Chapter Four: Consequences
The next morning, Bubbles flew home as quickly as possible, leaving Him asleep in his bed. "Goodbye my pretty princess" she said, kissing him on the cheek, leaving a sticky lipgloss mark. As soon as Bubbles got home, the Professor was in his lab working on a new formula to try and make a longer-lasting source of heating, she didn't really know. When she got up to her room, however, her sisters were both waiting on the bed with raised eyebrows. Buttercup immediately jumped up off her bed and said "Well look who's doing the walk of shame." "Walking?" Bubbles inquired, "I flew home." "So you admit you were out all night." Blossom said, catching her sister in the act immediately. "What? No," Bubbles denied, "I was..." Both her sisters gave her accusing looks, and Bubbles eventually caved. "Okay okay I admit it!" She broke down in tears, "You guys..." I think I really like Him. "Well that was obvious from what was going on last night, you sure it wasn't the alcohol?" Bubbles' stomach dropped. "You were spying on me?! How could you?" She said, immediately feeling violated. "We didn't want you getting hurt or raped," Buttercup spat, "But in your case, you can't rape the willing. Not to mention the dumbass fucked you without a condom." Bubbles' face suddenly turned red. "And there's no way you could be on the pill," Buttercup continued, "because everyone knows you're a virgin!" Bubbles was shocked. "Lay off her, Buttercup..." Blossom began, "At least I'm not a fucking whore like you!" Bubbles shouted, and her and Buttercup got into it. Buttercup threw the first punch, and Bubbles screamed so loud that she knocked Buttercup right through the wall with her super sound waves, straight into the Professor's lab, where she landed right into her father's legs.
The Professor looked down at his rambunctious 18 year old daughter at his feet, and said "Buttercup, what the hell is going on?" And he noticed the huge hole in the wall. "Professor, it's Bubbles! Last night she was..." Blossom got there just in time before Buttercup said too much. Sure she was as angry as Buttercup was that Bubbles had slept with Him, but she wasn't going to risk her or either of her sisters' duty as superheroes because of it. "She was just out drinking with some friends, Professor." Blossom spat out, "No big deal. She's not feeling too well, but Buttercup and I are gonna make her something to eat and tell her to take it easy all day. "Bubbles? Drinking?" He inquired, "Never!" "Oh believe it," Buttercup said, realizing that Blossom was covering the real story and just going with it, "She's in our room hungover right now." Now true, Bubbles may have been feeling the after effects of last night, but what she was really feeling was drunk on love.
Blossom and Buttercup went down to the kitchen so their cover story would be legit, and began to make Bubbles one of her favorite treats: Chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream and powdered sugar with a cherry on top. "I don't get how Bubbles can eat this without getting diabetes." Buttercup said as she put the last of the finishing touches on the pancakes, "the thought of eating all this sweet stuff makes me sick." and she stuck her tongue out. Blossom poured a glass of milk and put a flower in a vase on the tray. "Just bring this up to her with me, Buttercup." Blossom sighed, "You nearly blew our cover when you guys were duking it out upstairs. "Well what do you expect me to do, Blossom?" Buttercup whispered angrily, not wanting the Professor to overhear but finding it hard to keep her voice down, "She could get infected...you don't know where his dick is been! And even worse, she might get pregnant!"
Bubbles patiently waited in her bed, playing along with her sisters' cover story, but pouted nonetheless. Buttercup dictating her sex life was totally un-called for. Buttercup and Ace had done it so many times, it was a wonder that all of Townsville didn't know about it (Not that they didn't accuse her of it however), not to mention this is when Buttercup was dating Mitch Mitchelson. Buttercup truly was a whore, although she was done with Mitch at the moment, she was pretty sure she still fooled around with Ace. Regardless of the fact that Buttercup used birth control, cheating was wrong, and Bubbles would rather make a mistake than hurt someone she loved or have sex with someone she didn't love. And lord knows she loved Him, and she had never loved anyone before like that. She could hear footsteps coming up the stairs, and she guessed that it couldn't be her sisters because they just flew to get around everywhere. "Can I come in?" The Professor said in his usual, slow, patient tone. "I...guess so." Bubbles said as she hid underneath her covers. Her father walked into the room, taking his pipe out of his mouth, sitting on the edge of Bubbles's bed. "Now Bubbles," the Professor said with concern, looking into his daughter's eyes, "You know drinking is wrong, and you're 3 years under the age limit." "Sorry Daddy," she squeaked, "I just wanted to have some fun on my 18th birthday." "Well now you know the consequences." The Professor said as his blonde daughter looked exhausted and nauseous (Bubbles played her part well; truth be told, the alcohol didn't have nearly as much of an effect on her as the sex did...she hoped and prayed that he wouldn't see the hickeys on her just underneath the top of her nightgown hem...Him had done quite a number on her, needless to say she loved every bit of it). "Get some rest honey, and don't do this again, okay?" "Okay." Bubbles said, rolling over on her side. "Promise?" the Professor said before he left the room. "Promise." Bubbles said. "Alright," the Professor said as he started to leave, but paused at the last second when the door was just about a millimeter cracked open. "Wait a minute Bubbles," he said, "Who exactly were you drinking with last night?" He recognized that his daughter made a mistake, but he wanted to know that she was at least in decent company and not that of a nasty criminal.
Bubbles began to truly sweat and feel sick now. She didn't know how to answer. Unknown to her well-meaning but oblivious father, she had spent the night drinking with the "nastiest criminal of all nasty criminals", and worse, he had deflowered her and possibly...she didn't want to think about that last part. "Um," she stammered, "Serena..." She hated to use her friend as a cop-out and probably get her in trouble, but she couldn't put her and her sisters' career as superheroes at stake, and she didn't want to upset her family and friends or the Mayor. Furthermore, she didn't want to ruin her and Him's relationship, if you could call it a relationship..."Really Bubbles?" the Professor said, looking down. "But you two are such good girls, usually always finishing your homework on time, hell, the worst I've ever seen you two do is give yourselves a tummyache from eating too many sweets, even at this age." "I know Daddy," she said, "It was a mistake. And I'm really sorry." "Well I believe you, Bubbles," the Professor said, "Just don't let it happen again." "I won't." she said almost hurriedly as he began to walk away down the hall. "Hi, girls," the Professor said to Blossom and Buttercup who were carrying Bubbles's tray of pancakes into her room, "You're sister's in bed waiting for you, we already had a talk about what happened last night. I'm glad neither of you made the same choice she did." "Yeah because we don't sleep with evil she-men." Buttercup muttered ever so subtlely under her breath, and her and Blossom went onto their room.
"Hi guys..." Bubbles began awkwardly, "Here's your stupid pancakes." Buttercup said, basically "plopping" the tray onto her sister's lap, thankfully not spilling the milk onto her. Bubbles made a face at her brunette sister, almost wanting to stick her tongue out at her, but didn't want to stoop to that immature level, despite being the "baby" of the three. "Feel better Bubbles," Blossom said, "And I'm not just talking about the after effect of you drinking last night...I'm talking about the after effects of what you did right AFTER you drank..." and yet again Bubbles's face turned that shade of fuschia. "Are you gonna talk to me about the birds and the bees?" she said, starting to feel ashamed of what she had done, not regretful though. "Well it seems you've left us with no choice, Bubbles," Blossom said, surely making it an inevitably awkward/giggly discussion, "You clearly didn't pay enough attention to the consequences of unprotected sex in high school, so we're going to have sex ed right here, right now." "Oh god," Bubbles said, hiding her face, "Guys, please don't." She was half scared, half about to giggle her head off. "We're just trying to help you, you wuss." Buttercup said, "We don't want a baby having a baby...you remember what happened when we were in kindergarten and we couldn't find that baby's mother." "We're not 5 anymore, Buttercup." Bubbles spat, "And I took care of the baby better than either of you did anyway!" "Stop arguing!" Bubbles shouted at once, and grabbed her chalkboard. "Class is in session."
"Now Bubbles," Blossom said, "When a man and a woman get into a romantic relationship, they tend to get physical..it's only natural. It usually starts with kissing, and well, you know the drill." Bubbles's face had remained a consistent shade of red and she was suppressing giggles and biting the insides of her cheeks. "Buttercup," Blossom called, "Bring the dolls up here please." "Dolls?" Buttercup argued, "Are you fucking serious?" "Just bring them up here!" "Fine." Buttercup rolled her eyes, and grabbed Bubbles's stuffed bunny and...Octie. "Don't use Octie!" She panicked, and she started to laugh. There was always something about Octie that had made her think too much about a certain someone near and dear to her heart...this class would get too "heated" if they were to use him as a model. "Fine." Bubbles said, and threw Octie onto the bed roughly. "Don't hurt him!" she said, gripping Octie and squishing him against her chest. "Oh grow up!" Buttercup said, and hastily grabbed Bubbles's stuffed alligator instead and brought them up to Blossom. "All right," Blossom said, quite annoyed with the bickering of her sisters, "Now, before the man puts his penis in the woman's vagina, what must either or both of them have first?" "Drugs?" Buttercup said, snickering. "You're supposed to help her, not make it worse." Blossom said, "Any other guesses?" Bubbles knew damn well what it was, she had literally just done things in the heat of the moment. She raised her hand slowly and sighed, "Either birth control, condoms, female condoms, spermicide, or an IUD." "Very good for someone who didn't pay enough attention in real class, Bubbles." Blossom said, "Now can you tell me why?" "I've had enough of this, you guys." Bubbles said, suddenly deeply embarrassed, "I know what I did was wrong, and I'm sorry. I really am. But you don't understand what Him and I have...the feelings have been there for a long time." "Ugh, how long could they have been there for, Bubbles?" Buttercup said, "We only JUST turned 18. Are you trying to tell me you guys have had a "thing" for each other since we've been in kindergarten?" "Well," Bubbles said, "There was the time he took over Octie, and the time you smashed my chalk and he seemed to understand me and..." "Oh Bubbles, come off it." Buttercup said, rolling her eyes, "You know damn well he was just using you to be part of his evil schemes, and you know he's probably into dudes anyway, and if he were to go for a chick, it would be a hard-core bitch like Sedusa, not a sweet, innocent, STUPID girl like you." Bubbles began to tear up and said, "Get out! Both of you!" Just leave me alone and don't talk to me about this! You don't understand how much I love him!"