She drove home immediately after she recovered from Kim's kiss. She slept well that night. So well that she was late for work.

"Shego! Where have you been! It's already 11 o'clock!" her boss exclaimed as she walked into the office.

"Shut it, Betty. I overslept."

Betty rolled her eye. Honestly, the nerve of the woman walking in late and not even apologizing, she thought. I'm going soft if I'm letting her walk over me like this.

"Work starts at 9, Shego. Walking in two hours late is inexcusable. I don't care if you had a rough night or just overslept, but the responsible thing is to call your boss to let her know!"

Shego dismissed Betty with a wave of her hand as she booted up her computer. Will was enjoying this, no doubt. He was what Betty called the "ideal" employee - Shego thought he just had a stick up his ass most of the time since, well, he was and continued to be an ass. Complaining about Shego's work ethic, trying to one up Shego by coming in early and leaving late, and most of all, he thoroughly enjoyed rubbing it in that the boss paid him more.

Noticing that Shego was ignoring her, Betty leaned herself on Shego's desk. "How did it go yesterday? I got a package from Middleton Daily outlining the basics of the contract."

"It was fine. Kimberly was fine with whatever arrangements we made. That Rockwaller woman annoyed the heck out of me though. She thinks we'll give them sub-par work."

Betty smiled. She knew Shego would pull through when she needed her the most for GJD's PR duties. A Rockwaller woman? The name was familiar. "Rockwaller?"

"Bonnie something or another," replied Shego as she carelessly went through her email.

Betty frowned. "Bonnie Rockwaller and Kimberly Possible are working together?"

"Yes, why?" Shego noticed the frown. "Is something wrong?"

"Nothing. I'm just surprised they're working together. I heard some rumours about both of them and they don't really seem like they're friends to each other. I guess they work well together?"

"You've got to be kidding, Betty. They were at each other's throats yesterday during the meeting."

"Really? Interesting. Why would Bonnie be in this meeting? I thought she was just an editor."

"Apparently the board of trustees or shareholders like her a lot to give her so much power. Anyway, we're going off-topic. Basically, the deal is for me to come up with at least five designs by Monday, we get paid for our efforts, and if they like the designs, we'll arrange another contract."

"I see. Monday is your deadline? That's a bit too soon. Will you manage?"

Shego nodded. "I've had worse deadlines."

"Good. As long as you're fine with it, that's fine with me. If you ever run into issues, let me know and I can give them hell."

"I know you will."

She looked up from her computer. Something that Betty had said intrigued Shego.

"Wait, you said you heard stuff about Kimberly and Bonnie?"

"Yeah, it happened before you moved here. From what I understand, Bonnie and Kimberly went to high school together. They were pretty much rivals, but I guess you also noticed, they seem to barely tolerate each other on the surface... In actuality, I've heard they're decent friends with one another."

"Oh... That's all?" Shego was disappointed. She wanted to know more about Kim.

"Well, apart from that, Kimberly's got quite a reputation."

"So I've heard. I'm just not sure what it is."

Betty raised an eyebrow. "You normally don't give a crap about this stuff, why bother now?"

"Since we'll be, hopefully, working with them in the future, shouldn't you fill me in on things that I should know?" It wasn't exactly a lie, nor was it the truth, but still, Shego was curious.

"I wouldn't think that this is something you should know. You weren't around when it happened, so I think the less you know, the better."

Will gave his two cents before Shego could say that it might just be better if she knew. "Ladies, as a blossoming business, should we not be focusing in the task at hand? The designs?" He glared at Shego.

Shego snapped back with a "You should be focusing on removing that stick up your ass" before Betty gave both of them The Look; it was the "both of you be quiet this instant or I'll not pay you for a month" look.

And then there was silence.

Will went back to whatever books he was balancing while Shego shook her head. Guess I am just a tad intrigued with Kim's life, she thought. I shouldn't pry any further - I did tell her last night that I wouldn't. Her mind drifted back to the kiss and smiled, only to realize that Betty was still at her desk and looking at her funny.

Shego raised both eyebrows and gave Betty a "you're the boss, don't you have things to do?" look. The one-eyed woman got the silent message and finally walked away to her own office, leaving Shego back to her thoughts.

Stop thinking about it. It wasn't even a proper kiss, she mused. Oh, but she kissed me. She's too cute to be real. She smiled and went back to sketching some ideas for the new logo.

11:45 AM.

Her cell phone beeped.

1 new message.

Hi Shego,

I'm stuck in a meeting with the shareholders and B.

Won't be able to make lunch.

Still good for tomorrow?

Kim.

She sighed. At least Kim texted her before she left the office. She picked up her phone and typed up a reply:

Hi Kim, no worries.

Hope the meeting goes by quickly.

Good for tomorrow.

Where do you want to go?

S.

She wondered what she should do for lunch now. She didn't want to linger in the office since Will would be around (working through lunch, as usual); if she went out to eat, Betty would probably tease her about going out to meet her mystery woman.

Suddenly, an idea struck.

Finally, this meeting is over, Kim thought. She looked at her watch. 12:30 PM. Still have time to go to St. Jude's. She got Shego's text message but couldn't reply since she was trying to explain to the shareholders (and Bonnie) why Bonnie shouldn't be promoted to vice president.

The Rockwaller woman ended up storming out of Kim's office and started raising hell in the hallway, while Kim and the shareholders looked on. It was an amusing sight, but the point was made: while Bonnie was a successful businesswoman, her impulsive behaviour might lead the paper to ruin. Kim merely told the group that Bonnie needed to be more mature before they considered her for the role; she told them to bring up the request again in a few months.

Now that she was left alone in her office, she decided to go to St. Jude's and hopefully surprise Shego, if the older woman was there.

"So tell me exactly why you wanted me to come with you to lunch?" Betty raised an eyebrow as she bit into her sandwich - salami on rye, no crust.

"Can't I treat a friend to lunch every now and then?" said Shego, as she chewed on her grilled cheese sandwich.

Betty dabbed her mouth with a napkin. "Oh, so now we're friends... An hour ago, I doubt you would've called me a friend. Either way, I'm still your boss." She laughed at the dirty look Shego gave her. Before taking another bite out of her sandwich, she added, "Your mystery woman can't meet you today, so you drag me out instead."

Shego blushed a little. Damn Betty. "Yeah, yeah, whatever."

Noticing that Shego was coy whenever they broached the topic of her mystery woman, Betty asked, "What's she like? I couldn't catch a glimpse of her face that day I walked by."

Shego's face lit up as Betty asked the question. She was smiling excessively; like a schoolgirl in love, Betty thought.

"She's pretty, charming-"

The door slammed open and a blur of red suddenly rushed to their table.

"Hey, sorry, I managed to get out of my meeting..." was said before an audible "Oh" escaped the redhead's lips as she realized Betty was there.

Betty had a grin on her face as Shego looked back and forth between her friend and Kim. Busted. Betty will not let her live this down, she knew. Dating the client? Oh boy.

Kim was biting her lip awkwardly, realizing that her 'surprise' for Shego just became an even bigger surprise. For Betty, that is.

Betty said, with a hint of amusement in her voice, "So, Shego, you and Miss Possible...?"

This was so the drama.

Author's Notes: Poor Shego... and Kim. What will Betty do?

Aside: If you haven't noticed, I use both British and American spellings. I draft the chapters with my phone that autocorrects to British spellings and then edit with a word processor that uses American spelling... hence the mix, but I do prefer some words spelt with the British spellings more than the American counterpart (behaviour, humour, metre, centre, etc.) Just felt like mentioning that since autocorrect is the bane of my existence when I'm trying to write up something on the go.

Chapter title is from "Surprise" by Sean Rowe, and "Surprise, Surprise" by Brett Dennen. I just happened to listen to both while writing. Hmm.