Bubbles hopped in a puddle and giggled as the water bounced up and splashed on her. She continued to skip down the street making sure to leap into each puddle. Each time soaking her dress shoes until her soaks were drenched. She giggled again and again. She loved after-the-rain weather, there was always a huge rainbow overhead and a billion puddles to play in. Though her sisters weren't interested in dirty, muddy puddles, so she would go play alone.

Bubbles stopped giggling when she heard harsh snickers coming from down the alley. She thought for a moment, pondering whether she should go check it out or leave it alone. She decided to go look in case anyone was hurt. She crept over to the brick wall and peered down the alley, hoping she wasn't seen.

"Your so stupid, Boomer!" spat Brick harshly as he pushed his blonde brother into Butch.

Butch elbowed Boomer, so he fell to the cement ground, "Yeah!"

"I am not!" shouted Boomer, attempting to defend himself.

"Oh is that so! Well if your so smart then why did you spell dumb wrong?" Butch laughed harshly and echoed in a 'yeah'. Boomer glared at them, "D-U-M DUMB!"

Bubbles rolled her eyes and stepped into the alley, she should've known it was the Rowdy Ruff Boys. "Are you the dumb one? Dumb has a silent 'B'."

"Oh look it's blondie!" hissed Butch and he twitched with a taunting smirk painted to his face.

Brick growled but then grinned wickedly, "Oh are you here to save your princess?" he motioned to Boomer.

"Hey!" shouted Boomer angrily and he jumped off the ground.

"Yeah I knew that cackling must have come from an ugly witch!" said Bubbles trying to sound tough, with her hands on her hips.

Brick rolled his eyes, "Where's Blossom?"

"Why do you want to know?" snapped Bubbles.

Butch turned to Brick, "Yeah?"

Brick pushed him, "Shut up!" and with that he flew off angrily with a blood red stripe behind him.

Butch scratched his head confused, "Tell Buttercup, that she's dead! I know she's the one that put that pudding on my seat!"

Bubbles scoffed and Butch flew off. "Boys are so stupid."

"Your stupid!" she turned and remembered Boomer was still there.

"No I'm not!"

"Yes, you are! All girls are stupid!" Boomer stuck his tongue out to add emphasis.

"Why are you so mean?" asked Bubbles sadly, she was never good at comebacks, she's too sensitive.

"Because I'm a villain!" he crossed his arms with a lopsided grin.

"So? Don't villains have feelings too? 'Cause your hurting mine!" she yelled angrily, while gripping her fists tightly.

Boomer held a glare to his expression, "I have feelings but I'm not some wimpy, little, whiny girl! I don't show my emotions and cry whenever someone calls me a name!"

"Well you of all people should know that bullying is mean! It does hurt people's feelings, do you like when Brick and Butch call you stupid? Huh!" she shoved him.

He stumbled back but his glare was gone, "No."

"What?" asked Bubbles, she was getting all worked up.

"No, I don't like it when they make fun of me."

Bubbles glare also faded, "Well yeah. If you don't like it then why would you be mean to others, treat others the way you expect to be treated." she quoted from one of Blossom's lectures.

"No one's nice to me, so why should I be nice to them?" he asked with a mixture of sadness and anger then he looked at the ground and avoided eye contact.

Bubbles grinned happily and took his hand, he pulled away at the touch but she held him with a strong grip, he looked at her worried, possibly afraid he'd get cooties. "I'll be nice to you-" she paused, "As long as your nice to me." she finished in a stern voice.

He gave her a questioning look, "I don't know."

She just smiled, "I promise I'm really nice and if you got to know me, you'd know that I'm really fun to play with!"

She released him and glanced behind her then back at him with a wicked grin. She sprinted out of the alley and threw herself into the air, while landing happily in a puddle. Boomer ran over to her and watched her confused. She laughed loudly and kicked at the muggy water. She opened her eyes and smiled at him, "Come on try it!"

"What do I do?" he asked confused. She rolled her eyes with a chuckle and tugged his wrist.

She pulled him over to a large puddle and said, "When I say jump, jump."

Boomer was about to say something when she yelled, "JUMP!"

He was startled when she tugged him into the air with her and then before he knew it. His feet, shoes and pants were soaked. Bubbles let him go and ran over to another puddle and kicked at the water. She hopped around like a bunny, laughing the whole time.

Boomer felt a small smile form on his face, he then began to splash beside Bubbles. They kept zigzagging down the street together, each racing to get to the next puddle. Each splash getting bigger and bigger.

Bubbles was so oblivious that she ended up slipping and scrapping her knee, "Ow!"

Boomer stopped jumping and turned to her, he was about to laugh hysterically but noticed tears forming in her eyes, "Are you okay?"

"I ripped my tights…" she said sadly.

"It's alright." he replied, as if it was nothing but to Bubbles it was everything.

"But now I'm ugly!" she screamed. Then tears fell down her face like a waterfall.

"It's alright, you still look pretty." said Boomer innocently.

Bubbles looked up at him, he extended his arm to help her up. She leaped up and hugged him tightly, "Oh thank you, Boomer!"

Boomer's muscles tightened and he was speechless, "Um…"

Bubbles released him and held his hands again, she smiled, "I think my niceness rubbed off on you!"

Boomer gave her a confused, worried look, "Really?"

"Yeah!" she smiled gently, "Now we can be friends!"

Boomer looked away, "Don't tell your sisters, or my brothers."

"Why?" asked Bubbles confused.

"Because my brothers don't want me to be friends with a girl! And your sisters don't like me." he said as if the answer was obvious.

Bubbles nodded in understanding, "Alright! Bye Boomer!" she released his hands and flew away with a smile flashing everyone.

Boomer watched her while he just stood in a puddle alone. He looked at his hands, "Is niceness contagious?"


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