A/N: To be honest, I should be doing homework but who cares! The show must go on! I hope you guys enjoy it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron. Bittersweet Ch 10:

Mixed Feelings and Bubble Baths

"Okay, I'm here. Talk."

"How are you?" He asked me as if we weren't just shouting at eachother from my bedroom window.

"Just get on with it Neutron."

"Well fine Miss Grumpfish. I want to know why you were ignoring my calls."

"And I want to know why you felt the need to flirt and feel up Christine. And where the hell did you two run off to anyway?"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"You know damn well what I'm talking about!"

"I didn't go anywhere after work with Christine or feel her up for that matter."

"Oh please! Because after you two walked out, I saw the hover car leave but her car was still there and don't think I didn't see you touching her back!"

"Then she must be with someone else because I came home and called you and touching her back? Really? How does that count as 'feeling her up'? It wasn't a big deal."

I rolled my eyes to show him that I didn't care but on the inside I was having a hard time not believing him. I mean, what if I was over-reacting? Maybe they didn't leave together after all.. But then why was he flirting so much with her?

"Yeah sure buddy. If that's all fine and dandy, then why were you flirting with her so much?"

As he took a step closer to me, he lowered his voice and said, "Because I knew it would bother you. I wanted to see how much you cared." I was stunned. Now I feel like an idiot, if I had known that's what he was doing, I would've pretended that I didn't care. I can't let him know that I care, at least I was doing some flirting of my own with some of the customers, hopefully he got a taste of his medicine. I scoffed and rolled my eyes at him. I turned to walk away when he grabbed my hand turned me so I was facing him.

"What're you-"

I couldn't even finish what I was saying because his lips were on mine. I couldn't help but melt into it. I let him snake his arms around my waist and pull me closer, my pulse was quickening and my body was heating up being so close to him. The effect he had on me was electrifying, I don't think I'll ever have this with anyone else, and that thought scares me a lot. When we finally broke apart, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed.

"So um.. What was that for?" I say as my breathing returns to normal, trying not to show how flustered I really was.

"What? A guy can't kiss a girl he's into?"

All brain function immediately ceased. I was a statue. There were the words I had been waiting for since the moment he came back into my life. The reassurance that I needed that he was into me. But now, that it's out in the open I don't know. I don't know what to think or feel. I think part of it for me is the chase and excitement, while he was gone I didn't date much or anything. I had a few crushes here and there, but it never turned into anything serious so I don't have much experience when it comes to relationships, I don't know if I'm ready for this. It took me a few moments to realize that this whole time my thoughts were racing, I was just standing in front of him staring at him. When I finally felt courageous enough to say something, it came out prepubescent and squeaky.

"Well uh.. I umm.. Have to get going, I have school tomorrow."

"Oh.. Right.. Well I'll see you tomorrow then."

"Yeah, night." I said before quickly walking back into my house. I couldn't help but feel a little bad because I probably just sent some serious mixed signals, but what the hell. He's been sending me mixed signals since he came home! So whatever, I don't know why I'm even feeling guilty. Tomorrow is going to be very interesting, I thought as I got ready for bed and fell asleep.

The next day was indeed very interesting. It started out as any other day would, Libby waited outside my house as I grabbed my bag and walked out. The second I walked outside my house though, Neutron just so happened to be walking out of his house, we made eye contact and it was awkward but whatever. Eventually things will go back to normal.

Being the Hawk-eyed gossip queen she is, Libby immediately noticed the awkward eye contact he and I made and said something about it.

"Ummmm what was that? Trouble in paradise already?"

"What? No! What are you talking about?" I couldn't help but immediately get defensive which didn't help much. Libby always sees right through me.

"We'll talk about it later, just get your butt in the car before we're late to school."

"Yes mom" I say making a joke about her lecturing me.

As we drove to school, the events of last night replayed over and over again in my head. For one thing, I was kicking myself for acting the way I did, for another I was still stunned by what he said. I guess we'll see how today goes, I thought as we parked and got out of the car.

The rest of the day followed just like this morning did, he and I would occasionally share some awkward eye contact but other than that we didn't talk much. Lunch was weird because the five of us had been eating lunch together everyday for the past week and a half all talking and laughing and getting along, Jimmy and I would occasionally argue about something but it was nothing compared to how we were as kids. Today though, we were silent towards eachother, we didn't even sit next to each other which is what we had been doing since the first day. Sheen noticed but right when he was about to say something, I saw Libby elbow him in the side, which I was grateful for. I didn't want to talk about it, I just wanted to be left alone for a while.

Cheer practice thankfully went on as normal, my group did great and ended up helping others, I'm so eager and anxious for tomorrow. If I don't get cheer captain my mom will be furious. I'm a Vortex so I have to be the best, that's what she's always told me. Even now that she's not as involved in my life, she still makes sure I'm always the best. She was pissed when she found out that Jimmy moved back because she knew I would never beat him for Valedictorian, thankfully she went off on me once and then never brought it up again, so I'm hoping getting cheer captain will make up for that a little bit. As I was walking out, Coach Mellona stopped me and told me she was impressed by me and my group.

"Vortex, come here for a second!"

"What's up Coach?"

"I just wanted to say how impressed I am by your stunt group. I can always count on you to nail it without any problems and give some tips to the other fliers. I see bright things in your future."

I left there ecstatic, I hoped she was referring to cheer captain as the 'bright things'. Because of the weird situation Jimmy and I are in right now, I counted on him not waiting for me like he had made a habit of doing, what I didn't count on was that Libby must've forgotten about this morning and assumed he was giving me a ride because she was nowhere to be found. I was about to start walking home when I noticed the hover car was still there but the genius owner was nowhere in sight. That's weird, I thought as I scanned the parking lot and baseball field, the rest of the team is gone, I wonder what he's up to. All of a sudden I heard some giggling to my right and I turned to see Christine flirting and laughing the genius himself. What the fuck is she doing here? She already graduated! I stormed over and stopped next to Jimmy and put on the best fake smile I could before addressing her.

"Christine! What a lovely surprise, what are you doing here?"

"Oh I'm here to pick up my brother, he's finishing up track practice soon and my parents weren't able to do it today so I offered."

"Well how lovely. What were you guys talking about? Did I interrupt anything?" I ask as I used the nicest voice I could muster up.

"Actually I just invited Christine out to dinner tonight seeing as how well we've been getting along at work. I'm still waiting on her answer though." Jimmy said without even looking at me once. Christine of course started giggling again and said yes. I could feel my heart actually breaking, I felt nauseous. I knew I needed to get out of there and quick.

"Well.. That's uh, that's awesome, I hope you guys have a great time." I said through clenched teeth as I walked away. Part of me was hoping Jimmy would follow after me and tell me it was a joke and that he's still into me, but he never did. 20 minutes later I arrived home and went straight to the bath. A long, relaxing bath is just what I need right now.

A/N: There's the next chapter! I hope you guys like it, let me know what you think! Thank you for all your kind words so far, they mean the world to me!:)