WARNING!!! This chapter contains nudity, light commentary on something of a sexual nature. If you believe this chapter should bump the whole story up to R, let me know. I don't want this to be too hot for most to handle.
Disclaimer: I don't normally do these, but since there is a little extra in this chap that I don't own…. I don't own the Movies Coyote Ugly, Nine and half Weeks, or Nine Months. And quite obviously, I don't own Kim Possible, or any related characters, names, etc.
Over the Edge
How Do I love?
Over the next month, things began to fall into a rhythm. Bonnie walked with Ron and Kim to school, if either Kim or Bonnie said anything to each other; it was in a cold tone. Ron tried to play go between, and they both talked warmly to him, but he could never get a friendly conversation going between them.
He had asked Bonnie one day, why she was still so mean to Kim. Bonnie had told him that all those years of rivalry couldn't just disappear. Ron accepted it, especially since Bonnie was showing marked improvement.
Once a week now, Bonnie ate lunch with Kim and Ron, which usually meant Monique and Felix as well. Bonnie and Monique got along quite well until Monique, Ron, and Felix turned the conversation to Bueno Nacho or Pro Wrestling. This actually lead to one surprising event; a willing joint effort between Kim and Bonnie, to bring Monique "Back from the Dork Side". This was their shared joke for what they called the split personality of Monique; the fact that she could be both, one of the girls, and one of the guys.
It eventually came that Monique and Felix started a chain reaction that stared something like this.
"So… er… Monique," Felix said, stumbling on his words. "I was… er… wondering…. Yawanngooutwitmetnight?"
"What?" said Monique, dropping her makes shift naco, though she had understood him perfectly.
"Do you want to go out with me tonight? I have tickets to see at Ice-Skating thing." Felix cringed as he waited for the denial that he thought was coming.
"You mean Wrestlers On Ice?" she asked, incredulously.
"Yeah… you probably already have plans though," Felix mumbled.
All the while Bonnie, Kim, and Ron were watching with suppressed smiles.
Though it wasn't necessary, Monique received a kick from her direct Right, Kim. You see, it was planned that Monique and Ron, the wrestling fans, were already going. Monique understood that the kick meant "Ditch us, go with him!" Which Monique was already prepared to do. Now she just had to do it with a bruised shin. "I'd don't," she blurted out. "I mean… I would love to go with you Felix."
"Really?" he said.
Monique was not one to stay tensed up, so she smiled wryly. "Yeah, but if I feel one cyber hand on my…" she let the playful threat go.
Felix smiled and said, "I swing by later tonight!" with that he took off for his next class.
"Sorry for ditching you Ron," she said apologetically.
"No prob, actually I think I know exactly what to do with the tickets," he said with a big smile at Kim, and then he took off himself. He returned two minutes later with Josh Mankey not far behind.
"Hey, Kim," Said Josh. "I… er…" he looked at Ron with smiled. "just acquired some tickets to the ice show tonight. I know its totally short notice, and I'll understand if you have plans, but did you want to go with me?"
Kim blushed bright enough to match her hair, which made Bonnie laugh. She looked daggers at Ron, who only smiled innocently. "Yes, Josh, I would love to go. In fact, Monique did you wanna make it a double date?" she asked her friend.
"Yeah," Monique said, actually quite grateful to have a girlfriend there to back her up.
"Cool, um, pick you up at six?" Josh offered.
"Actually Felix is driving me," Monique said, kindly turning down Josh's offer.
"Cool," he said. Then he paused. "Wait… isn't that the guy who's paralyzed from the waist down?"
"Yeah," Monique said, the thought hitting her for the first time too.
"How's he gonna drive?" Josh asked the question that Monique and Bonnie were also wondering.
"he'll manage," Kim said as Ron snickered.
"Cool," Josh said. "Guy who can make free throws like him can drive my carpool anyday." He turned to Kim. "Walk you to your next class?" he offered.
"Sure," she said, waving bye to Ron, glaring at Bonnie, and walking off with Josh.
"So," Bonnie said, staring straight into her food. "We're the only ones without plans."
"Yup, so goes my life," Ron said with a smile as he relaxed. The tickets had been cheap, and he had only paid for his. He could catch it the next time around.
"Did…" Bonnie began, but trailed off. She was always so weak around Ron. He was the only one she usually allowed to see her this weak. She saw him looking at her. "Did you wanna come over to my place and watch some movies or something?"
"Sure, what movies?" Ron said with that smile that made Bonnie's heart ache.
"Um… you bring one, I'll bring one, we'll watch 'em both," she said. She had a movie picked out already. She had been waiting for an opportunity like this for a month.
"Okay," he said. "I'll be over… what six?" he asked.
"How about eight," she said. "Movies are better at night." She gulped hard, obviously nervous.
"Okay," he shrugged. Ron, bless his heart, was oblivious to the nervousness Bonnie was feeling at her plan.
Ron arrived at the door that night with a bag of munchies in one hand, the Coyote Ugly DVD in the other, and of course, a naked mole-rat in his pocket. Of course ladies and gentleman this, unlike with any other teenage boy, is not a euphemism.
Bonnie opened the door in the same red halter-top and Capri outfit she had the second time he had visited her. It had the same effect. Ron dropped his jaw for a moment, and Bonnie blushed as she saw him looked at her. She guided him to the TV room. Once again her mother was gone on a business trip. They popped Ron's movie in and watched it. Bonnie, the entire time, scooted closer to Ron when he was engrossed in the film.
When the movie ended, Bonnie got up and put the next DVD in.
"What movie is this?" Ron asked.
"Um, Nine and half weeks," she said, wondering if he knew about it.
"Nine and half Weeks," Ron mused. "I think I've heard of that… Is that the one with Hugh Grant?" Ron asked, incorrectly.
"I… Don't remember," Bonnie lied.
They sat down and watched, Hugh Grant was not in this. Bonnie left suddenly, she said to freshen up. That was when the movie took a turn Ron wasn't expecting. It was a VERY graphic love scene. Ron, while a gentleman, was still a guy. He gulped, becoming uncomfortable. He was worried about when Bonnie came back.
Bonnie meanwhile was watching from the kitchen. She had used this ploy before, on Brick Flag. She walked slowly, seductively back into the room. "Enjoying the show Ron?" she asked in a low sultry voice.
Ron's head whipped around to see Bonnie… All of Bonnie. She had completely undressed before heading back in. her body was completely bare, no hair below her head. Ron gulped again. Bonnie moved in quickly and kissed Ron. When Ron snapped out of his shock, he stood up. "Bonnie!" he cried suddenly. "What are you doing?"
She looked up at him from the couch. First her eyes showed confusion, then sadness, then shame, as she turned and ran from the room. Ron slapped himself on the face, and ran after her.
"Bonnie," he called from outside her bedroom door. "Bonnie! I'm sorry." In all honesty, Ron wasn't sure what he was apologizing for. But, from years of hanging out with KP, he knew that when dealing with an upset woman, the best way to get things started, even if they messed up, was to apologize. "Put on your robe and let me in," he pleaded.
The door unlocked and there was Bonnie in a fluffy blue robe. Her mascara was running, and she was obviously crying. She could hardly look him in the eye. "What was that about?" he asked gently.
"I…" she couldn't say, but she had to. "I like you Ron." She looked at him with her eyes glistening with tears. "I wanted to show you I love you."
"Bonnie," he said, sitting her down on her bed, and sitting next to her. "You wanted to… to have sex with me tonight?"
"Yeah," she said, whipping her eyes with the back of her robe's sleeve. "To show you I love you."
"You can show me you love me without having sex with me," he said.
She looked at him confused. "It was stupid anyway." She said, as she got up and started pacing again. "You're probably more interested in Possible, or Monique… and why should you be, they have so much in common with you."
"Ew," Ron said softly, just enough to get her attention. She looked back at him, once more confused. "Bonnie, I do love Kim and Monique, but I love them in the way I love Rufus… Love 'em, but wouldn't wanna date 'em. They're like sisters to me."
Bonnie turned away again. "Still doesn't mean you'd want me… used goods."
"Actually Bonnie, I've met a lot of girls. And of all of them, Kim, Monique, Yori, Brittany Brittany, The only one I've ever actually wanted to… well to love… is you."
She looked back at him, shock written across her face. He continued, "In the last month Bonnie, you have changed a lot. You've also kept some of the things that make you, you; your attitude, your talents, your popularity, your looks. All that as come to make you… a woman I would love to be with."
She just stared at him again. Once again he continued. "But, I don't think you are ready yet. There's still a lot inside you that needs mending. I don't think it would be right of me to… well to take advantage of the trust you give me." He looked at her, and she could see pain in his eyes too.
She sat down in his lap and cried. "Love me," she said softly through the tears. "Teach me to love."
"I do," he said, and kissed her on the forehead. "And we'll learn together." She cried for a good hour, before she fell asleep in his arms. He tucked her in, still wearing her robe, and locked up, and left.
He walked home in the dark night. His parents were already asleep, so he tip-toed quietly through the house. They didn't put a curfew on him, because this was the first time he was going to a friends house, and they trusted their son. Ron changed, and got into bed. As he lay there, trying to sleep, his thoughts slipped back to Bonnie. He could feel the emotion there; Love. The kind of Love between lovers, not the kind he felt for Kim and Monique, and Felix, and Rufus. This was different, special.
As he slept, the primitive part of him thought of what might have happened if the enlightened part hadn't intervened in Bonnie's plan. Ron was ashamed of himself in the morning.
