AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry, sorry! My dad gave me a computer ban, and I'm just back at school, and everything's gone a little haywire. I forgot what I was planning on doing for this chapter, and I only just remembered. As always, hope you like it, and (rubbing temples and staring at you while swinging a watch in front of you) please write in that nice little box dawn the bottom. Yes, the one that says 'review' at the top.

Chapter Twenty

Marceline's P.O.V.

"Allright, Bonnibell, what is this?" I asked, sitting on the edge of a table in the lab, hooked up to about six different machines.

"What?" She poked her head up from behind a printer, where she'd been dilligently studying the read outs of the test she'd done on me.

"Ah, this?" I pointed to the blue-and-grey thing she'd strapped to my arm.

"It's like… a biorythm thing. It scans your heart rate- well, if your heart beat, it would- breathing speed, body tempratue, blood pressure, even nuerological electricity levels." She explained. "It's my know-all guide to 'What's Happening To Marceline'. Make sense?"

"Uh, yeah, I guess… can I go home now? I need to feed my dog, and I'm kinda tired."

"Oh, yeah. Take Gumball with you." She said off-handedly, blowing past me with a stack of papers.

I blinked, standing there like an idiot for several seconds. I twirles my pinky in my ear, head cocked as I stared at her. "Ex-cuse me?"

"You need somebody to si\tick with you for a little while- all day, actually- and make sure you don't collapse or something."

"Uh, c-couldn't it be Marshall?" I stammered slightly, thinking of being stuck with Gumball all day long while I waited for Bonnie to finish.

"No, because you'll be stressed around him, and that'll stuff up the readings." She tapped the bio-reader-thingamabob on my arm.

"Finn?" I asked desperately.

"Nope." She popped her lips on the 'P'. "He's off helping his sister with something in the Fire Kingdom." She shrugged apologetically. "And I need to stick around to do science stuff for you, so you're stuck with the baker boy."

My shoulders sagged a little. "Ni-i-i-ice…"

"He'll just be hanging out with you. I just want a typical day in the life of Marceline Abadeer." Bonnie smiled deviously. "Besides, I though you'd jump at the chance to spend all day with my cousin."

"Bonnie!" I said, shocked. "Im supposed to be the deviant, semi-evil-appearing, mess-with-your-head girl! You're the goody-two-shoes princess nerd who doesn't hurt a fly!"

She held up a finger to silence me. "One word. Ricardio."

I bit my lip, blinking. "Point taken. I'm out; I'll grab Gumball on the way back to my cave. See ya." I flew out the window without letting her say another word.