When Dexter had gotten home he took a quick shower to help clear his head so he could think. Seeing Blossom fight and get hurt showed him just how much he really does cares for her and how much he wanted to punish Mandark for getting her hurt.
'Ok Dexter, let's be honest with ourselves.' He thinks as he pulls on a clean shirt. 'We do like Blossom. And as more than just a friend.'
After he finished getting dressed he heads down into the kitchen to find something to eat.
"The question is how do I tell her." He says picking up an apple from a bowl of fruit.
"Tell who what?" Dee Dee asks walking into the kitchen.
"Dee Dee are you ok, is everything alright?" Dexter asks turning around surprised that his sister is home already.
"Yes Dexter I'm ok." She says smiling at her brother glad to be back home.
"I'm so sorry this all happened to you Dee Dee, I failed to keep you safe." He says dropping his head in shame for not keeping his promise to himself to keep her safe.
"I don't blame you Dexter, you can't spend your whole life looking out for me." She says putting her hand on his shoulder. "You need to be free to go out and have a life." She says lifting his head up and smiling at him. "Though you shouldn't have kept that you still have COMPUTER a secret, I missed her."
"I know I shouldn't have, but I couldn't risk her being found. Her helping today could have put her at risk of being discovered." He says his guilt lifting.
"Don't worry Dexter, they will never take her away from us." She says giving his shoulder a gentle squeeze. The squeeze showed Dexter how much Dee Dee understood his worry over COMPUTER and her safety.
"So how was your date? Before Mandark screwed it up that is." She asks letting go of him and leaning against the counter.
Had she asked this question the day before he would have told her that it wasn't a date and would be mad at her for calling the trip to the movies a date, but now after everything that has happened he lets out a small laugh and says; "It was nice."
"So you're finally admitting you like her?" She asks her smile growing.
"Yeah." He says smiling and looking away from her.
"Good for you Dexter, Blossom is a nice girl and you deserve her." Dee Dee was happy for her brother. "Now you just have to ask her out."
"That was what I was talking about when you came home. I have no idea how to." He says as Dee Dee took an orange from the bowl of fruit.
"Just tell her you like her." She says as she started to open the orange.
"That just seems too simple." He says thinking just asking Blossom out is not good enough.
"You could ask her out on a date if you want to do more than just telling her you like her." She says taking a bite out of an orange slice.
Dexter was about to tell her he did make a promise to Blossom to make up the interrupted date, but they heard the front door open and their mother say; "Kids are you home?"
"We're in the kitchen Mom." Dee Dee yells back to their mother.
"Could you come help me bring in the shopping bags? Your father will be home soon and I still need to get dinner going." Mom says walking into the kitchen.
As Dexter and Dee Dee brought the bags into the house they agreed to not tell their parents what happened at the theater. And their parents never did find out what happened, though they both did hear of a movie theater being attacked but they didn't know who was involved.
"It seems that everyday a new superpowered person shows up." Dad says as he read the evening newspaper.
"Its just the way the world is going hon, but for every bad one you hear about there is at least three good ones." Mom says in response to Dads statement.
The next day as Dexter walked to the bus stop he started feeling nervous about seeing Blossom again. But she wasn't at the stop with her sisters.
"Hey Dexter." Bubbles says smiling at him as he joined the girls at the stop.
"Good morning, Where's Blossom?" He asks looking from the girls to their house.
"The Professor had her stay home from school to rest for the day." Buttercup says answering his question about her sister.
"Is she ok?" He asks concerned about Blossom's wellbeing.
"She's fine, The Professor is just being overly concerned." Bubbles says as the bus pulled up to the stop.
"The real question is who was that that used our communicators to tell us to go help you?" Buttercup asks as they get on the bus.
Dexter had forgotten that it was COMPUTER that got told Buttercup and Bubbles that Blossom and him needed their help. "Oh that was… a friend of mine." He says trying to think of how to explain COMPUTER to Bubbles and Buttercup.
"A friend of yours? Besides us three?" Buttercup asks raising her eyebrow as her and Bubbles took a seat across from him.
"Yeah…" He says guessing that Buttercup isn't buying his answer.
"I don't believe you Dexter, we both know that you only have the three of us for friends." Buttercup says crossing her arms. Had Blossom been with them she would have scolded her sister for being rude, but she wasn't there so Buttercup had no one stopping her.
"Would you believe it was a Computer AI that I created when I was a younger and risked everything to back her up and hide her away from Global Security and now have her set up with my laptop and I have a program on it that she used to contact you?" Dexter asks seeing if she would buy the truth.
"If it was anyone but you? No I wouldn't, but I honestly believe that that would be something you would do." Buttercup says believing him.
"Blossom did say she met someone very important to Dexter a while ago." Bubbles says remembering the conversation her and her sisters had about where she was for an hour or so weeks ago.
"Yeah she did. She also said that this person is to be kept a secret, so you don't have to worry about us spilling the beans on you Dexter." Buttercup says giving him a thumbs up.
For the entire day at school Dexter felt lonely without Blossom. Sure he had Bubbles and Buttercup to sit with during math and to eat lunch with but his friendship with them was just not the same as his with Blossom, never mind the fact that he had planned to ask her out on a date.
After school ended he walked with Buttercup and Bubbles to their house to give Blossom her homework from science. Bubbles had offered to give it to her sister for him but he wanted to see Blossom so he lied and told her that he needed to tell Blossom some details about the assignment.
"Hi Dexter." Blossom says when her sisters and Dexter walk into the house.
"Hey." Dexter says back his heart picking up speed when he sees her.
Blossom was sitting on the couch in the living room in a baggy pink shirt and pajama pants watching cartoons for most of the day.
"What brings you by?" She asks as he walked into the room.
Sitting down on the couch he says; "I came to see how you were doing, and to bring you your homework." As he opened his backpack and pulls out her homework from his bag.
"Thanks for your concern Dexter, but I'm fine. The Professor is just worrying too much." Blossom says grateful that Dexter was concerned for her.
"You can never be too careful when it comes to your health." He says handing her the homework.
"Normal people maybe, but I'm a superhero remember. It takes more that betting ruffed up to stop me." She says grinning as she set the papers down on the coffee table.
"I guess I was worrying over nothing." Dexter says leaning back into the couch.
"It was still nice of you to think of me. Would you like to stay and watch some cartoons? It's been getting boring all by myself." She asks wanting him to stay around a little longer.
"I guess I could for a little bit, I had promised Dee Dee to let her talk to COMPUTER today." He says looking at his phone to check the time.
As they sat on the couch watching cartoons Dexter was feeling nervous. He wanted to tell her that he liked her and wanted to know if she did want the makeup date, but he couldn't build up the courage to confess to his best friend.
Having spent most of the day on the couch watching TV had made Blossom feel sleepy. Letting out a yawn she stretches her arms out before dropping her head onto Dexter's shoulder with her eyes closed.
Dexter did not know if Blossom intended to rest her head on his shoulder or if she was just that tired that she just fell over onto him. But as he looked down at her and saw the smile on her face he decided it didn't matter and let her rest.
He ended up not making it home until over several hour after he had said he was going to.
"Sorry I'm late Dee Dee." He tells his sister who was laying on the floor of the living room working on her homework.
"Its fine Dexter, I figured you were over seeing Blossom." She says sitting up and closing her book.
"I was, she wasn't at school today-."
"And you wanted to make sure she was ok." Dee Dee says guessing the rest of his sentence.
"And to bring her her homework." He adds.
"Right." She says noticing that his face was a light shade of red.
The Next day Dexter and Blossom both were feeling very nervous around each other, when they talked to each other they wouldn't look directly at the other and what they did says was short and to the point. When they were walking to science class after lunch Dexter had finally built up enough courage to ask Blossom what he's been wanting to sense the previous day.
"Hey I was wondering, you don't have to of course, but if maybe you wanted to have your makeup date. If you're feeling up for it that is." He says as his palms start to sweat and his knees start shaking.
"Let's not call it that." Blossom says not liking the idea of calling it a makeup date. "But yes I'd love to go on a date." She says blushing.
"Great, so would tomorrow be good for you?" He asks excited that she wanted to go on the date.
"Yeah tomorrow is good for me." She says just as excited as him.
For the whole class period and the rest of the day Dexter and Blossom acted very shy to each other.
"Bye Dexter." Bubbles says waving at him as her and her sisters turned to walk up the path to their house.
"Bye." Dexter says waving back.
"See you later Dexter." Blossom says waving herself.
"Bye Blossom." He says smiling at her.
When he gets inside his house Dexter lets out a sigh. 'I am a man of science and have faced things that would scare anyone else to death, but asking Blossom out on a date was enough to make me want to run and hide.' He thinks as he walks into the kitchen in need of something to drink.
It was a quite lucky for Dexter that the Pizzeria was closed for renovations to be done. Having the day off meant he could spend the entire day with Blossom. But when he walked out of his house he started feeling nervous about going out on a date with Blossom. As he walked down the path leading to the sidewalk he started fussing over his cloths. Again Dee Dee had told him to leave his gloves at home so on top of him thinking his lab coat was too wrinkled, his tie was not straight and his hair was a mess he felt like he is missing part of himself again.
Pushing the doorbell at the Utoniums he starts pulling on his lab coat trying to flatten it out.
"Hey Dexter, what are you doing here?" Bubbles asks opening the door.
"Hi Bubbles, is um Blossom home?" He asks not expecting Bubbles to be the one to open the door.
"Yeah she is, come on in and I'll get her." She says holding the door open for him.
"Thank you." He says walking into the house.
The wait for Blossom was only a minute or two long but to Dexter it felt like ten.
"Hi Dexter" Blossom says walking out onto the balcony of the second floor of the house.
"Hi Blossom." He says back to her.
One thing he had fussed about was if he was under dressed, but when he sees Blossom in her usual dress of a white collared t-shirt with a pink sweater vest and a pink skirt on that worry had left him.
"You ready?" He asks as she walks around to the stairs.
"I am, just let me tell The Professor I'm leaving." She says walking down the stairs.
"Ok, where is he?" Dexter asks as Blossom reached the ground floor.
"He's down in the basement." Blossom says walking around the stairs to the door on the side of the stairs that lead to the basement.
Opening the door she says; "Come with me, you'll love this."
The basement of the house was painted white and had tables against every wall say for one that had a big computer mainframe. On top of all the tables were all kinds of lab equipment with various liquids in them.
Looking around the lab Dexter felt like a kid in a candy store, he would look from one part of the lab get excited and then look to a different part.
"Professor." Blossom says to her father who was sitting with his back to them at one of the tables.
"Yes Blossom?" The Professor says turning around to face his daughter. "Oh, hello Dexter." He adds when he sees Dexter.
"Hello sir, I really like the setup you have." Dexter says admiring The Professors home lab. It was not as massive as Dexter's old one, but it was nice to see the inside of a proper lab again.
"Thank you Dexter, so what can I do for you Blossom?" The Professor says nodding at Dexter and then looking at Blossom.
"I just came to let you know I'm going out for a while." Blossom says cupping her hands together behind her back.
"With your sisters?" The Professor asks.
"No it's just going to be me, and Dexter." Blossom says he cheeks turning a light shade of red.
"Oh, well you kids have fun and be safe." The Professor says smiling at them.
"We will, By Professor." Blossom says smiling at her father before turning to walk up the stairs.
Dexter turns to follow her. "Have her home before midnight Dexter." The Professor says as Dexter and Blossom started to climb the stairs.
"I will, goodbye sir." Dexter says back to him.
Once they were outside the house Dexter turns to Blossom and asks; "So what would you like to do Blossom?" Unsure what they should do with their time together.
"We could start by getting something to eat, I saw this new sandwich shop in town that looks good." Blossom says suggesting something she thinks would be a good start for their first official date.
"Sounds like a logical plan." Dexter says liking the idea.
They take the bus into the city and were soon sitting at a table in the sandwich shop eating lunch. As they sat eating they made small talk, or they were trying too, there's not much to talk about on a first date with your best friend.
'This is a lot harder than I thought I would be.' Dexter thinks as he tries to think of something to talk about.
"It's hard to find things to talk about, isn't it?" Blossom says after they sat in silence for several minutes.
"Not much to talk about when we do that all the time." He says agreeing with her.
"Yeah, we could go walk around the city for a while instead of hanging out in this sandwich shop." She says coming up with another idea for what they could do together.
"Sure that could be fun." He says again liking her idea.
They walk around the city pointing out various things in the shop windows they liked.
"Oh look at that cute corgi puppy!" Blossom says running up to the window of a pet shop.
"Yeah he looks cute." Dexter says looking at the golden brown puppy in the window.
"I've always wanted one, but The Professor is allergic to dogs." She says looking away from the window.
"That's not fun." He says as they continue their walk.
"Oo, that is some nice specs." Dexter says reading the parts that were listed for a computer that was in the window of a shop.
"Don't you think COMPUTER would be jealous if she heard you say that?" Blossom asks raising an eyebrow at him.
"Ha ha, maybe. Don't tell her just in case." He says laughing but wondered if COMPUTER would get jealous.
After they had been walking around for over an hour Blossom asks if he' like to get some coffee from a shop they found.
"I haven't had coffee is a very long time." Dexter says as they walked into a coffee shop.
"It's been a while for me too." Blossom says as they join the line to place their orders.
As they wait in the line Dexter reads the menu but can't make any sense of it.
"Know what you want?" Blossom asks as the line moves forward.
"This menu is like trying to read French." He says looking from the menu to her.
She lets out a little laugh. "Do you even know French?"
"I used to know a phrase or two years ago." He says smiling.
"Well, what did you have the last time you drank coffee?"
"The last time it was just plain coffee."
"Black coffee is the way of the past Dexter. You like chocolate, so might I suggest you get a mocha." She says giving him an idea of what to get.
Blossom herself got a latte and after they got their cups of coffee, that Dexter bought for them, they leave the shop.
Dexter enjoyed his drink after the first sip. "So as first dates go, how has this one been?" He asks as they start walking down the street.
"This is the first date I've ever been on too." She says taking a drink from her coffee cup.
"So like me, you have no idea what we are supposed to do." He says taking another drink of his coffee.
"Nope." She says smiling at him. "But that adds to the fun of it doesn't it? We can do whatever we want without having to conform to any predetermined standards of what we can and can't do."
"Ok, so what would you like to do Blossom?" He asks wanting to know what she wanted to do for the rest of the day.
"Honesty? I'm happy to just be walking around town with you, and maybe you could hold my hand." She says bushing.
Dexter takes her hand "I think I can do that." He says smiling at her as they lace their fingers together.
As they walked around Townsville holding hands Blossom was happy that he wasn't wearing his gloves. Feeling the touch of his hand without the layer of rubber was making her heart race from excitement. Dexter himself was also enjoying holding Blossoms hand as they walk around the city.
As the sun started its descent Dexter and Blossom started to walk back to their neighborhood. And when they reached Blossoms house she turns to him and says; "Thank you for today Dexter." Smiling.
"You're welcome Blossom." He says smiling back at her.
She wraps her arms around his neck hugging him and he wraps his arms around her returning the hug. As they hug each other they both feel their emotions for the other rising.
After hugging for a good amount of time Blossom pulls back from Dexter but still has her arms around his neck smiling at him.
Dexter smiles back at her his hands on her waist looking into her eyes, the one feature of hers that Dexter likes the most. There is something about the fact that her eyes are a shade of pink that Dexter just found fascinating and he was getting lost in them.
As Dexter looked into Blossoms eyes, she leans up to him and kisses him. When their lips touched Dexter felt like fireworks were going off inside of himself and he closes his eyes and returns the kiss.
When they finally break the kiss Blossom has the biggest smile Dexter has ever seen on her face. "I guess we can't just be friends anymore can we?" She asks jokingly.
"You're still my best friend Blossom." He says smiling back at her.
"Well dose my best friend want to be my boyfriend as well?" She asks her cheeks turning red from anticipation of his answer.
"I would be happy to be my girlfriend's best friend." He says before he kisses her again.
AN: Sorry this one is so short, but I have some time off from work so expect the next chapter to be longer and sooner than this one.