"Raise and shine you menaces of society…except for you Boomer!" the sound of Serena's voice could be heard from outside of the hallway.
The three brothers slugishly roll out of their individual beds before they execute their daily morning routine with little to no loud fuss or noises.
'Okay…something isn't right here. It's just way too freaking quiet in this house.' Serena deems to herself before she flips the pancake over once it changes to a light brown hue.
Three "good morning" follows as they withdraw a stool from underneath the counter and takes a seat at the island.
"You three aren't eating this morning…again" The orange haired woman shockingly interjected since she silently hope that if she made their favorite breakfast that it would snap them out of their funk.
Instead she was receiving no sudden movements or outbursts demanding her to feed them because they were growing teen age boys with a black hole as a stomach.
"Is there something that you three want to talk about this morning?" Serena enquiringly poses to her three dependents as she peers over her shoulder after she fixes their plates.
She closely observes each and every one of their facial expressions and they all seem to have something in common with one another…they were deep in thought.
'Whenever those three are insynch about something then its never a good ending.' The woman inwardly repeats whenever the three were in deep thought while she hands out their respective dishes.
She waves her hands in front of all three of their faces before she spots a glimmer of hope once she notices that Boomer flinches from the sight of her hand.
"Finally, someone moves! I thought I was talking to statues this early in the morning." Serena exhales a sigh of relief after she watches one of them crack.
She proceeds to carry on a light conversation with the youngest of the three since she knows that the other two were harder to break for information.
'As long as I have one of them talking to me then the other two will come around.' Their guardian concludes as she observes them clean off their plates within a matter of minutes.
Serena then jiggles the car keys in front of Butch, whose eyes seem to latch instantly on to the silver keys within their sights. "You can take the car again today."
Her statement captures Butch's focus as he reaches out until his fingers graze the metallic keys, wraps his fingers around it, and brings them toward him.
Once Butch, Brick and Boomer finally finish up with their breakfast, the trio the. departs for Serena's car that she let them borrow for today.
'I wonder what's up with them this morning?' She ponders to herself while she collects the empty plates on the island and settles them inside of the sink.
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Blossom continues to stare at Buttercup since the tone that she uses toward her was very serious, which means more or less something was very wrong.
She wonders what it is that her sister wants to tell her. "Yeah, I'm listening. What's the problem?"
Bubbles hands her something to drink after she settles down on a seat in front of a cooked breakfast meal.
"Did you do anything with Brick while he was here?" Buttercup curiously inquires to her sister as she critically observes Blossom's facial expression.
Blossom raises one of her eyebrows at her sister and asserts, "Come on now, you know I wouldn't do anything like that! Besides, all we did was talk nothing more and nothing less."
'Except for that little display of fireworks when we shook hands with one another.'
Buttercup appears to believe what her sister tells her as the truth before she executes the signal to Bubbles for the go-ahead.
"The the reason why Buttercup wanted to talk to you about is this..." Bubbles voices while she produces her phone from her jean pockets and displays Blossom the message from Midori.
Her pink eyes scan the text message that she shows to her. 'You won't believe what Bell just sent me. Omg, you won't believe who I just saw together on the way home…I saw Blossom Utonium walking with the new boy Brick Shaw hand in hand. I think she is cheating on Flash big time!'
Buttercup and Bubbles anxiously wait for their sister's reaction after she reads the message. Her eyes grows wider after she processes the contents of the message.
"You've got to be kidding me! How can this chick even falsely claim she saw Brick and I walking from school when I wasn't even there yesterday! Please tell me this is some kind of a stupid joke? Who would actually believe this?!"
"Bloss, do I really have to give you a list of all the people that are under Bell's influence? Even if you prove that you weren't there yesterday…Flash can easily say that you asked to speak to Brick instead of him. It unfortunately could work in his favor." Buttercup rationalizes to her red haired sister.
Blossom cradles her head in her hands since the facts did not add up to her. "...but why would Bell even waste her time with trying to spread such a useless rumor about me?"
"She has no life Bloss. As long as you are tied to me then it doesn't matter. She will continue to do nasty things to you simply because you're my sister." Buttercup calmly explains to her erratic sister.
"You know what Bloss…Buttercup does have a point. It would've eventually happened in some shape or form. Be lucky that it is just a simple text message." Bubbles cheerfully states while she stares at her.
Blossom remained unconvinced about Bell's actions but knew deep down that the logic her sisters had presented was rational.
"I mean it wasn't like you and Flash were dating, right?" Buttercup curiously probes about the status of Blossom's relationship status with Flash.
"We weren't but he thinks that we are." She replies while she peers up at Buttercup, who chews on a protein bar.
"Oh…no that's going to be a problem," Bubbles speaks up after she listens to what Blossom just says to them.
'This isn't going to be pretty at all…' Buttercup assumes to herself since she develops the sense that today was going to be a rather long day.
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The school grounds of Pokey Oaks High was deafeningly quiet until the arrival of their students. They all seem highly charged with anticipation of what was to come from Sports Festival. Not to mention, the new rumor that deals with Blossom and the new kid, Brick, is hot on everyone's mind.
Butch and his brother's were the first to arrive at the school and sure enough all eyes were on them, specifically on Brick.
"What are you idiots looking at?!" Brick loudly shouts his question for those students that slowly starts to surround them with curious expressions on their faces.
The intense scowl on his face sends the ones around him to scatter as if they were roaches in a now bright room.
Butch pauses in the middle of his stride onces he notices a familiar green Camaro rolls within the parking lot of the school. 'The girls are here.'
"Hey," He calls out to his other two brothers, who advances forward before the pair halt when they overhear his voice.
"What's wrong?" Boomer asks Butch once they stop in their tracks and glances back at their orange haired brother.
Butch simply points his head in the direction to where Buttercup and her sisters emerge from within her green Camaro that was a couple of cars down from Serena's Mustang GTO.
"Alright ladies…let's try to avoid any kinds of fight today." Bubbles verbalizes as a reminder more for Buttercup than Blossom.
"Fine," Buttercup responds with a verbal answer while Blossom physically nods her head up and down.
Buttercup glances to her left to see that Butch poises alongside his brothers, Boomer and Brick, a couple of feet away from the front entrance of the school.
"Let's hurry up before the bell rings I want to beat the morning traffic." She quickly suggests to them before they left the parking lot and venture towards the school's entrance.
"Good morning, you three." Butch politely greets all three of them with a smirk as the girls stroll over to where him and his brothers wait.
He receives "good mornings" in a monotone before he watches Bubbles breaks away from the group with Boomer. Brick and Blossom were standing a couple of feet away from each other not even speaking or looking at one another.
"I need to speak with you before homeroom." Butch mutters loud enough for only Buttercup to hear him.
She peeks up toward him before she shakes her head to show that she will comply with his request.
The group naturally migrate on their own free will with no signal to go. Brick and Blossom maintain a good amount of distance away from one another the entire time they walk.
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"Ah, it's good to see my students up bright and earlier!" Mr. Matura's voice can be heard once the group approached their respective homeroom class.
The sight of a blonde haired male coolly rests with his back against the wall a couple of feet away from Mr. Matura's classroom door.
Blossom suddenly feels her heart stop once she instantly registers the identity of the person that stands at her homeroom door before she instinctively shuffles closer to Brick.
"What do you want, Flash?" Buttercup harshly challenges to the blonde haired male, who patiently waits by their homeroom door.
Flash then pushes himself off of the wall with his foot and lines his body up with Buttercup and the rest of her company in his field of vision.
"It doesn't concern you or Bubbles. I need to talk to Blossom." He simply comments after he settles his sights in on Blossom the moment he speaks her name.
Brick feels his hands ball until a fist forms because of the way Flash stares at Blossom, which makes him want to punch the blonde in the middle of his face.
Before Buttercup could respond to his statement, Blossom speaks up from behind her, "It's alright Buttercup. I can handle myself."
'What in the world is Blossom thinking?' Brick, Buttercup, Bubbles and Butch were thinking at the same time after hearing Blossom's statement. The orange haired girl gently pushed passed her raven-haired sister's shoulders.
Everyone, excluding Brick, quickly glancing toward his direction prior to their crossing of the threshold to their respective homeroom class.
"Is there something wrong with Blossom?" Butch promptly inquires while he closely watches the couple's travel down the opposite end of the hallway.
"I don't know. This is the first time she has been willing to be alone with Flash." Buttercup alleges after she glances over her shoulder to look at the couple as well.
"I mean she was hesitant to stand next to Brick this morning." He claims when he then diverts his attention on to the raven haired teen girl.
"She brings a whole new meaning to "I wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole"." She sarcastically revels with a hint of seriousness in her tone.
"Speaking on that, we got this text message from someone about Brick and Blossom. Do you know anything about that?" Butch poses to her about the text message that he receives from a stranger.
"If you know about it…then the entire school knows about it." Buttercup easily summed up the facts since she was kind of surprised that he received the message as well.
"Are you saying that Bell is that strong in a school that's run by you?" He asks for clarification on what she just admits to him.
"If there was a way I can terrorize people, who believe that stupid rumor, I would've found a way to execute it myself by now." She quickly slips in.
"Remind me not to cross you then…" Butch utters in a low tone.
"It's just...this doesn't sit right with me." Buttercup admits to him before she adds, "I'm surprise she chose Blossom as her next target since she has this knack to overthink even the smallest thing."
"The same thing can be said for Bubbles and her niceness." She discloses her opinion about her sisters' personaity to him.
"Don't forget it has my brother's name in it so I do feel that I need to handle some of the stress." Butch reminds her that Brick's name was in the fray as well.
"Just don't let your guard down for the next couple of days. Bell has something big planned up her sleeve. One thing, I can say about that white haired bimbo is that when she strikes, she strikes swift and hard." Buttercup forewarns him, which causes him to display her a weird look.
"It almost sounds as if you're scared of her." Butch mutters since he never imaged the big and bad Buttercup to be scared of someone of Bell's caliber.
"Me? No way! My sisters' may hold some small amount of fear towards her because she's so similar to me." She conveys while she scoffs at the notion of being scared of Bell and her army of fake dolls.
He tirelessly sighs before he includes, "This is going to be a long day today."
"Who you telling?" Buttercup honestly agrees with the young man that presently stands in front of her.
"Alright class, get settle in so I can start roll and tell you what the sport is for today. Please remember that we will be indoors today." Mr. Matura loudly announces over the mediocre noise from his students.
The two overhears Mr. Matura reads the name off of the roll before they decide to head inside of the classroom.
"Let's head in." He suggests as Buttercup nods her head in agreement before she enters inside of their homeroom first and Butch close behind her.
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Author's Note:
04.03.17 Major editing revision