Chapter 1

"Rigby are you coming or not?" Eileen called out from the livingroom.

"I don't wanna go," Rigby said lazily sitting on his bed, once he and Eileen got a house together he figured they should have a bed instead of a trampoline.

"That was acually a rhetorical question," Eileen said walking back to the bedroom. "You know we have to get Robbie's presents."

"Let Santa do it," Rigby groaned, flipping threw the channels.

"Nope, because I need a guys help," Eileen said turning around and walking away, ending the conversation.

"But-" he started as he saw that Normal Show was on, "Fiiine," he groaned. He straightened up the covers and shook out his fur.

"Daddy?" a small voice called out.

"Yes, Robbie?" Rigby said turning around to face the 3 year old raccoon.

"Who's gunna watch me while you're working the park?" Robbie asked.

Rigby sighed, he hated lying to his son about Santa, he remembered learning about "Santa" when he was little. "Don's coming," he finally answered.

"Okay," Robbie sayed satisfied, he then ran up to his mom and hugged her. "Bye!"

"Bye Robbie," She said. At that moment Don walked in, bursting open the door shouting his infamous phrase 'Gimme some sugar!'

Rigby let out a heavy sigh, "Can we leave now, Eileen?"

"Yeah, just give Don some sugar," she said hugging the human-sized raccoon.

"UUGGHHH! Fine!" Rigby said reluctantly giving in and "hugging" Don. He really just shrugged his arms arms around him which made Don frown a little.

"Okay thanks for watching him Don! See you in about 3 or 4 hours," she was just about to leave when she remembered something. "Oh, yeah, Robbie?"

"Yeah Momma?"

"I need your letter to Santa to mail, you can come with us, but then we have to go to work, okay?" she said.

"Here, you mail it, I wanna stay home with Don," he smiled as he ran to grab his list.

"You sure, this only comes around once a year, kiddo," Rigby said concerned.

"Yeah, I want to spend some quality time with my uncle Don," he said running back to his room, "Come on Don! See my race cars!"

"Well, bye guys, see you later," Don said closing the doors after them. Rigby opened the car door for Eileen and then he got in himself. He started up the car and pulled out of the driveway.

"Well, get ready for a fight," Eileen joked. "This is goinging to be a heck of a lot harder with only 3 weeks to Christmas.

"Yeah, I know," Rigby said his eyes glued to the road. About 30 minutes had passed before they arrived at the mall. Rigby and Eileen were talking about which 'Lego Harry Potter set' to get him. Eileen had heard that there were 5 all together. With that left undecided, Rigby turned down the already hushed music playing on the radio.

"There! There's a spot!" Eileen shouted.

"Yes! Finally!" Rigby yelled excited about the 'great' spot they found. Only 15 lanes to the door. Woopee. "Okay, since were closest to-" Eileen stopped to look around, "Game Stop, we should look for this Destroyer of Worlds: Zombie Pack,"

'Hope they fixed it, last time we played it was horrible,' Rigby thought to himself, but he was sure the handheld version would be much safer. At least he hoped it would.

The couple spent a little over 6 hours in the mall and of course Rigby was about to complain himself to death. It was getting dark so they decided to come back some other time, they only had a couple items left anyways: a raccoon decorated bean bag chair, stocking stuffers, and big 24 pack of chalk.

As Rigby drove back he stopped at a gas station to fill up, he saw Skips there, buying Lily some candy bars. Rigby walked up to him to small talk while Eileen sat in the car waiting for Rigby to get back.

"So Skips, how's Lilly been doing, we haven't seen you guys lately?" Rigby asked as he payed the cashier the money.

"She's been fine, you know how 11 year olds are right? So, how's you family?" Skips asked in return.

"We've been good, thank goodness we're past those freaking terrible two's! And then the whole thing with 'Mine! That's mine! Mine! MIne! MINE!' He drove me INSANE!" Rigby was almost red at this point, but he was also laughing like there was no tomorrow. Skips laughed too, and then they ended their conversation so Rigby and Eileen would have time to drop off the presents at the park didn't trust Robbie around presents, not after the last time they kept the presents at their house, and of course there was the whole 'Santa' thing that they started doing.

When they got in the house they saw Robbie sound asleep on the couch rolled in a ball just like Rigby used to sleep.

"He just fell asleep while we were watching Normal Show, I didn't wanna move him."

"Thats okay Don, you wanna stay for dinner?" Eileen asked politely.

"Sure I guess I could stay for a bit longer," Don said.

Eileen looked over at the couch where Robbie was sleeping, "Rigby, could you wake him for me?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, sure." He nudged Robbie but all that did was make Robbie grunt. "Come on Robbie, you want something to eat, don't you."

"No," The little raccoon said sleepily.

"Are you sure? Mommy made steak and potatoes," Rigby said mockingly.

"Huh?" Robbie said now sitting straight up. "Awwww cool mommy thanks!" At this everyone started to laugh as they gathered around the meal.

Chapter 2

Mordecai sat in the coffee shop, still single, still working at the park, which hasn't been so fun ever since Rigby got married and had Robbie. They were still friends, but they didn't see much of each other. He still liked Margaret, but he just couldn't bring himself to tell her; today he was going to tell her. He was determined. He was calling her over to his table when this beutiful orange bird with a yellow tint to her feathers came through the door, she looked like an angle. 'Holy crap! She's coming this way! CRAPCRAPCRAPCRAP!' Mordecai thought already nervous.

"Hi, " She said as she stopped at his table.

"Uhhh, ummm, haha hi, " he replied nervously.

"You mind if I sit here, every other table is kinda full?" The girl asked.

"Uhhhhh, yeah sure," he answered. "So, ummm, uhhhh, what's your name?"

"Autumn," she replied, Mordecai almost fainted at her reply. 'Autumn,' he repeated in her head, what a beutiful name.

"What's your name?" She asked in return.

"Oh, ummm, Mordecai," He said now if possible even more nervous. The rest of the evening was a good one he talked more to Autumn, then, when he got comfortable with her, he asked for her phone number. She handed him a slip of paper with her number.

"So, I guess I'll call you some other time," Mordecai said ending the night.

"That'd be nice," she said smiling as she walked away.

Margaret watched her leave, for some reason she felt saddened but she just shrugged it off like it was nothing. Eileen looked over and smirked, "Jealous?"

"No, I don't like Mordecai, I never did and I never will," Margaret said. Eileen walked away and started to sweep the kitchen floor.

Mordecai couldn't believe it! He acually got a girl's number and he didn't have to get hurt in the process! He smiled as he came in the door, even Benson ranting on about him not working couldn't get on his nerves tonight. He picked up the phone and dialed a number.

"Hello?" He heard his freinds usual voice pick up on the end.

"Rigby, hey you wanna have a little coffee time tomorrow? I have something important to tell you," Mordecai said, only barley managing to hide the excitement he was feeling inside.

"Uh sure, but I have to bring Robbie, kay?" Rigby said not having the time to find a babysitter or rather just not wanting to.

"Yeah that's fine I guess, so meet me at the coffee shop around 11, Bensons yelling at something now so I gotta go," said Mordecai annoyingly. Benson made him scrub the kitchen floors, he just did it now instead of complaining first, for two reasons: (1) He was too happy to refuse, and (2) without Rigby, there was nothing TO do if not obey Benson. So he started singing in his head pass the time.

Mordecai had been up for 6 hours before it was time to meet Rigby. To make matters worse he barely got a wink of sleep, going to bed at 1 in the morning.

As Mordecai walked in the coffee shop, he was full of energy, but his eyes were droopy and sagging, which made Rigby think something was up with him.

"Mordecai, you okay dude? You look kinda out of it," Rigby said trying to catch Robbie and put him into the high chair.

"Yeah I'm fine, I just need some coffee," Mordecai said, yawning while he said it.

Eileen came over and gave them there usual order, adding a glass of orange juice for Robbie, then she went back to work.

"Anyway what did you want to tell me?" Rigby said finally getting Robbie in the high chair.

"Well you see I found this girl, or well I didn't find her if anything she found me, she's pretty and orange with a yellow tint at the edges, and her name is Autumn." Mordecai said.

Rigby laughed and started smirking a little, "Awwwww looks like Mordecai has a little crush."

"Seriously dude, I really think this could be serious, like love at first sight and all that." Mordecai retorted.

"Hey, don't ask me, I don't know if you realized it, but Eileen and I didn't exactly have that whole love at first sight thing." Rigby said remembering how he used to ignore Eileen, if he could go back in time he'd slap himself for that.

"Well anyway I seriously think I'm in love here." Mordecai said.

"Well, you certainly act like it." Rigby said back.

"What do you mean?" Mordecai responded.

"Well when I really started to love Eileen, she's pretty much ALL I could think about." Rigby said looking lovingly at his wife, who was taking orders at other tables.

"Hahaha, yeah I remember I couldn't get you to shut up half the time," Mordecai said.

"STOP TALKING!" Rigby yelled standing on his chair. Then he sat down as he saw people staring, he looked over to Eileen embarassed but she was just laughing blushing slightly. "So this girl, Autumn, how did the conversation go? Because, no offense, but you do get reeaally nervous around girls,"

"Yeah, I know," Mordecai said stretching his arms out trying to be nonchalont about it, "But for real, we talked for about two hours, and I even got her number!" He said.

"Really?" Rigby said in disbelief.

"Hey!" Mordecai said taken aback, "Anyways, I kinda don't know what the H to do,"

"Well, try to call her," Rigby said simply.

"Well, what do I say?"

"How bout 'Hi'," he said grabbing Robbie, "I mean really, you may be nervous but I didin't think you were stupid,"

"Uhh, I guess. Anyways when? And what do I really say? I've never dont this before, dude," Mordecai said concerned.

"Well, you gotta start off slow, just ask her to coffee or bowling or something, and don't say it's not a date. If you gotta say something then just shrug it off and ignore the question," Rigby said, "You might wanna call her either today or tomorrow, so she knows your for real about it,"

"Yeah, okay, I got this. I got this," Mordecai said brushing down his chest feathers a bit.

krgj "I better come with you," Rigby said still woried a little.

'Yeah, good idea,' Mordecai thought but he didn't want to admit that he needed help from Rigby, but he had a feeling if it weren't something as important as this then Rigby would be gloating about it. They finished their coffee, and on the way to the park Rigby called ahead of time to make sure Pops or Benson was around to watch Robbie.

When they got to the house, Pops took Robbie into the living room to watch cartoons. Rigby and Mordecai went up to Mordecai's room, which had changed a lot since Rigby left. Since Mordecai no longer messed up things in the park and the park house, he had extra money for things in his room. Since Rigby left he had bought a bigger bed, a small TV, and a couple more posters of random bands.

"Wow, this place has upgraded," Rigby said looking around, "Hey, where's my trampoline at now?"

"Benson had this little nephew that came by a couple weeks ago, and he fell in love with it, Benson just gave it away since you weren't using it," Mordecai shrugged.

"Like that stick hockey thing all over again," Rigby mumbled. "Anyways you need to shower, just regular shower, no fancy soap. Remember, right now you don't even know if she likes you. So you have to stay casual,"

"Yeah, right," honestly, Mordecai had no idea why he had to do any of this, but he trusted Rigby.

"I'll be downstairs with Robbie if you need me," Rigby said walking out the door.

Rigby went downstairs, he was excited for Mordecai, if this thing catches on, and Autumn and him get together, then both couples could go on double dates and stuff like that. It'd be nice having another couple to hang out with. While Rigby was daydreaming of all the cool stuff he could do with another couple, he almost didn't notice Robbie calling him.

"Daddy, daddy, daddy, DADDY, DADDY!" Robbie yelled curious at his dad's far off look.

"OH! Huh, sorry Robbie, what's up!" Rigby said instantly snapping out of his daydream.

"What were you thinking hard about?" Robbie said looking at his dad with his 'please tell me' look.

"Well, your Uncle Mordo has found someone he really really likes," Rigby started.

"Like how you and mommy really really like each other?" Robbie butted in.

"Exactly like that, but he doesn't really know how to tell her," Rigby said.

"Why doesn't he just say that he loves her?" Robbie said instantly confused.

"Well, it's not that easy, he can't just come out and say that," Rigby was about to continue when Robbie said," But why not?"

"Well, because he's not really sure if she likes him back," continued Rigby.

"That's ridiculous!" Robbie said," Why would she not like him?"

"Well, ummmm, cause, ummmmm, uhhhh, how about you ask your mom these questions when we get home."

"Okay daddy," and with that Robbie ended the conversation.

"Hey Rigby, come up here," Mordecai called out. 'Thank you,' Rigby thought silently. He walked up the stairs, and walked into Mordecai's room.

"Oh, nice," Rigby said. "You dont smell like soap or stank. Balance," he said laying his arms flat. "Anyways where you taking her?"

"I thought maybe we could to the arcade," Mordecai said, saying more of a question than a statement.

"Yeah, I guess thats cool, you think she's into that?" Rigby asked.

"Well if not then she's not the one for me!" Mordecai joked, making himself and Rigby laugh. He figured it would be a good time to call, it was already 1:30, so he made his way down to the phone in the kitchen.

He dialed the number. It rang once, then twice. Right when he was about to hang up a voice answered. Mordeca's heart skipped a beat, 'Is that a guy's voice?'

"Uh, yeah is Autumn there?" Mordecai asked nervously.

"Yeah I'll get her," you could hear mumbles in the back ground then a familiar voice said 'Hello?'

"Yeah, this is Mordecai, uh, from the coffee shop,"

"Oh, hey Mordecai, sorry that was just my brother,"

Mordecai let out a silent 'Thank you!' and got on with his conversation. "So I was wondering, umm, if you weren't busy," Autumn was expecting him to ask her to a movie or to dinner, and she was suprised when he asked her to the arcade.

"Yeah, that sounds nice, what time?"

"About 2 or 2:30?" he said, "Is that okay?"

"Yeah, that's perfect,"

"I'll pick you up in about 30 minutes or so, okay? But umm.. I kinda need your address..." Mordecai felt like a creep asking her for her address. He didn't know why, it just. . . did.

"Yeah, it's 339 Medow Lane, umm, it's right beside that old antiquey gas station,"

"Oh yeah, I can find it," Mordecai said, laughing a little.

"So bye," Autumn said, smiling. Of course Mordecai couldn't see it but he hoped that she was. He can't believe it! He's having his first REAL date. That's more than he can say with Margaret. Margaret. Suddenly, her name didn't make him smile anymore. Was he getting over Margaret? This fast? 'Wow, I can't believe it. Just... wow,'

Chapter 3

Mordecai had gotten permission from Benson to use the park truck, and he was on his way to pick up Autumn. He turned on the radio to smooth jazz to relax himself. He drove past the coffee shop. Past Margaret. No. He wouldn't think of her when he was with Autumn. Nothing was going to bring him down today. When he pulled into Autumn house, she was waiting on her porch for him.

She wasn't wearing the same outfit as yesterday, which was a light blue tee with a black skirt. Today she had on a pair of black jeans with a white, baggy shirt from American Eagle.

"You ready?" Mordecai called out as he opened his door to greet Autumn.

"Yeah, can you pay for me or do I need to get my wallet?" she asked motioning towards the door.

"No, I got it covered," Mordecai said with a nervous laugh. As they got in the car and Autumn heard the music, she started to pretend she was playing a saxophone.

When Mordecai hopped in and noticed her, he let out a small laugh, "You like jazz?"

"Oh, ever since I was little, me and my dad used to go to the open jazz competitions they have downtown," she said, not even stoping her 'performance.'

"Oh, I love those things, but Rigby doesn't so I don't go much anymore," Mordecai said starting the truck and backing out of the drive way.

"Yeah, me neither, the music's gotten worse over the years. No one can play like the Wilfred Brothers though," she said.

"I've never heard of them," Mordecai said, pulling into the parking lot of the arcade.

"I'll tell you about them another time, right now let's go play some," she paused for dramatic effect, "D-d-d-d-dig Champs, now in 3-D!" she ran inside and Mordecai came after her a minute later. 'She is so different from Margartet, she likes Dig Champs! I can't belive this,'

Mordecai went in the arcade and payed the cashier, a fluffy rabit boy, 30 dollars. He handed Mordecai back 25 dollars worth of tokens. He took the bucket over to Autumn, who was leaning against the machine waiting for Mordecai.

"Wanna play two player?" Autumn said in a taunting tone.

"Oh, you're on!" said Mordecai inserting two coins into the machince's slot. They stayed at the arcade for a little over 3 hours. They had random little conversations, most of them about the game they were playing or sharing experiences about their past.

"... and Skikps punched him so hard, he died! But then Skips arm wrestled Death, and brought Rigby back to life," Mordecai was telling the story that appeared on Over the Top.

"Hahaha, you sure do a lot of wierd things at the Park," Autumn said laughing at the story.

"Yeah we really couldn't last one day without wierd things happining, but ever since Rigby left the Park nothing's really happened," Mordecai explained.

"So what your saying is Rigby created all the problems," Autumn said with a suspicious look in her eyes.

"No, wait, uhhhh, yeah, I guess, that's not bad is it?" Mordecai responded.

"No, not at all, just trying to mess with you," she said back.

"Oh, okay, hahahaha," Mordecai said with a smile, he was enjoying himself on this date, well not exactly a date, or is it? Hmmmm, well it didn't matter, he was having fun, and that was the whole point of this gathering, to have fun with Autumn or to just see her again.

The day ended too soon for Mordecai and he wanted to stay longer, but the arcade closed at 10 p.m. and he had to get back to the Park at 11, so he took Autumn back home and dropped her off, then went back to the Park where his little freind was waiting eagerly.

"So, how'd it go? Did you screw it up? Did you ask her out again? Did you have fun while you were with her?" Rigby asked all these questions and more, he just wanted to make sure Mordecai didn't screw up his date.

"Dude! I didn't screw up the date all right, everything went perfectly fine," Mordecai said to his freind who was now jumping on the couch excitedly.

"Oh, okay, I see," Rigby said now calmed down.

"Hey, where's Robbie?" Mordecai said now noticing the little raccoon was missing.

"Oh, I took him home hours ago, he had a lot of questions to ask him mom, the poor kid couldn't sit still," Rigby said boringly.

"Hahahaha you couldn't answer all his questions huh?" Mordecai said.

"Hey you try answering like one hundred questions at a time," Rigby said defensively.

"I just did, when I came in you were piling questions on me like a maniac," Mordecai said back.

"Oh well, like father like son, I guess," Rigby said refusing to fight anymore. Just then the phone started ringing, but before anyone could get to it Pops answered.

"Hello?" Pops said in a perfectly happy voice.

"Oh, hi Pops, is Rigby still over there?" Eileen said on the other end.

"Oh, why yes he is!" Pops said looking over at the couch, but not saying anything.

"Could you please let me talk to him?" Eileen said not hearing anything on the other end.

"OH, yeah, sure!" Pops said as he skipped merrily into the other room , "Rigby!" He said happily, "there is someone on the telephone for you!"

"Oh, okay thanks Pops," he said as he took the phone. "Hello?"

"Rigby! I need you to come home now! You know we had rescheduled Christmas shopping for today!" Eileen whined.

"Uggghhhh not again I don't wanna!" Rigby said equally whining.

"Come on! You have to! There's only like four days to Christamas!" Eileen said," I got Don to babysit again, so, we have to go tonight!"

Rigby sighed," Fine!" Mordecai started laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Rigby said annoyed now.

"I'm laughing at YOU hahahaha," Mordecai said laughing harder now.

"What did I do that was so funny?" Rigby said.

"Nothing, it's just that before you got married you would've never let anyone talk you into Christmas shopping, especially not a girl!" Mordecai replied stopping to catch his breath then laughing again.

"SO! It's different when your married, you have to do everything your wife tells you, or else!" Rigby said.

"Or else what?" Mordecai asked.

"Well I can't really explain, but you'll figure it out if this whole 'Autumn thing' gets you anywhere."

"Yeah, okay dude, so you have to go now right?" he said.

"Yeah, but I'll see you tomorrow- with Robbie again," said Rigby, more or less asking it instead of saying it.

"Yeah that's fine, you know he's acually kinda cool now that he's older," Mordecai said walking with Rigby to the door.

"He's 3,"

"He doesn't whine as much now,"

"He's 3"

"I get that but he is still cool,"

"He's. 3. How can he be cool if he's only 3, he's gunna be a new Don," Rigby said cringing.

"No dude, I'm just saying... well... for a 3 year old he's okay,"

". . . Okay," Rigby said walking out the door, "Bye,"

"Bye, dude, see you tomorrow," Mordecai said waving, the raccoon gave a half hearted wave back and started walking to his car, he got in and drove away.

Mordecai closed the door and walked up to his room and went to bed thinking about the great time he had with Autumn.