Hey guys! Long time no see! Insert lame excuses here Yep, so... I have no excuses other than the fact that I totally forgot about this story! GASP! How could I do such a thing? Insert excuses here Uh huh... exactly. I knew you guys would understand! ;D Haha. Anyways, the important thing is that I posted something, right? Well... I had to change things up a little because I totally forgot where things were going.. So, here it is! I hope you enjoy! :D

Disclaimer: Don't own these characters brochachos!


Princess

It's been a few weeks since Buttercup and I talked. Butch and I have been talking after school on a daily basis. I still don't know what I'm doing… I lied to Butch about my parents, but Robin really wants to make Buttercup jealous. Obviously, it's working, but… she seems perfectly fine with Mitch. Butch will find out about my parents sooner or later. I just know it. How is that going to make me look? Why am I even listening to Robin?

Right now, I'm at Robin's house. She brought over all the girls for a sleepover/discussion on her next project to destroy Buttercup.

"Alright girls. I have the next scandal planned out. What I haven't told you girls is that Mitch is on the plan too," she paused and waited for a reaction. Of course, everyone gasped. I rolled my eyes. Even I knew that. "Yeah, I know!" she grinned maliciously. I mentally sighed. Ariel tapped my shoulder.

"I need to talk to you after this meeting…" she whispered. I nodded and continued to listen to Robin blabbering about her next project.

"So, since Mitch is not actually in love with Buttercup, here is the plan… Mitch and Buttercup are going to go out for an official date that proves to everyone that they are sooooo in love! Princess, Butch, and I are going to go to the place they're going to go and start a whole scene! Oh, but wait, there's more! Princess is going to see Butch's ex-girlfriend and bring her along for the ride. Hopefully, Brute is going to pound Buttercup in the face, and I win!"

"WHAT?" I screamed. Robin and all the other girls looked at me.

"Is there a problem?" she asked.

"Uhm.. no.." I slumped down to not be visible.

"Good.. So.. Here is the plan written down on paper.. Time and dates included for the process… Come to me if you have any questions and well, have fun for the rest of the night!" she cheered. I walked out of the basement and upstairs. Ariel chased after me.

"Princess!" Ariel yelled. I looked back and sighed.

"What?"

"We need to talk like… in the attic or something.."

"Whatever." I said following her upstairs. There was Amber sitting there in a chair. "What's up?" I asked confused.

"Ohkay… It's about Robin.. She's getting out of hand.."

"And…?"

"She doesn't need to be treating Buttercup like that… And you of all people should really be aware of that. Buttercup was your best friend and now your guys' relationship is in the dump with all of your memories and fun times…"

"What's your point?" I stubbornly asked.

"I came up with a plan that will destroy Robin's plans and not hurt Buttercup as well." She said handing me a piece of paper with a lot of notes on it. I looked at her suspiciously.

"Is this a joke?"

"Amber and I are done being treated like garbage by Robin. She's a royal bitch.."

"Yeah! She never compliments my clothes!" Amber said. Ariel and I laughed a little bit.

"Even little things like that bother Amber. I mean, if she wants friends, then she has to treat people like friends. So what do you say?"

"How do you know I can trust you?"

"I want to get out of this as much as you do. I know you like Mitch… And for Robin to use you to get back at Buttercup is just awful. Mitch doesn't know what he's doing. He actually does like Buttercup and likes the status of his relationship with her now, but he doesn't love her. He loves somebody else…"

"How do you know all of this?"

"Amber and I were with Robin when she asked Mitch to go on a "double date" with Butch and her and Mitch and Buttercup. She lied to everyone saying that Mitch was with the plan. Mitch told Robin that if it was another one of her tricks, then she's a conniving little bitch. After Robin left, Amber and I stayed after. Mitch talked to us about his problems and what's been happening between him and Buttercup and his actual feelings."

FLASHBACK- Ariel

"Trust me, Mitch… I've grown tired of being a bully. I just want to get to know you two a little better now that we've both been in relationships for a few weeks."

"Alright Robin… We'll see what happens…" Mitch said. Robin winked at him and left. Mitch looked at me and Amber for a moment. "She forgot about you guys again, didn't she?" he said in pity. I looked up at him and sighed.

"It's ohkay. That's what happens when being her friends!"

"I hate when she does that… She's careless when it comes to others."

"Yeah… She has all these people following her.. But none of us really like her." Amber said. I looked at her in surprise. She said something meaningful!

"If you know that, why do you do it?" he looked at us. I hung my head in shame.

"I don't understand it myself…" I admitted. Mitch patted me on the back. "I want to have a relationship.. I don't know how if I'm constantly having to consumed in Robin's little world." I sughed deeper and shook my head. "How are you and Buttercup doing anyways?"

"Great, actually. She's everything I've wanted in a girl and more. We act like how we did in middle school! Always playing video games, being competitive, then all that lovey dovey stuff that even I enjoy…" he trailed smiling. I smiled a little bit at his happiness. Just imagining all that couple perfection, I could only imagine being as happy as him.

"Do you love her?" Amber asked. Mitch and I both looked at her simultaneously. And then he sighed and laughed.

"I told her like the first day we were going out that I loved her… Her and I both knew that that wasn't even true at the time. I actually meant I loved her since we were young kids. But I do love her more than than… I love her more than I ever even imagined. Like I said, she's just perfect for me in every single way. But, I'm not in love with her…" he admitted. I looked at him in shock. Amber smiled. "I knew it from the start that Buttercup would be into me because I knew that I was into her even more, but the problem is… I knew I was in love with…"

"I already know who it is." Amber said. Shocking me again. Mitch stared at her. "You don't have to tell us. It's Princess." Mitch sighed in defeat.

"I don't understand myself. Going to Buttercup to Princess… It's going to hurt Buttercup. But then again, Princess and her aren't even friends anymore. That really bothers me. She's with you girls and Robin now, isn't she?"

"Yeah. Robin likes Princess for some reason. More than any of us because she always wants to be around her. But I can tell that it's probably because she knows that Princess was Buttercup's best friend and having Princess being part of hurting her is just even better."

"What?"

"Ohh, nothing… We got to get going.. Thanks for being so open with us, Mitch. We're going to be taking your advice and put an end to Robin's tyranny." I told him.

"And I hope you tell Buttercup about your true feelings about her and how you feel about Princess." Amber said. Mitch nodded and sighed.

"See you girls later.." he said.

FLASHBACK OVER

"And so after that, we left." Ariel said.

"He's in love with ME?" I asked in shock. Ariel and Amber laughed.

"Yep. And so we knew you liked him too. So we wanted to help." Amber said.

"Wait, wait, wait… When did this conversation take place?"

"A couple days ago."

"OH MY GERSHH!" I squeaked. "Ohkay, ohkay… I'm in."

"To help Buttercup too.. Not just yourself…" Ariel said. "You girls need to be friends again…"

"I miss her… We had a lot of good times.."

"Good.. The date is this week, so here's the plan!"


Buttercup

Mitch and I are a pretty good match. I'm sort of grateful that Robin had purposely put us together even though she's trying to destroy our relationship. But there is really nothing to destroy. Apparently we're supposed to be going on a double date with Robin and Butch. I know she's only trying to wreck what's between Mitch and I. So I humbly accepted without hesitation.

RING RING

"Hello?"

"Hey Buttercup.."

"Butch? What's wrong?"

"I need to talk to you about something…"

"What is it?"

Butch and I have been on good terms lately. I decided to forgive him for acting like a tool earlier. But I still feel kind of eerie about him with Robin. It's just not normal for a guy to be acting the way he does with a girl who is dating.

"I don't think I can handle holding it back from you anymore."

"What are you talking about?"

"BUTCH, WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?!" I heard a female voice scream in the background.

"NOBODY, JUST THE MAIL MAN!"

"THE MAIL MAN?"

"Yeahh… He called me to tell me that a package just arrived." He said in fright.

"Oh.."

"Butch, are you there?" I asked. The phone was just put down.

"Robin, what are you doing?" Butch asked raising the pitch of his voice. "Robin?"

"BUTCH?"

"OH MY GAWD.. DON'T TOUCH ME THERE! ROBIN! STOP!"

"SHUT UP!" Robin yelled and smacked him. The noise was so loud.

"What's going on in here?" I heard Brick's voice. "WHAT THE FUCK MAN, PUT THAT AWAY!"

"I DIDN'T DO IT MAN, I SWEAR!"

"He wanted it…" Robin said seductively. My ears were bleeding from this conversation..

"WHAT? NO WAY!"

"DUDE, JUST PUT IT AWAY!" The phone was picked back up.

"That's just a warning to you Butterslut. Don't you come near me and my man. Don't you call him, don't you talk to him as long as I'm living… You got that?"

I hung up the phone immediately and banged my head against the door. Blossom came upstairs after hearing the noise.

"Is everything ohkay, Buttercup?"

"Ohh yeah, I just pretty much heard phone sex on my phone.. But you know what, it's cool." Blossom opened the door and I fell on my bed sighing.

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't know… I think Robin was trying to give Butch… Nevermind… That's just too much for me to process after hearing all of that."

"Did it actually happen?" Blossom asked in curiosity.

"Apparently Brick came in before it got anywhere…"

"That's good. You don't want sloppy seconds.."

"What?"

"Nothing…"

"Anyways, after all of that, Robin picked up the phone and threatened me saying that that was a warning and never talk to her man again.. blah blah blah… And supposedly, Mitch and I are supposed to be going on a double date with them this week. Like on Friday or something."

"Good luck with that. She's going to be a handful."

"I know… I can handle it. She's only going to make herself look bad if she decides to start something."

"Have you talk to Princess in a while?"

"Other than sitting next to her in class and having hallway conflicts with her, nope. Nothing civil. Why do you ask?"

"Just curious. Brick and I are going out for a couple days."

"Are you guys dating or something?"

"No, we're going on a field trip to Florida for four days. Leaving Thursday, coming back sometime on Monday."

"Can't share a room!" I stuck my tongue out at her. She raised a brow.

"Just friends, you know…" she said in defense. I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever," I laughed. "Have fun… And remember, wrap it before you-"

"BUTTERCUP!" Blossom smacked my arm and laughed.

"I'm just kidding! Geez!"

"Well, you go have fun with your boyfriend and Robin.. I'm sure the whole thing is going to be a blast. I'll ask Bubbles to record everything and it'll become a smash hit on YouTube!"

"I guarantee it would. It would probably be like watching an episode of Jersey Shore and the Kardashians together. Maybe even Toddlers and Tiaras if we're lucky."

RING RING

"Hello?"

"Hey Buttercup."

"Hey Mitch. What's up?"

"Nothing much. I kind of want to hang out tonight. Do you wanna?"

"Sure! Sounds like fun!"

"Cool. I gotta talk to you about something too."

"Alright. Tell me in a little bit. I'm going to get ready. See ya in a few."

"Ohkay dokay!"

END OF CONVO

"Welp, I guess that's my signal to leave." Blossom said.

"Wait! He just said he has to talk to me about something.. He sounded serious."

"Uh oh…" Blossom smiled.

"I'm serious, Blossom! He might dump me! Then what am I gonna do?"

"It's not like you're in love with him… You'll live."

"Well, yeah, but the awkwardness after the break up… It's going to be horrible!"

"It happens to the best of us. Just deal with it!"

"You are so careless!" I yelled at her. She smirked and closed my door. I shuffled sadly into my closet and put on some sneakers and a leather jacket. I slowly walked outside to meet Mitch in the front. I went into his car and sighed.

"You look down, what's wrong?" Mitch asked concerned.

"You're breaking up with me…" I told him without hesitation. He drove out of my driveway and sighed.

"You could tell?" he asked. I nodded in disappointment. "I'm going to be very honest with you, I love you. I love you more than I've ever loved anybody in my life, including myself…" he said. I looked at him and my eyes became watery. "But…" he trailed off and stared into my eyes as he pulled off onto the side of the road. "Buttercup…" he sighed. "We aren't… we aren't in love…" his voice cracked. I looked down at the ground. He noticed it too. But we are so perfect for each other… Almost too perfect. Why aren't we in love?

"Who do you love then?" I asked holding back my tears.

"Princess…" he admitted.

"Her?" I asked. I feel like my heart was somewhat torn in two… "Why Princess?"

"I don't really know…"

"How are you in love with someone and don't know why?"

"It's crazy, isn't it?" he smiled. "You aren't in love with me either."

"Yeah, but break ups suck. What are we going to do?"

"We're still going on that date…"

"Why?" I asked stubbornly.

"To see Robin make a fool out of herself." He smiled.

"Mitch…" I smiled back.

"What?"

"We should probably go to your place and play some games."

"Ohh right!" he said shifting from park to drive. We arrived at his house and ran into his room and plopped onto his bed. We turned on Mario Cart and just started being competitive.

"You aren't going to win! We both know that Luigi is the best driver with the best defense!"

"Mario never loses!"

"It's not like Mario's trying to save the Princess!"

"Mario is trying to defeat his brother!" he retorted. That's when it dawned on me.. He thinks of me as a sibling… Shit. "Buttercup! What's wrong? You're losing! Is that even possible?" I snapped out of it and went back to the game.

"You're going down!"

"Too late! Mario wins again!" Mitch laughed and raised his hands in victory. I crossed my arms and pouted. He laughed and pinned me onto the bed. Him above me smiling, me below him… pouting. He leaned down and kissed me.

"Mitch…" I scolded. He laughed with embarrassment.

"Well, maybe we don't have to break up just yet…"

"How does that work?" I asked him.

"I never really wanted to break up with you… I do love you.."

"But you're in love with somebody else…" I reminded him. He frowned.

"I don't know how to say this without looking like a tool…" he laughed. I raised a brow, still under him. "Can we still be a couple until we find a real reason to break up?"

"You being in love with someone else is a real reason to break up, Mitch…" I sighed.

"I don't want to break up just yet… And I would never want to break up with you at my own convenience, but like I said, I still love you… And right now, I only want you in my world…" he said convincingly. He was honest when he said that he was in love with somebody else. But it seems really odd that he still wants to be with me… Is that odd? Or is it just… I don't know. Princess likes him too. I already know. I can't keep doing this to her… I still care about her feelings.

"Mitch, as much as I'd like to stay with you, Princess means a lot to me even though we aren't friends anymore. She likes you too…"

"I know..." he said lying on the bed next to me. I nodded. "Well...?"

"I guess I should have noticed before… But she reacted the same as I did whenever you came around… Always so, girly and always blushing. It was really selfish of me to take you when I knew she liked you. But-"

"It's ohkay, Buttercup. I understand…" Mitch said looking at me. I turned my head and returned the stare. He was smiling that great smile. The one I always loved.

"You don't love me as a sibling, do you?" I asked him. He was taken aback by the question.

"What do you mean?"

"I was thinking like, while we were playing video games that I was Luigi and you're Mario and Princess is Peaches.. Like, you like Peaches, and I'm like your brother or something… I mean.. Do you get my analogy?" I asked him. He laughed out loud. He looked like he was about to literally explode into twenty million pieces if that laughter didn't come out of his system.

"I get it…" he snickered. "That's cute…" he said wiping a tear from laughing so hard.

"I'm being serious!" I shook his arm.

"I'm sorry… That was mean of me to laugh. But no, I don't think of you as a sister or sibling… I would never kiss my sibling like I've kissed you!" he winked.

"I am so embarrassed right now…" I covered my face with my hands, trying to hide the tomato color. Mitch laughed again. I felt his hands creeping up on my wrists and he slowly pulled my hands away from my face. His face was above my hands. Just as I was about to reject him, he smiled.

"PEEK-A-BOO!" he screamed. I covered my face again and groaned. "Stop being silly. We still got a couple more hours of fun to kill!"

"Really? It hasn't been like five hours?" I mumbled over my hands. He chuckled.

"Nope! Unless you want to go home and leave miserable old me by myself without any lovin'!"

"You're gooood…" I quickly took my hands off my face and tackled him. Soon enough, he was over me tickling me from side to side. I thought I was going to explode from giggling too much! "Stop! Haha! Quit it!"

"But the tickle monster loves to hear laughter from little girls!"

"Then the tickle- haha- monster must be a pervert! Hehehahaha!" I finally kicked him in the gut making him fall to his doom off the bed. "Oh my gawsh, Mitch, I'm so sorry! Are you ohkay?" I asked in concern. He didn't answer. I crawled off the bed and shook him while he was still on the floor. "Mitch?" I came closer. "Miiitch?" I saw a smirk on his face. "Mitch.. I saw that!" I said sternly. His eyes opened.

"You didn't see this coming!" He shot up and started tickling me again.

"Not again!" I laughed. I jumped on the bed and crawled to edge of his bed near the wall. He chased after me and cornered me into the wall and his bed.

"There's nowhere to hide Buttercup! The tickle monster always wins!"

"The tickle monster is a tickle pervert!" I laughed. He started wiggling his fingers and began torturing me again.

"The agony!" I whined. He stopped and sighed.

"I'm done!"

"Thank GAWD!" I smiled. He smirked.

"You couldn't handle it! You're weaksauce!"

"Are not! I'm not as lame as you think I am!" I said. He lied down on his bed and I decided to join him.

"Nahh, I was just kidding." He laughed again.

"Good!" I stuck my tongue out at him and spit. He kissed my cheek and hugged me pulling me closer to him. He is so confusing… But he's right. We may not be in love, but we definitely love each other.

A couple hours passed by, we ended up falling asleep due to the exhaustion of the tickle fight. Mitch drove me home and gave me a good night kiss. I returned one to him of course. We decided that we can keep dating until after the double date. Only a few more days. After that, it's going to be my goal to help him and Princess get together. And then back to me being forever alone… Great…


So, so, so... HOW WAS IT?

What do you think of Buttercup and Mitch still going out even though Mitch admitted to being in love with Princess?

Is Buttercup gullible? :/ Or am I making things more complicated? lmao!

OH, AND THE PLANS! How is it going to turn out when Robin is planning on doing what she planned when Ariel and Amber and Princess are planning on doing a different plan? OMG... THIS IS GETTING COMPLICATED! AAGGHGHHGGHG! Well, the next chapter is done anyways... ;D haha. You'll see what happens later...

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