11-21-10

10:46pm

Summary–The symptoms are different. The feelings similar. The realization...the same. The RRB reflect on that one moment where they knew their relationship with the PPG would never be the same.

Disclaimer–I do not own The Powerpuff Girls, which belongs to its respective owner(s) and is only being used in a fan-made, fictional story.

EDIT 1-29-13: For fear that this story will be reported and taken down because the title is a little crude, I've adjusted it. It is still the same but just seems cut off. Then you click on it and lo and behold it's right below in all its glory! My concerns are raised because another story in another section was taken down for this reason. I had to adjust to re-upload and I don't want that situation happening again. Thanks for reading this!

xoxo

Title–Knocked On My Ass

Chapter 1–With a Smile

By–Moon Prynces

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He was impatient, and she was smart (and also a smartass). They ran in different circles but ultimately shared common friends and space (it was high school, after all).

They did talk once in a while, usually in a teasing, mocking each other manner that ended with her rolling her eyes and turning away or with him quirking a brow with an irritated expression and thus looking to something else for entertainment.

He wouldn't say they were friends, more like...well, classmates.

Brick stared around the classroom in boredom, chin resting in palm. He wasn't really paying attention to the lesson because a) there wasn't anything being written on the board to copy down, b) the teacher wasn't picking random students to answer questions and c) the next test was three weeks away.

After staring off into space for a few minutes too long he finally noticed that some of his classmates were shuffling around the room and everyone was talking. He looked up to find the teacher passing out sheets of paper.

Aw shit, he thought. Another quiz?

But it wasn't.

He was so caught up in staring down the teacher apprehensively he didn't see her until a voice said, "Hey," cheerfully.

Brick blinked and turned to the person sitting in front of him because...it was no longer Ted.

"What're you doing?" he asked her.

Blossom raised a brow. "Weren't you paying attention?"

His eyes slid to the side with an overly suspicious "innocent" expression.

"Of course not," she rolled her eyes, and then turned back around to take the papers being offered by someone. When she turned back to him she said, "We've been put in pairs for this assignment. It's harmless. Two class periods at the most." And she handed him one of the papers.

Brick looked down at it blankly. "Kay," he finally responded, picking it up and reading it over quickly.

She pulled out a blank sheet of paper and started writing. "Okay, so the first example of foreshadowing of his death was..." And she trailed off because she couldn't write the words fast enough, not because she was expecting him to answer.

But he did.

"The crows," he responded.

Blossom's pen stopped and she slowly looked up at him in surprise.

The two stared at each other for a few moments.

Unexpectedly a smile crept across her face, gradual and slightly impressed. "You read the book," she said, apparently having believed otherwise.

Brick opened his mouth to respond but something happened, preventing any action.

His...his stomach dropped.

And the longer she smiled at him the more his insides shifted around involuntarily, causing some strange kind of discomfort he didn't recognize.

Hunger, he knew. His lungs begging for oxygen, he knew!

But this... He had no idea, and as he was caught off guard in that moment his eyes darted away in confusion.

When he glanced back up and saw her smile falter with a bit of worry it happened again!

The hell, he wondered and shook his head. All she did was smile!

"What's the-the next question?" Brick asked, snatching up the paper from his desk and holding it up to block out the view of Blossom's face.

She raised a brow and went back to writing the answer.

The smile he had seen so many times before, but now directed at him sincerely, somehow threw him off – and he didn't even have a say in it! What the hell did she do to him?

He made it through the rest of the period without looking at her directly, trying to prevent any more weird feelings – even though he already had a good idea what had happened.

When the bell rang everyone started gathering their things and the teacher announced they would finish the assignment tomorrow in class.

Brick sighed in relief, sticking the paper in his bag.

"I'll see you later," Blossom said, already standing and holding her books.

It forced him to look up at her, and accidentally catch her eyes.

His insides flip-flopped again as she smiled crookedly, as if she knew the effect she had on him. But then she turned and left the room with the rest of his classmates and Brick leaned back in his seat, thinking.

I like her? he thought incredulously, staring down hard at the desktop with his mouth slightly gaping and trying to figure out why.

Maybe this was why he avoided interacting with her too much. Maybe his subconscious knew it would happen. Maybe his subconscious knew it had already happened...

The teacher glanced up to see one student still in the room. "Brick?" he called, causing the boy to look up. "What happened?" he questioned upon seeing the disbelieving expression.

Brick shook his head. "That's what I'm trying to figure out."

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11-22-10

1:10am

It took a little bit to land on a title and somehow I came up with this. And after I read it over to myself the meaning sunk in and I really felt like that's how most guys (and especially the RRB) would describe how this realization affected them. It was just so unexpected it knocked them on their ass. What do you think?

I think I came up with the idea for this story while walking around my room or lying on my floor. And I just felt like I maybe explore the girls' feelings more often than the guys so I wanted to try it.

I should be writing other things, rereading other stories I haven't posted yet or even getting on a new chapter/drabble for "For the Hearing Impaired" – which seems to be a crowd pleaser.

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This story will be marked Complete but there are two more chapters, ready and waiting. The next will be up in a few days. Story is rated T because after the second chapter I realized...this is high school and these kids are a little coarse with their thoughts and language, so I just wanna be safe here.

Thanks for reading and feel free to tell me what you think! And if you think this is good enough then maybe you'll want to check out the other Powerpuff Girls fanfiction I've written.

11-23-10

I wish I wasn't so lazy to read it over one more time but I'm tired so here goes something. Time to post!

11-26-10

4:53pm