Disclaimer: I do not own power rangers.

Sky walks slowly in the empty hallways, his face not able to contain his smile, not believing what he read, those words were stuck in his head

"And Z? I know you've loved Sky since forever, I could see it in your eyes..."

'Z loves me?!' He thought. 'From the very beginning? She still does I'm sure! Now I can see why she used to blush so much whenever I used to ask about the message... I was such an ass trying to push her away from me. All she did was be my friend even though she loved me, not rushing anything not hinting anything... she was happy being my friend.. and I pushed her away. Damn!' Sky punched the wall and then saw Z far away walking fast towards her room in his direction, all sweaty, muttering something, holding her uniform jacket in her hand, wearing her SPD blue tee and uniform trousers and boots, her high ponytail swinging left and right.

Sky thought 'Night watch in the command centre with a broken A/c, not good.' he was about to walk towards her when he saw Tylor stop her by putting his hand in front of her, she stopped and said "Whatever you want to say can wait Ty, I'm sort of in a hurry!" and started walking again, but Tylor stepped in front of her, Sky getting angry, was about to come out, but then he thought of his fight with Z when she literally shouted at him telling him to let her fight her own battles. He then stood where he was because he knew Z could handle it.

Tylor then said "IT can't wait anymore Z I love you!" Z's eyes widened and Sky's heart stopped.

Tylor continued "I have been interested in you for a long time now if you haven't noticed. And all I can think about is you all day and all night."

Sky's blood boils when he sees Tylor putting both his hands on Z's shoulders and saying "I LOVE you." emphasizing on the 'love' part.

Z looks down and sighs "Ty I'm flattered..." she then looks up at Tylor straight into his eyes as she removes his hands from her shoulders still holding them "but I only see you as my friend and nothing more... Tylor I...I don't know what to say but I'm hopelessly in love with someone for a very long time now and even though he's really annoying, I just cannot forget him." Z says looking away as she leaves his hands and folds her hands to her chest.

Tylor simply sighs and looks at her then chuckles "My bad luck huh?"

Z smiles at him apologetically.

Her morpher then beeps and she says "Oh shoot! It's 11:30!"

Tylor looks at her confused but then realises she was already in a hurry and says "Get going now... go do your thing."

Z looks at him admirably "Ty...I'm so sorry... really..."

Tylor chuckles "Yeah I know... it's not your fault...but if Sky hurts you I'm gonna kick his ass commander or no commander... now go!" he says as she rolls her eyes at him and starts running towards the cadet rooms but then realizes something, walks back a bit and says "Hey Tylor!"

Tylor turns and sees her confused face and says "Of course I knew it was Sky! All the time I was staring at you, you stared at Sky! Sky is the only one who doesn't know... everyone else does!"

Z simply looks amazed and disappointed and says "He doesn't need to know, he needs his space."

Sky smiles thinking about how much selfless Z could be. Tylor then acts as if he's zipping his lips with his fingers and turns around and walks away...

Z then smiles, immediately running towards her room not noticing Sky in the corner of the darkened hallways as he hid and gets inside her room and locks it before Sky could react. He then goes to her room and sees it locked and thinks she may be changing and doesn't knock but just waits.

Around 11:50, he sees Z running out of her room towards the common room with open wet hair, in her navy blue pajama shorts and really oversized bright yellow full sleeve top with a design of a big blue star in the middle.

He follows to see her remove a big box from the refrigerator muttering "Sky Sky Sky you maybe an ass but you're still my friend and I'm not gonna let you be alone on your birthday."

Sky gets shocked and looks at his watch '11:55pm 23rd July.' He then gasps because the fact that his birthday was in a few minutes had never even crossed his mind! He then sees her shriek as she removes a big chocolate cake with a blue, red and gray icing on top, from the box and murmurs staring at it with horror "What the heck!?"

Suddenly Sky moved and something dropped and Z's gaze shifted from lighting the candle towards the door to ask "Who's there?"

Sky then came out of the dark walking towards her with a smirk on his face and Z who was initially shocked, said acting annoyed "Well well well look whos here. Interested in finally talking to me Commander Tate?"

Sky smiled and stopped in front of her looking at her and said "Sooohh you remembered my birthday."

Z rolled her eyes because of the way he behaved with her these past days and said "Of course Sky you may be a terrible, TERRIBLE, pathetic friend but I'm NOT and I do no..." her rant was interrupted when Sky snaked his right arm around her waist picked her up and smashed his lips on hers and started kissing her. Z was taken aback by the suddenness but then closed her eyes and after a moment started kissing him back with all the love pent up inside her from all these days as she put her arms around his neck, Sky's tongue commanded entry which she granted, now both their tongues travelled inside each other's mouth. Sky then made her sit on the table and she circled his waist with her legs, Sky kept kissing her going deeper hungrily, putting one arm around her waist and the other on the back of her head pushing her completely to him, Z then had to pull out because of lack of air, Sky saw her flushed face and let her breathe for a few seconds before claiming her lips again this time slowly with even more passion if possible. After their heated make out session ended, Z still blushing badly rested her forehead on Sky's and looked into his eyes to find him looking into her eyes already, both panting, Sky still holding her close, said "I love you Z and I know you love me too."

Z blushed even more and said "I do... A lot..."

Sky smiled and kissed her forehead and then gave a small slow kiss on her lips and said after breaking off "So...Its 12:10am..." he says looking into his wrist watch and then continues "...and still no cake!"

He says making a little sad pout which made Z chuckle as she got out of his strong hold and brought the cake in front of him, Sky saw the message on top of the cake and laughed reading "Congratulations? Its a boy?"

Z simply looked down annoyed and embarrased and muttered "Well obviously the bakery mixed up the orders because this is the cake I ordered but the message is all wrong. And I couldn't return it because I saw it just now."

Sky then saw her get sad and put his hand on top of hers which made her to look at him "I love it Z. Its perfect in its imperfect sort of way."

Z chuckled and hit him in his arm. Sky chuckled rubbing his arm and blew the candles and Z said "You had to make a wish first Sky!"

Sky smiled "Now, at this moment, I do not wish for anything Z."

Z smiled and he slipped his hand around her waist and pulled her closer. Then Sky cut the cake and after they were done eating some of the cake Z said Sky to close his eyes.

When a stubborn Sky didn't, her eyes shined for a second, Sky knowing what that meant and looked back to see Z's replicate standing behind him, smiling he said "Ahh Referee Delgado how much did I miss you!"

Z chuckled and Z's replicate closed Sky's eyes from behind and then Z went on to fetch Sky's gift from her room, as she quickly returned, her replicate vanished and Sky saw Z standing with a gift in her hand and Sky looked at her with love and gasped "Z!" as he came and kissed her and then playfully snatched the gift from her hand and started tearing the wrapping paper she then held his arm and said "Noooo don't open it now Sky!"

He glared at her and opened it only to find a huge yellow and black scrapbook, Sky then took the book and pulled Z towards him and sat on the sofa, and before he could open it Z whined "It's lame!"

Sky rolled his eyes and said "Shut up."

Z being her stubborn self complained "Why can't you read it later!?"

Sky glared at her "Z if you do not shut up I'll make you shut up." Sky smirked and winked at her and Z smiled. Sky then opened it to see pictures of Jack, Bridge and Syd initially and many of himself and Z and many of them together which Z had clicked on her camera recently and many notes that Z wrote near the pictures with the date, for Sky.

Sky saw the date and got shocked and asked "How long have you been writing this?"

Z chuckled "For 1 n half yrs now..."

Sky asked, now embarrased and shocked "You've been making this for a year and a half for ME?"

Z looks at him and says "Nooo! This was just for me, it was like my diary! I thought you should have it now... so that you knew everything about me..." she said sweetly.

Sky smiled at her "Z this is the sweetest gift anyone has ever given me...and by the way I know you pretty well."

Z then widens her eyes "Not completely!"

He then gives her a 'Oh yeah?' look and starts reading it, Z then getting awkward seeing him read her scrapbook infront of her says "Its a whole lot of pages Sky, I think you should read it later...!"

Sky who was already engrossed in the book said "Yeah in a minute."

Z simply shook her head and put her head on his shoulder as he read it and they laughed and discussed about whatever Z wrote, Sky's feelings getting stronger and stronger for her.

When Sky read about yet another note when he was with Syd and all Z could do was watch silently and accept them, Sky's affection for her increased as to how strong she actually was. He had judged her completely wrong when he first met her and after fighting beside her and defeating Grumm, he thought he knew Z but now after 2 years and after reading her scrapbook notes, he was amazed to find that he never knew her fully and Z was completely different to what she portrayed, sure she was headstrong, independent and not to forget really really stubborn, she was also really shy when it came to boys at the same time, really goofy and funny, not to forget completely gorgeous, and also a really great friend, he just saw now how perfect she was for any guy, but she was his. He had no plans of letting her go... And he would not do the same mistakes he did in his previous relationships, if Z could be so understanding and selfless so could he, atleast he could try.

He then saw her sleeping with her head on his lap and he didn't even notice that while he was engrossed in the scrapbook and then his thoughts, he had been stroking her still damp hair causing her to sleep off.

He then saw her Z necklace hanging out on her neck and stopped stroking her hair and picked up the Z pendant only to see another 'S' pendant travel down the necklace and touch his finger. He saw how much Z valued friendships because she didn't have many friends in school because they called her a freak for being different and then later on only had Jack. His thoughts were interrupted when Z turned herself in her sleep, Sky then smiled and slowly put the scrapbook aside, got up and picked her up princess style and kissed her forehead and took her to her room, scanned his morpher in, and lay her on her bed, he then removed the music player from the bed, gave her a kiss on her lips and said softly "I love you Z, you are really special. Goodnight." and left noticing Sophie's bed empty, as the room doors closed behind him. He then went back to the common room, picked up the scrapbook, bookmarked the page he had been reading, took the leftover cake and left for his room still smiling.

When he reached his room he went to his balcony, sat on the mattress and started eating the cake while reading the scrapbook. He only slept once he finished the complete scrapbook feeling like a completely different person all together...