You're all I've ever wanted, I always want you to be mine….When I look into your eyes, I can see how much I love you~
Geez, this music blows. We are not on a date. Why are people staring at us? I know coffee shops are full of couples, but we're not one of them. Fuck, Charlie owes me big time for this shit. I'm sitting there really pissed off when Charlie comes up to the table with our hot chocolate. Funny, we like our hot chocolate the exact same way, all the way down to the smallest detail.
"Alright now down to business," I started, "Why do you seem to know Blossom, if you said you didn't know Buttercup very well?" He took a sip of his chocolate and sighed.
"Listen, when I was younger I didn't exactly get along well with law enforcement. I just happened to run into Blossom while I was arrested for vandalism. That's it, plus I thought her uptight attitude was fun to mess with. She reminds me of someone close to me." He said it while looking off towards the barista counter. Then looked me in the eyes and said,
"What about you? I didn't know you volunteered at the Rec center. Why were you hiding from Blossom anyway?" I didn't know how to answer that without giving away who I am.
"Let's just say something happened a few years ago and I don't wanna see the girls in person again." I took a sip, holy shit that's hot, if I wasn't a super human I'd probably be in pain. I must have made a stupid face again; not from being burned, but from the shock that it was so hot; because Charlie snorted and laughed after I sipped my chocolate. He stopped laughing and said,
"You and me both kid," He giggled, "I don't really wanna run into them too often either." Wait a minute.
"Hey, who you calling kid, duffus?" I responded. "I thought we're about the same age."
"Really? You're so short I couldn't tell." He laughed and stuck his tongue out at me. That's it, I'll kill him.
"Look at that cute matching couple over there, Horus." Oh geez, it's the old couple two tables away. Charlie smirks, I know that bastard can hear them too. I wanna tell her that is wasn't planned, but Charlie grabs my hand, makes kissy faces at me and says,
"Aw, come on sweetheart. You know I was just playing." He's going to DIE! I'm pretty sure everybody in the shop heard that one. I am so pissed! Charlie is totally laughing his ass off. I stood up and grabbed Charlie by the front of his shirt. Two of the baristas came up to us. It first I thought it was because we did something wrong, but then I recognized one of them. It was some really annoying fancy pants rich kid that I went to school with. When I "died" professor sent me to a private school in the area. That way he could still keep his eyes on me. Ever since I first enrolled, Nathaniel Barton has had a huge crush on me. Nathaniel is the heir to a big time technology company that's recently been trying to go into the motor business. Now I hate Princess for many reasons, one being she never let me join anything and always accused me of using my powers. But I absolutely hate Nathaniel more. Since he's probably richer than Princess, every girl and their mom is trying to get with him. The problem is, since he likes me, a lot of girls hate me and it just causes me more stress. That's why I'm basking in the last few days of summer vacation. Still, it beats my old life. The other guy though, he scarily looks a lot like Charlie, only in the face though. Charlie has long emo-boy hair that he has to pin up under his hat while he works, but this guy has really short ginger hair and his bangs are gelled up: plus his eyes are brown, not green. This guy has more of a superior vibe than Charlie; his badge even says Assistant Manager. Still, I wonder if they're related.
"Hey space cadet, someone's talkin to you." Again my thoughts are cut off by Charlie.
"huh?" I look up to see Nathaniel staring at me uncomfortably.
"Why hello there Bud, I was just amazed that you came here for a drink, since I've never seen you here before. Who is this young gentle-man?" Oh I see what this is. Nathaniel's jealous, especially with the show Charlie just put up. He wants to know if we're really dating.
"This is my good friend Charlie and we're just friends." I answered, with the last part a bit louder than the rest. The other boy snickered at Charlie and Charlie winked back at him. Then he looked at me, held out his hand, and said,
"I'm Charlie's cousin, Matthew. It's nice to meet you, Bud. Charlie likes to visit here often because he gets a discount, but this is the first time he's ever brought a friend." Oh so they are related. Well that solves that mystery. Matthew directs his attention towards Charlie and says,
"Charlie, I was just speaking to Nathaniel about St. Lordsman private school. I only came over here to tell you that I'm enrolling all three of us starting this upcoming school year." Three? So they're living with one other person? Does that mean I'm gonna start seeing Charlie on campus?
"Why the hell would I want to go to that snooty, stuck up place?" Charlie said obviously very upset. He wasn't wrong, a lot of girls there were stuck up and snooty, but something inside me told me to convince him to come. I didn't really have any friends thanks to Nathaniel, so it'd be nice to have Charlie there.
"Hey come on man, I go to that school. It'll be chill hanging out together." That was me trying very hard. I could tell Charlie started to ponder the idea. Matthew and Nathaniel could tell too.
"I'll think about it.", was his reply.
After the hot chocolate, Charlie and I walked around downtown for a bit, and talked some more. Charlie brought me home around 11:30 pm. We were both standing outside my apartment door, not wanting to say good bye. Even though I had just met Charlie yesterday, I felt like I'd known him all my life and he's my first real friend since my "death" five years ago. As I said before, Nathaniel ruined my school life by liking me. I've had girls pretend to be my friend because they want to get close to Nathaniel, but this friendship I have with Charlie is actually real. I opened my door, not breaking eye contact with Charlie. My feet felt wet. Wet? I turn and look inside my apartment. Everything is soaked. Charlie panics and runs to the sink. Charlie took out that bad pipe yesterday but didn't have a new one on him so I was supposed to wait a couple of days for it, but I didn't use my sink this morning and I haven't been home all day. Since Charlie's a handyman, we find out that so is my neighbor. Apparently when Charlie checked my neighbor, everything seemed alright, but what we didn't know is that his drainage system didn't work (the lazy asshole didn't want to pay extra to get it fixed), so he hooked his pipes to mine while I was at school. Since I have no pipe there now, the neighbor's water has just been flowing into my apartment. Charlie called up the old man and told him what had happened. The old man had my neighbor removed and told me to move out for a while just so he can fix up my room and that my neighbor would be paying for everything. This is why I think Charlie is my best friend, just when I think I have nowhere to go, Charlie offers me his couch.
It all sounded like a really good idea on our way over here, but now I think it was a mistake. Matthew answered the door and he looks really pissed. He punches Charlie straight in the jaw. I saw it coming, I knew Charlie saw it coming but for some reason, neither of us stopped him.
"You come home late and then you bring an unexpected house guest?" he spat. Oh, so he noticed my suitcase.
"Get inside!" he shouted, "And you," What me? "Sorry you had to see that." He muttered. Once we got inside Charlie immediately sat at the small round table in the middle of their living room. I'm guessing that means he's going to explain why I'm there. I sat down right next to him.
"Kyle, get over here!" I'm guessing that's the third person. A tall lanky blond walked out of the hall way. He was really pale, his wavy hair was up to his chin and it was split in the middle. He looked like a typical skater. He looked shocked to see me, a woman in this house of men. He sat down next to Matthew and stared at me.
"Now explain to me why you brought Bud, and why she has a suitcase." Oh, shit.
EDIT: In response to "she still dosn't know that it's the rrbs even thow it's in plane site," I tried very hard to make them not look like themselves. Instead of short spiky hair, butch has long emo hair; Instead of super long hair, brick has super short gelled hair; Instead of long bangs, Boomer has short wavy hair that's long enough to part down the middle. Plus Butch said himself that he doesn't want to run into the girls very often, noting that him and the boys don't want to be recongnized by the girls. That explains why Buttercup hasn't recongnized them, plus she went through some stuff so she probably doesn't even remember them. Still Blossom isn't dumb and knows it's Butch, but Brick isn't dumb either, he might already know that it's Buttercup.