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Chapter 11: School Grows Worse!

Kate's POV:

We were sitting at the back of the class in homeroom, I was so fucking angry and I couldn't take it. It had been a week since the Rowdy Ruff Boys thrashed us over the Amoeba Boys, they had beaten us another five times and we had only just one by miracles twice.

The Rowdy Ruff Boys were getting all the credit, the media loved them and they were constantly on the news. They were on the cover on the Townsville Style magazine with us and everyone was raving about how wonderful they were as if they knew the Rowdy Ruff Boys. The Rowdy Ruff Boys were classed as superheroes now, there were posters and all kinds of shit that we always had. The Power Puff Girls Z were never in the conversations or mentioned on the news or in magazines unless it was to talk about how great it would be if we were a group of six heroes, or to say that they thought the Rowdy Ruff Boys would out-hero us.

It was infuriating! I wanted to boil them all alive, bash the shit out of them and then destroy them for good!

We hadn't done our homework lately, we never completed our school work, we didn't hang out with any of our friends and I didn't play sports anymore. We were completely focused on the Rowdy Ruff Boys like everyone else, we were trying to figure everything out about them and we were making all kinds of plans to defeat them.

"Oh, I saw the Rowdy Ruff Boys flying over the city yesterday. They're so handsome; they're the best protection this city ever had," a girl whispered giggly to her friends.

"She can't see if they're handsome, she wouldn't see anything other than coloured lines in the sky," I hissed and glared at the girl in question. "Fucking hate this," Jamie was so frustrated that she didn't tell me off for swearing.

The bell went and the class thankfully feel silent, I'd be free of Rowdy Ruff Boys talk for a while. "Class, I'm going to start the roll," she informed us and I groaned as I lay my head on my desk.

"I'm going to sleep, wake me if something exciting happens," which meant don't wake me at all since nothing exciting happened at school.

Suddenly the door flew open, "Sorry, teach, but we got lost." That voice sounded familiar, too familiar and I didn't like who that voice reminded me of.

"Excuse me, who are you three?" Three?

Jamie and Izzy suddenly gasped. "This is Blake, that's Brute and I'm Bradley," That voice sounded familiar too.

I raised my head and I saw a guy with dark green eyes and a long fringe covering one eye, his hair was black and he was smirking smugly at me. "You've got to be fucking joking."

Butch waved at me and some girls swooned as they believed he had waved at them. My eyes went to the other two, Brick and Boomer were there too and they were all dressed as if they were normal boys at school.

"I thought I hated school before-"

"Me too," Jamie let her head fall onto the table and Izzy was very pale.

I followed Jamie, except I forced my head so hard into the table there was a huge bang and the class stopped whispering about the handsome boys at the front of the room. "Ouch," I mumbled.

"Katelyn Darling, what on earth are you doing back there? You'll give yourself a head ache," the teacher called and I hated the sound of my name, Katelyn Darling.

"Head's up you guys, they know who we really are," Jamie told me as if I didn't know. Butch had smirked and waved, that was only to gloat at me so he had to know I was Buttercup.

"Girls, Katelyn and Jamie, lift your heads up!"

"Sorry, miss, we're playing heads down thumbs up," I grumbled loudly.

"KATELYN AND JAMIE!"

We lifted our heads up and I rubbed my forehead, "Happy, miss?" I demanded furiously.

"Katelyn, watch your tongue!" Miss snapped and I gave her my most charming smile before resting my head on crossed arms. "Now, what are you three doing here?"

"We're new students," Butch yelled loud enough to make my head ring.

"Okay, find your seats." Girls all around the room offered the chairs next to them and the guys did the same since the Rowdy Ruff Boys looked cool.

But apparently none of these chairs were as good as the ones, between me and Jamie, next to me and in front of Izzy. Brick went to sit between me and Jamie, but I bet him and so he sat a seat away from me with Butch in between us, and Boomer set in front of Izzy.

"Comfortable?" I spat the word at all three of them as Miss started the roll.

Butch beamed, "Yes, it's warm too."

"Good, that means I really did piss in it," I hissed and Jamie didn't say a word.

Princess turned around and purred at all three boys, "You don't want to sit with them," she told the boys.

They ignored her and that drove Princess crazy. The teacher finished the roll surprisingly quick, "The new students aren't on the roll. Boys pick someone to take you to the front office," Oh no.

Butch, Brick and Boomer stood up. Princess whispered something to them in her best seductive voice and they ignored her once again. Butch turned to us with a smirk like I had expected, "Would one of you girls so kindly show us the way?"

I growled, "Izzy, show the boys to the front office."

Izzy grabbed her bag and gazed at Jamie, "I can do it!" Jamie got to her feet and she clearly wasn't pleased.

Princess glared. "You think you have a chance with boys like them? I would have thought you'd learnt already, guys don't like you," she hissed at her as Jamie sighed.

"Don't see why not," Butch was checking Jamie out and I didn't like the look in his eyes.

Jamie shoved passed Brick and Butch. Brick was looking at her strangely and I didn't like his eyes either. She then stormed to the door. Just as she grabbed the handle and the Rowdy Ruff Boys got to the door I stood up. "I'm coming!"

The teacher shook her head, "Katelyn, sit back down!"

"Look, miss, I'll see you at morning tea," I would be getting a detention for this. "Oh, and by the way, it's all my idea, don't blame Jamie or Izzy." I grabbed Izzy's hand, "Come on."

Jamie's POV:

As soon as we started off down the hallway I felt Brick's eyes on me. I decided to ignore him as best as I could as if he was no threat. "Kate, you're going to get a detention for that," I told her.

She shrugged, "Who cares?"

"We do," Izzy mumbled and hugged her back pack. "What if-"

"Katelyn, I need to speak with your parents," we all turned to see the teacher who hated Kate the most.

"Miss, I have to do something at the moment. You can tell me off later," we kept walking.

"Then it'll be at recess-"

"I can't, I just got detention then. I'll uhhh… see you after school," she grinned sheepishly.

"Jamie, you'll make sure she comes to my office!" It wasn't a question and I nodded meekly.

"And here I thought the great Power Puff Girls Z were perfect," Butch said smugly.

I decided it was now or never, "What are you doing here?" I demanded harshly without stopping in my strides.

"Here to learn, that's all. Just like everyone else," Brick responded.

"Bull!" Izzy blurted and that was the closest she ever got to swearing.

"Entertainment," Boomer mumbled with his eyes on Izzy with a strange look on his face, we all whipped around to him. "We're here for fun."

Kate snickered, "Well, this is the last place you'd go for that." I had to agree.

"Then why do you three cool cats hang out here?" Butch inquired.

"Because we don't have a choice, same as in everything else," Kate snarled the words and again I had to agree.

"You chose to be heroes," Brick murmured.

Izzy shook her head, "That wasn't our choice, the Mayor and the Professor said we had to be the… you know who since we have super powers."

"I should have bargained, we don't even get paid for saving the city every day!" Kate growled in outrage. "So unfair."

"We got the pretty outfit," Izzy nodded delightedly.

"I should have bargained, worst freaking piece of crap, stupid bastards…" Kate began grumbling savagely to herself.

"Kate, if you stress too much you'll get cresses in your face," Izzy warned.

I sighed, "That's a myth, Izzy." If it were true I'd be a pile of saggy wrinkling skin.

Our first lesson was PE and co-incidentally the Rowdy Ruff Boys had the same class with us. Me, Izzy and Kate sat on the other side of the room.

I had decided that the Rowdy Ruff Boys were doing all this to get a reaction out of us, and so we were going to ignore them, act as if nothing had changed in our lives and show them how much all this didn't bother us.

"Class, we're learning different dances since Prom is coming up," the teacher began and so guys groaned as girls giggled.

"Can't we do dodge ball?" Kate demanded and the teacher shook her head.

"Stand up, everyone," we did and we stayed as far away from the Rowdy Ruff Boys as we could get, which wasn't hard since all the girls had surrounded them and put themselves between us and them. "Pick a dance partner," Izzy was instantly taken from us by the hottest guy in school… or what the other girls now said was the fourth hottest person, but the Rowdy Ruff Boys weren't hot.

A guy from the football team came over to us, he opened his mouth and my eyes flickered to the other side of the room. Brick was glaring daggers at the guy's head. I turned back to him; his eyes flickered between us before he turned to Kate. "Good luck," I blurted and stifled a snicker; I quickly covered my mouth as my cheeks turned pink.

My eyes darted to the other side of the room as the guy began to ask Kate if she wanted to be his dance partner. Brick was no longer glaring and then his blood red eyes went to me, mine flew away as quickly as possible. "No, don't you even finish! Piss off!" She yelled and everyone turned in our direction.

"You're going to have to dance with someone, you know?" I mumbled and she glared at me as if this was my fault. "Don't give me that look."

Kate turned to the teacher, "Miss, I'm not going to the stupid Prom, so can't I skip this?" She hoped and the teacher crushed her. She crossed her arms over her chest and grumbled to herself.

My eyes flickered around and I saw that nearly everyone had a part-

Daniel was coming towards us and my heart raced as my hope grew. Please, please, please, please, please! PLEASE!

I saw Brick over Daniel's shoulder, he was glaring more than he had before and his red eyes were beginning to glow. I turned my gaze away.

Daniel just got to me and then Mia took him away, and because he was the nicest guy I had ever seen he let her be his partner.

"Awww…" I murmured and scratched my head as my embarrassment grew. "Heart's crushed… I shouldn't have fallen for that, like that would happen…" I sighed at Kate. "I guess me and you could hang out while Izzy goes to Prom with… any guy since they all want to take her."

Kate snarled. "Look, girls, I'm going to have to make you be each other's partners since there's no one left," the teacher told us and we nodded numbly.

"I told you they were gay," Princess whispered and I rolled my eyes.

Kate snarled at her, "As if we're gay! Jamie obsesses over every guy in the school!"

"And what do you do, Katelyn? You pretend to be a boy," Princess retorted coldly and then she turned away.

"Kate, leave it." I sighed, "Thanks for telling half the class that embarrassing fact, that's why you're my best friend," I muttered sarcastically.

She scolded at me, "You're welcome!" She spat and I put my hands on my hips.

The teacher gave us the instructions on how to do this dance, I turned bright red from embarrassment and Kate was red from fury.

When everyone else had gotten into their starting positions we were still standing there awkwardly as the teacher waited, "GIRLS!"

I sighed and then got closer to Kate, "Let's just get this over and done with." I took Kate's hand in my own, then I placed her hand on my waist and mine on her shoulders as guys whistled around the room.

I would die before this was over, especially since Butch was cat calling us. "SHUT UP, THE LOT OF YOU!" Kate roared and all the guys expect Butch fell dead silent.

I was relieved that I had some of my hair out of it's usual bow so I could hide in it and my eyes flickered around. Brick was still watching me and his eyes lit up when he saw me staring back, I turned away instantly.

We danced for ten minutes and then the teacher told us how we'd be changing partners throughout the dance. She told us the steps and all that, then she turned the music on.

I started with Kate who was fuming and then I had to dance with Stinking Pete. There was a reason he was called Stinky Pete and it wasn't because he wore a lot of man perfume, I nearly passed out when he span me around and lifted up his arm.

Next I had the star football player, I didn't like how low his hands kept moving and I swear we were too close together. After that I got to dance with Daniel, his hands were a little sweaty and his face was flushed, probably from all the effort of dancing. We talked softly and he seemed to be trying to tell me something, but he was shy and it made him even cuter.

My head was soaring and then… for my last partner I had Brick. "Hey," he greeted and he was also a little flushed, I didn't see why seeing that he had super powers. His hands were solid as he placed one on my waist and the other in mine. I looked to the floor and Brick moved closer to me, "Are you going to pretend I'm not here?"

"As if you won't do the same," I grumbled and took a step back so there was space between us.

He sighed, "You're too far away, you have to-"

"I'm staying here and like you care if you get good grades."

The teacher came around, "Jamie and Bradley, you have to be closer," she told us and pushed me forward so our chests were close to touching. She then pushed our hands into each other's. "You have to hold hands tighter and Bradley, don't be shy. You need to place your hand there and Jamie, your hand should be there." When she was finished fixing us up she moved onto the next coupl-don't use that word.

"Don't step on my feet, alright?"

"I-I uhhh…" he licked his lips and if I didn't know him I'd say he was nervous. "I won't…" he bit his lip, "So… are…" he took a deep breath as we began to walk. "So… you seem to really like that guy…"

"Like it's any of your business," I replied harshly.

"He… he uhhh… asked you to the… Prom thing yet?" He inquired.

My cheeks flushed, "I don't even know if he's going to ask. Anyhow, looks like he's going with Hayley…" my eyes flickered to Daniel and I noticed how his eyes were on Hayley. He'd ask her. Not me.

"Good." My eyes darted to his face and I scolded, how rude? I knew he wanted to get back at us and upset us, but jeez… that was cruel. "Uhhh… I-I mean… it's not like you'll actually get to go, knowing the villains you'll have to leave before… well, yeah… they'll uhhh… get in the way…"

Thanks for just crushing what little hope I had left, Brick. I shook my head, "What is wrong with you and your brothers? You're that rude it's cruel." He was taken by surprise.

"But I jus… what did I say that was so bad?"

I scoffed at him, as if he didn't know. "Rub it in a little more, why don't you? It hasn't broken my heart yet, but that's your intention isn't it… to ruin us emotionally?" I shook my head, "You and your brothers haven't changed, you've just gotten crueller."

He scolded after a while, "You tried to kill us!" He hissed too softly for anyone other than me to hear.

"Because of what you were doing, we gave you a chance and then another and another after that. But you three were and probably still are to be rulers on the world, etc, etc."

"You won't give us a chance when we're trying to change-"

"Don't kid me, Brick. Even Bubbles can figure it out, you aren't here and doing this to change. You're getting back at us somehow and just know, you'll regret it, whatever you think will happen and whatever you're planning won't work. You'll see, the bad guys never win, haven't you learnt yet?" I looked him dead in the eye, "There's no point giving you a chance when there's no way in hell you'd take it. Like you'd take the much smarter and healthier apple when there's a fatty and tastier chocolate cake in front of you… apple would be better in truth, but none of you ever see that because the cake feels more delightful." I didn't blink, or blush, or shy away, "The cake will always rot your teeth… and we'll always come out on top in the end, no matter how long it takes."

"It's probably best if Hayley gets the guy, he doesn't seem to deserve a Power Puff," Brick changed the subject when something seemed to be about to click in his head.

Did I nearly change his mind just then?