Townsville High

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Chapter Four - It's okay not to be okay.

"Bubbles, we're going to be late!" Blossom shouted from downstairs. Bubbles took a deep breath and looked at herself in the mirror. She had dressed up special, as she wanted to look good when she saw Tyler. She was hoping he would ask her to the party today. She wore a blue and white shirt that had a picture of a girl dancing and had 'Feel the beat' written on it, along with a pair of light blue shorts and tan tights. She finished off her outfit with a white studded belt, white hoodie and blue high tops.

The blonde looked pretty magnificent.

"Be right down!" Bubbles yelled before taking a final glance. She grabbed her school bag and ran out the door, and headed downstairs. She found her sisters waiting by the door. Buttercup was tapping her foot like she had been waiting forever, and Blossom simply stood with her arms crossed.

"Took you long enough." Buttercup rolled her eyes. Blossom sighed and turned to the blonde, smiling as she checked out the outfit, nodded in approval.

"You look really nice, Bubbles. I'm sure TJ will be pleased." Bubbles blushed. She didn't know that Blossom could tell she liked him, obviously she could. The three walked out and began walking to school.

Half way down the road, the girls heard a car horn honk. They looked towards the road to find a beautiful red sports car. Buttercup's mouth was hanging open at the gorgeous car. In the drivers seat was Brick, proving that the car was his. Beside him was Butch, but Boomer wasn't there.

"Want a ride?" Brick asked. Buttercup and Bubbles glared at him with raised eyebrows, then at Blossom with the same expression. Since when were they both nice to the girls?

"Yeah, but why are you offering?" Buttercup asked curiously.

Brick smiled. "Me and Pinky have a little arrangement and are now civil with each other, so I suppose that means I have to be nice to you two aswell. Hop in."

Buttercup and Bubbles shrugged and hopped in the back seat. Blossom was hesitant but still followed, opening the car door to get in instead of hopping over it like her sisters had. Butch groaned at Brick.

"Still don't see why I have to be nice to them." He moaned.

"You don't, but me and Boomer have managed to put the past behind us, you should aswell." Brick replied. Buttercup leaned over and ruffled Butch's hair like he was a kid, and began to grin like an idiot.

"Listen to your brother, Twitch. It should be funny watching you suffer while you act nice to me." She joked, causing everyone in the car to laugh, well except Butch. Her sisters were glad to see her change in attitude.

"Shut up, Butterbitch." Buttercup chuckled and sat back down, kicking his seat like a child on a plane. Butch groaned again. He knew this wasn't going to be fun. Having to deal with a female version of himself was bad enough, the fact that it was Buttercup made it ten times worse.

Buttercup was going to have fun teasing Butch though..

Maxine walked through the school gates, and found Brody sitting on their favourite bench. She smiled at the sight of him and walked over. She sat down beside him and kissed him on the cheek, suprising him. He looked at her then smiled when he seen who it was.

"Hey, Max." He put his arm around her. She grinned and snuggled into his shoulder, her hand over his. He had missed getting time alone with her considering she was always with either Brick or he was always with Butch.

"I missed you last night, why didn't you come over?" She pouted.

"Sorry, I had to babysit Tessa." He explained. Tessa was Brody's little sister, who happened to not like Maxine, for un-known reasons. Maxine nodded in understanding and hugged into him more.

"It's okay, I just wanted you over to talk about something. Have you noticed how Buttercup has been acting?" Maxine asked. Brody nodded, guessing that this question would come up eventually. He was a lot closer to Blossom than he was Buttercup, but even he could tell that Buttercup wasn't happy.

"Yeah, I have. I'm sure she'll be fine thought." Brody smiled at her. "You worry too much."

Maxine smiled back. "I know. I'm still going to talk to her, see if I can figure out what's going on." That's what Brody loved about her. She was so caring, which you wouldn't expect considering she hardly knew Buttercup, not as well as the others anyway.

"Good luck with that, Max. Now, we need to get to class and start planning the party, is under a week away!" Brody said grinning. Maxine rolled her eyes playfully and giggled.

"You're not planning on doing any actual school work today, are you?" She already knew the answer.

Brody simply smiled and led her to class, holding her hand. The couple blissfully started to plan the party which Brody promised would be the best one so far. This year's party was going to blow all the other's out the park, he promised, and one thing about Brody is, he never breaks promises.

Blossom walked into class with Brick, and they took their usual seats near the front. The teacher began to speak, but most of the students weren't paying attention. Brick wasn't. He was sitting doodling on his work book, causing Blossom to roll her eyes.

"Stop drawing things, we need to work on our project." Blossom complained. Brick put his pen down and crossed his arms, leaning back in his seat and glaring at Blossom with a bored expression. She narrowed her eyes at him.

"Fine. Let's work. So, we're writing about the Big Bang, shouldn't we just write down the facts?" Brick asked.

"That's too easy. We need to make it interesting if we don't want to fail. We could do a video depicting the theory?" Blossom suggested. Although Brick was very smart, all the large words were giving him a headache. He was planning on making her do most of the work. After all this was pretty boring already.

Brick nodded. "Let's do it. We can do power point's with pictures and stuff. Should keep everyone interested." Blossom raised her eyebrow.

"Let me guess, when you say we can do power point's with pictures, you mean I can do power point's with pictures while you sit back and count how many brain cells you have left?" Blossom was pretty funny when she wanted to be. Even made Brick laugh.

"Funny, Pinky, and yes. I like your idea." Brick smirked as her face went red with anger. It was fun to be civil and still mean to her, it was like the best of both worlds. Blossom began to write down idea's while Brick sat back and did nothing. She hated how easily he could get on her nerves.

"Who are you going to Brody's party with?" Brick asked, breaking the silence. Blossom sighed and dropped her pencil, giving him an annoyed glare. "I'm trying to work!" She moaned.

"I can see that, but I'm bored, so let's take a break and talk. Who are you going with?" Brick repeated. Blossom gave up trying to get back to her work, and turned to face him.

"I don't know, Brick. If you haven't realised the only boys I know in this school are either interested in my sister, my ex enemy's or dating someone else. I don't have much options, do I?" Blossom said. Brick chuckled in amusement.

"You have a point there."

Blossom turned back to him. "Who are you taking?" The grin on his face made her think it must be someone special.

"Carly Clarke." He said proudly. "She has to be one of the hottest girls in this school, and she happens to be head over heals for me. She asked me this morning, boy Butch wasn't happy." He chuckled. Blossom smiled and laughed too. She was proud of him..he really looked happy.

"Well good for you, does she have a twin brother?" Blossom joked. Brick laughed at her comment.

"You'll find someone in time. You're my counterpart which proves you are obviously insanely attractive. Guys will be queuing up around the block to ask you." Brick said. Blossom was shocked that he had complimented her, even though he was also complimenting himself.

"I guess being friends with you isn't that bad." Blossom smiled at Brick. He nodded, smiling back. They continued to work on their project, getting along instead of talking through the writing on their books. They got closer in that small time they had to work together, and both realised mabey being civil wasn't such a bad idea after all.

It was lunch time, and Bubbles was looking for Tyler. She walked down the main hall, towards his locker. Her smile got wider when she saw him there. She made her way over to him. Just then she saw the locker door shut, and he wasn't alone. Bubbles's smile faded when she saw a girl with him, she was all over him.

"I can't wait for the party, TJ. I'm gonna look even better with you as arm candy." The girl he was with spoke, smiling happily. Bubbles was shocked. Not only had he asked someone else, but that girl looked like a prostitute. Her clothes were far too revealing and her blonde hair put shame to all blondes.

"Yeah, I can't wait either." Tyler put his arm around her and led her down the hall, in the other direction that Bubbles was standing. She wanted to break down right there. Her hand curled into a fist, etching to punch something.

A voice spoke from beside her. "Didn't take him very long to find someone new, did it?" Boomer.

"Why is he taking that girl? I thought he liked me.." Bubbles pouted. Boomer looked at her sadly. "That's Ty for you. He's a player, at least you got out before you really started to like him." He said. She wasn't even listening to Boomer right now, she was just thinking of all the things Tyler had said, how they were all lies.

"I have to go." Bubbles said before turning around. Boomer frowned as he watched her go, knowing this was his fault. He sighed and walked to his class.

At least I can ask her now, he thought.

Buttercup was in the gym, where her boxing class was held. Although the class was over, so it was just her. She sat on the bench and thought to herself. She came here to get some privacy, although she knew that she wouldn't get much of that. Her thoughts were confirmed when she saw Maxine enter.

Maxine walked over and sat down on the bench beside her. Buttercup continued to stare straight ahead at the wall, as she wasn't in the mood for a friendly chat.

"Buttercup." She still didn't avert her stare. Maxine sighed and continued to talk, aware that she wouldn't be getting an answer from the green eyed girl. "You don't have to talk, just listen."

"I don't know you very well, heck I've only known you for a few weeks. All I know about you is you're the only girl here that has come close to being as strong-minded as me, but lately your losing that rep. You might not want to admit something is wrong, but it's the best thing for you."

Buttercup finally turned her head to look at Maxine, who looked genuinely worried. Buttercup nodded slowly and stood up, ready to walk away. Maxine stood in front of her and stopped her. "If you don't talk to someone, I'll make you." Buttercup sighed.

"Move out of my way." Buttercup said emotionless. Maxine narrowed her eyes and stepped out of the way. Buttercup glanced at her one last time before walking straight ahead and out the door. Maxine crossed her arms and shook her head at her failed attempt, and followed her out.

Well sorry it took a while but I actually had to cut this chapter in half with how big it was.

Next Chapter - Buttercup finally comes to terms with her emotions, with the help of a reluctant Butch. Boomer asks Bubbles to the party, and Blossom starts to get dangerously close to Brick.

~Sorry it took a while but I hope you like it anyway! Please review.~

Allison Peirce