Buttercup had been staring at the ceiling for almost an hour. It was plain-looking, all white. She really should add a little color on the ceiling. Something interesting.
Suddenly, her phone rang, telling her to get the hell out of bed. She shut her alarm off, before slowly sitting up, desperately wishing she could skip the damn day.
She walked straight to the room next to hers, opening the door as quietly as she could. She already saw her brother's sleeping figure, but what surprised her was the second sleeping figure next to her brother. It wasn't like she didn't know her brother was a player, it was just that it was the first time he actually lets one of the girls sleep with him for the entire night. Oh, well.
She went to her other brother's room (her two brothers were twins), seeing the same thing she saw at her first brother's room. A brother sleeping figure, and a nameless sleeping figure. The party they went to must've been that good if they actually didn't kick those girls out.
She left the room, going back to hers, searching for a certain wake up call object she'll have to use. She smirked once she found it. Her brothers may have thought they found every single one of it, but they were so wrong.
She then went back to both her brother's rooms, placing the little box of terror right underneath their beds. She quietly switched it on, connecting it to her phone, before leaving the rooms. She then started searching for the appropriate words, scanning through her phone, before stopping. Her smirk grew, silently laughing as she press "Play".
GET YOUR HERPES INFECTED ASS UP! WE'RE GOING TO THE CLINIC!
Those words just kept repeating while she left the hallways, not before she hears Nameless No. 1 shrieking, "Herpes?! You have HERPES?!"
Nameless No. 2 was just as shrieky, "If you infected me with Herpes, you better be ready to pay for my medical bills!"
She shook her head, before heading to the kitchen. Since she was the only one who actually knows how to cook (without any risk of burning the house down!) she began to fry bacon and whip up some pancakes. She ignored the screeches of the two nameless girls as she flipped her pancake and bacon over.
She knew her brothers were going to kill her later, but she knew that they won't be able to do that once they started eating. They can't stay mad at her for something as small as that.
She finally heard the stomping of feet, and shouts that sounded like "Herpes" and "Herpes", not to mention "Herpes". By the time those two girls left the house she finished cooking breakfast, and was already eating her first serving.
And they start to shout in three...two...one...
"BUTTERCUP!"
There it is.
She heard them practically marching behind her, fuming in anger. She turned around and smiled.
"Breakfast, boys?" Buttercup signed, still smiling at them.
They both glared at her one last time, before sitting down and grumbling as they started shoving the pancakes in their bottomless pi-
mouths.
"Why the hell did you do that, anyway?" One of the twins, Blade, asked.
Buttercup just shrugged, before signing, "It was the only thing that could get you to wake up."
"You could have just shook us awake, you know." He signed back, and she shivers in disgust.
"I am not going to touch you when your body smells like sex and sweat."She signed, before continuing to eat.
"Anyways, I'm glad you woke me up. That girl was way to clingy. If I didn't kick her out of my room, she would've thought we were dating now." Brash, her other brother said, before shoving another bacon in his mouth. The other two snorted at him, before continuing to eat in silence.
o O o
As soon as they entered school, Buttercup was tackled by a surprisingly strong and energetic blonde haired girl."Hey, Buttercup!" Bubbles, Buttercup's friend, shouted, before squeezing her into one of her infamous tight hugs that made her feel like a boa constructer was crushing her slowly.
"I missed you!" Bubbles squealed, squeezing her tighter, making Buttercup winced. She managed to get out of that "hug", before signing, "We saw each other two days ago."
Bubbles scrunched her nose in concentration, trying to enterpret what Buttercup signed.
"We...saw...uh, could you repeat that last one?"
Buttercup sighed, but did what she was requested to do, slowing down her hand signs just a bit more for Bubbles to understand.
Bubbles was good at learning other languages, but sign language is a bit hard for her, so she didn't really know how to read her sign language as good as her brothers and her other friend, Blossom.
"Oh! I get it! But two days ago was still a long time ago." Bubbles smiled innocently as they began to walk through the corridors. Buttercup could hear the other students talking about how awesome the party at Princess was, as per usual. Blossom would be pulling out her hair if she found out that her step-sister threw yet another party while she was finishing her project in her groupmates' house.
"Do you think Blossom knows?" Bubbles asked her as they walked- well, more like she walked while Bubbles skipped- through the hallways.
"Definitly not. She'd blow a fuse if she did." Buttercup signed, slower than usual so she could read the signs better.
"True," was all Bubbles said before she looked like she remembered something.
"Oh, did you know, there's a new transferee student today!" She said excitedly, and Buttercup does understand why. They were in Townsville, for crying out loud. Nothing new ever happens, and transferees are extremely rare.
"Let's just hope he or she isn't like Princess." Buttercup signed, and Bubbles nodded vigorously.
"True. She's probably the only transferee I wished never transferred in the first place."
Before Bubbles could give more info about the new student, the bell rang, signalling them to get to class.
"Well, looks like I'm going to have to go to Calculus. See you, Buttercup!" Bubbles waved as she merrily skipped her way to class.
Buttercup waved, even though Bubbles hadn't seen it, before heading to her own class, Chemistry.
On her way, she saw a certain long haired redhead arguing with another familiar redhead. Buttercup was just about to give them some space to argue, when female redhead noticed her. She immediately changed her scowl into a smile and waved.
"Hi, Buttercup! How was your weekend." Blossom asked, completely ignoring the male redhead she was seconds away from strangling. He glared at Blossom one last time before entering the Chemistry Room.
Buttercup shrugged, before signing, "It was okay. What was that about?"
"Hmm? Oh! He was just being a jerk, as usual. I know Brick's Princess's boyfriend and all, but that doesn't mean he gets to sleep in my house every time our parents leave." Blossom growled a little at that last part, and Buttercup immediately noticed how Blossom had to force the word "parents" out of her mouth like it was the hardest thing she could have ever done.
Blossom's dad left her mom when she was ten years old, but she didn't gave up on her belief that her dad would come back. Sarah, her mom, wasn't as hopeful, and she was so distraught, so different from who she once was, she lost her job, they almost lost their house, one day her mom actually disappeared, returning a few months later with a new engangement ring on her finger.
Buttercup just patted her on the back, signing, "You'll be eighteen soon. Then you can finally escape them."
Blossom nodded, but said nothing as they both entered the Chemistry Room. As soon as they sat down, Professor Mayor entered the room. He was a rather small man, with a large mustache and white hair.
"Okay students, let continue where we left off."
o O o
"Okay, that's it! If the bell won't start ringing, I'm gonna lose it!" Brash whisper-yelled as he glared at the broken clock inside the classroom.
Buttercup just rolled her eyes, already knowing the bell was going to ring in three...two...one.
Rrrrrrrrring!
"Finally! Come one, Butters, cafeteria here we come!" Brash cheered, and Buttercup chuckled at her brother's antics, before following him out the door.
As soon as they reached the cafeteria, Buttercup noticed something was off. Most of the female population were...fixing their make-up instead of eating?!
Both of them sat on their usual spots, where Blade, Blossom and Bubbles were already stationed. Bubbles was the first person to see them, smiling at them in greeting as they sat down.
"Hey guys! Have any of you seen the new guy, yet?" Bubbles asked as they all started eating.
"Nope. You?" Buttercup signed, before continuing to try to inhale her bacon.
"I did! He was gorgeous! He looks like he was born to be a model for the badboys." Bubbles said excitedly, then she said in a not-so-loud voice, "And, um, I may have invited him to sit with us earlier..."
"You what?!" Blade and Brash both said in surprise. Bubbles nodded nervously.
"Well, he was kinda beside me in class, so I maybe invited him to sit with us..."
Their eyes darted at Buttercup, and she wanted to role her eyes at them. They were treating her like a vase these days, always asking her what she was most comfortable with, acting like they were walking on eggshells when speaking to her, it was honestly sweet of them, but Buttercup's a big girl. She can take care of herself.
"Well, we can't change that fact that you invited him, but it's fine anyways. No one wants to sit alone on their first day of class." Buttercup signed, and Bubbles let out a huge sigh of relief.
A few more minutes past, the new guy still didn't show up. Bubbles started worrying that he wouldn't come, but right before she was about to be upset about his rejection to her invitation, the cafeteria started buzzing lively.
Buttercup and Blossom had to turn around due to their positions on the table, before being able to see him. Bubbles was right about the "badboy" vibes, he had on a black leather jacket, he had this I-am-tougher-than-you attitude, a cocky smirk, and, basically an all out I-am-a-baddass type of aura.
He saw Bubbles and smirked, before sitting right between Blossom and Buttercup. Blossom looked ready to bring out her can of pepper spray, while Buttercup just rolled her eyes. She was used to this kind of attitude, seeing as her own brothers were baddasses, too.
The group ignored all the stares as Buttercup started introducing him to everyone.
"Okay, so those two over there are the twins, Brash and Blade, the redhead right next to you is Blossom, and the girl with all the bacon is Buttercup." Bubbles introduced, and they either waved their hands awkwardly or just keep staring at him.
He smirked, before saying, "My name's Butch."
Buttercup ignored the entire thing, just continuing to eat her lunch in peace. Then all of a sudden, the new guy, Butch, grabbed a chicken tender literally right under her nose. She gasped, before smacking him right in the head.
"Dude, buy some of your own!" Buttercup signed angrily, before stealing a couple of fries from his tray.
She then noticed that the new guy was staring at her in confusion. She looked back at him, before remembering that she used sign language to communicate. Not everyone knows sign language after all. Her brothers learned it with her, followed by Blossom, and Bubbles was still learning it, but besides them, not a lot of people seemed to understand. He's in that category.
Bubbles seemed to have noticed to, and quickly explained, "She's mute, she uses sign language as a way to communicate with the rest of us."
He raised his eyebrow when Bubbles said the word, "mute", before turning his gaze to Buttercup, who then decided that she didn't like being stared at like an interesting new zoo animal. She was just glad he didn't start prying into her business, or giving her pitying looks. She still didn't like being looked at in general.
She looked at Blossom, and signed, "Could you tell him to please stop looking at me. I'm trying to eat here and I don't like being watched."
"What does that mean?" He asked, and Blossom interpreted. He looked at her one last time, before he started eating his own lunch.
"So, what do you think?" Bubbles signed her.
"I think he's weird," Buttercup signed back, "but at least he didn't ask any questions."