Chapter 3: Night

That evening, after dinner, Finn and his mother were in the living room watching television. Well, only Finn was watching TV, Minerva was reading a book although she was beginning to get sleepy and it was not because the book was boring, it because she was tired having been working in the hospital all day, came home after dinner time and Finn was still waiting for her.

"Finn" his mother called him causing the boy to look away from the TV for a second "there's something you didn't tell me during dinner, how was school today?"

"Eh? Um...well, what I mean is…that it was well, Mom" Finn said. He did not want to tell her mother what happened in the cafeteria and he did not want to lie to her, but he had no choice "today we had chemistry classes in the first hours and...We left early"

"Oh, okay" Minerva closed the book he was reading "Finn, listen, you know if you have a problem or someone at school is bothering you tell me or tell it to your teachers, okay?"

"Yes mom. I will" Finn said, and she smiled at him and get up from the couch in which they were sitting.

"Well, I think I'll go and rest. Good night, don't stay up late" said Minerva, leaving the room, Finn heard her go up the stairs to go to her room, settled back on the sofa and continued to watch the chapter of his favorite TV show until it finished, he got up and took the remote to turn off the television, when he did it his phone (which was next to the remote) began to vibrate indicating that he had a notification.

He did not feel like seeing it, he'd do it tomorrow morning before he went to school. He turned off the TV, left the remote, picked up his phone, and went to bed. He went upstairs and headed to the bathroom to wash his face and teeth before going to his room and getting ready to sleep.

At the end he makes a decision, he would see the notification in the bathroom. When he go to the bathroom, he turned on the light and before closing the door, he made sure no one came to the bathroom to know what was going on, not even his mother but that was not going to happen, she was in her room resting so he could be sure easy that the hall was empty that night. He closed the door behind him, took a deep breath, and unlocked his phone to see what notification had come to him.

Fern was asleep in his bed when he woke up suddenly, for some reason she had been dreaming of the party her bandmates talked about and she was regretting not going. Pff...haha, yeah, sure, sorry? him? of course! he had never regretted anything before. Why did he feel like that at the time? She quickly picked up her cell phone and looked for Marceline's number between her contacts, dialed and waited for the girl to answer.

"H-hello?" Marceline's voice was heard on the other side of the line, it sounded rather choppy; perhaps there was no good sign.

"Hello! Marceline, it's me, Fern" said the blond boy with the tips stained green

"F-Fern? I am sorry! I cannot hear you well. T-there is no good signal...here" Marceline said "let me see if I find signal somewhere... I-I'll call you in a few seconds"

The call cut off, Fern let out a sigh of both frustration and exhaustion, and within seconds the phone rang again, quickly answered the call, and knew that Marceline was going to call him soon.

"Marceline!" Fern cried, he was lucky there was no one in his house.

"Fern, now I have a better signal... do you still want to come to the party? This is not over yet; we're having a great time here" Marceline shouted from the other side of the line.

"Are you serious? If the party is not over yet, w-wait for me to go there... but wait! don't cut me; can you give me the address of the party?" Fern asked, the woman gave him the address of the party "well, I'm going there, Marceline"

The boy cut off the call, put away his phone, picked up his guitar, and went out the window of his house. He started running to the bus stop so he could get to the party quickly, he had not brought any money, he even had it so he would have the advantage of free travel on the bus again...although it was unlikely that a bus would pass at that time at dawn, right? But apparently he was not as wrong as he thought because out of nowhere a bus passed and stopped a few yards from where he was waiting for him, quickly ran up to him and climbed up trying to hide his face with the hood of his green and black jacket to pass inadvertent, did not want to be found free traveling on a bus for the fourth time that week.

He sat almost reaching the back of the bus, leaning his head against the cool glass of the window as the bus started toward the street where he had to get off to go to the party. He took out his phone, unlocked it and sent a message to Marceline:

"Marcy, I'm on my way"

Marceline's Reply:

"Perfect! We are waiting"

Fern put his phone back in the pocket of his jacket and settled into his seat, resting his head against the window again, that was going to be a boring trip.

While this was happening, Finn walked down the street at that hour of the morning to go to the party where he had received the notification on his cell phone, was sleepy and began to yawn, had gotten used to sleeping early and going to a party that hour was not normal in him, almost never went to a party and not that they had not invited one, but that his mother cared for him and did not want anything bad happened, lately the streets of the city they had become somewhat dangerous; Finn knew and could take care of himself but his mother did not want to understand.

He kept walking and when he turned in a corner, a bus passed near him. That was strange since there were no buses running at that hour of the morning, suddenly I get to see a figure known and stopped for just a second to see her better...recognized that figure and semi face hidden under the hood of his jacket! It was that boy he had hit when he left the school! What was he doing there? Where he was going? Curiosity began to invade him, watched as the bus pulled away until it stopped at a red light and Finn took the opportunity to run towards him.

Fern had noticed that the boy in a bear's cap had seen it and hid his face as best he could so he would not see it but it was useless. The bus stopped at a red light, got up from his seat and went to the other side, could see that boy was running towards the bus, begged mentally to change the color of the traffic light, did not want to meet again that boy...he really did not want to.

The traffic light finally changes color! And the bus continued his track; Fern eased a little and looked back through the window to see if that boy was following, to his bad luck, yes he was following what he wanted to do? Why was he following? He could not understand it; he just could not understand it. The driver, seeing what was happening, stopped the bus again, he thought that boy might want to climb.

"Hey! What's up? Why did we stop again?" Fern asked from his place.

"I'm not going to leave that boy outside, I didn't know he just wanted to go up" the driver replied. Fern crossed his arms in annoyance and looked away, the driver was an idiot to let in that boy who did not want to see it again but today apparently destiny was against him.