KISS : Tommy's New Space Lady

Reunited

It was another typical day at the block of units Ellie lived at. Other tenants going off, arguing and yelling. Music being played too loudly for her to think, and three other tenants down the hall she had her unit, calling her names, and accusing her of anything that they could think of. Ellie had gone to the manager of the complex so many times, but even he just shrugged it off. She even had things taken or damaged from her unit room. Her best friend, who was only a couple of rooms down from hers, was even in line of the trouble there.

"Every day, it's the same thing!" Ellie said, as she tried to recover from the latest attack. "And now, there's another inspection coming up!" Ellie usually kept the room she had, as best that she was able to. And each week, she would do a full load of her laundry, and let it dry under the fan, on a clothes rack she used. It was because she didn't trust easily, that she hung her clothes to dry in her room. Once when she had done her laundry, she had taken her clothes out, and taken them to her room, as usual. When she got to a shirt of her favorite band, she found it slashed and torn. So, from that day on, Ellie always kept an eye on the washing machine. Jax was always looking out for her, as they had been best friends for the last fifteen years.

"I know, we need to get the rooms up to 'their' standards..." Jax replied. By 'their' standards, Jax had meant that their rooms had to be as if no-one lived there. Even though Jax had to work each day that he was scheduled on for.

Inspection day came, and Jax had not been able to keep his job, and get his unit room ready for inspection. And Ellie had just come from her chemotherapy overnight treatments. So, she had to go out and get her shopping done in the morning, and make it back in time to get her laundry done for that day. The afternoon manager came up, just five minutes after Ellie had made it back and was starting to put her food away.

"Room Inspections!" Came the afternoon manager's voice. As Ellie hadn't been able to close her door yet, Cathy came straight to the door, and noticed the food that Ellie was trying to get organized.
"Hey, sorry. I only just got back from my chemo, and getting the shopping done." Ellie tried to explain.

"Well, your washing needs getting to, and the floors need cleaning!" Cathy stated, in a not so nice way.

"I know, I was hoping to come home and..." Ellie started to explain again.

"I don't care what you had to do, this is going down as a fail on your residency." Cathy remarked, and walked out to Jax's room. Having had to work the previous night, all Ellie heard from Cathy at his room, as she announce the inspection of his room, was her voice telling Jax that he had to open his door, swearing at him, as she did so. As he opened his door, the next thing Ellie heard, shocked her.

"I don't see how I should fail, when I've been working!" Jax argued.

"Well, you can pack your stuff!" Cathy told him.

"What!? Why?!" Jax retorted.

"For failure to open the door," Cathy started to tell him.

"I was asleep!" Jax said, angrily.

"For non-compliance of keeping the room to code," She want on.

"How can I when I've been working!?" He argued again.

"And getting snarky with me." And with that, Cathy walked off, to continue the inspections. Ellie had heard and had enough of the situation. Her best friend was being evicted, and she was not going to stay there, without her friend. So they made a plan, to get new places for them to rent and reside at.

The band were getting ready to leave the airport, to go to the hotel. Tommy and Paul would take one car, and Gene and Eric would take the other. They were set to do the concert at the local stadium tomorrow night, and were going to make their last day soundchecks, before the show. Their manager Doc, went with Paul and Tommy.

"You gonna sing 'Beth', tomorrow night?" Gene asked Eric out of the blue.

"Fucked if I know what Paul's gonna let me do..." He replied. Tommy and Eric said that they needed to get some new supplies before the concert, tomorrow night. So they would take  one of the cars, and go to the shopping centre.

"What's up, little buddy?" Gene asked his friend and band mate.

"Huh? Oh, nothing really." Eric answered him. "Just wondering about something." They reached the hotel, and Doc checked everyone in. After everyone settled in to the rooms, they made their way to the stadium for final soundchecks. Everything was going great, and they got it all sorted out. No-one was to make any adjustments after they had it all down. Tommy and Eric let the others know that they would meet them all back at the hotel, and went on their way to the shopping centre.

Meanwhile, Jax and Ellie had just gotten their new accommodations sorted out. Jax would go to where he was going to be set up next, to sort out what he needed to there. Ellie said that was fine, and said she'd meet up with him later. They parted ways, and because she still had some of her advanced money in her account, Ellie went to the shopping centre, to get some snacks for herself. As she made her way around the shops, a man came up to her from behind.

"Well, well, well... Out without your new fuck?" He said, meaning her best friend. Ellie recognised the voice. "Uh uh uh, no alerting everyone else here." He said, as she was about to get the attention of some people walking past.

"What do you want, Michael?" She replied, lowly but angrily.

"I want you to come back. I'll help you with the management, and you can stay and be my loyal little girlfriend again." He answered her. She had broken it with him, when he fooled and flirted with other women.

"Why should I?" She seethed at him. "So you can go right back to keeping me on the side, as you play around with other girls?!" Ellie went on angrily, getting the attention of onlookers. "No! You can leave me alone, because as of tomorrow, I will be leaving that place!"

"Says who?" Michael retorted. "Let me talk with the managers, I'll smooth things over for you."

"Go back to hell, Michael! And back to your father, and fuck buddies there!" Ellie said, frustrated. She turned to leave, and Michael was just about to grab her, when they both heard a voice behind him.

"Hey, my space babe! Glad you could meet us here." The voice said, as the person it belonged to, came up to Ellie and wrapped his hand around her waist.

"I think it best you leave now." Said another voice. Ellie looked at who it was, that had rescued her from her creep ex boyfriend. She almost squealed with delight, when she saw a face she had not seen, for the longest time.

"Tommy! Oh my god!" She exclaimed. Tommy and her had grown up almost next to each other, when her mother lived in the states, with her father. Her parents however divorced when she was sixteen. And because she was not of legal age to be on her own without being emancipated, her mother moved back to Australia and took Ellie with her.

"It's been a while, beautiful." Tommy said to her as they embraced. Michael knowing who they were, was shocked that Ellie knew some highly named people.

"It has been a long time, spunky!" Ellie quipped to him. Then she leaned up to him and asked him to play along, in front of her ex. Tommy gladly agreed.

"Come here, sexy. Give your spaceman some sugar." Tommy said to her as he leaned down to kiss her. As Ellie was only one hundred and seventy two centimetres tall, Tommy was just a little taller than her, as he was one hundred and eighty nine centimetres tall. Michael watched them, as Tommy kissed her, and Ellie kissed him back.

"So, you go off at me, and accuse me of playing you," Michael began. "Yet, here you are, cheating me!" Ellie broke the kiss, and turned to him.

"That's because you were, asshole!" She replied, angry at him still. "And because of your cheating ways, we broke up! Remember?"

"Come on sweetheart, you don't need to waste the time." Eric said. "Besides, you, Tommy, and I have a lot to catch up on."

"You're right, Eric." Ellie agreed, and took Tommy's arm. All three of them then left Michael standing there, speechless.