Chapter 25: Victimized Bridget
In their classroom, the girls are inside sitting and talking to themselves. The other students are either talking to each other about fun stuff or goofing around. Except Blossom who is looking disappointed about something.
Bridget notices Blossom sulking, and asks, "What's wrong, Blossom?"
Blossom sighs, and answers, "You guys, ever wonder why our homeroom got stuck with all the weirdos here in it?"
"Huh?" Bridget replies, looking confused.
Bubbles and Buttercup hear the conversation and look to see what is going on. Bridget looks around to see that some of the boys are different, and some of them do strange things.
Blossoms says, "I'm never gonna find a lab partner in here."
"Maybe, but there not all bad," Bubbles replies.
"Yeah. Some of the boys are other fun, interesting, and some are funny. So I don't think we need to worry about them being bad,"Bridget says.
Buttercup looks ahead, and bluntly says, "Except for that guy."
Suddenly a young boy with spiky brown hair, light brown eyes, and a tan skin. He is wearing a yellow shirt with a light blue jacket, and blu jeans. He is holding a large purple spider, that looks very fake.
As he hold the spider, he shouts, "It's a spider!"
Many girls who see the spider begins to scream or other cry. Then the boy begin to chase the girls with the spider, then makes a creepy snicker sound.
"Yeah. Randy Ficklemen, the most annoying kid in the world, especially with his pranks," Bubbles says, not sounding pleased.
"Randy? Why do you say that," Bridget questions.
"Were you victimized too?" Blossom asks.
Bubbles turns her eyes always, and answers, "I was."
She can remember it, she has enter into class, and head to her desk. She then notices that her pencil box is rattling inside. She looks confused about hearing something in the box, and decides to open it. But when she opens it, there are green frogs jumping out of it. One even lands on her nose. Bubbles screams and falls to the ground, and the frog jumps off. Everyone look to see the water in Bubbles eyes to see the frogs. She look up to see Randy and asked if he commit this, but denies it. He turns his head away and begin snickering, but Bubbles knows the truth.
"So Randy, really did that to you?" Bridget asks.
"He did," Bridget answers.
"Where did he get the frogs? Blossom wonders.
"I don't know," Bubbles answers, still not pleased by the prank.
"The same place where he gets all his slimy creepy crawlies," Buttercup answers.
"What do you mean?" Blossom asks.
Then Bridget suspects, "Don't tell me he did it to you too?"
"I don't believe it," Blossom says in shock.
"It's true," Buttercup answers.
Buttercup explains that it happen while she is getting to her locker. She walks to the row where her locker is, when she sees Randy existing it and humming like nothing is amiss. Buttercup goes to her locker and puts her hand on it and begin to wonder, then she hears humming again, and look to see Randy walking past the row. When she opens her locker, Buttercup is shocked to find bugs hanging on strings in her locker, and has a good idea who has done it. Randy denines, but Buttercup doesn't believe him. She she chased after him, and hies him all kind of wressling moves until he is pinned down. Randy ends up snickering like it's funny, and caused Buttercup to be… disturbed.
"That really happened?" Bubbles sks.
"Yeah. Randy hasn't picked on me since," buttercup answers.
"He would be stupid to try something after the lesson you gave him," Bridget replies.
"True," Buttercup answers.
Then Bubbles turns to Blossom, and asks, "What about you and Bridget?"
Blossom and Bridget begin to deep in thought about the question.
"I don't think he ever played a trick on me. I'm surprised he hasn't tried something yet," Bridget answers.
Blossom however is still deep in thought about it.
"Blossom, were you victimized too?" Bubbles asks.
Before Blossom can answer, Buttercup cuts in, "Of course she was. Other than Bridget, I'll bet he pranked every one in the whole school."
"Maybe not the whole school," Bridget disagrees.
"You should have seen what he pulled on Princess Morbucks yesterday. It was totally gross," Buttercup says.
Blossom and Bridget shockley exclaim, "No way!"
"It's true," Princess says, coming over to the girls.
"What happened?" Bridget asks.
Princess explain to Bridget and the others about it. Princess is outside of the school, admiring herself in the mirror. When Randy simply ask her to pull his fingers. When she does pull it, it wasn't very appropriate for her to say. Then he snickers with a creepy look on her face. Princess simply huff, and calls on her phone saying she needs backup. Soon her maids run alway the way to the school and keep punching, mostly stomping on Randy. Yet he still continues to laugh and snicker.
Bridget who is stunned by the story says, "I'll bet it will make him think twice before messing with you again."
"I sure hope so," Princess says. Then walks away back to the girls who hang out with her.
"He played every prank on every girl in our class," Bubbles angrily says.
Buttercup nods her head, and says, "Yup."
Blossom has been quiet during the time to hear that her two friends even Princess have been pranked by Randy.
Tilting her head and still stunned, Blossom manages to says, "I wasn't victimized."
Bridget, Bubbles, and Buttercup look at Blossom, possible hear her say something.
But Blossom stammers, "Nothing. Nevermind. Forget it."
"Okay. Bridget replies.
Then she says in her thoughts, "For a minute there, I thought she said that she wasn't pranked by Randy either."
Bridget is still not sure if that is what blossom is saying. Then Ms. Keane comes in, and she and the girls take their seats. As well as the rest of the students in the classroom.
Later on, the girls are on their break. Bridget decides to leave the classroom to get a few things from her locker. When she opens her locker, she find a bouquet of yellow flowers inside that is in a vase. Confused, Bridget takes it out, and look to see the flowers careful. Without knowing it, water squirts out from the bouquet, and spray at Bridget. Bridget screams and falls on her back. The flowers land all over her and the floor, and the vase breaks.
Bridget sits up, and look to see Randy.
"Um hi Randy," Bridget replies.
"Hey Bridget," Randy replies.
Then he walks way. But Bridget ends up hearing him snickering as he leaves. She knows that Randy has played that prank on her. Bridget picks up one of the flowers, and look closely at it. She gasp in shock to recognized the bright yellow flowers that has a tube in the middle.
Bridget screams on the top of her lungs, "D-d-daffodils! No!"
Sometime later, Bridget ends up going to the doctor's office her mother is working at. Truth be told, Bridget is actually very allergic to daffodils. She ends up sneezing, her face turns red and blotchy, and her voice gets scratchy. Luckily, her mother is able to give her the allergy shots, so she is getting better. Her face is less red and blotchy, and she stops sneezing, but her voice is still scratchy.
"Are you alright, Sweetie?" Alice asks.
"I'm fine mom, just still feeling a bit sore on the throat," Bridget answers, still having a scratchy voice.
Alice pats Bridget on the head, "That will come down in a few hours."
Bridget groans, "Out of all the flowers Randy had to use, it just had to be daffodils."
"Oh, I'm sure he didn't mean to give you an allergic reaction," Alice reassures.
Bridget shakes her head saying, "No. I don't think he meant for it to happen. But I do know he was pranking me."
"Well, I suggest that you get some rest and stay home school for the rest of the day," Alice says.
"Okay," Bridget replies.
Later in the day in the evening, the sun is starting to come down, and sky is turning into an orange like color. Bridget is at home laying down in front of the t.v watching an anime from one of her dvds from America. Bridget sighs because she has to be stuck at home until her allergies are cleared while the her friends are at school. Minnie sits on her lap as she takes a nap. Bridget pets her little golden retriever on the head.
Just then, the doorbell rings, and Bridget gets up to answer as she holds her puppy in her arms. When she opens the door, she can see Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup at the door. Blossom is holding a box with a chocolate cake inside. Bubbles is holding a fruit basket. Finally Buttercup is holding a folder containing papers and a small white box with a red ribbon on it.
With a smile, Blossom says, "Hi Bridget, we brought you some presents."
"How are you feeling?" Bubbles asks.
"I'm doing fine. My throat doesn't feel scratchy anymore," Bridget answers.
She then says, "Come on in."
The three girls walk inside, and put the items on the table. Bridget then explains what happened, and why she hasn't been at school for the rest of the day. By then, the girls explain about Mojo showing up and get all angry because of french fries.
"That Mojo has a anger issue," Bridget comments.
"Yeah. I think his attitude is worse than Fuzzy's," Blossom replies.
"You could say that again," Buttercup says.
"Sorry that your little situation with Randy didn't worked out," Bridget says.
"That's alright. I was kind of dumb to think he actually like me. Also…" Blossom says.
"What?" Bridget questions.
"Randy wanted to apologize for the prank he pulled earlier today. He had no idea you were allergic to daffodils," Blossom says.
"Yeah. He actually felt really bad about it," Bubbles says.
"He wanted us to give you that small white box. He said that's full of chocolate, but I'm not putting it past him if he has another prank in mind," Buttercup says.
"I guess, but it will be rude to not know what it's inside. Plus, I should stay too mad at him. After all, he didn't even know I was allergic to daffodils," Bridget says.
"Yeah. I had no idea either," Buttercup replies.
"How come you never tell us this?" Blossom questions.
"Well, there aren't that many daffodils around here, and I don't go to flower stores very much. I do like flowers, but I don't got to places with flowers very much other than a few that are in groceries stores from time to time," Bridget explains.
"She does have a point," Bubbles says Buttercup.
"Yeah. We don't have to many flower shops or stands in the city," Blossom replies.
"Guess not," Buttercup adds.
Bridget gets up, and walks to the table. She then grabs the white box and brings it back to the group.
As she brings the box over, and sits down, Bridget says, "Still, it wouldn't hurt to see what it is."
"Alright, but you better let me open it. Just in case this is another one of his tricks," Buttercup offers.
"Okay?" Bridget questions.
Bridget then hands over the box to Buttercup. Then Buttercup begins to untie the ribbon. She then slowly opens the box, worried that it will be another one of his pranks. When Buttercup lifts the lid up with her eyes closed, nothing has happened. She opens her eyes and look down to see a bunch of rose shaped milk chocolates.
"Well, it seems the gift is normal?" Bridget questions.
"We'll just see about that," Buttercup says, grabbing a chocolate rose.
She then begins to eat it. She starts to feel the taste of it, and feels something else in side. After swallowing it, Buttercup doesn't say a word.
"Well?" Blossom asks.
"How does it taste?" Bubbles adds.
"It… taste fine... like chocolate… there's even a strawberry jam filling inside," Buttercup calmly says.
The girls become curious, and each start eating a chocolate rose. Soon the girls can tell that nothing sneaky or anything strange has been added in.
"Well, that is surprisingly good," Blossom says.
"Yeah. nothing spicy, sour, or gross inside," Bubbles replies.
Bridget says, "I guess it means Randy really was sorry for giving me an allergic reaction. I'll let him know that I forgive him tomorrow."
"Good idea," blossom says.
Just then, the door opens and Alice enters the living room and she is holding a box with the word Pizza on it.
"Hi Bridget, I see the girls have paid us a visit," Alice says.
"Hello Ms. Brooks," The three girls reply.
"So we're having pizza tonight. I thought you had to stay at work late," Bridget replies.
"Yeah. I was able to finish early, and decided to buy out for tonight," Alice says.
Blossom says, "Well, I guess we should get going."
"Yeah. We got school tomorrow," Buttercup says.
"See you tomorrow, Bridget. And have a good evening Alice," Bubbles says.
Minnie barks looking at bubbles.
"And good night to you too Minnie," Bubbles adds with a smile.
"Bye," Bridget replies.
Soon the girls leave the apartment to head back home. Bridget may have a bit of a crummy day, but it able to get her spirit up with good friends.
The next day, Randy does apologize in person for the little prank, and Bridget is able to forgive him because he doesn't know about her allergies. He then gives her an egg for a present that is about a size of a basketball. When Bridget opens it, confetti and sprinkles come out, and a funny face that has its tongue sticking out on a spring. Bridget and Randy start laughing. However, he still like to make those crazy and mean pranks on everyone. There are some habits that are difficult to break.