Chapter 2: Student Union.
Time has been dwindling more or less, it would be much more if this shift was over. Only twenty minutes remain until Flame Princess gets to see her boyfriend again. Because of school she had been so busy; she was worried about their relationship. Dating for 6 years, and the road became rough because he wasn't going to school, he kept going out places, adventuring, trying to find himself. She felt as though she was working harder on the relationship, visiting every weekend, having bubblegum create the icing (ice ring) to not only hold her books without igniting them, but to hold a special person without igniting him as well. However, now that they were going to the same school, an overwhelming excitement overwhelmed her as the clock clicked closer and closer to 5:30, where she can clock out and see his smiling adventurer face. She was so excited she didn't notice Mr. Fox watching her cautiously from the corner of the student union.
"So when do you get off?" Flame Princess snapped back into reality. Who was talking to her? "Lacie?" Her thoughts return with the ring of that nickname. Jake thought it up, but when it comes from Bubblegum it sounds so sweet.
"Yea, oh, 5:30. Are you going to come with me to Finns?"
"Of course I will." Bubblegum replied. "I came for a quick view on this institute of learning, but I stayed this long to see my favorite hero."
"You and I both Peebles." Flame Princess sighed deeply.
"Anything on your mind? I can do a quick inspection for you."
"Thanks for the thought but it's nothing to be calculated. I am just a bit worried."
"About your overbearing romance with Finn? Don't worry about that, I told you the icing stabilizes your compounds to—" Flame princess cuts her off. "That's not what I meant Peebs."
She hangs her head embarrassed. She never wanted to have this conversation, but if she does, it should be with someone she trusts, and right now it's so quiet in the union no one will even notice what they are talking about.
"Then what is it?"
"These past two years, Finn and I had barely any time to spend with each other. Before that we were pretty young and didn't have the icing either… Do you understand what I am trying to say?"
"…No."
Flame princess sparks through the cheeks. It's hard to explain things that have to do with life to Bubblegum. "Finn and I," Be straightforward she says to herself. "We are both 20 years old now." As she talks Bubblegum listens intently. "And we haven't done what adults do… I think Jake calls it Teir 15?"
"Tier 15?"
"All we have ever done is kiss Peebles. Nothing else. I don't know how to DO anything else."
"…So what is the problem Lacie?"
Right, a scientist would never understand. Love cannot be calculated, love is chaotic. Like fire. A fire that Lacie was ready to release and finally knew how.
"No problem Princess Bubblegum. But can you do me a favor?"
