TO MAKE YOU HAPPY Ch. 7
I know this is a sad story guys…but it will get better promise :D
Buttercup's POV:
I woke up the next morning not wanting to get up…
I had dreamt of Ace all night, and I didn't want my dreams to end.
I reluctantly got up and took a shower, pinning my wet hair up into a sloppy ponytail, and wearing my some old sweats.
I looked at myself in the mirror, trying to get energized for the day ahead, when I noticed my calendar.
I always drew a skull, on the day I was supposed to start my monthly.
Today was the twenty-third, and the skull was on the twentieth …
I was never late….I checked the date three more times.
"I can't be…No" I whispered to myself
*knock, knock*
"Buttercup, I made pancakes. You need to eat…" Bubbles yelled through the bathroom door…
"Um…ok I'll be down in a sec" I yelled back nervously.
I grabbed my jacket, and stuffed a green beanie in my bag too.
I flew downstairs, and found everyone in the kitchen. I flew past them grabbing a pancake in one hand scarfing it down in three bites.
"Good Pancakes Bubbs, thanks!" I yelled flying out the door and towards the drugstore downtown, so no one would recognize me.
Ace's POV:
"How can I help you fella's today?" The blonde at the customer service counter asked…
"Uh, yea…are you hiring?" I asked
"Not right now, but if you wanna fill out a form we'll keep them on file if anything opens up… there over there at that little counter over there" She said smiling and winking at us trying to flirt.
"Thanksss" Snake said as the two of us went to fill out applications…
Arturo, Billy, and Grubber were playing some video game in the corner.
We were the only one's there except for an old lady who was arguing with a stock boy.
I was trying to think of a fake name to put on my application, when the bell on the door rang as a new customer walked in.
I felt someone elbow me, and looked to see Grubber standing next to me with a smile on his face.
"What?"
He pointed to the end of the aisle, were a girl stood.
She had a black leather jacket on that was two sizes too big, a green beanie on top of her black hair, and her hands in her pockets looking nervously around her.
It wasn't until she turned around that I realized it was Buttercup.
I wanted so bad to run up to her, and hug her. That's when I saw her face, her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and she had dark circles under them.
I realized I couldn't talk to her like this; I might make her even more upset.
She slowly looked up and down each aisle, until she stopped at one, and I could see her face drain of what little color she had.
She quickly grabbed something off the shelf, and ran back to the checkout counter.
After she left I wondered what she was so nervous…
"I gotta figure out how to tell her…" I said dropping my application in the garbage, and walking out of the store.
Buttercup's POV:
I nervously checked out the clerk was too interested in his comic book, to look at what I was buying.
I paid, grabbed the small plastic bag, and walked out of the store.
I looked at the small box in my hands, and threw it in my bag nervously when my phone went off.
It was a text from Butch….
Hey BC, movies at our place bloss and bubbs r hr 2
I didn't know what else to do, so maybe I could just hang out get it off my mind for a while.
"Hey BC, I didn't think you were coming"
"Well here I am" I said dropping my stuff by the door, and heading towards the living room.
Butch stopped me, and grabbed my arm.
"Chick flicks" He said making a gag face, making me laugh
We flew to the kitchen instead, and I sat on the counter while Butch raided the fridge.
"You saved my butt dude, I was about to puke with all the kissing in the first five minutes"
"Bad Movie huh? Which one did they pick?"
"No, not the movie the four of them… it was "Oh Blossy your so beautiful…Oh Bubbles your cuter" "
I started laughing, as we sat in the kitchen eating just about everything…
"How are you, like really?" He said looking at me getting serious all of a sudden
"Well, I…"
"Buttercup, sorry to interrupt can I talk to you and Bubbles for a minute?" Blossom asked
"Um, sure I'll be right back "
I followed my sisters, back to Butch's room, Blossom closed the door once we were all there…
"Bubbles I found this on the floor next to you bag" She said holding up my pregnancy test.
"What?" Bubbles said her eyes getting huge
"Bubbles why didn't you tell us, how could you and Boomer be so…"
"But, it's not mine!" my blonde sister was on the brink of tears.
"You don't have to lie Bubbles, we're here for you…" Blossom said rubbing her shoulder
"It's not hers" I interrupted
Both of them looking at me confused
"It's mine, I was late so…"
"Oh, Buttercup have you taken one yet?"
I shook my head sitting on Butch's bed.
"What am I gunna do?"
"Well we won't know until you take it right?" Bubbles said looking at me with sad blue eyes.
"Yea, maybe your not maybe it's just all the stress…."
"Ok" I said taking the box from Blossom
I went to the bathroom, and it felt weird taking a pregnancy test in Butch's bathroom, but I was too nervous to care.
I set the test on the counter, and opened the door.
"Okay, so now we wait five minutes. Two pink lines it's positive one blue one it's negative…"
We all paced back and forth until the time was up.
I took a deep breath and looked at the test…
Two pink lines.
"Well?" They both asked
"It's positive" I said my breath shaking
I sat on the floor next to Butch's bed almost hyperventilating.
"What am I gunna do? He's not even here I can't take care of a baby alone…."
"Shhh It's ok Buttercup, we'll figure this out" Bubbles said hugging me.
But I couldn't calm down…
"Brick,can you get me a paperbag?" Blossom yelled from the door.
"I can't do this you guys, first Ace now this?" I said tearing up staring at the ground…
"What happened?" Brick asked followed by his brothers
"Here Buttercup breath in this, calm down ok?" Blossom said handing me the bag, I took a few breaths until my breathing slowed
"Good, see it's gunna be fine" Bubbles reassured
"What happened" Butch said sitting on the floor next to me…
"I'm pregnant" I said after a long silence
"I'm pregnant, and lost my boyfriend in one week …Best Week Ever" I said sarcastically
"Um, Blossom Bubbles don't tell Dad…" I wiped my tears on my sleeves and stood up.
"Where are you going?" They asked
"there's someone I need to talk to…" I said grabbing my stuff and taking off out the door.
I landed across town at Townsville Cemetery … and walked in to the building
"Hello, can I help you?" A man at the counter asked
"Um, yes is there a Mrs. Katherine Coupler buried here?"
"Let's see…" he said looking in a huge book filled with names "Yes she's the first marker by the pond"
"Thank you"
I walked out to the small pond and saw a small plaque with her name on it…
I nervously set my bag down, and slowly knelt next to it.
"Hi Mrs. Coupler, I know you don't know who I am…but Ace told me a lot of good things about you. He gave me your necklace…" I said awkwardly looking at the silver locket I was playing with
"I never had a mom, but Ace told me you were an amazing one. I just need someone to talk to, and I thought of you" I felt tears well up in my eyes, as I tried to laugh my stupidity off. "I miss him… a lot, even the little things you know? Like how he tapped his boots when he was mad, or how he never let go off my hand when I was with him" Now I was crying "I just need to know that I'm making the decision he would want me to make about all of this." I sat in silence clearing the grass that had grown over her name.
"Thank you, for bring him into this world for me to have spent the best years I've ever had with him, and for showing him he didn't have to be like his Dad"
I kissed my hand and placed it on her grave… and got up somehow feeling so much better.