Here's Chapter Three! Let me know what you think! ENJOY!


Buttercup flew faster once she saw Butch follow her.

"Buttercup, wait!" he called again.

Buttercup made no move to slow down.

"Listen to me!" Butch cried out again, flying faster to catch up to her. "Look, if I knew," he began, "I wouldn't have-"

"What?" Buttercup yelled angrily, "Left me to be laughed at by everyone?"

"What?" asked Butch, confused, "Nobody was laughing!"

"What do YOU know?!" Buttercup screamed as she flew faster than she ever had before; Anything just to get a distance between her and Butch. At this rate, both of them could circle the whole globe just chasing each other.

Everything was a blur as tears stung her eyes. Buttercup just wanted some time to herself to think things through. Why she felt like crying, she didn't know.

"Buttercup, please!" Butch called, "Stop!" She was going to hurt herself like that, Butch just knew.

"Look, I'm sorry, alright?" He yelled out to her, "If I could've just gotten a word with you-"

"I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!" the Puff screamed at him, "Save your lame ass excuses for some other girl!"

Butch sighed. The girl was so stubborn, but it was also partially his fault for creating this mess in the first place. Why couldn't he have just asked her out like a normal person instead of randomly kissing her?

"Slow down!" He shouted, getting tired of chasing, "Your gonna hurt yourself!"

"And why would you care?"

That was it. Butch had it. This was getting too far. He came close enough to her to bump her out of focus and scooped her up.

"Let me go, you idiot!" Buttercup cried, squirming around in his grasp.

Butch smirked at her fuming face. "I don't think so, Babe."

Buttercup growled, "Don't call me Babe! And get your stupid hands off of me!"

Butch widened his smirk as he thought about how he should do things to get the girl in his arms to listen to him.

"Why aren't you letting go?!" Buttercup demanded, "Let go of me NOW!"

"When you promise you'll head back home...without trying to lose me," said Butch, grinning slyly.

Buttercup huffed. "Like I would do as you say," she muttered.

Butch sighed again and ran a hand through his spiky hair. "Look," he said more softly now that he had her attention, trying to reason with her, "If you just think about it-"

"I already told-"

"-then you'd see that I couldn't because you've been avoiding me the whole week!' Butch continued, interrupting his counterpart.

Buttercup glared at him. "And?" she asked bitterly, "Don't say you were trying with all your might to explain what and why you did that in the cafeteria."

"W-well-" Butch stuttered, looking downwards.

"Admit it, Butch. You were avoiding me just as much. You had no clue what to do so you thought brushing it off and pretending nothing happened would work. You know it.

You're a coward and you realized it was the wrong call, so you avoided me the whole damn week! You screwed up, big deal, but you never thought of what it could've done to me! You screwed me up, and I've been waiting the whole entire seven days for you to tell me something! And guess what? You choose to ask ten minutes before I go home!" Buttercup burst, breathing heavily, before turning her back to the boy.

"Just leave," she told him.

Butch felt awful. He really was a coward. "Buttercup, I... Alright, I admit. I'm a coward. I'm the world's worst moronic idiot ever. I admit it, alright? OK, I was a little shocked at what I did, and yes, I tried to avoid you for a few days because it was embarrassing, but TRUST me when I say I TRIED.

I got over it after a couple days, but you were still avoiding me like the plague. It was as if you suddenly forgot I was even there! Heck, you might as well just have forgotten I existed while you were at it! But you cannot say that I don't care."

Buttercup stared at him. Her arms were still crossed.

"I'm sorry for leaving you there like that, okay? I was a mess myself. How was I supposed to explain anything to you of all people when I barely could make coherent sentences to explain things to myself? I do care, Buttercup, but it's not always easy to show it, especially when it comes to you."

Buttercup started frowning again.

"So why didn't you make a move before? Your brothers are constantly nagging at you, all day everyday, and yet all you do is shrug it off," said the Puff.

"In front of you," Butch added, "Explain how I would do what you just asked? Ask Boomer how he does things and give you flowers like he would to Bubbles? Ha, imagine Buttercup accepting flowers! Or maybe take Brick's advice and shower you with clothes and candy? You wouldn't even take a second glance. So just how am I supposed to do it?

And when an opportunity presents itself, you take it instead of sitting around and wondering how to do things!...Even if it might end up to be the worst idea ever..." Butch trailed off.

Buttercup sighed, looking as if she was debating on what to do. Finally, she turned to Butch.

"OK, so we've both made mistakes. Now what?"

"Now you accompany me to Princess's party!" Butch answered cheerfully.

Buttercup rolled her eyes as a smile threatened to spill onto her features. She tried to hold it in.

"You're an idiot," she muttered.

"I'm your idiot," Butch corrected.

Buttercup face-palmed. "Ugh.

"Aww, love you too, Cupcake," Butch teased.

"I hate you."

"But ya love me anyway," Butch finished, grinning as held out his hand. Buttercup eyed it warily.

"I promise you, Buttercup, I'm sorry. Let's forgive and forget, okay?" said Butch. "Come on. It's not like you're gonna decline it anyway," he smirked, slightly shaking his outstretched hand.

Buttercup scowled at him for winning it his way but nevertheless, shyly took his hand. As soon as she did, Butch pulled her into a kiss and it was so quick the Puff was barely able to register what was happening until she found herself kissing the Ruff back.

When they broke apart Butch chuckled at how deep his counterpart's blush was becoming and she scowled at him. "I thought you liked green better," he teased, referring to her face.

"Shut up," she muttered, snuggling in closer to hide her face.

Butch continued snickering so Buttercup punched him on the shoulder.

"I thought I told you to shut up!" she cried.

"What?" said Butch, still chuckling.

"Loser," she muttered.

"What can I say?" said the Ruff, "I'm a man of many-mmph!"

Buttercup cut him off with a kiss and Butch couldn't say he minded, even if she'd cut him off. At least she hadn't interrupt him with a punch or something. Butch was grateful.

When they broke apart for air, both teens flushed as they breathed in.

"Sooo, I guess you won't be rearranging my face next time you see me, huh? OW!"

Buttercup whacked him hard on the head before sweetly placing a small kiss on his cheek. "We'll see about that," she answered, voice as sweet as syrup.

"Some puff you are," Butch muttered under his breath, "First you hit me, then you kiss me."

"What was that?" Buttercup asked, smirking.

"N-nothing, Nothing! It was nothing!" Butch cried out.

The puff laughed as he pouted. "Come on!" he complained.

Buttercup continued laughing and Butch stopped pouting to watch her laugh. He stared at her and realized he'd missed seeing her be herself. It felt good.

Buttercup noticed him staring. "What are you staring at?" she asked. Butch ignored her.

"So we all good now?" he asked instead.

"I dunno. Are we?"

"Buttercup."

"Fine, maybe. Like I said, I dunno. You didn't actually apologize..."

"What?!" Butch cried, "I didn't apologize?!"

Buttercup shrugged.

The Ruff grumbled under his breath about the girl being crazy as he and said girl floated down. Once their feet touched the ground, Butch got down on one knee and took hold of his counterpart's hand.

"I'm so sorry for everything that's happened this past week and I can't be more sorry and it'd be an honor to have you as my date for Princess's going-to-be-awful-no-doubt- house party. Actually, not really an honor, but it'd be cool BUT WHATEVER THAT'S NOT IMPORTANT!" Butch rambled.

Buttercup rolled her eyes but she could feel the smile playing on her lips.

"So will you go with me?"

"It's go out with me, but since you're not asking for me to be your girlfr-

"Oh, and that, too!" Butch added, grinning.

"Oh my god," she muttered, "You are such a loser!" But Buttercup was smiling anyway.

"And continuing on-"

"There's more?" Buttercup teased. Butch blushed. "I'll pretend I didn't hear that," he muttered, before sucking in a breath.

"And that you're the most perfect girl I've ever seen and I'll stop rambling about all the other girls at the lunch table because I never really liked any of them anyway and I just wanted to poke a reaction out of you but it never worked because you looked like you were droning me out or something and even then you looked really pretty even though sometimes you looked downright horrible like that time you were wearing pink frills and I wanted to tell you that frills looked awful on you and yeah what was I saying again? Oh, yes, and I can't be sorrier for what's happened. And saying all this is killing me right now but I'm doing it anyway because I'd also die for you...not really, though, but you get the point, right?"

Buttercup gaped at him with wide eyes before trying to find her words.

"Oh my- oh my g- you.. Butch, okay... okay ONE, get up. You're not proposing to me or something so stop kneeling down one leg. TWO, what the hell?"

Butch got up and grinned wide. "I meant everything," he said cheerfully.

Buttercup continued staring at him.

"You know Cupcake, you can always take a picture. It'll last longer," Butch added cheekily.

Cupcake triggered something in Buttercup's mind because then she went roaring.

"IT'S BUTTERCUP!"

"Yikes, Girl!"

"It's Buttercup," the Puff deadpanned, "Don't ever call me that again!"

"Yeah, whatever, Buttface," Butch tossed back dismissively, "Race ya back to Townsville!"

"Oh, you're on," said Buttercup, opting to ignore Butch call her Buttface as her eyes glinted mischievously.

Butch eyed her. "You think you can beat me?" he chuckled.

Buttercup sped off. "See yaaaa!" she yelled back.

"Wha-Hey! You cheated!" Butch cried, racing after her, "Cheater!"

Buttercup laughed. "You snooze, you lose!" she cackled.

"I wasn't snoozing, you took off without telling!" Butch protested, catching up to her.

"Your problem. Oof, Hey! Who's cheating now?!" The Ruff had tackled his counterpart in midair and bumped her out as he went ahead. I was his turn to cackle now. "Later, Loser!" he called.

"Who you calling loser, Pigface!" Buttercup called back, right on his tail. Butch grabbed her and flung her off. The Puff zoomed ahead of him.

"Thaaanks!" she yelled.

"Oops," said Butch. He'd accidentally thrown her forward instead. "I'm so stupid. Stupid stupid stupid!" he muttered, trying in vain to catch up.

Buttercup sniggered as she touched down on top of Townsville's tallest skyscraper.

"Ha!" she cried in triumph, "I win!"

Butch landed a couple seconds later, frowning.

"Told ya I could beat ya!" the Puff announced proudly.

"That's only 'cause you got a boost," said Butch, crossing his arms as he watched her dance about.

Buttercup bounced over to him. "Exactly!" she said, giving him a quick peck.

Butch shrugged as he dropped his arms out of his stance. "Meh. If letting you win means I get a free kiss, then I guess it was at least worth it."

Buttercup smacked him and he winced. "Not worth that, though," he added, rubbing the spot, and Buttercup laughed.

"Grow up," she chuckled.

Butch rolled his eyes, but smiled nevertheless.


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