Shego closed the door behind Kim and walked over to her couch, sitting down and bringing her feet up onto the table.
"Sit," the green woman commanded. Kim did as she was told and sat on the couch opposite. With a sigh Shego said, "Now then Pumpkin, hurry up and talk. I want to get to sleep before the sun comes up."
The redhead gulped slightly. Shego's tone was both aggravated, yet weirdly resigned. "I'm really sorry for what I said. I know that saying sorry doesn't fix everything, but I just don't get it. Why would a girl dress up like a guy to flirt with girls? If she's actually a lesbian then shouldn't she dress as a woman to pick up girls that are actually interested in their own gender? What would make a girl want to be a guy to flirt with girls?"
"One who's messed up," her enemy replied easily.
"What do you mean?" Kim was confused. She didn't exactly think what the woman had done was right, but she also realized that it wasn't nice to call someone messed up, not that she'd been any better by calling the girl a 'stupid fucking lesbian.'
"She's rebelling against her dad. He's been saying he wished for all sons, not some lesbian daughter. So, to piss him off I dress like a guy at parties and flirt with women," Shego finished.
"Are you saying… that it was you?" Kim asked, furrowing her brow.
The pale woman rolled her eyes and said, "Doy Kimmie. I mean seriously, I said that I was at the dance, green is my theme, and I'm evil, why else would I have the horns? And besides, didn't you hear that Jean's snobby ass assistant was saying that it was a woman looking like a man? I would've thought you'd have connected the dots by now."
"I… had my suspicions, but it lead to so many questions. Why did you flirt with me?"
Shego sighed, "I wasn't flirting with you. I flirted with other women there, sure, but with you all I saw was a girl who didn't want to be there. I don't flirt with every girl I meet. I mean, my purpose is to piss my father off, not pick up women. The first few times I dressed like a guy to piss my dad off I was actually picking up women, but soon I realized that probably wasn't the best idea so I stopped picking them up and only flirted. When I saw a lonely girl looking miserable, I decided to chat with them, and it just happened to be you. Then you said that you were my brother's guest. At that moment I decided that I would definitely NOT flirt with you."
"Why?" Kim asked, quirking an eyebrow. She wasn't asking because she wanted to be flirted with, but it almost sounded like an insult that Shego hadn't flirted with her.
"My brother has rarely ever invited any women to come to the gala, and when he does, he's typically interested in them. I may be a lot of things, but I'm not the type of person that will steal a girl he likes. Sure he may dislike me as much as my father since I'm a lesbian, but even I have some conscience. When I first talked to you I didn't know you were his date since I typically wouldn't care less and I didn't even think about looking at you all when you descended the stairs. I took a glance but went back to mingling with the crowd."
"If you realized I was your brother's guest, why did you still dance with me? From what you're saying, you shouldn't have danced with me when you found out who I was. What if I started to like you?"
Shego shrugged, "I wasn't worried about that. I planned to tell you later that I was a woman. I mean, if you're staying at the house, we would've met after the party for the first time when we had to clean up. Then I could tell you who I was and I could be pretty sure you would lose interest when you found out I wasn't a guy."
"Then why weren't you shocked when you found out it was me that your brother had brought?"
"After my brother had bored you to death for an hour I could tell you weren't interested in the slightest. I didn't plan to pay attention to you, but you'd seemed pretty down when we first met, so I ended up glancing at you a few times to be sure you were fine. So I took you to dinner to help you loosen up and hopefully have a better time. It was after that, that I overheard you talking with my brother, and that's when I realized who you were."
That confused Kim even more. "Why didn't you attack me then? I'm your enemy."
Shego waved it off, "That's just work Pumpkin. I don't bring work home with me. It may chase after me, like when Drakken decides to have a problem and need me to fix it, but I do my best not to make anything personal. I was more annoyed with the fact that when we were talking before I knew it was you, I had wanted us to be friends. Then it turned out you were my enemy so that wasn't really much of an option."
"If you found out who I was after we ate… why did you dance with me again?" Kim asked. A slight blush painted her cheeks when she'd remembered that she'd leaned on Shego during the dance, and also how comfortable she'd been.
"Just because you're my arch-foe didn't mean I was going to let some fat ass drunk man force you to dance. I knew you weren't exactly pleased to be there, because like I said, that's why I first talked to you, so I didn't think you needed an asshole bothering you. I had decided before then though that I'd refrain from telling you it was me, but that didn't go as planned either, seeing as how you're here. If you knew it was me you'd probably have said something like 'you played me for a fool and toyed with my emotions' and other shit like that. It was never my intentions. I was just trying to make my brother's guest like the dance a bit better. If I did that there'd be a better chance that you'd actually date the poor fool. When I found out it was you I knew immediately that he wouldn't have a chance."
"You seriously didn't think he'd have a chance with me?"
Shego rolled her eyes, "Oh please Kimmie. If you'd date him, do tell."
Kim bit her lip. "Ok, so I probably wouldn't."
"Exactly my point." The two grew silent for a while before Shego asked, "Is that everything?"
Kim nodded. In truth she had a thousand other questions, but now wasn't the time or place. Maybe she'd be able to answer some of the questions on her own. Either way, Shego was obviously tired of it all and wanted to be done with it.
Shego glanced at a nearby clock. It was 3:30am. The realization caused her to yawn. She stood up slowly and said, "I'm going to sleep." She then pointed a finger at a closet and said, "There are spare blankets and pillows in there. You can sleep on the couch if you want. I'll drop you off at home tomorrow." She disappeared into the bathroom before Kim could reply.
As she looked between the door and the couch, her eyes lingered on the couch for a bit. It looked pretty inviting. It didn't take long for her exhaustion to kick in and she knew she needed some sleep too. Without further hesitation she grabbed a blanket and pillow from the closet and stretched out on the soft seat cushions. Before her head even hit the pillow, she was out like a light.