Author Notes:
Greetings readers. This will be part of a continuation from the previous chapter. It won't be as long as the other one. It wraps up the previous chapter and begins to move forward with the next chapter.
John Middleman - John Goodman (Monsters Inc, The Big Lebowski) - OC Character
Hugh Van Banksy - Troy Baker (Regular show (Multiple Voices), Heaps of Animes, Joker in Batman: Arkham Knight - Video Game) - OC Character.
Reviews Q,R & A:
'LuxYin'
R: boxing is a martial art so idk why your character denying that. If you haven't research boxing then please don't use it.
A: Very interesting point. Since both MMA and Boxing are combat sports they are both considered Martial Arts. I thought because Boxing was a sport which didn't originate in East Asia, and the definition of 'Martial Arts' doesn't highlight anything besides Eastern Asia. Boxing wouldn't be classified as a Martial Art by definition! Now I've fixed up my error in CHP 11. Thanks for picking up on that and thanks for reading!
Disclaimer: I don't own Kim Possible or any other relevant stuff. KP is the property of the Walt Disney Company. My OC Characters are owned by me.
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Kim was downstairs finishing off her breakfast. At the early parts of the school year, her mum used to drop her off to school, but in the past few months she's been walking to school.
She would never think that she would be walking to school everyday with another boy. Kim hasn't mentioned about him to her parents yet.
"Well, I'm off to school. See you guys." Kim gets up from the table slinging her backpack over her shoulder.
"You're walking to school again? I haven't driven you to school since last month. Is everything okay?" Ann says a bit concerned if she's alright. When Ron left, she was a bit of a mess. Now she's going great. Especially with her new friends around her. And a certain brown haired teen.
"Everything's great mum." Kim says smiling. It was a genuine smile.
"Then why walk to school? Are you walking to school with a friend?" James asks as he lowers his newspaper.
"... Actually. Yes I am." Kim confesses, hoping that her family don't press on.
"Oh, that's great honey. What's her name?" Ann says excitedly.
"Err. Actually..." Kim says a bit caught out by her mum's question.
"It's not a girl! Who is he!?" James stands up after realising it wasn't a girl that Kim's been walking to school everyday with.
"Umm, it's just a Foreign Exchange Student I'm showing around the school." Kim says.
"Oh that's nice of you sweetie. I hope he's cute." Ann asks, as her husband on the other hand..
"Mum!" Kim groaned. She did have a valid point. Kim thought he was cute.
"Kim's got a boyfriend, Kim's got a boyfriend." Both boys taunt her.
"He's not my boyfriend!" Kim denies. Although she secretly did wish he was.
"That's right. My little girl is too young to date some guy." James says with a serious tone.
"James. Our daughter is almost 15. She has to grow up soon."
"Well. I want to meet this boy first." James declares.
"... Oh would look at the time. Gotta run. Love you guys. Bye!" Kim says pretty quickly as she goes outside. Avoiding that crossfire as she turns around to see something rather shocking. Almost everything had graffiti on it.
"Woah!" Kim says.
Everywhere she looked there was graffiti surround her! Even around the houses and dogs!
'Why would someone do such a heinous crime!?' Kim thinks.
"Kim I know you're out there- Oh my goodness! Just look at this graffiti." James says.
James stares at the mess around the neighbourhood. If was like an abandoned neighbourhood.
"Aw geez. Look at my car! I just had it buffed and waxed." James says, he turns arounds to his sons. "Boys! Did you have anything to do with this?"
"Dad we don't even own spray paint." Jim says.
"Oh.. right. Well Kimmie-Cub what do you have to say about this boy?" James turns around to her daughter but she wasn't there.
"Kim?" James says.
Kim escaped after everyone was distracted by the graffiti that's covered all over the houses, fire hydrants. letter boxes, lamp posts, electricity poles, you name it! It all had graffiti.
"I'm going to have a chat with her when she comes back from school." James says still not over her Kimmie-Cub hanging out with a boy."]
"James, just let her be please?" Ann says.
"No! I want to meet the guy that's hanging around with our daughter."
"You're just having trouble letting go. Our daughter will eventually want to settle down with someone one day." Ann kisses her husband, "And we have to accept that." She says before going back inside the house.
James grins a bit, but then realised someone was maybe trying to date her daughter.
"Boys." James addresses his twin sons.
"Yes dad?" Jim and Tim said.
"I want you to keep an eye out on your sister."
"Like spy on her?" Tim says.
"What about school?" Jim asks curiously.
"When she goes out I mean. I want to know who this kid is." James says.
"Friday afternoon we can't, we have soccer practice with Paul."
"Oh. Okay. You know we should really invite him for dinner one day. He's a nice boy."
...
Wait until he founds out.
"Hey Kim what's your hurry?" Paul says as she Kim running towards him before walking the same pace as him.
"Oh hey Paul. Just my family asking me a million questions this morning." Kim says.
"Family asking you too many questions, eh? I get that sometimes. When we would rush for school, sometimes I get asked unnecessary questions and they would repeat it again. Anyway... talk about all of this messy work!" Paul gestures around his vicinity.
"Whoever done this, had some really dedication." Kim says.
The are just hundred meters away from the school as Paul spots something unbelievable.
"Oh my god! The school! They tagged it." Paul points.
It was completely covered in graffiti.
"Wow. Okay, this is a major sitch!"
Both teens arrive at a big crowd of students waiting to get it. Mr Barkin was at the top of the staircase.
"Alright people. Gather around. Gather around. Alright that's a bit too close, back it up a bit." Barkin says, "Okay, now someone has decided to shed their dirty art work all over the school. Now I will found this troublemaker and they will be expelled for the remainder of the school year!"
Paul was about to point out his flaw but he didn't want to agitate him further.
"Mr Barkin, you can't just suspect someone for school to be the mastermind of this graffiti." Paul says, using a bit of common sense. The police should be investigating this.
"That's exactly what the perpetrator would say." Barkin calls out on Paul's comment.
"Come on sir, we're wasting time doing this." Paul says.
"Why do you care nerd? Afraid you're going to miss one of your precious classes." Conor says in a mocking tone.
He still hadn't given up on the whole lose of the Senior table yet. While the other jocks were still avoiding him after his so called... fight. Even Brick hasn't one near him.
Paul ignores him and whispers to Kim, "Keep your eyes peeled on anyone looking suspicious."
"Right now this person is winning. They certainly got our attention. Who knows. It might or might not be a student here at this school. They might be hiding in the shadows. Watching our every move. Snickering upon us as we play wild goose chase." Paul says out loud for every student to hear.
"Man. this guy would be great for school president." One student whispers to another.
"Maybe the police are on to them already."
While Paul is talking Kim tried her best to spot someone who looks like the suspect of this big time art work that they've put around the whole town.
"Probably onto a lead as we speak."
Kim failed to find someone that looked fidgety or nervous. Heck, she had no clue what they even looked like!
"Maybe if they coward how did this was here, he slash she, should show themselves now!" Paul says.
It was a quiet for a few seconds. Some students look around for any signs of the graffitist.
"(Whistle noise sounding like a nuclear bomb dropping) (Imitates explosion) Nice one loser. Like that's going to work. Or for all we know, it could've been you!" Conor says.
"That's a very interesting interception Conor, how about I come over there and shove my hand up your ass and make the whistle and explosion noise you just made?" Paul says.
"Hey! Enough you two! You make valid points Paul. But I'm keeping my eye out. Especially you Paul." Barkin says, points his two fingers at Paul's eyes.
Paul stares at Barkin with a neutral look. Today was going to be a long day. And the first class hadn't even started yet!
"Listen up people. I regret to inform you that Ms. Whisp's car was covered in graffiti and didn't want to drive her car in this morning, to avoid embarrassment. Alongside Miss. Whisp, Mr Walt and Ms. Fitzgerald aren't here at school today."
Some of the students give a small celebration to themselves. Expecting to get a free period. No way Barkin would teach 4 classes at the same time.
"However!" Barkin says.
Everyone groans at this.
"There's a however." Someone in the crowd muttered at the end in a faint voice.
"I hired a replacement substitute teacher. He comes from south part of town. Lowerton. He's going to be your temporarily teacher. I'd like you to meet Mr Van Banksy." Barkins gestures towards the door.
A slightly tanned man wearing a black jumper, curly fringe - faded haircut and a goatee enters the room. He looked pretty slim and fit.
"Good morning students." He approaches the whiteboard and writes his name, "My name is Hugh Van Banksy. I know what you're going to say... Weird name for a person with Dutch heritage."
"How come you don't have a Dutch accent?" A random student asks curiously.
"Because I left Holland when I was 6 years old. I've been back multiple times though."
"Well I see you're already acquainted with the class. I'll just be on my way out. If they go out of line, I'm more than happy to send them to detention."
"They probably won't be necessary sir. I usually don't have any trouble with my students." Mr Van Banksy says to Barkin before hee focuses his attention towards the class. "Okay class, now open Chapter 5 of your Algebra book and-"
Paul was concentrating on the teacher, he failed to notice Mr Barkin standing right next to him. He eventually diverts his attention towards him. Mr Van Banksy was still talking in the background.
"Can I help you sir?" Paul whispers.
"No, I'm just keeping an eye out for you. I do that with everyone." Barkin says.
"Why are you staring at me only. I'm not the only one in here. Check out the other students too." Paul whispers back.
"I already have, you just didn't see me do it." Barkin says before leaves the room to teach the other classes. Paul sighs at his nonsense. This indeed was going to be a long day.
"I swear Barkin's definitely got a campaign against me." Paul says as him and Kim and the rest of his friends sit at their usual table.
"Barkin's always got a case for someone at school." Kim points out.
"You're telling me? Barkin's targeting the Art students. I mean, the graffiti around the town has some great art work. It's so creative and so artistic. But it's all over private property. Which is illegal and disgraceful. Plus it gives Middleton a bad reputation." Josh says.
"I know, our fence was painted with fancy cursive writing with a white background! Is that even classified as graffiti?" Monique says before staring at her tray of food. She notices something underneath, "Hey. What the heck!"
Her tray was covered in graffiti, she takes the food off and stares at it.
"He was inside the school too!" Kim says taking a look at the food tray.
Josh takes the tray from Monique and admires it, "Cool!" he said, as he holds it up.
While Paul took a bite of his lunch, a certain blonde came to the towards their table.
"Hey Paul. Can I please talk to you for a second, please?" Tara says to the teen. She was wearing a green sleeveless top with a teal skirt.
"Sure Tara." Paul says remembering the girls name after their two encounters. Particularly the night from a few weeks ago. He excused himself from the table as he went to speak to Tara in private.
They go in the school hall way and noticed the cleaners scrubbing off the graffiti all over the long stretch of lockers.
"So what's up Tara?"
"I just wanted to give you my personal thanks for helping us out last week at the camp." Tara says.
"It was no problem Tara. I'm glad everyone is safe and out of harms way."
"Also I wanted to thank you for backing up Ron. I know Bonnie can be... a bit of a pain when it comes to certain individuals."
Despite only meeting Ron once. Paul thought of Ron as a good friend.
But the brunette has been stabbing him behind the back for the past few months. But now she was shaken by the teen.
Was she scared of Paul?
"It's alright. I hope she learns her lesson. People don't act like that for no reason. And when she was bullying some of the other students, I just had to step in and stop it."
"You're probably the only one I've seen stand up to her, besides Kim. But... Can you keep a secret? No one knows about this. It's alright if you can tell Kim. But no one else." Tara says in a hush voice. This really was something personal and dearest to her.
"Sure Tara. I won't tell anyone."
Tara was biting her lip nervously and rubbed her arm. She then whispers closely to the teen.
"I have a crush on Ron."
Paul eyes widen. This girl had a crush on Ron?
Ron you lucky dog you! You got a beautiful cheerleader that has a crush on you!
"Wow... I. I didn't see that coming." Paul says a bit shocked. But happy for the cheerleader and for Ron.
"Why are you entrusting with such a big secret?" Paul asks.
"There's many reasons. You saved us last week. You didn't tell anyone about my Nintendo Switch device and you seem like a really nice person. Exception to the telling off, which isn't a problem if the recipient is doing something wrong. Which Bonnie was."
"Gee. Well I won't tell anyone besides Kim, that's a promise. But Ron is overseas at the moment."
Tara gives a small grin, "I know. But I really miss him." Tara grin turns into a frown.
Paul started to understand why Tara had a handheld console in her bag.
"Now I know why you had the Nintendo Switch. You were trying to take an interest of his liking for video games." Paul says.
"How do you know that?
"I did mention that I meet him once last week at the camp." Paul reveals.
"Oh! You did? I must of drifted my mind when you were ranting."
"Yeah sorry. I get angry when people treat others like dirt." Paul says.
"Don't be. I think it's noble of you to stand up for your friends and others." Tara says.
There was a silence between the two.
"How long have you felt like this?" Paul asks.
"Honestly. I've known him since I was young. But I don't think he notices that I like him. We talked sometimes in the past, but not hanged out. I've developed these feelings for him since early Middle School. I know he won't be back for a few years, but I'm willing to wait for him." Tara says smiling, giving her some hope.
She was an angel. She was willing to wait for Ron to come back and hopefully peruse a relationship with him. That's love you can't find these days.
"That is so sweet to wait for your crush to comeback home Tara. I think you and Ron would make a great couple."
"You think so?" Tara says, beaming at this.
"Never doubt Tara. Plus you're both blondes."
Tara smiles at this. Before sadly saying, "It's just that..."
"Yeah?"
"It wouldn't work out. We're on different leagues. People would just break us apart."
"Tara. You shouldn't listen to what other people have to say about your love life. Who cares what they think! If you love someone, don't let people tell you otherwise. Who cares about the food chain! See if Ron and yourself have some common ground first. If you enjoy each others company and have a few mutual interests. Then by all means date him. You shouldn't let Bonnie tell you how to run your life. I know she's your best friend. But you should be a leader! And I'm sorry if this is making you uncomfortable, but I say it how it is Tara. I hope you don't take offence to the last part I said."
Tara was staggered at what Paul said. This guy was staggering. Bonnie always said about the food chain this, food chain that. But he didn't care about that. He was his own man with his own morals and obligations. This kid... was unbelievable. In a good way.
'Kim. You've got a keeper. Whatever you do. Don't lose this one.'
Tara hugs the teen.
"Thanks Paul. You're the best." Tara says as she finishes the hug.
"W-well.. I wouldn't say that. I just like to help out my friends." Paul states.
Kim and Paul finished school for the day and walked to the Mayor's office in the city centre. While Paul had gone and spoken to Tara. Kim got a call from Wade, and he was quite aware of the graffiti sitch in Middleton despite being in his room for the entire day. Wade said they had to meet the Mayor and discuss a mission to capture the culprit. Thus far, Middleton was the only town to be attacked with graffiti.
They had gone past reception area and going to his office door.
"I'm telling you Kim, it isn't Josh." Paul says.
"Then why is he so fascinated by this art? You can't rule him out as a suspect."
"Usually it's the person you least suspect." Paul says, as Kim knocks on the door. "Plus he's our friend, why would he do this to our and his town?"
"That's a good point." Kim says.
The door magically opens. The Mayor had a remote which opened the doors up automatically.
A slightly overweight man is sitting at his desk, writing something. He looks up and greets the two teens.
"Ah you must be Kim Possible that I've heard so much about." The Mayor says to the redhead.
"Mr Mayor." Kim addresses to the Mayor with a grin.
"Please. Call me Mr Middleman." He stands up and shakes the teens hand.
Paul thought for a second at his surname. A lot of people in this town had some funny surnames. Strange.
"So Mr Middleman, I'm guessing you want us to investigate the mass graffiti that has covered our beloved town."
"They said you were good. Yes Miss Possible. Unfortunately all of our other resources in this town are occupied with handing out fines, monitoring speed limits and keeping the petting zoo animals from escaping. They haven't got the time to handle this graffiti bandit. And of course you were the first one to come in mind during our meeting this morning. They said you had expertise in capturing and foiling plans from villains across the world."
"That's correct sir." Kim says, smirking from the Mayor's praise.
"Excellent. I think this should be no problem for you too. Wait where is the blonde one? What happened to him?"
"Ron? He left to live overseas."
"I see. What's your name young man."
"Paul Kanellopoulos." Paul greets himself to the Mayor.
"Paul. Nice to meet you."
"You too Mr Middleman. Now do we have a budget to work around with?" Paul asks.
"Yes. At the meeting I manufactured to organise a budget of $10 to find our graffiti bandit."
"... Okay. And the budget to clean up the town?"
"Oh that's a main priority. So maximum $50,000."
"So we get a small budget?" Kim says.
"Yes. I'm sorry we can't give you anymore than that. But you're more than welcome to add on more yourselves. Now sorry to keep this short. I've got some important things to do."
Both teens leave his office.
(Phone rings)
"Hello Mayor Middleman speaking... Yes I do want cameral on my sundae please. "
"So this $10 isn't going to last. This won't even cover us the bus ride home for the both of us." Kim says disappointed at the budget they received. This was a first that anyone gave Kim a budget to use.
"I can inject some money into our budget. Say... $500?" Paul says with no hesitation.
"$500! Well that's a 5000% boost. That program your on is giving away some big checks?"
"That and free rent." Paul says.
"Living the easy life." Kim smirks at that.
"Working with you isn't always the easy life."
Kim rolls her eyes at his joke. They both approach a big wall. The begin to investigate the massive graffiti on the wall at the city centre.
"Okay where to start." Kim ponders as she stares at the artwork. More like filth!
"Maybe look for a watermark or initials to show his or her Intellectual Property." Paul suggests.
"You think a girl was responsible for this."
"You said you can't rule out any suspect." Paul says repeating what Kim said before they saw the Mayor.
"I said that for Josh."
"Josh wouldn't do this." Paul says.
"Can't rule out any suspect." Kim folds her arms playfully.
"Well we're currently have zero witnesses. Unless we check the security cameras from the nearby buildings. Better call Wade and see if he can access them." Paul says.
Jim and Tim had finished school and went straight to the city, to spy on their older sister. As request by their protective father.
They were using one of their inventions, body heat binoculars and normal binoculars to spy on their sister.
"Well she is definitely hanging out with someone. But who?" Tim says as he looks through the body heat binoculars.
Jim had the normal binoculars, "I can't tell. He has his back towards us. But he looks sort of familiar."
"Familiar?" Jim says confused. How could they possibly know anyone that hangs out with Kim. They had to be a similar age range as her
"Like someone we know."
The guy turns around as he holds his device, both boys got a good look at the guy and they were completely shocked that they friend/ soccer assistant was hanging out with Kim.
"(Gasps) Paul!" Both boys exclaim in shock. Thank god they were quite a distance away from the two teens. They would have had a chewing rant from their older sister if they found out if that her brothers were spying on her. And not for personal gain, rather by choice.
"Paul's... hanging around with Kim!" Jim says.
"Our sister?" Tim says.
...
..
.
"Awesome!" Both high fived, but both quickly covered their mouths and ducked in the bush they were hiding in.
Both teens didn't even hear their loud outburst.
"That was close."
Despite both boys would always prank or tease their sister quite a lot back at home. She's never had a boyfriend. But once she did, both boys planned to pull pranks on her, during her dates and make him leave Kim. But the coin was flipped on the other side as boy twins actually have mutual respect for Paul and like him. They've slightly changed their ways since he's entered their lives.
You could say... both boys were actually happy for Paul to continuing hanging out with Kim, with the possibility of becoming Kim's boyfriend. Ever since Ron left, she's been more her normal self.
"Okay new rule. We have to be sneaky and keep our voices down." Tim says.
"And we aren't going to jeopardise Paul in anyway. Okay?" Jim says.
"Deal. So should we keep on following them?" Tim asks.
Tim and Jim both smile.
"Hicka-Bicka-Boo?" Tim said.
"Hoo-Sha!" Jim said in agreement.
...
"Is that a yes. I-I couldn't tell what you meant." Tim says, scratching his head.
"Yes. But we have to be careful." Jim says.
"Right." Tim says as he concentrates back on the two teenagers. As well as his brother.
"What? There is no footage of their face?" Paul says to Wade.
"I've checked every camera in town and there's nothing with any facial recognition. Just only a red hoodie and red mask. And we can't conduct a forensics report, because they were using gloves. But it wasn't a total waste of time. I can confirm that the graffiti bandit, is in fact, a he."
"How could you possibly tell Wade?" Kim says.
"By their clothes, the type of graffiti and... Uhm. Paul you might wanna answer the last part." Wade says, grinning as he starts to develop a nervous sweat.
"The person has a flat chest." Paul says hoping to avoid making Kim uncomfortable.
"...Okay. Now we just narrowed down the list of suspects to males."
"But it could be anyone."
Both Kim and Paul think to themselves. Kim has an idea.
"I've got it! Let's take a photo of the artwork and see if it appears online somewhere, maybe social media outlet or art work someone has posted." Kim pulls out her phone.
"Reverse image search. Genius idea Kim."
Kim smiled at her friend. She was really smart, but wasn't the smartest within her family. She couldn't understand certain terms within her family's household conversations. Even her younger twin brothers were smarter than her. More like gifted.
"Well, I wouldn't go that far." Kim says denying she's a genius.
"Kim, you under estimate your intelligence. You're smart!"
'And beautiful.' Paul says in his mind.
Kim proceeds to take photos of the graffiti and uses a program on her Kimmunicator device to find the origins of the graffiti. After a few minutes of searching, she got the results.
"Zero results found." Kim said disappointed.
"Worth a try though."
"Maybe we should organise a stakeout?" Kim ponders.
"On a school night?" Paul asks not entirely agreeing to this.
"Well we're running out of ways to figure out who this is. Plus we can't get a DNA swab on the guy."
Paul was hesitate. He wanted a good night sleep to be ready for school tomorrow.
"Plus remember what I said-" Kim says
"If there are any missions, we have to drop everything we have and go take care of it." Paul interrupts her remembering what she said last week.
"Right... So what do you think?" Kim says surprised Paul almost remembered her whole quote.
Paul sighs softly before giving in.
"Alright. We should go home first and prepare for tonight."
"Shall we say 11PM?" Kim says.
"Alright. Meet you beside the city hall for a better vantage point." Paul suggests.
Kim agrees and both teens went back home. Not too far away the twins follow as well, as their work was done for now.
Later on that same day
Night time in the Middleton City Centre
11:15PM
Paul was hiding behind some bushes next to the city hall building. He was in his suit and was waiting for Kim. She said to meet him at 11PM. It was 15 minutes past the schedule meeting time. Hopefully she could come out tonight and keep him company throughout the long night ahead.
Kim arrived a few minutes later. She was sweating. It was obvious that she ran all the way here. She wasn't puffed out one bit.
"Sorry I was late. I had to activate the hologram in my room. How did you get out?" Kim asks.
"I walked through the front door." Paul says.
Kim gave a confused look, before realising something. He was living at home alone.
"Oh that's right. No parents." Kim realised.
"Yeah. But it's not even past my bedtime yet."
"Which is?"
"Latest 12AM on a school night."
"Mine is latest by 11PM. I had to wait until the coast was clear to leave home. So any activity?" Kim asks.
"Few Uber Eats delivery drivers and some people doing grocery shopping. Nothing suspicious." Paul says.
...
..
.
"This is going to be a loooong night." Kim says.
"It sure is Kim."
48 Hours Later
It was the third night in a row were Paul and Kim organised a stakeout.
They had gone home and back to school. They've staked out for 5 hours each night and both were getting pretty exhausted doing this.
Paul got out a thermoset of iced coffee, and poured a cup, he offered to Kim.
"Iced Coffee?" Paul says holding out a cup.
"Please and thank you." Kim accepts the drink.
"I've never heard anyone use both please and thank you in the same sentence before."
"When I was younger I used to say that a lot. I guess it just stuck by me."
"Even 'no big' ,'spankin' or 'So not the drama'?" Paul says.
Kim giggles softly. She always said some of her slang to her best friend Ron a lot.
"I guess old habits, die hard." Kim says taking a sip of her drink.
"You're still young. You might outgrow it. Not like its anything bad. It's your persona. It's what makes you, you. Unique." Paul says taking a sip from himself.
Kim grins at this. He didn't care if she had some weird slang. He thought it made the person who they are today.
Some other boys would have been slightly freaked out by her vocabulary and would have been turned off by that.
But not him.
She silently stares down at her cup of iced coffee. She looked a bit nervous tonight.
"Everything alright Kim?" Paul asks to the redhead.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Kim says. She continued to look down. She then sighed.
"Actually. It's my dad." Kim reveals.
"Your dad?"
"Yeah. He's been on my case lately about... hanging out with a boy." Kim says.
"Really? But Ron's a boy." Paul said.
"Yeah but he's-" Kim stopped before realising that she was about to say 'not my boyfriend'. She didn't want to say it in front of Paul, and get him freaked out by her father's protectiveness if she hangs around or dates other boys that aren't Ron.
James Possible trusted Ron Stoppable when hanging out with her. He's known the departed teen since he was 5 years old. He was basically considered an older son to Mr Possible. But Paul wasn't even close to him. He was just a stranger to him.
"-My best friend. He doesn't ask Ron a million questions. Plus Ron's close to my family. You see, when we were young. Ron and I meet in pre-school. We found out that Ron lived next door to me. He would always come over. Heck we even considered to be part of the Possible family. That's why he's considered as my closest and best friend. And he's not here by my side anymore." She said with a bit of a sad tone, thinking about Ron.
Paul saw Kim's sad face when she spoke about Ron. She really missed her best friend. Heck he even missed him too. But not as much as he misses his best friends back at home.
Paul decided to speak up and cheer her up. "Kim. I know you miss Ron. But I promise you, there will be better times ahead. Before you know it, Ron will be back in America. You've just got to focus on what's in front of you. You can't get side-tracked about Ron not being here. I'm not saying forget about him, but just don't waste your life waiting for someone to comeback. You got to keep on moving forward."
Kim hears Paul's small speech and she grins at this.
"You're right. You always know what to say." Kim says smiling
"I'm not the best with words."
"But it's your actions that matter. You've shown me that you're a brave and confident teenager. You've been a blessing in my life. Yes, I was sad when Ron left. I might not be entirely over it, but you have made me more happier in recent months. Hanging out with you. You've saved me at Camp Wannaweep and you're now running alongside me taking on missions. I deeply appreciate what you're doing. And you're words do matter Paul. Don't doubt yourself." Kim says.
She really cared for Paul. And she didn't care if he was from a different country. If he liked her back, she would definitely accept it and when he leaves, they would work a way around making it work. That's if he wants a relationship to happen.
In reality... he really does. Since when?
The first day of High School. For Kim.
The first day of High School.
Both liked each other back, with each other knowing that.
Both smile at each other.
"SSSSSSSSSSSS'
Both are interrupted as someone was spraying something.
.
Hold up!
Spraying?
THE GRAFFITI BANDIT!
Both look through the bush to see a guy in a complete black outfit, spray painting a wall. He changed his outfit from Red to Black.
"Look!" Kim says quietly.
Both Kim and Paul nodded at each other. Both quietly left their posts and crept from the side.
The graffiti artist was distracted, he failed to notice the two teens slowly creeping next to him. Paul puts a finger to his mouth to indicate to keep quiet.
'BRWOOOOO'
Paul stepped on a manhole. It was slightly open. He didn't realise it until he almost fell in. It was really poorly positioned.
That was something Ron might have done while on a mission.
"Huh? OH!" The graffiti bandit saw this and quickly places his equipment inside his backpack and makes a dash holding a skateboard under his arm.
"He's getting away!" Paul says as he begins to chase him down.
He begins to close the gap but he jumps on his skateboard and starts to gain speed and goes down a big hill.
The guy got away with his skateboard.
"Fuck! He got away! That manhole cover was in such a poor position. I nearly fell in!" Paul says out loud as Kim arrived just as he began ranting.
"Did you get hurt?"
"Not really. I just lost my balance. That's all." Paul says.
Kim sighs, they were getting nowhere with these late night stakeouts. It was past 1AM. He was spooked and probably thought coming back to finish off his graffiti work was pointless and a really bad idea. He now knew someone was out to catch him out.
"Let's call it a night. We should take a break for a few days and re group. What do you think?" Kim said.
"I-I guess so. Man we could have gotten him!" Paul says.
"There's always another opportunity. Believe me. I wish we got him too. But he'll come back. He's trying to send a message to someone. Someone from Middleton." Kim says.
The weekend approached quite quickly. Kim and Paul had completed 3 stakeout nights in a row. They had absolutely no activity for the first two nights. Until Friday night, the graffiti bandit strike again!
Paul made chase but he got away quickly with his skateboard and vanished from their sight.
Both were pretty frustrated and tired. They weren't making any progress at all. 3 nights of nothing so far. At least they knew it was real!
Thank god the weekend arrived or they would have been drained at school.
Kim suggested to Paul that they unwind themselves this weekend and prepare for next week.
"Okay guys, I'm going out." Kim says as she's at the front door.
"Hold on a second young lady. I would like a word with you." Mr Possible says to her daughter.
"Okay dad." Kim knew what her father was going to say.
"James I don't this is necessary. She's 14 years old." Ann says, knowing where her husband was going with this.
"14 year olds can't even do taxes." James states.
"Well Ron's dad did his families taxes at 13." Kim points out.
"That's the Stoppable family, this is the Possible family. Now it has come to my attention that you've been hanging around a boy. Are you dating him?"
"DAD!" Kim exclaims a bit shocked that her father would make an accusation like that. Although she wished that she was dating him.
"Alright, alright. Just checking. I want to meet him. Tell him to come by for dinner. Tonight if possible. I want to see what's his intentions."
"James I think that's a bit over the top?" Ann says
"Anything to make sure our Kimmie-Cub is in good hands." James says to his wife.
"Okay." Kim says in defeat, "I'll ask if he can come over. What time?"
"7PM." James says.
"Alright. 7PM. Got it. Anything else?" Kim asks.
"Oh, you could you get some toothpaste, we're all out. Thanks Sweetie." James says from switch to a serious tone to a more cheerful tone.
Kim leaves the house. Well the cat was out of the bag. She had to invite Paul over for dinner. She imagining all the scenarios that could happen to him.
Her dad asking a million questions. The black hole talk!
Oh god! She starts to panic and see the whole possibilities how her family would embarrass her.
Her mum freaking him out with her brain loaf! And she didn't want to imagine what the Tweebs would do!
They might scare him off for good and Paul might get a restraining order on Kim!
Little did she know... That he's already meet her whole family... without him knowing that they were Kim's family.
Author Notes:
Well looks like Paul will finally meet Kim's family, again. But this time everyone will be in the same room. Will they ever catch the graffiti bandit? When will he struck again?
John Middleman - John Goodman (Monsters Inc, The Big Lebowski, The Emperor's New Groove) - OC Character
Hugh Van Banksy - Troy Baker (Regular show (Multiple Voices), Heaps of Animes, Joker in Batman: Arkham Knight - Video Game) - OC Character.
Thanks for reading this chapter. See you very soon! Take care for now.