Townsville High

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Chapter Two - Mixed Feelings

"Good work, Butch. Keep going!"

Butch felt all his anger coming out as he repeatedly punched the large black punching bag in front of him.

He had been boxing for a year now, as it was his only way to get rid of the pent up energy he had. His coach said he was brilliant, mabey not the best, but certainly good.

Butch struck his final blow and stood back, panting heavily. He stretched his now aching arms and grabbed his bottle of water before taking a seat on the bench.

"Tired already?" Brody asked as he sat down beside him.

He continued breathing heavily. "I've been at it for a full thirty minutes, Brody, of course I'm tired."

Brody smiled. "Maxine started half an hour ago and she's still going."

Butch looked over to see Maxine attacking her red punching bag with punches. She was really going for it. She was sweating heavily but still going for it. It looked like she was enraged.

"Yeah, well Max is crazy, she's probably pretending that punching bag is you."

Brody chuckled. "I doubt it, we've been all over each other all morning. I would know if she was mad at me."

Butch shrugged and took a long drink of his water bottle. He almost finished it. He placed it back down beside him and stood up again, rubbing his gloves together.

"Where you going?" Brody asked.

Butch smirked. "That was just a time out. I need to keep practicing if I want to beat Maxine's record, eh?"

Brody chuckled as Butch ran back over to the punching back at began punching it again. He was never as good as Butch, or Maxine for that matter, but Brody was a very good boxer also.

The brunette smirked when he saw someone interesting come in. "Oh, Butch is gonna love this."

"Butch?" The coach tapped Butch's shoulder.

He turned around and smiled at his coach. "Hey, coach, what's up?"

His coach was 30 years of age, and looked like he had been boxing for many years. He was in very good shape. He used to mentor Butch when he first started, as he saw potential in him. Of course, Butch had superhuman strength, but a wierd thing about his powers was he chose when to use them. He didn't like having the advantage, so he never tapped into his super strength, only his own.

"We have someone new joining the team, I was hoping you could coach her considering you are my best student." He asked.

Butch nodded. "Sure, who is it?"

His eyes grew wide as Buttercup stepped out from behind the coach. She was smirking at his discomfort. She knew he would hate this, she was invading his territory. Oh, he wasn't very happy about this.

"No way in hell." Was all he said.

"Butch, you agreed to coach her. You can't back out now. I have to go set Brody up with a sparring partner, so why don't you show Buttercup the ropes. If you're ever off I will get either Maxine or Brody to help her. Thanks again, Butch."

With that said, the coach walked away. Buttercup smirked devishly at her counterpart. Butch wanted to scream, but all he could think about was how good she looked in a cropped top and trackies.

"Cat caught your tounge, Jojo?" Buttercup teased.

He pulled himself from his trance and sneered. "Shut up, just get in the damn ring."

Buttercup jumped in the boxing ring and waited for an instruction. Butch faced her and rubbed his gloves together. He took a deep breath before starting.

"Okay, so before you start your work-out, we have a spar. This happens at the start of every class. I'm guessing your my new sparring partner, so lets just do this."

Buttercup nodded, eager to fight her counterpart again after three long years. "What are the rules, Jojo?"

"No hits to the face or the groin, and the match ends after someone is down for five seconds." Butch explained.

They touched gloves then faced each other. Buttercup wanted to burst into laughter when she saw Butch twitch. At least now she could call him it again.

Buttercup made the first move.

She sent a punch at his stomach, then circled him. Butch sent a punch towards her side, but she easily dodged it. She aimed another blow but he jumped out of the way. Buttercup caught him with double hook (Hitting with the right hand, then the left.) She managed to hit him a double hook twice before backing off and circling him again.

They both aimed a blow at the same time, causing them to struggle against each other. Butch punched her stomach and pushed her away from him. She circled him and punched his side, making him groan in pain.

"You're not too bad." Butch said, regretting his words instantly.

She smirked smugly. "Better than you."

He smirked back. "In your dreams, Utonium."

"We'll see, Twitch."

Butch chuckled and sent a final blow to her stomach, then a double hook, causing her to fall to the ground as she did not expect it. He counted in his head, then when he reached six, he smiled. He gave her his hand.

"I'll always be better." Butch said smugly as he helped her up.

Buttercup rolled her eyes. "Don't you ever worry that your ego will get so big it will explode?"

Even Butch couldn't help but laugh at that. His eyes looked worried when he saw her double over in pain. She held her rib cage as it felt as though something was out of place.

"You okay?" He asked.

She nodded. "I'll be fine. I'm just not as tough as I used to be, what with the loss of my power and that."

"Oh, I didn't know. If I knew I would have token it easier on you."

Buttercup gave him a dirty look. "You don't need to take it easy on me, I'm still as strong as I used to be. I'm fine!"

She walked off holding her side, ignoring Maxine, who said hi. Maxine glared at Buttercup with a raised eyebrow then wandered over to Butch.

"Is she okay?" Maxine asked with concern in her tone.

Butch shrugged. "I think so."

"I seen your fight." Maxine smirked. "That girls got talent. She might even be better than you."

"Do I need to remind you who won the fight?" Butch asked seriously.

Maxine smiled. "You caught her by surprise with that last blow, Butch. She done pretty well for her first spar. Mabey she should be the one coaching you."

Butch looked like he was about to use Maxine as his new punching bag. She smirked playfully and walked over to Brody, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek before going to hit the showers.

Butch hated to admit that she did have a point, Buttercup had talent, more than him.

Oh, how he hated that damn counterpart of his.

Blossom groaned when she walked into her Science class.

She didn't realise that she had Brick in this class. He sneered when he saw her walk in. So much for being nice to her. She noticed that the only seat left was beside Brick, so she sulked and sat beside him.

He turned to face her as she sat down, and crossed his arms.

"Why are you sitting next to me?" Brick asked.

Blossom turned to face him and sent him a dirty look. "There are no more seats."

"There's the floor."

"Shut up!" Blossom yelled, causing the teacher to glare at them.

She went quiet so the teacher would turn back around and continue writing things on the board. Blossom sighed in relief. That was a close one. She turned back to Brick and sent him another venemous glare.

"You said you would be civil for Maxine. I can't be her friend if her best friend hates me!"

"Don't be her friend then." Brick said casually.

Blossom frowned. "Fine."

Brick looked at her, shocked. "What?"

"Fine. If you really hate me so much that you don't even want me near you, then I'll stop being friends with Maxine."

"Blossom.."

She sighed. "No. Don't say anything. We both know you don't even want to talk to me."

Blossom turned away from him, sighing. Brick called her name, but she didn't face him. He grabbed her arm, causing her to look at him. She noticed his face showed signs of sorrow.

"Look, I was trying to annoy you. I can't tell Maxine who not to be friends with. I wont. You can be her friend, and Brody's and TJ's, even my brothers. I might not like you but I can't stop my friends from liking you." Brick said.

She looked shocked. "Really?"

He sighed. "Yes. Don't get any ideas though, I still hate you to pieces."

"I still hate you to."

"Good." Brick said.

The pair finally paid attention to the teacher, and were both equally shocked at what he was about to say. Mr Thomson turned to the class.

"Class, we have a project coming up. The person you are sitting beside will be your partner." Mr Thomson said.

Blossom and Brick's eyes grew wide as they turned to each other, both horrified at what the teacher had just said.

"So, I'm guessing your favorite colour is blue, love?"

Bubbles smiled and nodded at TJ.

The pair were sitting in the library, getting to know eachother. They had become quite good friends, although it was obvious TJ wanted to be more. She wanted to make him work for it though. She didn't come easy.

"What's yours?"

He flashed her a smile, showing off his pearly white teeth. "Blue."

She giggled. "No, really?"

"Realy. It's blue." He chuckled.

Bubbles was having the best time with TJ. Behind the troublemaking, crazy bad boy, he was actually pretty sweet. She wanted to get to know him more, as he did her. Bubble's thoughts were interrupted when she saw that firmiliar blonde walk in.

"Hey guys." Boomer said as he joined their table.

Bubbles smiled brightly. "Hey, Boomer. How was art class?"

He shrugged. "Okay, I suppose. Why weren't you there?"

"I blew it off to talk to TJ." Bubbles replied.

"The great Bubbles Utonium blew off class!?" Boomer smiled. "Ty, you really are corrupting her."

TJ chuckled. "Oh yes, I could turn a nerd into a bad girl."

Bubbles giggled. Boomer noticed the way she became more bubbly around TJ, it was worrying. Ever since Boomer and Bubbles became friends, he was hoping to get closer to her himself, but she spent most of her time with TJ.

"You two seem to be getting pretty close." Boomer noted.

TJ nodded. "Yeah. Soon she'll be the one begging me for a date and not the other way around."

Bubbles rolled her eyes. "TJ, we're friends, I thought I made that clear."

Tyler-Jay was too much of a flirt for his own good. Even Bubbles was finding it hard to resist him. She did though because she wanted to make him work for it. He couldn't just get her like that. Sure, the british accent was very hard to resist, but she was trying.

"You did, but all girls say that. I'll get you soon enough." Tyler-Jay smiled. "Oh damn, I've got to get to Maths, it's starting soon. See you later, Boomer." He turned to Bubbles. "See you around, love."

She smiled and said bye as she watched him leave. She sighed dreamily while Boomer looked at her worried. Tyler-Jay was Boomer's best friend, he knew him very well. He knew that once he got bored of Bubbles, he would be on to the next girl, and he didn't want that.

"You do realise that TJ is a player, right? He's dated every girl in this school! Well, except Maxine and your sisters, but pretty much everyone. He'll just use you." Boomer warned.

Bubbles looked at him with a serious expression. "Okay, first of all, that's pretty mean to say about your best friend. And second, he wont use me. He really likes me. He even said I could call him Tyler! Not Tyler-Jay, but still. He doesn't let anyone call him Tyler."

Boomer was shocked. He didn't even let Boomer call him Tyler. He really was serious about liking Bubbles.

"..Wow. I guess he does like you." Boomer said, disappointed.

"Are you okay?"

Boomer nodded. To be honest, he didn't know why he was so disappointed. Sure, he thought Bubbles was the most gorgeous girl he'd ever seen, but he didn't like her that way. So why did he care so much?

"I should get going, I have Science soon. I'll talk to you later?" Bubbles said, more of a question that a statement.

Boomer sighed. "Yeah, see you later."

She smiled brightly and skipped off to her next class. Boomer groaned as he started banging his head off the table, trying to clear his mind of thoughts of her.

That night, Blossom walked into her living room after hearing a very loud bang.

She found Buttercup attacking the wall with punches. She was lashing out at a wall. Blossom ran over to her and pulled her back, then Buttercup started kicking and screaming frantically.

"NO! DONT TOUCH ME!" She yelled.

Blossom was horrified as she held tightly onto her sister. "What is wrong with you!?" Blossom yelled back, trying to keep hold of her.

Buttercup pulled herself away from her sisters arms. "I'm just angry, okay!?"

"You're always angry lately. What's going on, Buttercup?" Blossom pleaded. Buttercup just looked at her and no words came out. She was breathing heavily like she was about to explode.

She sneered. "Nothing is going on, leader girl. I'm fine!"

Blossom shook her head frantically. "You are not fine! You can talk to me, Buttercup."

Buttercup began to walk away. "I told you I'm fine, stay out of it! You're not my parent, you're my sister!"

She ran off to her room and slammed the door. Blossom stood in shock at what had just happened. There was dents in the wall from where Buttercup was punching. Blossom knew she was angry, or upset about something, but she kept saying she was fine.

It was like she didn't even realise there was anything wrong with herself..

"What happened to you, Buttercup?" Blossom asked aloud to no-one in particular.

Next Chapter - Buttercup comes to terms with some serious emotions. TJ continues to pursue Bubbles. Blossom bonds with Brody. And Boomer realises he has feelings for someone.

~I updated pretty damn quick! I'm proud of myself:) Anyway, please review and tell me what you think? Please!~

Allison Peirce