Kigo

In the Middle by StarvingLunatic 12

12: Molten Core

"I can't believe I agreed to this," Shego groaned as if she was in serious pain. She sat on the sofa with her girlfriends. They were all in house clothes, which consisted of tank tops and shorts. The colors were just different.

"Why are you always so grumpy? Damn, be happy for once in your life," Bonnie replied, having to pull the back of a pen out of her mouth to say that.

Shego snorted and flipped her hair. "I'd be happy if we weren't doing this."

"We're doing this, okay? So, shut up and help," Bonnie ordered.

Shego frowned and snorted again. "Fine, what do we have again?"

Bonnie looked down at the legal pad in her hands, full of notes. "So far, we've got it planned out to where it might cost about five hundred dollars. We've got a list of food, but that's about it. Should we have music or something? Games?"

"People can bring their own games. This isn't a 'party' party, so I don't see why we need music," Shego replied.

"Baby, what about you? I mean, this was pretty much your idea, so you want music?" Bonnie asked, turning to look at Kim, who sat directly behind her. The redhead was halfway lying on Shego.

"I guess we can just play some background music. This is really just a get-together, like a little gathering. I want to show everyone we're all right and everything's normal, even though we still have some reporters trying to sneak into the house," Kim explained with a slight shrug.

"That's one of the best things about this place," Shego remarked with an amused smile.

They all got a kick out of watching what happened to reporters as they sneaked about the building. The security system was not only effective, but funny to see in action. They felt like the snooping reporters deserved what they got when they tried to break in or just slink around the building. Sometimes, they ended up getting trapped somewhere for the night or sometimes they actually got away with minor injuries, like very bad electric shocks.

Thinking about the reporters, Shego thought about the little busybody who broke the news of their relationship... sort of anyway. The details had been rather wrong in making it seem like Kim had to pick between Shego and Bonnie instead of being with both of them. Of course, none of that mattered to the gossip-hungry vultures that stalked them day in and day out now.

Shego had checked on little Tina recently and she had to admit she and her mother probably were going to Hell for what they did to that woman. Well, if they were not going to Hell for most of the other things they did in their lives. Tina was living in a one-room apartment with several species of vermin. Hell, she could probably open her own petting zoo if anyone was every interested in petting roaches or rats. She could not get a job doing anything that did not involve saying "do you want fries with that?" or cleaning up sludge. And anyone who tried to help her felt the sting until they wised up.

Shego made a mental note to tighten the screws on Tina, probably get her tossed out her little filthy apartment. Hey, the former reporter needed to learn to stay out of other people's business. Or at least learn not to test certain people.

"Okay, so do you want to go over who's coming over, so none of us get ambushed or anything?" Bonnie proposed.

"Good idea," Shego said and Kim nodded.

The last thing they wanted to go through was another "Possible incident," which was the safe way of thinking of when Kim's parents found out about their relationship and everything that came with that. So, they needed to know who was going to come to their little get-together to prepare mentally for things. They might even need to prepare arguments in case anyone wanted to get on a high horse. Of course, Shego would rather they just throw out anyone who dared to get on a high horse, but she was not sure how people outside of her own family would take that. She did not want to upset her girlfriends, after all.