Chapter 26

(Feb 14, 2006. 5:30pm)

The students all got off the stage and walked up to the Glee Three and Amanda, whom was the assistant director.

Kim glared at Amanda for taking her position but did not say a word about it.

"So how did we do?" Zita asked.

Vance replied, "Middling at best. I'd give it a B...barely."

"We want you to get an A+, sheer perfection!" Laramie insisted.

"Even with all the...changes..." Cara muttered, referring to the changes made by the MUSD to make it more suitable to perform and the moving of the play to the main auditorium due to the bug problems.

"Remember..." Vance added, "...this is with the scripts. By the end of next week, you will be starting to perform the play without them! Study those lines! Study them well!"

"Tomorrow..." Laramie boomed, "...we are going to finish Act I! This includes Scenes 4 and 5!"

Kim gulped hard. She needed that one-on-one talk with Monique...and fast!

Thinking quickly, Kim got out her flip phone from her overall pocket and typed in a text to Monique.

M,

Meet me at my room at 7pm after dinner. Come alone.

K.

Amanda then got a text from Bonnie. She rushed to Ashley A.

"Hey, you gotta check this out, AA!" Amanda whispered, "MC Honey and Britina are going to drop a duet tonight!"

"Ooooh! That sounds fetch!" Ashley A replied silently, "I'll get the other girls."

(5:58pm)

Kim managed to make it back home from school via a scooter ride from Ron, although a slow one because his model was nearly 20 years old.

"Hey, Mom! I'm home!" she called out.

"Hey, Kim. I'm making spaghetti tonight!" Ann replied from the kitchen.

"Spankin'! I should be down in about 10 minutes!" Kim replied. "I've also invited Monique and Ron on over."

"Good thing I made extra tonight!" Ann exclaimed. "Along with the garlic bread.

(6:16pm)

The Possible family, along with Monique, Ron and Rufus, all were seated at the table. The only change, outfit-wise, was Kim unclipping the left strap of her overalls and leaving the right strap hooked.

And for dinner tonight, it was spaghetti with extra garlic bread for their two guests.

"So, Kimberly, how was Romeo and Juliet practice for tonight?" Ann asked while taking a bite of the spaghetti made from her famed meatloaf.

"The first three scenes went spankin'. I only managed a few lines in Scene Three while Ron had his in Scene Two with Felix." Kim explained. She did not mention the part where she blushed about marriage in Scene Three with Zita. "The play is actually going to move to the larger Middleton High auditorium where there are more seats in the house."

"Girl got it goin' on as Juliet!" Monique exclaimed.

"I take it that is good, right?" James asked.

"Yeah, so far...so good!" Kim replied with a bit of nervousness. She wanted to get to the one-on-one girl talk with Monique.

Rufus, meanwhile, was slurping on the spaghetti noodles.

(6:31pm)

After finishing off the spaghetti without a word and without the Tweebs interrupting dinner, Ron then spoke up.

"KP, we're gonna be in the zone tomorrow for Scenes Four and Five!" he exclaimed while holding his script around. "You and I are gonna work together!"

Kim's nervousness shot up.

"Yeah, Ron!" she gave a half-giggle before whispering in Monique's ear.

"Monique...now would be the perfect time."

"Got it, baby girl!"

Kim then turned to Ann and James and asked, while trying to throw a shield around Ron for the real reason why Monique was here. "Mom, Dad. May I and Monique be excused from the table? I may need some help to practice my lines for Scenes Four and Five."

"Sure thing, girls. Just be sure to clean off your plates first and put them in the dishwasher." Ann insisted.

"But what about me?" Ron asked.

"Yeah?" Rufus

"Sorry, Ron." Kim sighed, "Maybe we can practice on Act Two this weekend?"

Ron's smile faded from him.

"That...well...can work, KP..."

(6:40pm)
Kim and Monique went up the stairs to Kim's bedroom. Monique took off her cowboy boots and sat at the computer chair. Kim also activated a more recently-added feature to her room: a metal sliding door that slides from the floor on the top of the staircase.

"You got the high-tech thing goin' on, Kim!" Monique exclaimed.

"Wade thought of the idea himself." Kim said while applying the security code to the door, "It's to prevent the Tweebs from coming into my room and it's for maximum privacy."

Kim then tucked in the undone strap of her overalls. Monique unzipped her heeled boots and put them to the side.

"I wouldn't blame you with those two runnin' around!" Monique muttered. "So, now that your girl's here, and Bonnie's wenches aren't here, what do you wanna talk about?"

"The whole Ron thing." came Kim's reply as she laid down on top of the bed.

"Ron? Really?" Monique asked, surprised, "You two have been tight since Pre-K!"

"I know that he and I have been good friends but something has come up ever since the Moodulator incident a few months ago at the Middleton Days Festival." Kim explained, "It seems that I've been getting more defensive of him."

"Are you talkin' about protecting-him-from-Bonnie's-insults defensive or jelly-when-Yori-came defensive?" Monique asked, wondering where Kim was going with this. She knew about the incident last October when Yori came to Middleton High to get Ron to save Sensei from what he thought was Monkey Fist.

"The latter, Monique." Kim debated, "It seems that whenever another girl comes even near Ron, I get all high-horse on that girl to leave Ron alone."

"I gotta ask..." the redhead then added, "...is there more to it than just my friendship with Ron?"

"Girl, all I'm goin' to say is this: Look inside your heart and ask what it is tellin' you." Monique suggested.

Kim took a deep breath and said, "Yeah, I should try and do that. On the whole Romeo and Juliet sitch, though, the kisses I do with Ron are not official BF/GF kisses in any way, shape, or form. They will be for us to get a good grade on this play so that we can get one step closer to both our diplomas."

"Nothing more. Now...let's try and work on scenes 4 and 5."

(7:49pm, Rockwaller house)

Bonnie was painting her nails in her room, sitting on her chair. She went with the pink crop top and the Club Banana dark denim overalls with the left strap hooked and right strap off. She was waiting on any word from Amanda or Ashley A about Kim's performance.

The scheming brunette then heard her cell phone ring.

It was Ashley A.

Without hesitation, she picked up her cell phone.

"Hello, Rockwaller speaking!" Bonnie said in a sweet voice. "Do you have anything to report on Romeo and Juliet? Remember that you girls are my eyes and ears when I am not around!"

"I do." Ashley A replied, "We did the first three scenes of Act I."

"Duh, I know that from Amanda!" Bonnie sighed, rolling her eyes, "What I meant to clarify is that do you have anything to report on Possible from the first three scenes."

"To be fair, she didn't have many lines...but...she did blush quite a bit when Flores as Lady Capulet mentioned marriage."

Bonnie grinned a bit upon hearing this.

"Good...but remember, this is only the appetizer to the five-course dinner that will be Possible and Stoppable's utter humiliation!"

"Understood. We're going to do Scenes 4 and 5 tomorrow..." Ashley A snickered, "...and you know that Scene 5 is the one that they're going to lock lips!"

"Yes! Remember that I want you and Amanda to continue what you are doing...and to continue the Glee Three and Drama clubs to uphold their end of the deal if they are to receive any 'protection' from any wedgies from the football and girl's powerlifting teams." Bonnie insisted while taking out a few twenty-dollar bills from her dresser, more than likely money from the Flagg family.

However, she changed the subject to the other thing that has attracted her interest over the past 24 hours.

"You also got my text message on the MC Honey-Britina collab?" Bonnie asked.

"Sure did!" came Ashley A's reply.

"Remember, we gotta take down notes on what they are wearing so that we can co-ordinate for tomorrow!" Bonnie insisted.

"I'm getting my pad ready!" Ashley A insisted.