At lunchtime, Terrence had seated himself on the school roof, which is somewhere where nobody else would otherwise sit to eat. It was a habit he had developed for some time, so he wouldn't have to be anywhere where he'd be noticed. Unfortunately, someone did notice him going up the roof and followed him there.

"Well, you disappoint me." she made herself heard.

Terrence heard her voice, but he couldn't think it possible that it belonged to that girl he met before. He turned to look, and there was Alexis.

"Are you stalking me now?" he asked her.

"Your locker is right next to mine, remember?" she reminded me, "So on my way to my locker, I saw you going up, while everyone else went down."

Terrence sighed, but Alexis wasn't finished: "You didn't think you would get rid of me that easily, did you?"

"I could always get a restraining order." Terrence said.

"Oh come on!" Alexis exclaimed, as she was getting closer to sit with him, "Do you really have to go down that road? Why do you hate me so much? You don't even know me."

"That's exactly the problem." Terrence replied, "You know me just as well as I know you, yet you can't seem to know when to stay away from me. Give me one good reason to think you're not stalking me!"

Alexis needed just one second to think about that: "Well for one, I'm not taking pictures of you. For another, I'm just doing the same thing as everyone else, except the exact opposite."

"Which is?" Terrence wondered.

"Being intimidated by you." Alexis said, flatly.

This surprised Terrence: "When have I been trying to intimidate people?"

"Well, you sure tried to intimidate me." she replied.

"I'm wasting time here." Terrence spoke, as started to pack his lunch together to leave.

"Oh, come on!" she stopped him, "Why are you always alone anyway?"

"Because either people don't want to be near me." Terrence explained, "Or they're just too much of a nuisance if they were near."

Alexis did seem to need to think for a moment: "And what about me?"

"You?" Terrence sounded surprised she hadn't figured that out, "You're seriously asking that?"

Alexis sighed: "Look, T..."

Again, Terrence had this feeling rushing through him as she called him that. But he listened to her anyway.

"It's like this." she explained, "We've been in the same classes for years now, and we never spoke to each other. We hardly ever even noticed each other. We've had our lockers next to each other for a whole year and we still didn't notice each other."

"So?" Terrence still didn't see the point, "So we haven't ever said a word. Why do we now?"

"Well, when we did start talking, you were in a bad mood." Alexis explained, "I'm not sorry for snapping at you, but I am sorry for doing that at a bad time."

"Is that it?" Terrence wondered, "You were just sorry?"

"I was just hoping we could talk that out." she added, "Just to avoid any other misunderstandings, just because we got off at the wrong foot."

Terrence did calm down at that: "Well, I suppose I should be sorry for taking out my frustration on you."

"Good! We're finally getting somewhere." Alexis sounded cheerful, as she sat next to him.

Terrence thought, now that they were sitting together anyway, he might as well unpack his lunch again and continue eating.

"So, why were you in a bad mood anyway, Terrence?" she asked him.

"No more 'T'?" Terrence questioned.

"No. I'm more of a hot chocolate type of person." she replied.

Terrence did see the intended joke, 'T' for 'tea', but didn't think that was funny. In either event, he explained to her what was bothering him.

Meanwhile, at the Command Center, the two remaining Rangers were still at a loss of what they should do. When suddenly, the Center's alarm blared.

"What? What's going on?" Rocky wondered.

"Sensors are picking something up." Alpha replied, "Ayayayayay... a whole group just teleported itself to the quarry!"

"A whole group?" Billy sounded worried, "What can we do against that?"

"Nothing if you go in blindly." Zordon said, "Alpha, teleport them at a safe distance, so they can see what's going on."

Alpha, though it took him five seconds first, did as he was asked.

Once the other two were gone, Zordon asked him: "Why did you hesitate?"

"Aren't you being a little too harsh for them?" Alpha wondered, "They are after all just kids, and inexperienced."

Zordon didn't seem to feel he had to answer that question.