Kim knocked on the bedroom door before opening it. "Ron?"
"Yeah, KP." Ron sounded as he normally did.
"Ron, I…" Kim stopped in the doorway as she saw boxes on the floor and piles of notebooks on Ron's bed and desk. "What is all that?" She pointed at the notebooks.
"That is my life, KP. Everyday, everything I did summed up on a page or two, starting the day I met you, in pre-K." Ron saw the other visitors behind Kim. "Come on in Monique, Mrs. Dr. P."
Kim and Anne moved over to look at the notebooks on Ron's desk. Monique walked over to a clear spot on the bed and sat down.
"Everything is in these." Kim picked up a notebook and started flipping through it.
"After that first day at pre-K I asked my mom how people remember things forever. She told me that people write it down. So she wrote down for me want I wanted each night until I could write myself." Ron explained.
"That's sweet. My mom read me stories at night." Monique commented as she looked through a notebook.
"Yeah I guess I told bedtime stories to her." Ron chuckled.
Kim stopped on a page with a sticker at the top of the page. "Ron, what is with the sticker on this page?"
"I put stickers on days that something important happened."
Kim started reading the page. After a few lines she waved Anne over to read with her.
June 10, 1999
Today was a perfect day. I got up early to get to Kim's house. Kim was just finishing getting ready and Mrs. P had pancakes cooking. I love her pancakes. After breakfast we got on our bikes to ride to the park. I only crashed once. The sun was out and everything was so colorful. Kim brought a frisbee. She can throw in right to me. I try and try but I can only get it near her, but she leaps and catches it anyway. She thinks I do that on purpose but I'm not. So Kim started throwing it so I had to leap to get it, too. We walked around a bit. For lunch we bought some sandwiches and juice from the park store. We sat under the big oak tree to eat. Next we went down to the lake and skipped rocks. Kim is so good at it, she got one to skip nine times. I best I did was five. Kim raced me back to the climbing rock. She won of course and tickled me until I gave up. We biked back to Kim's house. Mrs. P asked if I was staying for diner. I called dad at work. It was OK, mom had to stay late again. Mr. P got home and we all had diner. After that we all played ladders and slides (Jim and Tim's favorite game). I got back home before it was very dark. It was a perfect day.
As Kim and Anne were reading Monique found something in the notebook she was reading.
"Ron, what's with this?" She whispered waving Ron over and handing the notebook to him. Ron quickly read the journal entries.
September 15, 2004
Walked to school with Kim. She is so crushing on Josh but can't get the courage to ask him to the movies. Pop quiz in math class Mr. B is so out to get me. Had pizza for lunch always a good thing. Kim spent most of lunch watching Josh. I again tried to get her to talk with him. You would think it was no big deal but she just can't do it. I'm thinking of taking care of the issue myself. Cheer practice went well Bonnie is still on Kim's case about the competition. After school watched some TV at Kim's house. Studied for the history test on Friday.
September 16, 2004
Walked with Kim to school and decided to find Josh later. I didn't mean to but some how set fire to my lab notes in Mrs. Kendle's class. Found Josh and told him to ask Kim out to the movies, even told him what movie she is wants to see. Talk about handing her over on a silver platter. (Who even came up with that saying anyway) He must have talk with her after lunch because in English she was so out of it. [SCRACHED OUT LINES] At the Bueno Nacho she just went on and on about Josh. I used the test as an excuse to get home. I just can't handle that much Mankey in one day. But as long as she is happy I'll do what ever it takes.
"The truth." Ron replied handing the notebook back.
"Why didn't you ever just tell her how you felt?"
"Kim doesn't see me like that."
Monique gave Ron's arm a squeeze with a small knowing smile on her face. Then she returned to reading the notebook.
"I can't believe I forgot about that day!" Kim exclaimed as she and Anne finished reading the entry. "That was the first time we went to the park by ourselves."
"It was the first of many trips to the park you and Ron took that summer."
Kim smiled to her mother and returned to reading the notebook in her hands. Anne randomly opened the notebook she was holding and started to read. A smile blossomed on her face as she read Ron rambling on about school, video games, going to mall, and having fun with his friends. This was the carefree and fun loving boy she watched grow up. Anne flipped forward many pages and started to read. A chill went down her spine at the first line of the entry.
March 23, 2004
Woke up in less pain today. The skin graft is healing nicely, I should be back to normal in two weeks or so.
"A skin graft? That is a major injury. How could I have not seen?" Anne wondered.
Anne's eyes jumped to Ron leaning on his dresser watching Kim with a loving look and smile on his face. Anne then looked to Kim. Kim was giggling at something in Ron's notebook, probably something that they did together. Some part of Anne didn't want to know but she had to find out about this darker side of Ron's life. A side he managed to keep from his closest family and friends for so long.
Author's Note: Sorry this took longer than I hoped to get done. What I had for part 3 turned into part 4 when I started typing.
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