sleeping bag Kimberly looked up at the canvas of the tent. This weekend was going to be a lot more interesting than she had bargained for.