Butterfly Chapter 10

(Bubble's P.O.V.)

I bit my lip delicately. Boomer had taken me outside to the Carnival/Backyard. It was so amazing! I hadn't been to a carnival or fair since I was 12! I wanted to do and taste everything I could get my hands on! Right now though, I was looking at a booth where they were selling a weird kind of colorful and fluffy candy thing. The people walking away with some all looked like they were really enjoying it. I wanted some.

"Do you want to get some cotton candy Bubbs?" Boomer gently asked me, touching my arm. I looked at him, was he talking about that weird fluffy thing?

"What's cotton candy?" I questioned in a small child's voice. Curse my innocent kid voice! The odd name might have been foreign, but it sounded delicious!

Boomer laughed as if I was telling a joke, but when I didn't laugh with him, his eyes went wide and looked at me like I was crazy, "MY Bubbly Bubbles doesn't know what cotton candy is?" he sounded shocked. My eyes widened a little and a light blush spread over my pale cheeks.

"I-I didn't mean to offend you Bubbs, I just thought, out of all people you would have known what it was. Cotton candy is just plain candy, but it melts in your mouth." he smiled and I lost my breath for a second. When I came back I REALLY wanted some cotton candy! I tugged his hand over to the booth and chirped, "Cotton candy please!"

"What color?" the uniformed girl said, bored. There were different colors? AH-mazing!

"Um do you have it in blue?" I sounded shy as I nervously smoothed out my mermaid skirt. She nodded and handed me a cotton candy bag, although when Boomer went to hand her money, she said,

"Everything here is free for the Rowdyruffs, according to Princess" she said, handing him back his money, and pointedly looking at Boomerang. I glanced at him, he was looking at the ground. I got confused but took the cotton candy and Boomer's hand and began to skip joyfully. Just as I suspected he smiled and wrapped his arm around my shoulders after a moment. As I started to eat the tasty and glorious cotton candy I found myself LOVING it. I was careful not to get my hands sticky though, and I stopped eating for a second to peck Boomer's lips and say a very sweet and cute, "Thank you Boomerang!" he smiled as he took a piece of cotton candy I offered him and popped it into his mouth.

"Blue always was the best cotton candy color." he smirked and I found it looked very odd and foreign on his face, but hot nonetheless.

"Why'd you get upset when that girl said Princess wanted everything you guys wanted free?" I asked, looking up at him and placing another piece of cotton candy in my mouth. He looked surprised for a moment, then said.

"You won't be mad if I tell you, will you?" he said, and it almost seemed like he would cry for a second, but he quickly hid it. My poor Boomer. I led him to a bench and took his face in my hands.

"I could never be mad at you Boomer, now please tell me?" I whispered, glad everyone was walking past us, not even acknowledging us. He nodded as I wiped away the few tears that had leaked out.

"Well, me and Princess have an odd history. You see, back when my brothers and I had first gotten into Citiesville High School, which was in the middle of freshmen year, since we transferred from our other school kinda late, we knew nobody. But because of our awesome powers and personalities [chuckle], we got popular fast. Princess instantly zeroed in on us, but she knew she had to choose only one of us to target, so she chose me. I was naive and I still am, so I didn't know she was the way she was,"

", She faked this whole other sweet and cute demeanor when she was around me, so I didn't believe anyone when they said she was horrible. Soon enough I asked her out, dated her. She told me to tell everyone I knew except for my brothers that we were together, and because of the fact I liked her so much, I didn't question, just obeyed. Although more and more she slipped. More and more she was showing her true self. She started yelling at people right in front of me, insulting some, and threatening my lab partners that she would destroy their social life if they didn't refuse to work with me and take an F,"

", It definitely startled me, because the next second she'd try to cover-up with a sweet smile. But it didn't fool me. That wasn't even the worst of it either. After about a month together, I saw her by my brothers even more then she was by me. I found out that she had been flirting with them, asking them out repeatedly. But my brothers said no, saying they thought I liked her, but she just said I didn't, and that if I did, she didn't like me back at all. Butch told me all this after he saw her kiss my cheek in the hallway in front of a group of jealous fan girls. That's the only time she really showed any kind of affection towards me, when we were in public, where everyone could see she was dating a Rowdyruff. After he told me, I broke up with her and accused her of all the things she did. She wouldn't admit to anything, but by the way she glared at me, I knew all of it was true,"

",Obviously she didn't stop. She still goes after my brothers, and last year she apologized to me. I accepted her apology, but didn't take her back. Nowadays she'll try to seduce all three of us, definitely not ashamed that she's the most hurtfully rude and horrible person on the planet." he ended, more tears streaming down his face as he closed his eyes.

I couldn't believe it. My Boomer, MY Boomer had a scar on his heart…left by Princess Morebucks. I definitely was angry at her, but right now I just wanted to comfort Boomerang as best as I could.

"Hey, hey, look at me Boomer," I ordered, grabbing his chin after kissing away his tears. "I would never think about hurting you that way. And I would never cheat or even look at a guy the same way I look at you. I will help you heal, alright?" he hugged me tight.

"You swear?" he whispered into my neck. He was trembling and he sounded scared that I would break my promise. I would never.

"I swear Boomer" I replied, feeling him relax as I wound my arms around his neck. He nodded to show he believed me.

"Are you okay now? Or do you wanna sit for a while?"

"Can we sit for just a while longer? I wanna eat the rest of the cotton candy." he laughed. I giggled and snuggled up against his chest as we both looked up at the sky stuffing our mouths with baby blue cotton candy.

I am soooooo sorry! I had the chapter ready in hours after my last update, but I just kept forgetting to upload! Ugh you guys have gart to start reminding me! Hehe just kidding! :) Please Review!

~Joydream~