Blossom's POV

I sigh as I flop over my pillow to the cool side. I flop myself over as well, and rub my eyes before looking at the clock on my nightstand. The bright pink letters read 4:00 and I feel a sort of gnawing at my stomach. Only 4 more hours until school I think to myself and bite the inside of my cheek. I'm not nervous about school itself, I'm a junior, it's not like I'm new or anything. It's just that 2 weeks ago... the mayor informed us the RowdyRuff Boys would be attending our school, because they had been cleared as stable enough to re-enter society. I was immediately against it, they tried to kill us when we were five years old, you can't be that evil and then just stop all of a sudden. But the mayor believed in giving everyone a chance, and even though I wasn't showing it a part of me deep down agreed. They'd been locked up since they were five, without any real sense of what having a childhood was like, that's gotta be rough. The girls didn't agree either, Bubbles eyes welled up with tears and Buttercup punch the mayor's desk in half out of rage (though she apologized and bought the mayor a new one). However...them coming to our high school isn't the only thing that has my insides twisted up...its what happened the same day the mayor gave us the news...

flashback

"Mayor where are we going" I asked as we floated down a long, dark corridor.

"I didn't even know you had this behind your bookshelf" Buttercup muttered, "I never thought to use my x-ray vision in your office, you don't seem like a person to hide things."

"Well girls," the mayor said as his little feet pattered loudly on the floor, "Some things are just kept secret for the better."

We got to a big steel door, with numerous locks and bars on it. The mayor put his palm on a little screen by the door, and then leaned forward, raised his glasses, and got his eyeball scanned. Welcome, Mayor a female, computer voice said from somewhere. The locks all popped open, the bars raised, and on the other side was a room. Two guards stood by the doorway as we walked in, "Morning Mayor" they said and nodded. I eyed the guns they held in their hand, they looked like souped up water guns, but it was filled with a black liquid.

"What's in there?" I questioned as I moved my hand to touch it,

"A Chemical X antidote" the guard whispered, and I move my hand away,

"Oh" I say, and float back over to my sisters. The mayor is in front of a control panel and he clicks an isolated, small red button. In front of us, the metal wall that I thought was just a wall, lifted up, and what was behind made all three of us gasp. The RowdyRuff Boys, each consumed in their own activities, were in an all white room with three beds. Butch was lifting weights in a corner, Boomer was reading a magazine, and... Brick was sitting at a chess board, studying it.

"Back for another chess game Mayor?" He says and then looks up through the glass, his mouth partially falling open in shock. His brothers sense his quietness. Boomer shifts aside his magazine and Butch stops lifting midway to look. Its just us, rival counterparts, looking at each other, with only a glass separating us. I stare at them...they've aged just like us, but they're much bigger. Butch is looking primarily at Buttercup, and Boomer is gazing at Bubbles. I close my eyes and take a breathe before I look at the one person I didn't want to look at, the one person I knew was looking at me. His red eyes pierced my soul as our eyes made contact. I couldn't tell what emotion was in his eyes, it looked like...studying? Was he studying me? He got up and slowly walked to the glass, and I found my feet moving forward as well. We were face to face in front of the glass, and in a split second my sisters, as well as his brothers were too. They began their own conversation, that was just static to my ears as me and Brick continued to stare at each other. I sort of expected them to grow up looking at bit...funny since Mojo created them. But like us, they now had more normal human features, our big eyes got down to normal sizes, we grew fingers and toes and noses. The only distinguishable trait that made us stand out were our eyes. His blood red and mine petunia pink. He raised his hand to the glass, "Hey" he whispered. I raised my own to the glass as well

"H-hi..." I mutter. I look down, I didn't expect conversation, I didn't expect his voice to sound like silk, and I didn't expect my heart to start beating this fast.

"Hey look up." he says and I do. His eyes are once again filled with an unreadable emotion, and I don't know why but I blush. "Your not still...scared of me are you?" he asks and I shrug, slowly dropping my hand back to my side. There it was, the little reminder that I was once scared of him, and the reason why.

"Girls." I bark, and they whip their heads to me, both slowly snapping back to reality. Buttercup furrows her brows and steps away from the glass and Bubbles frowns slightly at Boomer and steps away too. "Let's go" I say and we all turn away to the door. A cough stops me in my tracks.

"Girls look, I know there may be some hard feelings but they've changed. Their trying," the mayor says, "Doesn't that count for anything?" I look back over my shoulder, at the boy's faces, at the mayor's pleading eyes.

"See you boys in two weeks." I say dryly, and grab the mayor before flying out.

end of flashback

I bury myself under my blanket as my mind wanders back to Brick, and come face to face with reality that I might actually like Brick Jojo. I close my eyes and let the warmth of my covers envelope me as I curl up and sigh. This school year was going to be interesting.