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It Was You All Along.
Disclaimer: I do not own power rangers!
(A/n: Rated M for a mature topic. Nothing explicit.)
Sky nods and then looks at her and says seriously "Listen Z, I'm all cool with you and other guys being friends, but when guys start hitting on you infront of me, you let me do my thing ok? Don't get all 'let me fight my own battles' n stuff on me okay?"
Z sighs and nods, her cheeks becoming pink thinking about his possessiveness. Sky saw this and smiled, he then saw a breeze cause her smooth bare skin to have goosebumps, he kisses her shoulder causing her to chuckle, stops holding her, opens his jacket and puts it around her, and then simply looks at her sitting on his lap covering with his jacket and tells her "Did I tell you look amazing tonight?"
She smiles "This is maybe the 5th time. I need to tell Soph to dress me up more often!"
Sky smiles and starts stroking her cheek and then they heard people cheering when Bridge and Kyle have a sandwich eating competition and chuckles "We should you know...get back."
Z nods and they get back to the party hand in hand.
After about an hour after the competition which Bridge won by the way, Bridge was now standing near the refreshments table and explaining the science of toasting a toast on the toaster to a few cadets who were eating a toasted sandwich and Z was talking and laughing with Jack, Ally and Sophie about a monster who would not stop singing, Sky suddenly came behind Z and held her from behind, Z looking at him and asked "Hey where were you?"
Sky whispered in her ears "I have a surprise for you. Come to the other end of the park in 5 minutes." And he gave her a kiss on her forhead and left saying bye to Jack and Ally.
Jack hit Z on the arm and smirked "What's up Z?" Z simply rolled her eyes but couldn't hide her blush.
Ally chuckled and Jack saw how much Z was into Sky and said "Aww my wittle Z is bwushing!"
Sophie and Ally laughed and Z glared at him "I'm not!"
Jack was about to say 'yes you are' and was ready for a series of 'im not' 'yes you are' 'im not' and so on but then thought against it and told her "Get going now! He said 5minutes!"
Z remembered and started walking briskly towards the end of the park.
Sky just set up a little tent for him and Z to sit and watch the stars on one of the high children's playing tower castles. He came down the ladder and was waiting for her when he heard someone walking in the grass and smiled when he heard the song 'Runaway Heart by Glenna Bree' being played and felt Z hold him from behind, and he turns and holds her in his arms and sees Z smiling as she rests her head in his chest as the night falls, after a while they both go on top of the castle to see a mattress with pillows just like in his balcony and she gets excited and he smiles, then Sky sits down with his back resting on the railing as Z sits near him but still far and Sky frowns and motions her to sit beside him by pointing at her and then on the spot he wants her to be in. Z rolls her eyes but still comes and sits as Sky puts his arm around her and she opens his jacket from herself and covers both of them from the top as they cuddled to see the stars. Sky noticed that Z was looking everywhere but the sky as she lay beside him, her smile gone, deep in thought. Sky then turns himself to the left to face her by resting his head on his left palm, and asked "Not interested in the stars much?"
On getting no reply, he clicks his fingers on top of her face and she snaps out of her thoughts and looks at him, a smile forming on her lips, Sky also smiles and asks "Don't you like the stars Z? I brought you here to see the sky but I've noticed you didn't even see it once..."
Z then gets up and sits leaning on the railing, and smirks at him "You notice so much about me?"
Sky sees her smirk but also feels something is off about her, and says sitting up beside her "Ofcourse I do..." he holds her hand and squeezes it and as she looks at him he continues "What's bothering you Z?"
Seeing her hesitate, he holds her hand tighter and says "You can tell me Z... anything... you know that."
Z then takes a deep breath and says "I'm scared of the sky...especially in the night."
Sky looks at her shocked "Why?"
He sees her body language change as she clutches her dress in her palms tightly and then turns to him and hugs him, Sky now is completely taken aback. He never saw her scared, then he feels drops of water soak his t-shirt and pulls her away from him to see her face and sees her crying, Sky immediately cups her face and wipes away her tears with his thumbs and asks "What happened Z? I want to know..."
Z then stops crying and looks at him and says "I don't want to ruin your birthday Sky."
Sky rolls his eyes "Z you have made my birthday special from when the clock hit 12 dot. You cannot do or say anything that could ruin this day for me, now please tell me why do you have this fear?"
Z then sighs "I was 10yrs old, I had a teacher in my school named . He... he used to have a special interest in me... I don't know why, I didn't even know I had powers, I don't know why... He used to follow me home, pat my head, give me chocolates. He used to touch me and hug me and I didn't like it. And one day he kidnapped me from my school and took me to his basement and told me he was going to do many things with me which would be painful first and then I would get used to it, but he would keep on giving me pain untill I died, he kept me in a box and there was this little hole through which I could see the night sky and before he could go any further my mom came and saved me... And later on when he got arrested, everyone got to know he was a child rapist... If my mom hadn't come, I don't know..." Tears fell from her eyes as Sky's heartbroke into a million pieces, he held her even tighter as if he was protecting her. Then he started getting angry, as Z's tears subsided, he asked her "NewTech Academy?" Z nodded. He thought how he would go and track that bastard and pound him into a pulp.
"I told you this would ruin your birthday..."
Sky held her tighter and said "Shut up Z." and then started kissing her on her head and forehead "I'm here."
Z smiled in between her sobs, feeling safe.