A\N HELLO! UPDATE! I'm sorry!I REALLY AM! I made 2 promises and didn't keep both. It took too long to post new chapter and it's about 2.6k long. I was too busy with my life last 2 weeks, and didn't have much of free time. I hope i still have my readers.

For the record, i'm not going to disappear or drop the story. I'm going to lead it to it's end. And also after i finish it i will write a new one. I have couple RonBon and Rongo stories in my head right now, BUT i want to focus on this one until i finish it.

Well and as always ,

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Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible.

Chapter 8

Food conversations.

"I'm sorry!" Bonnie said.

"Bonnie, please, stop apologizing!" Tara pleaded her. "You did it about 20 times already for the last hour!"

"But after all this times that i tried to force on you my lifestyle, after all guys that i told you to go on a date with just because their supposedly popular enough, after all…"

Tara sighed again. She was glad that her best friend dropped her shallow glasses, but hearing "I'm so sorry" again and again was tiresome to say the least.

They were sitting at mall's cafe. Classes were over and Bonnie offered a trip to the mall, to get some clothes for her new image, and also talk about what happens in school today. Problem is that Bonnie hadn't explained a thing and just keeps apologizing for every single 'misstep'. And usually Tara would be alright with that and would patiently wait for her friend to let it out her system. But not today.

"Bonnie, please stop apologizing and here me out for a five minutes at least ok?" Tara said with a serious tone in her voice.

"Oh...ok, sorry... i mean..."

"I know what you mean, just let me speak ok?"

Bonnie nodded.

"Good. Firstly, i'm not holding any grudge on you, which means you don't have to say sorry every five freaking minutes! I know you since we both was ten, back then I was overly shy wallflower who was afraid to even look at other people eyes! You noticed me and took under your wing. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't gain the confidence that I have today! And even after you turned to a Bitch Queen with cliché high school morals i stayed nearby because i still saw a kind and caring person inside you! And i'm not regretting that decision! Secondly, instead of hearing apologies over and over, i want to know the whole story of your change, how did it actually happened, Ron's abridged version was too abridged."

Bonnie took a sip of her coffee and started her story from the day of her 'almost date' with Brick. She told about words of her sisters, about her stupid decision that day, about the moment when she realized how idiotic was what she was doing, about how scared she was to drop the act for all this time. She didn't tell about her sacred place though, mostly because it wasn't only her secret to tell. Instead she told that she met Ron in the park last evening and how he helped her. How he give her place to stay overnight without asking anything in return. How she was feeling extremely guilty about it, and that he listened her and in encouraged her to drop the act without even knowing that.

After she finished her story and her cup of coffee she looked at her friend, waiting for her reaction.

"For a month..." Tara started to shake a little. "For a MONTH you kept it from me! Why? Why didn't you talked to me? Why didn't you ask me for an advice or help? And what is more important..." Tara started to cry. "Why I haven't noticed anything! Why I haven't got enough guts to confront you about your behavior BEFORE all that happened? Why I was such a coward? Why I wasted so much time?"
Tara was sobbing uncontrollably, tears rolling on her red cheeks one after another. "I'm sorry Bonnie, i'm so sorry!"

"Don't apologize, it's not your fault! And we still have time aren't we? All time we need!"

"No…" Tara sobbed again. "We don't have it. I'm moving to Upperton by the end of this week."

"What?" Bonnie looked at her with shocked expression on her face.

Tara made a deep breath to calm herself and stop tears.

"The company, where my father work is going bankrupt and he will lose his job soon. This weekend my uncle said that one of his friend searching for a specialist with certain skills and my father is actually fit the role. So the choice was to stay here and be unemployed or move to Upperton and have a decent income. The choice is kinda obvious."

Bonnie couldn't find any words at the moment. All her regrets toward her best friend just gained a weight and dropped on her shoulders. She wanted to scream, to cry, to go back several years back and hit herself in a gutter. But first two desires wouldn't help and the third one is probably impossible. Saying 'sorry' wouldn't solve anything anymore also. And suddenly it was like a cartoonish lightbulb appeared above her head. The solution was so simple and right. The only words that is capable to describe it was…

"Fuck it." Bonnie said out loud, looking confident into Tara's eyes.

"Wh-what?" Tara was confused.

"I said Fuck it!" Bonnie repeated. "I fucked up, hard. You probably think that you fucked up somewhere too. Basically we both did. If we had time, then we would have probably talked it out, and slowly patched things between us. But we don't have it, right? So the answer is simple." She took a last sip of her coffee. "Fuck it! No more excuses, no more regrets, leave it in the past! And about the future, let's enjoy every single moment that we have before you leave the town. Today we are going to have a sleepover in my house, my parents is out of city and my sisters left to college, so the house is ours for couple of days. Considering the situation i don't think your folks would mind it."

"This…" smile appeared on Tara's face. "The best idea EVER! Wait a second, i'll call my mom."

'That's right.' Bonnie said in her mind. 'I'm not going to let neither my sisters nor my regrets to control my life. From now on it's in my hands! Beware world, new Bonnie is here!'

Meanwhile in fast-food restaurant Bueno Nacho Ron and Kim waited their orders.

"Ok." Kim started the conversation. "Now, when we're out of school, can you tell me what the hack is going on with Bonnie?"

"What do you mean?" Ron made most innocent confused face he can.

"What do i mean? Are you seriously asking me that?"

"Yes! I thought Bonnie explained everything during the lunch."

"She gave us abridged version, AND it was Bonnie! Obviously you couldn't tell anything near her. Now , since we're alone, you can tell me everything."

"I really don't get you sometimes KP. It's just like Bonnie told. I found her in the park in difficult situation and offered my help in form of safe place to stay overnight. She accepted. When we arrived i left her in my parents' room, since they are still traveling with my little sister, and went downstairs to play some games. Sometime after that, she went down in tears and asked me why i helped her, since, as you already know, we didn't have a smooth history between us. Well i said that it was just a right thing to do, that's all. She was in tears, and i comforted her. We talked a bit, about her reason of being a Bitch in school, and how it didn't justify her actions, about how tired she was from all of that, and by the morning we decided to become friends."

"Geez Ron, i can't decide if you are too naïve or too kind, you always see the best in people, even villains." Kim sighed. "Ok i'm going to buy into your story. Still it is hard to believe in Bonnie's transformation. I mean, people don't change overnight that much!"

Ron winced a little on that sentence.

"You may think about her as friend Ron, but i still can't trust her fully."

"I don't tell you to trust her Kim, i ask you to trust me, and my faith in her."

"Argh…Ok, i'll try."

"Booyah!" Ron smiled.

At the same time as two best friends stuffed they're stomach with tasty unhealthy food, the sound of motorbike spread through streets of Middleton. Betty Director finally found a minute to get out of her desk. A long awaited break. No emergency from villains, terrorists, or criminals were received today. It was like a whole underworld decided to take a nap. She couldn't miss such chance. She liked her work, but stress was almost unbearable lately. Morning, coffee, work, paperwork, sleeping pill, three or four hours of sleep, rinse and repeat. She really wanted to hire an assistant, but this thought was always forgotten during a workday. Suddenly she notice a familiar redhead female, sitting at street café's table with a paper cup of coffee in her hands. She stopped motorbike's engine, and approached a woman.

"Hi Anny, long time no see." Betty said.

"Bets!" Ann Possible exclaim gleefully. "Long time it is! Here, have a seat."

Betty sat at the table.

"So..." Ann started. "How's your life?"

"Well, pretty straightforward actually. Work, work, work…oh, did i said about work?"

"Ouch! Is it that bad?"

"Yes actually." Betty sighed. "Right now is the only break that i manage to take in last year and a half."

"Ouch, sorry."

"Don't be. Actually, i'm very happy that i met you here. It WAS ages since we talked like this."

"Tell me about it."

"Do you have a break now too?"

"Yes i do. No new patients today, so i have some free time now."

"Look at us." Betty smiled weakly. "Two aging women, talking blissfully about break from work. Do you even remember simple times now?"

"Actually i am, and don't pretend like you don't, miss Teenage hero."

"Please, don't remind me." Betty cringed a little.

"I Bet that you lose today villain!" Ann teased her.

"ARGH! Not the catch phrase!" Betty facepalmed. "It's almost funny how people worldwide will forget about you in time, if you erase you information from all mass media, but one redhead not only will always remember and remind me about it."

"Well it's not my fault that you always wanted to save the world since we was kids."

"Yes, it wasn't your fault, it was Nana's."

"Oh yeah, stories that she told us. We always visited her house to hear more."

"Stories about her, her mother and other ancestors. Females of Possible family, heroes in every generation. Well almost every."

"Yep, Nana didn't want for James to live in danger, and he himself didn't mind calm life. But fate is funny thing. With absence of Possible hero, it set on that path you."

"And several years after my retirement of hero duty, and promotion to an agent, it chose your daughter to reclaim a title of Hero. Heritage of Possible clan."

"Uh, don't remind me." Ann sighed. "I really hoped that she would not become like you or Nana and live a normal teenager's life, but she is female Possible by blood after all. Stubbornness is strong with them."

"Well, you may not be Possible by blood, by you as stubborn as they are i must add."

"Hey! Looks who's talking!"

"Fine, fine we both stubborn. Probably because we both looked at Nana as a role model."

"Yeah, we used to spend hours at her place."

"Me - to listen her stories, you - to flirt with James."

"HEY!" Ann's cheek became slightly pink. "I didn't visit them to flirt with Jimmy!"

"Maybe when we were ten you didn't. But i still remember your red face when you gave him a present on his thirteen's birthday. It took you four more years to start dating him. He was kind of dense"

"Yep, he was. Sadly it looks like it's in genetic. Kim's just like her father."

"I see."

"By the way, thank you for looking out after her and Ron."

"No problem. Team Possible is actually really useful unit."

"Still, i am worried about their future."

"Don't worry about. When they graduate from school i'll disband Team Possible and offer them place in agency, if they decline they will have a normal civilian live. I'm going to create a new unit in GJ to protect city until next gifted child will rise from horizon."

"No offence, but i hope they both decline and choice to go in college." Ann said.

"None taken." Betty replied. "Can i ask you something?"

"What?"

"What do you think about Ron Stoppable?"

Ann was startled a bit from that question.

"Um...Well, i know him since he was little, he is a kind caring boy, with a little hero complex. He is always loyal to his friends. His cooking skills are unbelievable for his age. Though he doesn't show that often, he is actually very intelligent boy. And he deserves much, MUCH better treatment from people that he gets." Ann's voice gained a tone of irritation in last sentence.

"I get, you really fond of him."

"He is like a third son to me, Bets."

"Wow" Betty's eye became wider. "I didn't expect that. I'm actually interested in that boy even more now."

"What do you mean?"

"I looked into archived footage, and, let's just say, he showed himself in a good light during several missions lately. In the past he got a lot Lucky Flukes that helped Kim in battle, Ron Factor as we called it, now this flukes are more precise. For common eye it would still look like a simple trip and fall, but for a veteran like me it's actually looked calculated. Especially it's noticeable for last five or six months."

"Five or six moths" Ann repeated quietly.

"What? Is that a problem?"

"No, it's nothing."

"Anny, i know when you lie to me. What wrong?"

"OK, ok." Ann took a breath. "For last several months i noticed some change in Ron's behavior. He doesn't visit us as often as he was. He's more secretive then before. It's like he is trying to make a distance around himself."

"Isn't that what called teenage rebellion?"

"I hope it is the case."

"You know, sometimes you think too much."

"Once again, looks who's talking!"

Ann looked at her watch.

"Damn it, i need to go back."

"It's ok, my break is almost over too."

"Hope to see you sooner next time Bets." Ann hugged her old friend.

"Me too Anny, me too."

After that, Betty sat on her motorbike and drove away towards GJ headquarters. She felt like she was freed from all accumulated stress. She was glad that she met Ann. She missed her and James a lot. Every time she met Kim she felt sadness and nostalgia. Teen hero was combination of three of the most important people in her life: Ann, James, and Nana.

Later that evening Ann was preparing supper for a family, while her husband sat at kitchen table, looking at his paperwork.

"Darling." she said. "Guess who i met today."

"Well, uhm. A little hint, my dear"

"She gave you your first nickname."

"Bets! Jeez, haven't seen her in years. How is she?"

"She looked tired, but she'll be fine, you know her."

"Only too well. Glad that she's ok. We need to invite her with us to my mother's next Birthday."

"Nana will be happy."

"Yeah, she will." James smiled. "By the way, this weekend there is a Rocket Science Convention, and it will be outside Tri-City area. I was chosen as representative from our community."

"Outside Tri-City? Where exactly?"

"Small quiet town called Lighton."

"Did you buy plane ticket?"

"No, not yet."

"Do it tomorrow, ok."

"Ok dear, love you." James smiled again.

"Love you too." Ann happily replied.