(A/N: So, I will begin with the things important for the story which I didn't include in the summary. First off, I haven't seen a fanfiction which includes the pairing Penny and Darwin, yet, so I thought I'd give it a try? There is one more popular pairing in the story though – Gumball and Carrie. Second, the characters aren't in human forms in this story, they're in their original ones. And third, which is also very important – I might not use Penny's new design, sorry, I don't like it as much. I hope you don't mind.)
It have been five months since Penny and Gumball's mutual breakup. They've been good friends since then – in fact, Penny was Gumball's closest friend after Darwin and Gumball was Penny's closest friend after Carrie. They've have had multiple crushes on other people in these five months and they've been giving each other advice. Today they were going to meet to talk about that specific topic. Gumball felt awkward – how do you tell someone you have a crush on their best friend? Hell if he knew! He was heading to the destination they were supposed to meet – at one café. The café was lonely today, which was very surprising, because it was always full. Gumball didn't mind, with or without many people the conversation was going to be awkward on his side. But on the other side – Penny knew Carrie the best, so she would give him best advice! Or at least he liked to think like that. He sat on the nearest table and started waiting for Penny's arrival.
He didn't wait much – Penny arrived 5 minutes later or so and she sat on the seat opposite of his.
"Hello, Gumbal!" she said cheerfully.
"Hi, Penny!" he answered back, trying not to sound nervous.
The conversation was pretty casual at first "How was the weekend", "How are your friends", etc. Until Penny finally bought up the topic they were actually going to talk about – romantic feelings.
"So, Gumball, we both agreed we will talk about crushes, because you said you need advice. I need advice too, to be honest."
"Yeah, yeah. So, who is it?"
"Um, I feel a little awkward, because it might come off as weird…"
"Oh, I see."
"Do you mind telling me first?" she asked, titling her head to the right. He waited for a second or two, but decided finally to speak up.
"Okay, so, this might sound weird to you, but it's Carrie." Gumball said, waiting for her reaction.
"Oh, God!" she began, "This makes me feel relieved!"
"Why?"
"Because…" she started "I thought you'd find it weird I have a crush on Darwin, because he's your best friend. Oh wow, what a turn of events!" Gumball was silent for a moment, a little relieved himself, too. Then, Penny's phone ringed – Gumball guessed that it was her mother by what they were saying.
"Bye, Gumball, my mum told me we're going over my aunt's. See you tomorrow at school!"
"Bye!" And with that, Penny stood up from her seat and started to run back home – well, from now on things shall become interesting.