Chapter one: Life goes on

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Ron was sitting in the cafeteria eating lunch by himself he was still feeling down that Kim didn't remember their relationship. It had been about two weeks since the mission where they stopped Drakken and Shego on that military train and Kim still didn't remember.

It wasn't her fault, Ron knew this all too well but it still hurt him that she remembered everything else but their relationship "at least she remembers our friendship, I don't know what I'd do if she didn't remember that" Ron thought.

He decided that for their friendship he'd stop trying to get Kim to remember that they are boyfriend and girlfriend; he could tell Kim was getting annoyed so he dropped it and hoped she'd remember with time.

Kim had to go to an environmental group meeting at the start of lunch and had just arrived at the cafeteria when she saw Ron, he looked absolutely despondent, she asked him about it a few days ago, but he denied that anything was wrong but obviously for him things weren't alright.

She wondered what was bothering him so she went up to him and said "Ron, what's wrong, don't tell everything's fine because I know it's not" Ron looked at her and said "Kim, I'm fine ok, I was just thinking was all" Kim snorted and said "thinking huh, does it hurt".

Her joke was supposed to help lighten the mood but Ron if anything looked even more despondent, she started to feel worried as she thought "whatever's bugging him it's serious, but what is it?".

Soon the bell rang and they headed to English class, the teacher was handing back the assignments that had just been graded, Kim saw hers and saw that she got an A-, pleased with herself she tried to look at Ron's grade when he put his assignment under his books.

Kim was shocked; Ron always showed her his grades "why was he so distant lately?" she decided to pull out her favorite and most powerful weapon, the puppy dog pout and while using it said to Ron, "Ron, show me what you got, please".

Ron didn't even bother to resist, this was making him feel worse, although Kim had no idea had bad this was affecting him, he started remembering the times she used it on their dates when she wanted something, he grabbed his assignment and handed it to Kim.

Kim thought he got a F and that's why he was hiding it but when she saw that he had a A, she was surprised, he got a higher grade than her, apart from home ec, this never happened, but she realized that Ron had been working a lot harder at school and was even on the football team now, whatever changed in him, it was making him work hard.

Kim noticed how he wasn't gloating or anything, she was sure that if he had gotten a higher grade he'd make sure to gloat about it to her constantly, but instead he hid it from her, Ron was definitely more mature than he used to be.

Soon the class ended, Kim had to go to cheer practice while Ron had football practice, they spent about an hour at their respective practices before they bumped into each other near the entrance of the school.

"Hey Ron, want to go to Bueno Nacho" Kim asked, Ron looked at his watch and sighed as he said "I'd like to but I got to work tonight" Kim thought for a minute and asked "when do you work Thursdays Ron" Ron sighed and said "I took the extra shift from someone so they could attend a funeral" Kim nodded and they went their separate ways.

Kim went to club Banana, she saw her friend Monique standing at the counter and before Kim could say anything "Kim, can you please work today, one of the other girls just called in sick" Kim nodded, she thought she could use the extra money for something special and she wanted to talk to Monique.

Kim and Monique were at the counter, it was nearing closing time and the mall was starting to empty, they had stocked the shelves and nearly packed everything up for the night, so they started talking about things that weren't fashion related.

"Hey Mon, have you noticed that Ron seems different lately" Kim asked, Monique had indeed noticed how distant Ron was becoming and knew exactly why he was, she felt a little guilty when she didn't try help him a few weeks ago when Kim had just lost her memory, but if she mentioned it now it could be taken as something different.

"Uh sorry Kim, I have no idea, doesn't he tell you everything" Monique said, Kim sighed before saying "I guess that used to be true but now I had to use the puppy dog pout just to see what grade he got in English today" Monique was stunned, she knew Ron was being distant but didn't think it was that serious.

They were then discussing boys "so Kim, who are you crushing on now" Monique asked, she was curious who would get Kim's attention now that she didn't remember her relationship with Ron.

Kim sighed and said "to be honest Mon, no one, for some reason I feel like I've dated the best guy on earth and no else could compare, but I don't know who that was" Monique nodded and thought "she remembers that but not any details about her and Ron, no wonder he seems so down".

Finally it was closing time and they headed home, Kim walked in the door and sat down on the couch, her parents were also in the room and they both noticed how Kim looked a little sad and lost.

"Kimmie, what's the matter" her mother asked Kim sighed and said "It's Ron mom, he becoming so distant with me, he doesn't talk to me as much as he used to but I don't know why" Kim lowered her head and Kim's mother noticed the guilty look on her husband's face, but decided to asked about it after Kim left.

Soon Kim had some dinner and went to her room to do some homework then bed, deciding it was time to ask Kim's mom said to her husband "James, why do you look like you've done something you shouldn't".

He looked at her and asked "Ann what makes you think that?" Ann sighed and said "I noticed your guilty look James, when Kimmie mentioned Ron, and I want to know why" James sighed but didn't say anything, but he looked at something that was near the T.V.

Turning around she saw a DVD, labeled Kim's memory jumpstart disk, James tried to sneak out of the room when Ann said suddenly "don't even think about it, sit back down" her tone allowed for no argument and James knew he was busted.

Ann had never seen what was on this DVD so she put it on and watched through it, once it was done, she was horrified, she figured out why James looked so guilty and boy did he deserve to as well.

"Why isn't there anything about Kim's relationship with Ron on here James?" Ann asked, James started stuttering incoherent words when Ann demanded again "why" again James didn't say anything.

Ann thought she had the answer "is this because you rather your daughter not to be dating at all" the look in James eyes told her this was exactly why he done this, he done it as a spur of a moment thing, his protective father side just overpowered him at the time and he hung his head in shame.

Ann sighed in frustration and came to a realization she said "no wonder Ron's distancing himself" James looked at her confused so she continued "he's probably so depressed that she doesn't remember and to help deal with the pain he's staying away from her because being around her brings the memories of their relationship, which they don't have any more thanks to you".

"Do you think we should tell Ron?" James asked, Ann thought for a moment then said "no, that wouldn't help, while I do think Ron deserves to know, knowing that you did that would probably make him distance himself even further from Kim, probably to the point when their friendship ends"

James sighed, he couldn't believe in a moment of stupidity he done something so foolish, but what really bugged him was that he wasn't the one who paid the ultimate price, it was Kim and Ron, they had everything to lose and nothing to gain from this and with the consequences of his actions in front of him, he felt worse and hope this got fixed and soon.

Kim couldn't sleep, she was worried how Ron was acting, they had been best friends for thirteen years but now he seemed to be avoiding her, she was sure of it somehow, she didn't know what he was hiding but she was determined to find out.

Ron sat on his bed, thinking about all the couples he'd seen at work earlier, it reminded him what he had with Kim and how that was gone now, thanks to Dr Drakken and Shego, he wished he could go back in time and stopped Kim from grabbing that device which caused all this, he noticed how he was not around Kim as much and decided, if I want her friendship I got to act like normal, I've hidden my emotions for years I can keep doing that now, he made his resolution and went to sleep.