Hi guys, sorry for the late update, I had a really crazy week. Anyway, we're getting closer to the end, I already have everything in my head, I only have to write it. Enjoy.
Kim's POV
"What was he doing here?" she thought, she couldn't wrap her brain around the fact that he had appeared in front of her front door. "Maybe…? Could it be…?" She started thinking, she started hoping…
-"Kim," Ron started "I came because I made my choice and I thought it wouldn't be fair not to tell you I'm going to ask Yori out tomorrow."
Kim felt like her heart fell apart, she had started to hope for the best and the sentence finally came out in order to shatter those hopes. She fought in order to hold her tears. "I thought so," she said, "I had my chance with you last year and I blew it, I am sure you and Yori will be great together."
-"I… thanks for taking it so well." Ron replied, looking relieved.
-"It's your choice, I can't resent you for it." Kim answered "and at least we can still be friends."
Ron stood frozen in front of her, not answering. She felt her heart beat faster. It was as if time was getting slower when she heard Ron's reply. "No we can't." He said.
Kim was dumbfounded, she could understand why he would choose Yori but that… "Why?" She couldn't stop the question from leaving her mouth. She had to know why. "I know I screwed up but I changed, just like you changed over the year, it took me some time but you know I'm not the same self-centered, hottie-obsessed, childish girl. Even if you're dating Yori we could still be friends." She waited and saw him nodding. "Then why? Just tell me why?" She had never been so close to tears but she wouldn't cry, not now, not in front of him.
-"Because of the same reason it took me so much time to choose." Ron said, "Because I have to make a clean cut in order to focus on the girl I chose, and I won't be able to do that if I keep hanging out with you."
-"So what?" she said, "we live in the same city, and not a very big one it's not as if you're not going to see me anymore."
-"That's not true," he replied and paused when he saw Kim interrogative look. He took a deep breath, "I will ask Yori if I can go to Japan with her after graduation."
If Ron's statement about choosing Yori had been dynamite for Kim, this was a freaking atomic bomb. "JAPAN?" She shouted, "Why? You're going to let everyone behind? Felix, Monique, Josh, Tara and everyone you know? DO you…"
-"Kim," Ron interrupted her, "This is my choice, I have my reasons and you don't have a say in this. Nothing you'll say will make me change my mind."
Kim stopped talking. Graduation was in two days, after that Ron would go to Japan. He would probably spend the next day and Graduation day with Yori which meant this was the last moment which belonged to them only.
She marched forward and pulled him into a tight hug. "I know she'll be an amazing girlfriend and you'll do great things in Japan but please, don't forget about this place, this town and everything you lived here."
-"I sure won't." Ron replied as he broke the hug. They stared at each other for a while unable to find the right words, what could be said to definitely end a lifelong friendship?
-"Goodbye, Ron Stoppable" Kim finally said.
-"Goodbye, Kim Possible" Ron answered.
Kim came back inside and closed her door. It was done. Over. She went upstairs, to her room. She laid on her bed, looking at the pictures of her and Ron around the world for their missions. Then she started crying.
Ron's POV
As the Possible's door closed, Ron started heading back to his house. It was the right decision. He couldn't stay friend with Kim and date Yori, especially since he had feelings for both. So letting go of Kim since he chose Yori was the right decision. It was the right decision. Then why couldn't he stop crying?
The next day, Ron headed up to Yori's place. The look of joy he saw on her face blew away most of his uneasiness from yesterday. The enjoyed their first times as a couple. Their first movie date. Their first kiss. Their first lunch date. And they talked. A lot. About how to deal with what was coming next. After a lot of talking they had managed to sort things out. This was going to work out just fine.
After this amazing lunch, prepared by Ron of course, Yori received a call from sensei. She had something to do on Yamanouchi's behalf nearby and would be back for dinner. Ron promised her he would be waiting for her with something even better than what they already did.
When Yori left, Ron decided to pay Felix a visit in order to thank him for setting his thoughts straight last time. He grabbed his jacket and walked toward his friend's house.
Felix's POV
Felix saw his friend coming toward his house with a huge smile on his face and couldn't help but wonder what Ron finally did after their conversation.
He opened the door and let his friend in, starting with some small talk, as they always did until they were alone in the room. It was their ritual when they were at the other's house and he didn't intend to break it even for something as important as this.
As soon as the two of them got inside Felix's room and closed the door, Ron sat on his friend's bed and waited for the inevitable questions that would follow.
-"So" Felix started, "From the stupid grin you had on your face when you came I can tell you made your choice and that it went well."
-"Pretty much, yeah" Ron answered, knowing perfectly what Felix wanted to know but he enjoyed watching his friend waiting in order to know his decision. He didn't know why all his friends were so interested in his love life but he couldn't deny that for once it was nice to be the center of attention.
-"So," Felix continued "Are you going to tell me or do I have to roll over you order to get this out of you?"
-"Ok, ok" Ron replied with a smile, "No need to be that extreme, besides, you're all going to know when you'll see Yori and me coming, holding each other's arm, tomorrow for graduation."
Felix had to fight in order to prevent his smile from fading, sure he knew Ron was hesitating but deep down he always kept the hope that, in the end, Ron and Kim would end up together. In fact, most of their friends thought the same way.
-"Yori then," he started "I guess you've started to look for a college around. Try to choose a different one from Kim if she decides to stay around, it would be strange to have the two girls you had feelings for in the same college, with you, after high school."
Ron took a deep breath thinking about how he should say this to his best friend. Especially considering how he helped him out through this stitch. Then he decided to go simply and just tell him.
-"Actually, there is no way Kim is going to the same place Yori and I are going." He started.
-"How can you be so sure?" Felix asked.
-Because…" Ron took a deep breath "Yori and I are moving to Japan next year."
Felix felt like he lost his ability to breathe. Ron leaving? Impossible! This guy loved Middleton, we talk about the guy who still dress up for Halloween, the guy who sit at the same booth in the same fast food since Middle school. We talk about my best friend. The one I can talk about everything with, the one who'll always be there for me if I'm in trouble, the same way I'll be there for him. He couldn't leave.
Even though he felt such a shock, his brain kept analyzing this stitch inside out. "Is this Yori's idea?" He finally asked.
Even now, Ron couldn't help but be amazed by his friend's brain which had led him, once again, to the right answer.
-"Yeah," he answered "she's going back to Japan after graduation and I'm going with her. Besides, there are some things I have to finish there." "Such as a ninja training." He thought but he couldn't say that to his friend.
Felix watched his friend carefully, he knew him well enough to know he wouldn't budge. He had made his decision and he would stick with it.
-"I guess you have to prepare for your trip then, I'm not going to hold you more." He concluded with a smile as he left Ron at the front door.
-"You're taking this really well." Ron observed.
-"Hey, it's not as if we won't stay in touch," Felix replied "Technology is everywhere and no one knows how to use it better than me."
-"Really?" Ron answered teasingly "Not even Wade?"
-"Just shut up and go prepare!" Felix replied angrily as he chased his friend away.
He knew it was wrong to contest the choice of his friend but In the back of his head he couldn't help but hear this little voice which was saying: "None of this would have happened if he would have chosen Kim."
He went back to his room and watched the back of his friend, slowly disappearing and finally let his tears go.
Ann's POV
Ann had seen her daughter in a lot of situation before. She had seen her angry, scared, happy, excited, tired, sick, and in every other state a young high school girl can go through. But despite everything her daughter had to endure she had never lost her will to go forward. She had never lost that optimism that "everything was possible for a Possible." That in the end, it would work out just fine.
Except for now. During the whole day Kim had acted as normally as she could, she ate breakfast with her family, chatted, laughed, and did everything a young high school girl do the day before her graduation. But the light that had always shined in her eyes had vanished. Vanished after Kim had opened that door yesterday night.
Ann didn't hear what happened but she didn't need that to know what had happened. Ever since she understood what Eric had done, Kim's feelings toward Ron had been obvious, they grew even more considering someone had forcefully done everything he could to push them apart for each other. Ann could only imagine the effect a rejection would have on her daughter in her state. In the end, that Eric kid had succeeded in something: he broke the most formidable bond Ann ever saw between two children.
No, she couldn't say that. Eric didn't have this power. Only Kim and Ron had it. Eric may have armed the gun but it was Kim that pulled the trigger on Christmas Eve. And Kim was probably all too conscious of that fact, which was why she was in this state.
During the afternoon, when Ann was at home, on a break from the hospital, while James was still in the space center and the tweebs were out, she decided to talk to her daughter. As she was coming toward the door, she couldn't help but think about how she was going to handle this. Kim had always been strong, every time she needed help from her it was to show her the right path in order to solve a problem, but now there was nothing Kim could do.
She knocked on her daughter's door. "Kim? Can I come in?"
-"Sure mom." Kim answered
Ann came in and watched her daughter seriously, more seriously than she ever did. Kim instantly knew what this was about.
-"Kim…" Ann immediately started, "Do you want to tell me what happened with Ron yesterday?"
Kim sighed "Was it that obvious?" She asked.
-"Only for me." Ann replied. "Do you want to talk about it?"
Kim started talking, she told her mom everything, how Ron came, the fact he chose Yori and that he was going to leave Middleton. She started crying in the middle of it. "I really tried mom. I did everything I could to show him that I changed, that I wasn't the same girl that I was last year but in the end I couldn't reach him." She had a sad laugh "And now I have to do this stupid speech, it just seems so stupid compared to all this."
-"No it's not" Ann answered confidently "It's true, you lost Ron, and you will lose other things in life, just like that. Do you really think you'll stay in touch with all of your high school friends? You will drift apart, like everyone, because that's what life is all about: you do your best to keep the people important to you from drifting away. And sometimes, you fail, just like what happened with Ron, and it really hurts. So take this pain, these feelings and do a proper goodbye speech to your high school life tomorrow."
Kim had stopped crying and was now watching her mother. A bit of her old spark back in her eyes. "Thanks mom." She said before getting back to her desk in order to work on her speech.
Ann left her daughter room, she had meant everything she said about high school but deep down, she had also hoped that Kim and Ron would be different, that they would be that one in a million couple that stayed "together forever" as in the fairy tales. "I guess it wasn't fated." She thought as she was going to bed. Tomorrow was graduation, Kim's last day as her little girl, even if things weren't perfect she would anything for it to be perfect. "What could possibly go wrong?" she thought as she drifted to sleep.
