Buttercup was letting her cell phone ring before hearing someone picking up on the receiving end.
"Hello." Blossom's voices can be heard before she sneezed for the umpteenth time today.
"Bloss, how you holding up?" She inquires, which causes Brick and Flash to perk up after she mentions her name.
"Eh, I'm alright. I was just about to fix me something to eat but my fever has gone down a little bit. So what's happening at school?"
"We won first place against Ms. Omiya's class in the Field Hockey portion today so now we have a larger lead." Buttercup answers when she observes Flash's reaction.
"I should've been there…" Her voice solemnly trails off when she speaks in to the phone.
"Don't worry about it! We will all have our chance at it tomorrow when you come back."
"Is there anyone you want to speak to besides Bubbles?" Buttercup asks the million-dollar question.
Blossom briefly pauses to herself before she supplies her answer to her sister's question, "Yeah, let me speak to him…"
Buttercup casually hands the phone to Bubbles, who quickly chats up Blossom before she pivots to face Flash and Brick.
Flash assumes Bubbles was about to hand the phone to him when she peers up to asserts, "It's not for you Flash. She asked to speak with Brick."
His face glows a bright red from anger because he predicts that it was Buttercup, who once again manipulates the strings for the situation.
"Brick" Bubbles calls his name as she extends Buttercup's phone toward him, which he accepts in his typical fashion before he removes himself from within the group.
A quiet hush enshrouds the group as Buttercup shakes her head at Flash and folds her arms across her chest while she stares at him in a nonchalant manner.
"It's exactly as I said, you are of no importance to Blossom." Buttercup firmly states.
Before Flash exits he leaves her this statement, "You can't keep your sisters on your strings forever you know. They will have to make their own choices one day and they won't care about what you think."
"I think that's enough Flash!" Butch irritatably declares as he leaps to his feet and engages in a stare down with the blonde boy.
"You're obviously not wanted by Blossom nor in this class at the moment. So what I think you should do is take whatever's left of your pride...pick it up and walk out." He advises since his presence was rather fustrating.
The blonde shockingly heeds Butch's instructions and stomps out of the classroom without another word uttered to Mr. Matura, Buttercup or Butch.
Bubbles senses the tension ebb away once Flash left the room, "I didn't even know Flash would be smart enough to say that to you."
"This just proves exactly why I don't want him around Blossom! There's something not right about that jock." Buttercup conveys with a serious expression on her face.
'Butter does have a point there. I wonder what's hiding underneath that idiotic demeanor of his?' Butch wonders to himself as the conversation left a weird vibe about Flash's personality.
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Meanwhile outside of the classroom...
Brick was on the phone before he catches sight of the door slides open to reveal Flash's blonde hair.
He fires an expression toward him before he quickly rotates away from the orange haired male and heads to his respective homeroom section.
'He's so jealous of me…' He confidently concludes to himself with a huge grin on his face at his apparent victory over Flash.
He suddenly remembers that Blossom was still on the phone.
"Hello?" He asks.
For some reason, he developed this sense that Buttercup drew a favor over on her side after she claimed Blossom really wanted to speak to him.
It was queit at first before Brick slowly removes the phone from against his ear while his thumb deliberately hovers over the red phone to end the call.
'Who am I kidding?' He suddenly conceives to himself.
Then right before he presses it, a voice speaks from the othrr end, "Hello? Brick are you there?"
Brick did not know how to react since he was in shock to hear Blossom's voice, "Hello?"
"Yeah, I'm here." He was responding, silently reassuring her that she indeed was talking to Brick Shaw and no other person.
A brief awkward silence generates between them as if one awaits for the other to say something to break the ice.
It would end up being Brick, "Buttercup told us that you had a high fever from yesterday, are you alright?"
'Is that concern in his tone?' Blossom poses to herself after she listens to what he just asks her.
She sniffes a bit due to a runny nose before she responses to his question, "Yeah, I guess not completely drying off and walking outside with open pores can cause you to catch a cold. Buttercup told me that our class won first place in the Field Hockey portion today."
"Yeah, even though people were playing dirty it was still a good game." Brick agrees with the statement.
"So did someone try and come after you?" Blossom curiously poses since she did not have to think too hard on who wants a piece of the red haired menace.
"Why Pinkie, if I didn't know any better...it sounds as if you were worried about me?" He politely teases her before he eventually comments, "...but yeah, I had to avoid a couple of body checks, sticks to the head, and pucks to the face but all in all I had a good game."
"Well I wasn't concerned about you…I was concerned about the others who had to face you." She politely corrects his statement.
"Anyway Pinkie, if that's all you wanted to talk to me about I could catch you back up on the things that happened today tomorrow when you come back to school." Brick suggests after he pushes his back away from the wall.
"Brick…" Blossom pauses before she continues once she hears his breathing in the reciever, "Yeah, what is it Pinkie?"
She peers down at her hands that lay on top of her blanket, "I don't feel comfortable talking about this over the phone. Do you think you can come over…now?"
Brick was caught off guard at the boldness that Blossom displayed over the phone, "From the tone of your voice, it sounds as if it's important. I will be over in a couple of minutes."
"Alright then, see you in a few, bye Brick." Blossom replies when Brick returns a similar send off.
'What am I doing?' The two inwardly asks themselves after he concludes their phone conversation with each other.
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"So how did it go over there?" Bell inquires once she recognizes the blonde hair of Flash enter in to their homeroom class.
"How do you think it went?" He frustratingly snaps at her while he crashes in his seat, props his feet on top of the desk and leans backward in his chair.
"Buttercup is becoming a servere knot in my…I meant our plans. If only there was a way we could break her hold on her sisters." Bell utters while Flash rests the back of his head against his interlaces fingers.
"That's like trying to escape the FBI with a highly classified secret…it will take years for your plans to work." Flash verbally complained with his eyes closed.
"Who says I have years to wait? We only have two more years of high school left! We still haven't made our marks in Pokey Oaks history! These stupid Sports Fest activities will allow us time to gather the neccesary information we need and finally put phase three in to plan."
"Don't you think you're rushing it by engaging it phase three? The parameters for phase two haven't even been cleared yet! Moving in blindly is not a wise thing to do!"
"Since when did you become a tactful strategist Flash?" Bell questioned since she was throughly surprised at his previous comment.
"Bell even I have secrets too that I don't want to reveal to you or anyone else about." He mysteriously claims with a devious smirk on his face.
'This is just the beginning Buttercup…and Brick…'
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Midori, Bubbles, Buttercup, Boomer, and Butch chats when Brick treks back inside of the class and settles in his respective seat.
'I wonder how I should tell Buttercup about this?' Brick inwardly asks himself after he sits in his seat on the further side of Buttercup.
"So…what did she talk to you about?" Bubbles inquisitive nature was evident when she asked Brick about his conversation with her sister, Blossom.
'Would she let me go or make me stay? Better yet, does she trust me with being alone with Blossom?'
Brick scans their faces before he exhales a heavy sigh, and admits "She said that there's something important that she wanted to talk to me about now."
"So why are you still here Brick?" Buttercup posed to him with her eyes closed and her arms folded across her chest.
Buttercup's willingness for Brick to visit Blossom without her presence thoroughly shocks the Shaw clan.
Midori silently agrees while Bubbles visibly nods her head in an up and down manner at Buttercup's question.
"If she says its important then why should I stop you from finding out what it is?" She expresses consent as to why she permits him to visit Blossom alone.
"Besides you two needed to talk any way," The blonde slips in her own opinion during Buttercup and Brick's conversation.
"What's that suppose to mean?" Brick questions since he was not aware of how important his role was to Blossom at the moment.
"Its exactly as Buttercup and Bubbles said, have you not seen how you act compared to the beginning? I think a talk is much needed!" Butch agrees with the idea while his chin settles against the palm of his hand.
"...but that doesn't mean there is anything going on between us." Brick quickly defends the notion at what the group hints at.
"No one said that Brick…." Buttercup pauses before she locks him in her gaze "...unless you're interested in Blossom? Tell us the truth if you do?"
Brick was not ready to answer that question, especially not in front of his brothers and Blossom's siblings without a confirmiation from the other party first.
"I think its time for me to go." He quickly excuses himself from the group.
"Do you want to use the car?" Butch offers before he searches for his car keys in his jean pocket.
"No, I need to walk so I can be clear headed to hear what she has to tell me." Brick replies before he jams his hands in his pockets.
"Alright then, its your lost…" Butch comments before he returns his hands back to the surface of the desk.
Brick crosses the threshold of their homeroom door and slides the door back to its original position.
The group once again grows mute before Butch says, "So anyone wants to place a wager?"
"They get together?" (Bubbles) "They kiss?"(Boomer) "They agree to a date?" (Midori)
"Place your bets ladies and gentlemen! Time will tell if either one of us are right." Butch announces while Buttercup mentally notes of whatever throws in and bet on.
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Serena ultimately decides that her presence was not needed at Pokey Oaks during the Sports Fest but had a sensation that she would receive a personal call to attend tomorrow's event.
She scans the apartment that she shares along with her three dependent brothers until her eyes land on the bright yellow color of the Sunflowers in the crystal clear vase that rests on top of the kitchen island.
The auburn woman simply rolls from overtop of the sofa and travels over to the kitchen.
'How did I end up liking my brothers' principal?' Serena wonders to herself while she rubs the soft petals between her fingertips.
She releases a deep sigh, withdraws her hand from the soft sunflower petals and returns it against the surface of the island.
'What am I doing?' The woman asks herself when she hunkers down at an empty stool and leans her forehead against her hands.
'A boyfriend right now would only complicate things! Why can't I just have one ounce of personal joy?' Serena inwardly considers to herself in disappointment.
'For someone reason…it feels as if I know him from somewhere though...but where?' She ponders before she allows herself to recall a distant memory.
A teenage version Serena walked to her home when she discovered the gate that was usually closed now open and the name slot was filled.
'The slot was empty before...I wonder who moved in?' She wonders to herself when she thrusts the gate open and the gate entrance.
Her eyes scan the area and discover that no one was present but she was curious to see who her neighbors were.
"Hello there, you must be the next door neighbor daughter…"
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Author's Note:
04.05.17 Major editing revisions