Prince Gumball was in his study, reading one of his many science books, when he heard a knock on the door. Seconds later Peppermint Maid poked her head inside. "Sir, King Marshall is here."

Gumball sighed as he placed the book he was reading on one of the many tables in the room. "Great, send him in." Gumball got up from his big pink chair just as Marshall came floating into the room on his back, with a sunhat still on his head.

The door closed behind Marshall and he turned over and hovered closer to the ground, so he was now eye-to-eye with Gumball. "So Gumbutt what's the big deal? You tell me to get over here right away but don't tell me why," Marshall says crossing his arms.

"I need your help. I've been thinking about Fionna and-"

"You've been thinking about Fionna?" Marshall quickly asked, giving him a smirk, at the same time cutting Gumball's words short.

"Not like that, Marshall," he said, glaring at the still grinning vampire. "What I was saying is that I've been thinking about yesterday and how Fionna stormed off. I thought the best way to help her move on is to maybe get her to meet new people."

"You mean hand her off to another, dude?" Marshall asked, sounding irritated. "Why not just go on one date with her? It's just one date."

Gumball said nothing at first, but then he asked a question. "Why don't you go out with her Marshall? You two seem pretty close."

A frown came to Marshall's face and his expression seemed to say 'I thought you were smarter than that'. "Gumball, I'm an immortal vampire demon. Getting involved with a human girl will only lead to heartbreak in the end on both sides. Plus I don't see her that way and I'm sure she doesn't see me that way either."

"Hmm…. Where is Fionna?"

"At the beach with Cake, why?"

Gumball nods his head at Marshall and says, "Okay, let's go to the beach," before he starts walking towards door that Marshall had enter in just a minute before.

"What? Are you seriously going to do that to Fionna?" Marshall seemed both irritated and surprised by Gumball.

"I don't know what else to do Marshall," Gumball said, pausing his steps for a second.

"Go. Out. With. Her!" Marshall just wanted to slap the prince in the face, but knew now's not the time for violence. He'll do that later.

Gumball didn't look at Marshall when he said those words, but instead stared at the ground for a second before walking right out the door.

"Ugh!" Marshal groaned before he too floated out of the study.

Marshall and Gumball both left the Candy Kingdom and headed over to the beach. They didn't bring any swimming trunks, since Gumball had no plans on playing in the sun. His plans were much more important than fun at the moment. With the sun still being pretty high up in the sky, Marshall had no plans on limiting his clothing down to a pair of swimwear any time soon.

Off in the distance Gumball and Marshall could hear laughter that obviously belonged to Fionna and they followed it. Soon they were stepping on sand and the ocean water came into view, but there was no sign of Fionna or Cake.

"There she is!" Marshall pointed out, pointing his well-covered hand towards some really large rocks.

Fionna stood on top of the tallest rock. The sun behind her turned her body into a silhouette that looked like one of a warrior. It was hard to make out anything from the direction of the sun, but they could see very clearly her blond hair flapping in the wind.

As the boys got closer they began to see Fionna more clearly. She wore a blue and white bikini and looked like she was about to jump. Gumball and Marshall stopped just as Fionna leaped from the rocks and did a cannon ball into the water below. She yelled out in laughter as she did so, almost seeming to have forgotten everything that had happened the day before.

The boys watched as Fionna walked out of the ocean and onto the sand, squeezing the water from her hair. She was smiling at Cake, who was keeping her distance from the wet girl, which made Fionna laugh.

"Fionna!" Marshall called out. She looked up from Cake and her laughing began died down when she saw the two guys looking at her. It made her blush, knowing that she was wearing a bikini, which showed off a lot of skin.

Grabbing her towel from the sand, Fionna threw it over her shoulders as if it were some cape before she walked up to the boys. "Hey Marshall, Hey Gumball." She said Gumball's name with a hint of sadness behind it, which she tried to cover it with a smile, but they knew her better. "W-what are you guys doing here?" She asked.

"Well," Gumball began with a blush, knowing that he practically just saw Fionna half-naked. "I wanted to know if we could hang out?"

"Hang out?" Fionna said with a hint of hope.

Gumball took noticed and quickly reworded his question. "I mean like you, Marshall, Cake and I all hang out."

Disappointed came to Fionna and her shoulders slumped down. "Um, sure. What did you have planned?" She said, not really keeping eye contact with the prince standing in front of her.

Gumball didn't want Fionna to know of his plan, so he suggested two things they all could do and hoped she picked one over the other. "Well we could all go on an adventure, or maybe bake some cookies back at the castle?"

Gumball stood and waited, hoping the word 'adventuring' passed her lips, but it never did. "Baking sounds like fun."

Everyone, including Cake who was standing nearby, was surprised by Fionna's answer. Gumball especially, since he wasn't expecting the girl who would choose adventuring over anything, would suddenly choose baking. Gumball wasn't sure if it was a good or bad thing. Could she be doing this because she wanted to hang out with him? That couldn't be because she would still be hanging out with him during adventure. Maybe she wanted to do more things he likes in hopes to get him to like her? The last one made him nervous.

His whole plan just backfired right in his face. He couldn't take it back now; they were all going to go do some baking together. Though he would have rather down baking anyways, but this was not his plan.

Gumball looked up from Fionna and over to Marshall Lee who just have him a look that told him, that he was a butthead for even offering the second option. Gumball just put a fake smile on and said, "Alright. Let's all go bake."

"Sorry Gumbutt, I don't bake," Marshall said, grinning evilly. Cake too backed out of baking, leaving just Gumball and Fionna.

"I guess it's just me and you Fionna," Gumball said.

"Mathematical!" Fionna's face now had a real smile on it and it made Gumball smile. He preferred her real smile over that phony one.

After a quick change at the tree house, Fionna and Gumball headed to the Candy Kingdom alone. But during their entire walk there, Gumball couldn't help but think that Marshall and Cake backed down on this whole baking thing on purpose just to get them alone.

To be continued...