Ronald's diner

chapter 22

Pausing her hands, Bonnie absorbed that single word. Kim. How could one word be so heavy? Don't kid yourself, she thought. It's because Kim held claim to everything that was Ron and, by extension, Ronald to and extent. Was that it? Bonnie didn't like the idea of that, but what else could it be? Ronald and Ron were linked because of this whole clone mess, and at the center of all that was Kim. Bonnie felt like an outsider looking in on a hurricane. All during high school it had been Kim, who had dared stand against her social dominance. However, that was the past. This was the real world now, and Bonnie could care less about anything, even remotely resembling the food chain. She'd seen what a real food chain was like, and she knew just how cruel that could be. High school was such a joke compared to that. She'd let go of all that drama a long time ago.

"What did she want?" hoping she didn't sound like some jealous girlfriend.

Wasn't that the million dollar question Ronald thought. What did Kim want? She said she missed her best friend, but that was crazy. She had Ron, and she didn't need her husband's clone in the picture. She was just being stubborn like always. Kim had to have everything. It was an addiction with her. Always had to be the best at everything. Anything possible for a Possible... god he hated that saying. It was like her family used that as an excuse to cover their egos. It wasn't like he didn't like the Possibles. They were family to him. It was just that no matter how bad they screwed up, they'd just fall back on that saying and plunge ahead, trying to fix things in their own way. Headstrong didn't even come close to how they could get.

"Well, I'm not really sure." he finally admitted after thinking things through.

"What does that mean?" Bonnie asked, sitting under the hot spray of water, rinsing her hair.

Leaning back, Ronald scratched his cheek. "Hell, if I know. She shows up as I'm locking up and wants to talk about how she misses having her best friend around."

Bonnie furrowed her brows. "Her best friend? Isn't Ron her best friend? I mean, they've been tight since forever, haven't they?"

"Apparently, I'm the best friend she's missing. Go figure." sighing loudly.

The shower curtain was pulled back just enough for Bonnie to pop her head out, and her hair slicked back against her scalp. "What does that even mean?"

Opening his arms, Ronald shrugged. "Like I know. I told her Ron was her best friend. I made it clear that she and I had never been best friends since I'm just a clone."

"First of all, you don't know that." she countered, wiping water from her eyes. "Like you told me, Ronald, you don't feel like the clone. I don't care what everybody says or what the facts seem to say, until you are ok with how things are. I don't think you should let it go. In fact, if you ask me, the whole thing wasn't handled properly at all."

He couldn't help but smile. Bonnie was fully in his corner, and that was something he had been sorely missing for too long now. Since coming to Lowerton, he'd felt so alone, trapped in a life he didn't know how to live. Now he had her, and it felt like there was a future spreading out before him. His future, not just the scraps from Ron's life, but his own. Ronald wanted that future, and he'd do anything to have it.

"Did I ever tell you how great you are?" giving her that lopsided grin of his that she had started to find so adorable.

"Not nearly enough, but I forgive you." she chided him. Then, back to the conversation. "So let me get this straight." vanishing back behind the shower curtain. "Kim has Ron, but now she wants you as her best friend too. So does that mean Ron isn't her best friend?"

"She says she can't see him that way, but that she can me. Makes no damn sense to me." he huffed.

"Actually... I kinda get it." Bonnie said before getting to her feet and turning off the shower.