Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible, though I do own an imagination.

Kim and Josh walked arm in arm as they browsed the mall. Ron and Bonnie on the other hand walked side by side, almost touching but almost as if they were afraid of it. Bonnie's head was tilted away from Ron, though her hips were toward him, and her arms were behind her back. Ron was walking straight up and down, his arm nearest Bonnie occasionally moving near her but jerking back when he realized it.

An older couple watched the two as they passed and commented on the couple. "Look familiar?" asked the elderly gentleman.

"Like us when you started to court me," said his wife.

Both Ron and Bonnie slightly blushed over hearing this. Bonnie let her hand fall from her back and Ron gently took it in his hand. She squeezed slightly to assure him it was okay and shyly smiled at him when he looked at her.

"Come on, Ron. I want to go in here," she said pulling on his hand.

"Sure," said Ron without looking up from her face.

"I need to pick up a few things here. Want to help me pick them out?"

"I don't know Bonnie, you know my fashion sense, or lack there of."

"Look around Ron; I just want a man's opinion."

For the first time Ron looked around the store, and found himself surrounded by more silk and lace than he had been ever before in his life.

"Vic-Victoria's Secret?" stuttered and sputtered the store's name as his face turned as red as some of the items near him.

"Yes, Ron, this is where I get all of my 'unmentionables'. What do you think about this?" Bonnie asked as she held up a lacy bra and panty set in a cream colour.

Ron's jaw dropped at the concept of the material against Bonnie's skin. He thought about how the colour would show off her tan; how it would cup her bosom.

"I will take that as an approval then. Let me go pay for this and then we can go. You are much more fun to be around when you can actually speak," she said as she kissed him on the cheek. "Wait for me by the front door?"

As Ron went to the front Bonnie slid off a lace teddy in the same colour to add to her purchase. A few moments later she slid next to Ron and smiled.

"I think we probably need to catch up with KP."

Bonnie nodded, "Yeah, any idea where?"

"Only one place she could be, Club Banana."

"Cool, they have a pair of shorts that I have been wanting. These you can see me try on."

Ron whimpered. Bonnie looked at him. No one else had done that when she had been around. "Ron-Ron, if you would rather not see it is okay. You could go to the arcade and wait for me."

"No, that's okay. I asked you to come shopping. I am in for the duration. I don't quit till the job is done," he turned to her smiling that too big smile of his.

"If I had known that about you Ron-Ron, I would have gone after you a long time ago," she sighed.

Ron blushed and looked away. "You called me Ron-Ron didn't you?" he asked turning back to her. Enough blood had worked its way through his brain to process the words.

"You call me Bon-Bon, so I thought that you needed a pet name also. I hope you don't mind."

"Not at all, it beats what everyone else calls me."

"And what would that be?"

"Nerd, geek, spaz," he paused, "loser."

Bonnie cringed at that last one. All the times she had called him that, to his face, it felt like each one of them kept coming back to her and hitting her in the stomach.

"Ron, I am so sorry. All those times, you must think I am horrible."

"No Bon-Bon, I don't. I know you were doing it to try and build yourself up. Most people that use those words are trying to hurt me, one way or another. If I hadn't been friends with Kim, you wouldn't even have noticed me," shrugged the teen.

"You're probably right. But I do notice you now, and I want to make up for the bad things that I have done to you. Starting with this," she brought her lips near his and kissed him. Softly, tenderly their lips met and parted. "There are more acts of atonement whenever you want them, Ron-Ron."

"Baby steps… baby steps," Bonnie could hear him mumbling to himself.

"One step at a time, right Ron-Ron?"

"Right, Bon-Bon, one step at a time."

She moved close to him and he put his arm around her. They made their way slowly to Club Banana, and what waited there, they had no idea.