Bubbles P.O.V.

I attended the rest of my classes as if it was a normal day, but Mike's voice kept on nagging at the back of my head.

I wanted nothing more than to make you mine.

I hadn't realized he had thought about me that way. Although, thinking back it was painfully obvious.

"Bubbles?" Mike asked me at my fourteenth birthday party.

"What's up?" I asked him, climbing out of the pool.

He looked at me from my head to my toes and I blushed fidgeting with the little bow on the bottom half of my bikini.

"Can I talk to you in private?" He asked me, holding out his hand.

I took it with a smile, "Of coarse."

He led me to the pool house and unlocked the door, he was the life gaurd every summer. I went inside and he shut the door behind him.

"I need to ask you something, and don't laugh!" He begged me.

I smirked, "No promises."

He rolled his eyes and squeezed my hand, "Will you go with me?"

I giggled, "Where are we going?"

He smiled faintly, "How about to the dance?"

I flicked his forehead, "Of coarse I'm going with you. Were both going with Tyler, Robin, Buttercup, and Mitch dumb dumb."

He lost his smile, "No I meant-"

He was cut off by Blossom opening the door, "Ugh, Bubbles. Get out of here, your supposed to be entertaining."

"Oopsie." I giggled, getting back to the party.

I face palmed myself in the middle of french class and Ms. Crupet cleared her throat, "What did I just say, Ms. Utonium?"

I said, "Which way to the bathroom?" in French and she nodded and got back to the lesson.

I was fluent in French, I had taken classses since I was five, so this class was where I usually would draw or work on new songs. The bell rang and I reluctantly gathered my things and walked to my locker.

"Hey Bubbles, are you okay?" Buttercup asked me throwing her things into her locker.

I nodded, but she pressed the issue.

"Did Mike come up to you?" She demanded as we walked to Mitch's car.

I sighed, "I don't want to talk about it."

We hopped in the car, where everyone was waiting for us.

"Don't want to talk about what?" Tyler asked, putting an arm around my shoulder.

I shrugged, before I laughed, "I got detention for a week."

They were stupified.

"For what?" Robin asked.

I grinned, "Mouthing off to Dr. Brittain. It's probably all over youtube."

They all laughed and Robin pulled out her phone. "Holy shit. Nine thousand views!"

I giggled and we all leaned over to watch the video.

When it was over Tyler let out a low whistle, "Damn girl. What got you so pissed off you snapped at a teacher?"

My face clouded up and everyone saw it.

"Did Mike pay you a visit?" Mitch asked bitterly.

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Did he touch you?" Tyler asked, cupping my chin.

I jerked away from him and thought about him pulling me against him. Not replying was most likely going to be easier. Not that that was going to be possible.

"Well did he?!" Buttercup shouted.

His hand brushing hair behind my ear and his breath on my face.

"Can we please not talk about it?" I whispered, wiping away tears.

"Hey." Robin said soothingly, "We can't help you, if you don't tell us what happened."

I let out a shaky breath, "Okay, um... without going into to much detail..."

I thought about how to put it into words, "He called Mitch some mean words, I slapped him, he told me he liked it rough, then he said he wanted me to be his, and then something about my innocence before he left."

They all gaped at me before Tyler snarled, "SON OF A BITCH!"

I winced from the pure fury in his eyes.

"I'm going to castrate him." Buttercup said with an eery calm.

I made a whining noise, "Can we just forget about it, please."

Robin glared at nothing in particular, "Hell fucking no. He's going to rape you Bubbles!"

I shuddered, tears streaming down my face, "PLEASE! Can we not talk about it."

Tyler put an arm around me and I cuddled into his chest and tried to stop crying.

Mitch cleared his throat, "So, um, are you two..."

He trailed off and I deliberatly put some distance between me and Tyler.

"NO!" I flushed and Tyler winked at me, causing me to blush a deeper red.

"Tyler and Bubbles sitting in a tree k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Robin sang.

I glared at her and Tyler laughed, "Oh Robby, don't be jealous of Bubbles."

She didn't even flinch, "Please, I have no interest in you."

He put a hand to his heart, "Ow. That hurt me."

She smirked, "Good."

He smiled at me and I gave him a small smile back, wiping away the rest of my tears.

"So, what are we going to do about this problem?" Buttercup asked.

I shivered and brought my knees to my chest, trying to hold myself together. Tyler rubbed soothing circles in my back and I let him, despite Robin's snickering and Buttercup and Mitch's murderous looks.

"Well we should keep an eye out for him and make sure we have people walking her to classes from now on." Mitch said.

I looked out the car window and gasped before I screamed, "DRIVE!"

Mitch sped off and I could here gun shots as we left the parking lot. He pulled the car to a stop at the Coffee shop.

Robin and Buttercup shreiked, "What the hell was that?!"

I cried out, "Mike had a gun!"

I felt like I was going to throw up I was so scared. I started hyperventilaiting when the realization that one of us could of died and it would of been all my fault hit me.

"I'm sorry, I don't- I don't think its safe for y'all to be around me anymore." I mumbled and hopped out.

I heard them yelling after me, but I didn't care. I couldn't have them die over me, I couldn't have someone who was supposed to be our friend kill them.

I'd let him do what he wanted to me, but I would not have him bring my real friends into his problem with me.

I ran as fast as I could on shaking legs, and stopped to breath in front of the only club in townsville, Berlesque. I worked here.

"What can I get you, sugar?" A sexy guy wearing eye liner asked me.

"How about the usual?" I asked.

He rolled his eyes, "One southern styled sweet tea coming up."

He took a sip of it before setting it down and I mock glared at him, "Hey!"

He shrugged and faked a look of innocence, "I like tea."

I laughed, "Is Nikky late again?"

"You know it. You haven't exactly had perfect attendence yourself, jail bait."

That was my nick name here.

"It's been crazy lately." I sighed.

He gave me a look of understanding and I shook off my funk.

"So how's your fiance?" I asked him.

His face clouded up, "Still in New York. She was supposed to come back yesterday, but she said it could be another month."

I put a hand on his shoulder and offered him a small smile, "Hey, at least your being faithful. I know guys who would sleep with every girl in town if they were in your shoes."

He smiled back at me, but it seemed forced, "I just hope she's doing the same."

I frowned, but before I could comment, Cocoa ran up to me.

"Jail bait! We need you on stage! Hurry up and change!" She exclaimed, dragging me away from the bar.

"See ya later, Jack!" I called.

He waved, an amused smile playing on his lips.

Tess beamed when she saw me, "Jail bait! Just the girl I needed to see! You need to go on for Nikky!"

Fear struck me, "Last time I went on for her, she switched my lip gloss with fish oil."

Tess rolled her eyes and threw an outfit at me, "Just do it!"

I groaned, but changed into the silver and black leatard that was see- through in some places, black fishnets, and a black top hat.

I did a twirl for Tess and she clapped, "Perfect! Now get that little ass on stage!"

I did, trying my best to smile, but it wasn't that hard when the music started up. I took my place center stage and started mouthing the words to Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend.

When I started dancing, there were whistles and cat calls from the drunk population in the club.

I blushed from the attention and tried to cover my face with the top hat when Mitch, Buttercup, Robin, and Tyler walked in. They were holding a picture of me when they walked up to Jack. He looked at me when they showed him the photo and I did a quick shake of my head.

Unfortunately, Tyler followed his gaze and his eyes landed on me. His jaw actually dropped and when the rest of my friends saw me, thiers did too. I kept up with the dancing trying to avoid eye contact with anybody, but Tyler held my gaze.

The music suddenly cut off and the curtain was starting to close when an idea popped into my head.

"Diamonds! Diamonds! I don't mean rihnstones! But diamonds are a girls best... best friend!" I finished the song, making my voice as loud as I could.

The audience clapped and whistled, even stood up and cheered. The curtain closed with me bowing, and throwing my hat at them.

Tess gaped at me like I was the greatest thing since indoor plumbing, "You have got to be the most amazing person I have ever met."

I giggled, and then stopped when Tyler walked in and pulled me into a tight hug. I hugged him back but he quickly pulled away looking madder than I've ever seen him.

"ARE YOU INSANE?! WE GET SHOT AT BY A PHYCO WHO WANTS TO RAPE AND KILL YOU, AND YOU RUN OFF TO A CLUB?! WHERE, I MIGHT ADD, YOU DRESSED IN LINGERIE AND TEASED EVERYONE HERE!"

I couldn't even look at him as he shouted at me. He had never once yelled at me in my entire life. I felt a tear trickle down my face as I try to push passed him. He doesn't let me.

He grabbed my wrist in his iron like grip and makes a great effort to lower his voice, "What were you thinking?"

I scowled at him through my tears, "I can't have any of you hurt over me! He was aiming the gun at you Tyler! Do you have any idea how bad that could of ended up?!"

He seemed to freeze for a moment, "Well, you saved my life, and now I'm going to save yours."

He threw me over his shoulder and walked out with me kicking and screaming, trying to get away from him.

"Tyler! Let me go, right now!"

"No." He said simply.

I shrieked in frustration and thrashed around. His grip didn't waver, in fact, he hardly seemed to be using any effort to hold me at all.

I sobbed, "Just put me down!"

"You'll run off if I do." He pointed out.

I groaned, "This is ridiculous, please just leave me alone! I don't want you to die!"

He didn't say anything, he only continued to carry me out of the club, despite the yells of protests from the girls and the customers.

Jack stepped in front of Tyler, and I was shocked to see Jack was bigger than him.

"Put her down." I sighed, "Don't worry about it Jack, he's basically my brother."

Jack laughed, "Busted."

I scowled at his retreating figure and Tyler said, "So I'm guessing you come here a lot."

I sighed, "I've worked here for two years."

He cleared his throat, "So your a... stripper?"

I gasped, outraged, "No! I'm a dancer."

We were walking down the sidewalk and I swear, I got so many odd looks you would of thought I was an alien.

"You could of told us." He sounded offended.

"Even Buttercup doesn't know." I told him.

"Why do you do it?" He asked me.

I sighed, "I'm not exactly... smart. I needed to find a way to earn money for college. I already have seven thousand saved up."

"Dang. And, you are smart, you just don't know it."

"Can you put me down now?" I asked timidly.

"Oh." He seemed to forget he was even holding me.

He let me stand on my own and I ran away from him. Right into someone's arms.

"Hey there." Mike purred in my ear.

I eeped and jumped away from him.

"Stay away from her." Tyler growled stepping in front of me.

Mike laughed, "Of coarse I won't. I could take her right now if I wanted to, but what fun would that be? No, I'll wait 'till she's alone, scared, and oh so vulnerable."

I shuddered at his predatory tone.

He leered at me, "Nice outfit, sugar."

I looked down at the costume from the club and flushed.

Mike chuckled, "You sure do blush a lot. I wonder how red I could make you."

I crossed my arms, in a futile attempt to cover myself, "Don't talk down to me."

He put a hand to his heart and faked a look of innocence, "I was only thinking about what I'm going to do to you."

I shuddered again and Mike made a move to come forward.

Tyler got in his face and snarled, "Don't fucking touch her!"

Mike put his hands up in surrender, "Fine, I won't... for now. I'll see you later Bubbles."

He walked off and Tyler offered me his hand and I took it as we went to find Robin, Buttercup, and Mitch.

I don't think anyone could be prepared for what happened next.