Hey guys! theShipper here, and just want to ask that you please leave a review down below, and tell me if I need to make any changes. Also, let me know how the story was! been kinda busy getting everything organized...so, hope you like it! (and I did stop my other story, Loneliness, which was an attack on titan, ErenxAnnie. I realized that I had published the same story twice, and was just as confused as you probably were as to why I did that. I now realize that the first time I published it, I forgot to send them in chapter by chapter. so, sorry about that guys!) The title for this story is Actually (The War) by the way.

Chapter 1

The ghost floated out the front door to her house, then floated to the bus stop and waited for the bus. The bus stopped in front of her, and she got on. She floated past two people-Gumball and Darwin, and sat in the far back of the bus.

Gumball waved. "Hey, Carrie!"

Carrie looked at Gumball with her usual dull, expressionless eyes. Carrie Booregard didn't like her life being so painful, but she could not change the way things were in her life. Her past haunted her. She had no parents, and loathed being alone. She just wished that people would respect her for who she was. She would always think about how her parents died, no matter what she did she could not come to terms with it. She always thought that they would come back, but they never did.

It all started when she was seven years old. Carrie was sitting on the couch watching television, when her uncle came through their front door uninvited. She knew her uncle was bad news, because he would always drink and gamble, and had an aggressive attitude towards other people when they didn't listen to him. Her uncle had also been jailed several times for murder, because he just couldn't stand being told what he could not do. Her uncle was a very powerful spirit, capable of setting people on fire when he was mad. There was a book of tiers for ghosts, it had thirteen tiers. Tier one was the weakest, tier two was the ability of the power to pick up objects in the real world.

The other tiers granted power and such, at least up until tier seven. After seven, you were stepping over the boundaries for safe usage of power. Carries uncle attempted to become more powerful by traveling to the void, and becoming a tier thirteen. Instead, he became a tier eleven, and became extremely powerful. Although he was powerful, the time he spent in the void rendered him purely evil, with no feelings of remorse for anyone.

Carries father knew this, and trembled in fear when her uncle walked through the door. Carries uncle walked toward the kitchen table, and approached Mr. Booregard.

Carries Uncle: "You know what I'm here for. Like I have said many times before, you give me your daughter, and let me be her guardian, for you are not responsible enough to care for her."

Mr. Booregard: "You stay away from our daughter, your nothing but a drunk, and a lame excuse for an uncle. Besides, the only thing you have been the parent of for the last five years, is of those damn beer bottles you have been drinking."

Carrie knew her uncle was about to get aggressive. His eyes started to bulge, and he didn't say anything. He just waved his hand, and red tendrils of pure energy shot out from his fingertips, transforming into a fist, and shooting through Mr. Booregards chest, leaving a hole. Mr. Booregard fell to the floor, and didn't get back up. Her mother pointed her finger at Carries uncle, and shot a pure white bolt of energy at him. The bolt hit Carries uncle in the chest, and he was thrown back three feet, only to slam into a wall. Before Carries mother could react, Carries uncle phased through the floor, and shot up behind her, the retina of his eyes was red with the very fires of hell itself.

Carries uncle opened his hand, and from Carries view, it looked like her uncle had a flamethrower in his hand, but the scary thing was that he did not have one in his hand. The inferno of flames incinerated Carries mother to a crisp, and her uncle floated out of the house. Carrie realized that her uncle had become too tired and lazy to look for her himself, so he left.

Snapping back into reality, she realized the bus had come to a stop. They were at school, and Carrie's mind was thrown back into the present. Carrie realized that Gumball and Darwin were looking at her with confused expressions.

"Yes, may I help you boys?"

Gumball and Darwin just kept staring at her.

"Okay, I guess I'll just leave for class then."

Carrie floated through the school doors, and drifted into her class and sat down in her seat. Mrs. Simian walked into the classroom, and started taking role.

"Teri, Carrie, Penny, Masami, Gumball, Darwin, Carmen, Alan, Tobais, Banana Joe. Is that everyone? Good, everyone is here then."

"Um, your forgetting Gumball and Darwin. They are out in the hall flirting with girls."

Mrs. Simian walked out into the hall to find that Gumball was urging Darwin to come to class, but Darwin was flirting with another fish, which was the new girl, in fact. Gumball stole a quick look behind him, and came face to face with Mrs. Simian.

"Gumball and Darwin Watterson, you two get inside my classroom right this instant!"

Gumball and Darwin sprinted in the room, and sat down. Carrie was in the back, stifling a little giggle.

Carrie stopped halfway through a stifled giggle, for Mrs. Simian somehow crossed the room at alarming speed and stood by Carries desk, staring at her with an infuriated look.

"Carrie Booregard, lunch detention!"

Carrie nearly jumped out of her seat in anger.

"WHAT?! Seriously, I just giggled, is that a crime now?"

Mrs. Simian gave her a furious look.

"No, because you giggled at someone's mistake they just made a few seconds ago, And I'm sure you have your own problems, being a parentless child!"

Carrie struggled to hold back tears, even though all of her hatred was aimed at Mrs. Simian. Honestly, if Gumball hadn't stepped in, she would had punched Mrs. Simian back to the nineteen hundreds. Gumball jumped up out of his desk, and looked menacingly at Mrs. Simian.

"Mrs. Simian, I suggest you get out of this classroom, because it looks like if you don't leave, then were going to have a situation on our hands here, because if I last recall, you had some issues with principal Brown."

Carrie then watched as Gumball ran out of the room, with Mrs. Simian following close behind, waving her arms in a rampage. She could hear Gumball yell from outside the classroom. "SOMEONES GOT A LAWSUIT ON THEIR HANDS!" with a jolt, she realized that someone, that someone being Gumball Watterson-no less, had defended her when all the other kids just laughed and watched as Carrie got harassed. She realized that she was falling for him, and it was only a matter of time before she would get distracted every time he walked in the school, or when she saw him outside of school. She knew that she needed some help from a guy like Gumball.

Gumball arrived at school the next day, and noticed Carrie sitting alone at the back of the cafeteria. As he approached, Carrie looked his way.

Carrie: "What do you want, Gumball?"

Gumball gave her a knowing look, and said "I realize that you needed a friend. So, what's been bothering you lately? Is there something you would like to tell me?" Gumball looked at her with a look of kittenish curiosity.

Carrie suddenly turned to him. "Gumball, look, I know you are trying to be nice to me, and that you want to help me out, but if you helped me, then your life would become as sad as mine. Nobody would want to hang out with you, because you would be hanging out with me."

Gumball looked at her with an astonished look. Gumball: "Me, hanging out with you would make my life depressing? Look, Carrie I know that life is hard, but if you keep on rejecting what life offers, you will never get to experience new things, and accept that there are bad memories that haunt you. You need to let go, and let life take over. Accept what it has to offer."

Carrie looked at Gumball with sad eyes. "That's not why I'm sad. I never told anybody, but it's my past that keeps bringing me down. Every morning I wake up and expect them to be there to take care of me, but every time no one is there."

She looked up to see if Gumball was listening.

Gumball turned to her with a weird expression. "Wait, you are talking about your parents, right?" Carrie sighed. "Yes, I'm talking about my parents, Gumball."

They sat in silence for several minutes. Carrie was zoned out, while Gumball just sat there, waiting to see if she said anything else. Carrie was questioning herself, and wondering if she made a mistake, or if it was gods decision for her parents to die. It didn't seem right. Did she have to suffer for something that could have been caused by her mistakes? She was struck by a feeling of loneliness, and the unwillingness to live on. The only problem was that she couldn't kill herself…literally. For she was already dead, and was just a spirit.

Gumball watched as Carrie sat there silently, fighting with herself, until the bell rang. As they walked to their first period class, Gumball never noticed that Carrie had walked out of the school doors and go home, for he was being berated by Mrs. Simian for being late to class. Carrie floated through the front door to her house, and turned on the light. For the first time, Carrie saw the truth. She realized that she had clouded her mind with accusations that she had caused her parents death. Now, it was clear. Her uncle was the reason for her parents to die. For he had been jealous, and killed them.

Maybe it was that Gumball was crazy, or it was that he was just a psycho. For our blue cat was running around the school in a frantic rush to find Carrie. Eventually, all he found was his brother Darwin, who he somehow kept on running into lately.

Darwin gave his brother a look. "Dude, I think your freaking out a little too much."

Gumball turned to look at his brother. "Freaking out-What? No,no,no. I'm not freaking out, it's just that Carrie is probably out there somewhere, while I'm stuck here with you."

Gumball ran off and Darwin stood there, rolling his eyes.

Tobias walked up to Darwin. "Dude, he's acting like he's ate something bad. what could cause that?"

Darwin turned to look at Tobias. "Mrs. Simian, probably."

Tobais had a grin stuck on his face, and it was not going anywhere. "Yup. That would do it."

Mrs. Simian was eavesdropping on their conversation and crept up on Tobais while he was talking. "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!"

Tobias turned to look at Darwin for help. I hate to say it, but Darwin ran off the moment Mrs. Simian showed up. Tobais looked back at Mrs. Simian, and mumbled just loud enough for her to hear. "Nothin." Then took off. It took Mrs. Simian a couple of seconds to realize that Tobais ran off. she just stood there and scratched her head. She wondered where Gumball was, because he was never far from his brother. She knew those two were inseparable. She soon got her answer. Gumball ran past her in his underwear. "GUMBALL WATTERSON!" the cycle had begun.