Breakfast

The autumn leaves started to fall as the sun rose up from the horizon. The cold breeze blowing through the open window as an 86 year old Kim Possible sat up from her bed. Her body aching from the cold as it told her that a new day was already starting and it was time for her to get up. It was so much different as to when she was younger because then she was able to sleep through the morning but now that she has lived through those years, she has learned that time was not to be wasted.

Time had been good to her as she was able to live a full life. She experienced and enjoyed a lot of things like no one ever has. She's travelled around the world more times than she could count, fought super villains left and right and she has even saved the world on more than one occasion. It's was a very colourful life and yet she could still feel that there was something missing from all of it.

Slowly she stood up from her bed and walked towards the window of her room. Each step harder than the first but with time and determination she was able to reach her goal. It took her a couple of minutes to catch her breath after that but as soon as she did, she gently opened it and peeked at the sight outside.

The leaves of the trees glided playfully through the air as they flew down towards the grass covered earth. It was a sight to behold and as her eyes followed them down her gaze was drawn by the colourful flowers that adorned the entire garden. Just like the scene from her dream, it was the garden she always wanted to have for the dream house she was going to share with her own family.

She felt a pang of hurt when the word "Family" came to mind. She couldn't think of what it was but the word echoed in her head. It was like there was something she needed to remember, something very important that she forgot and now she couldn't remember what it was. As she tried to recall her past, she remembered her mom and dad plus Jim and Tim but other than them and her friends, she couldn't remember if she had a family of her own. Try as she might all she could remember were the accomplishments of the past years but nothing about her personal life.

"I might not have had one." She quietly said to herself as tried to think of a reason or an excuse as to why she couldn't remember anything about it.

She tried to tell herself that she might have been too busy with her life or that it might not have been safe to have a family of her own due to the super villains she fought but the tears that started to roll down her cheeks told her of a different story. They rolled down slowly at first but as Kim continued to try and think about it the more tears rolled down her cheeks. It felt like a knife that was stabbed to her heart and the more she tried to think about the reason she couldn't remember any of it the more it sank in.

She was still lost in her thoughts when a figure stood at her door and called her attention.

"Good morning." A cheery voice greeted from behind her.

This snapped Kim out of her trance and made her wipe away the tears in her face before turning around to face the person who spoke. Standing at the door of her room was a man no younger than her and he wore the brightest smile she had ever seen. It gave off a warm and comforting feeling that it made her calm down instantly. It felt to her like it was safe to be with this person and that there was nothing to worry about when he was with her.

It was strange for her to think that way as she couldn't recall who he was. There was something in that smile though that seemed all too familiar to her and yet she couldn't figure out what it was. After a couple of seconds, when she was able to recompose herself, she returned the smile and greeted the person at the door.

"Good morning."She replied with a smile.

"Are you hungry? I've already made breakfast." The person informed her as he leaned on the door frame of the door. Kim tried to think about it but she couldn't focus on the question as her eyes started to scan the person in front of her. He was well built, has lean body like an athlete but the way he carried himself showed that he wasn't. Try as she might she couldn't remember meeting someone like him so she did the most logical thing she could think of.

"I don't mean to be rude but who are you?" Kim politely asked while trying to hide her embarrassment.

The man she was talking to froze in his spot and wasn't able to immediately answer her question. It seemed that he expected her to know who he was so the question she asked came as a surprise. Kim tried to avert her gaze due to embarrassment but the hurt in the man's eyes didn't escape her. It felt to her that she did something wrong and that she offended him but before she could apologize, he spoke up.

"Don't be embarrassed. People always tend to forget my name and let's just blame it on our age." The man jokingly replied before following it up with a heartfelt laughter. Kim tried to laugh with him but she couldn't. She still felt that she had wrong him by forgetting who he was but try as she might, she couldn't recall who he was.

"Come on, let's get down to the kitchen or else breakfast will get cold." The man told her before moving aside and gesturing her to walk first.

"Such a gentleman," Kim jokingly replied as she walked passed him.

She tried to hide her blushing face from his view but she knew that she failed miserably at it. Lucky for her he was a true gentleman and said nothing about it, instead he simply guided her down to the kitchen. It took them only a couple seconds until they got down to the kitchen. Her nose assaulted by the scent of bacon and eggs plus some other food that she was sure she knew. True enough when she saw the food that he had prepared, it looked exactly like the breakfast Ann always prepared for them.

"I thought maybe you should enjoy the breakfast you used to have." The man told her as he pulled out a chair for her to sit on.

Kim was so surprised by what she saw prepared on the table that it took her a second or two before she sat down on the chair that was offered. As soon as she was properly seated, the man started to fill her plate with some bacon and eggs plus some pancakes with maple syrup. She was about to tell him that she could do it herself when she noticed that he was so familiar with what he was doing that the proportion he was putting on her plate was exactly what she wanted.

Everything was how she wanted it to be starting from the quantity of the food on her plate to the taste of the food in her mouth, everything was perfect. She wanted to complement him on his cooking but she couldn't help herself but finish what was on her plate first. As she continued to savour what he had prepared memories of when she ate breakfast with her family came flooding back.

"I used to eat this with my family… and my best friend Ron." Kim told her host after swallowing down what she was chewing. The man simply nodded in reply and waited for her to continue what she was about to say. Kim sighed deep before continuing what she was about to tell him.

"This was the food my mom always made for us. I enjoyed it so much that my best friend promised he'll find out how Mom makes it and that he'll be the one to cook it for me every day." Kim told him as she continued on with her eating.

The man sat quietly opposite her as he watched her eat. He didn't say a word after that but instead he just busied himself by watching her. Contented with doing nothing but memorizing the way she looked with that smile on her face. She was happy and so was he.

"This is really good." Kim commented afterwards.

The man smiled at her compliment and then offered her some more. It was a very tempting offer but she tried to think of her host. He hasn't eaten anything since she started and it would be rude if she was the only one eating.

"I couldn't. Not until you've had some yourself." Kim said as she politely declined his offer.

"I tasted it so much to make it perfect that I'm already full." The man replied as he moved the plate of food closer to her.

"My best friend told me that food taste better when you eat it with someone else." Kim told him before she placed the spoon full of eggs into her mouth.

Her host wasn't able to say anything in reply and instead was forced to join her in eating what he had cooked. He filled his plate with some bacon and eggs while leaving out the pancakes behind. Kim noticed this making her unconsciously push the plate of pancakes closer to him.

They ate quietly after that until her host spoke up.

"He seems like a wise man." He told her after finishing up his meal.

"He is and I've love him for that for as long as I can remember." Kim replied as she stared at the view outside the kitchen's open window.

She was lost in her thoughts once more so she wasn't able to see the glint of hurt in his eyes. A mix emotion of joy and sorrow, hurt among all of it. There were so many things to say but there was no way to say it, a lot to explain and yet no heart to push through with it.

Author's Note:

It's been a while since I started writing this story and now I have finally written it down.. Hope you guys like it.. ^^ Please read and review..