Author's Note: Well I've had a few hits on this story and I got at least one review from it so I've decided to continue. Thanks to Slytherin-Angel44 for being my first reviewer!
Nikki walked into the dining area of the ship and looked around for a table. The room was filled with different tables ranging from group tables to tables for only a few people. She quickly spotted a table for two and decided to sit there as she was not in the mood for meeting a huge group of people her first night on the cruise.
"May I get you something to drink?" a waiter asked as she was seated.
"I'll have a glass of wine," Nikki replied and he left to get her drink.
"Is it hot in here or is it just you?" a voice asked and Nikki looked up to see a blond haired blue eyed man staring at her.
"Excuse me," Nikki said.
"When I saw you from across the room, I passed out cold and hit my head on the floor...so I'm going to need your name and number for insurance reasons," he responded.
"Women don't really fall for that line do they?" Nikki questioned.
"Why don't you let me join you and find out," he replied.
"No thanks," Nikki told him.
"Oh come on, the whole point of this cruise is so you can meet people, let's face it we're the hottest people in the room so it must mean we're meant to be together," he said.
"Look I'm trying to be nice here, I'm not interested so please leave me alone," Nikki told him slightly raising her voice.
"Hey thanks for saving me a seat," a familiar voice said and Nikki looked up to see Tommy standing next to the table.
"Yeah I was beginning to think you stood me up," Nikki replied.
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize she was spoken for," the blond guy said as he walked away.
"Thank you so much for getting rid of him," Nikki told Tommy.
"I couldn't help but overhear the guy giving you a hard time so I thought I'd rescue you," Tommy explained.
"I'm glad you did because I was one second from throwing my drink at him and causing a scene," Nikki informed him.
"Well I don't want to intrude on your dinner, so I guess I'll see you around," Tommy said as he stood up.
"No wait, please stay, the least I can do is have dinner with my rescuer," Nikki replied.
"Sure I'd love to have dinner with you," Tommy told her and sat back down.
"Forgive me if this is a little forward but what's a nice, attractive guy like you doing on a singles cruise, surely you must have lots of women wanting to go out with you, I mean half the women here are giving me dirty looks because you came to sit with me," Nikki said.
"You know I could ask you the same thing because I was attracted to you the minute I laid eyes on you struggling with all those bags," Tommy replied.
"Ok, since I brought it up I guess I'll go first, my twin sister Samantha had this bright idea that we should get away for a few weeks and I agreed but what I didn't know was she was booking us on a singles cruise, I didn't want to come at first but Sami not so politely pointed out that it's been a long time since I've actually dated someone and she thought the cruise was a good way to force me back into the dating scene," Nikki explained.
"Oh so your sister is here too?" Tommy questioned.
"No, her on again off again boyfriend is back on the scene so she bailed on me," Nikki informed him.
"My friend Hayley signed me up for this cruise because like you I haven't dated in awhile and I made the mistake of telling Hayley that I was finally ready to settle down so she took it upon herself to help me start dating again," Tommy explained.
"Well, I guess we should propose a toast to Sami and Hayley then for forcing us into this," Nikki joked.
"So you have a twin sister, is it true what they say about twins, can you two read each others thoughts or whatever it is twins are supposed to be able to do," Tommy remarked.
"Yeah Sami and I are pretty close, in fact we share an apartment together in San Francisco along with our cousin Priscilla," Nikki replied.
"You're from San Francisco," Tommy remarked.
"Yeah I was born there and my entire family still lives there," Nikki told him.
"I'm from Angel Grove, my parents are still there but I live in Reefside now," Tommy told her.
"Wait isn't Angel Grove that place with the power rangers?" Nikki inquired.
"The one and the same," Tommy replied.
"Did you ever encounter the rangers?" she asked.
"I guess you could say I bumped into them on occasion," he said.
"So what took you to Reefside?" she questioned.
"I got my doctorate in paleontology and I took a job there teaching high school science," he explained.
"You don't look like any science teacher I've ever had, I'll bet all the girls have crushes on you," Nikki teased.
"Maybe but I don't pay them any attention, I much more attracted to women my own age," Tommy said as he smiled at her.
"You know you're quite the charmer Mister, I'm sorry I don't think I got your last name," Nikki responded.
"It's Oliver though my students tend to call me Dr. O," Tommy replied.
"My last name is Mitchell," Nikki informed him.
"Well Ms. Mitchell what do you do for a living?" Tommy asked.
"I'm a social worker, I work mostly with kids and I help handle adoptions," Nikki explained.
"That's sounds like a noble job, helping kids to find families, I wish I could thank the person who helped my parents adopt me, I couldn't have gotten better parents," Tommy told her.
"Oh you're adopted, have you ever thought about trying to find your biological parents?" Nikki inquired.
"Not really, I mean I wondered about them sometimes, I do know that at least one of them is of Native American descent, I found my older brother when I was still in high school but he didn't know much about either one of them," Tommy replied.
"My mom was given up for adoption when she was first born, her adoptive parents were killed in a car accident so she was on her own for a long time but then she discovered that she had two older sisters and they've been practically inseparable since, the oldest lives in my great-grandmother's house and then my mom and other aunt each bought the houses on either side of it," Nikki revealed.
"Sounds like you got quite a big family," Tommy remarked.
"Yeah, I do, my parents had me, Sami and my brother, and both of my aunts have three kids of their own, so there's never a dull moment with that many people around," Nikki replied.
"My family's a bit smaller than that, it's just me, my parents, my brother David and my Uncle John, but my friends are like family to me so in that way I guess I have a big family too," Tommy told her.
"I never really had that many close friends growing up, unless you count the ones I made at my private school but then again we never saw each other outside school," Nikki admitted.
"What was you're private school like?" Tommy questioned.
"I guess you could call it a school for kids with special gifts, the school teaches you how to use those gifts to your fullest potential, my uncle is the head of the school so that's where me and all my cousins went to school," Nikki explained.
"Dare I ask what special gifts you possess," Tommy said teasing her.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Nikki responded.
"Try me," Tommy said.
"Oh my gosh, do you realize how long we've been talking, we're the only ones left in here," Nikki realized.
"I guess time really does fly when you're having fun," Tommy remarked.
"Yeah, I can't remember the last time I enjoyed just having a simple conversation with someone," Nikki told him.
"What do say I walk you back to your cabin and we get out of the crew's way," Tommy said seeing that everyone was waiting for them to leave before cleaning things up.
"You really didn't have to walk me all the way here," Nikki said once they reached her cabin door.
"It was no trouble really, in fact my cabin's not too far from here," Tommy replied.
"Really, where is it?" she asked.
"Believe it or not, it's right there," Tommy said pointing to the door directly opposite of her door.
"Wow, what are the odds," Nikki remarked.
"Maybe its fate," Tommy replied.
"Yeah, maybe," Nikki said.
"Say would like to have breakfast with me in the morning?" Tommy asked.
"Sure, I'd really like that," she told him.
"Well, goodnight Nikki," Tommy said.
"Goodnight Tommy," she replied giving him a quick peck on the cheek before entering her room.