Author's Note: Bubbles made the cheer squad. Forgot to put that. :P

Bubbles' Point of View (two weeks later; Thursday)—

We had been practicing for this for weeks, and this was the final practice before we went on. Today we had a pep rally, and Friday we had a football game to cheer at. I was calmly slumped over on the bleachers beside Audrey and Jenni, silently awaiting Coach's instruction. I glanced up at the clock and smiled, a tingle of excitement crawling up my spine. Coach Carson had decided for us to practice during our P.E. time in the gymnasium, while the rest of the students had P.E. outside. We got a free pass out of class so we could practice for an hour and a half.

"Get up, girls, and quit being lazy! We have a pep rally to put on, so I want you to be in tip-top shape! Give me twenty laps around this gym, no stopping, no slowing down, nothing less than your top speed! Get a move on!" Coach Carson barked.

At the sound of the whistle, I sprang up from my seat and dashed towards the perimeter of the gym. In about twenty-five minutes, all of the cheerleaders were done with their laps. Jenni lazily collapsed onto the bleachers, breathing heavily.

"Oh, no ma'am! Get up! You have exercises to do, and we only have an hour and a half! Stay focused, girls!" Coach Carson ordered.

Jenni reluctantly walked over to where all of the other girls were standing.

"Now, girls, I want you to do fifty sit-ups and fifty pull-ups on those metal bars. We don't have time for the usual one hundred each. I also want you to lift weights—I'll time you and see how many lifts you can get in five minutes. Hurry up and start, girls! The more you can get done, the less time you'll have to spend in here."

She blew her whistle and we set off for the exercise room.

"Hey, Audrey? Can you count my sit-ups for me?" I asked sweetly.

"Sure, Bubbles. Lay down."

I did as I was told and began my exercise.

In about an hour, all our required exercises were out of the way. I excitedly bounded into the gymnasium, all the other girls following behind sluggishly.

Coach Carson went over our routine for a few minutes before dismissing us to our classrooms.

(At the Pep Rally…)

I crossed my legs nervously on the benches in the gym and smoothed my pleated, green, black, and white skirt. I gazed over at the football team on the bleachers to the back wall. Boomer looked so cute in his uniform!

"Who ya looking at, Bubbles?"

I turned quickly to see Jenni beside me, smiling warmly. I blushed and shook my head.

"Nobody…I'm just nervous."

She nodded slowly, turning her head towards the crowd of students.

"I'm kinda scared that I'm gonna mess up."

I glanced at her curiously.

"Why? You're awesome!" I replied.

She sighed and repositioned her bow.

"I don't know…I'm just paranoid…"

I nodded understandingly and gazed at Boomer. He caught my eye and smiled, blushing a rosy crimson shade. I grinned bashfully and looked away.

"Attention, students of Winchester Senior High! Our cheerleaders have a special treat for us today, so would you all be so kind as to give them a round of applause?" principal Quinton spoke into the microphone in the middle of the gym.

"Girls, girls, go get in your lineups and walk out like we practiced!" Coach Carson whispered loudly as the students began clapping.

I grabbed my pom-poms and smiled widely as I walked into my lineup behind Jenni and Audrey. When the gym was completely silent, we began our cheer. The captain of the team, Alyssa McCarthy, stepped up towards the front of the gym as the rest of the squad followed. I stood tight and proud as the butterflies fluttered around in the pit of my stomach. I cleared my throat and prepared myself for our hello cheer, the opening act.

"We've got the skills!"

"To take control!"

"To rock this joint!"

"To go for gold!"

"We welcome you!"

"To our school!"

"Take it from us!"

"Winchester rules!"

I gazed around the room excitedly as the crowd burst with applause. I spotted Buttercup sitting with Butch and her friends. I looked around to the opposite side. Blossom was sitting with Brick and two other girls.

"Ready!" Alyssa shouted.

"Okay!"

"Gator fans up in the stands, let's—hear you—shout! Gator fans up in the stands, let's—hear you—now! All you fans yell 'Go'!"

"GO!"

I beamed enthusiastically as I cheered at the crowd of students, hitting all of the beats in our clap sequence perfectly. The floor slightly vibrated at the sound of our voices.

"If you've got spirit, say it loud and let us hear it!"

"Whattup, Gators!" a bunch of senior guys yelled, earning a round of laughter from the other students. Everyone cheered back at us loudly, the booming sound of their voices reverberating and vibrating off the walls.

We repeated that chant a couple more times before the real fun began.

The music started suddenly as a wide grin formed over my face. My sky blue eyes lit up with a fiery passion as I threw my arms to the beat, rocking my hips in time with the rhythm. I, along with Alyssa and a girl named Carmen, bounded to the front of the formation. We opened up the performance with back handspring back tucks. I flung myself into perfect cartwheels, feeding off of the boundless energy from the crowd. Seconds later, my feet came down in precise unison with the music.

Alyssa went up in her basket toss and flew up high, nearly to the ceiling. I was too busy dancing and having fun to watch her come down, but the whole student body burst into psychotic cheers, so she must have done something pretty awesome.

Everything was a blur of excitement and action. In the past couple of minutes, I had hit my scorpion perfectly, swirled down, moved through the following sequence and was twirling in the air again, spiraling into my second basket toss. We finished the array in a pyramid, me at the very top. The students cheered even louder as we dismounted from the stunt. But, we were just getting started.

A police siren tore through the boisterous chanting. The lights flashed off. A shiver of adrenaline kicked in as I flipped towards the front of the formation. All the other girls but me left the gym floor to stand on the sidelines and wait for their cue. The crowd was silent, oblivious to what was about to take place. Another police siren wailed and rang through the walls, slicing through the silence. The lights flashed back on, then off, then on, then finally off. The glow sticks in my hands glimmered a neon green and electric white. The siren went off again as the music mix started up. I moved in perfect harmony with the rhythm, never missing a beat. I hit a high V, then swirled around on my toes and hit another high V.

My blonde pigtails bounced with every motion as the lights flickered on and off. This, my friends, was what we called Blackout. Blackout was a special pep rally we have where the lights go off and on, the cheerleaders dance in the dark with glow bracelets, and police sirens and noises of the sort go off and on. It's all really fun and exciting, and since the coach saw how enthusiastic and how much of a great dancer I was, I was the first to introduce the sequence.

I twirled a final time and back flipped, falling to my knees, just in time with the sound of the police siren. The lights flickered off as the police siren went off two more times. When the lights snapped back on for a split second, two other girls were at my sides, adding two additional green and white lights to the now pitch darkness. When the lights blinked on, they swirled around and hit a T as the crowd erupted with hysterical screams of surprise and excitement. After the police siren sounded five more times, all of the cheerleaders were present on the gym floor, dancing and gyrating to the beat. At the last siren, the lights flicked back on. I smiled down at the crowd from my position on the pyramid, panting heavily.

This pep rally went pretty well, if I do say so myself.

Brick's Point of View—

"Hey, Blossom. Your sister did pretty well at the pep rally. I loved the ending of it," I said, flipping a page in my textbook.

"Yeah, it was cool. I loved the glow sticks," she replied, glancing up at me from the rim of her reading glasses.

I nodded and looked back down at the open book I was reading. Since Butch was at home playing video games and Boomer was at football practice, I had decided to come over to Blossom's house to study. It was just us; Bubbles was at her friend's house and Buttercup was at the skate park. I sighed and turned another page. I wasn't actually reading this thing. Studying was the last thing on my mind at the moment.

As if reading my mind, Blossom looked up at me, closing her book softly.

"Brick, I can't possibly study right now. Anything else you wanna do?"

I shut my book and tossed it to the side.

"Wanna watch T.V. or something?"

"Sure."

We got up from the couch and walked into her bedroom. I gazed around at the pink and red decorations. Everything was neat and tidy, precisely how I had imagined her room to be. I sat down on her bed and kicked off my shoes.

She grabbed the remote from her nightstand and settled onto the bed beside me, turning it onto an unknown channel. We watched it in silence for a few minutes when a steamy shower sex scene flashed on to the screen. Her light pink eyes grew wide as her cheeks grew rosy.

"What the hell…"

She glanced at me before glancing back at the screen.

I smirked and poked her in her side.

"You like watching that, huh Blossy?"

Her eyebrows furrowed as she turned the channel quickly.

"No…I was just looking…"

We looked back at the screen just as a couple began a long, passionate kiss. My eyes widened as things began to get a bit heated. I looked back at Blossom, who was intently staring at the screen.

"Who knew Blossy would be such a freaky girl?" I teased, earning an admonishing glare from her.

"I'm not a freaky girl…I was just—"

"Watching, I know," I finished for her jokingly.

She turned off the T.V. awkwardly before gazing back at me.

"Is there anything else you wanna do?"

I thought a moment.

"Got any nice melons around here?"

"What?" she cried, her face flushed.

"I mean watermelon or cantaloupe or something…"

Her cheeks reddened with humiliation.

"Um…yeah. Let's go to the kitchen…"

I followed her out of her room and to the kitchen. She opened up the refrigerator and bent down to open a shelf. My head slightly lowered to get a glimpse when she snapped back up angrily.

"Where are the melons?" I asked, struggling to hide my intense blushing.

"Uhhm… we ran out…"

"Oh…"

She sat down on the stool next to me and crossed her legs. Something told me that she knew I had been looking.

"What do you wanna do now?" I asked curiously.

She shrugged her shoulders and let out a deep sigh of exasperation.

After a few seconds, another loud sigh escaped from her throat.

Another sigh.

Another sigh.

Yet another sigh.

This was aggravating the hell out of me.

As she parted her lips to groan in irritation again, I placed a finger over her mouth.

"You sigh another damn time and I'm gonna…"

She looked up at me, confused, then snatched away from me.

"What are you gonna do? You can't control me!"

I pinched the bridge of my nose in an attempt to calm down and sighed.

"See? You just sighed! But you don't see me going insane, do you?" she scoffed angrily.

"I sighed because it's for a reason, you're just sighing to be a damn annoyance!" I retorted, glaring at her.

"How do you know I was trying to annoy you? I was simply bored!"

"Well, find something to do!"

"I've tried that, but obviously your lazy ass doesn't want to do anything!"

"Okay, Blossom, I'm lazy? Is that so!"

"Yeah! You are!"

"No I'm not!"

"Yes you are!"

"Shut the hell up!"

"No, you shut the hell up! You're about to make me become hostile, Brick! You know, you're so-"

"Blossom!" I shouted, startling her.

"What?"

"You get on my nerves again and I am gonna shove my tongue so far down your throat…."

We looked at each other in unison, both shocked at the words I had just spoken. Seeing my surprised reaction, she folded her arms over chest and sighed, deep and long. Just to annoy me.

"Okay, that's it!"

I grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her towards me, slamming her lips into mine. I gripped her hips tightly as my tongue slid over hers roughly, moving deeper into her mouth. It was a good five minutes or so before I pushed her away from me, gasping for air.

"You…bastard…" she murmured between heavy gasps.

I smirked and shook the hair out of my face as I got up to walk to the door. When I was halfway there, I turned to her.

"See you tomorrow, Blossy."

She glared at me, still panting heavily, as I turned towards the door.

Author's Note: Mehh. This chapter was okay, I guess. :\

Leave a comment if you have any ideas for Brick and Blossom…. :D