"Hey Kim, you should really get that looked at," Ron said to Kim as they walked down the hallway to their lockers.

Kim gingerly touched the dark, angry bruise on her right eye that she had received from fighting Cleopatra the day before.

"I don't think so," said Kim. "It just has to heal some.

When they reached their lockers, Kim opened hers and hers and looked at the mirror inside. She winced. "That does not look good."

Ron chuckled leaning against his locker. "don't worry KP. It doesn't look that..prettyyyyy. Ron's eyes had strayed past Kim and to the gorgeous blond girl across the locker bay.

"What?" Kim asked. "What do you mean its not that-" It was then that she noticed Ron was looking past her. She turned around and it wasn't hard to figure what had stolen his attention.

"Ron, if you keep staring she's gonna notice," Kim told him.

Ron shook his head as if to clear his thoughts. "What? I wasn't staring at anybody," he said defensively.

"My eye may be busted up but I'm not blind," Kim countered. She looked over her shoulder again. "Whoever she is, she's new."

"Yeah, I don't think I've seen her before," Ron added as he watched her empty her backpack.

"Come on Ron, lets get to class," Kim urged suddenly when the clock in her locker read 7:50. "I am not getting detention today."

"Because Ron didn't necessarily want a detention either, he followed Kim. But when he glanced over at the girl one last time, he saw her gazing at him.

The eye contact was brief, but meaningful, making an eternity out of mere seconds before Kim whisked Ron around the corner.

Cleo stared after Ron long after he was gone, getting to class on time forgotten. She knew that was the same boy that had fought h at the Bueno Nacho but she felt not an ounce of malice. Quite the opposite in fact.

She didn't even give a second thought when her teacher marked her for detention for tardiness on her first day.



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"So how is Rufus?" Kim asked at lunch "Yeah," their friend Monique added. "I haven't seen the little guy today." "Rufus is sick," Ron told them. "Oh," Kim sympathized. "I hope he feels better." "Me too." Ron dipped a fry in his mustard packet and popped it in his mouth. "Darek said he had to leave class today," he said, changing the subject. Darek was the school misfit. His only friend was Mako Sullivan. Both were rude, loud disrespectful, and had already been suspended on numerous occasions that year.

"And?" Monique asked.

Ron shrugged. "And Mako also left, like at the same time. It was kind of weird, I mean, they both just raised their hands, said they were sick, and walked out to go to the nurse."

"When was that?" Monique asked.

'Right before lunch started."

Kim frowned. "I was just at the nurse's office to drop off some medicine. They weren't there.

"I know," Monique interrupted. "They're right over there."

Kim and Ron turned to see the two boys closing the cafeteria doors. Odd.

"What are they doing?" Ron muttered.

Darek and Mako turned around just then, surveying the cafeteria. Aside from Kim, Ron and Monique, no one had noticed them.

They looked at each other. Mako nodded. They both reached into their pockets.

BAMBAM!

Twin gunshots sounded off, immediately silencing the astonished kids in the cafeteria.

"If we could please have your attention," Darek called out. Yes, that's right Please turn you eyes to my friend and I, the ones with the guns. Now listen up." Darek and Mako had their guns sweeping the room to make sure nobody made a false move. "my friend and I are only looking for certain people. Those of you who do not belong in that category will not be hurt unless you try something stupid, or piss us off, or we feel like it." Darek turned to Mako who produced a wrinkled sheet of paper. "Now if I call your name, you come up here in the front. If no one comes up, I start shooting people."

"Now listen," one of the teachers broke in. "You don't have to do this."

Mako aimed at the teacher and fired. A dark hole appeared on the wall next to her head, spraying shards all over the place. "Shut up, teach."

Darek looked around and then began to read. "Kim Possible."





TBC