Townsville High
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Chapter 22 - I'll look after you.
Last Chapter - Bubbles made a miraculous recovery and admitted her feelings for Boomer. Butch told Buttercup that he doesn't have feelings for her, and Blossom returned to Townsville.
"You haven't started packing your stuff yet." Bubbles pointed out.
She was lying on Boomer's hospital bed beside him. Neither of them had left the room since the other night. Boomer smiled down at her before nodding. Truth was he didn't want to leave, because he had a feeling she wouldn't be leaving with him.
"I know, I just don't want to move." He said. Bubbles smiled and sat up beside him. She kissed him lightly and wrapped her arms around him. A small part of her felt sick, this was technically cheating, she hadn't spoken to Tyler yet. He was going to be so disappointed.
"They're here." He said. Bubbles furrowed her brows at him, confused on what he had said. She pulled away from his strong arms and raised a brow.
"Huh?" She asked, puzzled.
"You lost your superpowers, I didn't. I just heard Brick talking to someone." He smiled at her. "They're here."
Bubbles grinned, but then realised Tyler would be with them. She jumped out of his bed and sat on the seat beside him. Boomer looked at her in confusion, and she gave him a look that suggested this was between them.
"I'm not having Ty find out about us this way, Boomer. I need to tell him myself at the right time, so for today, we're dating in secret." She said. Boomer smiled and chuckled at her idea, but realised it made perfect sence.
"I like the sound of that." He smiled.
Suddenly the door swung open and everyone was there. Bubbles didn't have time to react because Blossom and Buttercup tackled her off of the seat in a hug. She choked on her own breath at their hug.
"Can't breathe!" She yelled. Blossom and Buttercup pulled away but smiled at her. She looked over and saw Tyler, who looked so happy that she was awake, but so disappointed that she was in Boomer's room.
"You have no idea how much we all missed you!" Blossom said. Bubbles smiled and looked at everyone. For the first time since she had moved back here she felt like she belonged, and she felt loved, not just by the two boys that she had been torn over. It was a good feeling.
Brick and Tyler walked over and sat on the two seats beside her. Butch and Maxine sat on Boomer's bed, and Brody stood beside them all. Bubbles was finding it hard to breath being surrounded by so many people, but she was just glad to be alive.
"You had me worried, Blue." Brick said before hugging her. Bubbles laughed and hugged him back. She pulled away and turned to Tyler, who hadn't said a word. He was just looking at her. She remembered how Boomer told her last night that Tyler told him he loved her, and it was going to hurt so much breaking up with him.
"Did you miss me?" She teased Tyler.
He smiled. "Of course I did, come here." He hugged her tightly. Bubbles smiled and hugged him back. Some strange sence felt happy to be in his arms again, but she had chosen Boomer and that was how it was meant to be. Still, her feelings for Tyler wouldn't be going away anytime soon, she really did like him.
Boomer watched them in jealousy. She looked actually happy to be near him, to be hugging him and speaking to him. He started to think if she would ever get over Tyler, but he knew sometime she would, just not anytime soon anyway. Brick glanced at Boomer who was watching them hug, and he just knew something had happened.
"So, Bubbles. We have a surprise now that your awake." Maxine grinned, and Bubbles rolled her eyes.
"Let me guess, another party? I get that we're teenagers but it seems like we have one every week." She laughed. That was true, they did have a lot of parties, but that is what teenagers do, and this was an event that should be celebrated.
Maxine laughed. "It's more like a just girls thing, not really a party. You're gonna love it, B." Bubbles smiled and nodded, knowing she would.
"You should have seen Buttercup." Butch laughed. "Sitting in your house, listening to your favorite song, drinking and cr-" Buttercup yanked him up by the shirt and stopped him from speaking before he could say the word 'crying.' He took note not to mention it again.
"Butch is about to suffer brain damage, I wouldn't listen to him." Buttercup said before letting go of Butch and sitting on the ground beside Blossom. Everyone laughed, excluding Butch of course. He glanced at Buttercup, who actually looked happy again. He smiled uncontrollably as she laughed with her sister.
Blossom stood up. "I'm going to go talk to Dr Russell and get your release papers. Give me a sec." Bubbles nodded. Blossom left the room and headed to Dr Russell's office. One thing she couldn't get her head around was how she woke up when she was at her worst, and how she had recovered so quickly. Something was wrong about that.
She knocked on the door and walked in. Dr Russell smiled at her and stood up from his desk with Bubbles' release papers in his hand. Blossom walked over to him and sat down on the chair in front of his desk.
"There's something I wanted to ask you about Bubbles' recovery." Blossom said.
"I had a feeling one of you would." He replied as he sat back down. He crossed his arms on the table and looked at her with a serious face. Someone was bound to ask sooner or later, because even they knew miracles couldn't happen.
Dr Russell pulled out his paperwork. "You're sisters condition was worse than we let on, but knowing how much stress it would put on you all, we didn't mention it. Bubbles' began to have kidney failure as of the impact from the crash, she needed a transplant, then she finally got one."
Blossom raised her eyebrow. "Someone donated a kidney, do you know who?"
"I'm afraid I can't give away that kind of information, but I will tell you one thing, one of your friends found out and donated. That's all I can say." Dr Russell replied. Blossom's face hardened in shock. How could one of them risk that and not even tell anyone? Who was it?
"Oh..It'll be okay, though? I mean, they're not risking anything?" Blossom asked. Dr Russell sighed and handed Blossom the release papers before looking away. Even he knew this was hard to hear, that someone out there would be at risk.
He sighed again. "Blossom, just keep an eye on your friends. One of them..if they suffered kidney damage, they wouldn't make it like Bubbles did. You can't tell anyone what I've told you, just watch out for them."
Blossom nodded with wide eyes. She slowly stood up and clutched the release papers in her hand. She thanked Dr Russell before walking out of his office and returning to Bubbles' room. Her eyes darted about the room as she looked at them all.
Brick? Maxine? Butch? Boomer? Tyler? Brody? Buttercup?..Which one of them done this?
She looked at them all, fearing for one of them. One thing racked through her brain, which one of them had enough motive to risk their life for Bubbles'?
"So do I have to sign those?" Bubbles asked, pulling Blossom out of her trance. She nodded and walked into the room before passing the paper to Bubbles. She signed them at ease before handing them back to Blossom. Brick put his arm around her and smiled. Blossom smiled back before looking back at Bubbles and frowning.
No matter how good things got, something always managed to make things more complicated.
"Come on!" Maxine whined. She pulled at Bubbles' arm and pulled her towards Brody and Maxine's house. Bubbles laughed at her eagerness. They stepped inside the house, and she saw her sisters sitting in the living room.
Bubbles looked around. "Where's Brody?"
"I asked him to go out with the guys for a couple hours. This is a girls only party, no Brody aloud." She laughed. Bubbles raised her eyebrow at Maxine.
"Thought you said this wasn't a party." Bubbles questioned.
Maxine walked ahead. "Details! C'mon, Blue." Bubbles laughed and closed the door behind her. They sat down on the couch, Bubbles beside Buttercup and Maxine beside Blossom. Maxine put the television on and put some chick flick that Buttercup hated on, but sat through because Bubbles liked it.
An hour later, Buttercup was close to falling asleep. She turned to Bubbles and groaned, knowing this chick flick was one of her favorite films. Buttercup prefered action type films, the type of movies that a guy would like, which is why Butch saw her as a best friend.
"This movie sucks." She moaned.
Bubbles smiled. "We can change it if you want." Then Buttercup remembered what she said to Butch about how no matter what Bubbles wanted to do, she always let everyone else get what they wanted. Buttercup realised it was time to let her have what she really wanted for once, even though Buttercup always thought she had.
"No, it's fine. We'll watch it." Buttercup smiled before turning back to the movie. Bubbles was shocked at her sister's actions, but realised why she was doing it. She hugged her sister and turned back to the movie. Buttercup grinned.
Maxine stood up, causing all eyes to go on her. "I have to go somewhere, I'll be back in half an hour."
"Okay." Blossom replied as Maxine made her way out of the house. She didn't ask where she was going because she had an idea of where it was. The girls turned back to movie.
Bubbles noticed her phone go, and his name scroll across the screen making her feel even more uncomfortable.
Maxine opened the door and stepped into her old house. She wandered into the living room where she saw Mellisa. Her eyes fixed on Mellisa's as she stood perfectly still, finding no words to say. Mellisa looked shocked to see her, but also happy. It had been a while since Maxine had been back in this house, or even spoken to her.
Mellisa smiled. "Maxine, you're back."
"Don't get your hopes up, I came to get the rest of my stuff." She said before walking over to the last box of her possessions that sat beside the coffee table. She picked in up and turned around to head for the door, but Mellisa stopped her.
"Wait." Mellisa cried. "I um..I was looking through my old letters and found one that Elizabeth sent to you on your 12th birthday. Here." She handed Maxine the letter. Maxine took it and looked up at Mellisa with a raised eye-brow.
"I'm glad you have Brody to look after you. We both know I was never any good at it. Just, remember that even though I'm not your real mother, not a day went by that I didn't regret pretending that I was." Mellisa said as she started tearing up. Maxine nodded before walking out of the house.
She closed the door behind her and put the box down at her feet. She sat down on the step outside the house and clutched the letter tight in her hands. Maxine opened it carefully and pulled the letter out, and began to read it.
Maxine,
This is the last letter I'm going to send, because I'm aware your mother most likely didn't show you the first one. If you can read this, I just need to tell you that when you do find out about me, it'll be too late to meet me.
I'll never forgive myself for leaving you, but I had to do what was best for you and you're brother. Yes, you have a brother. You probably already know that by now, and I hope you both keep each other safe.
Anyway, I'm really sorry for everything that you must be feeling right now, Maxine. I do love you, and I have ever since I gave birth to you. I did want to meet you, I know you'd be just as beautiful as when you were a baby. Please don't feel like I didn't want you because I did.
Please, keep Tyler-Jay safe for me, you both need family and you're all that each other have left.
Happy birthday, my little girl.
Elizabeth.
Maxine felt something else in the envelope, and pulled it out. It was a picture of Elizabeth, she could tell because this woman looked exactly like what Maxine looked like, and she had Tyler's eyes. In her hands were two baby's, Maxine and Tyler. She was smiling happily down at them. You wouldn't even know she was troubled if you looked at it.
The brunette choked out a cry and held her hand to her mouth as she stared at the picture. She really did love her like a daughter. Maxine put the picture and the letter into the box of her final possessions and stood up holding the box. She made her way back to her house with tears in her eyes, but finally feeling at peace with her situation.
She was going to look after Tyler just like her mother had asked, but it was going to harder than she thought now that Tyler was about to break down when he found out about Bubbles' secret..
Bubbles stepped outside to answer a call from Boomer, which she couldn't answer around the girls. She couldn't have them finding out before Tyler did. She placed the phone to her ear and smiled at Boomer's voice.
"Hey, sweetness." He spoke on the other side of the phone.
"Hi, Boom. How is your guys night out?" She asked curiously.
"It's pretty boring without you. How's your girls night in?"
"Pretty boring without you." She smiled.
"Good, because I couldn't seem to stay away. Turn around."
Bubbles furrowed her brows before turning around, and finding Boomer standing there with the phone to his ear. Bubbles smiled and shut the phone off before running to him. She threw her arms around him and jumped on him. He caught her and laughed along with her before pressing his lips against hers.
"I love doing that." She whispered against his soft lips. Boomer chuckled and set her down on her feet. He took her hands in his and locked eyes with her. She felt safe with him, like she could face anything.
He smiled. "Every moment without you isn't worth living. I needed to see you, but I guess I should go before I get caught by one of the girls."
Bubbles frowned and held him tighter. "This secret dating thing really sucks. I promise I'll tell Tyler, I just need to give it some time, but until then, dating in secret will have to do." She kissed his lips twice.
"Yeah." He replied before hugging her. He noticed Buttercup walking past the window and he kissed her quickly before vanishing. Bubbles sighed dreamily and smiled as she touched her lips. It felt too perfect to be real.
She grinned and headed back inside.
Maxine was back at the house and the girls were finished with the movie. They were listening to loud music and sharing memories, having a laugh. Their attention went to the door as it opened, and Brody stepped in with the rest of the boys. Looks like boys night out was over.
The brunette crossed her arms as she glared at her boyfriend. "Brody, I ask you to go out for a couple hours and your back already?"
Brody chuckled. "There was nothing to do, Max. We thought we'd continue guys night here. I live her too remember." Maxine rolled her eyes but gave in and took his hand before leading him to the couch. They sat down and lay in each others arms while the rest of the guys took seats beside the girls.
Bubbles glanced at Boomer and smiled slyly at him, receiving one back. She noticed Tyler wander into the kitchen to get a drink and decided to go talk to him so it didn't seem like she was ignoring him. She followed him in and smiled at him as she faced her.
"Tyler, how are you?" Bubbles asked smiling. She noticed the distant look on Tyler's face and her brows furrowed in confusion. He looked so uncomfortable, it was off settling.
"I'm great." Sarcasm dripped off his words. "How's Boomer?" He asked bitterly. Bubbles was getting a bad feeling about this. Had Boomer told him? Bubbles narrowed her eyes at him, wondering what was going on.
"What are you talking about?" She asked calmly.
Tyler sighed. "I saw you kiss Boomer. What the hell was going through your mind when you didn't tell me? You chose him, was that such a big secret?" He asked, betrayed. Bubbles' eyes grew and she frowned. Bubbles didn't want him to find out this way, she still liked him as much as before, and it killed her seeing him like this.
"I'm sorry, Tyler. You were never meant to find out this way. I still like you, I always will..I just think it's time to move on. You need someone that will appreciate you, because the whole time I was with you, Boomer was always in my head." She said. The look on Tyler's face terrified her, he looked devastated.
"You're not making me feel any better. I love you, Bubbles, but I guess love was never enough for you. You need the fucking drama." He spat in frustration.
Bubbles frowned. "That's not true. I'm sorry, okay! You don't understand how much I love you, but I was never in love with you, but I am falling in love with Boomer. I still want us to be friends."
Tyler laughed bitterly at her. "Friends? Sorry, love, but it's pretty hard to be friends with someone you're in love with. I was happy before you showed up, I had any girl I wanted and feelings didn't affect me, now you changed me into this..you turned me into someone who gives a damn, and I fucking hate it."
He began to walk away. "Ty, wait!"
"No! I was fine with you and Boomer, I told you both that in the hospital, but you lied about it. I can't forgive that." He stormed off leaving Bubbles to look at the ground in shame. All he ever did was love her and she treated him like this? She was no better than the evil version of herself that plagued Boomer for a week.
"I'm sorry." She whispered.
Thanks for reading, sorry if it's rushed but I really wanted to get this chapter up today. So tell me if you all liked it!
Next Chapter - It's Bubbles' first day back to school and she and Boomer are exclusive, causing conflict. Blossom tries to figure out who donated the kidney. Tyler is back to his old destructive ways now that Bubbles has left him, and Maxine decides to do what Elizabeth asks and look after her brother, even though it means not being friends with Bubbles anymore.
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