What Would You Do For Love?

Study Date: Part 1

Chapter Eleven: The Big Dance

Buttercup's POV

Over the next month my sisters and I were the talk of the school. It was the first time in our high school career that we all had boyfriends. Not only that, but we were dating three brothers. It was on some level really weird, but for the first time in my life I was really happy and so were my sisters.

Butch and I went out a few nights a week, unless we had a lot of homework. In that case he would come to our house at Dad's insistence to study. I just hated when we studied with Brick and Blossom, because they actually wanted to study.

The boys eat at our house most nights. Dad wouldn't admit it but he liked having them around, especially since Brick was good at fixing things and Boomer many times helped Bubbles with the cooking.

Even Butch wasn't a slacker when it came to cars and bikes. He even agreed to help Dad restore an old motorcycle he picked up at the junkyard. Dad wasn't much or a rider but he knew I had been wanting a bike for a while.

On the weekends Butch and I hung out at the pool hall, mostly to make money. The buys did have a cheap apartment but even a cheap one cost money. Butch always insisted on giving me half, but I would have let him have it all if he wanted.

He liked seeing me in sexy clothes, so I spent some of the money on that and saved half in a bank account. Blossom was always beating it in our heads that we weren't going to be teenagers forever and we had to start thinking about our futures. She had no idea that I planned to be a race car driver. When I told Butch about my plans he was all for and said he would like to head my pick crew.

It was the end of the school day and the last day before the weekend when Bubbles came running up to me excitedly just as Butch and I were exiting the school building.

"Bubbles, calm down," I said but she was by then jumping up and down.

"How am I supposed to calm down when we only have a week to plan?"

"Plan what?" I asked. I looked over at Butch who was just as dumbfounded as I was at why Bubbles was acting like this.

"The dance, silly," she said and handed me a flyer. It was the announcement of the annual Halloween dance. Last year I went with Mitch and wasn't planning on going this year. I didn't want to do anything that reminded me of him.

"Hey, this looks interesting," Butch said and I saw that it was more a masquerade then a normal school dance.

"I don't have a costume," I said and handed the flyer back to Bubbles.

"Don't worry, Buttercup," Bubbles said in her cute bubbly voice. "We'll come up with something, and you know I'm a wiz on the sewing machine."

"Bubbles, I don't want..." I started to say but Bubbles had already taken off. Townsville High School didn't need the newspaper to tell us the latest news and gossip when they had Bubbles. She could spread the word fast. I let out a sigh that was more of grunt. "I really don't want to go to this."

"Why not, BC?" Butch asked and put his arm around me.

"It's just that I haven't gone to a school dance since last year and that was with..." She didn't want to say it.

"Mitch," he said guessing and he was right. As soon as they got to her car and she put her head down ashamed and embarrassed that she was thinking of him. "I'm not jealous of him. He was your boyfriend, and you did things with him... went places."

"So you would really want to go to this thing with me?" I asked.

"Well, I wouldn't want to go with someone else," he said and smirked at me.

"I hope not," I said and gave a little laugh. "So I guess we're going."

It wasn't all for this idea, but if I had to go I would rather go with Butch than anyone else. This was going to be an interesting school function.