KP in Tough Being a Girl

Ever wonder where Kim and Ron would be if Ron had been born a GIRL and still knew each other from since Pre-K? And then one day while visiting a top-secret lab to stop Drakken, she becomes the male Ron we all know and love? What would happen? What would any natural-born girl, stuck forever as a guy do? Read on to find out!

Chapter 19: Friend or Foe?

Kim stands at the foot of the tree house and shouts up, "Ron? Ron are you there?"

After meeting with utter silence, she decides to go check it out in case her friend just wasn't answering because he didn't want to talk to anyone. Well, she would talk to him whether he wanted to or not!

As Kim reaches the top of the ladder she wonders if Ronnie has the slingshot? She remembers a time when Ronnie had used it to bean some guy on the head with it back when they were kids.

Kim slowly pushes the trap door open slowly, peeking into the room and seeing no one. She says, "Ronnie? Are you up here?" She is still a little weary as she remembers the slingshot and while true Ronnie had never used it again on anyone after that she knew that Ronnie had always wanted to.

She slowly looks around as she pushes the trap door higher until it falls backwards from her hand to rest against the wall. She climbs the last few steps up the ladder and goes into the tree house.

Kim slowly looks around for anyplace where her friend might be able to hide but it wasn't all that big. She looks around and says softly, "Ron… where could you be?"

(Elsewhere)

Bonnie was walking around, hitting the spots where she'd seen Kim and Ronnie hang out in the past but so far she was having no luck.

Bonnie grumbles as it was getting dark and close to suppertime. She hated to be late for dinner, especially on pizza night for her family. She knew that her sisters would "conveniently" forget to order her favorite toppings if she wasn't there.

Bonnie looks around the Middleton Park where Kim and Ronnie had liked to jog in the past to keep up their bodies for the stupid freak-fighting. She says in a low, angry voice "Ron, you are SO in trouble when I see you again!"

Bonnie turns around and goes over to a water fountain where she drinks some of the cold, somewhat-yucky tasting water to refresh herself after walking around for so long. She then walks towards the exit of the park as she thinks, "After supper… I'll try to find Stoppable after I eat."

(At the tree house)

Kim is sitting on the couch, rubbing her first finger over the armrest as she thinks, "Where could you be Ron? I really want to talk to you…"

Kim sighs softly as she looks around, everything a memory to her. From the times that they had sleepovers to the time they had a birthday party just under the tree house. It had also been the time Ronnie had bonked Arnie Custer on the head with a rock from the slingshot that she saw still sitting by the edge of the couch.

Kim had thought for sure that her friend Ronnie...Ron, would be there at the tree house. After all, it had been the place where they had shared so many memories, shared so many secrets, so many conversations. She just couldn't figure out where her best friend could be. She knew that Ron's mother would be most likely making supper in about an hour since they usually ate late because of work.

Kim sighs softly as she thinks about how long she had known Ronnie for and looks out the window of the tree house. She could remember the time it took for the tree house to be built. Both her father and Ron's worked together during the weekends and on a week-long holiday to get it built.

Kim and Ronnie had done their best to help from fetching things that they could carry like hammers and the boxes of nails to even carrying the planks of wood together to Ronnie's father who cut them so they would form the very window she was staring out of.

At the same time Kim was staring out the window at the sky, Ron/Ronnie was staring at the sky in almost the exact same area as Kim.

Ron/Ronnie was thinking, "Kim...where are you? I could really use you right about now." He/she was so upset after being told by his crazy mother that he was going to have to date Bonnie! As a girl, she had picked on and make fun of her more times than she could count ever since Middle School.

Ronnie remembers how she first met Bonnie in Middle School, which she had to sigh at because it wasn't a pleasant memory. On the very first day at the school, she had been so psyched to be going to the same school as her best friend that she wasn't looking where she was going and collided with Bonnie much the same way she had in the hallway but in a much more embarrassing kind of way.

Ronnie could still hear the scream from Bonnie's lips as she had been knocked into the boys' room and since no one else had seen Ronnie accidentally knock Bonnie in she got into major trouble. First of all, Bonnie got a stern talking to by the principal and one of her older sisters who had to leave High School since their mother was at work and couldn't leave really teased her cruelly, then to top it all off one of the gossiping girls started a rumor about Bonnie that took her the rest of the school year to live down.

Ronnie's cheeks burned in thought about how she had tried to lamely apologize when Bonnie came back to school. She closes her eyes as she brings her hand up to touch the once-soft feminine face, now a rougher guy's face as she remembers the sting of the very hard slap from Bonnie. She knew Bonnie never really forgave her for the humiliation but had she had hoped that she would at least could become friends with her but that never happened either.

Ronnie sighs softly and leans forward to rest her head against her knees before remembering that she was in a male body and where in the past she had to adjust for her breasts, she... he didn't have to do that and found the vacancy a little weird.

Ron pulls his arms up around the legs and pulls them up tight against him and for a moment, in stereo was both the male mind and tiny female self had the same thought, "I am a freak, there is no way Kim is looking for me. How could she love a monster like me?" A pause to wallow in the sadness before adding in his/her thoughts, "I thought Kim would have known to find me here where we were once happiest. The very place where they had spent so many wonderful memories together, before things got complicated... before things changed forever in her/his life.

Kim sighs and whispers softly, "Where could you be Ronnie?" Letting slip the name of her best friend since childhood. She could remember back to when they first met, and she could still remember Ronnie's first words to her directly. She doubted she would ever forget them as they had long become engrained into her very heart for a reason she didn't yet quite understand.

Kim's thinking slows down as an idea pops in her head, "Wait... Ronnie, I mean Ron wouldn't go there would he? It kind of makes sense..." The idea grows quickly to become a strong, urgent feeling. The kind of feeling she would sometimes get when Ronnie would be in serious trouble on a mission even just when Ronnie needed her best friend.

Kim stands up quickly and through the open trap door to the tree house to land with ease on the ground. She gets up quickly and starts to run quickly as she can, letting the feeling guide her as a single tear escapes from her right eye to only be batted away by her eyelash. She thinks, "Please be there Ron! Please god, let him be ok! I'll never ask anything again if he is ok!"

Bonnie was done with her supper and driving around in her mother's car since she had her license now. There were perks to being in a family such as hers where she had learned how to drive way before Barkin's class because of her sisters pushy attitude about making her go to places like Ballet by herself so that they could spend time with their boyfriends.

Bonnie had no idea where to even begin looking for Ron but she knew that if she kept an eye out for Kim, she would lead her right to him. She was glad that for once her family was too busy with their own stuff to even begin to ask why she was eating through her supper so quickly. She thinks, "They probably thought I was hurrying for a date or cheer practice. I know they think I'm a loser because I never accomplished what they did and they still lord it over me for failing to be Ronnie at the talent show but I'll show them. Ron is worthy of my attention because he surpassed me even as a girl, and now that Ronnie has become a guy, I can go after him without the whispers and questions behind my back."

Bonnie hated to be beaten or shown up as anything less than a perfect member of the Rockwaller family just like her sisters and mother thought of themselves as but with Kim in the picture she knew she could never be seen as such and would never truly feel like a part of her own family. She knew that she had a perfect chance to steal the limelight and hurt her rival all at the same time. The fact that she was also crushing on Ron didn't hurt either.

Bonnie stops at a red light to turn towards the High School and see if he is there somewhere when she spots Kim running like crazy in the opposite direction. Since Kim wasn't in her ugly clothes that she usually wore for her missions. She follows Kim with her eyes and turns her blinker from one direction to the other before she remembers that she was facing a one way street.

Bonnie lets a soft growl loose before she turns it back to the other way and hopes that Kim's destination was far enough for her to go and circle around. She thinks, "That Possible is SO lucky! If this street had been a two way, I could have beaten her to her precious Ron." She taps her fingers irritatedly on her steering wheel as she waits for the light to change.

Kim was running quickly as she couldn't believe that it hadn't occurred to her about where Ronnie...Ron would go! She and Ronnie had been so tight all their lives, ever since they had met in Pre-K they had formed a bond of friendship that she sincerely hoped in her heart with all her might that they could stay the best of friends forever and that they could somehow get through this current sitch.

Kim would be damned if she let Bonnie or even the parents of her best friend get in the way of their friendship. She knew that there was no way she could ever understand what it would be like to be stuck in her...his situation and forced to date someone that she didn't even like all that much. If such a thing had happened to her, she didn't know how she would be able to deal with all the stuff that had happened to Ron and not go nuts without some kind of major support. It then hit Kim, that she was her friend's support through everything!

Upon realizing this, Kim's drive to find her friend was redoubled as she ran to the one place she hoped Ronnie would remember when they felt the safest and happiest at in their lives. She sees the fence while seeing a car heading towards her down the one way street. It was dark, so she couldn't see who was driving but that didn't matter as she does a handspring leap over the 6 foot tall metal link fence.

Kim wipes a fresh tear that had escaped from the corner of her eye as looks around, and although she could see many familiar shapes that she knew from memory but she was looking for one in particular. She was looking for her best friend that she'd known practically all her life and her heart told her not to give up, she... he... whatever form her friend would take Ron would never give up on her, even as a giant mutant beaver her friend didn't stop helping her and now it was time to be there for her best friend.

Kim nibbles at her lower lip, almost afraid to say anything in case she was wrong again like back at the tree house. Her heart whispers to her brain, "Face it, the real reason you're being so quiet is because you don't want your friend to run from you before you've had a chance to find him."

Kim approaches a tree that had grown bigger and thicker than she remembered it ever being but then they had been kids so long ago. As she circles it, she spots a figure of a guy whose head was laying on his knees. She slowly approaches, unsure what to say and pauses when she hears a voice say between sniffles, "I...need you... please find me soon."

Kim's voice cracks a little as she says, "R-Ron? Is that you?" She gets ready for Ron to bolt if he decides to and a part of her is surprised to see the head still in the shadows move as if to look up at her. She holds her breath without realizing it as she waits for the answer.

Ron/Ronnie couldn't believe it! After so long a wait, he/she was finally found in the one place that only a best friend, someone who knew then better than even their parents, would find him/her in. Both halves were genuinely touched to the core and happy at the same time that it had been Kim to find them before he/she had to go home and face his/her mother as suppertime was fast approaching.

Ron is briefly blinded by light from a car's headlights but it was enough to see Kim's form for a moment and so he/she says in a stuffed up way since he/she'd been crying for a while, "Kim? Is that you?"

The answer is quickly forthcoming as he feels arms, very familiar arms quickly wrap around him and hug him close. He closes his eyes and sighs for a moment, feeling Kim's long hair brush his face before it settles down with the Ronnie part once again missing the feeling of her own long and beautiful hair but that part gets quickly squashed as he hugs his friend back.

Ron says, "H-How did you find me Kim?"

Kim pulls back, close enough now that she could see the puzzlement on her friend's face and says, "We're best friends silly... I figured out that you'd go to where it all began for us, where we had the safest and happiest memories together."

Ron smiles at Kim and says, "You were right Kim. This place has a lot of good memories for us. I wanted to go someplace where only you could find me. I didn't want Bonnie to be able to find me and I knew she knew about most of my normal hangouts."

Kim smiles and says, "I am just so glad you're ok Ronnie, oops, I mean Ron... I was worried that you would do something to hurt yourself." Her face shows the concern with the last sentence.

Ron says, "Don't worry KP, I am ok and it'll take more than to be forced dating of your school rival for me to do anything stupid."

Kim frowns at her friend for a moment as she says, "Ron! This is serious! I was really worried about you!"

Ron/Ronnie looks at Kim and says, "Yeah... Sorry about making you worry Kim. I'll try not to do it again."

Kim grins as she says, "You haven't succeeded since Pre-K, what makes you think you'll succeed now?"

Just then before Ron could say anything, a voice that neither wanted to hear at that moment says, "There you are boyfriend, and here you are getting all chummy with you best friend."

Kim turns with her hair flying about in the air as if it were a wave of fire as she shouts in a high pitched voice, "Ron... is not... your boyfriend!" The daggers that followed from Kim's eyes to the and only rival that seemed to go to great lengths to annoy just her, Bonnie stood there looking as calmly if not smirky as only she could under such an intense attack.

Bonnie crosses her arms as she calmly says, "Ron's mother would seem to disagree with you."

Kim growls as she makes her hands go into tight fists as she was driven by a strong urge to defend her friend and the part of her that was holding her back from laying some serious hurt on Bonnie was weakening fast.

Ron/Ronnie knew that Kim was fast approaching critical and rather than let her friend assault Bonnie, even if she well deserved it he/she steps forward and places a hand on Kim's shoulder. He/she feels Kim relax a little at the touch as he says, "What are you doing here Bonnie? You already got what you wanted, a new playtoy to replace Brikk."

Kim's feels a little weak as she thinks, "She figured it out..." and looks at her friend with a bit of sadness as she wonders again, "How can she...he be so strong?"

Bonnie on the other hand could see both Kim and Ron's faces and was inwardly celebrating Kim's pain. Both of them had caused her trouble over the years but it was Kim that she wanted to hurt, especially since she reminded her so much of her older tormenting sisters and she didn't believe that goody two-shoes act for a second. She knew that it would only be a matter of time before she let that facade fall and when it did, she would rejoice in showing the whole world that Kim Possible was as cruel as her sisters.

Bonnie says as she uncrosses her arms and reaches with a hand, smiling a little on the inside as Kim gets upset again, "I'm here to take you, Ron... my new boyfriend back to his house in time for supper."

Ron thinks, "I hope I don't regret this later..." He/She looks at Kim in the eyes and without saying a word he/she knew she understood. He says, "Fine, but I am inviting my best friend along to join us for supper."

Bonnie frowns for a couple of moments as she thinks about that before an idea comes to her and grins as pleasantly as she can while to both Kim and Ron looking like a pleased snake which put them on the alert. She says in a sweet voice much like the kind she used on Mrs. Stoppable, "That's fine, your friends are my friends too after all." She narrows her eyes right at Kim as she says, "As long as she remembers and respects that we are a couple now."

The veiled threat told Kim all she needed to know. Go with them and watch your rival try to... no, scratch that. She would do things to Ron at even the dinner table in front of her and Ron's parents until she was pushed to a breaking point where she would get banned from ever seeing her friend again and given the way Kim's blood was boiling now, she had no doubt that Bonnie cold find some way to succeed.

Given the choices, go and watch Bonnie with Ron until she got pushed too far or let Ron go off to his/her house alone with Bonnie and hope that she didn't have to find out the dirty details later on. Just thinking about it made Kim grind her teeth a little in her anger.

Ron/Ronnie didn't want to see Kim suffer so he/she says, "It is ok Kim. I'll be all right. You go on home, I'm sure your parents are wondering where you are for supper already." He/she tenderly squeezes Kim's shoulder to let her know he'd be ok and that he/she would contact her later.

Kim nods to Ron and blushes as her stomach chooses to growl at that moment, reminding her just how hungry she was herself. She says in a soft voice to him, "Ok Ron, I guess I'll talk to you later ok?"

Bonnie smirks and says, "Don't you worry Kim, I will take good care of him."

Kim glares at Bonnie for a few moments before she turns and gives Ron a big hug as she whispers, "Don't let Bonnie get away with anything and call me when she leaves ok?"

Ron whispers back, "I won't and I promise to call as soon as she leaves the house."

Breaking the hug they gaze into each other's eyes before Bonnie grows sick of their puppy-dog staring into each other's eyes and she didn't want Kim to entertain any thoughts of stealing her man away so she grabs Ron by the arm and drags him towards the open gate she and Ron had used to enter the Pre-K area.

Ron manages to wave to Kim with her waving back in kind. She was still waving as Ron got dragged out to Bonnie's car.

It wasn't until both Ron and Bonnie were gone that Kim collapses to the ground, feeling totally spent both emotionally and physically. She just couldn't believe how drained she felt! It was if all the energy in her body was gone with Ron.

Kim lays her back against the tree, remembering with a soft smile all the good times that she had shared together when they were both still girls. She even remembers the first Halloween together where her mother dressed her up in a cowboy costume at a suggestion from her Uncle who had yet to have any kids of his own by then.

She rests her head as she thinks about how Ronnie looked like a doll in her pink Ballerina costume and how much candy they got that year but aside from that it was the first and big thing they'd done together since becoming friends and that was why it had become a tradition for the two of them.

After a while her stomach growls loudly to remind her that she still had not eaten so she slowly gets up and walks out the gate, pausing to look forlornly in the direction of Ron's house before she walks slowly towards her own home since she still hadn't fully recovered her strength in any way, mentally, physically or emotionally.

AN: Well everyone, I hope you all like this chapter. I originally hadn't planned on writing more to this story for a while so I could catch up on the more "funny" stories I have let slide in favor of the Halloween story but after a nice email from RI100014, I decided to answer his question about when the next chapter to my ingenious story would be coming out and the answer is now! See, you readers DO have something to say about when the next chappie comes out:D

So anyway, I wonder what you all think about Kim, Ron and Bonnie in this chapter so far? Should I recap on what happens after Bonnie and Ron/Ronnie leave Kim? Should I cover about what happens when Kim finally gets home and eats dinner? Was anyone surprised that I put the meeting at not the tree house but at the Pre-K school? Isn't Ron/Ronnie a great friend? Raise your hand if you want to see Kim OR Ron/Ronnie give Bonnie some "evil busting" experience? Raise both your hands if you want to see Ron's mother get something too. As usual all thoughts, ideas, suggestions, spelling mistakes caught, addresses to KP episodes for watching/dl'ing, hints on where all the club banana icons are for Kim in the "What's the Switch" game (Which is cool btw) and more are always welcome.