Overview: Andrea has been in Angel Grove for 5 days now and already she has run into Adam and her father more times than she has wanted to count but each time she has managed to have the good fortune of being able to escape before they recognized her. However, guilt is setting in and she is starting to have several misgivings.
Note: if you couldn't tell it's told from Andrea's perspective and once again italic words surrounded with [ are thoughts.
Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Power Rangers but I do own the character Andrea Baker.
Chapter 3: Andrea's Misgivings
[Crap that was way too close this time I had just had an encounter with Adam for what seemed like the hundredth time and managed to escape without him recognizing me. I honestly don't know how much longer I can manage to keep hiding from him; Aisha is already having trouble staying quiet about my arrival to Angel Grove.
"You do realize that you are going to have to stop hiding" Ernie says to me as he serves me my strawberry and banana smoothie.
"Don't think that I don't already know that" I reply flatly
"Then why keep running? Wouldn't it be easier to just go and talk to him? He really is a fun person to get to know" Ernie says to me indicating Adam.
I roll my eyes "don't think that I haven't already heard that a million and 1 times from Aisha".
"See there you go I think you should"
It wasn't the fact that I didn't want to get to know Adam it was more of the fact that I frankly was still pissed at Dad. If I let Adam know I was in Angel Grove, Dad would find out as well, and I would be stuck more than likely getting into a fight with him. I was not ready to face the man that was my biological father.
[Damn it! Again I nearly run into my damn father I growl bitterly having managed to barely dodge running into Dad again. This time came way too close for comfort because I nearly revealed who I was. Dad was with Molly, who was his wife and Adam's step-mom, when I overheard her discussing my 'disappearance' and I started to blurt out that it was his own damn fault when I realized that I was starting to say it out loud.
[Aww man talk about heart wrenching I had just overheard Adam talking to his friends about how he had just found out that Stephanie and Jack Baker had been killed in a car accident leaving me in the care of his family. I groaned silently as I listened to him recount to them the fact that I was his long lost twin sister but I was missing now.
"If you don't say something soon I am going to"
"Chill out I am gonna let them know that I'm alright"
"You better because I am not staying silent much longer"
"Has it really bummed him out that much?"
"Of course it has!! You are his twin sister after all"
I just sighed and batted a stray strand of hair out of my face. As much as I would like to deny it, Aisha had a very valid point. I groaned a little realizing that there was no way that I was going to be able to keep avoiding facing my dad.
"Have you ever considered that your father may have had a very good reason to leave you and your mother?"
"Maybe but why would he try to hide it from Adam then?"
"Maybe because he thought it would be easier for you and Adam not to know"
"Oh sure so your telling me that it's alright what he did!?"
"No I was only saying that--" she ran out of the room crying before she finished her sentence
[Damn I did it again I flinched, Aisha had a very valid point but I was feeling very argumentative at the moment and ended up sticking my foot in my mouth. I sighed and ran my fingers thru my bangs which I had bleached and streaked bright red. I was stuffing my things back into my bag when she came back into the room in which I had been staying.
"Look all I was saying was--".
I cut her off "its fine just forget about it 'Ish I got your point and I'm heading over there now okay?"
"So your going to stop running and hiding now"
"Yes"
"Good"
When I arrived outside the Park residence I could hear the faint sounds of a guitar playing in addition to that person singing along. It took me a while to realize that the song was coming from the second story and that it was Adam!