I would've put up this chapter earlier, but I wanted to make this chapter a bit longer. But since that appears to be impossible now, here it is.
Spiritofdawolf – If you check through past chapters, you'll find out that Rufus is under the care of Jim and Tim.
DarkJackel– For the implementation of the Oh Boyz dance moves, I figured that Ron would be someone who'd put an unorthodox twist to his fighting style.
Zaratan – Don't worry about people flaming you about the way you go with your story. If they don't like it, then they don't have to read it. Taking suggestions is always good, but it's your story. As for the romantic possibilities, they're a bit open but neither Kim nor Bonnie will be paired with Ron.
vendoban – If you think what Hope did to Bonnie was amusing, then you're really going to be satisfied with what she does next.
I really hate doing this, but it has to be done.
I do not own Kim Possible. Disney does. But if I did, Kim would've never found out about Yamanouchi.
Chapter 7: Revelations…
Bonnie rubbed her jaw on the side where she was just punched as she looked into the eyes of her assailant. The assailant that just happened to be one of her closet friends! She had just told Hope about what Kim did to Ron and how she drove him to leave Middleton. And what did she get? A punch in the face! So why was she the one to get the anger-filled blow? "Hope, what-"
"YOU, BONNIE ROCKWALLER, ARE THE BIGGEST SELF-OBSESSED, HYPOCRITICAL BITCH THAT I HAVE EVER MET!" She heard Hope scream at her. With in a look in her eyes, she saw the fire and anger that was inside of her.
"Hope, what's your deal?" Bonnie responded with a hint of anger.
"You're mydeal Bonnie!" She said. "I knew that you were obsessed with Kim Possible, blaming her for all of your problems. But this time, you've gone too far!"
"Hope, I'm serious!" Bonnie tried to explain. Maybe after hearing her complain about Kim Possible for the last five years might had hindered Hope's trust of her judgment when it came to the Teen Heroine, but damn it, she was telling the truth and she'd be damned if she lost another friend… "I saw the whole thing! Kim admitted to ruining his restaurant and I heard Ron remind her about all the things she's done to him! So basically, it was Kim who ruined everything for him! It was Kim who broke his heart! And it was Kim who drove him away!"
"You know Bonnie, you're blaming Kim a hell of a lot for what's happened to Ron!" Hope said.
"Well it is her fault!" Bonnie replied as she then saw Hope shake her head.
"Not only are you a self-obsessed hypocrite, but you're also delusional as well!" Hope glared at her. "If Kim was responsible for Ron leaving, then she wasn't the only one!"
"What are you talking about?"
"'Oh he's such a loser!' 'He's such a disgrace!' 'He's so at the bottom of the food chain!' 'Oh why did Hirotaka had to leave and why did the loser had to come back?' 'He's just a pathetic, lower-than-slime, L-O-S-E-R!'" Hope mimicked, as each those quotes felt like a dagger stabbing the brunette's heart. "Sound familiar, Bonnie?" They should, she did say them after all. "From the way I see it, what Kim did was just the last straw! And you and just about everyone else in this school played a contributing factor for him leaving – Especially you! I'm surprised that you're not celebrating right now! The loser's finally gone! The social misfit is now gone and he's not ruining the squad with his stupid mascot routine, and we won't have to see that disgusting rat of his ever again!"
"Don't say that about Ron!" Bonnie snapped at the raven-haired girl. All those words Hope said were emotionally tearing her heart apart. The insults, the name-calling, everything!
"What's wrong? I'm just acting like you! And since when do you care abou -Oh right… When he got that check for $99,000,000! You were like, 'Yoo-hoo, Hotness! Remember when I was, like mean and abusive to you since back in Middle School? You know I was just playing hard to get, right?' Well that sure as hell went out the window the moment his money was stolen from him! It just went back business as usual for you. And I even heard that you went with one of Kim and Ron's villains, the blue-skinned megalomaniac who stole his money, and even he didn't want you around, seeing how shallow you are! Never mind that you just proved that you are the undisputed queen of shallowness in all of Middleton, hell even in Upperton and Lowerton for that matter!"
Hope shook her head, "Bonnie, listen and listen carefully: I am your friend, I've been your friend since Middle School! But I know that you have an ulterior motive for all of this Ron love all of a sudden. I know that you're up to something and we both know what this is about. You may be able to con Tara with this act, but you're not conning me!" Hope tried to calm down but a new wave of anger seethed through her. "And that's another thing! Ron wasn't the only one you've hurt. You also hurt someone who you clamed to be your friend! You knew how much Tara liked Ron, but you tried your hardest not to let her tell him how she felt! Having to drill the fact that he was loser into her head like every day! You don't see how she feels about it because she doesn't let you, but I do! When I watch Tara look at Ron, she smiles a bit, but she then looks down, and do you know why? Because she know what you're going to say! She knows that you're going to bring up the damn Social Hierarchy for the 37th time! Why does it matter anyway, Bonnie? Why does it matter who you talk to, let alone date anyway?"
"Because it just does, okay!" Bonnie instantly snapped as she began to wonder why she just said that. Why couldn't she just tell Hope how she truly felt about him? How he was her first friend. After all, she did told Felix who was, until yesterday, a complete stranger and "Stoppable's other friend," so why couldn't she tell someone who's been her friend since Middle School? And after hypocritically criticizing Kim for the way she treated Ron during all those years? Right now, she wasn't any better than Kim was, but that didn't mean that she couldn't save face... "And it's not like you were exactly his number one fan, either!"
"Okay, I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't exactly the nicest girl to him! Hell, even Tara will admit to being cold to him at first, but you and Kim, if not the complete, are the main reasons why he decided to leave! And personally, I'm glad that he's gone! At least now he'll never have to see Kim's face, or yours for that matter, ever again!" And with that comment, Hope left the locker room, leaving the poor brunette to reflect on what had just happened. One of her two best friends had not only just punched her but, from what Hope had said to her, stabbed her in the heart. She had already lost a friend about a decade ago, and she didn't want to lose anymore of them.
But Hope had a point: Bonnie was a contributing factor to Ron's departure with all the insults and taunting she did to him since Middle School. He must have taken so much abuse from her all the way up to this point where, after he had already reached his breaking point, Bonnie just had to taunt him to finally let lose. That was what led to Ron saying those mean things about her. She just couldn't believe how cold he was, how heartless! It was as if someone took away the goofy but lovable soul of Ron, and left him a cold, heartless shell of his former self. And now he was gone… Bonnie tightened her right fist as she then proceeded to punch a locker, not caring how much pain it caused her let alone that a bit of the skin on her knuckles peeled off a bit as a tear pour out from her eyes. It just wasn't fair! Ron was her friend first, and Kim kept him away all of those years! She knew that she was a little…okay, she was extremely bitchy to him, but it wasn't easy to be nice to someone who didn't even bother to think about you for years. The fact that he was just a sidekick to her rival didn't help, either. In fact, she spent all night thinking about an innovative way to hurt both of them sometime last year. The brunette sighed as another small tear came from her eye, remembering Ron's cruel words to her. 'Damn it, I did deserve that…' She wanted Ron to come back. She wanted him to speak to her. Hell, she even wanted him to call her "Bon-Bon" again. It was sure as hell better than the other nickname he came up with for her: Crockwaller. But it could've been worse. He could've called her "Cockwaller," knowing about the popular school rumor about her. A rumor that she just usually ignored, but was beginning to take its toll on her…
Her thoughts then shifted to Tara. Maybe if she wasn't so down on the poor girl for having feelings for Ron, maybe he would've had someone who really cared about him, give him a reason to stay, then he wouldn't had left. Then he would've had a reason to stay for. But alas, it wasn't meant to be. The Social Hierarchy was law, and liked it or not, to her it was the way of life. And apparently Ron believed it. At the airport, she saw his eyes when he hugged Tara, before he had noticed her being her. He didn't want to leave her, but he knew that if they went out, peer pressure would've gotten into the way. Thanks to that damned Hierarchy! Why, why did it even matter? Why couldn't anyone just date whomever the hell they wanted, regardless if they're at the top or the bottom of the food chain? She couldn't answer for everyone else, besides Peer Pressure having a contributing factor to their actions, but she knew why she went with the unwritten laws of High School. Two words: Connie and Lonnie. While most of everyone was probably just suffering from the simple pressures to fit in, Bonnie was feeling twice as much. Expectations and comparisons, just to name a few. She was already getting enough hell from her older sisters without losing her upper status. They've already refused to let her live down the fact that she was only Squad Captain for a few weeks, how would they treat her if she were to be kicked off the squad, or even worse? Why did she even care about what her sisters thought anyway? Why did she let them control her life and what she did? When they have the approval of the parents, the same approval that you've been longing for almost all your life, there wasn't much alternative.
With a sigh, Bonnie wiped away her tears as she then grabbed her bag and proceeded to leave the locker room door. When she was back at the gym, she saw a friendly face shooting hoops.
Felix was at the free throw line as he took his shot. The ball hovered through the air before landing one in the basket.
'He's good…' Bonnie's eyes were wide. When he told her that he played basketball for a hobby, she wasn't kidding. She imagined him playing ball in the handicapped division, even speculating that he'd do extremely well. It appeared that even those who were confined to a wheelchair could participate in sports. She began to wonder if he joined the Basketball Team, would he do well? This thought reminded her of a movie she saw on the Disney Channel a few months ago. She thought they were going to be showing Zenon: Z3 again, but she was a day late for that. So she saw that other movie. "Going to the Mat," wasn't it called? It was about a blind high school boy joining a high school wrestling team. Perhaps Felix's playing the protagonist's role, well, in a way…
After Felix made his last shot, from the three-point line, his wheelchair turned around and he smiled at whom he saw. "How long have you been standing there?"
"Not too long." She gave a small smile. "After all, Cheer Practice just ended not too long ago."
Felix nodded. "I just saw Hope leaving the gym earlier, she looked a bit upset. Did anything happen between the two of you?"
"Well…not exactly."
"Bon…" Felix asked in an accusing voice. Over the weekend, Felix began to start calling her "Bon." Well, it was almost like "Bon-Bon," which was what Ron called her to anger, upset, or just downright annoy her…most of the time. So Felix calling her "Bon" was the lesser of the two evils. She rather be called "Bon" or even "Bon-Bon" than "Crockwaller."
"Okay, let's just say that Hope asked me about what happened to Ron…"
"And…"
"Let's just say on Hope's trust scale of 1-to-10 with 10 being the highest… I'm at three! She so thinks that I'm just milking the whole thing!"
"She's your friend, right?"
"Yeah, but let's just say that why she doesn't trust me is somewhat justifiable."
"As in…"
"She thinks that I'm just using what happened to Ron as fuel for my Vendetta against Kim," She said in somewhat of an angry tone. "Damn it, I may compete with Possible, but it's not like I'm obsessed with the girl! It's not like I have her picture on a dartboard or have a screensaver of Kim's head being severed on my computer!"
"I think a lot of people wouldn't agree."
"Not you too!"
"Hey, I'm just pulling your chain a bit." Felix stretched his arms a bit. "So what now? Bueno Nacho? Wanna grab Tara?"
"I have to go to my locker to make sure a certain someone doesn't break in again, I'm busy with homework, but maybe I'm free later tonight? And Tara's babysitting the twins."
"Kim's bros?"
"Yeah…" Bonnie then blinked at this realization. "Wait a minute… they're Kim's brothers?"
"Yeah. Jim and Tim, the tweebs as Kim calls them, are always taking things apart and building stuff with it," Felix explained as he tossed the ball into his hands.
"Nonono…seriously, Tara's babysitting Kim's brothers?" Bonnie was trying to process the whole idea in her head. Tara King, her friend, was babysitting Kim's brothers, Jim and Tim? "Why can't Kim babys-" She stopped as she just remembered. "Let me guess, another mission?"
"Bingo." Felix confirmed.
"Probably getting a nice little payday from it." She muttered, as the brown-haired boy raised an eyebrow.
"I'm starting to see why Hope's not so trusting of you all the sudden."
"Oh shut up!" Bonnie exclaimed in a tone mixed with annoyance and frustration as they both began to leave the gym.
The Next Morning at Mount YamanouchiThe sun was just beginning to rise as the loud bell was rung. For Ron Stoppable, this morning was not the same as it was the previous…
"OKAY I'M UP I'M UP!" He screamed, as he stood up, hair in a mess, still in his blue pajamas. He had proven that yesterday was more of a fluke and that he was indeed not a morning person. 'I need to get used to this…' He thought to himself. It was sad. Since the first grade he had still yet to adjust to waking up early, as it was usually his mother that would drag him out of bed. But it could've been worse, though. He could've woke up to the loud sound of a bull… Then again, she did that to him a long time ago (AN: Do I really need to tell you who he's referring to?).
Ron proceeded to get dress. He quickly placed on his white gi as he then combed down his hair to a more respectable fashion. It was times when he wondered if he should go back to the Le-Goup hairstyle. While it was true that it made him a babe magnet, he wondered if it was the look for him. Those were the obvious pros and cons. Perhaps he'll go back to that hairstyle… someday.
As he opened the door and stepped outside, he saw Yori. Instead of her Gi, she was wearing a dark blue blouse and tartan styled pleated skirt. Much to his shock... "Yori, you're not dressed for class! And it starts in, like, I dunno… five minutes?"
"We're not going to class today." She informed him.
What he wanted to say was "You could've told me about this until yesterday and I wouldn't have to wear this out in like Tokyo or somewhere!" But what came out of his mouth was, "Then where are we going?"
"To free the burden that you are carrying."
"Give me a sec to change into something more suitable." He said as she nodded. Wouldn't it be suspicious that a blonde American male was wearing a karate gi with a Japanese female dressed in normal clothing?
After what appeared to be around three minutes, Ron came back out dressed in his red Jersey and dark cargo pants. "Okay, now I'm ready."
Yori led Ron on a breathtaking scenic walk around the mountain, from the entrance, to just below the school and near the bottom. Ron was amazed at how beautiful it looked. 'Now why couldn't we take this route to the school?' He asked himself, believing that it would save him time and energy. But then again, that was just his old lazy pink-sloth self. Nice and easy wasn't going to give him the perfect life, and any shmuck knows that hard work and dedication was the way to go to earn a good life.
"Tell me, Stoppable-San. What is troubling you?" She asked him with concerned in her eyes as the two made it to the bottom.
Ron decided to just tell her of his most recent problem. "Let's just say that I was proven that not everyone is who you think they are. Unfortunately, I found out about that lovely piece of life's lesson a little too late."
"Is this about Possible-San?" Yori asked, somewhat acting on her suspicions. She knew about how close he and Kim were, and he always spoke highly of her, saying that she was the best friend he ever had and would give up his left arm just to make sure she was happy. She also noticed his humor. It wasn't like his usual jokes, but more sarcastic.
Ron just nodded as he sighed. As much as he didn't even want to breath the same air as her, he knew that he had to let it out of his system. "What Kim did to me was just the last straw."
"The last straw?" She asked, concerned. "Allow me to help you. I am here for you, Stoppable-San. Something bigger is bothering you than Possible-san, is it?"
"It's a long story.If you're looking forhappy endings, then you're at the wrong place."
'Even your jokes are burdened…'Yori thought as she nodded. "I'm listening."
He decided to just tell Yori about his life. Yori did seem to be interested into his problems, and, besides Kim, she was the only girl that was interested in him. Well, there was Tara, but they both knew that it would never work. It all goes back to the Social Hierarchy. Maybe Kim believed in it too, but if so, then why did she stand by him all these years? Out of pity. Out of pity for the fool that had no friends, no life, and no hope. Just thinking about it just made him even angrier. But he decided it was best to get it all out in the open. "I'll say this about my life in Middleton. There's this one person in the world whose family name will forever be tarnished in shame? I'll be honest: I envy that person. In Middleton, half the people I know consider me a loser! To them, I'm a waste of space, a contamination in their 'perfect world.' Hardly anyone would give me the time of day. And when it came to dating, out of a choice between me and a guy that lost an arm, a leg, and an eye, all girls would kiss him before they'd even consider dating me. But I didn't let it bother me. After all, I rather be my own person rather than just be another jock or pop. Someone who was basically the same thing! That's where my motto…old motto, "Never be Normal" came in. I usually got jumped by the jocks and made out to be their personal punching bag. And nobody cared. Hell, some of them began to make bets on how long I'd keep conscious. But that was only a few times, as I just ran away. There was only one person out of the entire school who cared about me. That person was Kim, or so I thought…
Yori listened on, taking note at the bitterness of his voice when he explained some parts as well as him scoffing at what he called the "Social Hierarchy." When he talked about Kim, he had mixed emotions. When he brought up things such as Spirit Week at Freshman Year, or going to the Middleton carnival together, a small smile came to his face. But when he brought up the other things that had happened, his attitude grew very dark.
"Even on missions, I couldn't get any respect!" Ron continued. "Kim was always the one who got the glory, while I had to be the distraction. Putting my neck on the line knowing that I had a good chance of being vaporized, shocked, crushed, or worse. And at the end of the day: Kim got the credit while I? Well, let's just say that to those who do remember me? I'm the one who always loses his pants. I don't even care about fame and fortune. I had that once and it messed with my mind, and I never want to go through that again! All I want is to have some recognition in a positive note! But there were some parts where my life was more than just one big joke. For instance, there was a restaurant I started, thanks to my cooking talents at school. It started in Home Ec class where I was excelling and Kim was failing. The whole school just loved my cooking, even the teachers! But when my restaurant was beginning to open, it got closed. Rufus was a waiter and the Health Department showed up. You want to know how they even knew what to look for? Guess who gave them the 411? And to make things worse, that happened a year ago and I didn't find out before one of our villains showed a security tape of her making the call! And later she did admit it and she said that it was for my own good! For someone who knew how alone I was and how popularity would do wonders for my puddle-sized self-esteem, her definition of what was good was a lot different from mines. And to make things worse, she had to use someone else's cell phone to do it, trying to frame her rival so that if I found out, she'd be the one totake the fall.
"Even before I found out about Kim's betrayal, I began to have doubts about our friendship. About the fact that we're even as close as we are. I mean this is the girl who I knew since day one! Especially after I had that accident where I got amnesia and forgot everything. Now, I just found out that it was just a lie… She never saw me as a friend, but as just a sidekick. Someone to pamper and pet, ready and willing to expect to drop everything just so she could smile. Just like a lapdog. Never again… That is one point of my life I do not want to go back too. But there is only one bad side to all of this: My departure hurt two people I care about besides my parents and Rufus: Felix and Tara, three if I want to count Bonnie."
Yori began to ponder at the name "Bonnie." "Bonnie…wasn't she the girl who was Hirotaka's number one girlfriend?"
Ron blinked at this bit of information. "Are you serious?" However, he did remember Bonnie's last words before he boarded his flight…
"Umm…if you get the chance, could you say hi to Hirotaka for me?"
"Never mind…" He said as he thought about Hirotaka and Bonnie together, 'Hirotaka likes Bonnie? Either there's another side to her than what I've seen for the past five years or she's playing him just like Kim played me all these years…' He then proceeded to answer Yori's question. "Yes, this is the same Bonnie. While I'm sure that I could at least trust Felix and Tara. Bonnie, on the other hand proved time and time again that she wasn't the nicest person to be around with. She's the main one who kept calling me a loser and basically made life hectic for Kim and me. And now she's all 'I didn't mean to be the way I was! I was just playing hard to get!' But that was just the same thing she said when I got the Naco royalties check and I've already mentioned what happened after that…
Yori's eyes went a bit wide at hearing this about Hirotaka's number one girlfriend. 'She appears to be shallow! I wonder what does Hirotaka see in her?'
"Thinking about what I did to them, and what Kim did to me… I guess you can say that I'm no better than Kim after all…" Ron admitted, but to whom. Was it to Yori, whom he was explaining this to? Or was it to himself he was admitting this to? Sure, Kim had hurt him over the years, up to the point where he just didn't want to take it anymore and leave. But by leaving, he ended up hurting Felix and Tara, especially Tara. Tara was practically begging him not to leave and he still did. He'd be surprised if she didn't even hate him at this point, or anyone else for that matter. Hell, he hated himself right now. Maybe that was why he was so cold. In a desperate attempt to get away from Kim as far as possible, without her tracking him down and not letting him go, he managed to push just about everyone he cared about away. "So basically, this trickle is barely a drop right now."
Yori put her hand on Ron's shoulder. "Stoppable-San, this is another one of your flaws. You do not give yourself enough credit. Even Master Sensei and I make mistakes. Everyone does. You must learn from your mistakes so you do not repeat them. You must find your true self, which I see inside you. I still believe in you, Stoppable-San."
Ron nodded. She was right. What he needed to do was to stop doubt himself and to believe himself. The best thing to do was to just deal with the past and to learn from it. Otherwise it was going to be a long hard road in the highway of life. But he had already learned one thing from his past: He wasn't going to be talking to one Kimberly Anne Possible anytime soon…if ever.
Well I wanted to write more than I did, but this was the most suitable place to stop for the chapter. Next chapter, Tara expresses her thoughts as Ron and Yori enjoy a day in Japan. Also, next chapter is where all the high school drama starts…
