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Chapter 3: A Bit Uneasy
Russell stood outside of his boss's office, nervously thinking if he should enter. After careful consideration, Russell knocked on the door and proceeded inside.
"Sir I-" Russell froze as he glimpsed at two men dressed in white suits wearing dark shades sitting in the seats in front of his boss's desk.
"Ah Russell!" The man behind the desk spoke. "I'm glad you came. I was just about to fetch for you. Come in."
"I'm deeply sorry to intrude Mr. Hench sir" Russell said before Jack Hench, the creator of Hench-Co, stood before the men. Hench walked towards his employee shortening the distance between them.
"No harm done. Now I presume you came to speak to me about Operation BZB, am I right?" Hench said patting Russell in the back walking with him towards the desk and motion for him to take the empty seat next to the men in white.
"Indeed… Sir but if I came at a bad time-" Russell said.
"No actually you couldn't have come at a more perfect time. You see these are the people who are paying us to proceed with this operation" Hench said smiling. Russell timidly glanced at the men next to him. "Russell, this is Agent O and K from the Guys in White. Agents O and K this is my employee who is leading the Operation, Russell Butch."
"Nice to meet you" Russell said.
"What is the update on the operation" Agent O spoke directing himself to Jack.
"We need a status update to bring back to our superiors, the American tax payers money will not be wasted Hench. We need results" Agent K said.
"And you will" Jack said looking at Russell. "What's the update?"
"Well sir" Russell began "As I told you before the subject has went on a mission with Kim Possible."
"Yes…" Hench said. "I remember, and…?"
"After looking more in detail on the subject, we found them hanging out at Bueno Nacho and enlightening us on this."
Russell handed Jack a paper of Kim's transfer acceptance to Middleton U.
"It appears she plans to return to the Middleton."
"Any idea why?" Hench said trying to control his rising temper.
"None sir" Russell responded.
"You'd guaranteed us Kim Possible wasn't going to an issue Mr. Hench" Agent K said.
"She won't" Hench said calmly. "A problem is just a misunderstood opportunity."
Directing himself to Russell Hench spoke. "Russell, here what I need you to do….."
KP…
The ride to Ron's home was the most awkward ride Kim has ever been in. As she sat in the passenger seat of Ron's mother's car she couldn't help but feel unease, knowing this was the same car that was used to drive her to the orthodontist when she and Walter Nelson locked braces years ago. And Ron's over precautious driving wasn't making Kim feel any better.
Finally reaching the Stoppable house, Kim and Ron dashed themselves out of the car and to the front door. As Ron grabbed his keys out of pocket to open the door Kim couldn't stop thinking about 'Danielle.'
"Dani!" Ron said opening the door. Kim was the first to enter seeing a girl around the tweebs age in footie pajamas with her raven black hair a mess walking down the stairs.
"Ron I told you I could handle it. You didn't need to end your-" The girl stopped as he dark blue eyes gazed at Kim.
"Sorry Kiddo but you know me" Ron said putting his keys on the key holder and tossing his sweater side.
"Hey isn't she…?" Danielle was about to ask when Ron interrupted.
"Danielle this Kim, Kim meet Danielle" Ron said.
"But you can call me Dani with an I" Danielle quickly stepped in smiling walking towards them.
"Hi!" she waved.
"Uh, Hi" Kim said smiling.
"Anyway" Ron said looking at Danielle "How's Han?"
"She's fine" Danielle said "I did exactly what you said to do on the phone. I told you I could handle it."
"You sure didn't sound like you could when you called me" Ron said grinning.
"I was worried okay" Danielle countered somewhat embarrassed. "This was the longest I've stayed with Hana"
"It's all good Kiddo" Ron said hugging Danielle. "Now I think it's time for you to get some rest. I'll be up later after Kim leaves okay?"
Danielle smiled hugging Ron back. "Fine but there better not be a make-up make-out session because-."
"Night Danielle" Ron said making Kim giggle a bit seeing Ron blush at Dani's comment.
"I'm going Ron" Danielle pouted. "Night."
"Night" Kim responded still chucking from her last comment. As Danielle walked upstairs Kim and Ron took a seat on the couch.
"She seems like sweet kid" Kim said taking a seat on the couch. Ron followed Kim's lead and took a seat next to her.
"She sure grows on you" Ron said looking at the staircase. "She's only been here two months and I can't even imagine her anywhere but here. I'm sure once you get to know her Kim, you'll get what I mean."
"No doubt Ron but can I ask you something?" Kim said.
"Sure, what up?" Ron asked.
"Why haven't you told me about her till just now? " Kim asked.
Ron stared at Kim, her green eyes looked hurt.
"It just never seemed to come up" Ron said shrugging his shoulders.
Kim blinked, startled at Ron's response.
"What do you mean it never came up?" Kim said sounding irked.
"I mean you were always so…busy" Ron said sounding irritated when he spoke. "I called, I texted, and every time I did you were always …busy."
Kim couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Ron we lived in different time-zones!" Kim said "I thought we talked about that when we …"
Ron cut Kim off, letting his eyes show the annoyance he was feeling. "I know Kim, after we broke up you told me the same thing. 'We living in different zones, school comes first …blah, blah, blah. I don't need a repeat of it Kim."
Kim, bewildered by Ron's unusual behavior, became a little heated herself.
"So just because I wasn't able to talk to you like you wanted you didn't tell me about Danielle?" She said folding her arms on her chest.
"Kim you were never there anymore!" Ron screamed. Trying to maintain his cool to not wake up Hana he continued to speak more calmly. "You weren't ever there when I needed you Kim. You never seem to care anymore about me or frankly…us."
Kim didn't say anything, she was too stunned.
"Kim you were the only person I wanted more than anything to be able to talk to when I needed someone but…." Ron said
"Is that why you didn't me about your parent's death?!" Kim snapped. Ron bewildered himself stood his ground.
"No that's not…"
"Than what Ron!" Kim said "Why didn't you-"
"Because I didn't want to hurt you like you hurt me!" Ron said getting up from his seat.
Kim looked at Ron with a baffled expression.
"You didn't wanna hurt me?" Kim said not comprehending.
"I loved you Kim!" Ron said "I…loved you and I would never let you go through the pain you made me feel the past two months! Do you know the pain,the hurt, the agonizing feeling of having your heart ripped out by someone you loved?"
Kim just sat there not being able to utter a sound.
"No you don't" Ron said. "that's why I didnt tell you. You... You were in finals and... and I did I want you to fail because of it. "
Before kim could say anything Ron continued.
"My parent's death was hard for me Kim. I have never felt so much pain put together. And the only person I wanted by my side to help me through this and tell things were going to get better was... was you. And you now what the worst part of all of this was?
That when I tried telling you, my so called best friend, remember what you told me?"
Kim did remember but regardless Ron said it anyway
"'Ron it's 3 in the morning, this has better be good' that's what you said." Ron said letting some tears fall down his face. "Not a 'Ron is everything okay?' or "what's the sitch?" Nothin' all I got was 'it better be good' because your loser of an ex-boyfriend had nothing better to do than to talk to his supposedly best friend about something stupid at three a.m.!"
Ron covered his face as he tried his best to control his emotions. Kim, with an emotionless expression, stood up and walked herself to the door.
"Kim wait" Ron said but it was too late.
"I'm sorry I hurt you so much Ron. Even though you don't love me anymore I …do and I …would never do anything to hurt you on purpose" Kim said trying to hide the hurt she was feeling before closing the door.
Ron plopped himself on the couch again covering his face letting the tears fall down.
KP…
Danielle saw the whole thing as she floated intangible in the living room. The last time she had seen Ron so hurt was a few days ago at the funeral. She floated outside the house to see Kim crossing the street. Kim reached her house, Kim rested her back on the wall letting her back slide down. When she was fully sat on the floor she covered her face. Danielle knew she was crying...
