Dear Journal,

Well, surprise, surprise. I guess you're wondering what's going on. I mean, it's been almost a whole year since I've written in here. And I said I wasn't going to do it at all anymore. Well, that's all changed now, because we got called back to ranger duty. Yeah, I know crazy right? Well, let me start at the beginning.

It's been almost a year since we lost our powers. The teaching's been great. Shane becomes more Sensei-like every day, Cam is working wonders all over the Academy, and Dustin's, well, Dustin. So Shane, Dustin, and I are out training students and we find a message from Sensei saying he needs to meet us at the highest point in Blue Bay Harbor. So obviously we went. We got there and Sensei told us that Lothor had escaped and it was up to us to stop him. So we were like okay, but we have no powers. Sensei then whips out new morphers, saying something about how Cam had been saving them for an emergency.

So we strapped them on and Shane said "we won't let you down Sensei" and we went to ranger up. Instead there was much pain and suffering and the next thing I knew I was flat on my back and Blake was bending over me.

Yeah, speaking of Blake, you're probably wondering what happened right? Well it's just like I said it would be. He never wrote, and except for the occasional phone call we'd had no contact. Cam, Shane, and Dustin had met Hunter a couple times and gone to Blake's races, but I hadn't been able to go. I just couldn't make myself face him. It's been really hard and I just would rather not have thought about it.

Anyway, so there he is, the first time I've seen him in almost a year, and he looks amazing, and instantly my heart started pounding a million miles an hour. Apparently I still had some, not so repressed feelings for him.

He grabbed my hand and pulled me up and I realized I had no clue where I was. Shane and Dustin were there too along with Hunter, Cam, and these three kids.

Apparently it hadn't been Sensei who had given us the morphers, it was Lothor himself. Yeah, that's a great thing we have to tell our students now. Oh well.It wasn't our fault that we hadn't realized that our Sensei had been captured and we were going to be turned into Lothor's evil demon rangers. And after that happened, apparently we went on a rampage nearly destroying the school, and then started to flatten this town called Reefside, which is like, half an hour from Blue Bay. And we tried to take out the new rangers too. Let's just say it wasn't one of our finer moments.

We were about the butt kick the poor rangers a second time when Cam, Hunter, and Blake showed u and switched our disks with our old ones which they had rescued from the Abyss, along with their own morphers.

We all ended up at Tommy's HQ, yeah, did I mention that the leader of the new team is the most famous ranger ever? Basically we're sitting in a ranger Batcave, that's how cool this whole thing is. And, from the moment we got there, Blake wouldn't leave my side. Literally. He sat right next to me the whole time. My heart was beating so furiously I couldn't say a word. To go from virtually no contact to have him sitting next to me was doing strange things to my heart.

Even when we lined up to go into battle with the Dino Thunder gang he was right next to me. We did this battle right, let me tell you. It was the sickest thing ever! Fighting next to Kira, the yellow Dino Thunder, was awesome. She totally gets the only girl thing which was cool. We rocked it. And it felt really good to be fighting evil again. We got the students back thanks to Marah and Kapri, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

It was sad though too, because in the end, our powers are still gone. According to Hayley, they only had enough energy left for one battle.

And then…we all got to go to Blake's race, he won, of course. It was fun, but deep down I'll admit, I was hurting. Besides the whole sitting next to me thing, Blake hadn't said a word to me. About anything. We all went out for pizza after the race, and the weirdest thing happened.

Kira came and sat next to me and said, very quietly, "He likes you."

Once I got over my shock I told her that wasn't possible. She laughed. Then she told me they'd met earlier at Hayley's. Apparently he'd offered her tickets to the race and she'd asked him if he was asking her out. He vehemently denied it (her word, not mine). Kira said she'd gotten the impression that there was someone else. And then she said "from the way he keeps looking at you over here, it's you."

She changed the subject then and we had a nice talk for a long time. Then she went to find Trent. I looked up and locked eyes with Blake. It felt like I'd been punched in the gut. I couldn't breathe, so I got up and went outside for some fresh air.

He followed me, and when I turned around to tell him to go away, so he wouldn't see me crying, he kissed me. And then I kissed him back, and suddenly, nothing else seemed to matter anymore.

He told me how sorry he was about everything, about how he hadn't come after me that day on the beach, how he hadn't stopped me from breaking us up. And how he had thought he wanted motocross more than me. And then he said he was coming home. He'd enjoyed his year of glory, but it just wasn't for him. Sensei had offered him a position at the Academy, and he was coming back to teach.

I started to cry really hard then, I just couldn't take it. And he just held me as I blabbered on about how it was all my fault and how I'd missed him so much. And then I said some stupid thing about how glad I was that it was his face I saw when I woke up in Reefside and that now I knew how it felt to be evil and I was so sorry that he had to go through that and that made him laugh and then I was laughing too and the whole thing was just ridiculous.

I don't even know how long we sat outside, just talking and working out some of the stuff that we should've worked out a year ago. Eventually I got cold and started to shiver and he suggested we head back inside. He held my hand the rest of the night and then offered to drive me back to the Academy. And this time, when he left, he kissed me goodbye.

He has to finish out his contract with Factory Blue, but he'll be back in two months for good. Two months! Once I would have said that two months was forever, but after this year…it's gonna go by in a flash.

So there you have it. That's the story. By the way, just for the record, being evil sucks. Don't ever let it happen to you. It's really embarrassing. I don't recommend it, ever, for any reason. Just be good. It's so much less painful.

I don't know what's going to happen next, but it looks pretty promising. He's back, and he loves me, and for now, that's enough. Til next time!

Tori

I'm so sorry that it's been so long since I've updated. The craziness of life has left no time for writing of late. I hope this chapter makes up for it a little. Review!