A irate Flash guides a curious Blossom away from the classrooms and further down the hallway. He easily maintains the lead position out of the two due to his longer legs.

Blossom quietly remains on her toes while her thoughts continuously tries to process exactly what Flash plans to talk to her about.

"So are you going to explain to me what's the deal with you and the new boy Brick?" He inquires after the pair finally reaches the roof of the school.

Her pink eyes lands on him before she counters with, "Flash, I don't have to explain myself to you."

The blonde quickly turns toward her with rage present on his face when he retorts, "Do you know how it makes me look when people tell me that my girlfriend is messing around with another guy? Even the freaking nerds were laughing at me this morning!"

"So since I've been made fun of you pretty much owe me an explanation." He firmly demands an explanation of the situation from her.

"Wait a minute…" Blossom promptly lifts both of her hands up with her palms toward him, "...since when were you and I dating?"

"Ah…don't play stupid Blossom!" Flash suddenly interjects, which completely catches her totally off-guard.

"I don't know what fantasy world you're living in but you and I dating doesn't even exist! You need to scale down from cloud nine and land back on reality!" The orange haired teen calmly declares as she crosses her arms in front of her chest.

Her pink eyes then observe Flash shakes his head left and right along with a short chuckle.

"If only you knew the truth behind your precious little Brick. His past will have you running back to me in no time flat." Flash deliberately hints at something about Brick's past, which sparks Blossom's curiosity.

"What are you talking about Flash?" She questions after she listens to his statement about Brick and his past.

The blonde purposely maintains his facade of being shameful and hurt by Blossom's actions, "Forget about it. My problem is when your sister called you…you didn't ask to speak to me?"

If Blossom could, she would repeatedly bash Flash's pea body head against the wall until common sense would snap him out of his delusional fantasy of them dating.

"The problem is you…you're making up all these little lies. I refuse to stand here and listen to your nonsense." Blossom proclaims before she aboutfaces and walks over to the exit.

"...and just where do you think you're going Blossom Utonium?" A familiar feminine voice wonders aloud.

Blossom carefully scans the area before she eventually peeks up to discover Bell on top of the roof's door that serves as an emergency entrance and exit.

"Homeroom…where I belonged in the first place." She casually replies before she strolls toward the door only to be stop by Bell once again after she leaps down in front of her.

"That's too bad. I planned to tell you all about this Brick fellow." The platinum blonde expresses a feint sense of disappointment with her eyes close until she opens one eye to see Blossom still in front of her.

"So what do you say Bloss? I know you are interested since you have not pushed me aside yet." Bell bribes her.

Her pink eyes merely stare at Bell then peer over at Flash before she returns her sights on to Bell once again.

"Good." She happily declares toward the orange haired girl that stands in front of her.

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"Since everyone is somewhat here today...I will announce the sport for today's event." Mr. Matura announced after he captured his homeroom's attention with his loud voice and a wave of his hand.

Butch casually leans over to whisper in Buttercup's ear, "Hey Butter..."

"Yeah, what is it, Butch?" She replies since she wonders what the raven-haired boy wants from her.

"Aren't you just a little concerned at how long Blossom has been gone with Flash?" He poses his question.

Buttercup exhales a deep sigh before she glances toward Butch's direction. "Let me give you a heads up about my brainy little sister. If you are coy with her you fascinate her. When she takes charge to find answers, she isn't going to stop until she knows the original and primary source."

"For all we know, Flash could be filling her head up with lies and false statements, but Blossom still doesn't care. As long as she has a question and you have the answer then you have her full undivided attention."

"Ah…I see…" He softly mutters after he leans his back against the body of his seat while he maintains eye contact with Buttercup.

"However, if she isn't back by the time homeroom is over then I will go and get her." She quickly adds in.

"Speaking of Blossom, what do you two think that those two are talking about?" Midori inquires to the two raven-haired duo after she sits near them.

Butch simply shrugs his shoulders up and down while Buttercup merely relaxes in her seat. "More then likely it's about Brick…"

Midori, Butch and Buttercup then turn their heads to see that it was Bubbles that supplies the answer to Midori's question.

"Now that Bubbles mention it, didn't Flash always have a thing for Blossom?" Midori directs her question to the sisters.

Bubbles simply nods her head to confirm that what Midori just ask her was indeed true.

"Personally, I don't like the spineless bastard. There's something not right about him…" Buttercup responds to Midori, Butch and her sister.

Mr. Matura suddenly clears his throat again, "As I said, before I was so rudely interrupted by my lovely homeroom students, the sport that we will play today is…dodgeball!"

His announcement instantly catches the small group that was huddle around Butch and Buttercup attention as they speedily peer in the direction of their homeroom teacher.

"Mr. Matura…you better not be lying to me!" Buttercup suddenly shrieks after she hops on to her feet.

The group closely watch as he presses the tip of his index and middle finger against the center of his forehead while he shakes his head left and right.

"Now come on Buttercup…I know just how much you love dodgeball and what I'm trying to tell you is that that is our sport for today! Now of course, you will be separated into girls and boys but the rules are pretty much the same." Mr. Matura explains in a slightly hurt tone.

"I so totally love this school!" The raven haired girl randomly shouts out after she excitingly leaps up in to the air with one of her fist outstretch above her head.

Her homeroom classmates could not help but to bask in Buttercup's warrior spirit that she naturally emits whenever things goes her way.

Butch then peeks over at his brother and discovers that Brick closes himself off to what was going on around him.

He merely rises to his feet and quietly heads over to where Brick was before he asks his brother a simple question. "The timing of this whole thing is perfect, wouldn't you agree Brick?"

He ignores his brother's question as he silently stares off in the same direction until they overhear Mr. Matura greets Blossom upon her entrance in the classroom.

She returns the warm greeting her homeroom teacher offers her once she strolls inside of the classroom, ambles to her seat, and directs her stare off in to space.

"So today we are scheduled to play this afternoon, which means we have to work the concession stand at noon." Mr. Matura adds in after he reads off of the paper for their instructions.

"That gives us a whole lot of time to spare…" Buttercup irritably complains while she rolls her eyes after she processes the announcement.

Midori wedges her elbow against her side to catch her attention. "I think you should at least go see if she's doing alright…"

Her light green eyes roam over at Blossom after she hears Midori's statement about her sister. "I don't think I am the one she needs to be talking to right now."

Bubbles recognizes Midori was slightly confuse by Buttercup's denial to comfort their sister.

"Buttercup does have a point…the problem doesn't involve neither one of us nor Butch or Boomer. It only deals with Blossom and Brick." Bubbles defends Buttercup's reasoning.

Midori simply nods her head forward to show that she understands where the sisters standpoint is on their involvement with Blossom.

"Speaking of comforting…did that Drake fellow call you last night?" Bubbles then directs the attention toward Midori.

"Eh?!" She jumps a little after she hears the question with a now slight darker tint present on her cheeks before she responds, "This whole conversation doesn't even concern him."

"Ah lighten up just a little…" The blonde jokingly teases her with a small smile present on her face that prompts her to ease in her stance.

Buttercup flashes a smile at their interaction with one another before she cuts her eyes to the back of her sister's head.

'I wonder what those two talked about?' She inwardly wonders to herself.

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'The housework is done…' Serena concluded to herself before she tirelessly crashed on to her comfortable cushioned couch.

'I wonder why those three were upset this morning?' She inwardly ponders after she reaches for the remote control in order to turn on the television.

Serena automatically flips to the news station once the screen lights up to see if there was any thing important being broadcast that she should know about.

As the commercial starts to play, her mind wonders what a certain purple haired and gray eyed male was doing at the moment.

Serena instantly smacks herself in the face with one of the throw pillows that was on the opposite side of her. 'Why am I acting like a teenage girl in love?'

She then releases a deep breath, removes the pillow from in front of her face, and declares, 'I definitely need to keep myself busy.'

Serena rises to her feet, searches for her cell phone and hears the standard ringtone nearby. She eventually locates it on the the kitchen counter.

"Hello?"

"This is she?"

"Yes. I am available today."

"I can be there within a couple of minutes."

"That's awfully nice of you."

"Alright see you then…buh bye."

Serena presses the red phone button to end the call, scans the living room and opts to dress in civilian clothes rather than her military uniform.

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The static noise of the intercom signals to the faculth and students of Pokey Oaks High that a very important announcement was about to be made.

"Will all the sophomore homerooms please report to the gym at this time." A feminine voice orders before she repeats the message three more times.

"Let's move out class…" Mr. Matura orders his students as he neatly files them out of their homeroom and into the hallway.

Their class just so happened to leave at the same time as Ms. Omiya's class, which immediately sparked tension to surface between the groups.

"Ms. Omiya," Mr. Matura cordially greets his homeroom rival once their two classes stand on the opposite ends from each other.

"Mr. Matura," Ms. Omiya politely returns the greeting as the other second year homeroom classes were too scared to pass through the classes' cross hairs.

The two classes were content to stare the other down, however that would no longer be an issue once Principal Zeal ventures down the second year hallway.

"Move along…we are on a timely schedule here. That includes your classes as well Mr. Matura and Ms. Omiya." He issues a fair warning to the two classes as he passes through the hallway.

For the sake of participating in today's sport, the teachers' were escorting their students further down the hallway toward the gym.

"Is it always like this between us and them?" Butch asks Buttercup once they enter through the a set of doors that lead to the gymnasium of the school.

She shakes her head in a no fashion and provides a response, "It hasn't always been like this. It was just a friendly rivalry until Bell enrolled in their homeroom class. After that happened…it has been war ever since."

"So it seems as if Bell has been the cause of a lot of bad things here at Pokey Oaks." He states his opinion of the tense situation between the two classes.

"You can say that again…" Buttercup agrees with him before the pair trail in with the rest of their class while Mr. Matura heads over with the other teachers.

"Can you say causalities?" Bubbles claims while she touches her face with both of her hands to display the horror on her face.

"Ah, Bubbles, you make it sound like a bad thing." Buttercup chimes in with a wide grin on her face.

"Its easy for you to say Buttercup…I have no scare factor whatsoever." Bubbles honestly complains, which causes Buttercup to laugh at her sister's statement.

"Midori and I will make sure nothing happens to your face. Yo, Pink! We need you over here!" Buttercup shouts to Blossom, who ambles in front of them.

Blossom peers over in the direction that her name was call before she recognizes it was Buttercup, her sister, waves at her with her hand.

She did not immediately provide a verbal respond but instead decides to head over in that direction. 'I have to at least pull it together.'

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Author's Note

04.03.17 Major editing revisions