Ch9
Bell... 5th period
"Urrgh" Cake groaned in annoyance, when the bell rang.
"What's the matter?" Fionna asked putting her green backpack on.
"I have social studies." Cake stuck her tongue out. "It's so boring."
Jake yawned, "Man… we shouldn't have stayed up all night, last night." He turned to Finn.
Finn who had been watching Bubblegum exit the lunchroom hurriedly only mumbled "uh-huh."
"Why we're you up so late?" Cake laughed
"There was a Billy Marathon last night." Jake continued
"Billy?" Cake asked confused
Fionna laughed, "To them Billy is like Bella to us."
"Oh! I would have stayed up all night too!" She grinned as they made their ways to class.
"We'll see you later." Fionna said as she pulled Finn up the stairs to the Art room for their photography class. "Dude what is your deal with Bonnibel? I thought you said you'd be cool?" She asked her tone angry and frustrated
"I want her to tell me." He stated as and kept walking
"Why? You already know!"
"I want her to tell me herself. She knows how I feel about her. All I want is for her to be the one to tell me."
"Finn" Fionna mumbled, "What happened to being the hero?"
Finn sighed, "What do you want me to do Fionna?"
"Guys!" Marshall Lee ran up them getting in between and putting an arm over each shoulder "Why the long faces?"
"Nothing… I am going ahead. We have Mr. Kenny and I don't want his weird old man flirtatiousness to bother Bonnibel." Finn sighed and waved at Marshall as he walked away.
"What's wrong with Finnegan?" Marshall asked confused
"He's trying to play the hero." Fionna stated sadly
"You told him?" Marshall asked
"I had to."
"I know… it's cool." He smiled
"Marshall… I really don't wanna go have to deal with Mr. Kenny's psychotic flirty self… Help me cut?"
"Fionna I am all for ditching but I've got my mother at my heels and I'm sure she's on yours too." He smirked
"Are you afraid of getting caught?" She smirked
Marshall laughed "Afraid? Me?" He pulled her towards the stairs "The band room is empty this period, we can go there."
"What about Marce?" Fionna asked, "She'll be alone at lunch."
"I'll text her and see if she wants to come." He smiled as they made their way
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"I am about to take a nap." Cake yawned
"Oh wow. You're the morning one and your tired… my eyes can hardly stay open!" He exclaimed as the teacher went over the requirements for the year. "Cake why do you wear make up?" He asked drowsily
"Umm… because." She replied
"You really don't need it." Jake smiled as he closed his eyes.
Cake blushed and turned her attention back to the teacher.
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"Cutting with Fi. If you want, come to the band room. –ML" Marceline read the text as she bit into the apple.
"I am sitting with my friends. Don't worry about it. Thanks for letting me know. BTW I took your apple :P –M." She replied
"I know you did… bitch." He replied. She laughed at the replied and continued her conversation with her friends.
"Marceline… look." Her pale friend pointed towards the ash blond girl.
"Ashley." Marceline muttered as the girl walked towards her table.
"Hey mar-mar. Where's Marshy?" The ash blond girl smirked
"Ashley, I was one hundred percent sure that when Marshall dumped you he also said get away from me you psycho." Marceline teased and her friends giggled "But if you must know, although it's none of your business, he's with Fionna."
"The sophomore girl?" Ashley scoffed
"Honey at least he has somebody. Who do you have?" Marceline's friend spoke up. Ashley flipped her ponytail to her back and walked away.
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"Where's Fionna?" Bubba asked fifteen minutes into the period.
"I don't know… she was coming to class but then Marshall showed up. I think she's with him." Finn said as he tried to look for the materials for his first sculpture but not taking his eyes of the man dressed in the blue suit, Mr. Kenny. As soon as they entered the classroom, he had been eyeballing Bubblegum and trying to explain things to her. The girl shied away but he kept coming back to 'check on her'.
"Marshall… Already cutting." Bubba shook his head disappointedly. He was more jealous than actually disappointed. "I am just her friend." He scolded himself and took a deep breath before continuing to think of what to make a sculpture of.
Bonnibel looked at the material she had chosen, clay. She would make a clay statue of something… She tried to think of anything but the only things that came to mind where Marceline and her and Marceline together. "Bonnibel! Focus!" She scolded herself and tried to think of something else. "A music note!" She thought. This way she could anonymously incorporate the thing invading her mind, into her class work. At least in this class thinking of Marceline helped.
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"I told her where we are but she's staying in the lunch room because her friends are there." Marshall grinned putting his phone back in his pocket.
"Okay… I should probably text Finn… let him know I'm here." She smiled
"I think he knows" Marshall grinned "I mean he left you with me… he probably thinks I dragged you with me." He laughed
"Finn knows that I wanted to cut." Fionna smiled and sat on the teacher's desk. Marshall Lee followed and sat next to her, with his bass in hand.
He began to play "Hey there Fionna, you sure are looking good." She giggled and he continued, "You're everything a guy like me could want.
"What big eyes you have, the kind of eyes that drive boys mad. So just to see that you don't get chased, I think I ought to walk with for a while… What full lips you have, they're sure to lure someone bad, so until you get to class I think you ought to walk with me and be safe." He looked at her blushing expression and smiled "I am gonna keep the nice boy act up until I'm sure you've been shown that I can be trusted staying with you alone.. Fionna, I'd like to hold you if I could but you might think I am a bad boy, so I won't. What a big heart I have, the better to love you with. Oh, Fionna even bad boys can be good…I try to be satisfied just by walking by your side, and maybe you'll see things the way I do and finally let me get what I should." He ended with a grin
"Oh yeah? And what should you get?" She smiled
Marshall smirked. What Fionna didn't know was that he was expecting her to say those words. She had fallen into his trap. He put his bass down, in its case, and moved closer to the girl. He stood right in front of her, her legs on either side of his waist, his face centimeters… millimeters "What would you give?" He asked and saw the blush spreading across her face like wild fire
"Messing with tenners now? What happened to she's just a friend?" The smug female voice came from the door and both face turned to see, no other than the ash blond girl, Ashley.
Ashley stood by the door her hands on her hips and a smirk on her face. "Ashley what are you doing here?" Marshall asked annoyed, he had not moved an inch. Fionna sat on the desk, unmoving as well, her face showing no emotion,
"I could ask you the same thing." Ashley responded, the smug smirk in place
"What do you want?" Fionna spoke up her voice, like her face, showed no emotion.
"Alright, what is it you wanted to show me?" The female voice came from outside the door.
"Oh Principal Basco, just come in here for a second." Ashley smiled and stared directly at Marshall Lee. Fionna's face had begun to show signs of panic.
"Chill" Marshall mumbled with a smile. He leaned and whispered in her ear "I got this." When Marshall Lee leaned back, his mother stood in the doorway. Her eyebrow was raised and a smirk on her face. Ashley stood next to her with anger plastered on her face. "Mother." He mumbled.
"Miss Martin, cutting already? All it takes is my delinquent son to lure you out?" She tsk-tsked and shook her head. It was more of a teasing manner than a disappointed one. "…and Mr. Basco… is helping students cut class… I told you old habits are hard to beak." She smirked "Both of you report to my office." Marshall rolled his eyes and pulled Fionna by the hand, as he held his bass case in the other. They rushed to exit and walked to the principal's office. "Now you." She turned to Ashley "How did you know they where here?"
"I asked Marceline where he was and she said with Fionna… I heard her and her brother going over their schedules and I knew she had class this period, so I knew she was cutting if she was with Marshall… Marshall cuts to the band room… because its sound proof." Ashley smiled "he like's to play his bass here."
"Wow. You sure do your research. I would love for you to use that amazing memory and wit towards your class work instead of chasing my son." She smirked "Also, my darling, no one likes a snitch." She laughed as she brushed her long mane like hair to the side, leaving Ashley to stare.
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"Psycho Bitch told mom on me." Marshall Text messaged Marceline
Marceline read and re-read the text message amazed "Can you believe that!" She exclaimed angrily.
"Believe what Marcy?" Her friend asked as she sat back down from dumping her tray.
"Psycho Bitch told Principal Basco about Marshall cutting with Fionna. Well Fionna cutting with Marshall" She replied angrily
"Desperate." Her friend commented. Suddenly both her friends quieted down and stared grimly behind her.
"Hey Mar-Mar" The male voice said from behind Marceline.
She sighed, she knew exactly whom this was "Speaking of psychos." Her friends laughed, "What do you want?" She asked sipping on her cherry soda
"I want to talk to you." He smiled, walking over and sitting next to her.
Still not turning to face him, she continued, "We have nothing to talk about. You wanted something I didn't. Its over. If you really want to talk, go, and talk to your hormonal sister and tell her Marshall doesn't want her." Again her friends laughed
"Marceline please! Like you're a virgin!" He exclaimed smugly and it caused some heads to turn their way
"You wouldn't know." She hissed "Also, what part of we're over you psycho and I never want to see you again didn't you understand?" She asked, staring deadly into his eyes, before getting up and storming away. Her friends followed her. Once out side the lunchroom Marceline asked, now calmer "15 minutes until the bell… you guys wanna kill some time?"
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"Don't get mad but Fionna is in the principal's office." Jake mumbled to Cake as they filled out textbook cards.
"What! Why?" Cake exclaimed loudly and the teacher turned to face her, with a questioning look.
"Are you alright Miss Ryan?" The teacher asked
Cake, embarrassed by her outburst, began to blush lightly but only nodded. She looked back down to her card "Why is she? How do you know?" She whispered to Jake, who sat next to her.
"Well Finn just text messaged me, telling me Fionna and Marshall are in principal Basco's office. Apparently thy got caught cutting." Jake laughed
Cake shook her head disappointed "Oh watch her get an earful from me!" She took out her phone before Jake snatched it from her.
"That's why she doesn't tell you anything." He stated "You're her sister not her mother. Chill. If she likes Marshall, let her. Stop nagging."
"I don't nag!" She defended
"Why do you think Finn tells me everything? Cause he knows I won't get all judgey and stuff… give Fi some space." He passed her back her phone and she put it away.
She sighed "Alright. I can't believe I'm listening to you." Jake smiled at her and then turned back to his card.
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"Bubba pass me more of the clay please?" Bubblegum asked as she shaped her sculpture.
"What are you making Bonnie?" Asked Mr. Kenny as he approached the girl
"A music note." She stated grabbing the clay from her cousin
"Oh, are you a music lover?" He asked inching closer
"You can say that." She responded looking up.
"Marshall and Fionna just got caught cutting." Finn stated walking over with his bundle of paper. Bubba shook his head disappointed "Ashley told on them." He sighed and looked over at the man in the blue suit "Mr. Kenny what are you doing?" He asked the teacher, who smelled Bubblegum's hair.
"Oh… Ah… I am… Oh look! Ten minutes until the period is over. Everyone its time to pack up and label your projects." He grinned and stalked back to his desk.
"Weirdo." Bubba muttered
As they began to pack the materials and label, the projects walked over to Bonnibel who was washing her hands. "Why music note?" He said leaning against the sink next to her
She looked up and smiled "just came to me." She sighed
"You know I would have never expected this from you. Fionna, yeah… Marceline I never doubted… but you?"
"I guess I just had music on the mind." She shrugged
"Or a certain music player." He stated
Bubblegum's face went pale "You know?"
"I know you don't like Marshall Lee… and you do love a music player… the only other option is Marceline." HE saw her look away "Why didn't you tell me Peebles?"
"Finn…" She whispered, "I was afraid."
"Of what?" He asked confused
"Being rejected… being treated differently… being bullied… Afraid of if I do say it… then my life will change for the worst. I am so used to my life as it is… such a drastic change… I have this battle between my head and my heart… it could go either way." She sighed and her eyes swelled with tears. He pulled her into a hug, she smiled into his shoulder, and he brought his hands to pat her back.
"Yeah… sometimes we just have to be the hero." He thought to himself.
Bubba watched as Bubblegum and Finn hugged and walked over to them "Did you tell him?" he asked quietly
"Yeah… he knows." She smiled pulling back from the embrace.
"The secrets in our group need to stop. We've known each other since we were like seven, I think we should be able to say anything by now." Finn stated
"You're right Finn." Bubblegum sighed, "You're right."