Bubblegum was draped along her bed while Marceline floated around doing her toe nails in a shiny black nail polish. PB instead waved her arms around to dry the nail polish while also talking to her floating vampire friend about whatever. Well not really whatever, more about her problems with dating Marshall Lee. She has been on 2 dates now and it all kinda ended in disaster with one time her losing temper over Marshall Lee and the other time it was him being completely silent and too scared he might make her angry. But whenever he says something, its horribly childish.
In the beginning it was fun, they even kissed… but it just wasn't IT, no spark n' such.
"Ugh Marceline… I just dunno what I should do with him… like he makes me laugh and all, and sometimes he shows he really does care and genuinely feel love, but then other times he can be so childish and he ruins it all."
"Well what I heard from Bubba is that he can be a pain in the butt yeah… but he still seems to like you. Supposedly he is hanging around, well teasing Bubba a lot less. I think that means something"
"what? That he switched from annoying him to annoying me?"
"what I'd rather say is that he is growing up. Because whenever I also meet him, he seems a bit more adult."
"bwahahaha!"PB laughed in a fake laugh "A bit more adult… it feels like dating a hyperactive shy toddler"
"okay… just maybe think of this… guys are weird, like really weird. You could see what Finn did around you when he still was in his little crush phase. Maybe Marshall is like that?"
Bubblegum exhaled in a long sigh.
"maybe… I dunno… I'm just thinking he doesn't have dating experience… or maybe he forgot it all?"
"hehe, look at me bubs! I have quite some dating experience. He is an exact replica, only in male form. He should react just like me…"
"I dunno man… I dunno, I wish he would sit still for long enough I can sedate him and open up his brain to read it through, see what he thinks."
Marceline stared at Bonnibel with a disturbing look on her face.
"uuuuh anyway… I still think it's because he really is in love with you and he wants to prove himself to you."
"nonono Marcy I obviously know that he is just a childish clonker!"
"well wel… and how do you know that? You never even dated a boy" Marceline winked towards her friend on the bed
Bubblegum gasped loudly and a nail polish bottle flew towards Marceline who barely managed to catch it.
"I would not do that peebles… Pep But won't like nail polish on the walls. Lemme tell you this, why not ask him out to the funfair that is partaking in the party kingdom. Me and Bubba will join you to show you how it's done. We can both be your wingman!"
"hmmmm… statistical odds do show double dates can work… I might have to do some more math on that though. Is it okay we go next month? Then I have all-
"tonight bonnie… tonight…" Marceline interrupted PB
"but but bu-
"no! tonight it will happen, okay?"
"NO… no that's not ok-
"great, I'll notify the boys and we will go out tonight! We will be ready at 5 this afternoon at our portal, then we can see if we go to our party kingdom or Bubba and Marshall Lee's party kingdom. Byeee Bonnie!"
Marceline turned invisible before PB could answer and in all secrecy she shot towards the portal room and florbed through the portal while she could hear a yell and a nail polish bottle shatter against the wall.
Okay, now first she needed to check up on Marshall Lee, see if he feels to go on a fun night out. Well when PG was alone, Marshall is there with him.
And once again, she wasn't wrong at all. She heard his raspy voice and Bubba's smooth singing while Fionna was running around in the garden portraying how she fought to capture Flame prince's fiery untamed heart.
"and oh my glob we jumped into a dungeon together, and cake was like, yeah I don't trust this and then there were 20 skeletons crawling down from the vines along the walls. So just in a split second we were surrounded by a lot of baddies and holy shit, I never saw Flame Prince that scared so I carried-
"oh wow did you actually know guys?" Bubba interrupted "his name… I found out its Phoebert… like wha-
Marshall could not hold it in. he floated up into the air screaming from laughter while crying out across his face
"BWAHAHAHAHAHA PHOEBERT… what responsible parent calls their kid that?!"
"I was just gonna say that man… like you pronounce it pheebert, but my god… it is written like phoebert, ph- oooo- bert!"
Meanwhile the vampire king could not hold in his laughter, well now it was more a dry grunting with a lot of coughing as he fell down to the ground again. The trio rolled around on the grass and Marceline interrupted them. In her head she was worrying, how could she ask him into a date with Bonnie.
From under her sombrero she called out for them.
"hey y'all"
The 3 persons jumped up and Marshall floated up into the sky
"yoooo Marceline… I just was warming up your lover. Giving some experience in loving someone tenderly" he winked
Bubba just looked distorted towards him and proceeded to wave to Marceline.
"hey baby, did you have fun with Bubblegum?" he asked
But before she could answer Marshall Lee grabbed her by the shoulders.
"okay okay okay how is she? Did she ask about me? PLEASE tell me she asked about me"
"wowow okay yeah she asked about you don't worry about that"
He giggled and blushed while he accidently floated upside down. But before Bubba and Fionna could poke him around for behaving so… different than he usually does, he already turned around and stared at them.
"pfff yeah I know how to handle the ladies eheheh…" he chuckled in a really nervous laugh.
"well actually Marshall… you can show us tonight. Because me and Bubba wanted to go to the funfair in party kingdom and maybe eat something after. And I got Bubblegum so far that eh… she wanted me to ask you out."
He laughed awkwardly and stuttered "w…w-well sure… t-t-that woul-… would be uuh… awesome"
The rest couldn't see this but Marceline saw his cheeks shine bright red and sweat breaking out from his forehead. An awkward smile and distant eyes when Marceline started talking again.
"oooooh… kay? Yeah I told her to be ready at 5 this afternoon at the portal in our castle. Can you do that?"
He obviously didn't hear that as he was just puffing and giggling softly but in a nervous manner. A deathly stare in his eyes, and Marceline repeated what she just told him while Fionna and Gumball were laughing their ass off to seeing him stumble around this way. This was a sight to behold, the normally so badass and cool vampire reduced to a little chuckling shy child.
"yeah no sure I-I will be there…" he shook his head and brushed back his hair and wiped his sweat of his forehead. His cool returned…
"hell yeah, I will sh… show you how the Marshall handles his women. I hope you dorks won't be jealous because of my skills!"
Fionna whispered to Bubba "pff yeah like the skills Ice Queen has with capturing her 'romantic partners' hehe"
Bubba snorted out in laughter and slapped his knees before high fiving her.
"do we need to get the chloroform ready?" he whispered back to her enjoying he could finally press Marshall's buttons instead of him annoying Bubba.
It was fairly obvious Marshall lee did absolutely not like this…
"well… well at least I can date a sweet princess made of Bubblegum, you just date a vampire, they haven't got a heart so it's easy to get them!"
Marceline wanted to start yelling at him but Gumball stepped up.
"well first of all we aren't still in dating phase, we are a really happy couple, and second of all… did you just call Marceline easy?"
Seeing Gumball's face, he really was offended by what Marshall just said
"uuuh actually I think he just called himself easy" Fionna tried to calm down Bubba
Complete silence erupted and Marceline broke it by giggling herself…
"relax guys… our little baby Marshall is just a bit nervous he is going on a date"
"awwwww maybe I also need to join you so I can babysit little Marshy, squeeze his cheeks when he is kissing his bubbley wubbley gum" Fionna puckered her lips while she pinched Bubbas cheek. She then whispered something in his ear and he started laughing, he roared with laughter when he saw the vampire kings awkward face.
Marshall awkwardly laughed and floated down from the sky together with Marceline and he walked towards PG. he wrapped his arms around his neck told told him he was sorry for calling Marceline easy.
"I just didn't know what gets into me, I'm sorry Bubba… I guess I'm just too cool to think of someone's emotions, ice cold baby… "
Bubba punched him in the stomach and whispered to Fionna,
"pfff… as cool as the sun he is…" he giggled
She answered by boisterous laughing and looked back at him. Tears streamed down her face and she cried out to him "you do know you just called him hot?"
"well if it's like that, why don't you take Marshall? C'mon Fionna, wanna join me to the fun fair tonight?" Marcy teased her boyfriend
"ew no I don't want to go with that sweat ball" Marsh answered before being kneed in the stomach by Bubba.
"oh my glob this is not fun anymore… you made him too hard Marceline, you can't even just tease him anymore."
"yeah whatever… I like my babe however he is" she answered before plopping a kiss on Bubbas lips.
"eeeeeeeew cant you save it for tonight in the tunnel of love? Do we really have to see this?"
She proceeded to pick up Bubba and press him on to the ground for a violent make out session. After 10 seconds of kissing she floated up and turned around to see Marshall's frozen grimace.
"yes… yes you did have to see that… see it as training for tonight!"
Without saying anything the group dissipated. Bubba and Marceline walked out towards the castle, Marshall floated back to his own house and Fionna picked up her sword and called Cake from eating catnip and trying to romance lord monochromicorn.
Dammit why did she always listen to Marceline? Now she was dragged in a date this night even though she planned to work on some hardcore organic superconductors.
"I bet Marshall lee already was invited, so I can't call it off… Or should I just call in sick? No crap… they now all know I'm vaccinated and impossible of getting ill…" she whispered to herself.
She knew that even if sickness struck her down Marceline will somehow heal her and force her to come anyway. Being friends with her was a burden sometimes… maybe she could just disappear and not turn up for the date? No… Marceline is an excellent hunter… she will find PB super quick so this plan also is a no go.
"Well… what if I just go and tell everyone I'm tired like an hour into the date… I'm sure they will understand… yeah that's what I'm gonna go for"
PB walked off to her wardrobe and picked some clothes… first she cleaned herself up under the shower and dressed up to be at the portal on time, exactly on time, that's how she was.
"duuude what are you even wearing? Is that clothing you nicked from my clothes cupboard? Why aren't you wearing all pink 'n purple?" Marshall said when he saw Marcy and Gumball "you look like a roadkill dressed in goth clothes"
"you never lose your charm, don't you eh? It's just my favourite shirt I got from Marcy covered by a nice red plaid I found uuuuuh… in my wardrobe somewhere in the back" Bubba answered.
"yeah I thought I recognized the plaid shirt… I gave you that because I was too slim and muscular for it" Marshall answered
"So if it's your shirt why do you tell me I look like roadkill?"
"Well maybe that's part of the reason I gave it away honeybun" he answered while blowing a kiss to Bubba
He was already preparing to whack Marshall into the lower abdomen again if it wasn't for Marceline standing in between them interrupting their conversation and appending fight.
"guys guys you both look adorable and flipping gorgeous.. Marshall, you aren't gonna ruin this for Bonnie by being an absolute jerk and getting beaten up again. And baby, please don't beat him tonight okay? I know I said its okay to bite away any attacks he makes, but let's keep this evening civilized!"
Marshall Lee started huffing up air and his face began to flush with red.
"Marshall? Are you okay?" Marceline asked after her speech.
"uuuuuh no I'm okay… I just have a slight stomach ache, I-I-I think thi-is will go over soon. Okay don't worry about me…"
"I think he's just a bit nervous for his date" Bubba said
"NO WAY! I am not n-nervous for my date!" Marshall lee answered
But at that moment it was 5 o'clock and Princess bubblegum stepped through the blueish swirling portal. As soon as Marshall saw her he turned around, leaned against the walls and vomited the entire contents of his stomach all over the pavement. A puddle of intensely red colour sunk into the pale yellow bricks.
"Well you already surprised me showing how a vampire vomits!" Princess Bubblegum said.
"Bonniiiiieeee! You came!" Marceline cheered happily.
"yeah… I guess I have to ammiright…?"
"hehehe now the prince will be all jealous how good our date is going" Marshall said in a trembling voice
"yeeeah I'm so jealous of you vomiting on the side of my castle because you are too nervous to say hello to your own date" Bubba snickered.
"you take that back mist- Marshall started to gag again, yet now only a really big burp came out.
Bubba and Marceline could not keep in their laughter but bubblegum looked kinda hopeless at Marshall.
"what are you even trying to do?" she sneered in a cold tone
"Well I-I…." he sighed and tried again " I am trying to say hello to you and give you the night of a lifetime…" he sighed again as if he did something that really took up all his energy.
As a response he got a small smile from Bubblegum.
"Okay okay okay guys we are here! We are here!" Fionna came running into the garden with FP in her arms.
"oh good if it isn't Phoebert…"Marshall whispered while slightly giggling
Bubblegum whispered to him "Is his name seriously Phoebert? Oh god… what a horrible childhood must he have had."
They both silently giggled and Bubba winked to Marceline and pointed at the couple giggling.
"would you look at that… their first romantic interactions" he said
"hehehe yeah… cute, hey baby shouldn't you welcome Fionna?"
"oh yeah, hey Fi and Phee… glad to have you on board! Will you join us to the funfair?"
"pff yeah sure, we just wanted to see Marshall and Bubblegum together. We have got a reservation booked at the hot ember grill restaurant at 19:00 so I dunno how long we will be there at the funfair"
"oh yeah the glowing ember, I heard its really good. But since its in this Ooo… I guess we should also go to the funfair in this dimension, everyone agrees?"
"yeah sure Bubba… can we just get this over with?" Bonnie whispered.
About 20 minutes of a pink limousine ride later Prince Gumball's driver Elizabeth Wagonwheel pulled up on the parking lot of the funfair. 6 persons got out of the car all excited to go there.. well except Bubblegum, she like all other dates with Marshall was quite grumpy and not really willing to give it a try.
"okay guys… let's get together… are we gonna go on separate ways, or all together?" Bubba shouted through the group.
"I think we should all stay together" Marceline said
"yeah okay" sounded 3 times yet PB said "whatever"
"hey Marceline… where should we go first?" Marshall asked
"should we just go past some of the stalls? In reality we should ask Fionna and FP since they will leave soon again"
"ooh wow.. okay what should we do man? Do you like stalls?" Fionna asked Flame Prince
"hmm… yeah okay, we could go do that… not really aggressive please, I'm not really good in frightening high pace games, I don't really want to burn this joint down"
"ohhh you silly boy…" Fionna punched him gently in the arm and he just grinned "yeah lets go past some stalls… I wanna have all the prizes for cake and BMO… and who knows, I might wrap a teddy bear in aluminium foil for you my dear" she said while staring in Flame Prince's eyes.
"hehehe okay… I'll do my best to cause no damage to any of the property here" Phoebert answered
"Okay everyone!" Marshall groaned through the group. "shall we go then?"
Ah unison "YES" sounded… except PB who said "whatever"
Bubba and Marceline walked hand in hand, Marshall awkwardly tried to wrap around Princess Bubblegum but she didn't really let him. Fionna like always was running happily around Flame Prince… one of the only times she wasn't carrying him in her arms. In their fresh relationship you could see who wore the pants, Fionna, quite the tomboy…
They were just on the terrain or Bubba ran off to a stall where you have to throw over a stack of cans, and for 1 dollar you get 1 ball and for 2 you get 3 balls… and what was the prize he was eyeballing? An apron saying 'Kiss the cook'.
"Ooooooh I always wanted that" he cheered around the stall
So Marceline gave him 2 dollars from her purse and he started lobbing at the cans… one missed completely, second one missed completely and the third one also missed completely. Yet he did not lose his enthusiasm and he grasped Marceline's purse to take out his wallet.
"are you sure you want to do that?" Marceline asked Bubba
With determination on his face he nodded
"this is my destiny"
"okay… go ahead…" Marceline giggled
Yet 10 minutes later and 16 dollars later, he still barely hit some cans, a few close calls that he came within the 5 cm range of a can, but never a direct hit.
"well… Bubba rarely hits bull's-eye, they must have an interesting sex life!" Marshall smirked to Bubblegum who slapped the bejonkers out of his face with a grand whack and a grumpy look.
"you… just be glad they didn't hear you! Their sex life is none of your business" Bubblegum tried to say politely while forcing back her anger
"Well should we talk about their sex life?" he said while waving at Fionna and FP standing a few metres behind the group talking about whatever they talked about.
"oh my glob… do you just try to be a testosterone'd teenager? What is it with you!" She whispered legitly angry at him.
"o-ooh… no yeah s-sorry…" he stumbled while his face became even paler.
He started to look at whatever the hell Bubba was doing with the cans to avoid awkwardness with PB.
Just on that moment Marceline took over his last ball and threw it knocking over one stack of cans in one go winning the apron for her boyfriend. He was galloping around like a goof squeeling as the old crusty man behind the counter put away his cigarette and pulled the apron from the ceiling.
The man threw the apron to bubba who couldn't catch it and Marceline jumped out and grabbed it. She handed it to her boyfriend who awkwardly chuckled
"thanks babe… I couldn't do it without you…"
"it's okay baby, I'm just happy you have your apron" she said when she gave a little peck on his cheek.
"ookay… are we ready guys? It took quite some time and we would like to have some fun aswell!" Fionna broke in while in the background FP was shooting small puffs of fire onto the ground.
"oh wow yeah sorry… we can carry on now! What would you guys like?" Bubba answered while finnicking his new apron.
"ohohoh Basketball!" Flame Prince cried out.
"Well than that's what we are gonna do" Fionna laughed as they all walked to the basketball stand.
But while they were all walking along, chatting with each other and having fun, Bubblegum and Marshall walked next to each other. They didn't spoke word, and he was rubbing his arm in awkwardness because he did not know what to say. Bonnibel was also walking, and not saying anything. Just look in front of her feet so she wouldn't trip over rocks, beer cans or whatever and trying just like Marshall to stay close to the group.
He sighed, let out a small whimper ant turned to Bonnie…
"hey… hey PB is it ok I talk to you again?"
"…"
" if I talk to you, will you listen to me?"
She sighed. "okay…"
He felt his courage sink through his belly and through his feet into the floor. What did he need to say, he stared at her, looking like he really didn't know what to say. His chest burned and his muscles tried to force out at least one word… just to see he is actually interested in talking to her.
But he couldn't
"sorry…" he said when he stopped looking at her.
She shook her shoulders and walked a bit faster to catch up with Marceline and the bunch again while they were almost at the basketball stand.
Fionna paid the man behind the counter some money, must have been 2 dollars she got from Bubba and she received 4 small basket balls.
As the furious sportive lady she is, every single ball was a direct hit, and she got the maximum amount of point. Happy that she was, as grumpy was the man behind the counter, normally everyone would miss by a long shot, yet nooo this customer comes around robbing him of his prizes.
"well take your pick pwe'tty gal" he gruntled to her.
"uuuuuhmmm… okay hun what would you like?" she asked flame prince.
He stared silently between all the prizes and he smiled when he saw a small plush white bunny toy.
"That one… it reminds me of you, so very night I will have a small Fionna in my bed"
"d'awwww you…" she awkwardly said while slapping him on the shoulders making him cough loudly.
The man behind the counter reached for the toy yet in true tomboy style Fionna lifted FP into the air and made him pull down the toy. With his flame power he burned through the rope and the toy plopped down. Fionna pulled a roll of aluminium foil from her purse and rolled the bunny in a thick layer of the metal so it was safe for him to touch.
"hehehe" he giggled when he got the shiny silver toy from his girl. "thanks"
While he was cuddling with his toy Fionna told them they needed to go, it was time for them to go to the Hot Ember. So she hugged Bubba and Marceline for their money and that she and FP were allowed to join them. Marceline slided her hand into her wallet and gave her some more money.
"here, if you ever see a cotton candy stall, you can maybe get some on the way out. I saw a stall filled with the pink on our way here!"
"oh yeah" Bubba grabbed his cellphone "I will call Liz to take you to the Hot ember, I'll ask her to bring some foil for Phee… it was nice seeing you two again, and going out having a fun night."
Marshall pulled of Fionna's white bunny hat to release her bush of blonde hair.
"Aren't you gonna say me goodbye" he giggled
She whacked him across the cheek before jumping around his neck.
"of course you doofus, goodbye man!" she said "good luck with ol' Bonnibel" she then whispered him in his ear
He let out a slight whimper and he put Fionna back on the floor when he tried to locate PB again. She was just chatting with Marceline, Bubba and FP.
"hey man… you got this okay? I'm sure it will be fine! Man, you will be happy!"
He didn't really say anything, and he stared back down to the floor while sighing.
"lemme know how it goes"
"okay…" Marshall whispered
Fionna patted him on the shoulder and hugged him another time, blocking his face off with her magnificently massive bush of hair. Then when she and FP waved and said everyone goodbye she forced the bush under her bunny hat and proceeded to pick FP off the ground again and carry him in her arms.
"what a lovely couple" Marceline said while she could just hear Fionna yell as she was enthusiastically telling Flame Prince a story of one of her trips
"hehehe yeah, not as lovely as us but sure as heck a lovely couple" Bubba answered her.
The remaining 4 people spent about another hour walking past different kinds of stalls, they all had fun and they were chatting away, except between Bubblegum and Marshall lee, they barely spoke a word to each other.
Bubba and Marceline began to notice this, they whispered to one another and came to the conclusion maybe going to a restaurant would help this. The warm ambient mood of a bistro would surely help the two.
"okay guys… what kind of place should we go to? Where can we have some good old time dinner?" Marceline asked.
"hey Marsh! Pasta bistro like old times?" Bubba asked him
"yeeeaaah boy! I could go for some fresh red tomato sauce!" he cheered
"Bonnie, is that also okay with you?" Marceline asked PB
"hm… mmhmm yeah whatevs…" she answered silently
"well then… uuh I guess we have a place to go then right? Should we go to papa pastrami? Or pasta pipo?" Bubba asked them "I heard pasta pipo has a really good Bolognese sauce, might be good for the vampires under us, plus it's not so far away from the funfair, maybe 10 minutes by car?"
"sounds good man… I dig that pasta! I went there be- uuuuh no never mind…"
"what… what the heck, normally you talk all the time about sex this and boobies that! Now you don't want to talk? enlighten us oh great Marshall Lee!" Bubblegum suddenly shouted before walking off to the parking lot
"yikes…" Marceline managed to say only that
"what the hell is up with her?" Bubba asked Marceline
"uuuh I dunno but you may wanna catch your friend babe!"
Marshall's eyes both turned around, the pupils shifted upwards and he became even paler than he already was. Gumball barely managed to catch him before he fainted and fell over towards the ground.
"hey hey hey woooow what's up pal?" gumball whispered to him "hey Marcy, can you go after Bonnie?" he then asked her
"yeah sure, I'm already underway!" she said as she flew up into the sky to chase after her friend.
"okay Marshall, I'm just gonna lift you up to this bench and I'll sit you down there" he said when he was puffing and huffing to drag him to the nearest clean-ish bench.
From the crowd and old friend of Fionna jumped towards him, it was Gorge, a male tall blue water bender that noticed PG struggle with lifting the vampire onto the wooden bench. So he picked Marshall Lee on the ankles and swayed him across his shoulders. In a friendly voice he talked to Bubba.
"hey Prince, is it okay I help you drag your corpse to the bench?"
"wowowowow he's not dead! Second of all, hi Gorge, I haven't seen you in a while! How nice of you to come and help me"
"hehehe I know, he just looks like a corpse, limp pale and really cold. Yeah well to the other thing, they have really good slushies here, so that's kinda why I came here."
"well… its sure as nice to see you here, oh yeah just put him down on this bench, thanks very much!"
Gorge placed Marshall Lee on a wooden bench and he sat down next to him. He picked up the vampire's head and placed it on his lap.
"uhm Prince, why don't you get me a slushie from over there" Gorge pointed to a stall "some cold sugar will help him wake up I hope"
"yes yes sure, I'll be right back" Bubba said as he ran off towards the stall to get a slushie for his friend.
Maybe about 3 minutes later he came walking back with a red strawberry slushie.
"I think this will work, he loves red"
"Well I guess that's what he is a vampire for right?" Gorge answered.
Gently he placed the straw in Marshall's mouth and he pressed some of the cold red liquid in his mouth. A soft hum and whimper as his eyes already opened.
"hmmmm… what… what is that even" he softly asked
"a strawberry slushie, see it like a liquid ice lolly. I thought you'd like it, although Gorge came up with the idea"
"Gorge… who's Gorge again?"
"Hi, you're laying on my lap, I'm Gorge"
Marshall screamed and flew of his lap and he floated disorientated up into the sky.
"Bonnie, what the heck did you do back there?" Marceline said to Bubblegum who sat on the sidewalk outside the funfair.
"I didn't even wanna do this" she whispered
"What did you do back there?" Marceline asked again.
"I didn't even wanna do this!" Bubblegum yelled to her. "Listen, I'm sorry but I never agreed with this date. I never even wanted this, you all dragged me along trying to force me and Marshall together"
"b-b-but we just wanted to make you happy…" Marceline stuttered
"Happy! Happy!? You want to make me happy by dragging me to this stupid funfair with the most childish dick in whole of Ooo" she shouted angry.
"we just saw that Marshall really likes you… and we wanted to give it a shot"
"so you decided to break into my life and forcefully push me together with him!?"
"no… no… w-e…" Marceline turned around and walked to a bench at the entrance of the funfair and started softly sobbing on a bench. "we just wanted to show you he really is a nice guy… he is just nervous around you and we hoped if we were there he would be among more people he trusts and that he won't keep trying to prove himself by being unimaginably stupid"
Marceline was becoming a bit angry through her tears now, she stared at what Bubblegum would say, waiting for a reply.
"Well he doesn't show he is the cool and laid back guy… he barely even talks to me, he only says things not even a horny guy in puberty would say… he is just…AAAAH!" Bubblegum forced herself to calm down again, she exhaled long and loud before talking again. "Not even a single guy is like this, he is just the most disgusting and horrible of the bunch"
"How the heck do you even know no single guy is like this… you never even dated a guy!"
Bubblegum gasped and stared Marceline dead into the eyes.
"you take that back…"
"nope bubs, I'm never gonna take back the truth, and this is cold hard truth I said there"
"AAAAAH dammit Marceline! I'm never gonna talk with you again!"
"if that's what you want, that's fine by me, just please talk to Marshall okay? Trust me, he loves you, a lot! His feet slipped from underneath his body when he heard you scream at him and walking off into the distance. Bubba had to catch him from not cracking his head open on the cobblestone floor."
"pfff probably one of his drama tricks again" Bubblegum said as she pulled up her shoulders and pulled up her upper lip.
"oh are you trying to intimidate me with those teeth?" Marceline roared and opened up to growl with long vampire fangs towards Bubblegum
"not like I have seen those before…" she spat into Marcelines face
"now please… Marshall does not mean it bad to you… I told you before… remember how messed up Finn was, love does something strange in the head of a boy!"
"yeah whatever… he's a prick anyway…"
Marceline sighed… "He is not… he is just… bad with words. He is really good at accidently insulting people he cares about. He really really loves you… please Bonnibel just try it please!?"
"I never should have joined this date idea… what can you and Bubba change on already such a messed up person"
"well we didn't wanna change him, we just wanted to open him up and show you what a kind and wonderful person he really is on the inside."
"well you succeeded at that" Bubblegum started laughing.
"Can you at least try…"
"do I look like I'm stupid?"
"I'm not answering that Bon…"
"too true, I might just aswell be really stupid for even joining you to this! Glob I'm as gullible as Finn or Fionna, whatever they are…"
"Don't unleash your rage on them okay… please?"
"okay… I'll try it, one more shot… but he better be coming up with some good words"
"yeah and otherwise I'll tell the guys to get Marshall his nice perfume on."
"what perfume?"
"it always works… chloroform"
"you do know I can still ditch this jazz right" PB laughed through her anger.
"you better don't!"
"I just don't know what I am doing wrong man… I think she really doesn't like me, is it because of my face?"
"well Marshall.. can I call you Marshall by the way?" Gorge asked
"sure whatevs…"
"okay Marshall… what I'm sensing here, is that she wants to like you, something deep inside her really likes you, yet there is something about you that puts her off…"
"yeah no exactly that's what I think aswell… knowing what she likes I think we can deduce what's so bad… I think it really is that she doesn't like the childish banter you produce." Bubba intruded the conversation.
"Oh yeah thanks Bubba… international bully Marshall lee hour has started"
"No no no… I think he doesn't mean it like that. Do you behave differently when you are with this Princess eeh… Gumball?" Gorge asked Marshall calmly
"no princess bubblegum, sorry" he answered
"yeah do you behave differently when you talk with or are standing near her?"
"well yeah… I guess so… my whole mind donks up when I'm near her. I cannot help it though, It's in my genes I think…"
"Okay… can I ask you again… with a little bit of help of course, why do you act so differently? Is it because Bubba has a relation and you feel alone? Or is it because you want to try and prove yourself to her? Because if she really is in love with you, I don't think you should need to prove yourself, to be honest I think that is the major problem… pure love doesn't exist, everyone is always making a different personality than who they really are. It's better to know how you really are, so you know if you can always live with that person"
"well… I can live with her, she is smart, witty and I think she can keep me straight on the right path, like I doubt Bubba has enough money to bail me out of the prison when one of my concerts goes haywire again."
"I think she can provide you with the stability you need so deeply"
"mmhmm, yeah, but how do I get there if I keep messing this up!"
"first of all I think she can also give you a break instead of always telling you this is not good and that's not good, and I think in all fairness she can accept your flaws, but so should you… accept her flaws, but also accept your flaws, but never stop working trying to improve so you feel better with yourself, then you will see that Bubblegum also will love you more. Or at least accept your flaws more"
"yeah okay that's all very very nice… but how does it help me now? Like I can't make an acute break from my personality and all of a sudden be the perfect man for bubblegum"
"you don't need to become the perfect man, you should just be you, because you ARE already the perfect man" Bubba said to him "don't you see that many times when you mention your name amongst Bonnie, she smiles, this afternoon at the portal she also smiled because of you. But its just clouded by prejudice… she never dated a boy, and all she thinks they are hopeless lovers, like that Ice king dude she never stops angering about. Now is the time to show her that you are sweet, yet with a cheeky tang at the end. Let's face it, you're not the most normal of persons, but I think this might just be whatever you need between you and her."
"be yourself man… she will adore it! You are very charming and handsome looking, just try not to keep willing to prove yourself to her." Gorge added to Bubba's statement.
"yeah guys that's all fair 'n square… how do I do this?"
"well imagine she is me… because even though you bully the heck outta me, you still show appreciation! "PG answered "see her maybe as a friend at first… so you behave nicely, and not like you're forced to romance and forced to be funny, be nice, not so focused on being the man who she wants… be yourself, and trust me, she will change her picture of the man she wants to you, if she hasn't done that already, she absolutely loves you man!"
"oh guys… I think I she them coming towards us, I assume bubblegum is the pink lady, and she looks actually happy!" Gorge called out
"Oh look Bonnie! Its Canyon!" Marceline said "HEY CANYON, WOO-HOO CAAANYON!" she called out
"How in the dingleberry is she here? Since when does she know about the portal?" PB asked
"Ha hahaha… you got the wrong crevice my ladies… its Gorge! Seeing Bubba told me about the portal, so I guess Canyon is my female counterpart!"
"Oh wow, she's copied aswell, that's amazing! And you look just like her, only yeah a bit more manly, still gorgeous though!" Marceline sparkled
Gorge looked towards Bubba, "No don't worry I am not gonna take your lady" He then turned to Marceline "thanks though, you also look marvellous!"
"ahem…" PG called out "aren't we here for a dinner date?"
"heck yeah man… my stomach is growling for some pasta pipo" Marceline called out.
"y'all up for some good spaghetti? Oh, and Gorge will you join us?" Bubba yelled
"nah sorry Bubba… I have some more slushies to tend to, you should go and have pasta fun!"
It wasn't that easy for Marceline to just let Gorge go without talking and listening to everything he answered to a myriad of questions, this gave Marshall and Bonnibel a nice opportunity to talk together in privacy…
They walked together away from the group, slowly pacing down the festival grounds where it slowly became a lot busier since it was getting later into the evening.
"sorry- they both said at the same time
They exchanged some laughter.
"I- again they said exactly the same thing at the same time.
"oh glob yeah wonderful how cliché" Marshall said to her making her chuckle.
"hehehe… yeah! Who wants to go first? Do you want to start first or should I start?"
"I'll go first before I faint again, if that's okay with you?" Marshall told her
"yeah might be a good idea, I'm such a cold science machine, I'm probably less nervous than you"
"Bonnibel… what I wanted to say for a long time, okay…" he shook his head and slapped his cheeks a couple of times "what I wanted to say for a long time, is that I really really really love you… this is not just a spur of the moment thing, but ever since I saw you first, I am carrying a huge crush for you. The reason I was always so bitchy is well… I wanted to prove to you how cool I am, how much humour I have and yeah… I wanted you to notice me… I would like to say sorry for portraying a person who I really am not, sorry for lying to you, make a deception out of me."
"Well… I'm sorry for being such a bitch and cold heartedly kicking you into the ground whenever you did your best to be funny. I never had a man run after me, never had a man be in love with me like you are… I didn't recognize your behaviour, so I thought the only thing you wanted was to hurt me, to ruin me and to well… make me look ridiculous…"
"I would never do that on purpose… I do not want to do that… look, I have been stupid, I did things I should not have done, portraying myself as a half arsed fool when I really want to show you how much I love you. In the process of wanting you to get close to me, you only drifted away even further. I did never once wanted to ruin you. The only thing I was ruining was how you saw me."
"No you wouldn't make me look ridiculous, Marceline made me realize that. I know you don't want to do that, my mind was just clouded with delusionary thoughts and how most persons are there to either take my kingdom away or hurt me in any other reason like trying to steal me like some sort of slave. Which now I know you don't want to do that… you only wanted me to notice you"
"all I want to do, is make you happy, make us happy and make us happen! That's what I want, honestly! You, me, happiness and together forever. If you would like to give it a shot of course…"
"yeah well Marshall, if I say no, are you gonna use chloroform?" Bubblegum had to laugh
"did… did you talk to Marceline?"
"what do you think? That I was eating out of my nose? Of course I did!"
"why did you so suddenly change?"
"cause I'm adapting to you" she winked
"ah… dare I say, I like it? Cause I do… now, would you care to join me back to the group m'lady?"
"why did you suddenly turn so posh?"
"cause I'm also adapting to you" he winked to her "get your behind going, I could go for some anthocyanins or lycopene hmmmm…"
"good god he is talking chemistry, that's so handsome"
PB wrapped an arm around his arm and they both walked back to Marcy and Bubba while they were still talking. Gorge just walked away to get a barrel of slushie ice drinks and Marceline walked with Bubba on her side towards Marsh and PB. Waving excitedly to the sight of them hooked together.
"did it work!? Did we made it all good now?" Marceline asked
They both nodded enthusiastic, yet Bubba couldn't leave out an ask to them all, when are they finally gonna eat
"would you all care to join us for some nourishments to chez pasta pipo?" Marshall Lee said to the group in a posh way.
"Or is Bubba too busy undressing Marceline in his mind?" Bonnie said to Bubba
Marceline fell to the ground and laughed so loud a whole crowd was looking at them. She gasped across the floor when she floated into the air. In-between laughs she tried to talk.
"oh glob… bubba babe, we created an abomination!" and she stopped to gasp for air and laughed some more
About 1,5 hours later they were all sitting at pasta pipo enjoying a full plate of fine quisine… Bubba had penne in salmon infused cream sauce, Bubblegum a vegetarian pesto Lasagne and Marceline and Marshall Lee… both a plate of spaghetti, with meatballs and extra tomato sauce.
"I think we can say this ended wonderful" Bubba said while nipping a glass of white wine.
"yknow what, starting on this day, I wouldn't have though this… I was actually planning to say I was tired so I would be done with this, bury my head into the sand like an Ostrich. But its rather fun, plus I can finally hang out with this handsome man" Bubblegum said while making love between her feet and Marshall's feet under the table.
"hehehe yeah I wouldn- OUCH that's too hard bonnie don't forget you have heels! But yeah I would never have expected this… it's amazing!"
"you guys what are you even doing there under the table?" Marceline cheekily asked.
"like you and Bubba aren't having fun underneath the table right now, I can feel your leg moving around under the table" PB smirked towards her making Bubba blush.
"I guess we need to train to become even better, well at least we are better at feet kissing than you guys…" Marceline added
"wow yeah but Marcy, you don't wear heels like me, so you don't stick a sharp point in between the bones of Bubba… I'm sorry Marsh, but you have to grow to love this feeling!"
"oh well as long as it's you, you can do everything you want, wherever you want to do it on my body" He winked
"oooooh ladies and gentleman he is back" she answered while pressing her heel into his foot
"you know I will keep doing this, having a heel embedded in my ankle is a secret kink of me. Just admit it though, I know you love me being like I am" Marsh smirked
"well I'd rather not have you vomit all over my castle like you did over Bubba's castle, but other than that please be who you want to be"
"are you sure you want to do that Bonnie? he can be quite… intense…" Bubba laughed over an almost empty wine glass.
"well I think I can tame this 'intense' beast of yours… you just make sure you tame Marceline…"
"wow yeah like I'm such a wild animal, thanks peebles. I'm pretty sure he can hold me back. I lost all my wild years to you hahaha" Marceline laughed
Bubba coughed when a splosh of wine went down the wrong hole in his throat and this prompted everyone else on the table to laugh.
After his voice returned slightly, Bubba coughed out some words.
"yeah well thanks that you all like it when I suffocate… at least I go down in style"
"always so hilarious hey, old Bubba Gumball" Marshall Lee slapped him on the back making another cough attack start again.
"dammit Marshall… is it your goal of this evening to murder me?"Bubba laughed after the coughing.
"well technically the goals was for you to stick me together with Bonnie so you don't have to endure me anymore. And I hope this food also was a goal cause this is hmmmmm… scrumptious"
Probably a small hour later, Marceline paid the bill of the restaurant and her boyfriend called the palace staff to please pick them up from pasta pipo. Then they all sat outside on the sidewalk after a cup of coffee, looking out over the empty parking lot… it must be almost 11 in the evening, if not already at midnight. They were the last to leave the place, and there weren't any nightclubs here. So it was cold and alone outside and this made both couples to huddle together towards their partners. Marceline sat on Bubba's lap, wrapped into his warm coat and Marshall Lee shared his leather coat with his new found love, princess bubblegum.
"great… the weather isn't really good, like I think even for this time it's fairly cold." PB complained
"better get used to it man, vampires in bed aren't really a heating element. They are really quite cold" Bubba added "but that doesn't mean they don't have an incredibly warm personality" he quickly said to avoid Marceline looking him aggressively into his eyes.
"yeah well I guess this science machine is probably even colder in bed… if you even sleep?" Marshall asked PB, then he turned to Marceline "does she always stay awake or is that just a myth?"
Before Marcy could answer the candy princess beat her to it
"well with you in bed I doubt we would get to sleeping a lot!"
"Fuck Marcy we really corrupted her I think… we never should have put these 2 together." Bubba snorted out.
"well I think he actually secretly likes it, this way I'm far less with him to annoy the everloving shit outta this bastard" Marshall giggled
"yeah think of it Bubs… I keep him busy and he is far less likely to walk in on you and Marceline doing what you do" PB added
"okay guys… enough talking for now… should we just all play a game to see who can stay silent the longest" Bubba tried to end the conversation
"Why is that? Not satisfied about our sex life?" Marceline asked to rustle his jimmies even more "if you want to try more kinky shit, I'm sure we can find someone who wants to help us"
"mmmmarceliiine…" Bubba whispered through closed lips.
"yes dear, what do you want to say?"
"I think he wants to say ask Fionna in this" Marshall Lee hijacked the conversation
"dude… no, isn't she under-aged? I thought she is like 13?" Bubba exclaimed to Marshall
"well Marceline is a 1000 years old and glob knows how old you are, I think everyone would be under aged, just sayin' man"
"yeah well… lets just hope they and Flame Princess are healthy together… and I think she is around 16 or 18, have you ever seen a 13 year old with such hips, holy moly" Marceline laughed
"oh god I think I know someone who'd hate that marcy!" Bubblegum snorted out "LSP would be flipping jealous man!"
"oh glob, yeah I wouldn't mention Fionna near LSP… although I have to agree that she is quite the handsome lady!"
"I wouldn't say that when I'm in arms or leg's range of your crotch Marshie" PB sweetly added
"wow what like you never eyed up Finn!" he answered.
"NO no Marshall, he is candy kingdom bravest hero, I would never corrupt him with romantic feelings… plus I have you now"
"guys I don't really know what this is turning into… is this showing appreciation or just another excuse to be a group of teenagers in full blast of hormones. We are all past 1000 years, lets act like it" Bubba tried to end the conversation.
"oh well… it seems like we hit something here, what is it sweety, cannot handle other people loving each other, or is sex a bit to touchy for you?" Marshall teased
Bubba gruntled something but Marshall used whatever he said to annoy him more by teasing some more.
"are you angry? Don't like it? Sex… Sex Sex SEX seX sEx SEX SeX sex SEX sex"
Bubba jumped up and lunged at Marshall Lee's face yet Marceline was still sitting on his lap resulting into him failing to jump up and just flopping down onto the cold hard tiles. He struggled like a beached whale to get back up because Marceline as a result also fell over, accidently pinning him down to the ground even more.
"oh wow… Bubba what are you even trying to do?" Marshall asked
"Follow Marceline's advice and punt you in the cheekmeat."
"well yeah you did manage to stain the tiles with… uuuh your body"
The group cackled out and Marceline wanted to address that Bubba actually is a really comfortable chair, this made the group, except him not so much, chuckle out even louder.
Sadly for Marceline she had to switch out the comfortable seating element because the limousine revolved off the road and onto the parking lot, lights flashing and the driver, who was actually peppermint maid because the normal driver Elizabeth Wagonwheel was already asleep.
"oh I thought why not take these guys, he seemed rather lost at the bus stop with an oil drum and they… well they arranged something with Elizabeth to pick them up after dinner. But since she went home already I had to pick them all up, hope you don't mind!" Peppermint maid told when she stepped out of the front door.
"eeh well I just see you, who did you take?" Bubba asked, already kinda knowing who would be in the limousine.
She smiled and patted on the side of the limousine, Gorge jumped out through the door and Fionna jumped up with Flame Prince in her arms through the open roof window.
"hey guys… sadly you couldn't just get rid of us hehe" Fionna shouted while FP was booping his nose with the nose of the aluminium rabbit.
"we all had a bit of a bet running if Marshall would be together with Bubblegum after this evening, so I think my dearest Fionna and Flamboyant prince… you owe me some money" Gorge laughed
"so this whole night was a chance for you to earn money?" Marshall Lee gasped
"don't forget us!?" Marceline said while she caught a satchel of coins that Fionna threw out
"was this all a bet? Literally?" PB asked
"naaaaaah, we just wanted you two to be happy!" Bubba answered while he counted the coins in his satchel.
"okay… should we all just get in now? I'm tired man, I need to go to my bed… maybe pep but can make me some camomile tea." Bubblegum yawned "I'll call you tomorrow, kay Marsh?"
"aw I was just beginning to like the cold tiles" Marshall Lee exclaimed sarcastically "and I would love to… I'll await your phone call!"
Nobody really listened and they were all far too busy counting money or moping about the loss of money. Except flame prince, he was still sitting on Fionna's lap separated by some foil playing with the aluminium bunny while the limo drove onto the road.
"So… what did you like the most guys" Bubba had to ask
*clonk clonk*
Gorge slammed a 256 litre barrel with slushie mixture
"that's what I liked the most if I can be honest, I walked all across Ooo for this puppy… I can mix this up with ice for a few thousand litres of slushie goodness."
"how did you even managed to get that stuff? Isn't it only for the guys who sell the stuff at funfairs?" Marceline asked
"found this old oil barrel somewhere off the roads, took it with me and cleaned it up before distracting the guy and water bending the slushie syrup into this barrel."
"holy shit you are a menace… stealing slushie mix from random salespersons…" Bubba complained
"the only people who steal, are the guys who stand behind the stalls… can you imagine, 3 dollars a slushie when it's a drop of this stuff and a litre of frozen water, id be mad to buy it from them… this is just an unconventional way of getting it."
"so does this mean you are the proud owner of your very own slushie mix?" Fi asked
"you bet your ass I do!"
"Well FP, I guess this means we will hang out at Gorge's place more"
"sure… only if I can bring lil' Fionna" he smiled while throwing his aluminium bunny around the limousine
"so what do you think guys… should we take some champagne to celebrate this evening?" Marceline asked when she grabbed a bottle from the bucket of ice cubes.
"just give me the bucket of ice… I can handle that just fine" Gorge said as he screwed open the barrel
Marceline quickly uncorked the bottle after a chorus of "yes" erupted from the inside of the limousine. The cork sprung out against the roof and white foam sprizzed from the bottle. The cloud of bubbles erupting when she poured some of the liquid in glasses for everyone within the background Gorge furiously crushing ice signalled the end of what you can say was a perfect night out with friends and partners. And it will surely be the begin of something good.