I placed my final box into my new apartment, really happy that I made this decision. Sure, it was a long shot, but I finally did it. I found a place of my own. Finally away from the orphanage that they called a home. This wasn't the best place I could have moved to, but it wasn''t the worst. I did manage to get a bed and a roof over my head, so it didn't matter that it wasn't a queen's palace. All that matter was that it was mine. All mine. Well, mine and Jake's, my dog that i found in a little box on my way here.

I looked around the room, satisfied. It had 2 bedrooms, one I used as mine with only a bed and a few clothes in the closet. The only I just left alone, probably is going to be a spare bedroom if I manage to get people over here. Or get lucky.

...

I didn't say that.

The walls were blue, which I painted myself. I like the color blue, it's calm and epic and the same time. It had a kitchen that was also part of the living room, which neither had anything in them yet. I had a few boxes here and there, filled with manga and comics, but that was just about it. I had to go look for a job soon, but I had enough to pay the rent for the next 2 months, so Ill be fine for now. It was just the matter of getting food...

But it doesn't matter anyway right now. I, Finn Hughman, have finally made it to Ooo York. I thought it was a nice decision since I was kicked out of the orphanage and it was the closest city to me. You don't even want to KNOW what I had to do to get the 2 months rent. It pains me just to think about it.

I looked down at Jake, who was ecstatic as always, and petted his head. "Welcome to our new home buddy. I'm sure you're going to like it here."

Jake barked in response. He was a tiny dog, not really sure what he is but he's pure orange. I wonder if that's rare? I saw him in a box in an alley, whining. I fed him some on the food I had in my pack and he's been following me ever since. I don't know what he's story is, but he was cute so I brought him home. He's really affectionate, so that was a plus. Hopefully he doesn't cause too much of a mess.

I looked out the door to see if the manager was there. He said he would be coming soon for the first month's rent. I was just glad he allowed me to stay here. It was a big building, most of the rooms and hallways were inclosed around the buildings brick walls, but I luckily got one that was on the long balcony hallway. Or unluckily because of weather, which I heard was pretty bad here. It was the only place I could stay, all of the others said that I would have to be 18 or older to have my own place. Thank goodness someone was open. The manager didn't seem that bad over the phone, he was pretty calm when I was talking to him. I did hear him yell something to someone else, but other then that he seemed pretty calm. He was a bit skeptical when I said I was 16, but after a few moments of my Finn charm (begging), he said I could stay if I didn't make a mess and followed the guidelines. Which worried me. Because there were guidelines.

I shrugged and went back inside, I thought I would burn some time reading a book or something. I didn't even get to sit down before I heard a knock at the door.

"FINN HUGHMAN! OPEN DOOR IMMEDIATELY!" I heard a annoyingly high pitched voice call. It was really weird but sounded very familiar. It sounded like the manager, but wasn't as deep as it was on the phone. Maybe phone do that?
Well, since he's here, might as well give him the rent. I got the envelope with the month's rent off the kitchen's counter top and opened the door, to see a middle-aged man glare at me. He was tall, but was balding with brown hair. He was pale without facial hair, although he really could use some. He was wearing a long sleeved button down shirt, buttoned to the top and tuck in his blue jeans. He was also wearing brown shoes, but they wear strangly pointy, And I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover or whatever, but man. This dude must be a loon.

The man glared at me. "Hello. I am , manager of this establishment and I have come to receive the monthly payment that we spoke of over the phone." He held out his hand.

"Hello ." I handed him the rent. "Thats the months rent, 400 dollars like you asked."

The man snatched the envelope and ripped it open. He must have been really eager to get his payment, because he was checking the 20 dollar bills I had THOROUGHLY. "Hmm...acceptable." He put the money in his pocket and took out the a piece of paper. "These are the guidelines here, if you do not follow them I will not hesitate to kick you out. Drugs and alcohol here is UNACCEPTABLE!"

I covered my ears when he yelled that. "...I understand." No need to yell...

"Good...wait." looked up in the air and started to sniff like crazy. Really strange... "Is that...*sniff*...DOG SMELL?!"

Oh glob. I forgot about the rule about Jake! pushed past me and stood wide-eyed at Jake, who was rolling around on the carpet. pointed at Jake and looked at me wide-eyed. "UNACCEPTABLE!"

I flinched and covered my head with my arms. "I'm sorry! I forgot!"

"DOGS ARE NOT ALLOW ON THE PREMISES! GET RID OF HIM!" I heard Jake whine, which means he probably knew what those words meant. But I couldn't just abandon him!

I ran to Jake and picked him up, holding him tight. "Please ! I'll clean him and I'll feed him! You won't even know that he's here! I'll work for you! I-Ill pay more rent! "

This made suddenly stop yelling and ponder. Globit, why did I just SAY that!

"Hmm...500 rent."

I sighed. "Fine...500 dollars rent.."

nodded and walked out the door. "He may stay, but any noise complaints and he is out of here!" He closed the door behind him.

Just when I thought I had a lucky break and a low rent, I already had to raise my rent AND get on my managers bad side. Nice job Finn. Nice job.

I looked down at the little dog in my hands, who was looking up at me happily. "You're lucky you know that?"

Jake barked and licked my cheek. I sighed and smiled. Even if he was going to be a pain, I can't deny that he was adorable. Well, I guess I now OFFICIALLY started my new life here. I would look for a job today, but I think I better get some food for me and Jake. And I have to figure out how to get around quickly. Man...a lot of work is cut out for me.


(Few Hours Later)

I decided that after I placed everything I wanted to in the apartment, I would go and get some food. I had to walk, and it was a pain, but I finally made it to a store. I looked up at the giant sign that read, "Candy Kingdom". I shrugged. Doesn't sound like a place where you could get meat or something, but considering I only had 20 dollars in my pocket right now, I would barely be able to buy anything anyway.

After an hour of "shopping" I looked at what I had. I managed to find some dog food, and I got bacon just in case Jake doesn't like it. I got myself some candy and bread, with two 2-liter sodas and some water. That added up to be about 16 bucks. I thought that was enough for now. It seems to be. I walked up to a register, noticing that must of them were full, except this one. I think I caught a lucky break. Then I realized WHY it was empty.

The worker was sleeping.

SLEEPING.

It seemed like an old man who was like in his 50s was sleeping on the register. He was wearing a red shirt and red pants, which I guess was the uniform, and the shirt was WAY too big for him. He had a huge white beard, like the biggest I've ever seen! It was really weird. I didn't want to bother him, but at the same time I needed to get him and check on Jake. I leaned over the counter and tapped his shoulder. He stirred and slowly opened his eyes.

"H-Huh? Whazzit?" The old man sat up slowly and rubbed his eyes. He looked up at me and had a big grin on his face. "OH! A CUSTOMER! WELCOME!" He grabbed my hand and shook it violently. Jeez! It was cold! It was like...ice!

I pulled my hand away, slightly creeped out. "Uh...hi?"

"Welcome! Sorry about that just taking a snoozer for the old cruiser here. He-he." Man, this city is filled with weirdos...

"It's...fine. Can you ring up my things now?"

The old man nodded and grabbed them from my arms. For being old, he sure was fast. "Oh sure! Sure! Now let's see what we got here!"

"H-Hey!"

"Hmm. Ooo! Bacon! Have you ever tried to make shoes out of bacon? Oh man! It's hard! Especially if you don't cook them nice and crispy. Although I tried to that one time..."

After that point I just block his ramble off. Not only because he was annoyingly rambling about each and EVERY item I had, but because something else caught my eye. A female of sorts.

She was wearing the exact same outfit as the old man, but it fit her and actually looked...nice. Like it fit her really well. And she looked...lets just say she made my insides go globbity gluep and leave it at that alright? Brown hair,, tan skin and a ponytail, she looked...nice.

"Simon! What are you doing!" She walked over the old man holding my stuff. I guess that was his name. "You're supposed to be checking this boy's things!"

Ouch.

The old man held up his hands in defense. I guess..Simon. "I-I-I was just have a conversation with my friend here that's all." He shrugged, but you could teel he was still a little intimidated.

She held the bridge of her nose, clearly annoyed. "You're not supposed to be mingling Simon, You're supposed to be doing you're job!"

"Come on Bubblegum! Loosen a little won't ya?"

"Don't call me that!"

Everyone turned towards them. I guess they have a peculiar history.

"You're just lucky that I have no time for this."

She walked away and Simon turned back to me.
"She's a cutie isn't she?"

I gave him a look. "Dude, aren't you like...50?"

He shrugged. "Son, you'll learn one day that love has no age." He wrapped his arm around me, making me extremely uncomfortable. EXTREMELY. "And once you know that you'll chase that girl that you love so much forever...and ever...and ever."

Silence.

"Welp! Here you go!" He shoved the now fully packed brown paper bag full of my stuff on me. "Now get off of here you rascal!"

I just stood there for a second and walked out of the door, kind of confused as to what just happened. Man, this place is nuts...but it was pretty funny watching these two argue and bicker. Seems like they do this alot. I looked at my watch realizing it was getting late, I had to make sure Jake was okay. Probably not the best idea to leave a puppy with 800 books in a giant room.


You know, I've been in this city one day and I have to be the dumbest person on earth to do this. Because if there was one thing I've learned NOT to do in these places is to NEVER EVER go into a dark alley at night. And what do I do on my way back? I think I see a shortcut through an alley and go into it. And now I have to go forward because I'm in a hurry to get home!

Alright Finn. Calm down. You only need to get past this alley and everything is going to be fine.

"Hey kid."

Or not.

I froze in my spot, and upon hearing a deep voice in a dark alley where I couldn't barely see anything made me shutter. But I had to stand up for myself. It was just one voice. I could take him!

"How's it going?"

A female voice? Oh glob!

"It's bad for someone like you to be here in at night."

Another guy?! This is bad. REALLY bad.

I froze in place as three figures came out of the shadows and into view. They were all wearing black and were wearing masks. One short, one was tall, and one was about my height. Was i scared? Of course not! Especially not when a fourth person also in a mask walks towards me! Are you kidding? I laugh at fear!

"Welcome kid. You have the great honor to be killed by one of us!"

Glob.

"Oh don't worry. We'll make it nice and slow."

Double.

"And then you'll become one of us!"

Triple!

"Would you like to do the honors Marceline?"

One of the masked people took off the mask and showed a smirking lady, who looked more like a teenager actually. She had black hair, but her face was just screaming "I'm gonna to kill you here and now".

"I'll happily teach this kid a lesson."

Great, first day here and I'm already getting mugged. But if tv has taught me anything, is that I better get the heck out of here, or I am going to flippin die.

The other two masked people walked around her and grabbed my arms, making me drop my groceries. "H-Hey!"

"Don't struggle. We'll do this nice and quick."

That is it. The end of me. Already? My life is over on the first day? REALLY?

Marceline reached for her jacket, and at that moment I knew that if I didn't do something fast I would regret it. I then span around quickly and swung them off of me. They fell to the ground and I grabbed my bag and ran.

Normally, I would tell you that I beat them all up and told them to change there ways, but I DIDN'T want to die today.


I sighed as I finally reach my apartment. What a crazy day. I didn't even get much accomplished today. I still have to look for a job, the entire town is full of crazies, its just...madness.

I walked to my front door and looked in my pocket for my key, realizing that it's not there. It's NOT THERE?! Dang it! I must have left it back where those crazy people were! My glob, my day couldn't get better could it? It just HAD to get worse.

"Jake! Jake!" I called for him. Don't know why, it's not like he could walk and talk. I heard him bark, but that's all he did.

I slammed my head on my door in frustration. I guess I would have wait till the crazy manager comes by in the morning. In this crazy place. In this crazy city...

Suddenly the door swung open and I fell to the ground, faceplanted.

"Excuse me? What are you doing here?"

I look up to see a face that I REALLY didn't want to see. I jumped up and pointed at her. "Y-You!" It was that girl! Marceline!

She smirked and leaned against the doorway. "Yes, I am me. You are you. Now that we have that covered, what are you doing here?"

I frowned. "What are YOU doing here? It's my apartment!"

"Nope, sorry kid I called this place ages ago. See?" She pulled me in and showed me a mark on the back of the door. It was a small letter "M" that looked like it was scratched in.

"W-What!"

"Sorry, but I own this place now!'

I threw my arms up in frustration. What kind of city runs like this?! "You can't just come in here and do that! I payed the rent!"

"Thanks for that. Running low on money."

"I've have no where else to go!"

"I saw a pretty nice cave nearby..."

"Where's my dog?! Jake!"

She laughed. "Oh, mister scaredy cat over there?" She pointed to him in the corner, whimpering. I ran over to him and hugged him. "Aww..how sweet."

I sighed. "Can you just please leave?"

She then frowned at me. "Oh? So you're kicking me out is that it? I see how it is!" She then started to walked towards the door. I kinda felt...bad. "I thought you would be cool and let me crash here since I have no where to go! I thought you would be cool!" She grabbed the door knob and I really started to feel bad. "I guess I was wrong.."

"Wait!" She turned to me, waiting for me to say something. I know she had no right to barge into my house, probably stole my key, and demand me to leave, not to mention scare me and my dog half to death, but no one deserves to be thrown out into the street...not even her. I sighed. "I guess...you can stay in my room..."

She then ran over and hugged me tightly. "Oh, thanks alot!" She ran to my room and locked the door behind her. I sighed. I probably just made the worst decision to let a stranger who almost killed me in my house, but I guess it's not like it's the end of the world right?

...Right?"

I looked down at Jake, who was better now that she was out of sight and I thought to myself, what a crazy day. But for some reason I started to look positive. For one, I just realized I didn't have to pay for my "groceries". Second, at least I didn't die right? And lastly, I payed my rent and met a girl who i brought home!...kinda...it counts! It totally counts!

So in a way, I was lucky.

Not what I hoped for but...

I think I'll like it here.

Then I looked in the corner and realize one thing that we could all agree on.

Dogs pooping on books SUCKS.


A/N: Here it is! A Finnceline AU! I know that I have another Finnceline story going on, To Wither Away, but that story is a little far from hitting the Finnceline aspect of it. Anyway, this will be kinda like a drabble series of Finn and Marceline living in an apartment together, but it get's better! I promise. So review and follow and favorite, it will be awesome if you did. :D