Alone in this world

Chapter 5

Double date

Marceline went back to work right as her lunch break ended. She went back stacking and taking candy out for display, she had a few problems with flirty guys along with annoying children; Marceline fathom the thought of them greatly. Marceline nearly snapped at a kid who has annoyed her for 2 hours until Greg came to her rescue.

"Uh where is that kid's mother anyways? I almost punched that kid into Saturn." Marceline grumbled as she headed into the back.

"I know but that kid was on his own so I suppose he came in here on his own free will. You just stay back here so I don't get sued for child abuse." Greg patted her back and left her alone.

Marceline groaned, happy to be in the back away from stupid children and flirty fifteen year old middle schoolers. She tried to finish up her shift; she looked at the clock constantly for signs of her first day to be over. She had a few minutes left. Marceline never felt so much relief in her entire life; she waited patiently while she sorted out the different candies to be displayed and passed them to Greg who put them out. Marceline continued working until the alarm for her day was over rang.

Marceline took off her uniform and it back in her locker before locking it and leaving, she said goodbye to Greg who waved her off. Marceline sighed as she waited outside, she hoped he was going to be here soon but as she waited, the time slowly crawled to seven thirty. Marceline's heart sank as she began to walk off.

"Wait Marcy! Hold up!" Finn ran over to her, breathless.

"Oh hey Hero, I thought you stood me up." Marceline turned around to him.

"Sorry Marceline but you didn't tell me the actual name of the candy store you work at and there are like 4 others in this whole city." Finn stood straight up when he finally caught his breath.

Marceline just blushed, realizing her mistake. "Oh, sorry I guess I should have done that…"

Finn walked over to her put his hand on her shoulder. "Ah don't worry about it, at least now I know you work at the Candy Kingdom. Now I can pick you up on time!"

Marceline smiled at that. "Alright Hero, where do you want to go?"

Finn thought for a moment. "Oh! How about we go see a movie? You know that new zombie movie that everyone has been raving about?"

Marceline never heard of that movie but she didn't want to disappoint Finn so she went with it. She nodded in response.

"Great! Let's go!" Finn led her down the street.

Marshall was at the park with Greg, it was kind of nice to be sitting on a bench with barely anyone around to disturb them. Greg was tossing bread crumbs at pigeons for entertainment, Marshall just watched him, being bored with looking at the sight of birds eating crumbs while Greg has a stupid grin on his face.

"This is very fun, Marshall." Greg commented as he watched the birds eat up.

"Yeah, super fun watching birds eat. Woo hoo." Marshall lifted his arms up sarcastically.

Greg frowned. "Well what do you do for fun?"

Greg crossed his arms and looked at Marshall, Marshall looked at him and then around area they were in, he saw a tree that extended its branch over the water. Marshall smiled, getting up and going over to that tree, taking off his jacket and shoes. Greg looked at him suspiciously.

"Marshall what are you doing?" Greg asked as he walked over to Marshall.

Marshall grinned at him as he started to scale the large tree. Marshall climbed the tree with great skill; it was no secret that Marshall knew parkour along with having amazing climbing skills through years of escaping his house when he was grounded. Greg stared at him in awe before turning into fear.

"Get down from there before you hurt yourself!" Greg shouted.

Marshall rolled his eyes at him, getting to the branch that extended over the water; he climbed and crawled until he was directly over the deeper part of the water. Marshall then leaned back and smirked at him.

"I'm sorry but I can't hear you over the sound of fun." Marshall chuckled.

"Marshall please, gets over here before you fall in!" Greg shouted, sounding impatient each time.

"Well, come over here and get me!" Marshall chuckled.

Greg rolled his eyes, taking his shoes off and his coat before climbing up the tree. Greg was having difficulties getting there. He sometimes nearly slipped off the tree a couple of times before he found his balance. Marshall just had a good time laughing at him for even trying to get over here. He honestly didn't think he would even attempt climbing but damn he was impressed with him. Greg started crawling closer to him.

"Okay now get of-"

Greg was interrupted by Marshall pulling him into a kiss. Greg freaked out and pushed Marshall away.

"What on earth was that about?" Greg asked, blushing lightly.

"I don't know, seeing you climb got me hard." Marshall shrugged.

"That's gross now get me off this thing before I fall." Greg demanded.

"Well I don't know about that I mean this is a nice view of the lake and a great way to catch the sun set." Marshall pointed to the sun nearly hitting the horizon.

Greg looked over at the sun briefly before looking back at Marshall, sighing and sitting down on the uncomfortable branch.

"Alright we'll watch the sun set but you have to get me down once it's over."

"Fine by me."

"Okay I got the tickets for the movie, let's go get out popcorn!" Finn grabbed Marceline's hand and led her over to a line that was shorter than the other ones.

"What are you going to have Marcy?" Finn asked as he looked at the menu for different popcorn combos.

Marceline shrugged as she looked at the menu, there were a lot of combos and some cost too much; she didn't want him to spend too much money on her so tried looking for one that was less expensive.

"Um, how about we get the combo that comes with two popcorns and two drinks and a candy?" Marceline asked.

Finn looked at it on the menu and nodded. "Alright, go pick the candy out and I'll pay for our popcorn okay?"

Marceline nodded and went out of line to the candy stand. She looked over the different candies they had, not sure which one to pick. After a while she finally picked the skittles and returned to Finn who already started paying.

"Alright, here's your popcorn and drink, I got you your favorite." Finn grinned.

They went to the podium where a guy was standing and ripping off a section on the tickets and directing people to their correct movie. They approached the man; he grabbed their tickets and pointed them to theatre three which their movie was showing in.

Finn guided her over there; the theatre wasn't crowded like Marceline dreaded it would be. She sighed with relief as she sat in the less crowded middle row with Finn. The movie didn't start yet because all what was showing on the screen was previews to other shows and movies that were coming soon. Marceline didn't pay much attention to it. She was just eating her popcorn silently while the previews played, she heard Finn talking about which movies he was going to see next and what not. She smiled a bit, seeing how passionate Finn was about movies.

Marceline sighed, she was glad that the previews stopped and the movie was now playing. During the opening scene Marceline leaned on her armrest, trying to be drawn into the movie but wasn't really feeling it so she kind of drifted from it and thought about other things. She heard talking and explosions through the whole movie along with gun shots. Finn was grinning and looked like he was going to explode from excitement, Marceline watched him and smiled. She turned her attention back to the screen; seeing that the movie was half ways from over.

She only realized now that the movie was rather gory but she shouldn't expect any less from a zombie movie, these were made to gory as fuck, she didn't mind it. She liked the gore, a small smile going across her face. She started to watch the movie this time, she missed a whole lot on spacing out but she got the gist of the whole plot.

When the movie ended and everyone was leaving, Marceline held her half full bag of popcorn and her watered down drink while Finn started talking about how awesome the movie was, he started to make some explosion and gunshot noises while looking like he was acting it out, Marceline giggled.

"You are so silly Finn." She commented.

"Yeah I know, but that's why I'm your friend!" Finn chuckled.

"Whatever Hero." Marceline rolled her eyes as they walked out of the theatre and down the street.

"Hey Marcy, do you think it would be okay with your brother if you come sleep over?" Finn pushed his index fingers together.

Marceline raised her eyebrow at him but shrugged. "sure he wouldn't mind, think he's too caught up in his own affairs even care where I am but he knows I'm with you so everything's cool.

Finn slapped his hands together and rubbed them. "Sweet!"

well Marceline had a wonderful movie date with Finn but now she's staying over at his place for the night

all the while Marshall is wooing Greg

that sly dog

-A