The concept of bubbles walking in on blossom with buttercup and Frank and starts crying about being left out yet again
this actually put a thought in my head. bubbles is the glass daughter for sure. i feel like frank is rly busy with buttercup (and her poor emotional regulation) and blossom discovering she’s bisexual (she’s been struggling to come to terms with it), so bubbles!reader is placed on the back burner a lot, and she absolutely realizes that but chooses not to say anything. it’s easier for her to just go with it than complain, so even though she gets teary when she’s getting cuddle time with dad and he has to put her to the side because buttercup!reader needs a snack or will turn into a hangry menace, bubbles!reader won’t say anything.
she might walk in on them, and she sniffles about it a little bit, but frank tells her she’s being a good sport about it. her final straw is when frank’s putting buttercup!reader down for a nap (which happens at the same time everyday), and bubbles is playing with some toys by herself and squealing. frank is sitting on the couch after STRUGGLING with buttercup!reader, and he snaps at the squealing bubbles, “christ, can you fuckin’ stop that? i just got your sister down. you’re gonna wake her up.” n bubbles immediately drops whatever activity she’s doing, looking at frank with wide eyes and parted lips before her bottom lip starts to wobble n tears fill her eyes. she stalks off in the direction of frank’s room (can’t go in her room— buttercup is asleep) to hide in there while she cries because she doesn’t like crying in front of frank anymore. he’s got too much to deal with!
frank is quick to follow after her. he knows he fucked up. shouldn’t have snapped at her because her sister wore him out, his ever-thinning patience hanging on by a thread. he finds her in his bathroom, cheek pressed against the porcelain tub, “sweet girl, i’m sorry. didn’t mean to snap at you. it’s just—”
“don’t care, frank. just go away.” she says, n it’s killing him because her voice is monotone despite the tears rolling down her cheek. “when she wakes up i’m going to get my stuffie and i’m leaving. for good. i hate it here and you don’t want me.”
he tries to think back to the last time he spent some one on one time with bubbles!reader, but nothing is coming up. he had some time with blossom this morning, and buttercup gets an hour bedtime routine with frank every night.. oh no.. he’s really been neglecting her. “baby, that’s not true. let’s talk ab—”
“please go away.”
