Chapter 5: The next day
Butch lays there unconscious in a puddle of his own puke; he can't really sense anything else around him. He was massively drunk last night, he doesn't even remember what happened after Jack disappeared from the party. Butch rolls onto his front and slowly opens his eyes, yet he squints as the light of the room hits him hard. He suddenly senses someone coming down the stairs and turns his head towards that figure "hmmm, wha…?"
"Morning sleepy head" Brick steps over him and heads to the kitchen he brews a cup of coffee and puts it on the table while butch crawls onto a chair in the dining room. He looks over at Butch and chuckles "wow, you must have been hammered". He sips his coffee and looks at the carnage that use to be the living room, there were a few people still there passed out in various points in the room. There was a naked teenage girl draped upside down on their couch with a penis drawn on her stomach. Five other people laying around on the floor some were groaning others were just plain unconscious. There were beer cans and empty glass bottle everywhere, there was 3 beer kegs spread out. 2 were in the hallway and one was on the dining room table. Brick goes to make a second cup, and then brings it to Butch, he touches it against butch's cheek causing the other male to freak out and almost fall over his chair. Brick laughs and rests the cup on the table in front of him "quite the party last night, I'm almost sorry I missed it".
Butch frowns at him trying to open his eyes fully but can't "shit, ugh… what time is it?"
"8 am" Brick says casually and notices someone else coming down the stairs, he sees boomer walking down fully dressed in black with black leather pants, he is leading a goat on a leash down the stairs. Brick quirks an eyebrow seeing that the goat has a saddle on its back.
Butch sips the coffee given to him allowing the hot liquid to run down his throat, he begins to sober up and ignores boomer as he leads the goat into the kitchen and goes for the frozen waffles in the freezer "damn, that's barely enough time to sober up".
Brick stares at boomer as the blonde quietly makes breakfast for him and his new little friend "anyway", he turns his attention back to Butch "was Jack at your party last night?"
Butch yawns "yeah, I invited him and a couple of others from the team, why?"
Brick is about to speak again when boomer brings his goat friend to the dining room and places a plate of newly toasted waffles on the table. Brick ignores him for now to try to focus on his conversation with butch "Just curious, I ran into him last night out in the streets dowtown, he had 4 other guys with him".
Butch quirks an eyebrow "seriously? He said he was going straight home, and that's in the suburbs, the opposite direction. So what was he doing downtown?"
Brick looks over at him seriously "he tried to rape Bubbles"; he takes a seat next to Boomer who feeds the waffles to the goat. The goat is sitting in another chair right next to the blond. Brick gets agitated at Boomer "you're going to make me ask, are you?"
Boomer looks back at him blankly "ask what?" he feeds the goat another waffle.
"OK FINE" Brick says crankily "what's with the goat?"
Boomer pets the goat "she's got a hang over from last night, her tongue needed a break, so I gave her some beer to get the taste of vagina out of her mouth".
Brick grimaces, he really didn't want to know the details of boomer's night "why is she eating waffles at the table?"
Boomer smiles at brick "we don't have pancakes".
"Of course, how stupid of me" Brick says sarcastically, he decides to go back to butch before boomer gives him an unwanted headache.
Butch was preoccupied with his cup of coffee to even pay attention to the conversation between them. Then it finally hits him "wait, Jack tried to rape Bubbles?"
"Yep" Brick says sipping on his coffee.
Butch chuckles "seriously, he tried to rape a super hero? That's ridiculous, what did he do it with? A Jack hammer?"
"No with antidote x" Brick says and Butch instantly stops laughing and the both of them turned serious.
"Is that all he got his hands on?"Butch says a bit concerned.
"Not sure" Brick says "but I'd keep an eye on him from now on, the guy's out of control, it'll be a problem if he got his hands on Chemical x too". Their conversation is interrupted when the goat barfs up the waffles on the table. Brick gets up and glares at boomer "DAMMIT BOOMER".
"I'm sorry" Boomer says petting the goat on the back, as the poor creature continues to wretch all over the table "perhaps I should have given her pop tarts".
At the powerpuffs house
Bubbles is in the shower, allowing the water to wash over her entire body, she washed off the antidote x the night before and was able to not wake up her other sisters. She thanked god that they were old enough to have their own separate rooms; she would have never been able to hide any of this from her sisters without the privacy. As she washes the shampoo out of her hair, she smiles and hums a little to herself, she finally understood the sensations and feelings she has been having lately. She smiles to herself, she was in love and with Brick of all people, she couldn't believe it. She slept with his jacket all night long and when the morning came she breathed in his scent. Her body reacted in a way that it never had before. She finishes her shower and dries herself in her room keeping her wet hair wrapped in the towel on her head. She sits at her vanity and looks at herself in the mirror; she then picks up her blow dryer to dry her hair. Afterwards she brushes her hair, today she needed to wear the cutest clothes, the most flattering hair style and very little makeup to show off her natural beauty. From this day forward she was going to try to win the heart of her man, starting with a conversation starter. She looks back at bricks jacket which she hung up behind the door "My conversation starter", it's an excuse to get close to him "perfect". She gets dressed and grabs the Jacket, then she looks out of her bedroom door to see if her sisters were close by. She really didn't want them to see the jacket otherwise they might question where she has been last night.
Bubbles floats downstairs and notices Buttercup and Blossom sitting at the kitchen table for breakfast, she puts the jacket behind her back and sticks her head out to look at them "Morning girls".
Blossom is the first to notice but quirks an eyebrow at her "oh hey Bubbles".
"Morning Bubblehead" Buttercup says munching on some toast.
"Well see you all at school" Bubbles zooms out the front door before her sisters could address her.
Buttercup looks at the door Bubbles just exited out of "what's that about?"
Blossom munches on her cereal "well she does have cheerleading practice in about half an hour". She then looks over at the door also concerned "still, when she goes with us it only take 1 minute to get there, so what's the rush?"
At Pokey Oaks high school
Butch, Boomer and Brick walk into the school and separate to go find their friends. Brick heads for his locker and opens it, inside the door of the locker there's a small mirror. He scopes himself out for a moment before taking out his math book. He closes the locker door and nearly jumps out of his skin as he sees a particular blond smiling back at him "oh shit".
"Hi" Bubbles says smiling brightly at him, she let her hair down in curls framing her face and she had pink lip gloss on.
Brick blinks at her for a moment, she usually comes in with her sisters and she never approaches him, at least not like this "uh…hey". They look at each other for a while and brick becomes rather uncomfortable "can I help you?"
"Um…..you….had something yesterday" Bubbles blushes, she rehearsed this time and time again in her head but couldn't understand why she couldn't get it out now. Then she looks at the jacket she was holding "oh…um you forgot this", she holds out the jacket in front of him.
Brick instantly grins and takes the jacket from her "oh yeah, I forgot about this, thanks". He puts the jacket back in his locker "so how you feeling pigtails?"
"Fine actually" Bubbles says flipping her hair to the side.
Brick totally doesn't notice "you sure? Last night was pretty rough".
"Yeah" Bubbles says, then looks him right in the eyes "thanks to you". She leans in a little but doesn't touch him, she addresses him flirtatiously "I'm still thinking of a way to properly thank you for saving me last night".
Brick looks at her for a moment in a bit of confusion but quickly recovers "uh…right, well I take cash, credit or check". Bubbles giggles and brick smirks at her "but if you really want to thank me, pretend you never saw me, last night never happened, deal?"
Bubbles nods enthusiastically "deal".
"Cool" Brick says "anyway gotta run", he goes off to his next class.
"Bye" Bubbles waves to him happily, she then turns around and squeals in excitement "he thinks I'm cool", She nearly skips on to the gymnasium for cheerleading practice.
An hour later
Boomer is in the auditorium holding his latest script in his hand; his actors stand off to the side on the stage and wait for his direction. He holds his chin and looks at the actors "someone's missing".
Suddenly Buttercup comes zooming in through the door "hey guys sorry I'm late".
Boomer looks over at her "your punishment is to be the star of my play". Everyone, including Buttercup all stand still, truth was no one seemed right for the lead; the level of anger and emotion was simply too much for them to handle.
Buttercup quirks an eyebrow at him "but I'm part of the stage crew".
"Not anymore" Boomer says with the same gentle monotone as he says everything else "now you're the star of my play". He looks at the stage curtains before gazing blankly back at her "besides, you're not that good at raising curtains; a dog could do a better job".
"Eat my ass, blue boy" Buttercup says insulted.
"Not in public" Boomer says with a blush, the actors behind him chuckle "but feel free to come see me after rehearsal".
"You know what freak" Buttercup gets agitated and begins to walk away "I'm out of here, good luck with the play, jerk".
"Wait" Boomer says and buttercup slows down a little but is still moving "Buttercup wait".
The raven haired teen turns to him "what?"
Boomer turns to the other actors "give me 5 minutes everyone, I'll be right back". The other students simply separate, doing their own thing. Boomer walks over to buttercup and the two of them walk to the door out of ear shot of everyone else.
"I'm not doing your stupid play boomer" Buttercup says glaring at him.
Boomer's blank gentle demeanor doesn't change as he gazes into her eyes "please stay, I want you there and I think you're perfect for the play".
"I don't even know how to act" Buttercup says, blushing a little from the attention.
"Just be yourself" Boomer says, he takes her hand in his and holds it "read the script, tell me what you think of it, we'll rehearse a few lines today".
Buttercup feels her resolve breaking, what was it about his eyes that trapped her every time he looks at her? "Jeez, Boomer …I…I don't know, how do you even know I'm going to be any good?"
"Because it's spring time" Boomer smiles at her.
"So?" Buttercup says confused.
"Buttercups flower in the spring" Boomer says closing the distance between them and staring deeper into her eyes "perhaps I'll get to watch you blossom before me, like the lovely flower that you are".
Buttercups entire face turns bright red but boomers gaze keeps her anchored "how can you say things like that and still keep a straight face?" she looks away for a moment "it's embarrassing".
"Sorry" Boomer says grinning at her.
"Fine, I'll read your script and we'll see what happens from there" buttercup separates from him and walks back to the stage, Boomer follows her so that the rehearsal go as scheduled.
Boy's locker room
Butch enters the locker room and is instantly bombarded by his fellow team mates who all clamored at the entrance way, "what's going on?"
Elroy, their line backer looks at him worry "Dude don't go in there".
"Why?" Butch says trying to work his way through the crowd.
"It's Jack" Elroy says putting a hand on Butches shoulder "he's fucking flipped; I think he's mad about one of the cheerleaders".
In light of what Brick told him, he knew exactly who that cheerleader was. Butch reassures Elroy with a nod and walks cautiously further into the locker room. He then sees Jack punching one of the lockers and venting out by kicking and knocking over everything. He could see why the others looked scared of their leader, the guy was definitely having a Neanderthal moment and for once he actually made butch look like the dignified one. Butch leans against a locker and looks at the man "dude, what's going on here?"
Jack turns to him and for the first time Butch sees the slightly swollen eye colored black and blue "THAT BITCH, THINKS SHE'S TOO GOOD FOR ME".
Butch quirks an eyebrow at him "who?"
"WHO THE FUCK ELSE? BUBBLES" Jack glares at him "and your brother is fucking her".
Butch rolls his eyes "trust me, if that were true I would know about it".
"YOU DO KNOW ABOUT IT", Jack stares at him and approaches him "and you're hiding it from me are you?"
"There's nothing to hide" Butch says starting to lose his cool.
Jack gets in his face and stares him down almost nose to nose "I get what's going on here, you're defending your brother? You're picking him over this team? What? Are the two of you sharing her? HM? Are you two double dipping the bitch?"
Butches expression turns dangerous as he glares back at him "I think you need to calm down", it wasn't a statement or a suggestion, it was a warning, someone is about to get dropped today and it wasn't Butch.
The two stare each other down until the coach enters the room and breaks them up "whoa, whoa, whoa save that energy for tomorrow's game, we should be fighting the opposing team, not each other". He then looks around "what the fuck? Did a hurricane pass through here?" He then looks at Butch and Jack "guys what's the deal here?"
Butch grins at him "nothing coach, Jack here just had a little accident, didn't you Jack?"
Jack doesn't say anything; he angrily walks past Butch, but not before stopping and glaring at him "this isn't over".
Butch glares back at him "you're right, it's not".
As the coach leaves to get the plans for the day, Kevin, another team mate, goes up to Butch and slaps him on the back "dude, you alright? I thought you two were going to throw down for a minute there".
"Not unless he wants to be carried away on a stretcher", Butch says
"The guys fucking mental" another team mate says "yo Butch, when are you taking over?"
Butch quirks an eyebrow at him "what?"
Kevin looks around to make sure Jack isn't coming back through the door "look, me and the guys have been talking and lets face it, with Jack acting like this our team ain't looking good. We need a new leader; we decided that it should be you".
Butch was a bit shocked, then again now that he thinks about it, he probably shouldn't have been. He could memorize the play by plays a lot faster then Jack could and was a lot more reliable towards the team. At one point or another there were times where he was even known as Jacks second in command whenever the leader was absent or late to practice. Butch grins at the rest of them "well since Jack's on a collision course straight to the nut house, I guess we are in need of some new direction". He opens his locker and takes out his gear "I think I'll have a chat with the coach after practice". He high fives a couple of them and they continue to change for football practice.