Disclaimer: I don't own the series, if I did if wouldn't be ending.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: The crud is kicking me this week. I hope to have more out this week than I did this weekend.

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Ron tried to describe Shego to Yori as they walked to Bonnie's house. Neither of them paid attention to the rain as it fell onto them. Yori nodded her head and showed no sign of concern about the super-powered foe.

"Do not worry yourself Ron-kun; there are those that I have trained with that have similar abilities. A lot of what you saw was the beginning classes."

"I will worry; it's what I'm good at." Ron turned the corner and pointed to a large house with six cars parked out front. "That's Bonnie's."

Yori looked at the building in a bit of awe. "It is so nice Ron-kun. This is all hers?"

"Well, her parent's. They are pretty well off. Well, now we are here, I guess we need to go in." Ron and Yori went up the walk and Ron rang the doorbell. Ron watched her close her eyes and grasp her hands, and then shake. What happened next was almost unbelievable; the rain that had gathered on her body flew from her body leaving her completely dry.

Yori smiled at the shock in his face. "Yes, Ron-kun, I will teach you that. May I have your jacket for a moment?" Ron handed her his jacket and she smiled at him. "Thank you, this will prevent questions." She put the jacket on her shoulders and took it off and started to hand it to him as the door opened.

"Domo Arigato, Ron-kun. Hello, Bonnie. Thank you for inviting me to your party," she ended with a bow.

"No problem, Yori." She looked at Ron in his soaked clothes holding his wet jacket, "Always having to look out after someone?"

"Uh, well, you know me Bon-Bon."

"Probably not as good as I should know you, but that is my problem, not yours. Uh…"

"Go on in Yori. Thanks for inviting me, Bonnie. I'd love to stay for a bit, but I have a lot I need to think about."

"Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to get you in but not get everything drenched. Help yourself to something to drink or eat, Yori. Ron can I talk to you for a minute before you go?" she said as she closed the door behind her.

"I guess so. Not much choice."

"Good. I need to talk to you about some of the things that are going on that you probably don't know about." She paused and looked at him and then away. "This is going to be hard, but remember that I am telling you this because I am trying to look out for everyone involved.

"Ron, Tara wants you. Not necessarily as a boyfriend, but if you think that you need 'some' she will be more than happy to give it to you. Don't look shocked, she did everything but strip and spread for you after that freak attacked us at the camp. I think the only thing that kept her off of you was she was worried about Kim." Bonnie paused to let this sink in. "She feels threatened by Yori. I don't know how she feels about you but I aim to find out. I'll let you know. If I think that it will hurt you; I will stop it. You know I can.

"Ron, you have been hurt in a way that none of us can grasp. I don't want you to go and get hurt because of some hormones gone wild and… Well, let's just say that I am not and have not always been Pollyanna Sunshine. I know what those dark feelings in the night are like. You lost a lot and so did the school. If you lose anymore, I don't think that they school could take the repercussions."

Ron looked at the usually bored and disinterested girl and saw in her eyes someone that was riding watch over what she saw as her domain. "Thanks… Bonnie. I think."

"Shocked by some of it huh?"

"Yeah, especially about the Tara thing, I mean no one has ever thought of me that way."

"Trust me; the girls that hear the rumors out of the guys' locker room have at least once. Look at it this way. If I thought that it would do you any good I would drag you in there and get any one that would help and we would wear you out. I don't think that it would help in the long run, probably the opposite. Though one thing that I would like to know, are the rumors true?"

A perplexed Ron looked at the cheerleader. "What rumors?"

Bonnie released a long frustrated sigh. "That you are hung with a capital H," she said while holding her hands apart with her fingers making a large circle.

Ron's Jaw dropped. "Uh, well, that is, I… I wouldn't say THAT big." This earned a snicker from Bonnie as she moved her hands slowly towards each other. They got about three inches closer, "Stop."

Bonnie's eyes opened even wider than they were when he moved her fingers into an opened circle position. "That's about right. I don't know about the rumors. No one ever asked me before."

"Uh, Ron, if you ever need a hook up…"

"Thanks, Bonnie, but…"

"Yeah, I know…"

"I better get going. See you around." He slid his jacket on and walked off from the still stunned teen.

"You shouldn't lie to her Ron. She was trying to be nice," came the astral voice of his friend. "I have seen it. You were being modest."

"I know, KP, but if I told her the truth there would be no way that she would try to get near it."

"RON!" she said in THAT voice.

"It won't work on me this time. She told me that I was desirable, and if you haven't noticed, she is hot. It's not like I told her that I wanted to do her right now. Truth to tell I think that part of me died with you.

"I kept holding out hope against hope that you would see one day how much I loved you and cared for you and that you would feel the same. The day when we stood in the movie line and you said that I would never have a chance with someone like you it ripped my heart out. I couldn't say anything without telling you how I felt."

"I'm sorry, Ron. I just don't trust Bonnie; she only looks out for herself."

"She is looking out for me because of how anything that might happen to me could affect the school and thereby her domain. So while the visible actions are that she is looking out for me, the true situation is that she is still as self centered as usual. Does that make you feel better?"

"Kind of I guess. So where are we going?" she asked looking around at the surroundings.

"I don't know. Does it matter?"

"Yes, it is still storming and you are drenched. I don't want you to get pneumonia."

"Kim, your mom is a doctor; you should know that walking in the rain does not make you sick. I'm fine. If I start to feel cold I will find someplace to stop."

"Okay… but I want to go on record just in case I have to do an 'I told you so'."

"Duly noted."

The two friends moved through the streets accompanied by the sound of falling rain till they came upon a familiar location. "Our tree, Ron, you came to our tree," came the melodious voice of Happy Kim.

"I know. I always wind up here when I am thinking about you, me, and us."

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