New chapter! Woo-Hoo! This takes off from the ending of the last chapter where Adam decides to 'surprise' Bubblina. Hope you like the chapter!
Bubblina froze. Why was Adam here? Why did he creep up and grab her? How did he find out where she lived? Adam just smiled down at her. Not a friendly smile. His smile was more of a smirk. She hated the way he smirked. It reminded her of the kids that bullied her but it mostly reminded her of him. She didn't want to think about it though.
Bubblina didn't know what to do, so she stayed still in his grasp with confusion tracing her features. She stayed like that until Adam chuckled and his smirk grew bigger. "Look, I know I'm hot but you don't have to keep staring at me, Bubblina." This brought her out of her frozen state and started squirming to try and get out of his grasp. When that didn't work, she tried elbowing him. When that didn't work, she gave up and decided to just ask why he grabbed her. "Why did you sneak up on me and grab me? And let me go, please."
Adam only chuckled and spoke with a flirty tone. "Now, why would I let go of such a perfect and gorgeous goddess? Besides, you were laughing just a minute ago. Why did you stop?" Bubblina rolled her eyes. Did this guy really think he could charm her? Bubblina didn't date as easily as others from a past experience involving him. She mentally slapped herself in the face for thinking that. 'Don't think about him! He is out of your life forever!'
"Adam-" Bubblina was cut off. "Oh, you remember my name? Well it is pretty hard to forget this face." Adam used one hand and circled it around his head. Talk about egotistical. "Adam, what do you want? How did you find out where I lived?"
"The girl with the black hair- what was her name? Penelope? Anyways she told me and here I am." Alright that answered one question, now to find out why he's there. "Alright well, why are you here? What do you want?"
"That's easy. A kiss from you." Bubblina stared at him again, waiting for Adam to laugh and say it was a joke. But he didn't. "This is a joke, right? This whole 'sneaking up and grabbing me and I want a kiss' thing is a joke?" Adam smirked and mouthed 'no'. Well, he can just leave because that isn't happening. Before Bubblina could do anything though, Adam leaned in.
Bubblina turned her head. Adam tried again. Bubblina turned her head to the other direction. Adam tried once again. Once again, Bubblina turned her head. Adam got frustrated and looked at her. "Will you hold still?!" Bubblina furiously shook her head. "No! Now let go of me!"
Adam scoffed at this. "Or what? What can you do?" Bubblina looked at him with serious eyes and a large frown. "I didn't say I was going to do something, now did I?" Adam stared at her in confusion. "What?" Suddenly, Bubblina screamed at the top of her lungs. "BARRY! HELP!" The loud noise caused Adam to let go and cover his ears. It took him a minute, but he realized what was going to happen a little too late. Barry exited his house wearing light blue sweatpants and a plain white t-shirt. He did have time to do one thing though.
"Bubblina!" Barry came running over to where his sister and Adam were. "Are you ok? I heard you yell." Bubblina looked at him with a small pout and shook her head. She quickly explained what happened and showed 10 small scratches that Adam had made. This time though, the scratches were intentionally made. Adam had purposely hurt Bubblina for calling for help.
Barry was mad. That was a lie. Barry was furious. Also a lie. He was outraged. Alright, he did overreact when Gloyd and Swizzle hurt Bubblina, but this time she was hurt on purpose! No one intentionally hurts his sister when he's around. No one. He turned around and glared at Adam, who had started to creep away but failed. "Uhh... hi?" '"Hi?" That's all you can say!? Dude, what happened to your smooth lines and moves?! Oh that's right! You freaked out because you are about to get beat to a pulp! Well only one thing to do now.'
Suddenly, Adam ran. He didn't even make it 3 steps when a licorice rope wrapped around his foot and shot up, leaving him dangling from his foot. Once this happened, Jerry appeared from behind the tree where the rope was tied to, laughing and wearing a light blue t-shirt with black sweatpants. "Hey, Bubblina. Hey, Barry. Listen, all I know is that Bubblina needed help from this guy so catch me up." Once again, Bubblina explained what Adam did. Jerry didn't say anything. He just pulled out his phone and started to dial a number. Confused by his actions, Bubblina asked, "What are you doing?"
"Calling Joe. Mr. Cheater-pants over here was dating Candlehead, A.K.A. the person Joe is desperately in love with, so he might want to know so he can beat the fudge out of this guy. You might want to call Candlehead by the way. Do you have her number?" Bubblina nodded and grabbed her phone, dialing Candlehead's number.
5 minutes Later...
The Ice-Screamer and the Candy Meteor pulled into the fields and the drivers hopped out, one with a face that looked as if he could kill and the other with a face that clearly read heartbreak. Even though she was upset, Candlehead also had a glint of... relief? However, Joe only saw the hurt in his crush's eyes and got even madder, if that was possible.
Joe and Candlehead looked up at Adam, who was still dangling from the rope. Candlehead burst out laughing. "Hahahahahahahah! Ok. Whoever did this, thank you!"
Joe also started laughing and Jerry cracked up after a few seconds. Barry looked at Adam and fell to the ground laughing uncontrollably. Bubblina looked at the 4 who were now all on the floor laughing. Stepping over them carefully, she went up next to Adam and tilted her head to the side, studying him carefully. Adam looked on with hope at Bubblina. "Bubblina, you'll let me down, won't you?" Bubblina smiled. Then she slapped Adam hard across the face. A bright red handprint instantly appeared.
The other 4 looked on with shock. Then Candlehead stood up and did the same action. Another handprint appeared on his other cheek. "Candlehead!" Adam yelled.
"Yes, Adam? Or should I say, ex-boyfriend?" Before Adam could respond, a loud "Yes!" erupted from Joe. Everyone looked at him as his face flushed red with embarrassment. "Umm... found a nickel?" Joe said, making it sound more like a question than an explanation. Candlehead looked at him and turned back to Adam. "As I was saying, yes EX-boyfriend?"
Adam looked at her in anger. "Listen here you dumb, thick-skulled, candle-wearing freak! You do not break-up with me! I break-up with you! Now as my girlfriend, I order you to let me down! Now!" Candlehead looked on with tears in her eyes. She slapped Adam in the face one more time and hopped in her kart. She quickly drove away.
Joe had never felt more angry in his entire programmed life. "Oh you are so dead! You had better apologize to her when I get her back here!" Adam rolled his eyes. "Oh please, she was stupid. The only reason why I even bothered to ask her out was because she's hot. But now, I have the even more beautiful and perfect goddess Bubblina."
Bubblina glared at Adam. He was starting to go red in the face from the blood rushing to his head. Now normally she would be flattered at being called beautiful, but she was too annoyed and angry. "Ha! As if. I would NEVER go out with you. Even if the entire arcade shut down!" By this point, Barry was now re-fueled of his anger and decided to just beat up Adam and get it over with so he could get Bubblina to bed. "Jerry, can you take Bubblina inside? I think me and Joe would like to have a word with Adam." Normally Barry would be upset over Bubblina being alone with a boy, but he trusted Jerry. Jerry nodded and started leading our bubblegum girl inside.
Before entering, both looked behind and saw Joe holding a fusion sword (the one from Final Fantasy 7) and Barry holding a strong peppermint branch, advancing on Adam. Both smiled. Bubblina quickly got dressed in her pink nightgown and went back out to the living room where Jerry was waiting. "Thanks for setting up that rope trap. Why was that there in the first place?"
"Oh I heard you scream, so I grabbed some rope and set it up in order to catch that beach racer. I had a feeling he would head to the Gummy Forest so I lined it up. It worked." The Gummy Forest was a forest that was right next to the Bubblegum Fields. It had tons of fruit on the trees and bushes but they were all made out of gummies. Jerry lived in house there that was hidden behind some blueberry and blackberry bushes but was still close to the fields. That was how he had heard Bubblina scream.
Bubblina nodded in understanding. She grabbed her pills and started to take one, momentarily forgetting that Jerry didn't know that she had insomnia. Jerry looked on with confusion as Bubblina swallowed the pill. When she had swallowed it he asked," What's the pill for?"
Bubblina went wide-eyed. How could she forget that it was supposed to be a secret?! Especially since it's HER secret?! She was about to lie and say she had a headache but once again saw pure concern and worry. She sighed. "I have insomnia. I can't sleep if I don't take a pill. But please don't tell anyone! Please?"
"Of course I'll keep it a secret. I'm really sorry." Bubblina sighed. "It's really not that bad. I just hate it because of a bad past that involves a few bullies." Bubblina quickly explained about the kids but decided to leave out him. Jerry wrapped his arms around Bubblina as she had quickly come to tears as the pain and teasing came back to her. He rubbed his hand up and down her spine. He let go a few seconds before Barry walked in through the door.
Seeing the tear stains on his sister's face, he immediately started questioning. "What happened? Why is my sister crying?" Bubblina assured him that it was absolutely nothing that Jerry did and that she had told him about her disorder. Barry looked at her in surprise considering the only other person she had told was Honey, who was pretty much now her best friend. "Wow. I guess you really trust these 2 to tell them." Bubblina nodded.
"Well, it's late, so I better get going. Besides we have the roster tomorrow. Goodnight Bubblina. Bye Barry." Before he left, Bubblina wrapped her arms around him, squeezing him in a giant hug. She quickly let go, blushing, before Jerry could even register what happened. "Um.. s-sorry. I-I better get to,um, bed! Bye!" She turned around quickly and ran down the hall to her room.
Jerry still stood there, trying to register what happened. "Barry, all I saw was a blob. Please tell me what just happened."
"She hugged you, got embarrassed, apologized and ran down the hall to her room." Jerry nodded. "Well, later Barry." Jerry left and Barry went back to his house not too long after. Everyone finally got some well deserved sleep.
In a small town in another part of Sugar Rush...
"So how long do you think the trip is?" a girl with curly brown hair and blue eyes asked. A boy with jet black hair and brown eyes looked over. "I don't think it's going to be too long. But if it is, it will be worth it to see Bubblina again." Both smirked evilly at the thought of seeing their old 'friend' again. "Yea, it will be worth it."
"Come on. Let's go tell everybody else that we found her." The 2 walked into a house which was filled with 3 people talking. There were 2 boys and 1 girl. One boy had sandy blonde hair and blue eyes while the other boy had brown hair and brown eyes. The girl had red hair and green eyes. They were all talking when the 2 walked in. "What do you want?" The boy with brown hair questioned. The black-haired boy simply held up a magazine with Bubblina's picture on it and said, "Found her."
Everyone in the room instantly got interested and motioned for him to keep talking. "She ended up becoming a racer. Now we can find her by just looking at magazines and following the paparazzi."
Everyone looked at their leader, the brown haired boy. "Let's start packing."
DUN DUN DUNNNNN! You guys can probably guess who those kids are. They won't really appear until in a later chapter but they will have a little scene at the end of each chapter.
That's it. Sorry if it wasn't too good or if it was too long. But review please!