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Eugene McGuinness included this song on his self-titled album/CD released in 2008.

Those Old Black And White Movies Were True

Ann breathed a sigh of relief. She had not wanted to invite Shego to dinner. The green woman had tried to hurt Kim too many times in the past. But Shego had protected Kim and brought her home safely – only to have Ann accuse her of trying to hurt Kim. She had owed the thief an apology. And dinner had gone much better than she had anticipated. Apparently Shego and her daughter had some sort of informal truce between themselves when not on the clock. She decided Shego might not be as much of threat to Kim's life as she had feared, "Finish dessert. Apparently you have some kind of working relationship that doesn't require intense physical harm."

Shego nodded in agreement, "Hey, I'm even willing to keep her safe – if I can get another movie premiere out of it." She turned to Kim, "What do you say, Cupcake?"

"Uh... I was kind of wondering... Do you kiss on the second date?"

There was a moment of stunned silence around the table, broken by James Possible coughing violently to dislodge a bite of cherry pie which had somehow lodged in his throat.

Ann Possible found her voice first. "Kim, what did you just say?"

It was a rhetorical question. Ann knew exactly what Kim had said. She should have asked what Kim meant. Not that Kim herself knew.

Kim wished she had asked the question in some other way. Or at some other time. Or in some other place. At the dinner table in front of her parent's was, in retrospect, clearly a bad idea.

"I, uh... Shego kept saying she didn't kiss on the first date. And I said it wasn't a date. And she kept saying she didn't kiss, so I figured... And then, we didn't, so I was just wondering if... Never mind."

"I was just playing with her head," a nervous Shego explained to the Doctors Possible.

"Wait," Kim demanded, "What do you mean 'just playing with my head'? You mean you kiss on the first date? You lied to me?"

"You wanted to kiss me?"

"I'm just trying to get the truth out of you."

"No I don't kiss on a first date. I'm not easy."

"A kiss on a first date doesn't mean you're easy."

"I think that depends on the kiss," retorted Shego.

Kim hesitated. "Well, maybe."

James Possible nervously tried to change the topic of conversation. Jim and Tim might have been happy to remain on the topic of Kim and Shego kissing, but the adults left it gratefully. The conversation after Kim's question was not as relaxed as it had been. Shego was happy to thank her hosts and head for the door when the meal ended.

"I'll see you to the door," Kim offered.

"You don't need to–"

"I just want to say thanks for bringing my phone back," explained Kim.

Jim and Tim quickly exited for their room – to fire up the drone in case Kim thanked Shego with a kiss.

The two young women stood in front of the door.

"Hey, we had fun, didn't we?" Kim asked.

"When? Tonight?"

"I meant at the movie. I had fun anyway."

"Getting drunk?"

"I said at the movie. Watching it... Watching it with... Did you have fun too?

Shego smiled, "Yeah... Yeah I did."

"And you are getting soft."

"Am not."

"Are too."

"For that, I give you a black eye next time we fight."

"You can try."

"Hey, try not to help any more movie studios, okay?"

"Why?"

"Not sure your Mom and Dad could handle you getting an invite to another premiere... I guess you could play it safe and take Stoppable."

"Except he doesn't watch movies without twenty-seven explosions – unless there're zombies in it. And I might need someone with her own plane to get there."

"Well, if you hang up when the next studio calls for help we won't need to worry about it. Or can you just not help yourself when someone asks for help?"

"Can't help myself," sighed Kim. "But, hey, realistically, what are the chances of some other unhappy guy getting his hands on the movie film and threatening it?"

"Nonexistent," laughed Shego.

There were a couple uncomfortable seconds as they each wondered how to end the conversation, then – without a word – Shego ran for her car and Kim went inside to get her computer power cord back from her mom and to check her phone for messages and voice mails. "Call Wade first and tell him I've got the Kimmunicator back, or wait until after I've caught up on emails?" She gave herself permission to be slightly selfish. She would read and respond to emails and texts, and listen to voicemails, before calling Wade – but would call him before searching the web for gossip about herself and Ron Predictable.

It was late before Kim had caught up on with electronic contacts and spoken with Wade. She should have gone to bed, but first she wanted to see what Dragon Lady had written about the movie on Film Fan dot Net.

Kim jaw dropped in amazement as she read through the thread Shego had started.

"Why is everyone wasting so much time on Shego and me? It's the movie that's important. Randi... I'm sure SoundChick is Randi. I'm going to tell her to... No, if I tell her what Kim was thinking it says I'm me. Bad enough Shego knows."

Since Kim couldn't reveal her thoughts as she watched the movie with Shego without revealing her identity she'd settle for responding to Shego's review. It would be better not to say she had seen the premiere, that might have people guessing who she was. She couldn't say she'd seen it today. That would be lying.

"I saw Halcyon Holiday recently," Kim began her reply. It was recently. She was telling the truth. And Shego's reviews always suffered the same issues, in Kim's opinion. "She's too pretentious. I mean who cares who François Truffaut was, or whether the piano player got shot or not." In Kim's mind the only question that mattered was whether it was a fun movie to watch. True or false. Okay, you had to compare Holiday a little with Memo Pad since it had exactly same creative personnel. Shego claimed something about an establishing shot being lifted from something called The Bicycle Thief... Maybe it was. Did it matter? And what does hommage really mean, exactly? How is it different from homage? She ended her comments with, "Halcyon Holiday is a good movie you don't need a degree in movies to appreciate it."

Shego eagerly turned on her computer the next morning, wondering if Cathy Can-Do would have commented on her review. She briefly wondered if Wade had warned Kim that he was telling Shego of Cathy Can-Do's identity. It seemed possible: he really liked Kim and had no reason to like Shego. She'd try to figure out whether Kim knew she had been outed by how cautiously the redhead worded her comments. Shego smiled, at least she felt secure with her own pen name. Drakken's encryption was too good for Kim's young genius to break.

Shego stared at the screen for a full minute after finishing Cathy Can-Do's comments. Was there a chance Wade was wrong about it being Kim? Not that Cathy sounded any different. Same writer with no sense of the history of cinema. But, at least at first, it seemed odd that Cathy had ignored all the questions about the sexual orientation of Kim and Ron Predictable. Everyone else had talked about it. Everyone else wouldn't stop talking about it. Shego had thought, if Kim really were Cathy, that she'd have risen to the bait and said SoundChick was reading way too much into the pair being there together... "Or it makes sense... Little miss Cathy can't reveal she knows what's going on in Kim's head without revealing she's Kim. Same reason I couldn't tell Randi what was going on in my head."

'Dragon Lady' worked on her own reply to Cathy Can-Do. She deleted a couple sentences after writing them, and told herself, "Proofread this carefully. Don't want to show that I know who little miss Cathy is, it might let her guess who I am." It was pretty much Dragon Lady's usual complaint, 'While it's nice that you appreciate the little you see and understand, if you place the film within the larger context of the history of cinema there is so much more there to enjoy.'

"At least Kim keeps her focus on the movie, where it belongs, instead of this stupid gossip about us."

Both Kim and Shego hoped the gossip and questions about their relationship would die down. It didn't appear to be happening, but they were hopeful that, with time, the public would find something else – a mote of dust in the air or a rutabaga in the shape of Alexander Hamilton – to draw attention. And then the pictures of 'Ron Predictable' arriving at Kim's home with flowers and a box of candy started to circulate.

Shego suggested they figure out who snapped the photos and beat the individual, or individuals, up. Kim could not rule out her brothers being responsible and did her best to calm Shego down. Kim did her best to circulate the truth on-line, that the flowers were for her mother and not for her. Of course, the idea that Kim had invited 'Ron' home to meet her mom and dad sounded just as damning as saying 'Ron' had brought her flowers. Shego insisted Kim should have denounced the pictures as photoshopped. But, of course, no one would have believed that either.

Kim considered asking Wade if he could hack into the memory of Jim and Tim's drone and determine if they were guilty. However, she was not certain what she could do if it turned out Jim and Tim were responsible. There was also a tiny chance that Wade stood behind the pictures, as one of the very few people who knew Shego was coming to dinner.

The 'on the clock' relationship between Kim and Shego might have changed slightly, although both would have denied it.

There was a level on which most of Kim and Shego's fights could be called draws. It was rare for one to really hurt the other. They tended to view 'wins' and 'losses' in terms of whether Shego was able to get away with what she had come to steal or if Kim was able to stop the theft from happening. Their next fight, after the movie, was a 'win' for Kim in the sense of stopping the theft. Shego had to fight an urge to call Kim and make sure her enemy was all right. Kim had suffered a bloody nose in the conflict and Shego hoped it was nothing more serious. Kim was unable to fight the urge in the battle after that. Shego had 'won' but had only partially blocked a kick to her side as she escaped with the part.

"Are you okay?" Kim demanded. "I hit you pretty hard."

"Bruised ribs," admitted Shego. "I'll just take it easy for three days and–"

"Three days? You should see a doctor! Maybe there's a cracked–"

"Hey, one day would be enough. Just need a good night's sleep. The extra moans and groans from me are theater so Drakken will give me a couple days of sick time."

"Oh... How are you going to spend your down time?"

"I... Relaxing under a sun lamp." Shego lied. If she admitted reading a history of cinema, movie magazines, and watching four early Hitchcock films Kim might be suspicious. There was no way she would let her Dragon Lady identity slip out.

Kim called again a few days later to complain, "How come I have to serve as Ron Predictable's answering service?"

"It's the price you pay for asking me out. Now, what the hell are you talking about, Pumpkin? I'm getting fan mail? Propositions? Credit card offers?"

Kim hesitated, "I guess it's not just for you. We were invited to another premiere."

"What?"

"Not clear if it even has a title yet... Not sure it even counts as an indie. I think some film student shot it with her iPhone over the weekend... At least that's what I'm getting from her Facebook page. And the comments from her friends are that they hope it's better than her last junk. Oh, and the 'premiere' is being shown in her dorm basement."

"And you want to go watch garbage?"

"No. I just thought since the invitation was for both of us I should let you know. I mean, if you want to go maybe we could get Ron to wear a wig and he'd go as Kim Probable."

Shego laughed, they chatted for a minute. The call ended. Kim should have let it drop there. There was no reason she needed to respond to the unwanted invitation. But she felt that the burden of etiquette demanded she send a polite 'No thank you.' The student film maker saw the polite turn down as something positive. The other fifty-one invitations she'd sent out had all been ignored. But Kim Possible and Ron Predictable had responded! The hero knew she existed! She reposted Kim's email on her Facebook page to prove she was somebody.

Kim declining the invitation could hardly count as unusual. The fact the student took "No thank you," as a compliment might count as unusual. It was the collateral damage from the FB post which stunned Kim and Shego.

Somehow Kim and Shego had become a celebrity couple, Ronsible. And, as a celebrity couple, they began receiving more invitations to events that wanted the publicity of having them show up at an event. The fact Kim kept sending out polite no thank yous for restaurant openings or anything which included a Kardashian only seemed to make their presence more desired. If you could get Ronsible to attend your party it would prove you more important than the other individuals and functions which Kim and 'Ron' had turned down.

Bonnie Rockwaller almost got on her knees to beg Kim to show up at a party with Ron Predictable... She could even bring Ron Stoppable... He could even bring Rufus. "Please, Kim. I know we sometimes disagreed about cheers, but we're friends, right? You'll come, right?"

Kim fought the urge to roll her eyes at Bonnie calling herself a friend. "She and I aren't a couple. I got invited to the premiere and 'Ron' was able to fly me out. This is all blown out of proportion."

"Fine," Bonnie snarled. "See if I ever talk with you again."

"Well, maybe some good has come out of this," thought Kim. Sadly, she knew Bonnie could not be trusted to keep her promise.

In response to an invitation which had been especially tempting Kim added more information than usual when she declined to attend. 'Ron' was just a friend. They both enjoyed movies. They had looked like a couple because of the wonderful outfits that had been made for them by Paradise People.

Kim had a vain hope that her honesty might end the invitations for Kim and 'Ron Predictable'. She did not realize it was a vain hope as she declined the invitation. The awful truth became clear the next day. Maybe they would attend another premiere, if asked. Maybe they would consider showcasing the work of another designer. There were three very public invitations posted on the web, listing them among the celebrities who had been invited to movie premieres that would be happening in the next few weeks. And, in Kim's email, were offers from four designers to outfit Kim and Ron for a premiere.

The redhead hadn't finished reading the last of the design offers when her phone rang. Caller ID told her to expect, "Shego?"

"What the hell is up, Pumpkin?"

"I... What do you mean?"

"Are you awake? Have you looked on-line? We've–"

"Been invited to three other premieres."

"You saw that? Then why did you ask what I was talking about?"

"Rule of thumb, when talking with a crazy person don't assume she's making sense."

"Hey, don't confuse me with Drakken."

"You're right. Sorry. He's so not my type. What do we do about these invitations... I mean, we can't go... Can we?"

Shego fought back the urge to respond to Kim's comment on Drakken not being her type. Did it mean... Shego decided not to go there. "I... No... I... You don't want to go to any of them, do you?"

One of the movies had a ton of Oscar buzz. Shego would have traded her first-born son – if she had a first-born son – for the chance to see it. But she wasn't about to tell Kim that. One of the movies had Kim's favorite actor in the lead. (Kim accepted the argument that -ess on the end of a word was a diminutive, and actress and waitress should go the way of authoress and poetess – women were actors as well as men.) Kim had seen every one of the woman's movies as least twice. Kim would gladly trade her brothers for a chance to actually meet her. Of course, Kim would have traded her brothers for an oil change or a canned ham if they were the ones who took and posted the picture of Shego arriving with flowers, but it was unlikely she'd get an offer that high for the pair of them. But Kim did not want to tell Shego how desperate she was to see that movie.