Heaven in Hell
Struggle
Dancing, sex, fighting… once you have them down, it was all the same. It's all about interacting correctly with your partner. Keep an eye on their moves, learning everything about them. Learn where you should touch, whether for leading, sharing pleasure or causing pain. On the outside, the three activities were remarkably different, but from the thespians' perspective, the level of intimacy was easily recognizable.
"Freeeaaky, isn't it?" One of the thespians asked, holding a three-segmented nunchaku in her hands.
The other had to nod approvingly, but also smirked. "Will it be enough?"
For someone like Kim Possible, the three activities were pretty much: "Been there, done that". And while this particular one was her least favorite, anyone could tell that fighting was her best field so far. Experienced fighters like Kim's previous recurrent foes, Monkey Fist and Shego (this one as her ally nowadays), could confirm that. The same applied to today's foes, which she currently faced.
"Like… the table turned?" The other criminal asked confidently. She and Ron were keeping each other's foe busy.
"Show her, KP!"
Determined to follow her friend's advice, Kim charged forward, keeping a firm eye on her enemy's moves to evade the dangerous weapon at the right time, and so she did… getting an opening on her opponent, who barely but successfully managed to elude the redhead's punch as well, locking her arm in the weapon.
Both combatants remained struggling for a moment. Kim trying to release her arm, the blonde thief trying to make her stay like that for… whatever purpose she'd had in mind, since apparently, said blonde woman had already forgotten about it as well.
"Something freaky is on your mind, isn't it?" She asked the teen hero, based on her experience having fought her so often.
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"Shut up!" Agni snapped at Roderick before attacking again. 'Something on my mind!?' Like hell! 'Yeah, your bleeding corpse sounds like a good image to have in mind!'
The brunette boxing champ blocked two of the pale teen's strikes before jumping backwards and then back forward, landing a punch that, even though she blocked it, sent Agni against the ropes, again.
"You're not even looking at me!" He lectured her "Your head is anywhere but in this match!"
'Shut the FUCK up!' She stared back at him. "Yeah? So will yours, literally, if you don't watch it carefully, so get ready!!"
For the twelfth time (Roderick kept track), Agni acted based on nothing but instinct, fury and stress. Her moves were easy to read, easy to block and even easier to evade. Stepping sideways and then landing a kick on her back, complementing the green girl's own impulse, was being boringly easy for him.
'DARN IT! I only need him to be still for one moment!'
So easy that it worried him.
Even someone who was not a fighter could tell that Agni really wasn't experiencing one of her best moments.
"Agni, pull yourself together already!" Uriel ordered her, standing close to the ring "If you're going to keep going like this, then it's worthless to keep training!"
"SHUT the hell UP!" She retorted before regaining her balance and taking her fighting stance again. 'What the fuck does he know?! He's not the one fighting up here!'
'This isn't good' Both Roderick and Uriel thought simultaneously.
"Do I have your help or what?" Xun asked Uriel. The poor coach was having the worst headache of the week having to deal with both girls at the same time.
"Yeah, yeah… dating advices," he replied, though still kept his eyes on the fight. "What was the problem again?"
Roderick and Uriel had a sort of silent understanding. Uriel had been coaching him for more than a year already and Roderick knew his coach had, for some reason, a special concern for the daughter of Miss Go. So in a way, they were both trying to find a way to solve this… awkward and problematical situation.
"Who asked me out," Xun stated.
He blinked. "Wait, what? Am I supposed to tell you?"
"Agni couldn't help, So either. Joss told me to go for it, but I wanted a second opinion."
So either? "Yeah, well, what's the problem with just giving him, whoever he is, a chance, anyway?"
Right now it seemed that Roderick was trying to exhaust Agni. Good thinking, he communicated to the brunette kick-boxer with a gesture, encouraging him to keep doing that.
They were both forgetting the pale girl's superior stamina, though. 'I'll show you now, you braggart!'
"Who! Not Whoever!" Xun corrected him. In Uriel's opinion, someone definitely should write a dictionary to translate English to "Xun" and vice-versa. "And the problem is that… he seems to be problematic, but mysterious as well, so I really can't find out anything about him."
"Find out who he hangs out with, find out who his friends are," Uriel replied, and then fully focused on the blonde girl to tell her the following words. "If even they don't know about him… then I really don't think you should go out with him."
He might not be their older brother or anything, but Uriel certainly acted like one for Xun, Joss and even Agni plenty of times, and the idea of one of his "little sisters" going out with a person whose personal information seemed almost classified certainly didn't please him.
"Uriel!" Xun suddenly exclaimed, interrupting the coach's moment of reflection.
"What?"
Xun pointed at the ring "Roddy landed a good one on Agni and…"
"…she lost it," He finished for her upon seeing the pale teen's stress had reached the point of blinding fury. Her gloves had already melted due to the green flames now covering her hands. "Roderick! Get the hell out of there!"
But the brunette kick-boxer didn't back away. Instead, he ran forward towards his opponent, tempting a heart-attack for anyone watching the match. Like a beast out of control, Agni tried to scratch that arrogant-incompetent-gloating-IDIOT"s face, but missed as Roderick stopped and bent backward 'til he landed with his back on the ring's platform, raising both legs to meet with the green girl's stomach and, once again, taking advantage of his rival's own impulse to throw her around, this time with all of his might, sending her flying outside of the ring.
Nobody even tried to catch Agni to save her from the hard fall. They were all too worried about for their own lives like to dare get in the way. She fell – hard –, bounced, and fell again, not waiting a second to rise again, just to be stopped by the only present person that, could she have done it, would have caught her in midair.
"Please, stop!" Xun cried, hugging her tightly while keeping her sitting on the ground, face buried on her pale shoulder, and kept begging her to stop.
Agni could barely listen to the blonde's pleas. Her blood was practically boiling! She had been stressed for the last twenty-something hours, always unable to think of anything but the same-goddamn-thing, and she'd been waiting for this chance at the Kickboxing Club to relieve some of her stress, just to have Mr. Undefeatable stress her out even MORE!? Like HELL she was going to have it that way! She was going to beat the crap out of Roderick! She would teach him the lesson of his life! She-
"AGNI!"
The scream came with a hand – Uriel's hand – suddenly grabbing her right arm and stopping its movement. And just then she realized she was just about to grab her blonde by the shoulder and move her away from her… while her hands where still ablaze.
And the blonde kept begging her to stop while holding her so tightly it was slightly complicating her breathing. In Agni's mind's… there were two things now: Her fury, and Xun.
'…odd'
The emerald flames dissipated, and Uriel let go of the arm. Xun's eyes opened wide upon feeling Agni's arm on her shoulder again. The entire gym fell in silence for a moment. Xun cried.
"Heh, stupid girl…"
"Not as stupid as you, Vertelle!"
Looking up, Agni's green eyes meet with Roderick's black ones. He was just as serious as her coach had been seconds ago, but she knew his wasn't going to just go away.
She snorted, and that alone would tell Roderick just how much attention she was paying him. Trying to ignore the fact that he was acting just like hispsychoanalyst father, he picked up a chair in the gym and sat there in front of her, legs spread and arms resting on them.
"Look, I know you well enough to tell that it's more likely for you to commit suicide right here than tell me just what the hell is going on with you." He paused, if only to make sure she was listening. "But if you are going to be like this, then at least have enough consideration like to skip these classes, which are not here for venting your stress and where you are putting people in danger"
"Don't worry," Uriel said, catching the kick-boxer's attention. "I'll make sure of that."
The green-skinned teen muffed, and practically growled like a dog when Uriel caressed her head as if she was a kitten of sorts. Instantly after that, the coach clapped his hands twice to catch everyone's attention. "All right, people. Practice is over for today!"
"You heard the man!" Roderick agreed while standing up to, like his friend, speak that to everyone. Inasmuch as there was some authority around the Kickboxing Club, that was the two of them.
Everyone went to pick up their things, including Xun and Agni. Roderick waited where he stood to get a moment alone with the club's coach…
"Please, check her out" …if only to say a few words with him. "I'm really starting to get worried"
"I will," Uriel assured, turning her head to look at his green-skinned friend, who was putting her club equipment in her bag.
She looked, if only, a bit calmer now. He wouldn't risk guessing, but if he had to make a theory, he'd said Agni must have been building up that stress for quite a long time for it to finally explode like this today.
Little did he know… it was from just yesterday.
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"Time?" Agni had asked yesterday.
Kim wanted… time to think about it? Well, time sounded reasonable.
"Yes, time" Kim confirmed, "I… really need to sort out my head. Right now, Agni… I really don't think I could give you a good answer" If any, she added in her mind.
Yeah, time sounded understandable.
But that didn't help it from being irksome beyond belief!
"How much time?" The younger woman asked without thinking.
The redhead closed her eyes for a moment, trying to think of an answer, but… "I don't know" …was the only one she could give. "I promise I won't make you wait long, but… please, try to understand."
Agni nodded, if only because Kim had said please. Not really because of the "please", though, but because it was from Kim.
But deep inside, she felt like she had backstabbed herself. So much for facing her feelings in order to put an end to this silent anguish of hers, and now it was worse!
'I really am an idiot…'
"But please," she called, while she still had the courage "Don't… don't hold back just because you don't want to hurt me"
"It's not like I want to reject you!" Kim instantly retorted.
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"That's… not it!" Kim replied to the thief she was fighting. After all, there wasn't something on her mind.
'But I digress,' She reflected, 'Got two enemies to focus on now!'
Two that, some months ago, she'd never thought she'd face like this.
It had been a quick call from Wade to which Kim and Ron were fortunate to be able to respond just in time. The Golden Jubilee, one of the biggest diamonds in the world, had been stolen in Thailand and Wade had a transport ready to follow the tracks left by the thieves. It followed them to the outskirts of a city where they caught up with them in the middle of a forest: The battle's current setting.
The thief? The new typical duo:
"Oh, really? Then prove it!" Adrena Lynn exclaimed, releasing Kim's arm from her new weapon but breaking her defense in the process, leaving her open to receive a kick in the stomach that sent her to crash against a close tree.
'Damn, she is getting stronger!'
She had no idea of what it could be, but whatever Lynn and her partner were undergoing, it sure worked out.
Kim ducked just in time to avoid the weapon's horizontal attack, and then charged forward pushing the blonde thief into the ground, but moving away from her as soon as she noticed Lynn was counterattacking.
Ron caught her up and helped her regain her almost lost balance as she gained distance from her enemy… but then she felt Ron pushing her away right before raising his leg to kick her on the face. Although stunned for a moment, Kim managed to catch sight of another Ron standing not too far away from there, and then everything made sense.
The teen hero raised her arm just in time to block "Ron"'s next assault and quickly counterattacked with a fist right to the face that not only sent her enemy down to the ground, but also broke that person's concentration and thus, dispelling those irksome shape-shifting abilities.
"Ouchy!" Camille Leon, now back on her real appearance, complained "I was, like, close?"
"Try harder" The redhead replied before focusing back on Lynn, who was already back on her feet.
Almost as fast, Camille stood back up to face Ron once again.
"So, what's on her mind?" She asked slyly.
"Nothing's on her mind!" He replied before attempting to land a hit, which as unusual as it was, Camille managed to block sending a don't-gimme-that look his way. He stepped back… and sighed. "You can tell?"
"Girl stuff," the ex-socialite, now professional thief, replied while 'fixing' her hair. "And as for it being so private, I can tell even it's not just something, but someone."
"Yeah, heh-heh, sure" He replied, trying to play the ignorant. "Now just who could that be?"
Camille's reply to him came by her suddenly using her powers to take the appearance of a certain green-skinned woman he knew well enough, just like her nanotech-jumpsuit turned into the very well known black and green cat-suit.
"Oh, no! You did not just do that!"
"So I'm like… exactly right, uh?" She replied, managing to even imitate Shego's voice, though not much of her choice of words. "They are back to biz-ness!"
She emphasized the last word with a side-kick, which Ron instinctively avoided. Not because of battle instincts, but because of the image of Shego.
"Ah-AH!" He exclaimed, gesturing with his index finger. "You're wrong! It's not Shego, but Shego's daughter!"
And that allowed him to see an expression he never thought he'd see on Shego's face. Kinda made him proud, but… "Shego's… daughter!?"
…but that allowed him to realize that his attempt of mocking her by shoving how wrong she was right on her face had backfired… and "critically" didn't even begin to describe it.
"Oh, yeah. I heard it on the net. She, like, turned out to have a daughter… " Camille followed, not noticing how Ron was covering his mouth as if wishing what he had said had not managed to escape beyond his lips. "So scandalous, heh, glad I'm not her!"
Ron checked around, almost praying, to see Kim and Lynn still busy with each others, and apparently neither of them had noticed what he had just let slip.
"Even more scandalous! You're telling me Kim Possible is now dating the daughter of her ex-girlfriend!?"
"Kim's not dating her! Agni's crushing on her!!" He exclaimed trying to prevent a misunderstanding, but then realizing he was leaving out even more. 'Oh, KP's so gonna be mad at me!'
"Agni? So that's her name, uh? And how does she look like, like this?" Camille asked suddenly taking the shape of what looked like an eighteen-year-old Shego, in the blond sidekick's opinion.
"Uh… her hair's shorter, like, shoulder length? And she's pretty much flat, not that I'd recommend you to tell her that." At that point, he was lost in the discussion which… actually seemed like fun to him and the shape-shifter "You got her hips okay, though, but the eyes are bigger… uh, yeah, now you got it right. Now, about the stature…"
Not too far but not too close from there either, the other members of each duo were still "at it". As small, simple and fragile as it looked, the redhead's wrist-Kimmunicator was actually bulletproof, and well enough of a shield if used with enough skill, something Kim Possible certainly didn't lack.
"Return the Golden Jubilee!" She ordered, "Unless you want me to get serious!"
"You don't scare me, you ain't Shego!" Lynn replied, "Where is she, anyway? It's freaky to see you two without her nowadays."
"She… had some business to attend to!" Kim replied, which wasn't really a lie since 'Miss Go' had an exam to run in her class, but the real reason for which Kim decided to take this mission with just Ron and Rufus was because, well, she and Shego hadn't talked ever since that 'incident' at her home yesterday, and she really didn't feel ready to talk to her just yet. 'SO awkward that this is SO the drama!'
"Right, and you want me to believe there's nothing on your mind?"
"Whether there's something on my mind or not is none of your business, Lynn! Besides-"
"KP!" Ron suddenly called, interrupting his best friend.
The teen hero turned her head just enough to see Ron, who was looking cheerfully and pointing with his hand at… 'Oh, no!'
"Look! We managed to replicate Agni from just her description!" The blond exclaimed, and Camille even grinned in a way that, had Agni seen it, would feel insulted. It didn't help seeing that both of them seemed quite proud of their "success".
Lynn, who undesirably witnessed the same thing, couldn't help sharing an understandable look with her opponent once they both looked at each other again, sighing together.
"I know" Kim started.
"Yeah, sidekicks" Lynn finished.
"Hey!" Camille suddenly exclaimed, and Kim couldn't help finding it odd to see Agni speaking with Shego's voice "C'mon, Adry!"
"Adry?" Kim repeated while blinking surprised.
"I'm trying, okay!? I know I'm not as good as you when it comes to fighting, but I AM trying!"
"Trying how!? Trying to lose time playing with your freaky powers!? Or is this your new idea of distraction!?"
"This is my new plan!"
"New plan?" Both Kim and Ron asked out loud.
"And what's that plan supposed to be?" Lynn questioned.
"Watch me in action!" She said before leaving Ron's side and running at full speed toward Kim, who blocked the other thief's punch with her arms. "How about it?" She asked her "Can you, like, fight your new girlfriend!?"
Camille stepped back, and then jumped forward delivering a falling kick, which Kim did not only avoid, but also took advantage of the recovery time to capture the shape-shifter into a headlock.
"Return back to your own form!" She ordered, angrily, "NOW!"
Camille wasn't really obeying, but the teen cutting her breathing and blood circulation was already making her return to her own form, if at least partly, since her transformation was cut midways because of Lynn attacking the redhead to free her partner, who fell coughing on the floor.
The blonde and redhead kept fighting, and particularly Lynn was being more aggressive now, forcing Kim to step back more often than not. Ron decided to run and assist her, but in his rush he didn't notice the other thief recovering and that earned him a fall face first to the dirt as Camille kicked out his legs, forcing him to trip, then stepping over him and running to assist her partner, right after taking Ron's appearance once again in hopes of confusing the teen hero.
It didn't work, though, as Kim blocked the first attack she attempted. That didn't, however, stop her and Lynn from taking the upper hand in the fight since it was two against one, until they finally landed a dual side-kick on the teen's stomach sending her flying backwards and causing a big splash in the water.
'Who the hell put a river here!?' She wondered as she stood up, now completely soaked, just in time to avoid her enemies' flying kicks. Darn, now she'd wish Shego were by her side!
"Give up, Kim Possible!" Camille ordered; now back in her original shape.
"You can't win alone against the two of us!"
Fortunately for the graduated cheerleader, she wasn't really alone. It was just that nobody had noticed the blond sidekick approaching the two from around the trees.
"Okay, Rufus!" He called, and his mole-rat pet-friend popped out of his pocked "Time to get serious!"
"All right!" He concurred, climbing up to his master's shoulder, and beginning to concentrate.
Unknown to the three girls, it was actually Kim who was now doing her best with the distraction, if only it wasn't because she herself didn't know that part of the actually never-planned but just-improvised plan. Her breathing was already troublesome after a minute of fighting the two thieves in the river (the water up to their knees surely wasn't helping), but then, it happened.
"Hey!" Camille exclaimed, suddenly noticing the water wasn't as still as it had been just moments ago.
"What the hell's up?!" Lynn wondered, seeing how the stream suddenly began flowing quite fast!
Eventually both women turned around, following the river's new direction, to see what had already put a smile on Kim's face: The image of Ron Stoppable, standing in the middle of the river as the water became a whirlpool around his body, which was emanating a bluish aura that matched the azure glow of his eyes.
'Mystical Monkey Powers' Kim reminded herself 'Believe in them!'
"What the…?"
"I told you to take care of the sidekick!"
"You needed my help with Possible!"
"I was doing just fine!"
"Was not!"
"Shut up and get ready!"
"Ready for, like, what?"
"…something freaky"
Kim just stepped back to contemplate the events that were just about to take place.
'Heh, what are friends for?'
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'Friends' were, as her mother had taught her, those who are worth putting up with.
"Here" Joss said, giving Agni one of the four sodas she just bought from the vending machine "An' remember, Jinx, ya'll owe me one"
"Zip it, cowgirl" She replied before taking the first sip. "Unless you want me owe you more than just a soda"
"Two, actually."
"You sure you're okay, Agni?" Xun asked.
"For the ump-fucking-teenth time, I'm fine!" She said, moving her head to show that it was still properly connected to her neck "Maybe I'm still not good enough to beat Idiot-Rick, but like hell I'm gonna break because of just a couple of smacks"
"Yeah, we all know how hardheaded you are," Uriel commented, sitting beside her on the bench placed outside the neighborhood's casual market.
"Very funny…"
"Seriously, you'd be turning my hair white if it wasn't like that already!"
"Ya' told me the same thing," Joss said, sitting with the group.
"Well, I've got to put some effort on you, right?" The coach replied.
"Why?" Xun casually asked.
Neither of them replied. Now this caught Agni's attention. "Something we don't know?"
"You didn't tell them?" Uriel asked, leaning forward to see Joss across the other two.
"Tell us what?" Xun inquired.
"I… got selected to participate in the school's sports tournament, on the swimming team, on our school's behalf"
"Really!?"
"That's amazing, Joss!"
"It would be… if this here jerk wouldn'a been busting ma' ass as if ma' life depended on it!"
"Boosting your ass?" Xun mistakenly repeated, and then turned to Uriel. "Hey, can you do the same with Agni's breasts?" And that earned her a hit on the head "OW!"
"They are fine as they are!" The pale teen replied, taking another drink of her soda.
"Wow" Uriel commented, "Where did that sudden confidence come from?"
She smirked at him. "Someone told me I'm pretty."
"Your mom," Joss claimed.
Agni didn't listen to her. After all, it hadn't been her mom.
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"What?" Agni had asked the day before, confused at Kim's words. She didn't – want to reject her? What was that supposed to mean?
"I mean… look, I'm not blind, and I know you're a pretty girl"
'Pretty?!' She felt herself blushing, and knowing she couldn't hide it in front of her only made her blush even more.
And of course,the fact didn't escape Kim's eyes. Like she said, she wasn't blind, and Agni's current expression was… causing something strange in her that she couldn't pinpoint just yet. "Y-yeah!" She replied as if answering a question not asked, at least not loudly "So stop acting so surprised! You're slender, attractive, flexible…"
'She checks me out!?' The blush was getting worse.
"And I know you're a good person," A pause, "Quite deep inside. But a good person nonetheless," she added, looking back at the blush she somehow couldn't get enough of. "B-but… there's a lot more for me to consider."
"Like?" Stupid question.
"Your mother, I mean… she doesn't matter like that" She clarified. The last thing she needed was to make Agni believe she wanted to be Shego's girlfriend these days, "But… well, you know, it's already going to be awkward facing her again."
"I know," She admitted, and then the bit her lip, gathering the willpower to say the next words. "I'm sorry"
She never liked doing so, but she had to apology in this occasion, now that she realized that confessing her feelings could even screw her mother's friendship with her ex-girlfriend, and considering what people say about how hard it was to keep friendship after romance, well, to say she was sorry was the least she could do. Yet…
"Don't," Kim countered "Please don't feel bad about it, because I mean it when I say I'm flattered by your feelings, Agni."
The young pale teen gulped, anxiety and fear mixing in her voice due to the next question. "So… will you consider…? You and I…? Being my…?"
"I will" The redhead told her, placing both hands on her shoulder. The proximity made Agni shake for a second. "I'll give you a call when I've made up my mind, all right?"
Agni looked down, yet nodded, and then slowly she raised her face again. She had not planned this, but… so close, so close! She could even smell the aroma of shampoo in Kim's shiny hair, shiny as her beautiful eyes, beautiful as everything in her face, from the chin to the forehead and from the eyebrows to the li–
Kim's lips suddenly showed her a smile. That did it.
In just a second, the pale teen raised to stand on just her toes, her hands grabbing the redhead by the arms near the shoulder, and their lips locking together in a second kiss. This time, with no witness but the setting sun radiating its remaining light upon them.
"Th-thanks!" She hastily said after breaking the kiss "Good bye."
And this time, she did run away.
Kim gulped, still shaken by such passionate act coming from such a young girl, which she didn't know whether to be thankful for… or blameful about it, because now she was sure that she was going to have quite a hard time deciding what to do about it.
She turned around and walked back home, doing her best to ignore that little voice in the back of her mind telling her it was not fair that the kiss had been so short she couldn't savor it.
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"It's not fair!" Camille whined as they were dragged into the police van. "We almost had her down, and Shego wasn't even here, and we got beat by the sidekick!?"
"If you could have only taken care of him like I told you," Lynn murmured, mostly to herself.
"Are you, like, mad at me?" She shyly asked to her partner as they sat on the seats inside the van's rear compartment.
Adrena sighed and looked up to the vehicle's roof, her sight lost, and stayed like that for a moment, until the cops closed their doors and she finally said: "As freaky as it sounds, I'm not."
Outside of the van, the police officer of the Thailand Police Department was finishing thanking the dynamic duo for their help, even though they couldn't understand much because of his bad English. At least he got down Miss Possible's "No Big." Then they proceeded to carry on their job, to return the Golden Jubilee and send the criminals to jail, after leaving the pair with a couple of towels for them to dry themselves while they waited for the ride Wade had already arranged for them.
"Good job back there, Ron" Kim complemented him, "You're getting better at handling your powers."
"Nah, not really," He retorted. "It's really all thanks to Rufus, see? He's the one who got the Meditation thing down that lets me gain access to the power. Back in our time at Yamanouchi, he excelled in the class"
"And how did you do in that class?" She wondered out loud.
He blushed slightly and turned his head "I… fell asleep during it, hehe."
She giggled. "Well, at least you took a good nap"
"Sorry for letting that slip, KP"
She didn't get what he meant instantly. "Uh?"
"Y'know" He replied rubbing the back of his head "The Agni thingy"
"Oh-OH! Right. It's okay, don't sweat it…"
"Say, have you thought about it?"
"Uh?" Again.
"I mean, what you're going to tell Agni"
"Oh, that… well, I've actually taken a decision already."
"Really!?" He sounded more surprised than she expected. More than he expected, actually.
"Yeah… and I'm going to have to turn it down, I'm afraid"
"What? But why?!"
"I just… don't think it would work"
"Are you sure, KP? Because I honestly, and I meant it, I honestly think it would be a good idea. I mean, Agni has never opened up to anyone as much as to you, without counting Shego, of course, but you get the point, and you… you really could use someone to love you right now, don't you think?"
She sighed, looking down at her feet. That tiny voice was back again, telling her from the back of her brain that Ron was right. Totally right. "Maybe if things could have been different, Ron, but… I can't go out with someone whose mother I used to date, you see?"
He rolled his eyes, "Ooohhhh, yeah, I guess that would make it awkward."
"Awk-wierd" Rufus added as he too was drying himself with the end of Ron's towel.
"Exactly" Kim concurred "That's why I can't go on with this. I just hope Agni might be able to understand."
"Pity" Ron spoke.
"Uh-uh, pity" Rufus agreed.
Yup, they both added in their mind. Truly a pity.
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She ended up spending a lot more time with her friends than she had expected, and surprisingly enough even to her, it felt pitiful when they realized it was quite late and they all should be heading home already.
At least all this had helped Agni clear her mind and not think so much about a certain someone else. However, for neither the first nor the last time, her luck would prove to her how bad it could be.
When she arrived, she initially thought her mom was with someone else, which was already weird enough. That changed, however, when she noticed she was just talking over the phone, which she hang up shortly after.
"Who was it?" Agni asked.
"Pri–er, I mean, Kimmie" Her mother replied, sounding troubled "She wants to meet you tonight."
"Tonight!?" She asked with eyes wide open "A-as in-!?"
"Now!"
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A/N: Sorry it took so long.
