A/N: This is August 27th.

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Diclaimer: I keep forgetting to put this in my other chapters, but I do not own Power Rangers or anything related. I do, however, own Audrey Evans and Mallory and Alana Parker.

Chapter 4: The Fall

Evans Home, Angel Grove, CA

Audrey woke up the next morning and began getting her things ready for school. She walked over to the school, because her parents took both of the cars again. They work at the same office, do they really need to take two cars to work? Of course they did, they left for work together, but they rarely ever got home at the same time. Why couldn't they cooperate to get home at the same time so that Audrey could have use of one of the cars. This was her own fault, of course. Her parents had told her they were going to buy her a car for her sixteenth birthday. She didn't want a car, she wanted time with them. They had given her money instead because they broke yet another promise.

As she walked on toward the school, she felt a nervous sensation in her gut. Would the students and teachers treat her differently here too because she was rich? She hated how the students thought she had things better. She didn't, as far as she was concerned, she had it worse.

She walked into the building and looked around. She got her schedule and locker assignment just in time to get to her first class. She took a seat near the front, waiting for the teacher to come in.

Orlando Public High School, Orlando, FL

Alana glared at Karissa all through fourth period. She couldn't believe Karissa was actually Coach Adams' idea of a replacement for Audrey. Since when did you put ones archrival up in their absense? Didn't Adams know that if the news got to Audrey, she wouldn't take it well? Though the girls never argued in practice, their glares were enough to tell you that friendship went sour years ago.

Yes, Audrey Evans and Karissa Reynolds had once been friends. Alana thought back to the day it all ended.

Mallory, Alana, Karissa and Audrey walked into the gymnastics studio. "Audrey, why are you even here?" Karissa asked, goodnaturedly.

Audrey laughed and rolled her eyes. This was an exchange between the two of them that had gone on for the past three years, since she was moved up to the champion class. "Oh Riss, you know I like to help out the kiddies."

Karissa's eyes glittered. She and Audrey were quite possibly the best in the studio, however, Karissa wasn't in champion simply due to other obligations. Audrey didn't let her obligations get in the way. She never admitted this to her best friend, but that comment always hurt, it had hurt for the past three years. "I honestly don't think you're any better than I am." She said huffily.

Alana and Mallory glanced at one another. In the time this exchange happened, neither of them recalled that.

Audrey, too, looked confused. "I-well-I didn't mean that." She said, not sure how to respond. Yes, she was a star gymnast, but she never compared her abilites to others seriously. Most of the students in the advanced class did have the ability to become champions, they just had too many obligations.

"I want a contest." Karissa's eyes turned from glittering to glistening.

"What?" Audrey asked, not sure where this was going.

"I want a contest between you and me. Kim can judge it and we will see who is better."

"I don't want to compete with my best friend." Audrey said, still confused as to where this was coming from.

"Are you scared?" Karissa asked her, triumphantly.

That was it. Audrey wasn't scared to compete with anyone. "Fine." She said, her expression set. "But I won't go easy on you."

"Fine." Karissa said.

A couple of days later they had their contest. Audrey won. The two haven't said a nice word to one another since. This was hard on Mallory and Alana. They were friends with Karissa and Audrey. Soon, Karissa tested their loyalties and went against them just as brutally as she was against Audrey.

Karissa caught Alana's glare and gave her a smirk. "Hey there Alana."

Alana glared harder. How dare she speak to me!

Karissa continued smirking. "So how's Audrey doing? I'm sure you talk to her still."

"Don't talk about Audrey with me." She said, angrily.

"Girls!" Mrs. Miller called. "Get back to work and stop arguing please."

Alana nodded and began working on her assignment, still throwing the occasional glare at Karissa.

Angel Grove High, Angel Grove, CA

Last period of the day and Audrey walked into her science class, which, thankfully, she noticed Dr. Oliver wasn't the teacher of. "Maybe he really did take the year off." She said more to herself as she took a seat near the front. She pulled a notebook out of her bag and a picture fell from it. She bent down to pick it up and look at it. She saw a dark haired young man and a sixteen year old girl with long blonde hair. They had their arms around one another and were smiling happily. She turned to look at the back.

Audrey,

I'm glad to have you in my life. You are my light and I couldn't be any happier with anyone else.

James

A tear came to Audrey's eye. She hadn't seen this picture in six months, since she broke up with James. He had remained true to his words.He hadn't dated a single girl in six months. She hadn't dated either, but that was because of gymnastics. That was also the reason she broke up with him in the first place. She continued looking over the picture of her and James, it had been taken in October, two days before Halloween. She had been sixteen exactly two months when the picture was taken. They had been dating exactly two months. Four months later, they would break up. You couldn't tell by looking at them. Was it possible that Audrey hadn't gotten over James?

"It doesn't matter now." She said to herself. She was right. She was in Angel Grove and he was in Orlando. It really didn't matter if she was over him, they were too far apart to do anything.

She looked at the picture a little longer. The teacher walked in and set his things down.

Tommy walked into the classroom and glanced over the students. Audrey Evans was sitting in the front row. So much for avoiding her.

"My name is Dr. Oliver." He announced to the class.

What? Audrey looked up, torn from her memories of her and James. Sure enough, Tommy was standing right in front of the class.

"Your real teacher had an accident and I will be substituting this class for a while."

Audrey sighed, she was now torn between two attractions, neither of which could happen. At least James was a little more realistic. She looked at the picture again and slowly placed it back into her notebook. She took notes as Dr. Oliver lectured. This class was going to be difficult, but she figured she could manage. She was more worried about dropping her A to a B than anything. As he finished the lecture and dismissed class, she walked out, in a rush to get to gymnastics class. Kimberly was starting it today and she was really excited.

Tommy sat down at his desk, watching Audrey rush out. He had to wonder if it was because of him or something else. She had avoided eye contact the whole period. He couldn't get around that. He began looking over lesson plans for the next day.

Kimberly's Studio

As Audrey walked into class, she walked over to Kim. "Hey, can I talk to you after class?" She asked.

Kimberly looked at her curiously. "Sure, I guess you can."

Audrey smiled. "Great." She ran off toward the dressing rooms.

Kimberly had managed to get four students for this class, Audrey met each of them in the dressing room. Amber Lockhart, Haley Smith and Renae James were the other three girls. "I'm Audrey Evans." She said to the other girls after they introduced themselves.

As they all walked into the studio for class, Kimberly assigned each of them one apparatus to start and said she would have them rotate to see what their abilites were and where they were strongest.

"I already know Miss Evans from my previous studio and her strength is the beam, so I'm going to start her there. Miss James, I would like you to start on the floor. Miss Lockhart on the uneven bars and Miss Smith on the vault.

Each girl took their place and began some routine to show off their abilites where they were assigned. Kimberly walked around the room letting them warm up first, then she walked over to the beam. The other girls watched from their positions as Audrey's routine came first.

Kimberly smiled in pride as she watched Audrey execute the routine perfectly all the way to the dismount. This was a routine Kimberly, herself, had taught Audrey a few years back and Audrey still performed it well. The other girls clapped after the dismount and Kimberly walked over to the floor. Now all eyes were on Renae as she performed her chosen floor routine.

After Kimberly watched Haley on the vault, they switched places and continued doing so until she had seen each girl on each apparatus. "Alright ladies. I will be looking over my notes and figure out your strengths. The way I teach is I focus on your strenghts but also try to strengthen your weaknesses. To become a Pan Global champion you need to excel on each apparatus."

As the other three girls left, Kimberly and Audrey walked into her office. "I will start off by telling you this isn't gymnastics related." Audrey said, taking a seat.

Kimberly watched Audrey, wondering what this was about. "Okay..." She said, waiting.

"I was just wondering how you knew a couple of people I have met recently." Audrey explained. "They said they knew you and I was wondering what you could tell me about them."

Kimberly's eyes widened in shock. People from her past? Who would it be? "I can't make any promises that I will tell you anything, but who are they?"

Audrey strategically decided to hold off on mentioning Tommy. "Well, the first one is Jason. I'm not sure of his last name right off."

"Jason Scott?" Kimberly asked, trying to figure out who she was talking about. "He was a really good friend of mine, probably my best friend besdies Trini." So Jason still lives here, huh? Kimberly thought silently to herself. She debated on trying to find him.

"I guess so." Audrey said. Jason had said he and Kim were really good friends. "The other is Tommy Oliver."

Kimberly paled. That was the last name she wanted to hear as well as the last person she wanted to talk about. "I'd rather not talk about him right now." Kimberly said, shuffling through some papers.

Audrey was intrigued, she had to be right. Tommy and Kimberly had a history together. If Tommy wouldn't talk and Kimberly wouldn't talk, there was no way to get information about the couple. "Reminds me of James." She said softly. "I can't stop thinking about him, but he's the last person I want to think about."

Kimberly glanced at Audrey. She knew she dated a guy named James, he came to several practices and meets, but she didn't know Audrey was still hung up on the guy. "We dated for three years." She said, finally.

"Three years?" Audrey asked. "What happened?" It seemed to Audrey that a three year relationship had probably gotten pretty serious.

"Pan Global happened."

This confused Audrey, she knew Kim had moved to Florida years ago for Pan Global, but she didn't quite see the correlation between that and the breakup. If a relationship was serious enough to last three years, wouldn't they have stayed together through the competition and move back afterward?

Kimberly sighed. "I couldn't stand the fact that I was keeping him from moving on." She said, trying not to cry. "I was convinced that staying with him, across the country from one another was painful for him. It was for me, but I knew I had something to go back home to. I had a loving boyfriend. The thing was, I was convinced he needed to move on, he wasn't happy with me and I wanted to make him happy." She paused, trying hard not to cry.

Audrey saw that not only did Kimberly and Tommy have a history, Kimberly still loved him and missed him greatly.

"I wrote him a letter telling him I found someone new and that I was sure he was the one." Kimberly shook her head. "There was no one else."

Audrey nodded, understanding more than Kimberly knew. She, too, had broken up with someone purely for an obligation to gymnastics. The only thing was, James knew why she broke up with him. Tommy thought she had moved on. "You still love him, don't you?" Audrey asked, her voice soft. She didn't know if she should say this, but she had to hear it. She had to know.

Kimberly nodded. "I never stopped loving him. Pretty stupid, huh?"

Audrey shook her head. "No, it's not stupid." She was already planning things in her mind. She would reunite the two if it was the last thing she did.

Parker Sisters' Home, Orlando, FL

"Score!" Mallory said as she hung up the phone.

Alana glanced at her sister, annoyed. She knew Mallory had been on the phone with her parents, the parents she had no desire to talk to anymore. She went back to her homework, not caring what the conversation was about.

"We, dear sister, are moving." Mallory said, sitting on the couch next to Alana.

Alana rolled her eyes. "Yeah, right." She said, working on a difficult math problem.

"I'm serious. Mom just gave me the okay. Now all we need to do is find an apartment."

Alana sighed and put her homework down. She looked at her sister's happy face. "Are you serious?" She said, intentionally avoiding getting excited.

"Yes!" She said. "Mom said we could move to California."

"Really?" Alana asked, a smile breaking onto her face.

Mallory nodded. "Still no word to Audrey though. I want this to be a surprise."

"Too bad we can't get there in two days." Alana said, sadly. She would have loved to have surprised Audrey on her birthday.

Mallory nodded in agreement. "As soon as we can though." She hugged her sister. "I'm really happy."

"Me too." Alana said, still smiling. "I need to finish my homework, but this definitely calls for celebration."

Mallory nodded. "Ben & Jerry's and movie night."

Alana grinned in approval, before returning to her homework.

Kimberly's Studio, Angel Grove, CA

Audrey returned to the studio that evening to practice her routine. She signed in, then walked over to the floor to do her warmups. After her warmups, she walked over to the beam and mounted it. She began walking across the beam, like she always did to start.

Once she completed her balance excersizes, she began the routine she was perfecting for Kimberly. She started off really well. She did the routine perfectly until-

She slipped, she frantically tried to catch herself and succeed. She dismounted the beam and signed out, running away from the studio. She got home and threw her bag on the floor and jumped onto her bed. Tears filled her eyes as she remembered her slip. Maybe, just maybe it wasn't that big of a deal to someone else. She didn't have a spotter. If she hadn't caught herself, she could have broken anything and ended her career... or her life.

Audrey looked back on the many people she had seen fall off the beam or the bars. Their careers were ruined. She hadn't seen anyone die, but she knew it could happen. Kimberly was usually very strict on using a spotter, but because of Audrey's hours and how careful she was, she tended to overlook it.

"You know you should use a spotter, Audrey." Kimberly told her, time and again.

The conversation usually went the same way. "I've not needed a spotter in years, and you know how my hours are, it's hard to get a spotter that late."

Kimberly nodded, she knew all too well, but she also knew even the best gymnasts needed a spotter. "I know, I know." She said to Audrey. "If I'm around, don't hesitate to ask me and try to have a spotter as much as possible... just in case."

Just in case of what? This? Audrey sighed as she opened her photo album. All of her gymnastics photos were in there. Records of her victories and failures. This being her biggest failure and no record of it. No one would be able to see why she quit gymnastics for good.

A/N: I think that's a good place to leave this chapter and this will be the last chapter today, I think, give you some time to wonder. Smiles evilly