Riding It Out
Chapter Two
~~~ *~~~
Sitting with her sisters, and their boyfriends, Blossom laid her head on Brick's shoulder, and he wrapped his arm around hers. They sat and listened as Butch told of the upcoming events for his football team.
"Next, we have to play *Citiesville* High. It should be childs play."
"You don't know that." Boomer said, "I heard Citiesville was pretty good."
Butch snorted. "Oh yeah? Well were the best in the whole ville district."
"No. You think that your hot."
"I am hot pretty boy. I'm the real thing." He said, looking at Buttercup, who was giving her cheeseburger no mercy. "Right Beautiful?"
Buttercup just looked at him, her mouth full of food, and gave him a look that said, "Don't you see I'm eating?" Butch just shrugged it off, and said, "She means yeah."
"Anyway Butch, if you win this game, I'll give you $20. If you lose, you have to give up your Driver 2 game."
"Yo. You know that Ma doesn't want y'all gamblin' off of each other."
"Shove it Brick." Butch said, "Cuz I heard that you got $20 off of Mitchellson last week."
Brick smirked, running a hand through Blossom's hair. "I gave it to Blossom."
"That was sweet." Bubbles said, smiling at her sister. Blossom smiled back, and Buttercup, now attacking her french fries, gave Butch a look that said, "Why don't you do that for me?" She was about to say it, but Butch pressed her lips against hers, and then answered her.
"I wouldn't give you dirty money." He said, and then Blossom smirked.
"All money is dirty unless it comes from the bank." She said, and Butch frowned at her. He decided to say something, but she and Brick don't really take certain jokes nicely.
"The point that I'm trying to make is that Mr. Fake here, gambled, and now he's talkin' bull that ma says she doesn't want us gamblin'."
"Exactly. She also said off of each other. I would be a hypocrite if I went gamblin' off y'all."
Butch looked at his brother and started cursing under his breath. Brick and Blossom smirked at Butch. Boomer sucked his teeth at all of them and turned his attention to Bubbles. She was dressed in a baby blue shirt that said 'Angel' and blue pants that had 'Angel' on the right back pocket. She had on the same airmax's as Blossom, but had baby blue shoe strings on them. She then looked up at him, with a sweet smile on her face. Boomer knew what was coming when she looked at him like that, but he was intent on showing his brother that he isn't as hot as he thinks he is.
"Boomie?" she said,
"Yeah cherie?"
"Umm. I don't think you should gamble with your brother."
"Why?" he said,
"Because the last time you got into trouble with your mother, we couldn't go to the movies."
Boomer sighed, remembering. He and Butch were rolling dice in their bedroom, and their mother walked in on them, with a disapproving look on her face. They both got grounded, canceling each of their plans that they had that night, and they both had to sit in the room, and read all of Brick's books on war and tactics. He then thought that Bubbles had a point, because he shuddered at the thought of having to spend another Friday night in their room, reading those books.
"You know, you do have a point love. I won't bet him." He said, whispering, "Besides, he seems to love that Driver game more than he loves Buttercup."
Bubbles gave a small giggle. "I doubt that."
Boomer just held his girl close to him, knowing that he would never love anything more than her. Butch looked at them and gagged. But then he decided to find out how his red headed brother won the money off of Mitch.
"Brick, just out of curiousity, what did you and Mitch bet on?"
Brick smirked. "I'll tell you later."
"Why? You were doing things that little smart ass red headed kids shouldn't be doing?"
"No. I just can't tell you right now." He said, gesturing his eyesight to Blossom."
Butch just smirked and shook his head. "Whatever man."
Right then, the bell rang, and they all proceeded into cleaning up their trays, and all of that other stuff. The gang walked out through the eastern exit, ready to take on the rest of the day.
~~~*~~~
Cutting eighth period, Blossom hovered up to a tree that was in their playground. She was so deep in thought that she didn't notice Brick hover up next to her, until he spoke.
"What you doin' out here?" he said, and she looked at him with an annoyed look on her face. She was about to give him an earful, but right at the moment she was in the wrong, so she didn't argue.
"What are you doing out here?" she rebutted, laying her head on his shoulder, enjoying one of the rare moments that they get together. He sighed, and put an arm around her shoulder.
"I followed you. I figured you were going to come out here since you had a substitute teacher."
"So you cut computer class for me?" she said, looking up at him with a hopeful look in her eye.
"Yeah, but I had a coverage too."
"At least you were honest."
"You know you lookin' too sexy for your own good these days."
"How you figure?"
"When you walked in class today, you had everybody staring at your round ass."
Blossom looked up at him with a hint of a blush on her face. "Brick!"
"They were."
"I'm surprised that you didn't do anything about it." She said, smirking
"A little sign language can go a long way." He said with a soft chuckle. "But you do look pretty Bloss."
"And you look handsome as always." She said, looking at him with a grin on his face.
"So give this handsome boy a little smooch then." He said, and Blossom put her arms around his neck and then gave him what he wanted. They kissed passionately until the end of the period. When the bell rang, they let go, and Brick started to caress her face.
"We gotta go." She said, while Brick brushed his lips against hers.
"I know." He said,
"What will Buttercup and Butch say when they find out?"
"Screw them." He said, "Besides, who says they have to know?"
Blossom smirked, and then layed her head against his chest. As they layed against the tree, they sat there in silent agreement that this would be their 'little secret'.
~~~*~~~
Mitch sat in his English class looking at Princess. He looked mesmerized at the sight of her. All of a sudden, every boy in Townsville High was trying to hit on her, which made her high game. He was one of the few people in school that was chasing after the Powerpuff Girls. He felt that Bubbles was an airhead, Blossom was too stuck up, and Buttercup…well he already learned quickly that he would end up begging for his life if he was caught trying to hit on her. "Buttercup too boyish to deal with anyway." He thought to himself. To him, Princess was perfect for him. Her character was a tough-ass girl, but she was also pretty. He came to the conclusion that he liked her ever since they were at Pokey Oaks. The only problem was that he wasn't going to admit that to anyone in Townsville High-except for Adam, but he'd be so busy trying to get Blossom in his arms, it'd be like talking to a brick wall.
Speaking of Brick, Mitch thought that Adam should really think twice before messing with Blossom. He didn't know Brick very well and all, but he knew a great deal of what happens when any of the Rowdyruff boys ever catch word that someone was trying to mess around with their girls. The last thing Adam needed was Brick on him like a dog.
Forgetting about the Brick/Blossom/Adam situation, Mitch decided to write a letter to Princess to make her his girl. Everything he was learning in English came in handy too. As he wrote the letter, he had no doubt in his mind that she would want to get with him, but as soon as he finished, the steady confidence he had turned into worry.
"Why should I get nervous over Princess?" he thought warily, as he tried, hopelessly, to pay attention to the lesson.
~~~*~~~