A/N: READ THE AUTHORS NOTE AT THE END
I've been writing this chapter for two days trying to make it perfect! It's longer than I usually write...by like two pages... Anyway, onto the story! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer - I will own Kickin' It when...
When Jack starts losing all of his karate matches.
When Jerry gets an A+ and Milton gets an F.
When Rudy starts to act like a professional adult.
When Joan becomes the best cop in the world.
When Bobby Wasabi loses all of his money and his mansion.
When Kim becomes the best dancer in the world.
When Randy and Kim get married..
When Eddie quits being awesome.
When Julie fails high school.
When Ty and Frank quit being jerks forever.
When Kai starts being nice.
When everyone from The Black Dragons and The Wasabi Warriors quit their dojos.
When I meet a unicorn named Bob and we ride off into a rainbow where all of my dreams come true.
So, sadly, I will probably never own Kickin' It...
(I got the idea for those from jackandkimforever, she does them every now and then. So yesterday I got bored and wrote down all of those)
Kim
It had been a while since I had talked to any of the guys, except Eddie. We had been working on this whole hang out idea, it actually made me enjoy this project more. Plus hanging out at Eddie's house was really fun, and his mom had been giving me cooking lessons everyday!
Out the six of us, we had all been hanging out in pairs; Eddie & I had been working and hanging out together, Milton & Jerry had gotten pretty close, and Jack & Rudy would go to the dojo and teach each other karate techniques an stuff.
Right now we were all walking to the dojo, not all together though. Eddie and I decided to walk together, we were going to tell everyone about our whole hang out together. We walked in and Eddie immediately started talking "So, lately Kim and I have been working on an idea I had..." but that's all I heard. I started to think about how everything if Kai had never came with Jack. For one, I wouldn't have met Jack at that time, since Kai introduced us.
If Kai never came, life would've been so different... Then I had some kind of weird/creepy image in my mind.
"If witches have all these magical powers, than why are they so ugly?" Jack asked me "I know, if I were a witch I'd go 'Poof! Rich and beautiful!'" He laughed, suddenly a behind us a clown appeared. I wasn't really paying attention to him until he walked up to Jack "How about you kid? You want a coupon?" The clown asked, Jack screamed though "Ahh! Clown!" and he ran off, tripping into the dojo. The clown said something but I wasn't paying attention, I was too shocked. "What do you know, we finally found something Jack's afraid of. Clowns.." I said. "OR, coupons!" said Milton who had been beside me. I raised my eyebrows "But clowns makes more sense.." he said an the two of us went into the dojo to talk to Jack.
"...right Kim?" Eddie said taking me back to reality "Huh?...I'm sorry. What'd you say?" he sighed. "You said we could use your place as our first hang out today, right?" I thought for a minute, to remember if I had said at or not.
"Oh yeah. Sorry, but um, Jack?" he looked up at me "I know, this is a weird question, but... Are you afraid of clowns?" he looked taken aback. "How on Earth do you know that? I've never told anyone!" I hadn't thought about how I was going to answer that. Then again, I didn't think it was going to be right!
"Uh, you wouldn't believe me..." I said truthfully. "Well, it's worth a try!" Rudy said making me sigh "Well I was thinking about how life would be without Kai and the two of becoming enemies" — I gestured to Jack and I — "then I had this weird image. It was like I was in a...a different world..." I said trying to imagine it again.
I was on top of the Hollywood sign, Jack cam closer to me, and I leaned in closer to him. We were centimeters apart and I could feel his breath on me. "CUT! I cut my leg!" Shouted someone from below. Jack and I immediately pulled apart before we kissed, I couldn't help but feel annoyed.
Suddenly things switched. I was in Seaford Highs cafeteria. Jack, Jerry, Milton, Eddie, and I were all getting ready to go talk to our school janitor. Milton was holding a cake, soon we reached his closet and knocked. He wasn't there so we just opened it. To our shock, the place was full of sumo wrestling things. All about the famous Yoshi Nakamura, aka our janitor.
Once again everything switched. I was running into a dojo. "Hey, uh, Jack. I got you something to wear when you break the record!" I said handing him a bracelet. "Oh, sorta like a good luck bracelet" I hesitated. "Uh, yeah. But it's more of a — " Jack cut me off "What? Like a friendship bracelet?" he asked. "Uh, yeah" I lied. "Great it's finally official! We're friends!" I couldn't hold it in anymore. He was so clueless at times! "Jack, you know I think of as more than just-..." suddenly I caught what I was about to say. But it was to late "More than just what?" My eyes widened a little "Um, I don't know. It's just a dumb bracelet! I gotta go!" I said running towards the exit. I heard Jack running after me just as jumped over the pile of bow staffs, but I didn't bother to stop or listen to what he said. Suddenly I heard a crash behind me. Jack hadn't jumped over the bow staffs.
"KIM!" A distant voice yelled at me. It scared me so much that I nearly fell off the mats I was sitting on. "What? Sorry . . . Hey did you know out janitor was a famous sumo wrestler?" everyone gave me quizzical looks. "Uh, no...?" Eddie asked more than stated.
I shook it off "I'm sorry guys, I'm just a little weird right now. That's all. So . . . what places are we using our hang outs at? I was thinking maybe four places, alternating every Friday? Eddie and I have already volunteered ourselves, so really only two of you have to volunteer. I was thinking your house Milton, because we had a really good time there last time..." I trailed off as Milton nodded.
"Not my place, it's a mess..." Rudy said. "Definitely not my place" Jerry said, I nodded. Which left us all staring at...Jack. "Looks like that leaves you!" I said smiling and jumping off the mats and started practicing.
Once we were done with practice and everybody had changed I immediately started talking "Since today's Friday, we should start. I'll meet y'all at my house in" — I looked at the clock — "two hours?" I said smiling brightly and headed toward my locker. I got out my bag than walked back to my house.
"Hey mom!" I said as I walked inside "A couple of my friends are coming over in like two hours. It's for the project thing I told you about" I said putting all my stuff down. "How many?" she always asked me that whenever my friends were coming over.
"Five. Six counting me. But you don't need to cook anything special, just a couple of snacks will do." She smiled, she always made food for our guests, but she did enough as it was. I decided to go upstairs and put on something else. I grabbed some jean shorts and a maroon shirt that said Abercrombie above the number 82. It was one of my favorite shirts.
Then I grabbed some short grey boots. I know, I'm wearing shoes on my house, but whenever people come over I like to wear shoes. I put on my usual white beanie and looked at myself in the mirror for a while.
You should probably do your homework... My conscience was telling me.
You know, I probably should... I sat down on my bed and started texting Grace.
Way to ignore me...
I smiled, and continued texting her. I was trying to tell her that Milton, Eddie, and Jerry weren't that bad. She just kept ignoring what I said though.
Grace: I just feel so bad that you have to hang out with those dorks all day! Sent: 5:42
Me: They're not that bad... Sent: 5:42
Grace: Quit denying the truth! You hate that you have to hang out with all of those guys! Sent: 5:43
Me: Okay, yes, sometimes it sucks hanging out with Jack! But only HIM! And only SOMETIMES! Sent: 5:44
Grace: WHAT?! I thought you two we're dating! What happened? I want DETAILS! Sent: 5:44
Me: His jerkiness got the best of him... But, I can't stay mad at him forever. So today when he comes over, I'm going to suggest that we just be friends. Clearly we don't work when we're fighting or when we're together... Sent: 5:45
Grace: I know girl, guys are just...guys. I know how you feel. Sent: 5:45
Me: Nobody knows how I feel Gracie... Sent: 5:46
Grace: I know..but I'm here for you! I miss our talks! We're best friends, we haven't had one of these talks in ages. Sent: 5:47
Me: I know, I guess for awhile I forgot I had friends at all. Everybody just kind of hates me at school. I'm a terrible person! Sent: 5:48
Grace: Oh Kimmy Bear, your a great person. All you need to do is let the works know who the real Kim a Crawford is. Hold your head high, and don't show that your scared. Be the confident, crazy, beautiful girl I know! Sent: 5:49
I smiled at what she wrote. I spent the rest of the time texting Grace about what had been happening, she did the same. Even though she was a popular and everyone thought of her as the mean girl. She's a great friend, and she'll have my back no matter what. After two hours I heard a knock on the door "I'LL GET IT!" I shouted as I texted Grace:
Gotta go Gracie, I'll see you this weekend? We could go shopping?
In less than a second she responded yes and saying bye, I quickly ran down the stairs. I opened the door and there stood Jack "Hey, come on in..." I said. He looked all around my house, probably trying to see if he was the first person here, since he had already been to my house...
"So I'm the first person here? I knew I should've waited another ten minutes. . . ." he said the last part more to himself than me.
"I actually need to talk to you about something..." I said while walking over to the couch with him. He eyed me suspiciously "I hate fighting with people or when people are mad at me or when people hate me. Which really doesn't make any since because of the person I am at school. The point is, we need a fresh start, as friends. Nothing more, best friends if that's even possible. Just not fighting or hating or ignoring. We've done enough of that for I lifetime! So what do you say? Friends?"
"Friends" he said shaking my hand. I smiled at him "Uh, Kim? Why are you wearing shoes in your house? I mean, most girls take off their shoes when they get home and then do their nails or something. Not put on new ones!" I stuck my tongue at him.
"Well then I guess I'm not like most girls, am I? Hey, can you come help me get the snacks from the kitchen?" I asked walking into the kitchen. My mom was decorating the plates into little designs, I loved how she did that. I grabbed half the plates and put them on the coffee table. Seconds later Jack came with the other half doing the same thing.
"Oh, Kim, I forgot to tell you! Your father wrote a letter to you today, I put it on your desk in your room." she said from the other room. I suddenly froze in the spot. Whenever my dad wrote letters I'd read them over and over. At least a hundred times, and I've saved everyone of them. I usually cried when I read them, wondering: When are you coming home daddy?
I wanted to write back to him so badly, but I just didn't have the strength. Not wanting to stay frozen in the spot I quickly ran up the steps. I went straight to the desk in my room and ripped open the letter and started to read.
To My Kimmy Bear,
By the time I read those four letters, I was already in tears. I had told Grace about that nickname along time ago when my dad wrote to me for the first time since I moved to Seaford. He always called me Kimmy Bear, and I loved it. I smiled at the memory.
~~FLASHBACK~~
I read the letter from my dad. He hadn't wrote to me since he landed himself in prison, he explained why in the letter though. He didn't have the strength to write and he thought I was mad at him. I wasn't, but he wouldn't know that for a while. Because, like him, I didn't have the strength to write.
I was in tears reading the letter. My eyes were all puffy after crying for hours. I had heard my mom come in through my crying, but she hadn't actually came in my room. She would just stand at the door, searching for words to say. I guess I hadn't heard when my mom opened the door for someone or maybe I just chose to ignore it. Either way, Grace came running into my room.
"Oh, Kim! What happened?" She hugged me as I cried on her shoulder. Grace was really popular and mean to some kids, but she was a great friend. She kept your secrets for one thing, instead of telling the entire school the first chance she got. She was also really easy to talk to, her and I had gotten really close, especially after Jack ditched me.
After ten minutes of me crying not her shoulder I finally stopped and stood up. I started to wipe my tears with arm "Are you okay?"I nodded while sniffing my nose multiple times. I was shaking, had puffy eyes, and I was still half crying. So I probably didn't look okay at all. "What happened?"
"My d-dad. He's in p-p-prison. He j-just w-wrote to me. I-I really miss h-him..." I said feeling the tears come again. Grace hugged me tighter "Oh, sweetie. I'm so sorry!" I hugged her back.
"Did he used to call you Kimmy Bear?" She asked me, I nodded knowing that she had probably read the first few words of the letter. They were written in big curly letters saying 'To My Kimmy Bear'. "I'll make you a deal. I'm going to start calling you Kimmy Bear, so that way whenever I say it, you'll remember that one day, he's gonna come back. And he's going to be able to do everything with you; walk you down the isle, and protect you from stupid boys. Deal?"
I smiled and nodded "Deal". This was one thing that I hoped Grace would always do.
~~END OF FLASHBACK~~
And she has, for almost three years now. We were basically sisters now. I smile and continued to read the letter. After reading it a zillion times, I grabbed a pen and some paper and started to write back to him.
Dear Daddy,
I love you too. I'm sorry that I haven't written to you. I didn't have the strength, I wasn't as strong as you were. There is so much I have to tell you and I don't know where to begin..
.
After a long letter I went down stairs to get a stamp. The second I got down stairs everybody stared at me. I had been in my room for half an hour at the least. I ignored them though, I had to get that stamp before I changed my mind. I grabbed a stamp and quickly write the addresses "Its time." I told my mom, she started smiling and I'm pretty sure she started crying.
No one else knew what was going on, but I didn't have time to explain. I quickly ran outside to the mailbox, I put the flag up and opened it. I hesitated for a second, I looked around. I was shaking for about five minutes until I put the letter in the mailbox. I ran back inside and ran into my moms arms. There were tears in my eyes "Go get some rest, mom, dad's gonna want to come home to see you happy," I smiled as she made her way up the stairs "and mom?" she turned around.
"I love you" she smiled. "Forever & Always" and she continued up the stairs. After watching her turn the corner from downstairs, I turned around to face the guys. They were all silently staring "Look, I can't work after that... So can we just play 21 Questions or something?" The all nodded and put their papers away.
The rest of the night was spent with the six of us playing different games and talking about stuff. I was I the middle of laughing at my pathetic joke that no one else was laughing at because they didn't get it, but father a while they started laughing because I thought it was funny. As I picked up my phone to see what the message I had got said.
After reading it, my laughing died out and my expression changed from happy to worried and curios. What could possibly be so bad?
Grace: Kim, you may not believe me when I say this, you may actually hate me.. But there's something I need to tell you about the project... And you're not gonna like it... Sent: 9:02
A/N: CLIFFY! (Sorry I'm being left with a lot of them lately and just ruby off) . What do you think? Good? Bad? Amazing? WORST STORY YOU'VE EVER READ? (I hope not XD).. BTW Sorry if likeliness from the episode weren't right! It was all off of memory! So right now I'm like super high and I'm at a party for my dad... I'm going to have to play with a little girl later.. I ALWAYS GET STUCK PLAYING WITH THE LITTLE GIRL! Don't get me wrong, I love children, but sometimes they can get SO annoying! And I have to do it all the time! But she's not here yet... I'm going to end up staying up until midnight writing the next chapter, probably mentioning as something about evil children...jkjk. No, I'm not that mean, but by complete coincidence Kim babysits an annoying little girl in the next chapter.. Now the little girl will accurate (if she's annoying)! I'll be such a good role model for her! I'll probably write tonight and update sometime tomorrow, along with my other story, after that IDK. It could be a long wait or maybe not. Right now, I'm just praying the little girl is calm...Wish me luck!
XOXO
-Jewels