How Things Change
{Author's Note: Hi guys, so thankful to those of you reading; I'd love some suggestions for future chapters, just drop them in my PM. Now for the heavy; I am a very descriptive writer so if there are chapters that are extensive it's because I love writing detail and it helps me with other works, eventually I'll learn to move things around or shorten the descriptions but for now this is like my tester story, if you don't like excessive detail I'm sorry, not sorry. Still working on editing things but again to those of you reading you are greatly appreciated and I love you guys. Thank you and enjoy.}
Chapter 4: Science is Cool
"How about since me and Boom are "failing", we, and by that I mean mostly me, hang around Pinky for the science party thing?" Butch smirked and pulled on a thick leather apron over his white button-up and black slacks.
Brick shrugged on his lab coat over a red button-up, "Because you wouldn't actually learn anything," he watched Butch adjust the goggles against his crazy hair to complete his mad scientist look.
"Not my fault the leader girl is so distracting," he smacked some dirt smudges on his cheeks and pulled on a pair of long leather gloves, "not even you can say you don't fantasize about that ass every now and then,"
Brick slapped the back of his head as he made his way to the living room, "Moron..."
Boomer sat on the couch surrounded by their luggage texting away on his phone. He was decked out in a light blue button-up, black slacks with suspenders and a lab coat on top of it all, fake nerd glasses with tape around the bridge on his face. Brick nodded his head to let him know it was time to head out and they gathered their bags before jetting out into the open air.
As they flew closer to the hotel they could see the outside and inside was already jam packed full of people; outside was decked out with holographic projections, flight suit displays and a lot of experiments involving what looked like giant malleable goo that could change forms at will. They made it inside through the crowd and saw giant lava lamps, full immersion VR sets, top grade scientists performing various experiments and A.I. humanoids conversing with everyone. A drone took their bags and escorted them to their room; it was one of the suites on the top floor complete with separate rooms, a kitchen and lounge with a deep-set curved sectional and a plasma screen curved TV. They had a fully stocked bar and fridge with a pool and hot tub out back that connected with the other suites balcony.
After putting their bags in their chosen rooms and freshening up in their separate bathrooms they made their way back out into the hall only to run into their floor companions, the girls.
Bubbles squealed and hugged them all in a giant lump, "Boys! So glad you made it, doesn't everything look super amazing?!"
Boomer adjusted his disheveled glasses and stuffed his hands in his pockets, "I'm really excited about that full immersion VR, did you guys get to check out the game options?"
Before Bubbles could respond Buttercup looped her arm around his shoulders, "Oh man are you in for a surprise, there's this action sword battle, a haunted house that tests your phobias, a strategy game where its puzzles as far as you can see, and this girly life simulation one Bubbles wants to try,"
"Cool," he nodded and the three of them took off rambling about what games they were gonna try and the experiments they wanted to see.
"Guess that leaves us then Pinky, what are we getting into,"
Blossom adjusted her ponytail and Brick noted the smaller red bow in place of her larger one, "They have some really weird science foods I wanted to check out,"
Butch snorted, "It's no wonder you've got so much junk in the trunk Bloss,"
She narrowed her eyes at him at the same time Brick flicked his nose, "We rushed out before I could get breakfast you menace," she smiled a bit too sweetly and leaned in his face, "if you have something better to do I'm more than happy to let you go,"
He rubbed the back of his neck and gestured to the elevator, "After you,"
She smirked and straightened up, "That's what I thought, come on Brick,"
They all entered the elevator and Blossom pulled out a map before hitting the 3rd floor button where all the food experiments were. There were stalls full of beakers exploding in various colors, solar systems made of Jello, edible glass candy, crazy colorful spaghetti, and edible slime with tons more past that. Blossom grinned and dragged the boys to a stand serving expanded honeycomb; Butch made a face of being grossed out with his eyes bulging out, Blossom laughed and Brick rolled his eyes before dragging them to a new stand with edible water bubbles.
Blossom finished her purple water droplet and spied another stand, "Hey, let's go look at that one,"
"Jeez girl how much can you eat?" Butch chuckled and swallowed his droplets.
She turned her nose up and headed over to look at the giant charred rocks, "What are these, sir?"
The middle-aged man smiled warmly and gestured to each rock, "I have created a new way to enjoy chocolate,"
"Chocolate?!" Butch poked one of the hefty rocks, "This is chocolate?"
"Indeed," the man chuckled a bit a gestured to Blossom, "Would you do the honors of choosing one?"
Blossom poked her chin and looked on thoughtfully before picking out a large oval shaped one, "This one please,"
The man nodded and hefted the chocolate rock on to a sheeted table next to the display, he picked up a chef's mallet and a butcher knife before placing the blade against the rock and firmly cracked down into the shell, after a few moments the rock sprung apart and began leaking…chocolate! Blossom's eyes widened in surprise, Butch was flailing out of control while Brick simply smirked. When the man turned the inside to face them they could see glittering (strawberry, they later found out) rock candy inside drenched in chocolate.
Blossom grinned and clasped her hands together, "It's a chocolate geode,"
"Very good, I'll be selling these to the public soon but I had to perfect them first," he grabbed a paper serving plate and some napkins before handing both halves over on top, "This is yours young lady,"
She gasped and took hold of the plate, "Thank you, thank you so much,"
His eyes crinkled up at the corners as he smiled, "It was my pleasure, enjoy the party,"
They walked off and Butch broke the geodes into six chunks per Blossom's request so they could share with their siblings, and not too long after they ran into Buttercup who took her piece in wonder before jeering Butch into a game of holographic robot fights. Brick and Blossom wandered around looking at different experiments and found Boomer and Bubbles not too long after in a projection room that contained headsets that could record your dreams, store them, and project them back at any time for you to see; they took their share and headed to the food floor for themselves. Blossom and Brick eventually saw everything as the day turned to night, and decided to head back to their rooms and hang out on the balcony.
Blossom changed into a light pink halter swim top and high waisted swim bottoms, she let her hair down and made her way out to the back and laid on one of the pool chairs before covering her eyes with big white shades, Brick came out shortly after in black and red striped board shorts hanging slightly low on his hips; he took a deep breath and stretched, at the same time Blossom took that moment to look him over. All the boys were over 6 feet in height (Butch being the tallest at 6'4", Brick 6'3" and Boomer 6'1") and had filled out nicely, you'd have to be blind not to see it. Where Butch was stocky and very muscular like a football wide receiver, Brick was built like that of an Olympic swimmer; instead of bulging muscles like his brother his were softer yet still defined. Boomer has more of a baseball player build even though he never once truly actively did any sports.
Blossom took note of his missing cap and the low, long flowing ponytail draping against his back, he took a quick couple steps back and jumped in the pool that expanded to each end of their combined balcony, effectively creating a large splash which also managed to catch Blossom's legs.
She shrieked and pulled her legs against her body, "Hey!"
He chuckled and threw more water, "Come on! The water won't bite,"
"Yeah but it's cold," she pouted and swiped at her legs.
He cocked a brow, "You…the queen of ice, freaking over a little cold? What happened to the cold not being an issue for you?" she shrugged, "Uh uh, I don't think so," he pulled himself up from the water and Blossom got a little distracted by his glistening chest to notice what he was doing before it was too late, "Up you go!" he carried her princess style as she struggled in his arms.
"Brick no, put me down!" and she dropped straight into the cold water.
He jumped in after her and watched as she kicked to the surface.
"Not cool, Brick," she brushed the wet bangs out of her face and glared at him.
He smirked and slid up close to her, "Yeah I prefer the heat myself,"
She giggled a bit and splashed him which ended up in a huge splashing match between the two until their siblings jumped in, changed into swim gear of their own, and joined the fight. They spent the next hour playing Chicken, Marco Polo and showing off on the diving board before heading in for the night.
"See you ladies tomorrow on the gambling floor," Butch winked at Bubbles and blew kisses at Blossom and BC.
Buttercup scoffed and pretended to catch it, "Hope you're ready to get cleaned out," she ripped the imaginary heart into shreds with a wicked grin before heading to her room.
"Oooh harsh," Bubbles giggled and said goodnight before pouncing on her sister's back for a piggy back ride.
"See you in the morning boys," Blossom waved and shut their sliding door behind her.
The boys settled into the plush couch and flipped through the channels. "Is it wrong to wanna-,"
Brick smacked his face with the controller, "Don't even finish that,"
He groaned and rubbed his mouth, "You don't even know what I was gonna-,"
"Something about Blossom's ass," Boomer was tapping away at his phone once again texting whoever, "You're not that hard to read Butch,"
He scoffed and crossed his arms, "Not my fault that I say what everybody thinks, the girl is borderline killing me with all that."
Boomer set his phone down and raised a brow, "Was that a sentiment to all of her?"
"Yup,"
Brick rolled his eyes and a smirk spread slowly, "Too bad she doesn't like jug headed idiots though, eh Butch?"
"And how would you know?" Butch ran his fingers through his hair and snatched up the remote, settling on an action film.
Brick tapped his right temple, "Counterpart,"
Butch scoffed and turned towards his brother, "So what? You think you know what she likes?"
He shrugged, "I can take an educated guess,"
Boomer leaned in interested and Butch propped his head up in his hand, "Try me,"
Brick shrugged and cupped his chin thoughtfully, "Blossom is one of the most beautiful, smart and talented beings on this planet and while it doesn't take a lot to please her she doesn't like routine even if she won't admit it, she'll want someone who can bring her spontaneity every once in a while to get her out of her zone," his eyes fell to the table in front of them to watch the water float full with fish inside, "She's not gonna to care much for looks so long as the personality is right and she'll need lots of words of affirmation because while it may not seem like it Blossom can be majorly insecure, and this doesn't mean anything like body insecurity but more of a mental thing; she needs to know that she's doing a good job, she likes a compliment here and there, and to know how important she is so she knows she's not being an annoyance…"
Boomer's eyes were a bit wide as he sat back and looked toward the TV, "That… is deep man, like an infomercial or somethin'," he snapped his head back with a grin, "Can you do the other girls?"
Brick shrugged and settled back against the couch, "It all spawns from this thing I read about when I took that psych course called The Five Love Languages, apparently, everyone has them all but they range in rank in each individual person; there's words of affirmation, physical touch, acts of service, quality time and receiving gifts. So, the shorthand version for each girl is easy to layout. Bubbles is receiving gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, acts of service and physical touch. BC is acts of service, physical touch, words of affirmation, quality time and receiving gifts. Blossom would be words of affirmation, quality time, acts of service, physical touch and receiving gifts."
Butch cocked a brow, "And everyone has these? Even dudes?"
Brick stretched and yawned, "Even dudes, I'm going to bed,"
Butch watched his brother leave and then sat back thoughtfully, "How does he do that?"
Boomer shrugged, his focus back on texting, "He's the brains,"
They finished the movie and headed to their separate rooms, passing out for the night with dreams of fun for tomorrow.