Chapter 2: Delinquents
The next day the two were scheduled to start at their new school. The drive there was a quiet one as the two of them were still unsure as to how their senior year was going to go in this new place. The first thing they were directed to do by Simon was to visit the principal's office to get their schedules. The Principal, Daniel Phantom, was expecting them to be there before the start of the school day so they could get squared away. Marshall parked their black car in one of the student lots before turning to his twin.
"Remember we promised we'd behave," Marshall started with a smirk at his sister as they got out of the car and headed towards the large academic building.
"Shouldn't I be reminding you? You're the one that started the last fight we got into remember?" Marceline asked as she rose and eyebrow at her brother, "You just had to punch him in the face didn't you?"
"Hey he was asking for it." Marshall stated with a slight laugh, "He was pissing me off."
"Well, I guess we can't hit anyone who pisses us off here can we?"
"No, but that doesn't mean we have to give up our title."
"What title?"
"Our delinquent title of course" Marshall stated matter-of-factly as they walked into the building, a few teachers walking to their rooms and preparing for the day. The school was very large and cleaned; white marble floors and painting white hallways. The lights seemed to have just been turned on as they watched janitors move throughout the hall finishing last minute jobs before the school day begun. They made their way to the principal's office and were quickly directed by the secretary to go in and see him.
"Ah, Marshall Lee and Marceline Abadeer" Principal Phantom addressed as they walked in. He motioned for them to sit down before he continued. "How nice to see you two get here so early. Ready to take your academic careers seriously are we?"
"First things first, welcome to Pen Ward High School. We look forward to having you two in our senior class." Marceline would have laughed; there was no way he was this happy to see them, not after reading their files. "I have read through your, very large I may add, files and I must say I may need to invest in a new filing cabinet for the two of you."
Principal Phantom may have thought his joke was funny but Marceline and Marshall Lee just watched him from where they sat, not really finding it so hilarious.
"I have spoken to your guardian adviser, Mr. Simon Petrikov, and we agreed that you two can finish out your school years as long as you two behave yourselves. Here at Pen Ward High, we have a high graduation rate and I'd like to keep that rate up. So I expect the two of you to attend all your classes, join some clubs, some sports teams, I want the two of you to shape into worthy members of the PWHS community. I'm sure Mr. Petrikov has explained to you the consequences of not fulfilling these requirements."
"Yes sir," The twins said at the same time.
"Very good, we'll take it one day at a time then. Here is both your schedules good luck to the two of you. Remember I expect good things from you two."
The two took their schedules and walked out of the office, looking them over and seeing if they had any classes together.
"So first period we have chemistry with Professor Peppermint," Marshall stated as he looked at both schedules. "Then we have lunch together, literature, and then Music Instruction together."
Marceline frowned; three classes and lunch didn't leave much time in the school day for the twins to be together. They were the only friends they had. They were siblings and more importantly best friends. At least with Marshall there was someone to talk to, without him Marceline was going to have to keep to herself the whole period. Marshall seemed to be thinking the same as he looked towards his sister was a semi-disappointed look. In reality they were all they had. Marceline only had Marshall and Marshall only had Marceline. Marshall was a little more dependent on Marceline since he the younger twin, and no one else seemed to understand when they got into "Twin Talk" as Simon called it.
"We better get to our first class," Marshall stated when they heard the bell ring. They walked down the hall and towards the science rooms. "Chemistry 210…there it is,"
The classroom was in the middle of the hallway; Marshall opened the door before the two walked into the room. All eyes turned to them. The teacher took a moment to think before smiling.
"Ah, there you two are. I was wondering if you two got lost on your way here." The elderly man said as he turned to the class, "Class these are our new students. Please feel free to introduce yourselves."
Marshall and Marceline looked at each other before turning to the class.
"Marshall Lee," Marshall stated as he raised his hand in greeting.
"Marceline," Marceline added with a shrug. The room was silent for a moment before the teacher spoke up again,
"The Abadeer twins are new here so please help them catch up. I'm Professor Peppermint and I will be your teacher this year for Chemistry. You two can take a seat in the back behind Fionna and Rowtag."
Fionna raised a hand to wave so the twins would know who she was. They took their seats as Professor Peppermint continued with his lecture. The twins tried to follow but where having some difficulty. They transferred into the school two weeks after classes began so they were hoping to be able to catch on a little faster.
Marceline took a moment to look around the classroom at her fellow classmate. Fionna, the young girl that sat in front of them, had long blonde hair and seemed to have a thing for blue as her shirt and skirt were both different shades of blue. Her hair was pulled back into a ponytail with a little bunny hairclip on the left side of her head. Her long blonde bangs fell into her face. Next her here was Rowtag, a semi-tanned boy with a muscular build. He had red hair that was cut into a shaggy Mohawk. He wore charcoal ripped jeans and a white t-shirt with a black symbol that looked like a flame. He looked pretty badass, Marceline decided as she thought about how maybe her and Marshall weren't the only delinquents in this school.
Marceline glanced around at a few of the other students. There were two blonde haired kids sitting up front with their noses in their books. The male had his hair styled without a hair out of place as he sat their wearing a white button up shirt and black slacks. He seemed a little too dressed up for a normal day at school. The girl next to him had long pink hair and was wearing a white blouse with a black skirt. They both looked like they were in uniform. Marceline never liked uniforms. She hated looking like everyone else and Marshall hated having to wear a tie.
Marshall did the same as Marceline examining the other students. He looked towards Fionna particularly. She was a cute girl. Seemed to be into bad boys as she sat next to a pretty bad ass looking guy to begin with, so Marshall decided that since he was forced to be here then he mind as well have some fun while he was here and get to know some of the cute girls.
About twenty minutes in Professor Peppermint told the class to get into their lab groups so that they could work on some lab he was assigning them.
"Now, let me find a place for you two." The white haired man started as he looked around the room. "They started this lab last class, so perhaps you can watch in with another group for today and I will find a place to put you two later."
"I know, you two can watch in with this group," the old man lead the two to a table consisting of Fionna, who they assumed was Rowtag and two additional pink haired teens. "Please allow them to watch in. I didn't plan a place to put them before we started the lab. Bonnibel here is one of my best students so I hope she can teach you two a thing or two before the end of class."
The old man walked off and left the twins with the other four.
"Hey, I'm Fionna Fletcher it's nice to meet you two." The blonde stated, "This is Rowtag Flame," Fionna stated as she gestured to the stoic male teen next to her. He had brown eyes that were so dark and deep that they contrasted the male's lighter skin and hair tones.
"And that's Gilbert Gumball and Bonnibel Bubblegum."
"Yo," Marshall greeted.
"Yes well we need to get to work if we want to finish by the end of class," Gumball stated as he adjusted his goggles. He then handed two pairs to the twins. They watched as Bubblegum set up the Bunsen burner different colored liquids in containers rested around her.
"Bubblegum's really good at science and stuff so she usually does most of the work in labs." Fionna explained as they watched the pinkette mix a few of the liquids.
"So Gilbert you and Bonnibel here related?" Marshall stated after a long moment of silence.
"Yes, we are cousins." Gumball continued writing notes as his cousin mixed the chemicals.
"I guess that's cool," Marshall stated with a bored expression, "So Fionna babe, tell me about yourself."
"Babe" Fionna repeated as she raised an eyebrow, Rowtag narrowed his eyes at the black haired male. Marceline shook her head; it was pretty common for Marshall to start flirting with a few girls when they transferred. He was the typical bad boy type that most girls would fall for. "A little full of yourself are you?"
"We are in chemistry class, maybe I wanted to see if there was a reaction." Marshall added with his signature flirty smirk, blue-green eyes on the blonde sitting to the other side of Marceline.
"Dude," Rowtag spoke for the first time, his voice angry as he stood up straight.
"Do you have 11 protons? 'Cause you're Sodium fine,"
"Could you cut that out so we could work?" Gumball interrupted giving Marshall a similar look that Rowtag was giving him. Another moment of silence came over them, this time a little more uncomfortable then the previous one.
"So what is the mad scientist over there working on?" Marshall asked as he watched the mixture change colors.
"It's a simple chemical reaction lab. By mixing the many different chemicals, there can be multiple different chemical reactions. Some reactions cause a change in color while others cause the mixture to bubble or smoke. My mixing the chemicals the previous chemical's structure is changed into an entirely new chemical. I can farther learn the properties of that chemical by mixing it with others and examining the physical reactions that cause when the new chemical interacts with other properties in the environment."
"Can we get that in English?" Marceline asked as the pinkette rolled her eyes.
"I mix the pretty colored liquids to see what happens."
"Smartass" Marceline barked narrowing her blue-green eyes at the girl,
"I insist you pay more attention rather then make rude comments," Bubblegum stated as she returned Marceline's glare. "It's quite distasteful to use such language with colleagues."
"What are you forty? How 'bout we act more our age princess?"
"So we want me to act like a brute?"
"You haven't seen a brute yet!"
"Marcy," Marshall placed a hand on his sister's shoulder, a look of urgency on his face. Moments passed as the situation slowly died down. Marceline took a seat back down next to Marshall unaware she had stood in the first place.
"I like your shirt Marceline," Fionna offered awkwardly as she gestured to Marceline's dark gray T-shirt with a red no smoking symbol on it.
"Thanks, I got it at that old thrift shop in Dustin." Marceline stated, although her tone was still slightly edgy.
"Dustin," Gumball repeated, "Are you two from there?"
"No, we're from Ebony." Marshall interjected, "South side,"
"Do your parents travel a lot?" Gumball asked as Marshall looked away; Marceline did as well but decided to answer.
"We don't have parents."
"Gilbert," Bubblegum spoke up, "It's very impolite to ask such things of people you just met."
"I'm sorry," Gumball put a hand through his styled pink hair.
"Do you mind us asking what happened?" Rowtag asked as Fionna elbowed him.
"You don't have to answer." Bubblegum stated shooting Rowtag a look, "Enough of that, now will someone help me with this?"
"I will," Marceline stated as she stood and walked over, lightly shoving Gumball out of the way to do so "Unless you'd rather not get help from a brute."
Bubblegum looked over at the girl she had just fought with. A shy look came to her as she regretted getting into a short lived argument with the other, "I just need someone to pour in that blue liquid while I hold the beaker,"
"K"