(Buttercup POV)

Study Hall. Where do I start? It was the weirdest freaking thing. Brick and I actually started talking. He's pretty cool in all honesty. I was sitting at my usual table in the library for the period and reading my favorite Spider-Man comic, The Amazing Spider-Man #194. It's the one Black Cat comes back. Anyway, I look at Brick and he's "chatting" with some big chested Blonde wearing booty shorts and a ugly blue shirt. I'm not saying that I got jealous, just pissed me off. Fucking PDA.

"Buttercup?" I hear a familar voice, but nicer than I remember.

"What's it to you?" I look up to see Brick standing over my table.

"Nothin. Just didn't know you were in my study hall."

"Whatever. Go away, you hurt my sister, Dick." Asshole. Of course he didn't know I was in here. He definitely made sure I knew he was here. It took him a while to say something else.

"Is that a Spiderman comic?!" The excitement and shock in his voice was fucking hilarious.

"The AMAZING Spider-Man." I corrected him.

"Obviously, it's the best one. Isn't that the issue with Black Cat when she kisses Spider Man?"

"Yeah, it's my favorite one. How do you know so much about this stuff?"

"Oh, I have it. I collect comics. Why?"

"Nothing, you just don't look like a…" I stopped.

"A nerd? Seriously, you're sterotyping of all people? So what do you collect?" He asked while he took a seat next to me.
"Everything and ANYTHING Marvel."

"Oh, I have both Marvel and DC."

" Ew. DC."

"WHAT"S WRONG WITH THAT?" He looked pissed.

"Not much really, OTHER THAN THE FACT THEIR SUPERHEROES ARE ASS!"

"They are not! Batman is a beast."

"He's the only one! Come on, you can't say the others are cool."

"Eh, I guess you make a point. But than again, just look at the Hulk. He's not exactly cool."

"Maybe they should switch then." I laughed. We spent the rest of the period talking about comics. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I want to be friends with the guy. He followed me out into the hall when the bell rang but I didn't want my sisters, especially Blossom, to see me with the "enemy".

(Brick POV)

It was, weird. Talking to Buttercup like that. She's really chill, and she's good with her comics. I could quiz her on almost every comic and she'd know the answer.

"So, you really know your stuff."

"Yeah I guess so. You know what I just noticed?"

"What?"
"You didn't curse during our entire conversation." She laughed.

"Honestly, I hate cursing. I just do it to keep control over my stupid brothers and to intimidate my opponents."

"You should give Blossom some pointers then."

"Ugh Pinkie. Let's not talk about her. Say, do you want to come over my house while my brothers are out to check out some of my comics?" She speed up. I guess it's because Bubbles was down the hall talking to that Robin girl.

"Uh, sure. Just text me later, (878) -664-9245. See ya!" She ran towards the Gym. When she disappeared, I thought about my plan. I guess I can spare one of the Powerpuff Girls. Right?

(Butch POV)

It's been weeks since I've talked to Blossom. What is her damn problem? All I did was kiss her! And she can't bullshit me, that couldn't have been one-sided. I've tried to explain myself to her before Chem thousands of times. I swear she can be such a proud, stubborn bitch sometimes. I made my way to gym. Usually I like gym, but now I sort of waste my time looking at Blossom. I saw her on the indoor track, no surprise there. No hand-eye coordination at all. Scratch that, no coordination period.

"Bloss, can we please just talk?" I asked while running up to her.

"I told you I don't want to talk to you" She sped up her pace.

"Please. Why won't just listen to what I have to say? I don't know why I kissed you that day but it was wo-" She came to a standstill and looked at me.

"Stop. Just please stop. You think I want to hear that you didn't want to kiss me? That I'm being a sanctimonious hypocrite-"

"That's not what I meant, Bloss. Just hear me out." I interrupted.

"Of course it's what you meant! It's what everyone says about me. They say I'm a overbearing, egotistical, perfectionist! I just want to be left alone!" She put on her headphones and ran off. Great butch, just fucking perfect. I screwed up, again. This really can't get any worse.

"Jeez, What caused you to talk to my sister? Did you try to make out with her like on the first day of school?" Shit, scratch that. It just did. I turn to see Buttercup with a softball.

"Fuckkk. Why are you bothering me? I seriously don't need this crap right now."

"Answer my question first, and I'll consider answering yours." She threw the ball to me.

"You seriously want to know?" I threw the ball back.

"Try me." It felt like first grade all over again. You know, when the teacher has you throw a ball around and each kid answers questions about the subject, that kind of thing.

"Well, you know how it poured that one day, two weeks ago? The day Blossom came back to school. Well, I ran into her in the park and kind of kissed her. She was totally fine with it until she randomly smacked me."

"Wow, didn't you fuck up." She laughed.

"Shut up, Butterbutt. Why do you care anyway?"

"I'm on good terms with your brother, so I'm giving you a chance."

"You and Boomer?"

"No, Brick. He has the same comic interests as me."

"Nerd."

"Fuck you Butch. May I ask why you have such an urge to screw my sister?"

"It's really not even like that. Well, not completely."

"Oh, God, that's seriously not something I wanted to know. Please don't start describing your midnight fantasies about my sister cause I don't think I could handle that."

"Hey, I'm a guy but that doesn't mean I'm totally perverse, alright? Anyway, did your suspension from sports end yet?"

"Not yet, got to wait till Friday."

"Why don't we chill after school and play some basketball that day?"

"Sure, sounds sort of fun. Besides you could tell me all your Blossom problems then."

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever I'm still going to beat your Butterbutt one on one. See you tomorrow."

(Brick POV)

Favorite class of the day? Definitely Gym. Why? Easy, Bubbles. She's horrible at sports, but who cares when I get to see her in those tight short-shorts and spaghetti shirts. Sometimes I get the feeling that Boomer likes her too. I wouldn't be surprised, but then again I don't like Pinkie very much as my counterpart. Out of the two of my brothers, I like Boomer a lot more than Butch. Boomer's mellowed out, usually follows my orders, and doesn't faulter from the plan. Butch is the exact opposite: Stubborn, over-confident, and irresponsible. I get that we're criminals, but still. Butch just likes a challenge. That's why he doesn't like listening to me. If things keep going at this rate, I'm going to kill him. I look Boomer and Bubbles. He acts angry towards her, but the seconds she looks away he stares. I see standing near the vending machine (yes, our school actually has soft drink machine's in the gym). It's the perfect chance for me to flirt around with her before I put the full plan into action.

" Hey Blondie. Nice Shirt."

"Oh hey Brick. Thanks"

"Can I talk you out of it?" and bad as this sounds, but I've used cheesy stuff like this on girls before, and it works every time.

"Hmm. I'm not supposed to talk to you. Blossom wouldn't like it." She winks at me.

"Pinkie doesn't have to know." I lean on the vending machine and smirk. That's right, Bubbles. Be bad.

(Bubbles POV)

So, like I still like Boomer, even though he and his brother are totally evil and stuff. It really doesn't make sense that such cute face, has to be stuck on such a jerk. I tried most of my favorite pickup lines on him and he still hasn't asked me out, or even talked to me as a friend. I decided to go try a new tactic. There's a saying, If a guy breaks your heart, sleep with his best friend. Who could be closer to him than his brother. And Brick is kinda cute, but he doesn't have that young Leo DiCaprio look to him. And I fucking LOVE Leo (I've had a crush on him since I was 5!). Besides Brick already is trying to get with me, why not take advantage of it. He gives me this cheesy pick up line, which I have to say was sort of a turn on, and starts hitting on me in gym.

"I guess it would be an exciting experience together." I licked my orange lollipop from the nurse's office. At the same time, I make sure Boomer was listening to the whole conversation.

"Exactly, maybe I could persuade you to see our point of view at my house?" I see Boomer turn to us. There we go.

" Sorry Brick. Can't. We have plans today. And they aren't in your interest Bubbles." Why is he so angry at me? I feel like I'm bad at this.

(Boomer POV)

Stupid Bubbles. It's like she wants to ruin my life. She's really attractive and pretty, but she's a goddamn Powerpuff. I CAN'T like her. It would just kill Dad if he even knew I thought of her as good looking. She was flirting with me most of gym class and then the two timing bitch moves on Brick. And he was letting her! What the heck is up with that! I moved him away from her and confronted him.

"What the fuck was that about?" He yelled.

"What the fuck was that? THAT was me saving the plan. What are you doing flirting with her? You're ruining your own plan. I get that Butch is pissing you off for trying to get with Blossom, but now you're doing the same shit he's doing!"

"Alright, alright. You're right. We have to stop Butch though. He's just doing it to fuck with my head. "

"Remember, this is for Dad."

"Yeah, I get it. You don't have to keep mentioning it Suck-Up."

(Buttercup POV)

Butch and I hung out in the park and play ball today. Shithead actually beat me in the first round, I wiped the court with his ass in the next one, but we still ended up with a tie. Butch is really just like me. I guess he's seriously my counterpart. I could practically tell what he was thinking. Blossom must have been on his mind when I beat him cause he didn't diss me while we played.

"So, you going to explain what happened between you and Blossom? And I don't mean the simple summary you gave me on Monday."

"She was pissed with school, went to the park. I guess I had the same idea cause Brick was being an ass. I noticed she was stressed and tried to cheer her up but she took it the wrong way. She started walking away from me and ranting about Brick and then me."

"Sounds like something she would do."

"I followed her and she said that I made her… Ugh why am I telling you this?"

"You made her what?" this was actually interesting.

"I kissed her mid-sentence and she said I made her jealous."

"MY SISTER WAS JEALOUS? And it was because of YOU? No fucking way!"

"Why don't you ask her yourself? I kissed her again after that. She sure seemed to like it too. Had her hands all over my chest."

"Again TMI. That's so like her! I swear she's being such a bitch to you."

"I sort of get it. I'm not normally so strung up on a girl. Actually, I think I like her because I know she likes me even though she's not suppose to."

"Butchie Boy likes being challenged. A competition of sorts."

"What do you mean competition?"

"You didn't seriously think you were the only one? Dexter's been trying to get back with her for over a year now."

"Who the fuck is that?"

"Her ex. He's not in our school anymore, but I heard from the guys on the Football team that he joined a whole bunch of sports and shit."

"Fan-fuckin-tastic. Let me guess. Goody-Goody-Two-Shoes like Bloss?"

"Exactly. Total Loser in my opinion. I mean he's really smart, but he was just a jerk. He never talked to her, held hands, make out or anything like that. Occasionally he'd kiss her on the cheek, if he grew a pair for a bit. So technically you can say that he wasn't REALLY her boyfriend." I looked at Butch. He's not really a bad guy. He just chose the wrong things in his life. I wanted to help. I knew Blossom was going to hate me for this, but it's for her own good.

"Let me help you. Come by my house later, I'll make sure to lock you guys in a room until you guys figure your shit out."

(Butch POV)

I followed Buttercup to the Powerpuff home. It was a lot bigger than I remembered. Must have had an extension, or two, or three. She had me wait outside the house and then led me out to the backyard. When I got out, she locked the doors in. She meant it when she said that she'd shut us out together. Blossom was playing her guitar on the teal iron bench in their garden. I could tell it was Coldplay.

"Bloss?"

"How did you get in my backyard?"

"Buttercup let me in. Bloss, can I finally talk to you? Without you telling me off?"

"How many times do I have to tell you? What happened at the park was a mistake. I was stressed and confused."

"For Fuck's Sake, Blossom. It wasn't a mistake. I may not know why I did it, but I know it meant something. I've never acted this nice towards a girl. I'm an asshole. I get it! But you made me different. Just admit you feel the same way cause I know you do."

"Don't give me that. You don't like me. All you want is to do is sleep with me, Buttercup read your mind that first day!"

"Alright, I did feel that way at first. I won't lie to you. But-"

"But nothing! I'm not like you. Maybe if I wasn't a superhero and you weren't a criminal, it would work out. But we are. That's just how it is."

"It doesn't have to be that way."

"So what am I suppose to do? Let you get away with robbing the bank? Vandelizing the town? Give up fighting crime? Don't you see that it would never work out between us, not even as friends!" her voice was strained.

"You know what Blossom? Keep telling yourself that. In the meantime, I'm still going to try to talk to you."

(Blossom POV)

Listening to Butch was one of the hardest things for me to do. He's right. I do feel the way he does. I think about him all the time. And I can't stop. That doesn't mean I should just succumb to those temptations. I may be a liar, obnoxiously proud, and defensive, but I just want to protect the people I love. It comes of as self-possessed and smug. I can't help but think that if I admit to myself that I'm attracted to him, that I won't be able to handle my responsibilities as a protector of Townsville. Butch stormed of the house when Buttercup opened the doors. And that's just when things went worse.

"What the fuck is wrong with you Blossom? What, he's not boring enough for you?" she shouted.

"Buttercup please understand."

"Understand what? That you're going to torture yourself and Butch for your own self-righteousness? Trust me, I understand. You could have at least agreed to being friends!"

"I'm not doing this to be self-righteous! Think of the city. We could barely handle them two weeks ago. You think they want to be friends with us? Brick said it himself that he's going to enjoy killing me."

"Maybe they changed their minds! Think about it. They had plenty of chances when you were recovering. Why don't you get your head out of your fucking textbooks for once and look around you. You might see that you aren't the only one people misjudge." She's right. I'm a hypocrite. She stormed out of the garden and left me sitting in a bed of lilies. I stayed there until the sun went down.

"Hey Bloss. I'm sorry for going off on you."
"You weren't wrong. I am too judgemental on people. I'm sorry BC." I got up and hugged her.

"So, you're giving Butch a chance?"

"Just Friends. I don't think it would hurt."

"Believe me, you won't regret it." We walked inside, hand-in-hand.

I'm sorry Buttercup.


*So, I'm sorry for the long wait. I've been working on my summer work and school just started so I've been really busy! I have my story line down and I'll be writing as much as

possible. Thanks for the support! I feel like its getting better now that I can skip the formalities that are always in the beginnings of stories. I do want to give credit to my friend,

Brittany, for the comic information*