A/N: I had to split this into two chapters just because it had two separate part; one with Kim and one with Connor

As she sat there, she was jolted out of her thoughts by the loud and incessant ringing of her cell phone.

"Hello?"

"Kira where are you?" Ethan asked.

"I'm…on my way back," she said, "Why?"

"We're getting ready to go to the airport."

She looked at her watched and noticed the time; it was now two o'clock. She hadn't realized that she had walked around that long.

"Alright, I'll be there in a few."

"Ok, cool, see ya then."

"Bye."

Se got up and headed back towards the café. She really was excited to have Conner home. Ethan was probably the only one that knew exactly how much that she missed Conner. He had often told her that she should tell Conner if she had feelings for him, she didn't have to love him, but if she did feel anything for him beyond friendship, then she should tell him. When she had insisted that she had nothing, he had dropped it for awhile. She sighed as she walked. When she realized she was nearing the café, she wiped the forlorn expression off her face, and smiled (or at least tried to), but before she could get to the doors, they opened revealing Trent, Ethan, Krista and Angela.

"Whoa guys, what's the hurry?" she asked, then stopped as she saw who else was with them, "Krista, when did you get here?"

"I got here about a while ago," she said, "They were still talking to Conner, and I asked to talk to him. He asked for you but they said you had left on an errand, so he said to tell you he'd talk to you later because he had to finish pack and get to the airport."

"Conner just called back, said his flight came in an hour early," Ethan said, "He's just arrived at the airport; if we leave now, we should get there before he gets to the luggage claim."

(A/N: I know that it probably takes a lot longer than four hours to get to Reefside from Paris, but this my story, my warped mind made it shorter, so deal with it.)

"Well let's go then."

So the five friends headed to Trent's car (since it was bigger and they would be getting Conner and his luggage) and sped off towards the airport.

Earlier with Kim and Conner

After he had hung up with Ethan and the others, he finished up and headed out the door. On the drive to the airport, he and Kim had talked about everything, including what he was going to be up to for the summer

"So what are you gonna do this summer, besides hanging out with your friends?"

"Well, I'm gonna try and get a job; then I'm going to look around for open places so that if I do get the money that I need for the soccer camp, I have someplace to hold it."

"Oh, well that's cool."

The drive after that was a comfortable silence. Before they knew it, they were pulling into the airport. As they made their through, Kim said to Conner, "You know Ceej, I don't know why you didn't just use the private jet."

"Come to think of it, me neither, but then again, if I had, then I would have had to answer a lot of questions from the guys; and I kind of want to avoid that."

"You coward," she smirked.

"Yes I am," he said, and then they both started laughing.

They got to his gate, and checked him in. They sat there listening to music, and ate some snacks which Kim had gotten up to buy, while waiting for his flight. Next thing they knew, his flight number was being called, and they realized that it was almost two hours early. Gathering his stuff, they headed over.

"I'm really going to miss having my little brother around," she said.

"Big brother," he corrected, "And I'm going to miss you too; if you're ever back in California, give me a call and I'll give you a tour of my home town."

"Why would I want that?"

"Because it'll be soon be known as Reefside: Home of the Connor McKnight Soccer Camp."

"Reefside huh?" she said. 'Why does that sound familiar?'

"Yes."

"Cool well then next time I'm in the states, I'll be sure to take you up on it."

As he heard the attendant call the passengers to be boarded, he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tight.

"I'm going to miss you so much," he said.

"I'm gonna miss you too," she replied. Then she broke out of his arms, and with tears in her eyes, she gently pushed him forward. He looked up and wiped the tears with his thumb, and then he kissed her forehead, and whispered, "I love you."

"I love you too," she said, "Call me when you arrive so that I can know you're safe, ok?"

"OK," he answered, "Bye."

"Bye," she said. And then she watched as he handed over his ticket, turned and waved to her, before he disappeared onto the plane. Wiping the remaining tears, she turned around headed out to her car. She couldn't believe it. They had spent the past two years together, and now he was on his way back home, and she was still here. He was one of her closest friends, probably closer to her than the others, Sha and Tri combined. He was the only one that she confessed exactly how she had felt about their betrayal; how hurt she was and how for a second, how she had hated them. Kim smiled to herself as she remembered how she ranted when she had found out not one, but two secrets. One was her boyfriend cheating on her; the other had to do with her past.

Flashback

She paced across the room angrily. Connor sat in the chair and watched her. He was just as upset as she was. He had seen her boyfriend out with a blond female. Something about the girl had seemed very familiar to him, and when he had told Kim, she had gone to confront him. He had denied it of course, but it seemed to Connor that after she had gone to visit that friend of hers, she had found out the truth. It turns out he was cheating on her with the friend. When Kim had come back, angry and almost in tears, he had coaxed the answer out of her. To say he was upset was a huge understatement. Now he sat there watching her pace and vent out her anger.

"I can't believe him, I can't believe her. I mean, how could she do that to me? I thought she was my friend. She deliberately sabotaged my friendship and my relationship with my friends and my boyfriend. I trusted her, we all did."

"What are you talking about?" he asked confused.

"Remember when I told you that I had broken up with my boyfriend in high school because I was told that he was cheating on me, and because of that, my friends had stopped talking to me?"

"Yes."

"Well as it turns out, the same friend that was here, well apparently she was the one behind it all."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, you know my friends had all gotten letters that were supposedly from me, saying a lot of mean things about them, and I got some as well; and that break up letter was the reason for all that. I just found out, that she was the one that did it."

"What?"

"Yea, my friend Katherine, that one that you saw my boyfriend cheating with, was the one to write those letters back in high school; she deliberately destroyed my friendship with the others, just so she could take my place, and you know what? They let her."

"Wait, Kim they didn't know, and it sounds like you're a little angry with them," he said, "I thought you guys already cleared that up?"

She paused, and sighed, "We did, but you know, I can't help but feel a little bit of anger and resentment towards them."

"How so?" he asked.

"Well when they got the letters, they did nothing about them; they took them at face value, believing the words, while I was the idiot to try and figure out why my friends had suddenly become cold and mean towards me, why I thought my boyfriend was cheating on me."

"Maybe they were in shock or something…," he trailed off.

"I waited a week to see if anyone would contact me, and when they didn't, I took matters into my own hands. I got a flight back home, Connor, I tried to find out what happened, how they could send me those letters, I tried to save our friendships, but they did nothing; and when I found out that they were angry at me, I left. I never told them I was there. And in that moment I hated them for it. I think a part of me still do, is it wrong for me to feel that way?" she cried.

He got up and wrapped his arms around her, "No it's not. You didn't do anything wrong, in fact you did everything right. You were the one to try and find out what went wrong, not them. As far as I am concerned, you had every right to feel that way."

"Thanks Connor," she smiled.

End flashback

The only thing he didn't know about her was that she used to be a Power Ranger. But other than that, he knew everything about her, and she knew everything about him as well. They had more in common than she would have thought. Both their parents used to fight a lot, and he used to take some blows defending his twin brother from his drunk of a mother. And they both grew up listening to their parents fight and blaming it on themselves, so that they had eventually turned to sports to spend as much time from the house as possible; him soccer, she gymnastics.

As the days went by, she found herself missing Connor a lot; but she knew that she had a fashion to think of, so she focused on her jobs and her designs; and besides he had called her when he arrived, so she knew that he was okay. It was about two days later, when she got the call from Jason. She was going through some sketches when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey lil terror, what are you up to?"

Kim smiled as she heard her big brother, in everything but blood, on the phone, "Hey Rex, what's up?"

"Just calling to see what my favorite little sis is up to," he said.

"Jase…" she warned knowing that when he used those words, he either wants something, or did something he doesn't think she'll like.

He laughed, "Ok, and to tell you that we're planning a little get together with the original twelve and Tommy's team next week."

"I think that's cool."

"Yep, Tommy and his team are coming up on Sunday, and we were wondering if you could take some time out of your super busy schedule to come," he exaggerated and laughed lightly.

"Jason, I'm not that busy and yes, I will be able to make it, in fact, I think that I can spare maybe two –three weeks, if that's ok," she said.

"That's perfect, well…" he stopped as he heard something. Kim heard Tri and Sha in the background, and it sounded like they were arguing.

"Hey is that Tri and Sha?" she asked.

"Yea hold on let me get one or both of them."

"OK," she said; then she heard him yell out to them, next thing both girls were on the phone.

"Hey guys."

"Hey girl," Sha said, "I have you on speaker so that you can talk to us."

"Oh, there isn't anyone else there is there?"

"Nope, wait hold on, Jase just left, so it's just us two and you," Trini said.

"Good, now I can ask, is she going to be there?"

They paused, not too sure what to say, and then Trini answered, "We don't know actually, since we found out about her and him, we haven't talked to her that much. We tried to avoid her because Sha and I figured that it would be too hard to talk to her without getting angry at her for what she did, so we don't really know."

"But I did hear from T that she was no longer in England, and that she might have been living back in California ever since, and that she may have a surprise for us," Sha added.

"I wonder what kind of surprise the bitch has in store considering the surprise that she kept from all of us," Kim muttered darkly.

Both girls were not shocked by their friend's response, hell they even encouraged it sometimes, so it was no surprise when Trini answered her just as darkly, "You know, I still can't believe that she did that, I mean what the hell was she thinking when she did it?"

"I don't know, and you know as much as I want to, I don't well not right now at least, can we talk about something else," Kim said.

"Like the reunion and seeing a former handsome leader?" Sha teased.

Kim smiled slightly and teased back, "Oh you mean Rocky?"

Hearing the laughter on the other end had her laughing as well, "Girl you know that I don't mean Rocky, but just in case you are serious, Rocky's taken, and I meant Tommy," Sha laughed.

She sighed as she thought about it, "I really don't know guys, I mean, it's been so long…"

"I know that Kim, but don't you think that he deserves to know the truth? I mean he's not a ranger anymore, so you have nothing stopping you, and I heard you tell Jason that you have time to spare to come home, so you really don't have any excuse not to," Trini interrupted.

She sighed, and then smiled "Do you think he's single?"

"That's the spirit, now get your butt off the phone, book your ticket and hurry up home to get your man back," Aiesha laughed.

"Alright, and promise me that we won't let her bring this trip down?" Kim asked.

"We promise, and don't worry, even if she did try something, you know we got your back," Trini said.

"I know, but I gotta go if I want a quick flight, so I'll call you guys with the information alright?" she said.

"Ok girl love you and we'll talk later," Aiesha said.

"Love you guys too, bye."

A/N: thanks to all my reviewers. I already have some pages of this story written, so I'll be updating like every day until I get what I have up there.

A/N: I'm glad you guys like the story so far, who knows sometime in later chapters I'll ask opinions and directions on where I should take a scene