This story is based on a Fan Art Picture of Kim Possible by Richard (Lionheart) Sirois. I have contacted him, and received permission to do a story based on a picture in which he has the character of himself kissing Kim.

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters portrayed, or the artwork, which this story is based on.

Kiss and Don't Tell

Sitting in Bueno Nacho at their usual booth, Kim and Ron were talking.

"Uhh… Ron?"

"Yeah, KP?"

"I… need to tell you… something." With a sad look on her face, Kim lowered her head so that Ron couldn't see her eyes. "I… sort of… did something today that I… shouldn't have."

This got Ron's attention. His girlfriend was usually so sure of herself. He hadn't seen her act like this in a long time.

"I… went to see Richard today… to help him with a school project."

"How's he doing? I haven't seen Richard for a while." A seed of a thought crept into Ron's mind.

"Oh… he's… fine." Kim said with eyes still lowered. "Ron…?"

"Yeah KP?"

"I… kissed him." Ron raised an eyebrow at this statement. He tapped his cheek with a questioning look on his face.

Kim was now looking directly at Ron, and she shook her head side to side with a very pained look on her face. She then did what Ron wished deep in his heart she wouldn't do. She touched her lips.

Ron just sat there with a stoic look on his face. His eyes were vacant. To Kim, his silence was deafening.

"I really didn't mean for it to happen." Kim quickly said to, if anything, break the silence. Ron still didn't make a sound. In fact, he never moved, or even blink his eyes. He just sat there with a blank look on his face, his mouth slightly open.

"I… felt that I should tell you." Ron's expression still hadn't changed. "Ron? Please, say something."

"How?" The word was quick, short and to the point. Almost spat out.

Kim spoke with a purpose. She had to get this out of her system quickly. "Well, I had stood up to leave after we had worked on the project for a while, and he had stood up at the same time. We ended up standing kinda close together. It surprised us both. Then it just sort of… happened. It all happened so fast, at first I didn't pull away, but then we both realized what was happening, and we immediately stopped. I was so frightened by what had happened Ron! I left immediately and I've been crying ever since."

It was then that Ron noticed how bloodshot her eyes were. "I finally had stopped when you called me to meet over here for lunch."

Ron was still silent, listening.

"Ron? Please… say something else."

"Do you like him?" Ron's voice was tinged with veiled anger and hurt. He felt his legs start to shake.

"Ron… please… don't ask…"

"I said, do you like him?" Ron's voice raised a little.

"I… like him… as a friend."

"You never kissed me on the mouth when were friends." Now his hands were shaking under the table. He put them under his thighs in an attempt to remain calm.

"Kim?" Ron asked, looking her directly in the eyes.

"Yeah Ron?"

"Do you love him?"

Kim was so shocked by the question that she didn't answer right away. Immediately she regretted the pause. Before she could say anything else, Ron stood up from his seat, his hands visibly shaking. He started to walk away, but Kim's hand shot out and grabbed his hand. He stopped.

"Ron… I Love… YOU." She tried to put as much emphasis on this last word as possible.

Ron turned, and bent over to whisper into Kim's ear. "Then you shouldn't have kissed him."

Ron then stood, removed his hand from Kim's, and without another word walked out of the restaurant.

Kim buried her face in her hands as the tears flowed like a torrent. She slumped herself into the soft back of the bench seat, and started repeating to herself over and over as she continued to cry into her hands. "I'm sorry Ron. I'm so sorry. Ron, I am so sorry."

Meanwhile (Ron's thoughts):

Why, why, why? Why did she even TELL me? Kim, why did you do that? And with Richard! One of OUR best FRIENDS! Does she want him more than me? Hell, he IS better looking than me. Auuugghhhh! I hate this! I loved, hell, I STILL love her, even though she kissed another guy! Now is definitely the time I wish I had more friends so I can talk about it! Why did she do this to me!

When Ron got home, he immediately went to his room, closed the door, and promptly flopped on his bed silently crying into his pillow.

Back at Bueno Nacho:

As Kim continued to cry, she had placed her head in her arms on the table, hiding her face. Business seemed to continue on around her as usual. Suddenly, she felt someone tap her arm.

"Go away." Kim said without raising her head. Then there was another tap. This time, someone spoke.

"Kim? It's me, Monique." Kim raised her head at the sound of her friend's voice with watery, blood-shot eyes.

"Monique… I really… (sniff) screwed up!"

Monique sat down beside the redhead, and Kim immediately wrapped herself around Monique, crying fresh tears on her shoulder.

"Hey, gurlfriend," Monique said, caressing Kim's hair with a hand. "It can't be all bad. What happened?"

Kim spoke into her friend's hair. "I… told Ron (sniff) that… I k… kissed R… Richard!"

"What? Kim, you didn't! Not Richard, one of you and Ron's friends!" Monique said as she broke the embrace.

"Yeah. (sniff)…" Kim was searching her friend's face, looking for some sort of understanding, or forgiveness. There was neither.

"Oh Kim… Tell me what happened."

Kim recounted how she had gone over to Richards place to work on a school project with him. She was sitting on an easy chair, and Richard was on the end of a couch just a few feet away. Both had stood at the same time to get something to drink, and they ended up standing very close to each other. Without warning, suddenly the two were in a lip lock. Kim raised a leg, and pressed herself into Richard (there's no way she would tell Ron that little detail), and then suddenly both realized at the same time what was happening! They broke apart, and actually pushed each other away.

Both spoke at the same time, blushing, and saying the exact same thing. "I'm sorry! I shouldn't have done that!"

Kim quickly grabbed her books and backpack, saying she better go. She left Richard standing by himself alone in the middle of the room.

"Monique, I Love Ron! I don't know why we did that!"

Kim fell onto her friend's shoulder again, with a new batch of tears falling faster than the others.

"Kim…" Monique said as she slowly stood. "We need to get you home."

That night, two teenagers in love dreamed.

Ron's Dream:

A Priest spoke. "Do you, Kimberly Anne, take his hand in marriage, to have and to hold, to live in peace and harmony, to stay at his side both in sickness and in health, 'til death do you part?"

"I do." Her green eyes shimmered in the light.

Then the Priest spoke again. "Do you… Richard…"

"Nnnnoooooo!" Ron woke up screaming, and breathing like he had just ran a 200- yard dash.

Kim's dream:

Riding a powered snowboard, Kim was racing Shego to the last triangulated position of Ron. She just HAD to find him! She couldn't live with herself if Ron was missing, or worse.

Rounding a snow bank, Kim suddenly ran into… "Snowman Hank?"

Drakken stepped out from behind the large snowman. "Ahh… Kim Possible! I suppose you're looking for the buffoon?"

"Yes Drakken, I'm looking for Ron!"

"Well, he's not here. He left."

"What!" Kim couldn't believe what she was hearing. It was the middle of no-where, and Ron just took off?"

"Where did he go Drakken…" Kim said, sounding more like a demand than a question.

"I don't know. But I do know you will never find him. He left quite a while ago. Oh, and he left that." Drakken pointed to a red spot in the snow. In the middle of the red colored snow was a small microchip that was used for tracking purposes.

"Rrrroooonnnnn nnnnnooooooo!" Kim woke up bathed in sweat, and her covers kicked completely off the bed.

Neither slept a wink the rest of the night.

I will be trying to update two stories at a time here through the Holidays. Let me apologize in advance if I fall behind on updates...

Please R & R