I'm here with another chapter!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, been busy with school and hardly had time to write, but here I am.

I didn't have this chapter beta'd since my beta is really busy, even more than me, so she couldn't. So there could be mistakes, holes in the plot or it could be boring (I apologize for that)

This chapter, though, is the beginning of the future. This is a really important chapter, and I hope you enjoy it.

Other than, that, as usual, review, and yeah.

I woke up the next morning in the guest bed. I never really slept well when sleeping in other beds, so I was extremely tired and drowsy when I had woken up. I sat up on the bed and looked around the bland, beige room. I wasn't sure of Rigby was awake, so I got up and made my way out into the hall, where I heard the TV with it's usual buzz. I walked into the livingroom, where Rigby was happily sitting on the couch, staring at the lit screen.

"Good morning." Rigby said to me as I sat next to him on the couch.

"Morning." I said back in a grumbled tone. Rigby gave a quiet chuckle.

"You didn't sleep at all, did you?" He asked me as I rubbed my eye with my feathers.

"Not at all. Sleeping in other beds other than my own screw up my sleep schedule." I said back. Rigby nodded.

"Makes sense," He said back as he stood up and turned off the TV. "Want to go out for breakfast? I haven't gotten any food for this place even though I've been living here for a while." Rigby explained. I nodded back.

"Sure." I said back. Rigby nodded back and made his way down the hall, where he came back with what I assumed, his wallet.

"Let's go." He said to me as he walked to the door. I followed behind him, and we walked out of the building and across the street to a pancake place named 'The Pancake Shack.' It looked like a nice place, somewhere where I would go myself if I had the time, money and resources.

"Do you always come here for breakfast?" I asked him as we walked in, he turned and gave me a smile with a nod.

"Of course, this is my favorite place. I always come here with people, though, and you're no exception." Rigby said back. I couldn't help but chuckle for some reason. We were quickly seated in the restaurant, where we were given a menu and everything. Rigby and I had both decided to get the blueberry French Toast Waffles and we had given our order, so we were now waiting on our food to get here.

"You liking your new life?" I asked Rigby awkwardly as he looked around the restaurant. He turned to me.

"Of course. I'm free, I'm liking being able to go wherever I please, do whatever I want and not have anyone be on my ass 24/7 like Benson. Sure, it's different, but I like it." He said back with a smile.

"Well that's good." I said back awkwardly. There was a moment of awkward silence until Rigby decided to speak.

"So how long do you think you'd be staying with me? N-Not that I want you to leave or anything, just asking… Now I made this sound like I don't want you around." Rigby said, stammering over his words.

"Not sure. Depends how long you want me there, or how long I need to be there. Although hopefully I can get that job at the park with you." I said to him, Rigby nodded as the waiter, a overly happy otter, came and served us our French Toast.

"It should be easy. The boss it's a lot more easier on us than Benson, and she wants more people to work there." Rigby said to me.

"Alright then…" I said back. Rigby began to eat his breakfast, so I did the same. There wasn't much else to talk about and do, now.

Once we were both done, we left the restaurant in a talking craze and made our way back to Rigby's place. Once inside, we both sat down on the couch and watched TV, talking about things here and there.

"Mordecai?" Rigby asked me as we watched a show about two celebrity females, a poodle and a condor, who live in some place that neither Rigby and I have heard of.

"Hmm?" I asked back. I turned to Rigby who was studying me.

"Have you had much luck with Margaret at all?" He asked me, I scoffed.

"Margaret? Not at all. You see, once you left this gay flamingo named Isaac got hired in your place. So, one day, we both decided to go to the coffee shop, so I could introduce him to Margaret, you know. Isaac went on to tell me that, after all the years of chasing after her, she isn't interesting in me at all. I didn't believe him at first, so I ended up getting mad at him and I made him walk out of the coffee shop. She came up to me, Margaret, and asked me for Isaac's number, and that's where it hit me. Margaret wasn't interested in me, she was never and probably would never be. So I ended up telling her my mind, and left the restaurant." I said to Rigby. He nodded to me as he processed my story.

"I see. How was this Isaac person?" Rigby asked me, I laughed.

"Of everything I tell you, Margaret and leaving the coffee shop, you ask me what Isaac was like?" I said back, chuckling.

"Hey, he sounds like a pretty cool person. A flamingo? Who's gay?" He added.

"And he wore glasses." I added. Rigby nodded.

"See, he sounds pretty awesome." Rigby said back as shifted on the couch.

"He was. He opened up my eyes…a lot." I said, avoiding the topic of my growing schoolgirl crush on Rigby.

"I see," Rigby said back, obviously not interesting anymore on the topic about Isaac. I heard a ring and Rigby reached his hand into the side of the cushion and took out a flip-phone cell phone. I didn't know he had one. "Mind if I take this in the other room?" Rigby asked me, I shook my head.

"Go ahead." I said to him. He gave me a big smile, which made me smile too, and he left the room. I turned my attention back to the TV and changed the channel to something more interesting than two bratty celebrities living in some place no one cares about. After a few minutes of channel surfing, Rigby had come back into the livingroom.

"Alright, so…I gotta go do something, but I don't want to leave you alone. My ride's about to come right now and I really would take you, but there's a few reasons as to I can't." Rigby said to me.

"It's fine, you can go. I can just go…somewhere. Is there anywhere around here that you can go to?" I asked Rigby.

"There's a few clubs around here, there's place to just hang with friends, but you're alone." Rigby said to me, his eyes darting over to the window as he watched for his ride.

"Club names?" I asked him.

"There's Cake around here, there's another named Saturn, and another one, no idea why it's called this, named 05121." Rigby said to me.

"Alright, thanks." I said, trying to remember the club names. I heard a car honk, which startled Rigby.

"Oh there's my ride. You enjoy your day, I should come back around midnight, alright?" He said to me as he walked over to the door. I nodded and smiled.

"Yeah sure, you enjoy your day too." I said back. Rigby gave me one last nod and he left the place, closing the door behind him. I sighed as I slumped on the couch, more. I was left to be alone again, nothing to do. I didn't want everyday to be like this, sure I liked my alone time, but Rigby had just left me today. Was I jealous at the fact that I couldn't spend time with Rigby? The one that I just barely learned I loved? Loved…no, I liked him, not loved him. Love was when someone loves you back.

I sighed once more and turned off the TV. I wanted to go to a club tonight, get my mind off of being alone today. But clubbing hadn't always been my thing, but I needed something to do… If only I had Isaac's number, I would call him and ask him to do something with me, but I hadn't thought about doing that.

What could I do! I wanted to go clubbing, sure, that would be fun, but alone?

You know what, Mordecai. You're going clubbing, alright? What were the club names? Cake? Saturn? And that other one…05121. That sounded like a good club, 05121. I would go there.

That's where I was going. To 05121, even if I changed my mind halfway there.

I got up from the couch and walked to the door, which I opened, and walked outside. It was still bright out. Would the club be open? Some clubs only opened at night, so I had no idea if 05121 was any different. Whatever. I would go either way. Although…where was the club.

Rigby! Why didn't you tell me. I audibly sighed as I looked outside, past the condo buildings to the street where the pizza and waffle place was. It was possible that the club was around here, Rigby did mention that. Sure, why not, I'll just go wonder. The condos weren't very hard to find, they were tall buildings that could be seen from a long distance.

I began walking through the big grass field in front of the buildings and to the street that I had been to so many times. I crossed the street without a care, since hardly any cars came around this area. I walked down the street, passing the pizza and waffle place until I reached the end of the street at a three-way intersection. I turned left and came across a dead-end, shaped like a cul-de-sac. The thing that caught my attention was an art museum right in the center of the dead end. I hadn't spent some time doing what I enjoyed, art and looking at it. It was something I loved to do, and here, there was an art museum.

Why not go? Clubs are rarely open at day, and if they are they're filled with people with nothing to do at the daytime.

Alright then. I would go to the art museum. Maybe I would see something I liked at art museums, such as odd art or sculptures made out of odd things like forks or broken jars.

I began walking down the street down to the cul-de-sac which ended up having the art museum and two massive gift shops. In the center of the cul-de-sac on the street was a statue of a French man, the man I presumed either found the art museum or contributed money to it. I walked past the statue and to the front stairs of the museum. The museum was built like a city hall or something, big staircases and pedestals holding up a part of the roof that loomed over the front of the building. I opened the big, gold doors and walked into the building, letting the cold air of the inside of the building take me in. The museum smelled friendly and sweet, like apples or pie. (Apple pie?) There was a desk at the front room, with a female rhino behind the desk, quickly typing things into a dinosaur aged computer. She didn't bother to look away from the screen, so I went right through a doorway and into the sculpture section of the museum. There was a few people in this section, a few looking around at the sculptures, others listening to the ridiculous info things through headphones. I hate those.

None of the sculptures in this area had interested me, so I continued on and went through another doorway to another section of the sculpture part. This part was more interesting, it was abstract sculptures. The first sculpture in the room had caught my attention quickly. It was a tall sculpture made out of curved pieces of colorful metal, which seemed to make a jumble of letters. I walked around the platform that it was on, looking at it until I say something through one of the gaps of the sculpture that had caught my attention.

I saw something pink move, a familiar pink…

I couldn't help but keep looking at it. I knew it wasn't part of the sculpture behind the one I was looking at, since it was a sculpture made of dull green objects into a giant tree looking thing. I walked around the sculpture and went to the green one and saw that the pink thing was. It was Isaac, happily smiling and laughing with a wolf with a height equal to Isaac's, who had an arm around his chest.

"Isaac?" I asked as approached them from behind. Isaac turned around and his face lit up.

"Mordecai!" He said loudly as he left the arm of the wolf and ran towards me. He put his fluffy pink arms around me into a hug.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him as he hugged me.

"What else? Looking at art, and you?" he asked me back.

"Same thing, nothing to do. Rigby left today to who-knows-where." I said to him. Isaac had stopped his hug and was facing me.

"That's a shame…" he said quietly, then his face lit up again. "Oh! Almost forgot to introduce you, Mordecai, this is Justin." Isaac said, gesturing to the wolf who was hugging him when I had seen them. Justin walked over to me and offered his pay.

"Nice to meet you, Isaac has talked to me about you and your confusions." Justin said to me. His voice was cool and smooth, similar to Isaac's in tone and smoothness. I took his pay in my wing and shook it. I expected a rough, controlling handshake that wolves loved to give, but I got a calm, slow hand shake. I studied Justin's face.

"Nice to meet you too." I said back with as smile. Justin wasn't one of those typical wolves. Ones who are tough, rugged and controlling, Justin was just the opposite. He looked calm, despite having a silver earring through one of his pointed ears. His hairfur was put up in a sort if Mohawk, but only the front of it was like that. He looked badass but calm at the same time.

"Yeah, this is basically the person who replaced you at the park." Isaac said to me bluntly. I chuckled.

"I see. You guys seemed to hit it off well, too." I said looking over to Isaac.

"Of course. Justin literally knew I was gay the second he knew me." Isaac said to me. I looked over to Justin who shrugged and gave me a smile, showing off his bright white teeth with his sharp canines, usual to the wolves.

"And I liked him right there and then. As a person. Remember the few days that Isaac would live the park out of nowhere? He was going out with me. But, we've literally spent the last few days getting to know each other better." Justin said to me, who turned his attention back to the sculpture.

"It does, but you never know." Isaac added. There was a sort of silence until I spoke again.

"So tell me, Isaac," I said mischievously. "How is Justin? I know you're all sensitive and stuff, and I wouldn't see you with a wolf." I said looking over to Justin who was studying the sculpture. My words hadn't caught his attention.

"You'd be surprised. Sure, he's a wolf, but he's not rough, he's not dominant, he's not emotionless, he's literally the perfect person to me. He's sensitive, adorable, and despite being a rough and tough wolf, he's super soft." He explained to me, laughing. Justin walked over to Isaac from behind and he wrapped his arms around his waist, bringing him into a hug. I could see the muscles as he hugged Isaac. Sure, he was strong, but like Isaac said, Justin seemed to have the sweetest look and words as he whispered to Isaac as they hugged.

I felt a little bit awkward watching them do this, and Isaac caught on to this. He got out of Justin's grip and began talking.

"Sorry about that." He said awkwardly, chuckling.

"It's fine." I said as I watched Justin land a peck on Isaac's cheek.

"Do you want to go somewhere else? We should catch up after a day, it could have been rough could it?" Isaac asked me.

"Not really, Rigby gladly took me in. We live around the corner from here, too. It's a nice place and Rigby seems happy to see me." I said to Isaac.

"I see. Then where do you want to go, Justin?" Isaac asked Justin. He shrugged.

"Anywhere." He answered back.

"How about 05121?" I asked them. They both gave me a heavily puzzled look.

"05121?" They both asked me in unison. I laughed.

"It's a club, Rigby told me about it." I told them, then Justin's face lit up.

"Oh! You mean 05123?" Justin asked me, I scoffed.

"Really? One number changes everything?" I asked back.

"One number can change a lot." Justin said to me.

"You want to go, then? You do know 05123 is a gay club." Isaac told me, I shook my head.

"It is? What? Rigby told me to go, though." I said.

"That's got to mean something, doesn't it?" Isaac said

"Whatever, isn't it too early to go to 05123?" I asked them, Isaac checked his watch.

"It's six already, it should open soon." Isaac said to me, I gasped.

"Six! You're kidding me, right? What the-! It was just barely noon like an hour ago!" I said loudly, forgetting that I was in a museum.

"Time goes by fast, dude." Justin said to me. I looked around the massive room filled of sculptures for a clock. I had finally found now, that was a part of a sculpture, of all things, and saw that they were right. It was actually six, almost seven.

"Wow…" I said confused.

"You still want to go, then? To 05123?" Isaac asked me.

"Sure." I said back. They nodded and began walking out of the room, Justin's arm around Isaac's neck and on his shoulders. I had to admit, they looked pretty adorable together.

After a car ride in Justin's car, we had finally arrived at 05123. It was a big, lone building with a giant neon sign that said the club name, along with green neon lights that ran along the wall and on the corner where the wall and ceiling met. It looked pretty big and grand, but at the same time, ordinary. Justin had found a place to park and we had gotten of the car and we walked over to the club, which people were beginning to walk into. I looked up at the darkening sky, due to the sunset, feeling lost in time.

"You'll like 05123. Despite it being a gay club, and you feeling confused about your sexuality." Justin said as we walked to the club.

"Who knows, you may find someone who just may get your attention." Isaac added.

"Yeah, possibly." I said back. We reached the security guard at the door, who asked us for our ID's. All three of us showed them to him and he let us through into the building. Once in, I saw that the place was huge. The dance floor made up about two-thirds of the club itself, which was light up green right now as a few people danced on it. The night was young.

A few people were in the booths and tables around the sides of the dance floor, a few others at the bar which was now open.

"Do you guys come here often?" I asked them, my voice barely there.

"Usually." Isaac said back as we made our way over to one of the booths. We sat down on the green colored booth which was facing the dance floor.

"We got here too early, it's so dead and boring right now." Justin said as he watched a male parrot and cougar dance on the dance floor, obviously into each other.

"Not our fault that we had nothing to do on a Saturday. We were lucky to run into you, Mordecai, or we'd be bored out of our minds." Isaac said with a sigh.

"And I'm glad you guys decided to bring me here." I added to them. The both smiled to me.

"It's good to see you. Especially after you left in a rush." Isaac said to me.

"Yeah. I'm hoping to get somewhere with my leave though, haven't said a single thing to him about my feelings." I said to them, Isaac scoffed.

"Really? You left for that exact reason, and you're not doing that?" Isaac said to over to me.

"It's only been a while." I added.

"And? Come on, Mordecai, this is Rigby. The Rigby you've known for so long. I mean, if Justin hadn't been brave when it came to me, we may not be where we are." Isaac said looking over to Justin who smiled to him. They leaned in and gave each other a peck.

"That's true…" I said back quietly as I looked across the club. Two more people walked into the club, but I couldn't make it who it was at all. The parrot and cougar had both left together, so now the green dance floor was empty.

"We just need to wait for the rush." Justin said as he saw me look over to the dance floor.

"Is this place popular?" I asked them, they nodded.

"Of course. Biggest gay club in the area." Justin said to me. I turned back around to look around the club. I could finally make out the two people who just came in. One was a tall bear, obviously muscular and mean looking, and the other was…a raccoon. A short, stubby raccoon that I had seen earlier today.

"R-Rigby." I said as I looked over behind me.

"Rigby?" Isaac asked me.

"Rigby. Rigby's over there. With…a bear." I said, trying to discreetly pointing to them. Both Justin and Isaac moved their heads to try to get a glimpse of them both. Both of them were happily laughing and smiling as they made their way over to a booth over to the other side of the club.

"Isaac, that's Kais." Justin said to Isaac.

"Kais?" Isaac asked him. I was still turned around, watching Rigby and the bear who I guessed was Kais. That name sounded familiar.

"My ex. The bear I told you about, the one who cheated on me." Justin said. That caught my attention, so I turned around and faced them.

"He cheated on you?" I asked Justin. He slowly nodded to me.

"With some bitch. A female jaguar." Justin said to me.

"So he's bisexual?" I asked him, he nodded.

"Not sure. I guess." Justin said back. I turned around and looked over to Rigby and Kais again. I saw that they were both talking happily to each other.

"Should I approach him?" I asked them. Isaac nodded to me.

"You're choice." Justin said to me, neutrally. I turned back around and took in a big breath.

"Alright, I'm going to go over there." I said to them as I stood up.

"Good luck." Justin said to me, I turned over to him and nodded.

"Thanks." I said as I walked away from the booth and across the light dance floor to the side where Rigby and Kais were. I approached them slowly, where they hadn't seen me still. My heart was pounding on the way to the table, where they were both sitting at. Once at the table, I stood at the end of it and finally spoke.

"Good to see you." I said to them. I startled both of them, since they were so heavily distracted. Rigby's eyes widened at the sight of me and he gasped loudly.

"Mordecai." He said to me, obviously surprised.

The cat's out of the bag.