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Note: Since Thursday the 27th I haven't been able to log in or send a reply to anybody's review or anything of that nature. Because of this I wasn't able to post the latest chapter of this story on Saturday morning. To that end here's three chapters, I hope no one thought that I had stopped writing this story or anything like that. Sorry for the long wait.
CHAPTER 24-STRIP CLUB CONFESSIONS
"I gotta say, I didn't expect to see you two here today," Jessica said with a surprised look on her face as she sat down beside Tara and Yori as the two picked out a table in the back of the strip club.
"We didn't really have anywhere else to go and Kim and Ron took Bonnie with them to Kim's parents' party so…we had to come up with something," Tara softly replied as she shrugged her shoulders and slumped down in her seat a bit.
"Well I'm glad you came, it's been pretty lonely here so far," Jessica said back softly with a relieved tone to her voice as she scooted a bit closer to Tara and draped her arm across the other blondes shoulders.
"I can see that, is it always this dead on Christmas, and why aren't you with your family," Tara started to say back with a somber expression on her face before she was interrupted by an all to familiar voice.
"Easy Tara, the same reason that Marcella and I are here, we're home alone for the holidays, her parents don't want her and mine well…they decided to spend Christmas this year in Honolulu," Hope interjected with a sad pout on her face as she and Marcella sat down beside Yori. Tara couldn't help but notice that the two had been holding hands before they sat down.
"I gotta say Tara, I didn't expect to see you here," Marcella started to say with a pleasantly surprised tone to her voice before as she settled into her seat beside Hope as the latter put her arm up on Yori's shoulder, getting a sharp intake of breath from Tara in the end.
"Oh…I forgot to tell you, Tara and Bonnie are dating," Hope lazily replied with a dirty grin on her face as she let her arm snake across Yori's shoulders before she laid her head on Yori's shoulder. Yori stayed still but didn't seem to shrink away or show displeasure.
"They're not the only ones," Jessica winked back with an amused tone to her voice as she nodded her head towards Hope and Marcella, as Hope looked like she could care less while Marcella blushed and stared down at the top of the table.
"Um…I'm sorry but we have not been formally introduced, my name is Yori, I used to attend the Yamanuchi school in Japan and," Yori started to say with a polite tone to her voice as she pulled Hope's arm off of her shoulders and then bowed her head a bit. She was almost finished speaking when the announcer at the club shouted out, a bit lazily, that the lovely Jessica would be up next.
"Ah man…sorry but I gotta go," Jessica grumbled out with an unhappy pout on her lips as her shoulders sagged and she took her arm off of Tara's shoulders.
"What…why, the place is almost deserted," Tara exclaimed with a nervous and pleading look in her eyes as she started to reach for Jessica to keep her there.
"Yeah I know…but if I don't dance then I don't make any money, and if I don't make any money then," Jessica began to reply with a reluctant look in her eyes before Yori grinned and then spoke.
"But you don't have to remember, Ron said that you are moving in with us and that you don't have to dance anymore," Yori said with an excited tone to her voice and look on her face as she slid away from Hope a bit and smiled up at Jessica, who looked shocked at having forgotten what Ron had said to her only a day or so earlier.
"What," Hope exclaimed with a look of total surprise on her face before her expression changed to one seemingly unhappy about being left out instead of angry.
"He uh…well he, he didn't want her to," Tara stammered out with an embarrassed shrug of her shoulders as she struggled to downplay the situation.
"Guess even the great Kim Possible has a few skeletons in her closet…tell me more," Marcella observed with a curious smile on her lips before she hopped up out of her seat and hurried over to sit down beside Tara.
"No…not Kim, she and Ron and Bonnie are…well they started out together and now Yori and I…Jessica and Kim…Ron and Monique…oh no," Tara started to say softly in hopes of getting out of the situation with the secret intact, however as she went she found herself totally unable to stop speaking and so she ended up spilling out everything to a stunned Marcella and a happy looking Hope.
"So wait…Ron and Kim are dating each other, Bonnie, you and Yori here, then Ron slept with Monique…and Jessica and Kim…damn, miss a day miss a lot," Hope said softly with a very deep in thought expression on her face as she slowly worked through all of the clues that Tara had blurted out until she came to the truth in the end.
"Don't say anything okay," Jessica pleaded with a fearful look in her eyes as her gaze flickered back and forth between the stage and Tara, who looked as white as a sheet.
"Okay," Hope replied with a slightly relieved sigh as she smiled back at Tara and Jessica before she cuddled up next to Yori, who still looked like she wasn't quite sure exactly what was going on but not adverse to the attention that Hope was showing her.
"Oh good…wait, that was to easy," Tara sighed back in relief before something clicked in her mind and she glared across the table at Hope.
"Okay you're right…I'm just curious, what is it about Ron that did all of this, sure he's a hunk and all but," Hope asked with a curious look in her eyes rather than having any amount of sarcasm in her voice, rather she sounded more like a lost soul looking for a place to hitch up to.
"His eyes," Tara grinned back with a dreamy smile on her face as she thought back onto Ron's eyes and how they had always made her feel safe and loved.
"Stoppable-san is very honorable and," Yori started to answer back with a very calm and collected tone to her voice as she slowly nodded her head in agreement before Jessica turned back to them as she pulled off the shirt that she had on, revealing about as tinier bikini top than Tara had ever thought possible.
"He's very kind," Jessica added back before she bent over and pulled her sweatpants off to show that the bottom to the bikini was as tiny as the top.
"His butt…it's so tight and…what," Marcella started to say with a greedy and eager glint in her eyes before she noticed that everyone else was staring at her and she looked up with very guilty expression.
"So is it true," Hope asked with a very hopeful look in her eyes as she leaned in close to Yori and Tara though they both noticed that her gaze snapped over to Jessica a couple of times, and at those times a faint smile crossed her lips.
"Is what true," Tara asked with a confused look in her eyes as Jessica turned to the announcer and gave him the sign that meant that she'd be right there.
"You know…big hands, big feet…big," Hope started to ask with a hungry look in her eyes before Tara blushed a brighter red than a tomato and looked away.
"Oh yeah," Yori stated with a very appreciative tone to her voice as she had a devilish grin on her lips.
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"Well this is getting us nowhere, we've been here over an hour and he hasn't said one word to me," Bonnie grumbled out impatiently as she fidgeted with the belt loop of her jeans and tried not to look to unhappy.
"He's the host Bon-Bon, he can't sit down and talk to us without saying hi to the other guests, relax…he'll learn to love you as much as Kim and I do and then everything will be okay," Ron whispered back softly to Bonnie as he held his drink in one hand and pulled her close with his other that he slid around her waist. She almost instinctively buried her head into the crook of his neck and set the hand that had been playing with her belt loop flat against his chest. Thankfully for them the two were secluded in Jim and Tim's room as Ron had gone looking for Bonnie and finally found her almost hiding out in their room.
"Why does it all sound so simple when you say it," Bonnie mumbled out softly with a very emotional tone to her voice as she leaned in closer to Ron and he began to softly and gently run his hand up and down her back in a comforting manner.
"Because when Ron says it he means it, it'll be okay Bonnie…really," Kim interjected with a very sincere tone to her voice as she walked into the room and softly shut the door behind her.
"So he doesn't hate me," Bonnie asked softly with a nervously optimistic look in her eyes as she pulled away from Ron enough to look over at Kim.
"Doubt it, he probably knows very little about you other than what Kim's mom has told him," Ron joked back with an amused smirk on his face as he tried to lighten the mood while patting Bonnie on the back.
"So all that he probably knows is that you and I used to be enemies but are now friends and work and live together, I doubt that he even has the slightest clue in the world about our actual relationship," Kim said softly with a relieved tone to her voice and smile on her face as she took Bonnie by the hand and led her over to the bed before the two sat down next to each other.
"But he's a rocket scientist, surely he's going to notice something and freak out," Bonnie started to mumble back with a nervous look in her eyes before Kim pulled her close into a hug, laying Bonnie's head down onto her chest while Bonnie's gaze never left Ron's face.
"He's terrible at doing his own taxes, one time we got a guy from Team Impossible to do them for him, besides…he loves Kim, treats me like a son, and once he gets to know you he'll love you like he does Kim," Ron added with a very sincere smile on his lips as he walked over and knelt down beside Bonnie and Kim.
"Ron's right, my dad likes to talk big but when push comes to shove he's actually a pretty okay guy, he freaked out when I tried to talk to him about boys back in high school, he couldn't dial my mom's phone number fast enough," Kim mused back with a humorous smirk on her lips as she released her grip on Bonnie and the brunette seemed to have regained her composure.
"Heh, you're lucky…my dad wouldn't let any of us out of his sight when we brought a date home," Bonnie cracked with a short laugh as she smiled while brushing some lint off of her jeans.
"He only did that because he loved you…being a bit overprotective is all part of the job," Ron concluded with a firm nodding of his head before he patted Bonnie on the shoulder while taking a drink.
"Yeah…so what do you think I should do, I don't really know much about rockets…what am I supposed to talk to him about, I can't talk about either of you…because if I do I just know that I'll let something slip, and this is not the place to tell him what's really going on," Bonnie wondered aloud with a deep in thought expression on her face as she began to nervously chew on her lower lip.
"Do you think I know anything about rockets, we'd usually always talk about Kim or the missions," Ron said with an oddly nostalgic smile on his lips before he stood up and finished off the rest of his drink.
"But given his situation at work I'd suggest letting him start the conversation," Kim started to say with a slightly tired look on her face before she stood up and went to take a step. Suddenly she felt very light headed and started to fall forward.
"Kim," Ron and Bonnie both shouted in alarm, as he thought nothing of dropping his drink and catching her in his arms as she also had stopped herself from falling but didn't refuse his offer of physical support.
"Are you okay," Bonnie asked softly with a very confused and worried look in her eyes as she laid one hand on the small of Kim's back before she felt the redhead's forehead with the back of her hand.
"I'm okay guys…really," Kim tried to shrug it off with a bit of a smile on her face before Bonnie spoke up as she pulled her hand away.
"She doesn't feel warm," Bonnie replied softly with still a very concerned tone to her voice before Kim took a step back.
"I'm fine you guys, it's probably the stress getting to me, Bonnie meeting my dad and all…is it hot in here," Kim tried to say softly to calm Bonnie and Ron's nerves before she let out a sigh of relief and walked out of the room. Bonnie and Ron shared a look that both took to mean that they were going to watch her closely for the rest of the afternoon, just in case. To their relief she seemed totally fine the rest of the party.
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She had tried her best to ignore them but she was far to perceptive for that to happen. Even half asleep she could tell when anyone was coming anywhere near her. More than once she had let out a soft growl and lit her hand up to keep any possible amorous suitors away. She could hear the families all around her, laughing happily and having a good time. A part of her wanted to rip them all limb from limb for having the nerve to be so happy, but yet still another part of her wished that she could be the one carrying on like that. She truly loved being a villain but had found as the years, and defeats and jail terms, had begun to pile on that being a villain wasn't giving her the same high that it had been years earlier. As much as she had tried to suppress it she could still feel the urge to do good. Usually when she felt that urge she would do something much worse to try and make herself forget about being good. Seeing the families playing together she felt a twinge of guilt that she didn't have one.
She knew that barring a miracle she could never have a child of her own and no government on Earth would let her adopt. Besides that her life as a villain didn't leave much room for changing diapers and naptime. On rare occasions she had thought about pursing a romantic relationship with someone, but most of the guys that she met only had one thing on their mind, well one idea other than using her to conquer the world. Something that she'd never admit to was the fact that lately her dreams had turned quite erotic in nature. But instead of some stud off of the cover of the romance novels that she'd rather vaporize as read her lovers in her dreams always had either red or blond hair. Trying to disprove her worst fears she had ordered the group of guards that had accompanied her to throw Ron and Kim half naked into the bathroom before she had knelt down beside him. Making sure that the coast was clear, and cursing herself for even having the thought she had pulled back the band on his boxers and taken a look. The entire ride back to the secret lair, and two days afterwards, after the mission at the toy factory Drakken couldn't quite figure out why a very pleased smile never left her face.
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"So how is she," Hope asked with a curious tone to her voice as she leaned over next to Tara, all the while keeping her eyes focused on the stage where Jessica was in the middle of her routine.
"Why do you want to know," Tara asked with a confused tone to her voice before she took a sip of her drink and looked over at her old friend out of the corner of her eye.
"Just curious…I find out that one of my oldest friends is sleeping with THE Kim Possible and I was just wondering," Hope started to ask back still with an amazed glint in her eyes before Yori broke in.
"She is very beautiful," Yori interjected with a very certain and honest look in her eyes as she turned briefly back to them before shifting her gaze back to Jessica.
"That she is, I used to wonder if she would have ever considered…but I was just Hope Lee, couldn't stop being grounded long enough to actually say anything to her," Hope started to say back with an almost dreamy smile on her face before she grew more serious and at the end regretful.
"What do you mean," Marcella asked softly as she slid over a bit closer and laid a hand on Hope's arm, giving it a supportive squeeze.
"Well when I figured out that I liked girls as much as I liked guys I thought that Kim was the one person that would understand, my parents won't even talk to me about it even today, but then one night I bumped into Jessica at a club and…well, Kim got put on the backburner for awhile," Hope answered back with an almost guilty look in her eyes as she spoke before she smiled softly before turning to Tara. "Don't tell her okay, it was probably just hero worship anyway, everybody knew who you, Kim, and Bonnie were, the rest of us just got lost in the background," Hope added with a very serious look of fear in her eyes as she turned to Tara and pleaded softly with her.
"I won't say anything to her Hope, I promise, but I think that you should, if it's still bothering you then it'd be better to get it off your chest," Tara replied with a very honest and sincere look in her eyes before she set her drink down, scooted over to Hope, and pulled her into a one armed hug.
"It couldn't hurt, besides it's not like if she turns you down you'll be alone, I'll be there for you," Marcella announced with a very serious and determined tone to her voice as she laid her arm back across Tara's while scooting over a bit closer to Hope.
"We all will," Yori said suddenly with an oddly eager smile on her face as she reached across the table and patted the top of Hope's hand that was holding her drink.
"Well if you're coming clean then I probably should to," Marcella weakly said with a nervous smile on her face as she awkwardly glanced around the club.
"Well one time while we were at regionals I caught Bonnie and that college chick making out in the bathroom before our routine, next thing I knew they pulled me in and shut the door, Bonnie never said a word," Marcella said with a very nervous look in her eyes as she very slowly and clearly relayed an experience of hers from years past.
"So that's why you two almost made us be late, you said that you couldn't find the tape of the music that we," Tara started to exclaim with a very shocked look in her eyes before Marcella shrugged her shoulders and looked down at the table.
"Sorry, but what was I supposed to say, that I spent the last few minutes before our second place finish making out with Bonnie and her college girlfriend in a bathroom stall, I wasn't even sure I liked it until Bonnie's next party," Marcella said with an odd smile on her lips as she looked scared to await their reaction but relieved to have finally admitted to the truth.
"Then it's settled, you two are going to tell Kim and Bonnie how you feel…make it a New Year's resolution, and don't even think of backing out, because if you don't tell them…I will," Tara stated softly with a very clear and firm tone to her voice as she looked Yori, Hope, and Marcella in the eye as she spoke before she leaned over and gave Hope a quick kiss on the lips. Two hours later they would all leave together and go back to Hope's apartment to talk, never noticing that while in traffic they ended up sitting behind a yellow cab who's paying passenger was trying to figure out how to tell her young daughter that they were going to meet her father, Ronald Stoppable.
END OF CHAPTER 24
Author's Note: This chapter starts out with Tara and Yori at the strip club that Jessica works at. After Ron, Kim, and Bonnie left they played around with Boris for a little while before putting him back in his pen. Not having anything else to do Yori suggested the club and Tara reluctantly agreed. When they got there Jessica walked up to them and said that she was surprised to see them. They explained about the party and how they really didn't have anything else to do so they came to the club. Jessica goes on to explain that on Christmas day the club is always pretty barren. Hope and Marcella walk up and sit down, getting out of Tara and Yori the truth about their relationship with Ron and Kim. Tara is kicking herself for spilling the beans but then as Jessica starts to strip off her clothes so that she's only wearing her outfit for her dance the talk switches to Ron, and why the ladies love him. Jessica's admission surprises Tara a bit but then Hope and Marcella turn the question to be about how big Ron is, and Yori happily tells them. Hope and Marcella aren't pushing to be mean or annoying, they're doing it as they see it that things have changed since high school and maybe now they might have a chance.
Then we go to the party and have Ron trying his best to comfort and console Bonnie, as she's all upset that they've been at the party for a while and Kim's dad hasn't said a word to her. She wants to at least say something to him but can't think of what to say. Ron tries to tell her but she doesn't truly believe him until Kim comes in and tells her that Ron is right. They continue to try to get her to relax by telling her that Kim's dad will love her, she just has to give it some time. The bit at the end where she stumbles will have implications further on down the road, though it might not be a harbinger of what everyone thinks that it could be.
The part with Shego on her winter vacation is about her sitting by the pool and being surrounded by families taking their vacations together. She tries to stay annoyed at them but can't help feeling like she's missing out. She likes being a villain but knows that it means that her options are very limited. The bit about her dreams and who is in them, Ron and Kim mostly, are troubling her and she doesn't know what to do about them. The last part was about Shego remembering that when Ron and Kim were knocked out at the toy factory she took the opportunity to peek under Ron's boxers. All that needs to be said is that for days afterwards she had a smile on her face that one would describe as being like the cat that just ate the canary, or something like that.
The last part comes back to the strip club with Jessica up on the stage dancing and the other women sitting around talking. Hope explains about when she figured out her sexuality, it's obvious that I'm writing most of the ladies as bi but I'm purposefully staying away from getting into the debate, Hope's story is just that she used to have a crush on Kim but figured that since nobody really knew who she was she didn't have a chance. Tying in with the bit of Jessica and Hope making out in the flashback she tried to move on past Kim with Jessica. Marcella admits to a little tryst with Bonnie and the college girl that came to a great number of their meets and trips. Tara is surprised to hear the truth but doesn't get mad and tells them that they should say something rather than just stay quiet about it. Hope isn't quit sure and neither is Marcella, but Tara doesn't give them an option, she will tell Kim and Bonnie if they don't. I threw in Lee as Hope's last name mostly because to me she and her parents looked a bit Asian in the episode where Drakken and his cousin Motor Ed steal Felix's wheelchair and Kim plays the zombie arcade game with them. I'm guessing at her nationality like I do with Bonnie's, believing that she more than likely is Hispanic in some way. At the very end after Jessica is done dancing they leave the club and go back to Hope's apartment to talk some more, getting behind Zita and her daughter in traffic. Zita decided to come a bit earlier, though her actually saying anything to Ron will come soon.
As for upcoming chapters in the next one Ron gives the ladies a few more BIG presents, Monique and Jessica move in. Hope and Marcella fess up and get results, and maybe even a bit of Penny. Bonnie's plan for Mike will resurface and lots more fun. So thanks to everyone for reading and reviewing. I hope that I didn't go to far off with any of the characters. As always reviews are greatly appreciated and my forums are always open for questions. I'll go now……….