It was after midnight when the family got home.
Kim ran upstairs and locked herself in her room. She was still in shock about what happened. She flopped down on her stomach on her bed and just buried her face into her pillow hugging it hard.
Knock, Knock
"Kim?" came Anne's voice
"What?" kim said muffled through her pillow. Her mom opened the door and came and sat on the bed next to Kim.
"Kim" she asked again
Kim just kept hugging her pillow and not saying a word.
"Kim?" she mom tried again" I'm sorry about what happened."
Kim sat up and faced her mom "Mom, it not fair why did he have to die?"
"Well accidents..."Her mom trailed off "well. honey I'm not sure." Mrs. Stoppable called me and told me that they are going to have a funeral on Sunday.
"Mom, I'm not going!" kim snapped
"Kim, I know it hurts but I'm sure Ron wouldn't want you to be doing this to yourself." anne said
Kim looked at her mom "Mom I blame myself for what happened to him." She cried
"Why's that?" Anne asked
"Because...because.. i could have stopped that pole. I could have used the battle suit and stopped it but i couldn't and now he's..." Kim trailed off
Anne held Kim's chin "Kim, it's not your fault, okay it was an accident." I don;t want you to blame yourself or anybody else. okay."Anne said She gave her daughter a hug and stood up. "I'm going to get the boys in bed, if you want i can bring you something to eat?"
"No thanks" Kim answered "i'm not hungry"
"Okay. Anne said she left the room and shut the door. Kim layed back down on her back this time and just stared up at the celing.
Anne put Jim and Tim to bed and than went to bed herself.
Anne sighed
"Are you okay? Timothy asked
"I'm worried about Kim, she's taking this pretty hard.
"Well you know that she had known Ron since they were in preschool. They had been best friends forever now and now their a couple. " he said
"Well I'm still worried about her " Anne said as she turned rolled over to face thewall and turned the light off and went to sleep.
"Ron, where did you get reservatiopns to this kind of resturant? " kim asked
"Well KP, we all have our little secrets." Ron asnwered back
"Well you know I'm glad you did." Kim siad
A waiter came to take their order and left. Kim never thought that Ron could be so romantic. A candle light dinner for two at a fancy resturant on a balcony with a view of the nightlife that you could die for.
The waiter came again
"Would madam like a glass of champain?" he asked
"Yes please." kim said the waiter brought two wine glasses he poured her drink and than ron's. Kim pcked up her glass to take a sip of it and spotted a ring at the bottom of the glass. She picked it out.
"Ron what's this?" she asked
"Oh that?" Ron said he got down on one knee took Kim's hand and asked "Will you marry me?"
Kim was shocled for a moment than jumped into his arms almost knocking him over.
"Yes, Oh yes oh yes! she screamed "Ron I love you!
I love you to-
BEEP! BEEP!
Kim turned over and looked at her clock it was 8:oo. She groaned she didn't have to get up for work at least for about 45 minutes. She hit the off switch and rolled over. She remembered the wonderful dream she was having and than she remember the ugly truth. Ron was gone. Work would be tough to get through and she knew that when she went back to school in the fall she would have a hard time mainly because Ron was in most of her classes. The only reason that she stayed home instead of going to another state was that she could be closer to home and she wouldn't have to pay for a dorm room. It was cheaper to live at home and still go to college.
Kim soon felt herself drifting off to sleep. She knew that her mother had already gotten the boys to work and she didn't have to be at work till about 8:30. The tweebs were 16 going on 17 and they both got a job working as cashiers at some grocry store.
So she would make sure Kim was up before she left. Kim soon drifted off to sleep.
NExt thing she knew she woke up and looked at the clock it was 8:59. Kim sat up in bed and quickly got dressed and ready to go and ran downstairs where she saw her dad leaving for work as he always did.
"Dad why didn;t mom wake me up?" kim asked
Tiomthy stopped and looked at kim "Kimmiecub, your mother didn't wake you up because she didn;t think that you should go to work today." he answered
"Because of what happened, trust me i can handle it." kim said as she ran past him and out the door to her car befor he could have objected.
When Kim got to work she walked behind the counter to put her purse in the safe. Minike was behind the counter.
"Kim your mom called and told me what happeed and that you wouldn't be at work today." she said
"she did, well i came anyway. it wil take my mind off things." kim asnwered
Monike put her hand on her shoulder "Kim i'm sorry about Ron and i don't think that you should be at work today."
"Moninke you remember when your grandmother died and i was right there beside you and you came to work anyways?" kim asked
"Yea, why?" monike asked
" i know how you feel and just let me be." okay kim asked
"Kim, yes i loved my grandma , but you and ron were...were a couple and inseperable." monike said
"I know and you don't think that it's hard. " Kim said
Monike thought for a moment " You havenb't clocked in yet, have you?" she asked
"No why?
"I'll clock out and take a break and let's go get a soda and talk okay?" monike asked
"Okay" kim said
Monike clocked out and she and kim got a soda and sat down at the food court.
"Kim, what happened?" monike asked
"Are you talking about what happened last night?" Kim asked
"yea, like i just saw Ron yesterday afternoon and now.. he's gone." Monike said "kind of shows you have easily life can be taken away."
Kim took a sip of her soda and than sighed "Monike yesterday was a bad day and I'd rather just forget about it."
"Forget about it, I know that it's hard that ron died but you just have to move on." Monike said "Kim you never told me happened exactly."
"Why you would you want to know about that, I don't even think that you liked him." Kim said
" Hey I liked Ron it;s just he had a way that just annoyed the hell out of me and he had his annoying and stupid moments, but I can't say that I didn't like the goofball ." Monike said
Monike looked away for a second and than looked back at Kim "Kim, what happened exactly?"
Kim gave Monike a curious look "why would you want to know how he died?" she asked
"Well it's just I;m having a hard time beleiving that he's gone." she answered
"Well i was fighting Shego, and he had gotten this headpiece that could have taken over the world and than I just saw a pole fly by my head and when I looked up I saw Ron on the ground and..." Kim stopped because she could feel tears well up in her eyes. she turned to wipe her face.
"By the way, they are going to have his funeral tomarrow. "Kim answered
"Why are his parents in a hurry to bury him?" Monike asked
"I don't know, my guess was because they are taking this harder than everybody and they just want to get rid of the pain and hurt it caused." Kim answered
"Oh..." Monike uttered
Kim looked at her watch it was about 10:30 "Hey I think that it's about time that we got back to work. "Kim said
"Well let's go. "Monike answered
Both of them finished up their sodas and went back to work. Kim went to go check where she would be today. She had hoped that it was behind the counter working cashier or at least stocking the clothes in the bins. She was in luck it was working cash register. There she could just stand there all day and check coustomer's items out.
Kim had been working for about an hour when she heard a familar voice.
"Hey Kim, how are you today." came a voice
Kim looked up to find Josh "Great." kim thought as she smiled
"What can i do for you josh?" she asked
"Oh I wanted to see if you were okay." he asnwered
"Why wouldn't i be okay?" kim asked
"I heard about Ron." he answered "and I'm so sorry."
Kim just stared at him "boy news travels fast around here." she said
"well I found out from Bonnie who found out from Tyra from the cheer squad, who found out from Tara." he said
Kim raised an eyebrow "and how did Tara find out?" she asked
"Oh Tara found out from his mother, when she ran into her at the grocry store." he answered
"Ok... " kim stammerd
"what was it some...kind of secret?" he asked
"Oh no it's just I didn't expect the news to travel so fast." kim answered
"Well I;m sorry, how about we can hang out sometime?" he asked
Kim looked at Josh "you know hitting on me right after my boyfriend dies is low!" kim snapped
"I WASEN'T HITTING ON YOU!" Josh answered "I was just seeing if you were going to be okay."
"So asking me out to do something or hanging out is seeing if i'm okay right after Ron died?" kim asked sarcastically
"Look I wasn;t, I mean... ah just forget it I better get back to work." he said
"Oh and where do you work?" kim asked
" I work for a guy who pays me to advertise for his store." he asnwered" at least i got something for doing my hobbies."
Kim rolled her eyes "Josh I got a lot of work to do and I can't talk." kim said she than took a stack of papers and went to go put them in the office.
"But in case youi need someone to talk to, jut call me okay?" josh yelled
Kim turned around and looked at josh, rolled her eyes and than went back to what she was doing. When she returned she found that josh was gone. She breathed a sigh of releif
"Who was that?" Monique asked
Kim looked at her "Oh just some old crush who is soo insenitive." kim answered
"What do you mean?"
"I had a crush on him in my sophomore year and now i can't stand him." kim answered "plus he knew that Ron died and he was hitting on me."
"Wow ." Monique said " talk about insenitive"
Kim worked until about 5:30 in the afternoon. She headed home to find that her mom had invited some people that she worked with for dinner.
"Great" kim thought as she retreated up to her room to change out of her work clothes.
Knock Knock
"Yea?" kim yelled
"Kim it's mom." Anne said through the door "Can I come in?"
"Sure."
Anne opened the door and found her daughter changed and just sitting on her bed
"Kim I'm having people over for dinner, I want you to try to look happy." she said
"Mom you know that's it's going to be hard." she said
"Yes but these are good friends of mine that i work with and i forgot that they were comming over until about 4:30 tonight. Anne said
"You forgot that they were comming over?" kim asked
"Well with what happened i got so caught up that you forget things." Anne said
"Mom i'll try." okay
Anne thought that it was now a good time to get out and get dinner ready. So she left leaving Kim sitting on her bed.
Later she came down to find that everybody was going to the table to eat. Kim walked in the kitchen and sat down at the table, she found that her mom was making Lasana. Well it was food. The dinner went okay but it was mostly boring. Her parents talked with her guest and the tweebs did there usual things devour their dinner and than leave to go do their normal thing. Kim jut kind of picked at her food. Her mom soon noticed and leaned over to talk to Kim
"Are you ok?" she asked
"Sigh, i guess that I'm not really hungry tonight." kim said
"Well honey if you want you can leave the table." anne said
"Okay." kim answered she got up and put the rest of her plate in the fridge for later and than retreated to the comfort of her room. When she got there she got to her room she flopped down on her bed and turned on her tv. She kept flipping chanels
"Sigh nothing to watch either." kim thought she layed down and just looked up at the celing for a while. She was hoping that she would drift off the sleep but right now sleep wouldn't come. She knew that Ron's funeral was tomarrow and that it was going to be hard to say goodbye. She tuned towards the wall and thought about Ron being buried in a coffin and going into the ground... forever. No she shouldn't think about that right now it was too painful. Her mind kept racing with a thousand different thoughts and she kept tossing and turning. She found a comfortable spot on one side facing the wall and she drifted off to sleep.
Hours later she woke up to hear the guest leaving and the door closing. She looked at the time. It was 8:22.
"Their are just NOW leaving?" kim thought as she got up and saw their car leaving from the driveway. Kim shook her head and than went to lay back down on the bed and went to sleep.
NEXT MORNING ...
"Kim it's time to get up." called Anne from he door
Kim rolled over to look at the time sigh it was 9:30 am They had to be at the church in an hour and Kim would have done anything or given anything up not to go. but she got up anyway and got dressed and ready to go.
LATER AT THE CHURCH CEMETRY
It was a muggy and hot cloudless morning as Kim walked past the gate over to a bunch of chairs that were in front of the coffin and right above a hole in the ground. Kim and her family sat with the Stoppables in front. Kim looked around she saw most of her friends, Monique, Wade, wow even the Go team and Mr. Barken had shown to pay their respects. Kim kept looking around and she saw Josh sitting in the way back.
"what was he doing here?" kim thought " he was always the one who made fun of Ron." She turned around and faced front. The preacher came up to the podium
"We are gathered here today to pay our repects to a gentleman who died prematurnly. he said and that's all kim had heard, she had looked at the ground through the whole sermon and kept thinking how she could have prevented this accident. If she had caught the pole when it whized by her head she wouldn't be at Ron's funeral right now. No she would be somewhere else... she thought of a thousand different places where she and Ron could have been right now instead of here.
"Kimmie?" her mom said
Kim jumped "Um, yea?" she said quickly
Her mom gave her a confused look "Did you not hear the preacher he said to rise because they are lowering Ron in the grave."
"Um no well i don't know." Kim stood up quickly as she saw the gave staff close the casket. It closed with a dry squeak and a loud click. Kim looked at the ground because she could feel the tears welling up inside, the anger. Though she didn't know who to be angry at herself or shego but she mostly blamed herself. She had beleived that Kim Possible could do anything but not that title seemed empty now. The casket was lowered into the grave and everybody threw a rose inside and stood there as they they played Amazing Grace. She knew that Ron really was gone. She could never hug or kiss him, or play or go on missions or anything. They covered the casket with dirt and by the time they finished Amzing Grace it was filled. Everybody either left or stayed to say a final goodbye. Kim stood there
"Um Kim?"
Kim looked up to see Mr and Mrs. Stoppable " yes?"
"We wanted to give you something that was going to be from Ron." Mr. Stoppable said "when you gyes had gone out to dinner the other night Ron had this in his pocket."
He pulled out a small ring box and gave it to kim. She opened it to find a 1Karet dimond. Kim picked it up and in the in the ring part part she saw carved in the gold was Kim and Ron Forever.
Kim began to feel the tears comming again
The week before Ron had asked your parents and us if he could prepose to you." Mr. Stoppable said "He would have wanted you to have it."
"Mr. Stoppable, I... I can't take this. Kim said
"No you keep it, we couldn't .
Kim looked at the ground "Thank you..." she said alsmost in a mumble Mr. Stoppable smiled and grabed his wife's hand and went to their car. Kim began to walk to her car but stopped to see Josh saying his goodbyes. Kim walked up to him "I thought that you didn't like Ron?" she asked
"Well he was okay, it just hard." he answered "Are you going to be okay?" "what about that little mole rat... what's his name?"
"You mean Rufus?" Kim asked
"Yea, Rufus
"Well I guess that they are just going to give him to Hannah." Kim said
"Sigh, I'm sure that I'll be okay." kim answered and she headed to her car and headed home.
When Kim got home she just headed up to her room, when she got there she changed real quickly and than her Kimmunicator was going off. Kim picked it up and pressed the button
It was Wade as usual
"Yea Wade?" she asked
"Hey Kim, just checking on you." he said
"Kim let out a little smile "Thanks, and are you going to be okay?" kim asked
"Well I guess so
Suddenly there was a window of light on the other end of her room that had a powerful wind like a twister that began to pull her from her bed. She tried to hang on as tight as possible but she failed and soon she was sucked through the light...