"Phew... glad I got out of that one..." Tootie was briskly walking toward the bus stop, having just left her house after talking to Vicky.
Flashback...
"Alright, just grab my coat, my purse... yep, that's everything!" Tootie checked her pocket. "Except... my phone! Where? Where did I-" Tootie's eyes widened with realization. "Oh no..."
Making her way downstairs to the living room, she searched around and couldn't locate her sister. "Vicky?"
No response.
Looking over the couch, she spied her phone on one of the cushions and grabbed it.
"Um... I'm leaving now, bye Vicky!"
Tootie left and shut the door.
There was a very quiet snickering coming from the kitchen as Tootie left.
End Flashback...
She was on her way to the arcade in the Dimmsdale Mall to meet up with Trixie Tang, of all people. These meetings were becoming more frequent now. The two had actually met at the arcade a few months back.
Tootie had gone to the arcade after school to blow off steam, she was tired of Timmy rebuffing her affections and had finally given up on trying to get him to like her, it was just too much. So she went to the mall and...
'Nother Flashback...
"I can't believe I wasted so much time trying to get him to like me! I've been a fool..." she slammed the control stick of the arcade machine she was using.
"Um... hey. You okay?" a somewhat fake sounding deep voice spoke to her.
"Huh?" Tootie spun around to come face to face with an admittedly feminine-looking boy wearing a red baseball cap, purple shirt, dark pink pants and white sneakers.
"Tootie? Um... Hi!"
This boy had Tootie at a disadvantage, he seemed familiar, but she couldn't quite place him. Did she go to school with him? That must be it.
But she wasn't about to make herself look stupid in public. "Hi! I didn't know you came here! How've you been?"
The boy seemed dumbstruck at first, then must've decided to play along. "Yeah, I don't really get out much, parents and what not. Usually I hang out with Tad, Chad, and Veronica. But sometimes I like to go all 'lone wolf', y'know?"
"Yeah, I know how that can be, usually I prefer to hang out with Chester, AJ, and Timmy, but I wanted to be alone today..."
"Why?"
Tootie gave the boy a quizzical look.
"Er... if you don't mind me asking..."
Tootie sighed. "I assume you know me, self-proclaimed girlfriend of Timmy Turner?"
"Well, we do go to school together..."
"Right... well I've been trying to get him to go out with me for... years now... I'm just tired of him rejecting me, over and over... I'm done."
"Timmy... Timmy... Oh! I know him! Yeah, he's been trying to get me to go out with him, guy doesn't take a hint..."
"Wait, what?" "Timmy... likes... guys? Well... it would explain why he never reciprocated my affections..."
"Yeah, weird that we have such different relationships with the same guy, huh?"
"Weird is an understatement, I had no idea that Timmy was... like that, though how close he is with Chester and AJ makes a lot more sense now..."
"So... you wanna play?" Tootie gestured to the arcade machine she had been playing.
"Sure! I'll warn you though, I'm pretty good."
Tootie giggled. "We'll see about that!"
After that, any passerby would've thought the two were old friends catching up amid the video games. Tootie was surprised, she never knew that she went to school with a boy who shared similar interests to Timmy, but was much more accepting of her. Then again, Tootie wasn't trying to kidnap or molest this boy, so that may have had something to do with it.
"So..." Tootie started. "Do you come here often?"
"As often as I can, if my friends knew I came here... well, it wouldn't be good."
"You're friends think it's weird you come to the arcade?"
"Well... Tad and Chad would... Veronica... she might be able to be convinced to come out here, she's more open-minded than them."
"If you're friends with the popular kids, you must be pretty well off yourself, huh?"
"Kinda... but I'm not snobby or anything! At least... I don't think so... am I?"
"Nah, you're cool."
"Phew! I was worried... sometimes I come off as... kind of a bitch..."
"I haven't gotten that vibe from you. You're kinda... um..."
"Yeah?"
"If I tell you something, can you promise me you won't freak out?"
"I guess so..."
"You're... kind of..." Tootie was turning progressively redder. "Cute..."
The boy Tootie was talking to went wide-eyed and stared dumbly at Tootie.
"Oh no... I'm sorry! You're freaking out aren't you? Dammit! I'm always too forward! I- uh... Can- can we start over? Hi! I'm Tootie!"
"Tootie! It's fine! Calm down..." the boy giggled at Tootie's antics and smiled.
Tootie felt her heart flutter at the smile, similar to how she felt around Timmy.
"But... um..."
Tootie watched as the boy twiddled his thumbs. "You... aren't really looking for any sort of relationship, right? You just wanna stay friends?"
"Well..." it was now or never, revealing herself could certainly have some dire consequences...
"This is silly, I'm telling you I like you, and I don't even know your name..."
"Tootie, it's me!"
"You?"
Tootie watched as the boy looked around warily, then took off his hat, letting long black hair fall out and down to his waist from under the hat.
"I'm... still in the dark... but you look familiar..." Tootie's eyes widened in shock. "Trixie?!"
End of Flashback #2...
Tootie giggled to herself as she rode the bus to the mall, she was certainly surprised by Trixie's big reveal, in a few short hours, Tootie realized that she had been wrong about Trixie, she wasn't a snob, or a bitch, she liked video games,(and apparently dressed as a boy now and then) and Tootie finally understood why Trixie never went out with Timmy despite his multiple(though admittedly failed) attempts at wooing her. Trixie was, to put it lightly, 'playing for the other team'.
Tootie really did think Trixie was a boy when they met at the arcade, and she really did think said boy was... cute.
So, when Trixie revealed herself, Tootie was... shocked, to say the least. Lucky for her, things didn't get awkward between them, they were good friends, but Trixie requested that their meetings be kept under her hat for now, she didn't want to have to deal with her friends and their strange looks.
Tootie certainly felt that it was odd that the girl who held her once-crush's affections and was her enemy was now a very close friend, but sometimes the world just throws curve balls, right?
Arriving at the mall and making her way to the arcade, Tootie looked around for 'Tristan' as the two had agreed to call Trixie while she was dressed as a boy. She saw him(her) and ran over before enveloping her(let's go with her for simplicity's sake) in a hug.
"Um... h-hey there..." Trixie was still unused to such displays of affection, especially considering that Tootie claimed she liked boys, yet the two of them were practically one step away from dating. Tootie was, evidently, a fan of public displays of affection, hand-holding, hugging, the occasional kiss on the cheek; all in the name of acting and playing the part, according to Tootie, yet it was sending Trixie some seriously mixed signals. It was little wonder that Timmy was frightened by her forwardness. "How um... how are things?"
"Strange. Vicky's in love."
"Your sister? The one everyone claims is an evil babysitter?"
"That's the one. Anyway, Vicky isn't all that bad, she just puts up a facade like that to get what she wants. If she was really all that evil, do you think she'd be able to find love? Or a guy that was even willing to entertain the idea of dating her?"
"I suppose not. Who's the lucky guy?"
"No idea, unfortunately. All I know is that she changed her ringtone to some golden oldie song, and that she's been... swooning!"
"Swooning? Wow, the love bug must've bitten her hard, from what you've told me about Vicky, that doesn't sound like her at all..."
"Right? Eh... I'm happy for her though, she was starting to get all mopey, it was depressing. Kinda feel bad for the guy though, hope he knows what he's in for..." Tootie laughed as she thought of her sister beating up some new boyfriend.
"Hahaha! He's got his work cut out for him!" Trixie's laughter died down as she looked down at Tootie. "Um... we're still hugging..."
"Sh-should we not hug?" Tootie's face pinkened.
"Er... I mean- I guess we can, but..." Trixie scratched the back of her head and looked around nervously.
"Is- is this awkward?"
"Little bit."
Anyone in the mall likely wouldn't have thought so, to them, it looked like either two siblings or two kids who were a couple hugging, nothing particularly strange about that.
However, to Tootie and Trixie, well, mostly Trixie, the fact that they just carried on a fairly lengthy conversation in what could possibly be described as a loving embrace perplexed her. Emboldened(and slightly foolish) from their closeness, Trixie leaned down toward Tootie.
"Um... Tristan? What are we doing?"
Trixie continued leaning closer. "Who's Tristan?"
"I... don't know..."
Tootie unconsciously began leaning up towards Trixie, she didn't know what exactly it was that she was feeling, but she didn't really care either.
"Hey Tootie!"
The voice jolted both girls from their reverie and caused Tootie to look toward the source of the distraction with annoyance in her eyes and murder on her mind. "Damn."
"I brought Chester too!"
"Double damn."
It was AJ, that's who interrupted them, with Chester in tow.
"Who's your boyfriend?"
"Triple damn..."
Long A/N: See? I don't hate Trixie, contrary to how I tend to portray her, I just associate her with someone I know in real life, so she comes off as a bitch(Trixie does, not the girl in real life, she really is one) but enough about my past relationships.
This one takes place right after 'Giddy' so it's in the same universe as all the one-shots that are tied to 'Giddy', and there will be more. This will probably have a few chapters, though not as much as Summer or RoB.
In regards to Summer, yes, I know you all want more chapters, and yes, they are coming, but I had to go back and read it to remember where I was and while I was reading it, I noticed several errors, so I am in the midst of correcting them. I should be able to get that all done over the weekend, so I apologize for the wait, but it will be a little longer.
Lastly, the whole reason I'm doing this is one: people apparently wanted it, and two: the last few stories I did, Tootie was pretty miffed that Timmy chose Vicky over her, and, being the hopeless romantic I am, it didn't feel right not having Tootie with someone, but AJ's been done, so I wanted someone that was a little more out of left field. The alternative was to kill her off, which almost happened in 'Red or Black', so I think this choice is better. So in this story, Tootie has already 100% given up on Timmy.
A/N2: The title is a reference to the Fallout New Vegas perk of the same name, though I suppose the french idiom it stems from could fit too.