I'm really sorry this chapter took so long. I've been extremely busy, but I will try to get the next chapter out sooner. Thanks for sticking with me!
Once again, Kim Possible and friends belong to Disney. Brad is all mine.
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"We just got in this new top at CB that is TDF!" Monique exclaimed to her best girl friend as they walked towards their lockers at the end of the school day.
"Alright. I know CB stands for Club Banana," Kim cocked an eyebrow, "but TDF?"
"To die for!" Monique replied without missing a beat, "It would look so uh-mazing on you! You have got to come shopping with me and try it on!"
Kim's mind unintentionally wandered to more interesting subjects as Monique prattled on. She thought about Ron...and Brad. She really wanted to be friends with Brad, but it seemed as though being Brad's friend and Ron's girlfriend at the same time was near impossible...even for a Possible.
Maybe if she told Brad that their friendship could only last until Ron returned...
No. That was ridiculous. That would be totally unfair to Brad. Ron had said he was okay with Brad as long as she didn't hang out with him alone, and Rufus went everywhere with her anyway. It was no trouble taking him along when she and Brad went somewhere...which they had been doing quite a bit in the past week.
Brad had become a sort of coping mechanism for her. When she was with him, it was easier not to dwell on Ron's absence. They'd already been to the movies, the mall, and each others houses...all with Rufus in tow of course. She found the more time she spent with him, the more time she wanted to spend with him. Little did she know that many students at school had a new nickname for Brad - KTR (Kim's Temporary Ron).
When Kim didn't reply to some question Monique had asked her, Monique examined her friend to find her staring off into space. She gave a huff before stomping ahead and turning around to face the teen hero. She stopped suddenly, forcing Kim to stop accordingly before they collided with one another.
"What's the sitch, Mon?" Kim asked placing her hands on her cocked hips and raising an annoyed eyebrow.
Monique rolled her eyes. "Get Ron out of your head girl!. I want some girl time, but you are oh-so-selfishly taking that time away from me by fantasizing about lover-boy!" Monique declared with a pointed finger in Kim's face.
"Please. You'd be doing the same thing if Brick were gone," Kim swatted the offending finger away, "It's not like I'm not trying to not think about Ron!...okay that so made no sense."
Kim sighed. She felt bad about ignoring her best girl friend, but Monique had no idea what she was going through. A week without Ron...a week! Except for the dreaded Camp Wannaweep summer, she'd never been away from him for this long.
"I'm sorry. How about I make it up to you?" Kim asked with an apologetic sigh, "Shopping trip?"
"Now you're talking my language!" Monique exclaimed, "Today after school?"
"Sounds like a plan," Kim smiled and turned to open her locker. Her eye was immediately drawn to the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer currently residing there. She'd retrieved it from Dementor the day before and was supposed to hand it over to Global Justice the next day. She could just imagine what Ron would say if he were here. Something along the lines of, "You'd think Global Justice would eventually catch on and put some real security around that stupid thing! I mean, this is like, what, the tenth time it's been stolen?!"
"Hey guys," Kim's thoughts were interrupted by a voice in her ear and a huge arm wrapped around her shoulder.
"Hey Brick," she said, smiling when he bent down to kiss Monique's cheek..
"Sup?" Brick asked them with one lazy arm around each of their shoulders.
"We're just talking about what we're gonna do after school."
"Shop!" Monique squealed.
"Oh," Brick said disappointedly, "Care if I pass?"
"Not a bit," Monique told him, "You've been monopolizing me any way. I need my girl time. Poor Kim doesn't have a BF to keep her company like I do."
Kim just rolled her eyes. For as much as Monique got on her for thinking about Ron too much, she sure brought him up a lot.
"She's got me to keep her company," Brad walked up next to Kim, forcing Brick to move his arm from around her.
"That I do," Kim smiled at him and once again thought of how lucky she was to have him to keep her busy during the coarse of this never-ending month, "And you're great company, if I do say so myself."
"I try," he replied, grinning goofily, "Speaking of which, how would you like to go to Bueno Nacho after school?"
"Sounds like fun,"
"I thought you were going shopping with Monique!" Brick blurted out with an indignant look. Kim looked surprised by his outburst and stared at him quizzically before slowly turning to her friend.
"Mon, would it be okay if I met you at the mall around four?"
"Sure. That's cool," Monique was also puzzled over Brick's peculiar behavior. Now his brow creased in annoyance.
"You already promised Monique!" Brick said sternly.
"She's okay with it," Kim said incredulously, "Why are you being so weird?"
Brick huffed, "I'm not being weird! I just don't think you should break your promise."
"Ooooookaaaaaaay," Kim said, sharing an incredulous glance with Brick. Brick could have sworn Kim's raised eyebrows mocked him.
"Brick, it's cool. Chillax baby boy," Monique calmed him by placing a soft hand on his shoulder, "You and me will hang out until four."
Kim smiled, "See? No big."
A sudden smile broke out over Brick's face as well, "Sorry. Didn't mean to freak." He raised his eyebrows as if he'd just come up with an incredible idea. "Hey, I know! How about we all go to Bueno Nacho? And then Kim and Monique can leave from there and go to the mall!"
Kim thought for a moment. "Sure. That's fine," she said into her locker as she shoved in more of her books.
Brick smiled in satisfaction. He felt he was doing Ron proud by keeping his promise to watch over Kim and Brad.
"No, no, no," Brad said with a grin and a wave of his hand, "You two kids go have a good time. I'll have Kim at the mall by four no problem."
"Actually, I'm kinda starving," Brick stared at Brad with a steady, challenging gaze, "Bueno Nacho would definitely hit the spot right about now. If you guys don't mind, I'd really like to come."
"Of course we don't mind," Kim cut in before Brad could say another word. "It'll be fun," she added with a smile in Brad's direction.
Brad's words died on his lips when he saw Kim's dazzling smile. He might as well let it go. He knew there was no winning this one. Then, out of the corner of his eye he spotted a familiar looking device in Kim's locker. As he turned to stare at it fully, he remembered reading about it when he'd studied her and all of her missions. He had each and every one of her exploits memorized. Therefore, it only took his brain half a second to recognize the complicated device.
"Kim, what's that in your locker?" he asked innocently. He'd almost blurted the name of the contraption out loud, but managed to catch himself before he did. Obviously, he wasn't supposed to know what it was so he'd have to pretend he didn't.
"Oh...that?" Kim said with a nervous gesture towards the device, "It's nothing. Kind of a top secret save the world thing." She quickly slammed her locker shut before he could get a better look at it.
"Oh," he decided not to press the issue of the name of it since he already knew, "What's it doing in your locker?"
"I have to return it to Global Justice tomorrow," Kim replied, rubbing the back of her neck in a very Ron-ish way while hastily changing the subject, "Let's head out. I'm famished."
As they trooped towards their respective vehicles (Brad and Kim to Brad's car, Brick and Monique to Brick's car), Brad's brain went into overdrive. His brilliant mind was already hatching a plan.
One of the qualities that Kim found most attractive in a guy was bravery. This Brad knew for certain. She also couldn't resist a call for help. He also knew, even if Kim herself didn't, that she loved running to someone's rescue. At present, she had a Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer in her locker that many seedy characters would be happy to steal. She had to return the PDVI to Global Justice the next day after school.
He slowly started to put the pieces together into a master plan that would draw Kim even closer to him. Somehow he had to put his plan into action before Kim returned the PDVI the next day. Unfortunately, it would have to occur during the school day, but that simply couldn't be helped. If students were hurt, it wasn't any skin off of his back.
He grinned when his plan laid itself out perfectly in his mind.
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I know. I know. I left you hanging AND it was a short chapter. I'm really sorry, but I've gotta keep you hooked somehow right? Anyway, please review!