Where are we going, Bonnie?” Marceline said as she held her girlfriend, Princess Bubblegum’s hand. They silently walked out of the castle and into the streets. Marceline quickly opened up her umbrella to shield her from the sun, the princess glance at her and laughed softly but shut up as the vampire queen shot her a glare.
“Don’t worry, you’ll see.” Princess Bubblegum smiled slightly but still a hint of sadness lingered on her face, Marceline frowned slightly at this but didn’t say anything. They walked in silence, hand in hand until they got to a flower stand. “Can I get a dozen red candy apple roses?” The princess asked the sales woman, she nodded and gathered twelve of them up. “Going to see them again?” She asked as she held them together and tied them together with a black lace ribbon.
“Yes, I want to see how they are doing; I miss them a lot and think they miss me as well so I want to bring them something nice.” The pink princess answered, the woman smiled at her but still a hint of sadness lingered.
“Here, the flowers are on me.” She said happily, the princess took them and thanked her kindly. “Tell them that I said Hi.” The woman said before going into the small store, she came out with more flowers and placed them into the display canisters.
Marceline was confused about who they were going to see, it more than one person for sure and it seemed the princess cared about them. “Bonnie, who are we going to see?” Marceline asked as she glanced over at the princess, Bubblegum just smiled.
“You’ll see.” She said as they kept walking, the vampire queen let out a small annoyed growl. She didn’t like surprises, well unless they were surprise parties or surprise scares but she doubted that was what they were going to do. She glanced over at the delicate looking candy apple roses, the sunlight shined off them and their candy coat shone brightly. The beautiful red color looked delicious and made Marceline hungry, she glanced at the princess and leaned slightly down to one of the roses that was sticking out towards her.
“Don’t you even think about it.” Princess Bubblegum said as she looked over to her girlfriend, she gave the vampire a stern look. Marceline pulled away from the flower and stuck her tongue out at Bubblegum; the princess just rolled her eyes at her lover’s childish antics. But before the princess could say anything about it, Fin and Jake came running up to them, he smiled happily at them both.
“Hey PB, Marceline.” The vampire queen gave him a laid back smile and a ‘Hey, what’s up’ back. “Are you going to go see your parents, Princess?” Fin asked as he noticed the roses, Bubblegum nodded as she glanced over at Marceline. If it were possible, the vampire paled a little; her question had been answered but she didn't like it.
“I wish we could go, but LSP needs our help with some trolls near her new ‘house’.” Fin put air quotes around house; Lumpy Space Princess lived in the heart of a forest and was always having trouble with the critters that lived there. “Well, I better go before things get out of hand, see you.” He and Jake ran off to the forest, Marceline looked away from him and looked right at Princess Bubblegum.
“What?”
“Why didn't you tell me we were going to see your parents?” Princess Bubblegum laughed slightly and it pissed Marceline. “Seriously! You don’t think I would be nervous about meeting the king and queen of this place?!” She said as her voice cracked a little from how high it went, she cleared her throat and looked at the princess. The sad look had come back and it was all over her face, she let go of Marceline’s hand pulled out a single rose, and handed it to the vampire queen.
“You better eat something before we get there, I don’t want you to have a crazed, hungry look and scaring them.” Her voice was flat and she didn’t look up at Marceline, she sighed softly as she gently touched the flower. The vampire looked down at the rose and brought it to her lips, soon the red of the flower was sucked up and a pure white rose was left. She held it in her hand and gently looked at it, she wondered why Bubblegum was mad…did she say something wrong?
