chater 3
Coming home
It started raining lightly outside and beside a shocked Tommy was her, his love, his beautiful. Kimi Finster. Phil was right, she did return to him but she was in a state that he didn't like. She was all bruised and beaten and she was crying.
"K-Kimi? W-what happened? I thought you went with Z and his friends" he said.
"Tommy I'm so sorry" she sobbed "You were right I did make the biggest mistake of my life for leaving you for Z. Please forgive me, if you don't I understand…" Tommy knew he couldn't be mad at her right now and he pulled her in for a hug and then looked at her.
"What happened, what's with the bruises?" he asked, rubbing her face softly.
"Z has been beating me, I try not to make him mad but he just wails on me for no reason. The main reason why he does this to me was because I wouldn't… have sex with him…" she explained "Now I don't know if any of my family or friends will accept me back…" she cried.
Tommy smiled "You know Chuckie missed you very much."
"Really?" she asked.
"Yeah, him, Phil, and Dil are at the mall; Come on, let me take you to them." Her said and the two of them walked away to the mall.
Meanwhile Phil, Dil, and Chuckie were at the food court having themselves a bit of a snack. Chuckie got some KFC, Dil got a hot dog and Phil got some McDonalds. All three of them were chatting and enjoying their meals when Chuckie's phone rang.
"Hello? Oh, hey T."
"What?"
"Ok, yeah I'll wait. Bye"
Chuckie hung up the phone and put it back into his pocket.
"What'd he want?" asked Phil.
"Tommy says he has a surprise for us or something but he wouldn't tell me what it was." Said the redheaded teen.
Just then Tommy came into the mall with Kimi who had her hood back up. He looked around for the guys and saw them sitting at a table "Yo guys!" he yelled to them waving. They saw him and waved back and got up to walk over to him and the hooded Kimi.
They noticed the mysterious hooded stranger "Who's that Tommy?" asked Chuckie.
"It's your guys' surprise," he said.
"Who is it T?" asked his brother Dil. Then Kimi took down her hood and revealed herself to them. Phil and Dil were shocked and Chuckie's eyes bugged out as he dropped his bucket of chicken onto the floor.
"K-K-Kimi!?" said Chuckie with tears forming into his eyes, he almost had a heart attack. "Where have you been all this time? You worried us all!" he said as he hugged his sister.
"Chuck I'm so sorry for leaving all of you, forgive me please." She asked sadly.
"Don't worry sis we all forgive you, we're just glad that you're safe and away from that green-haired bastard and his friends." She smiled at him along with Phil and Dil and they smiled back.
Just then Lil suddenly came up with her 'friends', Kimi saw her and was surprised of how much she changed but she ran up to her anyway "Lil!" she yelled happily. Lil was shocked to see the long lost purple haired woman in front of her, but instead of being happy she gave her an angry look.
"How dare you!" she said with venom in her tone which surprised Kimi. "How dare you betray us and leave with a person you don't even love? I mean if you thought Z and his friends were better than the people you've known most of your life then you're wrong. You're dead to me Kimi Finster!" Kimi was shocked by what Lil had just said and looked down in shame.
Then Tommy, Phil, Dil, and Chuckie stepped in "Don't you ever talk to her like that again you hypocritical bitch!" Tommy yelled.
"Yeah Lil and to be honest I'd rather have Kimi back than you!" Dil yelled
"And you're the one talk about betrayal." Phil said "Remember after Kimi left you got with T only to just flake out on him a month later? You're the one who should be ashamed!"
Next it was Chuckie's turn to be mad "And that whole thing of Kimi leaving to be with other people? Look at you, all you ever do with these girls is blab on about nonsense and bullshit!"
"Yeah Lil if you would've been a true girlfriend then you wouldn't have turned out like this. If you say I'm dead to you then you're dead to me!" Kimi yelled.
Lil wasn't going to have any of this, she just turned around in a huff and walked off with her 'friends'.
"Guys what happened to her?" Kimi asked Phil.
"Ever since you left she changed for the worst and ever since Angelica left school she also became the new popular girl. All she ever does with a group of so called friends is talk about clothes, shitty music, and Brad Pitt." He said with his arms crossed.
"Hey, you gotta be starving. Do you want me to get you any food?" Asked Tommy.
Kimi smiled "Thank you Tommy" she said and hugged him. It felt great for her to be back in the group. After talking and eating they all got up and decided to do some shopping because Kimi needed some new clothes.
After shopping for an hour they all decided to leave. "Chuckie can I stay with Tommy for a little while, I don't feel ready to be reunited with Mom and Dad…"
Chuckie smiled "Sure sis you can stay with him. But Pickles no funny business! You hear me?" he said sternly which made Tommy roll his eyes.
"Yes Chuckie, I hear ya…" Tommy said.
They all said their goodbyes to each other and parted ways.
"Tommy how come you and Chuckie haven't been talking for a while?" Kimi asked.
Tommy sighed "It's your parents" he explained "They thought I was useless and thought I just let you go off with Z and didn't do anything to stop it. Because of that, they wouldn't let me talk to Chuckie and he was pretty upset too." Kimi was horrified by what she had done but she was trying not to think it was his entire fault.
It had started to pour down and the only thing they had to shield them from the rain was Tommy's jacket. Tommy, Dil, and Kimi finally reached the Pickles house and got inside to dry off.
"Mom we're home!" Dil called. Didi walked out of the kitchen to greet her sons but was shocked to see the third person standing with them.
"Kimi?" she said astonished.
"Hey Mrs. Pickles," Kimi said nervously.
"Stu come up here quick!" Didi shouted in the basement.
Stu came up with a screwdriver in his hands and nearly finished the new toy he was working on "What is it Deed? I'm almost finished with the…" before he finished he saw Kimi Finster with Tommy and Dil. "Kimi!?" he said "W-what? H-how?" he asked in total shock.
"Kimi came to her senses dad and left Z to come back home to us, she feels guilty about the whole runaway thing." Tommy said.
"How ironic" said Didi "Today was the day she left and now she's back home." Kimi blushed a little knowing that they still loved her and she went up to hug Stu and Didi.
"Kimi you must be filthy, how about you go up and take a shower?" said Stu and Kimi nodded with a smile. After her shower she put on the new set of pajamas that were lying on the couch.
"Thanks for letting me stay here Tommy," she said happily.
Tommy smiled at her "Anything for you babe" he said and kissed her on the cheek. Stu and Didi were secretly watching them in the other room.
"What a great couple." Said Didi
"Yeah. Remember when we did that in front of our parents and it started the feud between my dad and your dad" Stu laughed.
Didi giggled back "Yes Darling" she said and continued to watch the two lovers spend time with each other.
Later on that night Kimi was sleeping on the fold out bed from the couch that Stu put out for her. Tommy crept quietly down the stairs and walked over to Kimi's bed, he got next to her and wrapped his arms around her.
"Tommy is that you? She asked.
"Yeah, couldn't sleep in my room sorry if I woke you up." He whispered.
"It's alright I'm really enjoying your company right now" she whispered back and the couple went to sleep.
The next morning
Tommy woke up before everyone else and went into the kitchen to make breakfast for Kimi and himself. By then Kimi woke up and went into the kitchen to see Tommy cooking breakfast for her which was scrambled eggs, toast, and OJ.
"Breakfast m'lady?" asked Tommy.
Kimi giggled "Why yes, thank you sir." Tommy gave Kimi her breakfast and poured himself a bowl of cereal. They both took their breakfast to the living room and turned on the TV to the Dummy Bears show.
"Ain't you guys too old for this crap?" laughed Dil.
Tommy blushed "Shut the hell up Dil!" he said which made Kimi laugh too.
Later that afternoon
Tommy and Kimi were in the backyard screwing around with each other while having a laugh. Then they climbed into the tree house that the gang made back in the old days after their parents took TV from them.
"I remember when we first built this thing, remember when Dil accidentally got his shirt caught on the zip line and he swung down into the pool when it was unfinished?" he laughed. "Yeah, it's a good thing he didn't break his neck." Kimi laughed. After the two got into the tree house they laid on the floor and enjoyed the peaceful silence.
"Kimi can I ask you something?" Tommy later said breaking the silence.
"Yes Tommy?"
"What exactly happened between you and Z?" He asked curiously.
"Ummm, I… I don't really want to talk about it Tommy" she quivered.
"But Kimi I really need to know. If you keep hiding it in like this then it's going to kill you." He said.
"NO! NO! NO! I CAN'T TELL YOU!" she panicked and rushed back into the house with Tommy chasing after her.
"KIMI WAIT!" he called but she ran up to the bathroom and locked the door.
"Kimi please open up I'm sorry!" he shouted.
"Go away!" she shouted back.
Tommy just sighed and admitted defeat. He then went down to the living room and turned on the TV. When he couldn't find anything good he just laid his head back in the chair and fell asleep.
Later on he was awaken by someone shaking him softly. Tommy opened his eyes and saw Kimi.
"Oh, hey…" he said sadly.
"Tommy I'm sorry about earlier I…" but she was interrupted by Tommy.
"No Kim, I'm sorry I shouldn't have kept pushing you to talk about it when you didn't want to. You can tell me when you're ready." He said and they hugged.
"Tommy it's ok and you're right if I keep it bottled up inside then it's gonna kill me" Tommy nodded his head and Kimi started telling the story.
August 15th, 2011 (One week earlier)
Kimi, Z, and his friends Kameron, Daniel, and David were hanging around a campfire in the woods and things were going to turn ugly because Z was wasted.
"Yo Kam pass the scotch." This would've been Z's tenth scotch and he became very, very drunk.
He then turned to Kimi and said "Hey boot girl ya want some?" he said with his drunken tone.
"No thanks Z, I don't drink." she said and for some reason it pissed Z off so much and he went up and slapped her across the face. Everyone except Kameron laughed at her. Kimi was so scared she just wanted to run away.
"How about you and me go to the back of the van and do it?" he said seductively. He was about to grab her until she kicked him in the groin and ran for her dear life. Z was groaning in pain as Kimi ran into the forest. She just kept running and running until she was out of sight. Right there she sat down in the middle of the forest and started crying until Kameron walked up. He was the only nice one to her.
"Hey Kimi you alright?" he asked.
"What the hell do you want? Shouldn't you be with Z and the other two?" she said with darkness in her voice.
"I should be but I just wanted to check up on ya, that was pretty impressive what you did. I've been really wanting to do that to him for a long time because of the shit he used to give me." He said and noticed that she was crying.
"What's with the tears?" he asked.
"It was a huge coming out here on this trip!" She sobbed "I just thought I was ready to set out on my own but I was wrong. I broke up with the best boyfriend I ever had and now I know he probably hates me along with my family and friends."
Kameron thought for a second and got out his wallet "Here take this, I got a hundred bucks and it should be enough to get a train ride back to LA"
She looked at the hundred dollar bill "Oh Kam I can't, what will Z think?" she sacredly asked.
"Z won't think shit, I'll just tell him I lost my wallet in the forest." He said winking at her. "No dumbass friend of mine is gonna let your life go into ruins." He said. Kimi smiled and hugged him.
"Thank you Kameron, I'll never forget you. If I find the cops I'll tell them to let you free and escape Z." She said and Kameron gave her a kiss on the cheek for good luck.
"The train station should be further that way." He said pointing north. "Get back home safe hon." He whispered to her.
Kimi nodded and raced away to the nearest train station.
Today
"And so five days later I'm home." She said, finishing her story.
By then Tommy was feeling angry, sad, and shocked for Kimi and all the things Z did to her. "Well" he said "Now you're safe here with me and there's nothing that'll hurt you now. If I see that Kameron guy I'm gonna thank him for what he did to help you." And then Tommy hugged her and hummed "Let it be" from the Beatles to comfort her.
The day had finally come for Kimi to be reunited with Chaz and Kira again. Chuckie was pretty happy when he heard the news from Tommy that his family was going to be whole again.
"This is great!" he said cheering to himself "Kimi is finally coming home!" Tommy smiled at his friend. Later that evening Stu and Didi had invited Chaz and Kira, Kimi was nervous because this is her first time seeing her parents in two years. Tommy noticed this.
"Hey, don't worry I'll always be here if things go south." He said smiling.
Kimi smiled back "Thanks Tommy, you're the best." She said and gave him a kiss.
Soon Chuckie and Kimi's parents arrived and Stu and Didi let them in. Kira was very anxious to finally see her only daughter, she thought she had been gone for good.
"Kimi? Kimi-cha are you here?" She called "Mom?" Kimi said behind her and Kira spun around to see her long lost daughter in front of her alive and well. she started to yell at her then kimi started to cry tommy got in front of her and said dont you dare yell at her again
Tears started forming in Chaz and Kira's eyes
"Mom, Dad I'm so sorry please forgive me."
"It's alright honey, you're home and you're safe which is all that matters"
"Oh Kimi what happened these past few years?" Chaz asked with tears in his eyes and Kimi told everyone the whole story about her leaving with Z, the countless times he and his friends cause trouble, him beating Kimi all the time, and her escaping with the help of Kameron. After she was done Chaz, Kira, Stu, and Didi all had shocked looks on their faces.
"Oh lord that's horrible, I knew there was something wrong about that boy!" Chaz said.
"Whatever happened to 'don't judge a book by its cover' dad?" Chuckie asked in a smartass tone which everyone laughed at.
"Thank you Tommy for bringing her back to us and we're sorry for blaming you, there really wasn't much you could've done." Said Kira giving Tommy a hug.
"Tommy, you have my permission to date my daughter again and hang out with Chuckie too." Chaz said, smiling and giving Tommy a handshake.
"Thank you Chaz and Kira, and don't worry I'll treat both of them good" everyone smiled at Tommy. Kimi was back with her family.
September 2nd, 2011 (Three days later)
Everyone was at the Pickles house for a BBQ to celebrate the last night of summer before School Officially starts tomorrow. Dil still had one more year to go before he could be a senior. The only seniors are Tommy, Kimi, Chuckie, Phil, and Lil. Lil obviously wasn't at the party she was hanging around with her other 'friends' instead of being at the party with everyone much to Betty and Howard's disappointment. The reason why Kimi wasn't being held back was because she secretly had access to the internet with the use of a laptop without Z knowing and did all of her classes online.
Besides that, the gang was having a good time even without Lil. They were up in the tree house they built and started jamming to "Paradise City" from Guns n Roses with Tommy and Kimi singing, Chuckie playing his acoustic guitar, Phil playing his acoustic bass, and Dil playinghis bongos.
EVERYONE: Take me down to the paradise city. Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me home. (x2)
TOMMY: Just an urchin living' under the street. I'm a hard case that's tough to beat. I'm your charity case so buy me something to eat. I'll pay you at another time. Take it to the end of the line.
KIMI: Rags to riches or so they say. Ya gotta keep pushin' for the fortune and fame. You know it's all a gamble when it's just a game. Ya treat it like a capital crime. Everybody's doin' the time.
EVERYONE: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me home, yeah yeah. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Take. Me. Home.
TOMMY: Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber. Why I'm here I can't quite remember. The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe. I'd have another cigarette but I can't see. Tell me who you're gonna believe.
EVERYONE: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty Take. Me. Home, yeah yeah. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me home, yeah
GUITAR SOLO
TOMMY & KIMI: So far away. So far away. So far away. So far away.
KIMI: Captain America's been torn apart. Now he's a court jester with a broken heart. He said "turn me around and take me back to the start". I must be losing my mind "are you blind?" I've seen it all a million times.
EVERYONE: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Take. Me. Home, yeah yeah. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me home.
Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Take. Me. Home, yeah yeah. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. Oh won't you please take me home, home.
As soon as the song was over it was dinner time "Kids the burgers are ready!" Stu called and they climbed down from the treehouse and headed straight for the dinner table. While they were eating Tommy and Kimi looked at the sun setting in the sky.
"Oh man, that's beautiful." She said.
"Yeah" said Tommy.
Kimi then looked at Tommy and blushed a bit. "Tommy do you think we'll grow old together?" She asked and Tommy stroked her hair.
"Of course, I'll be here for you and love you always no matter what the consequences are" he said and she smiled. "And I know tomorrow might be a little rough but again I'll be there for you." He said and they both shared a small kiss.
September 3rd, 2011 (the next day)
Kimi got changed and decided to leave her hair down instead of putting it in her usual pigtails. She was pretty nervous about the first day but remembered what Tommy said the other night which boosted her confidence.
Later on Kimi grabbed her bag and walked downstairs and outside where Chuckie was waiting in his 1969 Volkswagen Bus. She got in and sat in the back so Tommy could be next to her. Chuckie then drove off to go pick up Tommy, Dil, and Phil. Again, it was obvious that Lil was with her other 'friends'.
They pulled up to the school and collected their new schedules and headed into the auditorium for the first day of school ceremony. They all hated it but since it was their last year they didn't care. All except for Dil that is.
"Good morning everyone and welcome back to school, I hope you all had a great summer!" announced Principal Vendor. Kimi was relieved "Damn, he looks a lot better than Pangborn." She whispered to the others and laughed quietly. "Ok, here are the announcements for today, first, the new schedules were handed out and if you haven't got yours yet then please do after the assembly. Second, we have some new teachers and a new vice principal this year. For Math, Mr. Pickles, for music Mrs. Finster and for gym, English, and science, Mr. Pickles, Mrs. Pickles, and Mrs. Palmore." Tommy, Kimi, and Chuckie looked at each other shocked, why the hell were their parents working at school?
"Oh God please nothing else bad" said Tommy angrily.
"And now for our new vice principal, please welcome Mr. Pangborn." Tommy, Kimi, Chuckie, Phil, and Dil's eyes bugged out. "No!" they all thought.
"That is all from me, and now I'll leave a few words for Mr. Pangborn." He said.
"Thank you Mr. Vendor" said Pangborn "Hello kids, I am your new vice principal and I…" he soon went on and until the first bell rang. Tommy looked at his schedule and saw that he had Math with his Grandpa Lou first.
"Please Grandpa don't notice me…" Tommy said to himself. At least Kimi was with him in the first class.
"Good morning class I'm your new math teacher Louis Pickles, and I am the grandfather of Tommy Pickles. Everyone laughed at Tommy and he blushed red with embarrassment. Afte rmath, Tommy was the first one out of class and he headed straight for the gym, but he forgot who the teacher was.
Meanwhile Kimi was walking through the hall when suddenly a spitball hit the back of her head and then and another, soon her head was nearly covered with spitballs. She looked around and tried to see who did it but there was no one besides some knuckleheads she didn't recognize laugh at her and ran away. Kimi then ran to the gymnasium where Tommy was waiting, he was horrified that Kimi's head was nearly covered in spitballs.
"I'm sorry Kimi, I should've been there" he said sadly.
Kimi sighed "It's ok Tommy, I thought you weren't in the mood to talk so I didn't want to bother you." They both hugged and Kimi went to take the spitballs out of her hair and then headed to her next class while Tommy went into the locker room to get changed for gym.
When Tommy was changed he went into the gym with the other students and then he saw who the teacher was. "Oh God, why me?" he thought to himself.
"Morning class welcome to your first day of gym, I'm Stu Pickles, Tommy's father." Some snickered at this as Tommy hid himself behind a taller student. An hour after gym it was recess time (and yes, high schools can have recess too), Tommy was glad to get away from his family for a bit to hang out with his friends in the commons. Both Tommy and Kimi were having a bit of a bad day so far.
"So where did those spitballs come from?" asked Phil.
"I dunno, probably from some stupid dickhead." She said as Tommy put his arm around her. Just then from out of nowhere a rotten tomato came at Kimi's head. Tommy pushed her out of the way and got hit so hard in the chest it knocked him to the ground. Kimi and the others helped Tommy up.
"Tommy are you alright?" she asked.
"Ugh, I guess" he said and sniffed himself. "Oh fuck, this is my favorite shirt!" he said angrily "WHO THREW IT?" Tommy shouted which put the whole cafeteria in dead silence.
"Me" said a familiar voice.
"Lil?" all five of them said at the same time.
"Oh yeah that's right Tommy Pickles, I did it because that bitch of yours deserved it!" she said angrily. But the five of them were angry at her, she saw the looks on their faces and backed out of the lunch room.
"Yeah that's right, just walk away!" shouted Dil.
Then the bell rang and the rugrats went to their next class, Tommy and Kimi were happy that Phil and Chuckie had music with them. As they walked down the hallway Kimi kissed Tommy happily.
"Wow Kimi what's the occasion?" he asked.
"For saving me from that tomato" she said and hugged him.
When they got into music Chuckie and Kimi were shocked to see their mother was the teacher, at least Tommy wasn't the only one.
"Hello class, my name is Kira Wattanabe Finster, I'm Chuckie and Kimi's mother." She said. Tommy, Kimi, Chuckie, and Phil sat next to each other and today they learned about Japanese music.
Soon it was time for fourth period science with Mrs. Palmore. No one minded her because she wasn't related to any of the students. Science was pretty ok for the most part, at least they got a break this time but they probably were not going to look forward to their next class.
Next was fifth period English with a teacher that Tommy and Dil were probably going to dread the most. "Hello there, class , welcome to your first day of English. I'm Mrs. Pickles and I am Tommy and Dil's mother. Luckily no one laughed this time since most of Tommy and Dil's classmates were people they knew from middle school.
After school
After two more classes it was time for school to end and everyone couldn't have waited any longer for it to end. The 5 rugrats were back in Chucki's van and decided to hang out at Tommy and Dil's house.
"Man that day couldn't have ended any faster," said Dil.
"You said it man" Phil agreed.
"Hey shut up man, you're lucky you don't have any of your relatives as your teachers!" said Chuckie.
Phil smiled "Yeah I know"