Chapter 6

(back to the present day, end flashback)

"I had to confine myself to my room for three hours after that. The 'rents and Ron helped me get back on track, though I was grounded for two days because of that grade." Kim muttered.

"Stupid Amanda for taking my role..."

"And it all started with the basic needs of teenage girls...fashion...the whole crush thing..." Ron added.

"Like a 25% sale storewide at Club Banana?" Monique chimed in.

"Right, like that, Monique!" Ron exclaimed.

"Getting back to the ish at hand." Kim intervened, "Basically, Barkin is going to reveal the final cast list on Monday. Once he says the name, it's going to be official. As long as me and Ron do not end up in the starting roles, we should be good to be making at the very least a B on this course."

"I'm with Kim on this as well!" Ron agreed, "If I want to be a tree holding the branches...so be it! Even though it would be hard to get out of when I have to use the bathroom."

"But what would happen if, by some chance the students playing Romeo and Juliet end up getting sick and you were pressed by Barkin to take those roles?" Tara asked.

"The both of us would face major humiliation!" Kim exclaimed. "Based on our previous experiences on the stage that we mentioned before!"

"On a humiliation scale of one to five, one being 'ehh, I'll get over this' and five being 'OMG, I can never show my face at school ever again', where would it rank?" Monique asked.

"A definite five, Monique. We would get showered with neverending jeers and boos! Me and Ron would hide ourselves from everyone, even you two, if that were to happen." Kim explained. "Even Drakken's plan with the blushing thing with the flower would be small pebbles compared to this!"

"So as long as that list outside drama class sticks to the status quo, we should be good?" Tara wondered.

"Yes." came Kim's reply.

Ron felt his stomach grumbling.

"Man...my stomach is calling out...Bueeeenoooo Nachooooo!"

"Ron, we need to wait until the storm passes." Kim replied. "Tara, do you have your driver's license yet?"

"Not yet. I only have my learners permit..." Tara sighed, "I gotta take Barkin's Alphabet Course of Doom, or the ACD for short."

"Ditto." Monique agreed.

"And I can't take out my scooter because it won't work well in the rain." Ron replied as a rumble of thunder was heard.

"So we'll have to contact the 'rents." Kim said, deciding on which course of action to take. She sent a text message to Ann to try and pick them up.

Unknown to them, Ashley B was under her purple umbrella, on the side of the gym, listening to their conversation about Kim and Ron's stage drama.

She smirked as she texted Bonnie.

I have the info I got from their convo. Where should we meet?

To which Bonnie texted back, short and sweet.

My house. The garage.

Ashley B ran as fast as she could to her car in the student parking lot of the school. She opened the door, started up the car and headed toward the Rockwaller house.

(4:25pm, Rockwaller house)

Bonnie was waiting in the kitchen for her friends to arrive. They all agreed that they would meet at 4:45pm in the garage of the house. Connie and Lonnie were, thankfully for Bonnie, not here for they were out of the state. Lonnie was modeling in Hawaii and Connie was at Go University in Illinois.

The Queen was wearing her red croptop with baggy Club Banana dark denim overalls with the left strap hooked and the right strap undone and dangling behind her back. The bib was partially flopped She topped the outfit with giant gold hoop earrings and socks.

Of course, she still had to watch Jonnie, the younger brother of the Rockwaller siblings and whom was 12 at the time. Bonnie liked Jonnie far more than her two older sisters because they both shared a connection with each other.

"Hey, Mom. How are the refreshments coming?" Bonnie asked.

"The chocolate chip cookies should be ready in a few minutes, dear!" Veronica Rockwaller replied while pouring out some lemonade in cups for the incoming teen girls.

"Yum! I always love chocolate chip cookies!" Bonnie exclaimed, "Do you also have the dairy-free oatmeal cookies for Ashley T? You cannot forget that she is lactose-intolerant."

"Don't worry, those will be ready for her as well!" Veronica chimed.

"You're the best, Mom!" Bonnie replied with a smile.

She then saw her dad, Donald Rockwaller, coming into the kitchen. He had his full MPD police uniform on.

"Hey, Dad!" Jonnie smiled from his room.

"Heya, sport!" Donald said with a smile, rubbing his only son's hair. "I'm gonna play catch with ya sometime this weekend!"

"Sounds good!" Jonnie replied. "At Middleton Park?"

"Of course!" Donald replied while adjusting his police belt.

"Hello, Daddy!" Bonnie grinned.

"Hello, my little sweet teddy bear!" Donald replied, while kissing his daughter on the cheek.

"Promise that you will arrest Possible for me?" Bonnie pouted.

"One day, my pumpkin! Once she commits a crime, I will be more than happy to put that menace in handcuffs for you!" Donald grinned.

Both he and his daughter have an equal despisal of Kim and Ron, though in Donald's case, he thought that she was taking up all of his business of taking down crime. Thus, he usually referred to the redhead as a menace helping them escape. He did arrest Ron once for indecent exposure, though Ron had stated multiple times that the nudity was accidental.

Donald then kissed his wife on the lips.

"Promise you'll be back home, Donnie?" Veronica asked her husband.

"You know I will, Ronnie!" Donald grinned, tipping his cap. It was common for the two to refer themselves by their pet names. This was also the reason for their naming scheme for their offspring as well.

Donald left the house as the other girls of Bonnie's group started to gather into the garage of the house. He got in his police cruiser and headed toward the station downtown.