Ch. 3 – Going Away

Tommy was ecstatic, he just found out that he got picked to assist Dr. Anton Mercer; however, the down side is that it is for six months on a remote island that only a few people even know about. And now he has to tell his wife. He knows that she is not going to be happy about them being separated for six months; they have only been married for a little more than a year now.

Tommy pulled up in front of their apartment, he was nervous. He sat in the car looking at their apartment building, trying to decide how he was going to tell her. "Better get it over with," he said to himself. After taking a deep breath he got out of his Jeep® and went inside their apartment.

"Kim?" He called out to her.

"I'm in the den," after putting his belongings down he walked down the hall into the den were she was at the desk.

"Beautiful, what are you doing?" He asked as he stood next to her.

"Still filling out all this paperwork and forms, all I want to do is to open my own gymnastics building, but before I do all of that I got to fill out all these forms for licenses and know all these codes," lifting up some of the form to show him, screaming and then throwing them back down on the desk and then laying her head down on the pile of forms.

"Beautiful, you'll get it done," he told her rubbing her shoulders.

"Not before I go insane," she said with her head down against the pile. And then after a few seconds she sat up, "Maybe I should talk to Hayley, she's trying to open her own business too." Tommy just nodded and she continued, "Maybe we can help each other out," and then she remembered Hayley's intelligence, "or she could help me out."

"Yeah that sounds more like Hayley. She probably got a business plan for the next 40 years."

"Hey, I have a plan; it is just not on paper or spreadsheet or on any forms." Then she looked at Tommy, "You're quieter than usual and I know that face, what's going on?"

"Nothing" He still didn't know how he was going to tell her.

"Tommy, I've know you for too long what's going on?"

"Ok you remember the internship that I told you about with Dr. Anton Mercer?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well I got it"

"Oh Tommy that's great" she said has she kissed him and gave him a hug. And then she pulled away a little, "Why aren't you happy about this?"

"It's for six months"

"And?" She knew that there was more there had to be he wasn't acting like himself. Normally Tommy would be thrilled to get a chance like this, but she knows that there was something that he wasn't telling her.

"And it's on a remote island"

"So you're going to be gone for six months?"

Tommy nodded and he hated when she got quiet, he know she was upset, "It's only six months, and I know that we have only been married for over a year and this is great opportunity for me," he was rambling, he was nervous, his wife was too quiet.

The reason that she was quiet is that she was thinking last time they were apart it cost them almost five years of separation. But this was different, their lives were different. They weren't rangers any more and they were married. And then she thought all those years ago he told her to go and follow her dreams. "It is and you should go."

"Really?" He wasn't expecting this.

"Yes really" smiling up at him, "and we can email each other cause phone calls are going to be expensive. Do they even have phones there?"

"I don't know, probably not"

"Ok email then. And when you get back we can have the rest of our life to spend together."

He went put to her and kissed her, "I love you, Beautiful."

"I love you, too, Handsome."

TBC…