Chapter 1

"Bubbles!" Buttercup cried out pounding on the bathroom door, " Put the lip gloss down and hurry up! I gotta pee!"

"I'll be out in a minute!" she cried from inside in her sweet voice.

Buttercup growled in frustration and went back into her room. She was thankful every day she finally had her own room, Professor Utonium or dad as they now called him, had added two more rooms to their home and given each of the girls their own room for their thirteenth birthday. Buttercups room was messy, as always, with band posters covering her walls and her bass guitar sitting on its pedestal in the corner. Also a gift for her thirteenth birthday from Mitch, much to the regret of their Dad. She hadn't stopped playing since then and was now in a band with Mitch who played Drums and Elena who sung and played guitar.

Meanwhile in the bathroom, Bubbles was trying desperately to wipe away tears from her eyes and conceal any evidence that she had been crying. She attempted to quietly throw up without anyone hearing, which was difficult because two of the people she lived with had sonic hearing. As she slipped into her clothes she tried hard to button up her pants which became increasingly difficulty with each week that passed. Every time she failed she just felt like crying all over again out of frustration. In the end she just decided to go with a skirt and find a shirt that would cover her easily. With some finishing touches on her makeup, she walked out of the bathroom with a solemn face.

"It's about time!" Blossom said coming out of her room with her massive backpack on, "I need to finish my hair and makeup before I give my speech today in Mr. Thatches class! Presentation counts!"

"Oh no you don't!" Buttercup said flying out of her room as Bubbles kept her head down and went into her room, "I need to take a piss first."

"Stop talking like that! It's not lady like!" Blossom scolded and let Buttercup go first.

"Gee thanks mom," Buttercup teased and entered the bathroom.

Once her business was done, she grabbed her backpack near the front door and waited for the others. Blossom came down promptly checking off her list on her phone.

"Lunch, Mr. Thatch speech, math homework, money for graduation cap and-"

"Oh do we need to turn that in today?" Buttercup asked suddenly remembering.

"You're money is in that envelope on the fridge from the professor which he reminded us about weeks ago," Blossom said in an annoyed tone, "Bubbles! C'mon its time to go!"

Bubbles slumped down the stairs wearing her baggy grey sweater and a long black skirt. She let her long blonde hair flow over her shoulders and her blue eyes looked sad. She had seemed sad and quiet for a few weeks, Buttercup noticed. Blossom didn't, till now.

"That's what you're wearing?" Blossom asked confused.

"Yup, can we just go?" Bubbles said pushing past her sisters out of the house.

"What's with her lately?" Blossom asked as Buttercup came back.

"I don't know but then again what do you care?" Buttercup shot back as she too walked out the door.

Blossom sighed and rolled her eyes as she exited the house and started trialing the blue and green streaks across the sky towards Townsville High. Things had been rough at the Utonium household lately. Their dad had been busy on numerous projects and never really spent much time with the girls anymore. The girls had been offered a full time job working on the police force after they graduate, Blossom eagerly accepted and had been pushing her sisters to accept. Blossom was also offered a full scholarship to Townsville University for her outstanding SAT scores and numerous recommendations form teachers. She had her whole life mapped out, she was going to study law and become a lawyer and work on the police force.

Bubbles wasn't as eager, in fact for the last four years basically she had spent all her time with her boyfriend Boomer and she had joined the cheerleading squad. She hadn't thought much about her future, all she cared about was cheering at the Friday night footballs games and spending all the rest of her time with Boomer. She hadn't given much thought to her future…

Buttercup had. She had big plans for her future but she hadn't told anyone her plans yet. After graduation, she had plans with Mitch and Elena to hit the road. They wanted to head to Citysville which had a growing music scene. If they could make it big there, who knows what could happen. Not to mention all the adventures out on the road they could have, Buttercup wanted to see it all. She also had other plans forming in the back of her mind, but it was a big commitment to make. She didn't want to be a powerpuff girl anymore. She just wanted to be normal and had made a promise to herself that after graduation and once they all hit the road she wouldn't use her powers anymore unless absolutely necessary.

Once at school, Blossom rushed off to organize her locker for the third time this week, Buttercup met up with Mitch, Scott and the rest of her friends and Bubbles kept her head down as she walked through the halls. Typically Bubbles was the center of attention at school, her natural beauty and her powerpuff girl credit ensured that. Usually people would say hello to her and talk with her as they stared. Today with Bubbles sonic hearing she could hear their whispers as she walked by.

"Did you hear about Bubbles?"

"Did you see under her frumpy sweater?"

"I bet I know why she's dressed like that today."

She needed to talk to Boomer. As she made her way through the hall she found Brick and all his football buddies talking excitedly about the upcoming prom. Bubbles intervened.

"Hey if you sister sent you here to shake me down again tell her to go-" Brick started to say to her.

Bubbles cut him off, "Don't even think about finishing that sentence! Where's your brother Boomer?"

"I don't know, all he does is hide out in his room and never hangs with me or Boomer anymore," Brick replied, "what'd you do? Cut him off from sex?"

"Oh shut up!" Bubbles said storming off and feeling her eyes watering. She was so sick of being hormonal and over emotional as she held her books close to her stomach. As she walked through the halls to class.

During lunch Buttercup, Mitch, and Scott all snuck behind the dumpsters. The wall behind the dumpsters had a permanent smell of weed and cigarettes and the wall was always covered in the latest gossip via sharpie notes. It was where all the 'losers' of the school hung out. Mostly druggie burnouts, the trouble makers and even a few class clowns. They were all fans of their band Dead Roses.

"I am so ready to get out of this hell hole," Elena grumbled pushing her deep auburn hair behind here ear.

"Hey we only got one more month," Mitch replied pulling out a pack of cigarettes from his back pocket.

"Yeah, you know my sisters and my dad will have a melt down of epic proportions if I don't finish school," Buttercup reiterated for the hundredth time.

"Yeah mine too," Mitch replied puffing on a cigarette, "you know my mom wont give us the van if we don't stay."

"I know!" Elena responded rolling her eyes, "I'm just so ready to get out."

"Ditto," Buttercup said.

Elena had been one of Buttercups best friends since seventh grade. They had bonded over music and soon enough began imitating what they would hear once they got a guitar and a bass. Elena was an amazing singer, she was like a cross between Nirvana and Lana Del Rey. She had that grungy, emo girl kind of look but was delicate like a rose. It definitely helped with all the guys (much to the annoyance of Buttercup sometimes) Even Butch had hit on her a few times at a few drunken house parties. Still, it didn't matter to Elena how many guys came onto her.

"Elena!" called a voice from not so far away as Rachel started walking towards them.

Elena smirked at the pretty voluptuous blond that walked toward her and said "Hey babe."

The two girls embraced and started making out following all the usual cat calls from the crowd who hung out at the dumpster wall.

"Oh shut up boys," Rachel called out and took Elena's hand as the two of them wandered off. Buttercup liked Rachel too, she was a firecracker and kept Elena's mood swings in check.

"Man what I would do to see what those two girls do at their sleep overs," Mitch said as he watched the two women walk away as he tossed his burnt cigarette to the ground.

"Shut up," Buttercup said playfully punching him.

"So have you spilled the beans yet?" Mitch questioned her as the two of them wandered to the gossip wall.

"I'm working on it," Buttercup grumbled knowing it would not blow over well.

"You better tell them soon, your old man is just gonna be a hundred times more pissed if you just drop the bomb right before we leave," Mitch pointed out.

"I just don't wanna-," Buttercup began to say.

Near the wall there were two girls in their cheerleading uniforms, they were the typical party girls that didn't care if they were seen with the dumpster crowd. Usually Buttercup would go out of her way to avoid these girls but as Buttercup and Mitch were talking her sonic hearing picked up what they were whispering in the corner about as one of the girls had a sharpie in her hand writing an new message on the wall.

"Of course Bubbles is pregnant," one of them stated quietly, "she's to much of an airhead to be smart about stuff like that? And did you see how she was all over Boomer at the last football game? She's a total slut."

"Whoa! Hold up!" Buttercup shouted even though she was standing nearly fifteen feet away from the gossiping girls, "What the fuck did you just say about my sister?"

The cheerleaders stood their ground and smirked at Buttercup with their perfectly lip glossed lips. The main cheerleader, Paige, had scrawled a message on the wall with a sharpie stating 'Bubble's is a dumb pregnant bimbo'.

"Oh did little Bubbles not tell you?" she jeered at Buttercup, "I thought she told her sisters everything."

"Shut the fuck up Paige," Buttercup shouted back, "what you just said isn't true!"

Now the dumpster crowd was watching the cat fight with hungry eyes, waiting for it to get worse.

"That what?" Paige said speaking louder to draw more attention, "that your sister is a stupid bimbo that got knocked up? You know that's why she quit cheer right?"

"Not she didn't," Buttercup replied, "for some crazy insane reason she wanted to be a cheerleader."

"She quit this morning," Paige smirked again running her manicured hand through her bleach blond hair, "and she's gaining weight and crying all the time. It's totally obvious, there's a baby powerpuff on the way."

Buttercup threw her fist at Paige's face but barley stopped. Paige still squealed loudly out of fear and jumped back, a few of the dumpster scene laughed. With her lazer eyes she burned away the message that Paige had written about her sister and turned to Mitch.

"I gotta go find bubbles," Buttercup said quickly thinking about her sister. It had to be a lie…right?

"I'll come with you," Mitch said being supportive.