Chapter 3: Two For One Deals
After school on Tuesday, Tommy and Kimberly halfway through school decided to go on a date afterwards. Kimberly rushed home to change and came back to the Youth Center to meet him there. Trini was waiting at a table alone.
"SO! Tell me whatcha think?" Kim asked as she did a spun for her to see better.
"Adorable." Kimberly smiled and sat down.
"I stood in my closet for what felt like days to figure out what to put on," Kimberly said.
"Tommy's gonna love it, I promise you. Oh, is that the purse you were talking about?"
"Yes! My mother took it on her first date with my Dad. She finally let me use it, after months of asking for it. I think she looks at it as means of good times with my Dad. I promised not to let it out of my sight." Trini nodded.
"Oh! I got the lipstick," Trini said pulling it out her pocket.
"Great!" Trini handed it over to Kimberly. "Siring Song Red."
"Who makes up these names?"
"I don't know!" They both laughed. Richie walked up to their table.
"Here you go ladies, diet sodas, on the house."
"Thanks," Kimberly said taking her glass and drinking it. Though having served their drinks, Richie just stared at Trini. Kimberly looks at them with a smile. After an awkward and quiet moment, Richie asked Trini if she would like to study with him later for the up coming quiz.
"Uh, sure Richie. That sounds nice. I'd like that."
"Okay, great. I'd like that too." Richie smiled and walked into some customers behind him. Kimberly laughed. Richie's cheeks went flushed, as Kimberly tried to hide her laughing. She did a horrible job.
"Shhh," Trini said waving to Richie. "Bye Richie." Kimberly snorted and continued laughing, as Richie walked back behind the Juice Bar. "Stop it."
"Sorry!"
Bulk and Skull entered the Youth Center with their latest gadget.
"Uh, excuse me, shouldn't you two be at the beach?" Trini asked laughing with Kimberly. Bulk and Skull walk over to Trini and Kimberly's table.
"For your information, this is a Power Ranger detector created by my cousin, Waldo, who had attended Angel Grove Tech. This device is going to lead up right to the Power Ranger." The detector suddenly surged and Bulk and Skull were pulled along it, away from the girls, nearly running over Tommy and Jason, as they came from the lockers.
"Yeah, that's working just great," Kimberly said. Trini laughed. Tommy and Jason walked over to the girl's table.
"Wow, Kimberly, you look beautiful," Tommy said with a huge smile.
"Thanks. You ready to go?" Kimberly asked as he was still sweating for sparring.
"Ready to go...it's only 3:30, I was going to run home and change." Kimberly groaned and looked up at the clock. Tommy looked down at his watch and then the wall clock. It was 4:00. He was late yet again. "Oh, man! I'm so sorry! Look, I'll run home and change. I promise to be quick."
"Okay."
"Oh man!" Tommy groaned and rushed out. Everyone laughed.
"That boy."
"Yea, and you stay in love each and every time with that boy," Trini said.
"That I do." Jason and Trini laughed as Kimberly shrugged.
Mrs. Dumas and Pierre were in the park; Pierre had to pick an area for his upcoming art gallery in the park and wanted to show his wife. As Pierre walked around, Mrs. Dumas heard what sounded like her daughter's screams. Tommy was chasing Kimberly after she shoved him when they found a spot for their picnic. Kimberly hugged a tree trying to trick Tommy and get away, but Tommy wasn't going to allow her to get away that easy. Mrs. Dumas watched the playfulness of her daughter and boyfriend. Tommy caught Kimberly around the waist, and spun them around. They both dropped to the grass laughing.
"You are too silly." Kimberly lay under Tommy. "Have you worked up an appetite now?"
"Pretty much," Kimberly said. Tommy reached down and they kissed. Tommy's lips moved along her cheek, jaw and down her neck. Kimberly held the back of his head, as his mouth found her collarbone through her shirt. Tommy came up to her lips. Kimberly cupped his face and kissed him deeply.
"I love you." Tommy smiled and kissed her again.
"I love you too, Beautiful."
"Honey, oh honey, I found the spot," Pierre said coming over. Mrs. Dumas hushed him as he came up behind her. In the distance, Kimberly and Tommy laid beneath a tree kissing. "Come, dear. Let the children have their moment alone." Pierre put his arm around Kim's mother and they walked away.
"You found the spot, that's wonderful. Show me."
"Awww...teenage love! How sickening. Putties!" Lord Zedd had been watching from his palace with Goldar. All the teenage love between the two was making him sick. Lord Zedd decided that since there is an extra Ranger, there needs to be an extra monster to turn their dream date into a nightmare.
Tommy ended up giving Kimberly a piggyback.
"How about a spin?"
"Wha, no!" Tommy started spinning her around on his back. Kimberly laughed, as she felt like a little girl all over again. Tommy spun and spun. "Stop!" Kimberly yelled, as she finally felt dizzy. Tommy laughed and slowed down as he stumbled about, a bit dizzy himself. Kim's arm around his neck tightened. "You okay?"
"Yeah, of course." Tommy stumbled a bit, lifting her up again.
"Don't drop me!"
"I could never drop you, baby," Tommy said.
"Well, you could have, so let me down."
"No, I got you. Let's go eat."
"Okay." Tommy kept his arms around Kim's legs and carried her like that back to their picnic. They went back to eat finally after horsing around. Kimberly fed Tommy some grapes as she ate some cheese. Kimberly tried to show Tommy a fancy way of eating cheese, but he wasn't listening. Tommy would lean over and kiss her cheek or neck often.
"Tommy, I just fixed my lipstick!"
"Yeah, and they look too delicious not to kiss." Kimberly laughed, grabbing his face. She turned his head to their picnic.
"Eat."
"Yes woman."
"I am so happy Zordon and Alpha gave you powers, you look so good in white." Tommy laughed.
"I do?"
"Yes! I mean, green is sexy, but white is so, so...so, so hot." Kimberly bit her teeth at him. Tommy kissed her. "It's just so great having you here, as a ranger where you belong."
"Thank you. I don't know what I would do if I had to sit back, while you all went into battles and I couldn't help."
"Me too," Kimberly said.
"Nothing can take these powers away, okay." They looked at their basket. "Think we ate enough?" Kimberly laughed.
"Yea. Thank your mother for such a lovely basket."
"I will." They kissed.
"My lipstick!"
"Sorry!" Kimberly went to her purse. "Wow, what a beautiful purse."
"Thanks," Kimberly said taking out her lipstick. "It was my Moms. I love it." Tommy took her lipstick.
"Let me do it."
"Okay." Kimberly pluckered her lips up. Tommy laughed and applied the lipstick. "More, please."
"Siring Song Red? Who names these things?" Tommy asked.
"Trini asked that same question." Tommy applied a bit more before he kissed her. "Tommy!" They both looked at each other and laughed.
Zedd sent down an army of putties to disrupt the couple's date. Kimberly and Tommy were walking around, holding hands when they were attacked.
"Putties! Oooo, I knew this day was going to well." She put down her purse to go into a fighting stance. Tommy did the same, but smiled.
"May I have this dance?" Kimberly turned to him with a smile and took his hand. . They fought together, taking out a few putties before separating. One of the putties gets Kimberly's purse, which she had set down. The putty takes the purse and also takes the lipstick out of the purse. The putty places the items down on the ground and Lord Zedd zaps them away to make his monsters. Zedd turned Kim's purse into a Pursehead monster and her lipstick into Lipsyncher monster. Kimberly and Tommy fought the putties and defeated them with ease.
"Tommy? Tommy! My mother's purse is missing," Kimberly said taking his hand.
"It's okay, Kimberly, we'll find it."
"Sorry cuties! It looks like the purse has found you!" Pursehead monster said. Kimberly gasped.
"Oh! How am I going to explain this to my mother?"
"We better deal with this monster. It's morphing time!" Kimberly and Tommy morph to deal with the Pursehead monster. They get trapped in the monster's mirror ray, and cannot move.
Jason and Zack were play sparring, as Billy did weights, waiting to spar with Jason, when Jason's communicator went off. They teleported to the Command Center, and Trini left tutoring with Richie to join them. They were showed what had happened to Kimberly and Tommy. Jason asked Zack to take care of the purse monster, while he went after the lipstick monster. Zack was more than willing, since Zordon wanted Billy and Trini to come up with a device that would reverse the effects of the purse monster. Jason and Zack morphed and went to their separate battles. Black Ranger was ready to battle purse monster, but he didn't get very far and was very quickly hit with a ray, frozen like Tommy and Kimberly.
Jason, the Red ranger was having his difficulties battling the lipstick monster on his own. He manages to gain the upper hand and cut a slice into the lipstick monster's face, which was very vain and detest the cut on her beautiful face. Lord Zedd is furious. He made the lipstick monster grow large. Once again, Jason is having problems defeating the monster with his zord.
In the Command Center, Alpha 5 alerts Trini and Billy to the danger Red Ranger is in. Trini and Billy are both worried, but the reverse ocular dilator is not ready yet. It took a little while longer before Billy and Trini could morph and help the frozen Rangers. The Blue ranger asks Trini, the Yellow ranger to distract Pursehead. She battles Pursehead while Blue Ranger uses his reverse ocular dilator on the three Rangers. The device works and the Rangers are freed. The five Rangers surround Pursehead, ready to battle, when Zordon contacts them. Jason is in serious trouble.
"You guys go, I'll deal with Pursehead."
"Tommy, are you sure?"
"Yes, go! Jason needs you!" Tommy insisted. So the Pink, Yellow, Blue, and Black Ranger teleported out to help Red Ranger. Tommy battles Pursehead. Pursehead pulls out some floss and soon has White Ranger all tied up. Tommy asked Saba for help. Saba attacks Pursehead, which allows White Ranger to break free and destroys it. After the battle, Tommy finds Kimberly's purse intact, just the lipstick missing. The five original Rangers destroy the Lipstick monster with their zords.
At the lake, they met up after the battle.
"Oh, here you go." Tommy hands over the purse to Kimberly.
"Thank you, Tommy!" Kimberly took the purse. "Everything is here. My mother will be very pleased." Tommy smiled.
"I'm just glad we taught Zedd a lesson about taking other people's things." Tommy put his arm around Kimberly.
"Hey, what's that?" Zack notices something strange coming out of the water. It is Bulk and Skull, still being pulled by the Power Ranger detector. Everyone laughed. Bulk and Skull make their way through them; confident they are about to discover the Power Rangers. The detector points to a group of small children, who were playing Power Rangers.
"Wow, you guys have finally done it."
"You found the Power Rangers," Kimberly said with thumbs up and a wink. "Congratulations." Everyone laughed.
Tommy and Kimberly were walking home together. They were holding hands. Tommy would occasionally spin Kimberly away, but pull her back close. He eventually put his arm around her shoulders, and they continued on to her house. Tommy looked up to the sky and smiled.
"What?"
"You smell that?" Kimberly did.
"No," she said. Tommy just smiled. "What is it?"
"You don't smell that?"
"Smell what Tommy?" Kimberly laughed.
"Nothing."
"Okay, silly."
"3….2…"
"What?!"
"1!" Within seconds, rain started pouring down on them. Kimberly let out a scream at the downpour. She raced away, pulling Tommy with her. Kimberly and Tommy ran to her porch for shelter. They stood there soaked. Kimberly looked to Tommy as they were both laughing. She pushed his hair behind his ears and rubbed his cheeks. Tommy did the same with her hair, before just running a hand down the back of her head. Their foreheads pressed together.
"Did you have fun?"
"Besides the monsters and putties?" They both laughed. "Of course. I was with you." They kissed. Kim's mother watched them through the door. Tommy bent Kimberly back, as he kissed her, causing her to smile even more as they kissed. Mrs. Dumas opened the door.
"You two better get inside before you catch a cold." Kim made a face at Tommy.
"Okay, Mommy." They went inside smiling, in each other's arms.
A few days later
After school, Billy was planning to examine the upcoming magnetic storm that was coming this afternoon. He created a new device to monitor the magnetic fields. Kimberly had bumped Tommy about to head to workout with Jason and Zack.
"Hey!"
"Hi! Well, well, look at you." Tommy touched her knot on her vest tied around her chest. Not that he needed any excuse to touch her. When Kimberly was around, Tommy wondered how much restraint it took to keep his hands and lips off her.
"I know, I look and feel a dork in this. I mean, this vest and these shorts, so uncool. So, um, what are you doing now?" Kimberly asked.
"About to work out with the guys."
"Oh, right. Of course."
"I can go with you and your campers, if you want."
"No, no, you stay, go and workout with Jase and Zack. Tone those muscles. I'll be fine. I know these woods like the back of my hand." Tommy took her hand. Kimberly looked at her hand. "Where did that come from?" Tommy laughed as Kimberly wiped the blue dot on her hand. "Just ink from labeling."
"Okay, Beautiful." Tommy kissed her cheek. "Call me if you need any help."
"Stop worrying about me!" Kimberly said with her hands on his chest.
"How can I not Beautiful?" Kimberly smiled. "How about afterwards, we go to a movie or something?"
"Or something." Tommy kissed her again. They kissed softly again and again.
"Or something."
"I better go, Laura must be wondering where I went. Bye, Tommy."
"Bye Kim." She walked away smiling. Tommy stood there staring and smiling at Kim's retreating form. Jason came up behind him.
"Yo bro, come on. Drooling is not attractive." Jason patted his back and tossed a towel over his shoulder. Tommy groaned at the pain.
"I do NOT drool." Tommy turned, but not without wiping his chin just in case. Jason and Zack laughed at him, pointing as well. Tommy chased after them.
Kimberly and her fellow group partner, Laura, were taking the troops of Girl Scouts out to the woods to earn their compass badge, but Kimberly stopped to say hi to Billy and Trini. Laura seemed interested in Billy and his new device, but was called away by the girls. Trini told Billy to maybe join Laura and the girls, but Billy wanted to do some reading today and thought Laura was more of the adventurous type, not a bookworm like him.
As Billy was getting some reading, Lord Zedd sent down Goldar and putties to take Billy's device. They succeed and turn the device into the Magnetbrain monster. It was sent to turn the city into havoc on the polarity, causing particles all around into chaos. The White Rangers saved girl Scouts, while the rest dealt with the monster. Kimberly and Laura were so proud not only were allowing the girls to earn their compass badge, but bravery for staying calm during the scary times.
After school a day later, Kimberly Hart went over her boyfriend's house. Tommy was doing his chemistry work, as Kimberly sat in his lap.
"That doesn't make sense," Kim said erasing his work. She was left-handed, so it was easy for them to do work together, with him being right-handed.
"Yes it does, and don't go erasing my work." Kim pushed his pencil away and started doing it.
"No, you can't draw arrows to atoms, it has to be electrons or bonds showing moment of atoms."
"No, that's not true." Tommy's mother was passing Tommy's room and saw them bickering. Kimberly felt one of Tommy's arms around her waist to pull her back. Kimberly giggled as he poked and tickled her. Tommy's mother smiled at the couple.
"Stop it!!" They finished a few problems together, before Kimberly turned around in his lap. She was facing him smiling.
"What?" Tommy asked as he finished one problem.
"Nothing much," she said kissing his cheek. Tommy's mother watched as Kim cupped his face and kissed him deeply. Tommy went back to his homework as she laid her head against his chest. Kimberly rubbed his chest and continued to stare at him. Tommy caught her eyes.
"Is something wrong?" Kimberly ran her hands up and under his top.
"Why would you say that?" Kimberly wrapped her arms around Tommy and held his back.
"You keep staring at me."
"I can't help you are so handsome." Kim laid her head right below his chin. Tommy kissed her forehead and leaned his chin on the side of her face. Kim closed her eyes and felt his heartbeat soothe her. Tommy rested one hand on her hip, since she was wearing a skirt; it rose due to her position.
"Are you staying for dinner?" Tommy asked, stroking her thigh.
"If your mother will have me."
"I'll bet she will love to have you." Tommy's mother left Tommy's laundry outside his door and went downstairs to start dinner, adding an extra plate to the dinner table.
Kimberly's mother found out Kim skipped practice this afternoon, so she went to find her daughter, knowing she could only be one place. Tommy's mother opened the door and saw Kim's mother.
"Mrs. Dumas, what can I do for you?"
"Is my daughter here?"
"Yes, is something wrong?" Mrs. Oliver asked.
"No, is she...?"
"Yes, she's right downstairs in Tommy's room."
"Can I...?" Mrs. Dumas asked.
"Sure, go ahead. You know where it is." Kim's mother walked downstairs slowly. She saw her daughter sitting butterfly style in Tommy's lap. Kimberly looked asleep. Tommy finished his last problem and looked down at Kimberly. He saw she was asleep as well. He smiled and rubbed her back lightly.
"Kim...Kimberly..." he kissed her cheek. Tommy eased up out his chair with Kim and carried her over to his bed. He slowly put Kim on his bed. Kim moaned, but kept asleep. Tommy lay next to her watching her sleep after pulling the side of his comfort up and over her. He loved watching her at night. He remembered when they first made love, afterwards he just watched her peacefully sleep in his arms. He was worried about their mothers have seen them before, but at that moment, it was just about them. She had a look of contentment the entire night and Tommy knew it was because of what they did. Kimberly's mother left them to be alone and went downstairs.
Tommy got up 20 minutes later and went to watch ESPN. And then his mother yelled from the top of that stairs.
"Honey, dinner is ready?"
"Oh, okay, Mom, thanks," Tommy said. He woke Kimberly. She yawned and sat up.
"Mmmm...something smells good," she said.
"Want a ride?" Kim stood on his bed and got on his back. He carried her upstairs like that. Kimberly wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing and biting at his neck. They were both laughing as they came upstairs.
"Mom?" Kim gasped as Tommy put her down slowly. "What are you doing here?" Kimberly asked straightening out her skirt and top.
"You skipped practice?"
"Oh, yea, I guess I did."
"You could have called and told me you weren't going to be there. I was thinking we could go out to dinner tonight with Pierre."
"Oh, I didn't know, sorry."
"Well, let's go then we can still make it."
"No."
"Excuse me."
"I'm eating here tonight, I already asked."
"You don't want to have dinner with Pierre and your mother?"
"Mommy, it's not that. I just already said yes to Tommy."
"Fine, I guess I'll see you at home."
"Okay." Mrs. Dumas left.
"Tommy, can you get the salad from the fridge?"
"Sure Mom." Kimberly took the jar of ice tea from the island to the table as Mr. Oliver was sitting down, reading the paper.
"Honey, can you not read the paper at the dinner table?"
"Yes Mama," Mr. Oliver said closing the paper. Mrs. Oliver kissed his cheek before settling the tray of lasagna on the table. "Wow, this looks amazing." The lasagna was bubbling with cheese and sauce. Kimberly and Tommy smiled at each other.