Chapter 6

This is the sixth chapter of 'Can I Love You?'

Last time, the Girls split up to their different classes. Unfortunately, in each of their classes, the very Boy that they've hated for seven full years are, and they don't seem to understand just how much the Girls hate them. But, even so, hate and dislike never stopped the Rowdyruff Boys from achieving their targets

Anyway, enough with the chitchat, let's get on with the story, nya~!

"BRING!" The bell that dismissed the students for an hour-long lunch break rang out. Slowly, the once empty cafeteria filled up with hungry students, and the aroma of hot and cold lunches filled the air of the large room. Brick paid for his lunch from the lunch line and made his way to the Rowdyruff Boys' usual table, in the center of the cafeteria, where the entire student body could enjoy them equally. His brothers were already there, munching absent-mindedly on their own lunches.

Butch glanced up, and snickered at the black-blue bruise that was on his older brother's chin, which was beginning to swell slightly, "Whoa, what happened to you? You get some chick mad or somethin'?" The orangette Rowdyruff sat down and munched on his pasty-looking spaghetti, "Yea, a certain Queen knocked her huge head against my chin. It still hurts like fuck." Bruise chuckled, "I heard rumors going through the hallways on my way to Temples' class. Did you really stick your face into Blossom's hair and sniff it?"

Boomer and Butch roared with laughter as a deep maroon red blush made its way onto their brother's face, "Shut the fuck up you good-for-nothings! Anyway, I don't know what happened, but somehow, when Blossom's scent came to my nose, it was like, I had to take in more. The next thing I knew, my face was in her hair, and she gave me the mother of all bruises." Boomer calmed down from his laughing, "Dude, I thought you knew that girls don't like when you invade their personal space. Specially when said chick's holding a grudge against you for seven whole years."

Just then, the loud clacking of dangerously high stilettos heels rang through the Boys' jovial joking. They groaned when one Princess Morebucks, along with her three bitch posse made their way towards the table, holding their own trays of food. The other girls held ordinary trays, but Princess was baring a pure gold tray with matching plates and utensils. Apparently, she had the cafeteria staff serve her with her custom made gold tray and dishes whenever she ate in the school cafeteria.

She quickly took the seat beside Brick, while her bitches sat beside Bruise, Butch and Boomer. She leaned closer into him, fluttering her eyelashes in what she thought was a seductive way, "Brickie-poo, I missed you this morning~ Why were you so mean?~" Brick scooted away from her, "Personal breathing room, Princess. Remember that." He sighed with relief when the source of that over-powering perfume slightly backed away. He could still remember that beautiful scent that Blossom so naturally radiated; there was the perfect amount of it, not too little that no one could smell it, but not too much that it was overpowering. It was just enough to entice and draw him in to it.

Suddenly, the entire cafeteria became mysteriously quiet. All conversation immediately died down, as all heads rotated towards the door of the cafeteria. The Boys, Princess and her posse did so too, and of course, at the door, stood the Four Queens in all their gorgeous glory. Ignoring all the stares they were receiving, the Girls headed for a vacant table near the windows of the cafeteria, taking their seats and making themselves comfortable. Buttercup turned her attention to the crowd, and shot everyone one of her infamous 'Devil scowls,' "What're you all gawkin' at? Get back to your own lives!" With a jolt, the student body returned to conversing and talking, but lowered the volume by at least 3 volumes, in order to continue their admiration of the Four Queens.

Bubbles placed the tall basket lunchbox that she was carrying onto the table, flipped the lid off and took the three layers apart. Inside was an entire arrangement of Japanese foods, arranged beautifully with edible flowers and butterflies. Blossom chuckled, "Kanon has always been one to flatter his food the way he flatters women." Buttercup licked her lips enthusiastically, snatching up a pair of long lacquer chopsticks with tiny white peonies painted on the wider ends, "Enough chitchat, I'm starved. Let's eat!"

Bloom chuckled, "Of course," as she took out a large thermos of steaming cherry blossom tea and poured each of her sisters a cup, including herself. Bubbles took a bite of a small piece of egg omelet, smiling brightly, "Mm, this is delicious, as always." Blossom sipped her tea, while Buttercup continued to scarf down the contents of one of the basket boxes and Bloom munched on the vegetables, "Kanon's cooking never ceases to amaze me, no matter how many times we eat the same dish."

Bloom took her own chopsticks to pick up small pink peony flower that was made up of sugar and was about to place it into her mouth, when a shadow cast over her. Sighing, she turned around, and wasn't too surprised to see Bruise standing over her, giving her that gentlemanly smile that made all the normal girls blush like mad. But, of course, Bloom wasn't a 'normal' girl, nor were her sisters. The darker brunette plucked the flower out of the brunette model's chopsticks and took a look at it, "So, the infamous Queen Bloom eats flower, huh? Maybe that's where you get all your beauty from."

The brunette rolled her eyes, as her sister halted eating as well, "If you weren't so stupid, you'd see that the flower is made out of sugar, and it normal to eat flower-shaped food when you're eating Japanese food." She motioned to the food on the table. Princess sneered, "Why would you eat something so fattening? No wonder you bitches are so fat." Everyone looked ready to laugh, when Bubbles whimpered softly, large crystal tears brimming in her eyes, "That's… so… mean..!"

People immediately began to apologize, while some others turned on Princess, "I'm so sorry, Your Majesty!" "You look perfect, as always!" "Princess, that was the rudest thing you've ever said to someone better than you!" "Yea, you brat, say you're sorry!" Bloom, Blossom, Buttercup, even Bubbles chuckled under their breath as Princess turned a deep crimson red from embarrassment before storming out of the mocking cafeteria, her bitch posse at her designer heels. But, not before she shot a scorching glare over her shoulder at the Four Queens, as if to say, 'You'll pay for this, you whores. You'll pay big time.'

Buttercup then returned her attention back to the Boys, snarling at one particular ravenette, "I thought I told you to keep you and your brothers away from me and my sisters, or I'll ripe your balls out." Butch looked shocked; he didn't truly think that the girl was actually serious on her threat, but then smirk arrogantly, "Aw, don't be like that, Butterbutt, we all know that you weren't serious about that." Everyone gasped when in a whoosh of movement, Buttercup and Butch went flying across the ground, with Buttercup sitting in top of Butch, her petite, slender hands snaring the collar of his black silk shirt in her famous death grip. The ravenette Rowdyruff's eyes showed genuine fear as he saw the flames of Hell burning within those emerald green eyes.

Buttercup reared back a tightly wound-up fist, ready to bring it down hardly, when a tight, yet gentle grip wrapped around her wrist, preventing her from completely mugging the Rowdyruff teen. Bloom roared, "Buttercup Utonium, snap out of it immediately! What on Earth do you think you're doing?" With a startled gasp, the ravenette Queen seemed to snap out of her enraged stupor, and panting for breath, quickly stepped off of Butch, simply staring as Brick, Bruise and Boomer stepped forward to help their brother to his feet, then quickly buried herself into Bloom as her brunette sister, enwrapped her in a tight hug.

Bubbles and Blossom quickly walked over, placing a hand on either one of their sister's shoulders, knowing exactly what happened, and knowing that Buttercup was once again wallowing in the pits of her incapability of controlling her exploding temper. Blossom stared the Boys, specifically Brick, straight in the eye, and spoke, her majestic voice echoing off the walls of the entire cafeteria, for everyone to take to heart, "Remember, Buttercup never jokes, and neither do we. I'll be blunt; we hate you, and nothing you say or do will change that. Leave. Us. Be."

Bubbles whispered, "Let's go. Buttercup needs to calm down." Bloom nodded, murmured something inaudible into her little sister's ear, and together, the Four Queens made their way out of the cafeteria. Butch growled at the gawking students, "Get on with yer lives you pack of losers!" With a startled jolt, the student body returned to their own conversations and chatting, doing their best to keep the topic away from Buttercup going ballistic or Butch, who had prided himself for never losing in a fight, just got his ass pounded by a girl.

Bruise helped his brother back to his seat at their table, "Dude, you alright?" Boomer nodded, "Yea, looks like Buttercup did a number on you." Butch growled, rubbing his sore neck, having taken the full force of crashing across the hard ground, having banged against several chair and table legs, "Shaddup! I was caught off guard; that's the only reason that bitchy chick could ever beat me like that!" Brick remained quiet, replaying the image of Blossom and her words over and over again in his mind. She looked so serious, and that seemed to only add to her beauty. Her blush pink eyes burned with a determination, and at the same time, a hatred that he only seemed to see when the orangette model was talking with him or his brothers.

The darker orangette blinked, seeing Boomer waving his hand in his face, "Hello, Earth to Brick, you readin' me?" Brick sighed, massaging his forehead with his fingers, "Man, I never thought that the loser, but sweet Blossom from fourth grade would turn out to be like this. Guess the pain from heartbreak can really change a person." The truth was that, the Boys themselves were crushing on the Girls in fourth grade. Brick loved how intelligent Blossom was, compared to all the other bimbos and airheaded girls in the school. Butch loved how Buttercup played sports, despite that being a tomboy was no longer 'hot' with the other girls. Bruise loved Bloom's ability to make any situation seem possible, no matter how hopeless or impossible the problem seem to be. Boomer loved Bubbles' happy smile, and her warm heart, always reaching out to others, ready to lend a hand to anyone, no matter nasty they were to her. But, thanks to their blinding pride, those girls died that very day they went running out of Pokey Oats Elementary School, sobbing while mocking and jeering laughter chased after them.

Bruise sighed, "Can't deny you there. I actually liked the old Bloom better. She may not have been very beautiful, but every time I saw her, she always seemed to be smiling, keeping positive at all times. This new Bloom, as one of the Four Queens, is gorgeous, but so cold. She hasn't smiled a single time I saw her. She just smirks, or scowls." Boomer cast his gaze downwards, "Do you think… that, maybe, we could make it up to them..?" Butch growled, "You really askin' that? Butterbutt nearly broke my neck, and yer askin' if we can make up with them? I much rather skin her alive and stuff and mount her on my wall!"

Bruise rotated his eyes towards his ravenette brother, "You can't deny that you want to say that you're sorry to Buttercup. Hell, you can't even deny that you liked her in fourth grade and that the only reason that you rejected her was because of your ego and our school status." That shut the arrogant Rowdyruff up, making his stiffen his posture as he gazed down at the table as if it was the most interesting thing in the world. His brother had that sort of connection with words and reasoning; he could easily find the right words to push the right buttons to draw any desired reaction out of anyone about any situation.

The Boys simply sat there, mulling in their pools of self-pity until the bell rang, indicating that the students had fifteen minutes to clean up and head for their class.

The Girls made their way into the nurse's office, Bubbles closing and locking the door behind them. They found out from other students that the nurse leaves before lunchtime, leaving the nurse's office completely empty from 12 o'clock to dismissal time, which was 3 o'clock. Bloom gently let Buttercup go, allowing her to sit on one of the white medical cots while Blossom filled a small paper cup full of water, "BC, you feeling any better?" She then sighed as the shrill sound of the bell that ended lunch rang out loudly.

The ravenette murmured, "I don't know. I don't feel anymore burning, but now I feel like I need to puke." The orangette chuckled lightly and dryly as she handed her younger sister the cup of water, "Here, drink this. It should at least help with the nausea. You know, aftermath and all." Buttercup glanced up, snatched the cup from her sister's hand, gulped the water down in one go and crumpled the little cup into a small ball in her fist. She tossed it absent-mindedly into the garbage-can before burying her face into her hands, sighing deeply, "That was so embarrassing, losing my cool in front of the entire school. Not to mention exhausting."

The other Girls sighed softly; ever since Buttercup could differ between things that made her happy and things that made her angry, the ravenette has had somewhat of a dual personality. She would be fine whenever nothing made her angry, and there are many situations where Buttercup could control her temper when something, or someone, did make her angry. But, when she got extremelymade, like, volcano-exploding mad, something within Buttercup's consciousness snaps, and she becomes a different person entirely. Demonstrated in the cafeteria with Butch, this side of Buttercup's 'dark side' wouldn't hesitate to do some serious harm to those she hated, and so far, there wasn't any other people who could snap the ravenette model out of her raging state that Blossom, Bloom, Bubbles and Anthony.

Bloom unzipped Buttercup's Fendi boots and gently adjusted her so that her younger sister was comfortably laying on the cot, "Well, you're going to have to stay here until your head clears up. And, we're not leaving you here on your own." Bubbles nodded, glancing at the clock on the wall, "Class should be starting in several short minutes." She walked over to the nurse's desk, picking up the desk phone, "Here, I'll call our teachers and tell them that we're not feeling well and will be in the office."

Buttercup groaned, "Sorry Girls. This is so embarrassing, and on our first day of school too." Blossom chuckled, sitting on the edge of the desk, "Chill out Buttercup. If you hadn't attacked Butch, one of us probably would've, and that wouldn't have gone down well." Bloom smiled, seated at the corner of the cot, "Yea, Buttercup. Besides, it's not your fault anyway. Dad will understand, and I'm sure that Principal Williams will let this slide."

The ravenette lifted her arm from her eyes, and gave her three sisters a soft, lovely smile before closing her eyes and falling asleep. Even though she was still very energetic and possessed a lot of stamina, after going through one of her 'episodes,' even the infamous Buttercup Utonium would feel a bit drained. Once the ravenette was asleep, Bloom carefully covered her sister with one of the thin white sheets, "Should we tell Anthony about this?" Bubbles spoke, "Anthony's on a business trip with his father in Europe. We shouldn't bother them."

Blossom sighed, "But, Anthony did say that he wanted to know every time Buttercup had a spasm. After all, he really cares for her and wants to protect her from these 'anger explosions.'" Bloom nodded, "Bubbles, you know what it feels like, right? James loves you too, and would literally give up important business contracts for your well-being." The blond Queen sighed lightly, twiddling with the sapphire ring that her beloved boyfriend had given her, "Alright, why not?"

Bloom took out her phone, dialed in the necessary number and switched the phone to speaker phone, keeping the volume down so not to disturb her sleeping sister. After 3 rings, a rough voice picked up, "Hello?" Bloom spoke, "Hey, Anthony, it's me, Bloom." The rough voice seemed to brighten up, after all, she was one of his girlfriend's sisters, "Hey Bloom, what's up? How're Blossom and Bubbles. And, how's my beautiful Buttercup?"

Blossom chuckled, "Hi Anthony, and Bubbles and I are doing fine. How's work in Europe?" The man groaned, "Ugh, it's so tiring! I mean, don't get me wrong or anything, I love working with all these amazing teams, but its their managers that get on my nerves. They're constantly trying to bride me and my old man into having them play against other specific teams. It's like they take us for stupid morons who can't see beyond the stacks of money they put in front of us!"

Bubbles laughed, along with Bloom and Blossom, "Well, hang in there Anthony. Anyway, we called because Buttercup had another outburst. We're currently in the nurse's office at Townsville High School." The mahogany-haired man's tone took on a shocked and concerned tone, "Oh my God, is my Butterfly okay? What happened, what, or who, caused it?" Blossom spoke, "Remember that boy that traumatized Buttercup in the field of love, the person who scared her heart like the three of us?" Anthony growled, which shot slight shivers down the Girls' spines; it was like listening to an angry mother bear growling, "That Rowdyruff punk? Yea..? Wait, don't tell me; these bastards are also at Townsville High, and one of them did something to make Buttercup snap?"

Bloom chuckled lightly, "You don't look or sound it, Anthony, but you're very sharp. Bingo, and this specific boy's name is Butch, Butch Rowdyruff." They could practically see the scowl making its way onto Anthony's face, "I swear, if I ever meet this fuckin' bastard, I'm gonna..!" Bubbles smiled, "Please calm down, Anthony. Buttercup managed to rough Butch up a bit while she was enraged, so I don't think Butch'll be approaching her any time soon."

The mahogany-haired teen sighed deeply, "Of course, my girl should be able to fend for herself when her 'knight-in-shining-armor' isn't there. Anyway, I'm glad you called. The guys and I have great new; business dealings went much faster and smoother than we thought they would go, so we'll be able to come back to Townsville by Saturday." Bloom smiled broadly, as so did Blossom and Bubbles, "That's excellent, Anthony. We'll tell Buttercup as soon as she wakes up. That'll definitely make her feel better, even though she'll never say it with her own mouth."

With a chuckle, Anthony spoke, "Well, I've got to go. There are still quite a few more teams to meet up with. Later, and thanks for calling. It means a lot to me knowing that you trust me enough with Buttercup that you'd inform me, even though I'm practically on the other side of the earth." Bubbles giggled, "Well, we're glad that our sister has such a kind and considerate boyfriend. Tell our boyfriends that we said hi, and hugs and kisses for my beloved James, alright?" The teen roared with loud laughter, deep and rumbling, "Sure, no prob. Later Girls," and hung up.

Tucking her phone back into her pocket, Bloom glanced at the clock again, slightly shocked to see that an entire hour had already passed, meaning that they still had one more period to get through before the day was done, "What should we do? Buttercup normally sleeps for at least 4 to 5 hours after having an episode like that." Bubbles took out her own phone, "No problem, I'll call Kanon to come pick us up. We'll ask the principal to give us a sick day."

Blossom groaned, "This is so embarrassing, on our first too." Bubbles spoke, "Blossom, you know its not Buttercup's fault. If Butch hadn't pushed her to that snapping point, we'd all be in class right now." Bloom spoke, running a hand through her chocolate brown locks, "I'm glad that Hannah rescheduled that shoot that we were suppose to attend today after school to tomorrow. Buttercup wouldn't be able to make it."

With a sigh, Bubbles turned her attention back to her cellphone, waiting for the dial ringing to stop and for someone to pick up. Several rings later, the green-haired butler's oh-so-familiar voice rang out through the ear-piece, "Hello, this is the Utonium residence, how may I help you?" Bubbles giggled, "Don't get so formal with me, Kanon. It's me, Bubbles. Anyway, I need you to have a car sent out. Buttercup had another one of her 'temper attacks,' so we'll be leaving school early. Do you mind informing Father?" The butler spoke, "Of course, Mistress Bubbles, right away," before 'politely' hanging up to carry out the request. Bubbles tucked her phone into her pocket, "Let's get going. It won't be easy getting to the car, especially if Kanon sends a Bentley or a limousine."

With a nod, Bloom carefully picked hoisted her younger sister onto her back, making sure to keep Buttercup's asleep head on her shoulder. Blossom unlocked the door and opened it, making sure that there wasn't anyone lurking in the hallways before nodding to her brunette sister to continue towards the front of the school. Sure enough, a large, spacious-looking Bentley was parked at the curb, with the driver dressed in a royal blue-and-silver uniform holding the backdoor open with his head bowed.

Quickly stepping inside, Bubbles spoke, "Quickly, back home, before anyone sees." The driver bowed solemnly, "Yes, of course, M'lady," before firmly closing the door and making his way around the car to the driver's door. Bloom laid her sister onto the seat up against the wall that separated the driver from the passengers. Blossom had her phone out, talking with Principal Williams about dismissing themselves early, and Bubbles was answering to their dad, who, despite completely understanding his ravenette daughter's condition, was more than just a little upset for them all skipping school.

Whew, this is the sixth chapter, and I'm sorry if it didn't make any sense. I'm running low on ideas, and would like suggestions from all of you~

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