Blossom raced her sisters home. They cannot tell Professor anything! She was afraid for that. Besides, it was her fault Dexter was angry. It was her fault she had a bruise on her ribcage. Bubbles and Buttercup made it home and called for the Professor. Blossom made it into their house to stop them.
"Girl! No!" She cried. "Please...I fell in Boston!"
"Oh and your have bruises on your arms too because you fell?" Buttercup screamed.
"Buttercup, don't be mad a Dexter. It was my fault! I made him angry!" Blossom cried. "He's stressed out! He didn't mean it!"
"Blossom, he's beating you and you are blaming yourself!" Bubbles cried. "There is no excuse for that!"
"Girls, please...don't say anything!" Blossom cried. "He said he wouldn't do it again!"
"Blossom, this isn't love! You call this guy using you as a punching bag love?" Buttercup screamed. "And they all say that! Yet they will not stop!"
"Buttercup, what do you know about love? You are always going down on guys!" Blossom spat.
This enraged Buttercup to the point where she grabbed Blossom by the wrist and said, "Don't you ever say that to me again! How dare you!"
Blossom threw Buttercup off her and said, "You don't ever grab me like that...ever!"
Bubbles got in the middle of them and said, "You two, stop it! Please!"
Professor walked in and said, "What's going on?"
The girls stopped fighting when the Professor walked in.
"Nothing, Professor." Blossom said. "We just got into an argument like sisters do. Right, girls?"
Professor looked at Buttercup and Bubbles who looked pale. Bubbles nodded her head slowly and Buttercup added, "Yeah. What she said."
"Well while you two were fighting, the Mayor called and said there was a robbery at the bank. So instead of fighting, maybe you should get down there." Professor said.
"Yes, Professor." the girls said at once.
Once the Professor walked away, Blossom looked at her sisters and said, "Girls, please! I beg you!"
Bubbles and Buttercup looked defeated. How can she allow this? Blossom was so smart but how can she allow this to happen to her?
Later that evening...
Blossom walked to her sisters and said, "Hi, girls."
Bubbles and Buttercup looked up and didn't reply.
"Thank you for not telling Professor. I do not need him to worry." Blossom added. "I'm sorry for how I spoke to you both earlier. It was uncalled for."
Bubbles kept coloring and Buttercup was on her phone.
"Girls, I am really sorry." Blossom said.
Bubbles couldn't stay mad at her. She gave Blossom a hug and said, "I forgive you. Don't feel sad."
Buttercup ignored them and kept texting her friend.
"Can we get lunch tomorrow?" Bubbles said.
"Sure!" Blossom.
"How about you, Buttercup? Lunch?" Bubbles asked.
Buttercup turned her back to her siblings. If Blossom wanted to be a punching bag to her boyfriend, it was not her business.
Blossom walked to class with Dexter and they were chatting it up while going to class. Blossom stopped and said, "So I will see you later?"
"Why did you stop?" Dexter asked.
"Because this is my class?" Blossom chuckled.
"Oh..." Dexter said with sadness in his voice. "Want to get lunch?"
"I'm meeting up with my sister and our friends. Is after school okay?"
"Yeah...I guess..." Dexter said.
"I will see you soon." Blossom said and walked into class.
Forty five minuets later...
Blossom couldn't wait to get lunch with Bubbles and their friends. Right when she was about to walk out, her teacher said, "Oh, Blossom, can you stay for lunch? A freshman boy needs tutoring and I said you are the best at calculous."
"I don't mind." Blossom said with a smile.
"Good! Go get food and come back."
Blossom texted Bubbles to let her know that her teacher needed her for lunch and they can get lunch another day. Once Blossom got her lunch, she started a tutoring session with a freshman boy, Luke Rosenberg. This kid had a crush on Blossom because she was beautiful and smart. He had even asked her at one point to be his special date at his bar mitzvah, which she politely declined but it didn't stop him from having a crush on her. He wasn't doing so well in math and in order to stay on the junior varsity football team, he had to have a B average.
"Hello, Luke! What do you have troubles with?" Blossom said in a cheerful voice.
"A lot of math." Luke said in a humorous voice.
"Okay...let's see what the issue is."
Blossom spent 20 minuets in her tutoring session with Luke. She was really making progress with him. He seemed to be understanding it slowly but surly. Blossom was a really good tutor.
"You are a better teacher than Mr. Hawthorne." Luke said.
"You're just saying that." Blossom giggled.
"No, really, you are. You make math fun." Luke said.
"Aww, Luke. You are too sweet. But trust me, I have a hard time with math too. It takes me almost five hours just to get math homework done. Most of the time, my sisters will beg me to do their homework for them because I am passing."
"Because you are very smart." Luke said.
Blossom was giggling until Luke said, "Look, we are being watched."
She looked up and saw an angry Dexter looking into the classroom. Oh no! She felt her stomach churn in fear. Blossom gathered her things and said to Luke, "I will be back! Do the next two problems and I will come back and check!"
Luke was left wondering if he did something wrong.
"You told me you were eating lunch with your sister but I find you flirting with that freshman dimwit, Luke!" Dexter was angry and marching to his car.
"I was asked to tutor him! I'm sorry! I should've told you!" Blossom was chasing him trying to explain herself.
"Admit it! You like him and are cheating on me!"
"He is 14!"
"Just say it! You want him!" Dexter got into his car and Blossom got into the passenger's seat.
"He is a freshman boy! Get over yourself!" Blossom screamed.
Enraged, Dexter backhanded her in the face. Her nose and lip were bleeding. Blossom, not realizing she had a red mark on her face took Dexter's arm and said, "Dexter, listen, I..."
From there, Dexter let Blossom have it. He punched her nose, smacked her lips, punched her eye and hit her head into the glove compartment.
"Get out of my car, cheating whore." He said in a dangerous voice.
In shock, Blossom walked out of his car and watched him drive away. Blossom was in too much shock that she did not realize she had blood dripping down her nose staining her pink blouse. Blood was trickling down her forehead as well.
Bubbles was talking and laughing with her friends when she turned and saw Blossom.
"Oh my God! Blossom!" Bubbles ran frantically to Blossom.
"You're bleeding!" Robin cried.
"We need to get you to the nurse!" Bubbles and Robin ran her inside the school.
Buttercup was walking out of the girl's bathroom when she saw Blossom, Bubbles and Robin.
"What the hell?" Buttercup screamed.
"No time to explain! We need to get her to the nurse!" Bubbles cried.
"He just hit me..." Blossom said in total shock. "I yelled at him and he hit me...he called me a cheating whore..."
Professor Utonium walked into the girl's school because he had gotten a call from their principal, Principal Sheppard.
"Wait...her boyfriend attacked her?" Professor said in shock.
"Bubbles and Buttercup told me she was in a daze and kept saying that he backhanded her. However, she refuses to press charges."
"Not pressing charges?" Professor said. "If I had it my way, I would make her press charges!"
"Sir, we all insisted on her getting the police but she won't."
Blossom walked into the principal's office. The blood was dried up on her face. She looked distraught.
"Oh my God...Blossom..." Professor rushed over to hug her.
"Professor, I want to go home. Can Bubbles and Buttercup come too?" she asked.
