Chapter 3

The next day Kim and Ron had to get ready for school. Ron was anything but happy about having to go to school as a child! Kim was able find the twin's old clothes for Ron. He was wearing jeans, sneakers, and a red shirt, while Kim was wearing jeans a hot pink t-shirt and sneakers as well.

Ron didn't tell Kim but last night he did not sleep well at all, he was constantly waking up to nightmares. He was really more than terrified about going to school as a kid but Kim told him that she had Wade call the school and explain the whole sitch to them, so that all his teachers would know what to expect. This still didn't make him feel any better. Once the two had finished breakfast Kim was ready to go, she said good bye to her parents and grabbed Ron into her arms.

When Kim pulled into the school parking lot she saw that Ron had fallen asleep on the way. She unbuckled herself after turning the car off and went to open his door. She gently shook Ron to wake up; Rufus had jumped off of Ron's lap and went into Kim's pocket since Ron's would be too small for him.

"Ron" Kim said softly.

He moaned and rubbed his tired eyes with his hand. "Five more minutes KP" he begged.

Kim giggled. "Come on sleepy boy it's school time" She unbuckled him and helped little Ron out of his car seat placing him on the ground grabbing both her and his back pack, than she closed the car door.

Ron let out a loud yawn, Kim looked at him concerned he was usually wide awake by this time of day. "Ron did you sleep ok last night?" Kim asked.

"Yea I'm just not awake yet" he lied.

"But you usually are by now" said a worried Kim.

Ron yawned again. "I'm fine KP" he promised. He started heading in with Kim right behind. The two headed towards their lockers ignoring the stares and gossiping. Kim knew that the student body would already know about Ron's sitch because the teachers also gave out a notice. Ron on the other hand felt like a frighten child walking on thin ice, even so he kept his head held up high, he didn't want Kim to have to worry about him. But just before they could reach their lockers Bonnie was standing in front of them with her arms folded and a wide grin on her face, Ron lightly flinched at her grin slowly backing away behind Kim. Kim glared at Bonnie just daring her to say something.

"Hey K, doing some babysitting at school are you?" she mocked.

"Don't play with me Bonnie, not today" Kim warned coldly.

Bonnie laughed "I can't believe it your loser boyfriend became a loser brat, this is just too good"

Kim rolled her hand into a fist using all her strength to keep herself from pounding Bonnie to the ground. Bonnie ignored her warning signals laughing at Kim and Ron as she walked away.

Ron was feeling so much shame in him it was literally tearing his heart to pieces, he didn't like making Kim look bad. Sure in the past he was always a goof and klutz but in his teenage form he had more confident in him and didn't care what people thought of him as long as Kim still liked him. Now that he was a child his feeling where more sensitive than ever and he hated it! Kim growled as she opened her locker with Ron leaning again the lower locker beside her.

"Ug that Bonnie can be so…" She couldn't even finish the sentence; there were no words to describe how much Kim hated Bonnie!

"KP don't let her get to you" said Ron.

Kim looked down at Ron seeing his innocent eyes staring back at her, his little voice reaching to her. "Ron how can you not be upset?" she asked in awe.

He shrugged with a yawn. "I wemember mommy use to say not to let mean words get to you" he answered.

Kim smiled and knelt down glancing the hall for teachers, once the close was clear she gave her bf a quick kiss on the cheek making Ron smile his goofy smile. Kim stood back up grabbing the books she needed.

"Ok my little bf let's get your books" said Kim as she opened his locker. Ron's back pack was a bit too heavy for him to carry but lucky for her most of their classes were pretty close together except for last period, but he could just carry the one book he needed during that time.

To Ron's surprise the day hadn't been as scary as he had thought it would be; girls that had rejected him in the past were commenting how adorable he was and couldn't get enough of him. At first Kim didn't like all the attention he was getting but he reassured Kim she was the only girl for him and the others just squealed in awe at his cuteness making Kim grin when she saw Bonnie growling annoyed. Throughout the morning Kim could see Ron wasn't yawning as much making her a little less worried about him, she was glad to see that the other students weren't picking on him and after the other girls were all over him she could see he was finally gaining some of his Ron-shine back. At lunch Kim had to practically pull Ron away from Monique so the poor boy could breath

It was nearly the end of school and Kim was looking forward to having some Kim and Ron time afterwards, they just had one more class and they were free. Kim knelt down handing Ron his book, he looked at her confused.

"Ron you know that you have to go to D hall which is too far from my class to drop you off, I'll end up being late if I tag along" Kim explained.

Ron froze she just had to mention D hall, ever since they had their bodies switched and she took care of his bully problems he's been fine with going down that hall. But he was sure that those bullies would know he was a helpless child now, what if they tried to strike him for revenge? He didn't want to go alone but he didn't want to get Kim into trouble either.

"Ron?"

Ron shook his head clearing his thoughts. "Ok KP" he said.

Kim gave him a small smile. "Meet me at my car once class let's out ok"

Ron nodded and Kim gave him quick kiss on the cheek before heading to class.

Little Ron sighed 'I'll be ok' he thought.

While Ron was slowly walking down D hall holding his book tightly to him he felt the sudden memories this hall once held flooding back to him. At that moment he wished more than anything that Kim was with him. Just when Ron could see the door to his class he was blocked by someone large. Ron gulped and looked up to see the two kids he had been fearing about.

The smaller guy had a huge grin punching a fist into his hand. "Hello Stoppable"

Ron's eyes went wide with pure fear, normally he could joke his way out of these situations but he couldn't find the strength in him without Kim at his side.

"Time to pay up for humiliating us before" said the large bully.

"Come on guys just weave me alone pwease" Ron begged.

The two bullies started to laugh. "What's with that voice Stoppable" said Shawn" (short bully, making up names here)

"Yeah he sounds like a little kid" said David. (Big bully)

"I'm not a kid!" Ron squeaked out.

The two just laughed and pointed at Ron making him feel really small inside. Ron held onto his book tightly trying to keep the tears from falling.

"Awe is the little baby going to cry" Shawn mocked.

"You're a big meanie!" Ron shouted angrily.

At that the two stopped laughing and glared at Ron causing Ron to gulp. "Oh well show you mean" Shawn warned.

Meanwhile Kim couldn't wait to be let out of class, she wasn't even paying much attention today. Rufus was sitting on her desk eating some chips she had given him. Since Ron was turned into a child she kept remembering all the fun times they shared as kids. Kim was tapping her fingers to her desk watching the clock suddenly feeling very anxious. She couldn't understand it but her gut was telling her something bad was happening and ever since she started doing missions she has learned to trust her gut.

The bullies had finally left as Ron struggled to gather himself up, every muscle in his body hurt. The bullies had kicked him, beat him, taunted him with cruel words. He started crying in frustration when his body wouldn't listen to him, the best he could do was lean himself against the door. Before the jerks had left him they threw him in the janitor's closet. He hated this with passion. Ron's small form shook as he hugged himself crying in pain. Just like those jerks said Kim really did deserve a better boyfriend than him. What kind of idiot let's himself get turned into such a helpless child that he can't even protect himself! He couldn't remember being so weak before when he was this age, but that's because Kim had always given him courage. If Kim saw him like this she would probably be disgusted and finally see the loser that he really was.

TBC