Summary: 'You're the only truth I know, you're the road back home.' After years apart, Andros and Ashley can finally start building their life together with their children. Sequel to Secrets Untold.

C.C.C.: That's okay. Fanfiction is being a bother too. Everyone is feeling sorry for Ash, but I had to do that. Lynette will be nice, very nice. Like I told all others. I'm not revealing anything about the baby.

Phantom Rogue: Aila is the cutest! Well, you get to stop hating Lynette now.

Slytherin-Angel44: Glad you liked Chris.

Chan-Valerte: Glad you liked it. Here's more.

PrettyDiva: Thanks. Glad you liked the chapter.

Puasluoma: Thanks.

Zeopurple: Yeah, they will. They don't mind KO-35.

Johnny: Oh yeah, don't you just love him? Yes, I'm evil enough to make you wait that long. You'll see why Chyler is a twist.

SweetSas: -grins evilly-

Alexandr KHAYMAN: -drools- I don't blame you, just pointing it out. No I don't want to kill you, it just doesn't work for the story to tell you sooner.

Mita427: -grins-

Megarider: Yay! Thanks for accepting Lynette.

DarkHonda: It pains Chris and Chyler to leave their mom! But all their lives they've been wanting a father, and that's the exact thing they'd be losing in a divorce!

DizneeDol: Thanks, glad you liked it.

Blue-sky-ranger: Well, you'll have to wait a little longer.

Mel: Not really, they're choosing a fragile relationship over a solid one. Ash is related to rabbits.

Living Truth

Chapter 23: Thoughts And Confusion

Chyler stared out over the lake from a small hill. They had been easily accepted into their new class (granted, their visit a month prior helped a lot in that). When their class had decided to go swimming that afternoon, the twins had been invited too.

Chris had easily been pulled into a game resembling both soccer and basketball and had telekinesis incorporated into its rules somehow. It was fun to watch from afar. Chris was obviously rather good at the game - and the group of girls cheering on the boys from the side was definitely an inspiration to the players.

A sigh escaped her lips as she watched Leigh place a peck on Chris's lips after scoring another three points for his team. They had so easily fallen back into love. The sight of her brother and his girlfriend suddenly fuelled an unknown feeling that made her utterly miserable.

Distractedly, she gently pressed a finger to her lips, remembering all too clearly the electric feeling that had swept through her the moment Nicky's lips touched hers. Why did Nicky have to complicate things? He was her best friend and you just don't love your best friends in that way… you don't fall in love with them. You're supposed to fall for a total stranger, letting them sweep you off your feet at first sight, as the fairytale went.

Take Jonth over there for example. He made her smile, laugh and blush all at once. That was how love was supposed to feel. That was how it was supposed to begin – as a crush, not a life long friendship!

It took a while for her slow mind to register that he was walking her way. He flopped down next to her in the grass and lay down, staring up at the sky.

"So, how far have your thoughts run off?" He said.

"Places they shouldn't be." Chyler sighed in reply.

"Care to share?" He grinned at her.

"I'd rather not. It's confusing me as it is. If I had to explain it, I wouldn't even know how to."

"So, do you like it here on KO-35?" Jonth inquired, tactfully chancing the subject.

"It's different." Chyler nodded. "For once we're not the odd ones out because of what we can do or how we look."

"Yeah, you're the odd ones out because of your morphers." Jonth laughed.

Chyler teasingly punched his arm in retaliation.

"It's not the same. People here are used to rangers walking amongst them. We're not looked at strangely, we're just recognized. It's… It's actually kind of nice. Everyone knows us, everyone seems to like us – or at least." She amended. "Mostly everyone."

"But of course!" Jonth grinned. "We're all rather relieved that little spoiled brat of a brother of yours isn't going to be red ranger. My sister used to be in his class. No one believed her when she kept complaining to the teacher that he was teasing her. Finally they've been recognizing Cevil isn't the angel everyone wanted him to be... You two are." He added boldly.

Chyler blushed and looked away. He was so sweet; Nicky never said things like that. Jonth made her feel special, like the other girls in the universe didn't matter as much as she did. Nicky just made her feel… lonely, was the best way to describe it. Not to mention, she never got that butterfly feeling in her stomach while she was around Nicky. Jonth made her feel that.

"Come on." He said, scrambling to his feet and holding out his hand to her. "Let's go for a swim. That's what we all came here to do in the first place, right?"

Chyler laughed and let him help her to her feet. She was almost disappointed when he let go of her hand, but he did stay close to her side while they walked the distance to the lake.

Once they were standing in deep enough to make it safe to dive, which wasn't all that far seeing as how the bottom plunged steeply, Chyler grinned at him.

"Race you to the middle." She told him, diving in and reappearing some distance away, laughing.

"No fair!" Jonth laughed, diving in after her. "You had a head start!"

Somewhere else

"Zhane!" Karone called, looking for her husband.

It was his day off, so she knew he had to be somewhere around the house. Suddenly she heard Aila screaming and grinned.

"Got ya."

She quickly walked up the stairs and found her way into Aila's nursery.

"And what do you think you're doing?" She laughed over Aila's screams.

"She had a dirty diaper and you weren't around to change it." Zhane replied, stepping back. "But now you are so I'll be on my way."

"Oh no you won't." Karone replied, coming over to change her daughter's diaper, suddenly sombre. "We need to talk."

"About?"

"You getting helped."

"Helped with what?" Zhane asked confused.

"I- I'm late, Zhane."

"So go, I can handle Aila." Zhane told her, confused, picking up the girl once Karone was finished with her.

Surprisingly, Aila stuck her thumb in her mouth and curled up against his side where she sat perched on his hip.

"That's not what I meant." Karone sighed.

"Then wha-… OH!" His eyes widened, and he looked at Aila. "I see your point. Maybe that would indeed be a good idea."

"I don't know if I'm pregnant or not, I'm just late." Karone told him quietly.

"But five kids is more than enough." Zhane told her, placing a gentle kiss on her nose. "Six, if you are pregnant, but we might as well make sure that next time you're late - if there is a next time - you won't have to be scared of a pregnancy."

Karone looked at him with surprised eyes.

"I thought you'd protest." She confessed.

"Sure, Andros will make fun of me and… sure it pains me to even think about it, but having an army of kids is scarier." Zhane grinned teasingly.

Karone smiled and placed a quick kiss on his lips.

"I love you."

"I love you too." Zhane told her softly.

"Luv you!" Aila giggled suddenly, causing her parents to laugh.

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