CHAPTER 3
Trent and Ethan sat at Kira's house, doing her best to comfort the miserable girl.
"Kira you don't need him anyway." Trent tried for what seemed like the fiftieth time.
"I can't believe he thought that." Kira wailed, leaning into Trent.
"And if he ever comes within sight of me I'm gonna punch his face out." Ethan grumbled.
"Count me in on that." Trent added, giving Kira a hug.
"He's going to die; he said that about his own girlfriend!" Ethan grumbled.
"What did I do? All I did was steal a pencil, then I switched places with…Eric!" Conner said bolting to the bathroom.
Just as Conner was about to open the door his identical twin brother Eric walked out.
"What the heck did you say?" Conner demanded blocking Eric's way.
"What do you mean?" Eric asked innocently.
"What did you say when we switched places?" Conner replied sharply.
"Oh, all I sad was that that Kira girl couldn't even fight Cassidy and never did any real work." Eric said happily.
"What? Why would you do that! We made a deal that we wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings and NOT get carried away!" Conner cried shaking Eric.
"What's the big deal? So you've lost some friends, they weren't your closest ones, your soccer buddies are." Eric replied, slipping out of Conner's grasp.
"Not anymore! The team dumped me a month back because I wasn't hanging out with them…those were my BEST friends Eric." Conner said, feeling as if he might punch Eric.
"Well sorry for the mix up…I never knew they'd blow like that about some girl." Eric said holding up his hands.
"Kira wasn't just any girl Eric, she was the girl I almost died for, the girl that helped me with the soccer camps, the girl I loved. She's the girl that I will never see again." Conner moaned, leaning against the wall.
"I thought that was Christa." Eric said thoughtfully, "I thought she was the one you almost died for."
"Why does it matter to you?" Conner said, before walking out the door.
"I never thought…" Eric stammered when Conner left.
Conner bent over trying to catch his breath, he'd been sprinting for five miles straight and now had only a mile before he was at Kira's house.
"I'm going to strangle him." Conner gasped out.
With that Conner took off sprinting again.
Trent sighed as the doorbell rang, "Good thing Kira decided to go take a nap."
"Yes." Ethan said, "The more reason we can punch him without feeling guilty."
"We don't even know who it is." Trent mumbled as he opened the door to see a panting Conner.
"Ha." Ethan said to Trent.
"What are you doing here?" Trent asked completely ignoring Ethan.
"You guys I can explain what happened. Just, let me talk to Kira." Conner pleaded.
"Why? Kira was crying for hours because of you. She's finally stopped why should she have to start again." Trent said, way more than a bit over protective.
"Fine, then can I at least tell you?" Conner asked, he was growing desperate.
"Hmm…didn't you talk to us earlier?" Ethan asked nonchalantly.
"Yes, and no, if you want me to get a Hayleyish." Conner said confusedly.
"Well you think that over, in the meantime why don't you leave?" Ethan asked while Trent nodded in agreement.
"Wait, please let me explain." Conner begged feeling that they were about to slam the door any second.
"Um…no." Trent said, letting the door slam.
Conner sighed, he knew this would happen.
"Why can't Eric be a normal twin?"
"He can be a real jerk huh?"
"Worse than you."
"Ignoring that."
"I can't believe he thought that…"
"That you didn't care that way for her?"
"Yes."
"I can see that…"
"You help a lot you know that?"
"I'm sorry, I just can't think of anything to say."
"It's okay."
Tommy moaned as a big black dog came bounding up to him carrying a stick.
"Again?" Tommy asked as the big dog dropped the stick.
"Woof!" the dog woofed, playfully pawing at Tommy.
"Jason and Trini are going to pay me BIG for babysitting you got that?" Tommy asked kicking the stick.
"Woof! Bark!" the dog woofed, seeming to understand.
"Okay…go fetch Tommy!" Tommy said rolling his eyes at the Scott's name choice.
When Jason and Trini had gotten the big black mutt they had named him Tommy. It was more than an inside joke that made the name sting, it was the fact that a dog's name and coat could determine Tommy's future. The 'naming ceremony,' as it's called now, happened before Tommy, the human, had became the black dino ranger.
Tommy cringed at the thought of it.
FLASHBACK
"Oh Jason what about this one!" Trini said pointing to a very grumpy pit bull.
"You are always picking the mean tempered ones Trini; we want one that's nice." Jason said, shaking his head slightly. So far Trini had picked out a snappy poodle, a whinny bloodhound, a psychotic collie, and a more than slightly disturbing steroid abused dalmation.
"Oh but the dalmation was cute!" Trini started again for what seemed like the fiftieth time.
"Trini the dog was fed steroids, it's not good! Let's go find a different one." Jason said as the young couple left the vicinity and walked to another building with dogs, this one was the mutts building.
"Now these seem safe." Jason mumbled under his breath as Trini took off down the row.
"Oh! This one! He's sooo cute!" Trini babbled as she stopped by an old jack russel terrier.
"Or…how bout' this big guy?" Jason said leading Trini to Tommy's cage.
"Oh! I like him the best! Let's get him!" Trini said jumping up and down.
"Okay…" Jason said
TWO DAYS LATER
"No what to name him?" Jason asked, pacing the floor while the excited dog ran through the kitchen, slamming into one cabinet door before taking off and ramming into a different one.
"Well that gate sure works." Zack commented as Tommy rammed himself into the baby gate the trio had put up earlier to keep Tommy in one place.
"How many times does he have to ram into something to get the point that it's there?" Jason asked as Tommy ran headlong into a watermelon, getting his head caught inside.
"There goes our lunch." Zack groaned as Jason broke out in laughter.
"You guys that's not nice." Trini said in between gasps of laughter.
"Woof?" came the muffled reply of Tommy just before he rammed into another cabinet door headfirst.
"That's using your head dog." Jason mumbled while Trini went to the dogs rescue.
"Oh it's okay…" Trini cooed, brushing off chunks of watermelon.
"Jason I think something happened to your wife." Zack said watching Trini coo over the big scared dog.
"Watch it Zack. Or I'll sick…Blacky on you." Trini hissed, staring at Zack.
"Okay…old Trini back…Zack scared. Zack going to go hide." Zack whimpered hiding behind Jason.
"Blackie? What kind of name is that?" Jason questioned, trying to shrug off Zack but to no avail.
"It's the best thing I could think of and since you two weren't thinking of anything." Trini said.
"I vote for Zack!" Zack spoke up forgetting about Trini for a few seconds before letting out a yelp of realization and hiding again.
"Zack! We are NOT naming our dog after you! The name is cursed! Besides why would we name it Zack and not Billy?" Jason shot back at Zack, making Zack cower under the table instead of behind Jason.
Trembling Zack spoke up, "Because he's a black dog…and I kind of have an obsession with black."
"Whatever…" Jason sighed, rolling his eyes in disgust.
"I like Black Fog." Trini spoke up.
"Black Fog? Who names a dog that?" Zack asked as Trini glared at him.
"Me!" Trini snapped, grabbing a knife.
"Okay…Black Fog is a very good name." Zack said backing away slowly.
"I GOT IT!" Jason suddenly, jumping up.
"What?" Trini and Zack asked sharply in unison.
"Come here Tommy, come here big boy." Jason cooed as the big black dog walked over happily to him.
"Wow…" Zack said as the big black dog rolled over onto his back and Trini burst out laughing.
"It's…perfect…great…idea…" Trini gasped out, before breaking out into laughter again at the look of Zack's confused look.
"What?" Zack finally asked.
"Tommy, the dog is black. Tommy the human is just about every color but black, since we think Tommy will become black someday we are going to name our dog after him." Jason explained.
"And you couldn't name the dog after me because?" Zack asked confused as the others broke out in laughter again.
END FLASHBACK
Tommy chuckled, of course he wasn't there but he trusted Jason to give him the truth. Of course Jason was the one who said that the big black dog had also burned down the dino lab.
"Tommy! No! That's a muskrat! Not a squirrel!" Tommy shouted as the dog batted at something that looked kind of like a sea otter.
"WOOF!" Tommy barked at the muskrat.
The muskrat growled before leaping at the big black dog.
"Woof?" Tommy barked, jumping out of the way.
The muskrat, which Tommy (the human) later named Sea Otter, followed in pursuit, somehow cutting Tommy in the face in the process.
"BARK!" Tommy ran for his life, running from the small park in which the two had been playing.
"TOMMY COME BACK!" Tommy shouted, stepping out of the way of the aggravated muskrat.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Well SOMEONE just happened to figure out the twist...lol congrats on that! Hope you guys understand what's going on...if not...mwahahah! My plan is working. yeah right