You guys, I am so sorry for sucking at updating and for the people who saw the Crown the Empire references… LOVE YOU SO MUCH OMFG. Okay now that the fangirling is done, just a warning if this chapter is like weird, I've been listening to "Miss Jackson" by Panic! At the Disco on repeat for a week straight and yeah, it might come out like the song, anyway, here's the chapter.

She pulled away from the kiss and just looked at him. "I'm sorry, I don't know what got over me," she said as she looked down at the ground and began to walk away from him.
"Wait, don't go," he said as he called out after her.
"I'm sorry," she said as she began to leave.
As he watched her leave, he just stayed where he was. One reason, this is her house, she's bound to come back sometime. Another reason, they really needed to talk about everything. How was this relationship of theirs so complicated and why did it have more twist and turns than an elaborate balloon animal or a long and winding road?
He wondered around the house until he found what he thought would be the least creepy spot to wait for her to come back, which was very hard since every spot where he waited would be creepy some way or another since he was in her house.

Marceline on the other hand just began to run, to where? Who knows, but she ran away from him. Part of her was proud of what she'd done, showing him what it's like to be lead on, but the other part of her was screaming at her because she didn't mean to do it anyway.
She ended up at a park and couldn't think of how cliché it was, a freaking park of all places.
While she was there she saw Finn and Fionna on what looked like a date. She watched as they interacted with each other and couldn't help but want that for herself. She thought of Marshall Lee and if he really meant all the things he'd said. She didn't want to end up as just another girl to him, she was sick and tired of being treated like she didn't matter and she liked having someone wanting her, but with her record, it wouldn't last. She just wished there was someone she could talk to. She thought of Simon, but talked herself out of it.
Simon had been a father to her when she was younger, but he went crazy and was never the same. She went to find him one day to see that he'd let his hair and beard grown untamed and didn't recognize her at all, leaving her heartbroken.
It seemed that everyone she thought would always care for her never stuck around for when she would really need them. This is another reason why she didn't want to let Marshall Lee in. What if she let herself fall in love and be so vulnerable, just to be let down as always? She was so conflicted, but she knew she had to leave before Finn and Fionna realized she was there.
She found herself in front of the first time she'd seen Marshall Lee. She was wondering around the streets one day looking for Simon when she saw him. He was the new boy the kids from her elementary had been talking about. He was walking with an older man who stopped to look both ways to cross the street. She looked at Marshall for a moment, thinking about how she would love to be friends with him since he seemed much like her. She went off on her quest to find Simon with the thoughts of the young, pale, black haired boy running through her head.
Little did she know of the person he'd become, little did she know that had she befriended him, he might not have become what he became.

Marshall was looking around Marceline's house of pictures from when she was smaller. He found a picture of how she looked when he first laid eyes on her all those years ago.
He remembered that day so vividly in his mind. He was walking to the store with his dad when they were new in town. His father was looking to see when it would be safe to cross the road when he saw Marceline from the other side of the street. He looked at her and couldn't believe that even at that young age he'd seen the girl that was meant to be his. He saw that she was looking at him too, but he didn't care. He was disappointed when she turned around and went on her way. Would he ever see the little girl again he wondered as his father forced him to cross the street. Marshall had to fight everything within himself to not run in the direction he'd seen her go.
He was happy when he saw her the next day at school, but was disappointed to see her with a blonde boy in a blue shirt. Of course she would have her eye on someone else, so to get her attention, he became the biggest player he could be, stealing the animal crackers of every little girl until they liked him. But none of it would ever be enough if the one girl he really wanted didn't want him back.
That was what he was thinking about when he heard the door open and saw Marceline walk in.

"Marshall?" she asked, "What the hell are you doing in my house?"
"Well, I kinda stayed here, you know 'cause everything that happened between us happened here," he said shyly as he shrugged as if it was no big deal.
"I really can never get away from you can I?" Marceline asked as she debated on cutting him to tiny pieces for staying in her home, or trying to find his stalkerish act romantic. She deiced not to cut him up, but this wasn't Twilight, and acts like that were freaky.
"So you're not mad that I didn't leave?" he asked surprised.
"Not mad, more freaked out than anything, this is a stalker like thing you did here," she said.
"Yeah, not the best thing I've ever done," he admitted.
"But really what are still you doing here?" she asked.
"I just want to talk to you, is that too much to ask for since you kissed me and ran off?" he asked as he remembered how he was feeling at the moment. He knew that, that was what he did to girls most of the time, and he hated having it done to him.
"Yeah, I guess we can talk about things," she said as she went to go sit down on the couch. She really wished that Simon was still around and sane for her to talk to him about this, she really needed his advice at the moment, sure she could ask Fionna, but Fionna would tell her anything to get her together with Marshall.
"So why did you run out like that?" he asked as he took a seat next to her.
"I don't like to open myself up to people," she said, "Everyone I've ever opened up to other than Finn and Fionna have left me, I'm all alone and I just don't know if I can trust you."
"I know I don't give any signs of you being able to trust me, but please do. I mean, I want to be there for you, always," he said.
"But how do I know for sure that you just won't leave me for another girl like you always do?" she asked him.
"Because, I was a stupid young kid when I first saw you and even though I was like eight, I knew that you were something special when we made eye contact on the street that day. The next day I saw you at school and I thought I would have a chance with you. I was going to go up and say something, anything, when I saw you with Finn and I was instantly jealous. So then I thought I'd get you to notice me by being this player and I know it sounds really stupid, but I did it all for you, and I'm sorry," he said.
She took a moment to let it all sink in; he did everything to those girls because he was a stupid eight year old with a crush on her.
Noticing that she hadn't said anything, he continued, "I thought that the longer I kept it up, the more you would want me, but I guess it had the opposite effect."
"You could have just talked to me! How could you have been so stupid?" she asked him.
"I'm sorry…"
"Are you going to tell that to all those girls who honestly believed they loved you, and then you broke their hearts, how can you…ugh! I don't even know what to say to you right now," she said as she cut him off.
"I will, if you want me to, I will go up to every single one of those girls and tell them that I am sorry from the bottom of my heart if it means that I get even the slightest chance with you," he said.
She looked at him for a moment before saying the words she thought she would never say, "Alright Marshall, I'll give you a chance, but I sure hope someone comes to save us, because I'm pretty sure this relationship would be the end of us all."

Please somebody save us, please somebody come.

Well hey, it didn't turn out like "Miss Jackson" after all!