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Trini was at the library at Reefside University with her new roommate. They were supposed to be studying for their Sociology class but Trini was having a hard time concentrating. Today was a hard day for her, and she had no idea why. She just couldn't stop thinking about Kim and Tommy, mainly because she had run into someone who looked suspiciously like Tommy in one of her science classes. The teacher called him Oliver, but she couldn't tell if that was his first name or last name. He looked just like Tommy if it wasn't for the fact that he had short hair instead of long hair she would have sworn it was him.
She sighed, wishful thinking, she knew that Tommy was gone, just like Kim and that was the end of the story.
"Hey, Earth to Trini," her roommate, a redhead named Hayley called out, waving her hand in front of her face.
"What?" Trini asked, startled.
"Are you okay? You seem to be a hundred miles away."
Trini shook her head to clear it, "Sorry, I saw someone who looked like someone I once knew, and now I can't stop thinking about him."
Hayley nodded her head before asking, almost mischievously, "Was he your ex?"
Trini shook her head, "He dated my best friend, I swear it was him, only he cut his hair."
"So he's your best friend's ex?"
Trini shook her head, "We don't think that she wrote the breakup letter he received, at least not of her own free will."
Hayley frowned, "What do you mean?"
"She sent a Dear John Letter, only she was found dead the same day he received the letter. My friends and I have a feeling that the letter has something to do with her death, but we don't know for sure. All we know is that she's dead and nobody has seen him since."
Hayley felt a shiver run down her spine, "Well you can turn that into a good ghost story if we ever have a scary story competition."
Just then a little girl who appeared to be around two years old toddled over to their table. She had bright blue eyes and her blonde hair was pulled up into pigtails with pink ribbons that matched her pair of pink overalls. She looked like she was going to cry.
"Hey sweety," Trini said gently, "what are you doing here, where's your Mommy."
The little girl's bottom lip started to quiver as she said, "I no know."
Trini gently picked the little girl up, "Don't worry we'll ask the lady at the front desk to help us find your mother."
The little girl nodded her head, "Find Daddy too?" she asked.
Trini smiled as she nodded her head, "Sure we can if he's here."
As she walked over to the front desk Trini groaned, first she thought she saw Tommy, now she thought she saw Kim, only this Kim was pregnant.
"My toddler seemed to have run off, you haven't seen a two-year-old running around somewhere, I swear I only turned my back on her for a second." The Kim look-alike was saying.
"I understand, I had toddlers once as well," the librarian stated, "Can you tell me what she's wearing?"
Trini stepped forward, "Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear what you were saying, is this your daughter?"
The Kim look-alike let out a sigh of relief, "Sophia, there you are, what were you thinking, wondering off like that, come on, Daddy should have picked up sissy from preschool by now if he remembers."
The woman swung the toddler onto her hip before picking up a baby seat from off the floor, "Thanks Trini, you're the best." She said before heading outside.
It took a minute for Trini to realize that she never told the woman her name. She froze, it was impossible, simply impossible. They had found her body after all and declared her dead. Even if the body mysteriously disappeared overnight.
Kim had also been pregnant, with two little kids. The one appeared to be around two and the other had been around eight months old. There was only one person Kim had been involved with during that time period who could be their father was Tommy.
What if that really had been Tommy? What if Kim and Tommy weren't dead, but living in Reefside with their family. Kim had mentioned a girl in preschool, who could that have been, sure the two of them knew each other for five years now, but she never heard of them having a child. The baby was understandable, she would have had been in Florida for most of the pregnancy. But the older one and the other one that she had mentioned? What was that about?
She shook her head to clear it, she needed answers and there was only one way to get them. She had to follow Kim.
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Kim had realized that she had slipped up the moment she called her best friend by name. She just hoped that Trini hadn't figured out that it was her. She glanced out of the rearview mirror and groaned as she recognized Trini's old car from high school right behind her. Apparently, she had recognized her and decided that she needed answers and was willing to follow her to get them.
Kim reached into a cubby in the console and pulled out a cell phone. She quickly dialed the house and as soon as Tommy answered it stated, "We have a problem, I ran into Trini and she recognized me."
"You sure that she recognized you?" Tommy asked, "I had a class with her this morning and she didn't recognize me."
"As sure as I am that she's following me," Kim said before pausing, just for a second, "Hold on," she said, turning onto Valencia Road, "Yep she's following me, she turned onto Valencia Road, and that just leads into the woods."
Tommy groaned, "We'll deal with it once she gets her, if you try losing her, she's just going to be more determined. She is a yellow after all."
…
Trini grabbed her cell phone as she followed the white minivan into the woods, why did Kim live so far out and away from everybody else?
"Jason, you won't believe who I saw today, Kim, our Kim, and Tommy, our Tommy." She said into the phone as soon as Jason picked up his cell.
"Look, I know you miss them, but you know that Tommy has a biological brother that looks like him. The others made the same mistake a few months ago during a surfing competition."
Trini fell silent, she remembered hearing that story, poor Rocky actually thought that Tommy was Haunting the Beach until Kat and Aisha, who had come home upon hearing about Kim's murder, had gone over to talk to the look-alike, only to discover that it wasn't him but his older brother.
"But this Kim look-alike knew my name before I told it to her and I didn't have on a name tag or something that she could have gotten my name off of."
Jason took a deep breath, he was not going to get his hopes up. When the Gold Ranger showed up, Rocky and Adam had hoped that it was Tommy and that Tommy wasn't dead. They had been disappointed when they met Trey. They had wanted it to be Tommy so badly.
"Just be careful, for all you know she was in one of your classes and you just didn't realize that the two of you have met already."
Trini hummed to herself, "Well, I guess I'll figure out what's going on sooner rather than later, we just reached a house and Kim's pulling into the driveway."
"You followed her?! Trini, she could have called the police on you. Stalking is illegal, remember?"
Trini shook her head, not that Jason could see her, "I've got to go, speak to you later, bye."
Trini looked up at the house that Kim had entered. It was a nice house, two stories high and with a swing attached to a tree out front.
She tried to calm her nerves what did she say? What if she was wrong? She could remember the day that she heard the truth quite well.
… Five months ago…
Trini missed Jason, the two of them had been dating for awhile now and this was the first time they truly been apart. He had gone home to help the power ranger team because they needed a sixth ranger.
"Come on, there's got to be something I can do to cheer you up," Zack said, perched on Trini's roommates bed.
Trini shook her head, "I don't want to miss when he calls. He promised he'll let me know when he got there."
Just then the phone rang and Trini sprang up and answered it, "Hello," she said as soon as the phone touched her ear.
"Hi Trini, is Zack with you," Jason's voice sounded strained, as if he was fighting tears something that Trini could only remember happening a handful of times during their lifelong friendship.
"Yes…" Trini said, "Jason what's wrong."
"Put me on speaker, I only want to say this once."
Trini frowned as she pushed the button to put it on speaker, "Okay Jason you're on speaker."
Zack looked up from the music magazine that he was reading, "Hey Jas, how's good old Angel Grove?"
"Terrible," Jason said, "I haven't seen my parents in two and a half years and the first thing I tell them is that I hate them. And at the moment I still don't feel bad about it."
That got Zack's attention, Jason was really close to his parents, so something big must have happened since he left early that morning to get him that mad, "What happened bro?"
"Our parents thought that it would be in our best interest to keep us from learning that Kim was murdered and nobody's seen Tommy since."
…
Trini shook her head to clear it, staring at the house and headed to the front porch, took a deep breath and rang the doorbell, even if she was wrong, maybe she could make a new friend.
