It had been two months since the dinner. The night that all his questions about the letter were answered. The night that he finally saw Kimberly again. The night that he kissed her, spontaneously, and the night she ran out of his life for a second time.

Jason had called him the following morning, letting Tommy know that he was taking Kimberly back to Angel Grove before returning to his home in Los Angeles. Tommy didn’t even ask about Kim, not wanting to hear how mortified she was that Tommy had kissed her. Her fleeing from his kitchen had been enough evidence. Thankfully, Jason hadn’t said much about the previous night either. What he did mention to Tommy, was how worthwhile he thought the trip had been.“Kimberly! How could you do such a thing? Why haven’t you told them?” asked Lacie.

“Because…. Because I haven’t!” she yelled.        The Blue Psycho Ranger produced a staff with wicked curved blades at either end, obviously his answer to the blue power weapon. Breaking it in two, Psycho Blue fired a beam of jagged blue lightning from the blades. Jared knelt down and brought his left arm forward, his gauntlet projecting a rectangular shield of solid red light, off of which Psycho Blue's attack splashed harmlessly. Drawing his Blade Blaster from it's holster, the Blue Ranger coutered with a barrage of laser fire, knocking the weapon from his opponents hands and blasting him to the ground.

         "Dino Daggers!" With twin flashes of yellow light, Terina drew her weapons from her pocket dimension and hurled them at Psycho Yellow, striking her directly in the head and cracking her visor. The weapons returned magically to her hands as Psycho Yellow collapsed to the pavement.

         "Battle Bow!" Mara cried, the pink longbow appearing in her hand. As she pulled back the string, an arrow of pink light appeared, aimed directly at Psycho Pink. Mara released the string and the arrow flew faster than the eye could follow...but not fast enough. Psycho Pink's hand shot forward and caught the arrow, inches from her faceplate. Slowly and deliberately, she snapped the energy arrow in half, leaving the fragments to shatter into beads of pink light as they fell to the sidewalk below. Shifting her grip, Mara rushed foreward and swung her bow like a sword, Tearing a long slice in Psycho Pink's armor and causing her to spin around as she fell to the ground.

Lacie recoiled at Kimberly’s sudden anger. “Kimberly…. Why are you keeping this a secret?”

“It’s my choice… and it’s best if you keep it a secret too…”

“Kimberly, Tommy’s been calling the apartment for you. The machine’s picked his calls up every time because we’ve always been out. He’s worried and upset,” replied Sarah.

“Tommy doesn’t need to know. And I don’t want you trying to contact him either. Or any of my other friends. I’ll tell them when I’m ready,” Kimberly lied.

Tommy just rolled his eyes. For whom, Jason? He thought to himself. Tommy absently scrolled through all the new emails he had neglected over the summer, not really in the mood to read any of them. Nothing was pertinent, so he didn’t feel guilty about it. Nothing from Jason, nothing from Aisha.

“Well, at least they’ve taken the hint.” Tommy said to himself. He hadn’t talked to Jason since his last phone call, which was odd. They usually kept in better touch. He assumed Aisha had spoken to Kimberly, explaining why he hadn’t heard from her.