Okay! So I'm back, sorry about the horrendously long wait, I had a lot of things come up. I should be posting more regularly again. As always thank you for reading and sticking with this story!

Bonnibel smiled to herself as she walked down the hallway and shouldered her way into her own room, lost in thought, not even registering that the door was left unlocked. Lady's voice greeted her almost as soon as she entered the room.

"So I know you had a lot of clothes but I'm pretty sure it doesn't take the whole night to do laundry." Bubblegum managed to look sheepish and shrugged, "Yeah sorry I didn't mean to make you worry."

"Well you did, I thought you might have been kidnapped. What did you do? Sleep in the Laundromat?"

"Um…no"

Lady let out a very loud gasp and clasped her hands over her mouth before pointing right at Bubblegum. "Oh my Glob! You slept with someone didn't you!"

"What!? No!" Bubblegum couldn't keep her voice from jumping up an octave in her surprise and Lady gave her a disbelieving look and opened her mouth to say something but Bubblegum cut her off quickly. "I slept in Marceline's spare bed, you know, since her roommate left. Nothing happened, I saw her stumbling outside and helped her to her room and I was too tired to leave so I just crashed there. No biggie."

Bubblegum ducked her head and started bustling around their room looking for clean clothes to change into. "I thought you weren't going to allow yourself to like her." Bubblegum paused halfway through putting on a fresh t-shirt. Lady was right, she couldn't let herself like Marceline, not in the way she wanted to anyway, she just really missed her best friend and wanted that connection back. Nothing more.

"I'm not, but she is my friend. There's nothing wrong with hanging out with a friend." Lady let out a huff, crossing her arms in front of herself. "Well I think you should let yourself like her because there's no use fighting the inevitable."

Bubblegum mumbled something incoherent and went into the bathroom to brush her hair and teeth. On her way back out through the room she stopped with her hand on the doorknob. "We're going to get some breakfast. Do you want to come?"

She never looked up from the door but she could feel Lady grinning at her. "No no that's okay I'm not hungry yet. Go enjoy yourself!"

"Yeah yeah yeah, see you later." She closed the door and made her way back to Marceline's room, knocking lightly. "Yeah come in!" Marceline's voice sounded slightly muffled through the door.

Bubblegum let herself in and was confused for a moment because she seemed to be the only one in the room before realizing Marcy was in the bathroom. The door was open and Marceline stood in front of the mirror brushing her long hair. Bubblegum sat down on the end of Marceline's bed facing the bathroom so she could watch the other girl. "Are you almost ready?" She asked teasingly.

Marceline stuck her tongue out. "Perfection takes time Bonnie." For some reason Bubblegum could feel her face heat up so she turned away from Marceline's smirking reflection. Silence started to fill the room but before it could stretch on for too long a voice could be heard shouting from the hallway.

"Marceline!"

Bubblegum looked up to Marceline who had stopped brushing her hair. "Are you expecting someone?" Marceline frowned, "Not that I'm aware of."

BANG! BANG! BANG! Someone was frantically pounding on the door. "MARCELINE! You had better be in your room! I freaking need you!"

"Alright! Alright! I'm coming!" Marceline shouted setting her brush down and making her way over to the door and then added more quietly, "Don't break down the damn door." She barely had it open a crack before a short, chubby girl with wild purple hair barged her way into the room.

"Oh thank glob I knew you were in here. What took you so long?" Marceline groaned, "What do you want LSP?" The girl scoffed, "Rude."

She then caught sight of Bubblegum who was still seated on the end of Marceline's bed. "Hey PB, jeez your hair looks terrible you should dye it again." Bubblegum frowned, "Gee thanks."

"Any time girl." Flipping her hair LSP turned back to Marceline, unfazed by Bubblegum's sarcastic tone. "So anyway I need your hairdryer. Mine broke and I've got to get ready for my lunch date with Brad. I'd ask Melissa but she's being a total snob and not answering my texts."

Marceline raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms. "Its like 9am, why are you getting ready right now?"

"Duh, I have to make sure I look lumping perfect."

"Fine, but what's in it for me?"

"Ugh why do you have to be so freaking difficult!? Fine, what do you want?"

Marceline thought it over for a moment, "I want your first born child." Bubblegum's jaw dropped open, whatever she had been expecting to come out of Marceline's mouth it wasn't that. Even if the girl was only joking.

LSP was once again unfazed however, "Deal! Just hurry up and give it to me! I'm kind of in a big hurry here." Marceline chuckled and strode over to the bathroom and grabbed her hairdryer off the counter. After giving it to the other girl Marceline folded her arms in front of her chest, "I want that back by tonight."

"Yeah yeah details I know." LSP turned and raced out of the room again shouting over her shoulder as she went, "You're the best Marceline!"

Marceline closed the door and turned to face Bonnie with a smirk on her face. "You hear that? I'm the best." She waggled her eyebrows at Bubblegum who only rolled her eyes. "Psh! You wish!"

"Hey now!" Marceline made her way over to her closet and slipped on a pair of boots wearing a look of mock hurt. Turning back to Bubblegum she grinned, "Ready for some breakfast?"

"How do you not have a major hangover right now?"

Marcy winked, "I have super powers making me invincible to hangovers."

"Ha! Yeah right I bet."

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After making their way down to the dining hall, grabbing their food, and securing a place to sit Bubblegum had a chance to really reflect on the current situation. She was actually having a pleasant conversation with Marceline and it felt like no time had passed between them, like she hadn't one day just dropped the only real friend she had ever had and deeply hurt them both. It was amazing and it made her happy.

"So anyway, there I was puking, no, spewing this red stuff all over the isle and no one knows what to do cause it looks like a dang crime scene!" Marceline was laughing so hard she almost couldn't get out all the words to her story. One hand was clutching the fabric of her shirt on her chest and the other flailing her fork around dangerously as her whole body shook with laughter.

Bubblegum wasn't sure if she was disgusted by the story or if she found it funny. "I can't believe you did that!"

Marceline, now in better control of herself after taking a few deep breathes just chuckled, "Hey it's not my fault the shrimp was bad!"

Bubblegum smiled, "Hey you remember that time we-"

"Excuse me ladies, I do hope I'm not interrupting anything." A low voice cut through whatever Bubblegum was about to say. She turned to see two boys standing over their table, one tall and skinny with bright blond hair and the other considerably shorter with rosy cheeks and dark hair.

"You're Bubblegum right?" The shorter one addressed her, completely ignoring Marceline. Bubblegum nodded and glanced over at her friend, but Marcy seemed to be deep in thought staring at the two boys as if trying to remember something.

"Yeah I thought so," The boy spoke again, "My name is Ricardio and this is Lemongrab," he motioned to his friend, "we have Chem. 1 together and I've been wanting to talk to you for a while now actually." Ricardio grinned and leaned forward towards Bubblegum.

"Hey!" Suddenly Marceline was standing and leaning over the table towards Ricardio with her palms flat on the table. "I thought you two looked familiar. Go away and leave us alone before I make you, we don't want anything to do with you two."

"Marceline!" Bubblegum exclaimed, she couldn't believe the other girl was acting like this. "That's so rude!"

Ricardio raised an eyebrow and finally turned to look up at Marceline slowly. When their eyes made contact a slow smile spread across his round face and he let out a chuckle. "Well hello again, looking well I see. Fine, we'll leave for now." He turned back to Bubblegum and bowed his head. "I'll see you in class." The two then turned and walked out of the dining hall with their heads tilted together as if deep in conversation.

When they were finally out of sight Bubblegum rounded on Marceline who was still standing and glaring at the door. "What in Glob's name was that? Why did you have to be so rude to those guys?" Marceline frowned and dropped herself back down into her seat with a thud. She sighed and ran a finger along her split lip before bringing her eyes up to meet Bubblegum's. "I'm sorry, those guys are just bad news. Trust me you don't want to have anything to do with them."

Bubblegum huffed as she leaned back in her chair and folded her arms across her chest. "Yeah I'm gonna need a better reason than that. Do you know them?" Marceline grumbled something Bubblegum couldn't decipher and began picking at the hem of her shirt. "Come on Marcy, what's the matter with you huh? What did those guys ever do to you?"

"Ugh they were the ones okay?" Marceline blurted out. Bubblegum just sighed, "What are you talking about?" The other girl seemed to be having trouble making eye contact now, her eyes boring a hold into the table and determinedly not looking at Bubblegum.

"Those are the guys that were talking about you. They're the ones I got in a fight with last night."

"Oh."

Bubblegum sat for a moment not thinking anything as the words sank in. She glanced over at Marcy's split lip, which was still a bit swollen, and frowned. Why would Marceline pick a fight with those two idiots just because they said something? "What did they say Marcy?" she asked quietly.

Marceline shook her head and shrugged, "The short one wants in your pants because he is a self centered prick and thinks he can get whatever girl he wants. It was rude the way he talked about you and that made me mad so I decked him."

Bubblegum could feel her face heating up for the second time that day, she looked to the door that the two boys had left through and then back at Marceline who now had a small smile on her face. "Wow Bonnie your face got red really fast, I'm sorry I didn't mean to embarrass you."

Bubblegum chuckled awkwardly, "No, no it's okay. I'm fine. It's just really weird to think that someone thinks about me like that. It's gross." Marceline nodded and picked up her fork, pushing around some of her breakfast. "Yeah well if they ever try anything with you again just let me know and kick their butts."

"Ha! Yeah cause apparently that worked sooo well last time." Bubblegum smirked.

"Hey now! I was drunk and forgot that there was two of them! It won't happen again, trust me, I'll win."

"Yeah yeah I know, I believe you." Bubblegum watched Marceline take another bite before leaning forward to take a drink of her tea. She smiled, "Hey Marcy.."

The other girl looked up questioningly, "Yeah?"

"Thank you."

Marceline smiled, a genuine smile that reached her eyes, "No problem Bonnie."