So I hope that you guys enjoyed the last chapter! I really want to see reviews guys. I want POSITIVE feedback and any suggestions you may have for the story.

I'm still taking song requests and line requests. And if there are any episodes you want to see from Adventure Time in this story, also let me know! :)

A line was submitted by nerdalert2013. So when their line comes up, a little (!) will appear. Thanks for the entry! It's very Marshall Lee.

Disclaimer: Pendleton Ward owns Adventure Time.


The first month of school was slugging by. August was ending and the students of AAA were ready to really go deep into autumn. Fionna was in her dorm, finishing up a paper for Simone's class. On a piece of paper beside her, she was scribbling down random notes she didn't want to forget and occasionally drew a heart around a handwritten "Gumball". She was really starting to crush on him and she really wanted to tell him her feelings. But Fionna didn't think that he'd return them. She had voiced this to Cake but she asked about Blaise. Fionna shook her head and thought of him more as a friend than a boyfriend.

Fionna felt her eyes getting heavy but she needed to finish this essay. Grinding her teeth, she kept on typing until her fingers started to ache. Midnight rolled around. Then one... then two. The bathroom door opened and Cake poked her head into Fionna's room, her eyes squinting by the light of the computer.

"Fi... go to bed, sweetie," she mumbled, rubbing her eyes. "It's two-thirty."

"I gotta finish this," Fionna replied bluntly. "I... I gotta finish."

"You can finish in the morning," Cake said, walking over and removing Fionna's hand off of the keyboard. The blonde looked up at her sister with tired eyes. Cake smiled softly and cooed, "I know college is tough, sweet cheeks, but you have to rest sometime... or it'll be the death of you."

Fionna yawned and decided that her sister was right. She stumbled over to her bed, wished Cake goodnight, and fell asleep watching her sister's retreating figure.

Fionna woke up on her own the following morning. She finished up her paper as quickly as she could before stumbling around her room trying to get dressed nicely. Gumball had asked to meet up with her for a quick coffee before class and Fionna was dying to talk to him one-on-one. She was never able to since one of their friends usually interrupted but now was her chance!

She printed out her paper and ran downstairs, grabbing her sweat shirt as she flew out the door, locking it behind her. She skidded to a halt as she spied Gumball waiting for her directly in front of her face. Time froze as blue eyes met pink. Fionna's face turned red and she backed into her door with a shy smile.

"Oh, hey, Benson," she said, waving a little. "Sorry. Didn't see ya there."

He blinked a little and then grinned at her. "No worries. Ready to go? My treat."

"You don't have to," she said.

"Nonsense! I insist," he said, taking her hand tenderly and leading her down her pathway.

"Well... if you really want to," she said. "But I feel bad."

"Don't, Fionna. It's really no trouble."

They strode down to the local shops and entered the warm cafe. They stood in line together, still hand in hand. Fionna's neck and face was burning wildly. She was actually hanging out with Gumball! A rush of excitement was running through her veins. He was smiling so warmly at her. So kindly...

They ordered their drinks and waited for their names to be called. They sat on comfy chairs and started to talk.

"Simone's paper was impossible to write," Fionna complained, leaning on her hand.

"Really?" Gumball said, raising his eyebrows. "I thought it was easy."

That made her feel like a moron. He realized her sunken face and then shook his head rapidly.

"Oh, no! I mean." He coughed. "Very difficult. Absolutely impossible!"

Fionna grinned. "Aw, Gumball. Stop trying to make me feel better. You're a super genius and I'm not. Of course you're gonna get it right off the bat."

He smiled sheepishly and ran a hand through his pink hair. "I'm not that smart," he said with a modest shrug.

"No way, dude. You're crazy smart."

The cafe employee called Gumball's name and he stood, grabbing their drinks and handed Fionna's over to her. They walked out of the building, Gumball kindly holding the door open for her. Fionna had no idea why he wanted to even get coffee with her. It was eating her in the back of her mind. She wanted to know why.

"What made you ask me for coffee?" she finally asked him.

"I just wanted to get to know you better," he said earnestly. "So we can be really great pals!"

Pals? Fionna thought, unimpressed. This guy was just looking for a friend. Fantastic. Well, beggars can't be choosers and Fionna wasn't going to object to a close friend. Perhaps... if they got really close, he would want to be something more. Still, it was kind of a downer that her crush was shoving her into the friendzone. Not an ideal place to be.

With a sigh, she let Gumball lead her to class as he joyfully talked about his cooking class. She was only half listening as she tried to nurse her internal wound, when she accidentally bumped into someone. Gumball's voice said something but Fionna didn't quite hear it since a pair of strong arms wrapped themselves around her waist.

"Awh! It's Fionna!" Marshall's voice shouted happily. Fionna felt her feet leave the ground.

"Marshall, put her down!" came Gumball's response.

"No way! I wanna hold my little bunny," Marshall teased, poking her bunny headband with his index finger.

"Abadeer, I will kick you in the balls if you don't let me down right now," Fionna warned. Marshall dropped her at once and her butt hit the ground. She glared up at him as she stood, brushing off the back of her pants. "What do you want?" she snapped.

"Hey, now," he said with a pout. "That's not a nice greeting."

"Whatever," Fionna grumbled.

He was smiling as he stood beside Gumball, his arms crossed. His hair was relatively messier than usual so Fionna assumed he had driven his motorcycle to school. Marshall noticed her wandering eyes and laughed.

"Checking me out, Fionna?" he said silkily, leaning close to her and smiled seductively.

"You wish," Fionna retaliated.

"Shall we head to class?" Gumball said, rolling his eyes at Marshall Lee.

"Sure thing," Fionna said, stepping around the raven-haired boy and walking towards Gumball.

Marshall Lee followed them and poked the back of Fionna's neck.

"Were you two on a date?" he said with a bark of laughter.

"No!" Fionna growled. Too my disappointment, she thought to herself bitterly.

"Just because a male and female happen to go out together for coffee does not make it a date," Gumball said.

"Like Fionna would want to date a girl like you," Marshall said.

Gumball glared at him and Fionna rolled her eyes. Every time. Every single time Fionna ends up talking to a guy, Marshall is right there to interfere. It was like he had some sort of radar that alerted him every time Fionna got close to the opposite sex. It annoyed the absolute hell out of her.

They arrived in class a few minutes early so they all sat down together and waited for the class to start as they set up their laptops for notes. Cake and Mocro were running late. Blaise, BMO, LSP, and Brutus were hanging out in the corner, watching BMO play her Gameboy Color. Marshall was on Fionna's right side and Gumball was on Fionna's left. The boys were discussing the school's student council and the event that were going on this month. Fionna was toying with her straw to her frappucino and was tuning them out. Something about a ball and a drive-in movie night or something like that. Whatever it was, it had to do with couples, so Fionna had a feeling she would be staying at home and re-watching old Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes again. Maybe listen to some music... draw... read a couple of comic books...

Someone was calling her out of her thoughts and she snapped out of her little trance. Marshall Lee was looking at her with a smirk.

"Fantasizing about me?" he asked.

(!)"You have a dirty mind, Marshall," she pouted bluntly, glaring at the dark-haired boy.

"I do not!" he yelled indignantly. "I have a sexy imagination, get it straight, Fionna.(!) And you do, too, apparently." He wiggled his eyebrows at her and she punched him in the leg.

"Where do you get these thoughts?" Fionna demanded of him as he rubbed the forming bruise.

"I've wondered, too," Gumball said.

"Don't wonder," Cake's voice said from the row below. The three looked down to see the girl herself and Mocro sitting together. "It's a dangerous place," Cake went on, winking at Marshall.

"She has a point," Marshall laughed.

Simone entered the classroom right on time and called their attention to the front. Fionna couldn't help but notice, out of the corner of her eye, Marshall sink into his seat as soon as Simone arrived. He still had that stupid smirk on his face, but his eyes seemed far-off... almost sad.

Thinking nothing of it, Fionna turned her eyes back on the board and started to type away on her laptop like nothing had happened.


The rest of the day was sluggish and tiring. Fionna was just happy that she was able to turn in her report on time and complete. Even though this day started out with high expectations with Gumball and everything, then transcended into a crummy day, Fionna was pushing through it. When she was dismissed from gymnastics, she showered, changed, and walked out of the locker room alone. Andrew and Samson were still in class so she couldn't chat with them. Fionna just wanted to rest as soon as she got home.

She and Cake walked home together, talking about the school activities.

"So... I thought a student council was more of a high school and middle school kind of thing," Fionna said.

"Well, this student body is more like a leadership program or something. They run the debate team and handle activities on campus," Cake explained. "They're really just trying to run the school. But they throw pretty good mixers so I give 'em credit for something."

"I heard about a ball and a movie night?" Fionna said.

"Oh, yeah, that's annual," Cake said. "The movie night comes first. The AV club found this old drive-in a few miles away and they fixed it up. The student council decided to make it a night every month. It's a couples night."

"Joy," Fionna mumbled.

"Wait, what about Gumball?" Cake asked. "I thought he asked you out."

"As his chum," Fionna grouched. "I'm like his guy friend."

"I'm sorry, baby," Cake soothed. "I shoulda known Gumball would be oblivious to your feelings. What about Blaise?"

"Eh, I dunno," Fionna said with a shrug. "I guess I'll just wait for Gumball for a little bit."

The two girls arrived home and Cake started on dinner. Fionna flopped onto the couch and thought about the movie night. It was stupid. It was just an excuse for everyone to get with their significant other and do it in the car. No one will watch the movie because their making out in the back seat. Fionna would look like an absolute fool just sitting in the background, not even in a car since she couldn't drive, alone and actually watching the movie being played.

Maybe... if she could get Gumball's attention, she could ask him out and they could go to the movie together. Fionna wasn't one to look for a "good time" and she didn't think that Gumball was either. So he would be the perfect guy to go to a movie with. Just going as...

"Buds," Fionna said, heaving a sigh.

"What's that, Fi?" Cake called from the kitchen.

"Nuthin," Fionna muttered.

"How you feelin' about tacos tonight?"

"Sounds good."

Fionna felt like she was back in high school. Well, there wasn't a big difference since she was fresh out of her senior year and the majority of the students on campus were in their early twenties. So it was understandable that they were still in their low maturity levels. Still... it was annoying that she was an odd man out. Every dance, every date night, every couples thing that happened at school, Fionna was the one who sat at home playing Legend of Zelda.


The rest of the week was spent listening to everyone else talk about their dates as the movie night came fast. Fionna was slumping around her friends as they giggled about their plans. Mocro and Cake were going together, obviously. BMO was going with Blaise (which was actually very surprising to everyone). However, they were just going as friends. LSP was begging for his girlfriend Brandy to go but they were having some relationship problems.

One lunch break a week before the movie night, the usual four were walking to the local diner for lunch. When Fionna asked Marshall Lee if he was going with Ashley, he mumbled something incoherently.

"What?" Fionna said.

"We're not going," he said simply. "But whatever. I have some other stuff to do."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, it's cool," Marshall assured. "C'mon, I wanna good seat at the diner."

Even though he seemed aloof about it, deep down, Fionna knew he was a little upset. She had a feeling that Marshall asked Ashley but she shot down the idea. Vintage stuff didn't really seem like her kind of thing. Fionna was still determined to go to the movies with someone. There had to be someone out on campus who would go with her.


The movie night was Saturday and Fionna was still dateless. Fionna and Cake were wandering through the campus forest in the morning and were talking about the night ahead.

"Hey, girl, it's Couples Only Movie Night tonight," Cake reminded her. "Are you bringin' anyone?"

"I dunno..." Fionna's blue eyes skimmed the ground and she spotted a duck wandering around, obviously coming from the pond nearby. "I'll take this duck!" She said, picking it up gently and grinning at Cake.

Cake sent her an unimpressed look. "It's couple's night! You gotta bring someone you can smooch."

"I don't want to be smooched!" Fionna declared.

"You don't have to smooch," Cake said. "You just gotta bring someone you can smooch. It's, like, the rules."

"Lame," Fionna mumbled. She glanced at the duck and attempted to kiss it but it quacked loudly and struggled out of Fionna's grip before running off. "Well, that would've been gross anyway..."

"Fionna, you got to take a boy," Cake said. "Let me explain a few things about couples..."

"La, la, la, la!" Fionna shouted, clamping her hands over her ears. "Cake, you've already given me the whole tier bullshit list and birds and the bees and whatever! I don't wanna hear it again!"

Cake started to laugh. "Alright, girl." She removed Fionna's hands with an assuring smile. "I won't talk about it again until you're in a relationship. But you should at least go. Find a guy and go with him. I don't care who it is. You'll regret not going."

She had a point, Fionna had to admit. As they walked along the path back to the main dorms, Fionna thought about who she could call. Someone she didn't have to kiss but someone who would be fun to go with.


So, all of you are seeing it coming. Go With Me is coming up soon. Next chapter! :D I'm kind of having a small bit of writers block so that's why some of the chapters are like episodes. However, they're moving the story along until I get back on track.

I'm sorry this one was shorter than the others. D: This was not the goal but I don't want to do the entire Go With Me episode in this chapter. Just setting it up. :3 Any suggestions for episodes, chapter ideas, lines, and songs? LET ME KNOW! Send me a PM or say it in a review.

I'm actually going to be going on a two and a half week trip to the great country of China very soon. Leaving on Wednesday so I won't be able to update anything. I'll try to squeeze in Go With Me before I go to pacify you until I return but no promises. (Then I start school two weeks later after I get back so FML). But I'll make sure this story is top priority after my homework (just kidding).

Thank you to everyone who reviewed and faved and added the story to your alerts. And thanks again, nerdalert2013 for your line entry.

See you next time!