It was Saturday and Kim got up early and got Ron out of bed "Come on Ron we have to go"
"but Kim seriously no high school student will be up this early and they probably still have jet lag" Ron protested as Kim threw back the curtains in his room
"they have been here a week they will be over it" Kim said walking out the room leaving Ron to get ready. They walked the 20-minuet walk to the house and Kim knocked on the door. Jason Opened it
"Oh hey guys come on in" Kim and Ron both followed Jason down the hall into the kitchen
"wow" Kim admired the size of the house
"Is that a hot tub?" Ron exceled running out the patio doors
"Ryan isn't here Kim" Sheldon said from the couch flicking through the channels
"oh well I kind of wanted to talk to you guys" the three guys exchanged looks and sat down in the living room, Kim joining them. "Ryan and I had a moment in the chopper last night, then he just gets up and leaves and wont look me in the eyes or even hold a conversation with me, what did I do?" Kim asked looking from one face to another. After a long silence James broke it
"well at least this is a good sign right?" he glanced at his friends Kim looked rather confused
"What do you mean?" She asked raising her eye brow in suspicion
"I don't know if we are the right people to talk to about this" Sheldon began
"we are the only people. Ryan will never tell her" Jason butted in. Sheldon looked at a Kim for a moment and nodded
"Ok, when we were picked up to do what we do, we had some pretty insane training. There used to be five of us, Ryan and Sarah were the best. They were incredible operators; anyway Ryan and Sarah hit it off and got serious. They finished the training before any of us and got sent out on a mission against Ghost, the man you met last night. Things got bad, Ghost captured Ryan and Sarah and shot Sarah in front of him to teach him a lesson, Sarah was the last person Ryan ever cared about, maybe even loved. She used to ride on the back of his bike but now no one does. Last night I saw him genuinely concerned for you and that is a positive step for him, those few seconds you guys had you have seen more of Ryan than we ever have, he likes you Kim" Sheldon finished his tale.
Kim didn't know what to say she felt bad for Ryan after hearing what he had been through, thinking back to the times she had seen him at school surrounded by girls not really reacting to them swoon over him, it all made sense now. A closing door broke the silence and Ryan appeared in the living room
"hey why is Ron in our pool?" he turned and saw Kim looking at him "Oh uh hi" Ryan could not find any words in his mind to say anything more, after a few tense moments he changed topic "hey you know what we haven't done yet? throw a party" he sat down opposite Kim in the living room
"This is defiantly a party house guys" she said looking at Ryan
" and it is Saturday" Sheldon stated "but how will we get people to come?" Jason asked
"hey we have the captain of the cheer squad here I'm sure she just has to call a few people, and didn't Bonnie give you her number Ryan?" Jason asked. Kim looked at Ryan trying to hide her jealousy
" yeh but I lost it" Ryan got up and walked out side "hey Ron we are having a party help me get the cover off the hot tub" he called.
Kim began spreading the word and Ryan and Ron reappeared "well I'm gonna go get drinks and food" Ryan said pulling on his jacket
"Drinks?" Kim asked surprised
"oh you don't drink?" Jason asked appearing from behind the fridge door
"I have never been to a party with drinks." Ryan laughed
"well you can come with me and pick out some stuff for your self, remind me to get food, Jason keys" Ryan caught the car keys and lead Kim out
"Jagermister" Kim said looking at the bottle
"whoa, yeh stay away from that stuff, umm" Ryan searched the shelf "this is more for you but don't do to many shots" he handed her a bottle labeled Sambuca "right we need girly drinks as well" Ryan sad continuing down the aisle. Kim watched as Ryan pushed box after box of drinks into the cart
"Don't you think that's a bit much?" she asked as he placed 4 bottles of vodka in the cart
"to us this is minimal, its only our first party so we are going to go small" Ryan explained
"This is small" Kim glanced at the cart again
"yup" . Ryan paid for the drinks and he and Kim both drove back to his house. Kim was trying to think of a way to tell him that she knew about Sarah but she didn't know how to approach the subject. A while later and they were back at Ryan's house. The guys clearly knew what they were doing, they moved around the house Ron helping Ryan to set up speakers whilst Sheldon lit the fire pit outside. In between the various jobs they were doing they were making fun of each other back and forth, but it wasn't mean it was fun. The guys even included Ron in their jokes and Kim could see the smile on his face.
After the house had been set up the group were sitting in the lounge room. It was quiet and Kim was a tad nervous with anticipation of what might happen that night. Ryan all ready had a beer in his hand and was making his way through it when his phone rang "hey Jason can you answer that?" Ryan said from his spot on the floor next to Kim "I'm to comfy to move" He finished. Kim gave him a suspicious glance, deciding that his last comment didn't mean anything
"Hello" Jason answered the phone " oh hey Bonnie, no this is Jason uh Ryan is busy um setting up the something I don't know what he is doing, go get him?" Jason looked at Ryan who mother the words "Toilet" and Jason nodded "Sheldon just told he is in the toilet, ok….bye" Jason put the phone on the arm of the couch "she says she is excited for the party" he said. Ryan tilted his head back
"does she ever quit?" he asked
"no quit isn't in her vocabulary" Ron said looking at the beer James had handed him. There was a knock from the door and Ryan got up and stretched
"and so it begins" he said walking off to open it.
An hour later and the party was in full swing, the house was packed with people from the school. Ryan was ducking away from Bonnie every chance he got, people were jumping in the pool and relaxing in the hot tub, and there was some intense make out sessions going on by the fire pit. In side Kim had been working up the courage to have her first drink, she found the bottle Ryan had bought her and got a shot glass, trying to play it cool. As she began to fill the shot glass a hand interrupted. The hand was wrapped in bandage, Kim knew instantly it belonged to Ryan "what?" she asked looking around at him
"I don't think you should do that" he said
"Why not?" Kim demanded getting a little annoyed with Ryan
"you don't need it"
"who are you to tell me what I do and don't need?" Kim had hit a nerve, Ryan stared at the floor a twisted expression on his face then he walked away and Kim saw him walk up the stares.
"good job Kim you chased him away, it was actually fun seeing you sabotage yourself" Bonnie gloated. She had watched the whole thing from the other side of the room. Kim clenched her fists, she had felt bad for chasing Ryan away when all he tried to do was protect her ,now she was angry that Bonnie was gloating about it. Kim left Bonnie mid sentence and walked up the stairs. She stopped four steps before the top. She could hear banging; she cautiously walked up the rest of the stairs and into Ryan's room. The room was just like any other teen's, rather messy. In one corner there was a hockey stick, there was a wardrobe where a trail of clothes lead from it to the bed and on the bed was Ryan. He was lying on his back throwing a ball at the wall above the stairs facing his feet and catching it. Kim cleared her throat and Ryan sat up. He looked at her but didn't say a word, he was taking her in, all of her from her flowing auburn hair the way it almost hid part of her face, the way her body was, everything sculpted perfectly and lastly her brilliant emerald eye's that pierced right through Ryan. Kim felt his gaze but it wasn't awkward. Kim sat down on the bed next to him. "I'm sorry" she aid quietly
"no I was out of line, your right I don't have a place telling you what to do, its just girls like you don't need to drink" He paused trying to pick through emotion for the words he needed "you don't need to drink to be the life of the party, because you are. You don't have to try to get people to notice you, because they do. You don't need to do what everyone else is doing to impress them. Because they are all ready impressed." Ryan paused again, Kim was fighting to hold back tears, no one had ever complimented her on this level before. "I mean girls like Bonnie who think they are trend setters" Ryan continued, "they aren't, they are doing what society expects of them and its not impressive. You are like…You're like…"
"Sarah" Kim finished the sentence for him "Sheldon told me all about it, Ryan I had no idea but it makes sense. But why me?" Ryan who had been focusing on the floor swung his head around to look at Kim
"do I really have to explain? Kim you are amazing I mean you save the world on a weekly basis your pretty, funny, smart" Kim hugged Ryan tensed before he wrapped his arms around her, He had no idea what was going to come as a result of this but he didn't care he was happy.
They sat like this for a while, neither one daring to move. It was Ryan who broke the comfterble silence. "Come on, ill walk you home" Ryan lead the way down the stairs and navigated their way through the packed hallway and out the front door. The pair walked down the street. Ryan didn't want to talk about what had just happened, he was smart enough to know that come tomorrow Kim might not like him, and he didn't want to face that reality. Kim was in much the same boat, her mind raced with possibilities about what could come of the time they shared in Ryan's room. However when she was about to open her mouth and talk about it her courage failed her and she closed her mouth again.
It was a warn evening and the gentle wind that slid around their faces was relaxing. "Here we are" Kim stopped on the driveway that lead up a slight hill to a beautiful house. Ryan suspected that the family must get views of the whole of middelton from this perch. "Thanks for walking me home Ryan you-" but she was drowned out by a cry from the front door
"Kimmie!" making their way down the drive way was Kim's mother and father, the expression on her dad's face was somewhere between concern and curiosity.
"Ryan just go, they will want to talk to you if you stay" Kim pleaded with Ryan, but Ryan didn't move he watched her parents coming until they were level with them.
"Kim where have you been? We have been worried about you" Kim's mother began as she hugged Kim
"yes its past curfew you lady" her dad chimed in though not taking his eyes off Ryan.
Kim opened her mouth to speak but Ryan beat her to it. "I'm afraid that's my fault Dr's Possible, My name is Ryan and I've just moved here from Australia. I'm in Kim's chemistry class. I was having a party at my house when Kim said she had to go. Naturally seeing the time I wasn't going to let her wander home alone, so I took it on my self as host to ensure she gets home safe." Ryan spoke with such direct confidence you would of thought he was a work college of Kim's parents. Kim looked up into the faces of her Mom and Dad and was amazed to see all hostility was dropped
"oh well that was sweet of you, Ryan did you say?" Kim's mom began shaking Ryan's hand
"Yes certainly good to know she has good friends she can rely on" Kim's dad also shook Ryan's hand "well come on everyone lets get back inside, Ryan look after your self on the walk home" Kim's father lead her mom back in the house and Kim turned to Ryan
"do my a favor and look after Ron" Ryan nodded and turned to walk home " and Ryan!" Kim called him back " try and avoid Bonnie, y'know if you can" Ryan smiled and his hazel eyes twinkled as he winked at her. Kim walked back in to the house to see her Mom waiting for her
"that was a sweet boy Kim, his parents must be nice letting him have a party for the school" Her Mom said watching Ryan through the window as he walked down the street
"Oh his parents aren't here, he lives with his 3 best friends and they go to our school also. But they are responsible and smart guys, they wouldn't let anything happen" Kim added quickly seeing her Mom's eyes flash at the thought of her daughter being at a un supervised party.
It was a mark of the impression Ryan made on Kim's parents when to Kim's surprise instead of her Mom going off about unsupervised parties she said this "all alone in a new country, that must be so hard. And Christmas is coming round soon, well Kim you will just have to invite Ryan and his friends around for Christmas dinner and make sure you ask them because I will be cooking extra food for them this year" with that her Mom kissed her on the head and went off to bed
"yeh I think I will do that Mom" Kim said to her self smiling.
A/N: please leave a comment and like guys and what you would like/think to see happen it would be great to read :)