Kigo

In the Middle by StarvingLunatic 17

17: Seeds

Kim and Ron strolled through a park together on a rather nice day. It was lush area with plenty of trees and grassy places for picnics. There were some dogs running around in a meadow area. Ducks occupied a small pond where some young children fed the birds bread. The sky was a vibrant blue and the sun shone brightly that afternoon.

The best friends decided to get together rather spur-of-the-moment as they realized they had not done such a thing ever since Ron moved back to Middleton. They blamed Kim's recent legal problems and Ron had to take care of Yori most of the time when she came home, not knowing what to do about Shego's nutty students. They had time now to hang out since their usual lunch dates had other things to do.

"Remember when those geese chased me in this park," Ron said with his eyes on the ducks.

Kim snickered. "Those were some furiously angry geese, but I think Rufus stealing their bread is the reason they chased you."

Brown eyes rolled as Ron scoffed. "I think they're just mean animals."

"Well, that too," she agreed with a smile.

"I can't believe how much we've changed since the last time we were in this park together," Ron commented while looking around, taking in the scenes around them. And, looking out for evil geese.

The last time that they walked through the park, they had been a couple and the biggest worry in their lives had been what was going to happen when they graduated. It had seemed like the scariest thing they would ever face back then. Now, in retrospect, it seemed silly to even worry about. Life was much more complicated now that they had graduated.

"Really. What were we doing, freaking out over going to different colleges and everything, right?" Kim asked with a light laugh.

Ron laughed, too, and rubbed the top of his head. "It was a little overwhelming. I mean, we'd been together every day of our lives, from pre-k up until that point. The idea of not being together... it was surreal."

She nodded. "I know. It was so weird for a while." Being without Ron was like being without her leg. She almost felt like she did not know how to walk for the first few weeks of college. Of course, she had pressed on, seemingly normal, but on the inside she had felt quite lame. He could understand that because he could definitely relate to the feeling.

"Yeah, but we grew up and, well, things are still weird," he remarked with another laugh while turning to look at her. His chocolate eyes sparkled from his amusement, which cause her eyes to react with a similar shine. Weirdness just followed him and Kim around, even if they were not together. It was just their thing.

Turning her mouth up a little, Kim shook her head. "Not to me. I know to other people it might seem weird. I have two girlfriends and you have one girlfriend that gets hit on by my girlfriend's students, but it doesn't really seem weird to me."

"I think that it's because life's always been weird for you and me, because it's like you said, this doesn't really seem that weird. We're damn near calm now," he realized, putting his hands in his pockets and focusing ahead of them.

"Yeah, we've found our niches. We should go find Mister Barkin and show him that you actually amounted to something and you've got a long term girlfriend," she remarked with a smile.

Ron could not help snorting. "He'd probably just yell at me from jealousy," he countered with an amused smile of his own.

A light chuckle escaped her. "And spite. Don't forget that."

"I should just go find him and rub it all in his face, but that's pointless. I'm bigger than that, after all." He gave a long shrug.

Kim scoffed and glanced at him. "Since when?" she asked with a chortle.