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The clock reads 7:00 a.m. when the alarm began making an unpleasant buzzing sound. Darwin Watterson opened his eyes and looked over on the clock. He smiled and softly hit the snooze button. It was the beginning of a new day. Most people are usually irritated when they wake up early in the morning, but not Darwin. He loved waking up early. The thought of starting a brand new day never failed to put him in a good mood. He was rarely ever in a bad mood in the morning, in fact, he was rarely ever in a bad mood at all. People always found that strange, but he never saw why. Darwin climbed out of his fish bowl and looked over onto the bed next to him. He expected to see his brother, Gumball, sleeping as always. It was always a challenge to get him out of bed. Darwin always had to prepare himself to wake him up. Each morning, Darwin was greeted with a hostile attitude from Gumball, It isn't until breakfast when he fully wakes up and that goes back to his normal self. However, to his surprise, he wasn't there. Darwin stood confused for a moment until he heard snoring coming from the other side of the room. He turned around and looked over to see Gumball sleeping on the desk in front of the computer. There was a pencil in his hand and papers scattered all over the desk. It looked as if Gumball was working on something and he had fallen asleep.
Darwin rolled his eyes with a smirk. Just the thought of Gumball working on something and randomly falling asleep somehow made Darwin giggle. He walked over to the desk and gently grabbed his shoulder and began to shake him. He whispered. "Come on, time to wake up." Gumball, surprised by the sudden movement, jumped and fell out of his chair. He hit the ground with a thud.
Darwin ran over to him. "Are you okay?" He asked. Gumball being Gumball, shrugged it off and pretended it was nothing.
"I'm okay," Gumball replied, rubbing the back of his head. By looking into Gumball's eyes, Darwin could see that he hadn't slept well the night before. He glanced over at the papers scattered all over the desk. Some of the papers were crumpled up and ripped while others had unintelligible handwriting.
"What are all those papers for?" Darwin asked. Gumball shifted his attention to the desk.
"Oh these papers," Gumball said, grabbing all the papers on the desk and organizing them. "I was just working on the history paper next week," Gumball usually waited until the last minute to work on assignments, but this time, he wanted it to be different. This assignment was over 30% of his grade and he wanted to prove to everyone and himself that he could do an assignment without screwing it up. Wanting to make sure he got a good head start, he stayed up late to begin. However, he had accidentally fallen asleep, thankfully he got some work done before he did. Darwin was puzzled for a moment, he didn't remember any project due next week. That's when it hit him.
Darwin was hesitant to ask, but he knew he had to. "Um, you mean that research paper?"
"Yeah," Gumball said, not looking up from the papers in his hand. Darwin cringed.
"That... uh...research paper is... due today,"
Gumball felt his heart drop into his stomach. He thought he was going to throw up. He dropped all the papers from his hand. Papers scattered everywhere on the floor around him. He then grabbed Darwin by his shoulders and shook him, "What do you mean it's due today?!" His voice and body shaking all over. He was hoping he heard him wrong, even though he knew he heard him perfectly.
Darwin calmly pulled a trembling Gumball off of him. "I mean, yeah it's due today," Darwin wasn't surprised, Gumball was always bad when it came to deadlines. "Why did you think it was due next week?"
"I don't know," Gumball said, he was on the verge of tears. He plumped down on his bed and looked over at the floor. He saw all the papers that he had worked on all last night. All of it for nothing. Gumball tried in school, he did, but he always managed to screw things up. He was already on the verge of failing that class. He knew if he didn't turn in this assignment, he would have to go to summer school and that was the last thing he wanted to do. That's when an idea popped into his head. It was shady, but at that point, he was desperate.
Gumball turned to Darwin, his heart full of hope. "Did you do the assignment?"
"Of course!" Darwin said in his usual happy tone. However, when he looked over at Gumball's face, his cheerful demeanor disappeared and was replaced by a confused one. "Why?"
"Well, you're doing great and I'm failing, but if you let me have yours..." Gumball began.
"You want me to give you my report?" Darwin asked, shocked by what he said. He couldn't believe his brother would ask him for such a favor.
"Please!" Gumball begged. "It would mean a lot to me." Darwin was about to say no when he looked over at him. He had the most desperate look on his face. He could see from Gumball's eyes that he was very close to breaking down. He also noticed the bags under them, from how much sleep he sacrificed to get the project done. How could he say no?
"Fine." Darwin said with a defeated sigh. He then walked over to his backpack and took out his paper. He handed it over to Gumball.
"Thanks!" Gumball said as he took the report out of Darwin's hand and left the room. Darwin stood there, realizing what he had just done. He just gave his research paper, the one that he had worked so hard on in the past week, to someone else. Then again, it was Gumball. He was close to failing class. Darwin knew how much he wanted to pass. Even when he was failing, he could see how much he studied for. Seeing him happy was always something that made Darwin happy. Except, he didn't feel happy this time, something in his gut was telling him something was wrong. It's just, he didn't know what.
Later that day, Darwin walked into history class. He had been debating on whether or not he should even show up, but he knew skipping class wasn't the answer. He just couldn't stand the idea of going to class and facing the fact that he had nothing to turn in. Darwin walked over and took his seat. Gumball was getting his stuff ready when he saw Darwin sit in the seat next to him.
"Hey," Gumball said.
"Hey," Darwin said, not taking his eye off the desk. Gumball noticed something was off.
"Are you okay?" Gumball asked. Darwin looked up from his desk.
"Oh yeah!" Darwin said, brushing off whatever fear he had. He then pretended to yawn. "Just a little tired."
Gumball wasn't entirely convinced, but he figured that whatever problem Darwin had wasn't very serious. "Oh," Gumball said. "Well, thanks again for the report, it means a lot," Darwin noticed the sincere smile on his face. He remembered how panicked Gumball was when he didn't have a paper to turn in. The fact that he was able to take away that fear made him feel just a bit better.
"No problem buddy," He said.
The bell rang and their teacher, Ms. Simian, walked inside.
"Good morning students," She said in her usual unenthusiastic tone. "I hope everyone did the reports because it's time to turn them in."
Of course, that's the first thing she asks for, Darwin said to himself. He crossed his arms slumped in his seats, not making eye contact with anyone around him. Everyone began passing in their report to the front of the class. Darwin put his head on his desk. He didn't want anyone to notice that he had nothing to turn in. From the corner of his eye, he could see Gumball turn in his report. Darwin noticed how happy and relieved he was when he turned it in and it made him happy in a way. At the same time, he couldn't help but feel bad. He had no idea why, though. He thought he was doing the right thing. The teacher grabbed the pile of reports.
"Wow," Ms. Simian began "Looks like you all worked hard one these reports," Everyone nodded their heads while Darwin, who still had his head on his desk, just shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, I guess no one would mind if we had a surprise test," She said, laughing loudly. Everyone groaned. It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone that she would give them a pop quiz, but it caught Gumball off guard. He felt his heart race, he frantically looked around. He could see everyone, including Darwin, taking out a pencil and paper for the quiz.
"A test? I'm not ready for a test." Gumball stuttered.
"Don't worry about it," Darwin said, trying to calm him down. By his tone, you could tell he was completely done with today. "You'll be fine,"
Ms. Simian began passing out the tests. When Gumball received the test, he looked through it quickly. I don't know any of these, Gumball said to himself.
"You may now begin," Ms. Simian said as she sat down at her desk. Gumball knew he was in trouble. He looked around the room. He could see everyone looking down at their papers. From what it seems, everyone was doing okay. He looked over to his teacher's desk. She was looking down at her desk, grading some papers. Gumball may have turned in his report, but he knew it wouldn't matter if he bombed this test. He looked over to Darwin. He seemed to know what he was doing. He was always good at doing tests. That's when he got a great idea, it was risky, but he knew that it was worth it. He looked over to Ms. Simian, making sure she wasn't looking and then leaned over to Darwin.
"Can you help?" Gumball asked, whispering. He quickly looked over to Ms. Simian to see if she wasn't looking. Sure enough, she was still looking down at her desk. Darwin was shocked. He didn't understand why Gumball would ask for help when he knew he could get in trouble.
"We'll get in trouble," Darwin said, not taking his eyes off his paper.
"Please," Gumball asked again. Darwin, who was still looking down on his test, could hear the desperation in his voice. How could he say no to helping his brother? He knew that if he didn't help him and Gumball would fail, that it would be all his fault. Darwin let out a small sigh and looked over at his teacher and then back at Gumball.
"Okay," Darwin whispered. He quietly shifted his paper over to Gumball. Just enough so he could see the answers. Gumball lifted his head to make sure no one was watching and then began writing down the answers that he saw. Everything was fine until he heard someone shout "Are you guy's cheating!?" Gumball and Darwin stopped dead in their tracks and looked to the front of the class. There they saw Ms. Simian, looking over at them, outraged. Gumball and Darwin straightened their backs and looked at their own individual papers, making it seem that they weren't copying each paper but the damage was done.
Gumball blurted out "It wasn't me!" Darwin turned to Gumball, shocked by what he heard. Gumball looked over to Darwin with a pleading face. Darwin knew exactly what he meant and in order not to fail, Darwin had to take the blame. Without giving it a second thought, Darwin nodded his head.
"Yeah it was me," Darwin said.
"Well I must say, I'm very disappointed," Ms. Simian said. She pointed her hand to the door. "To the principal's office, NOW!" With everyone's eyes on him, Darwin got up from his seat and walked to the principal's office.
After school, Gumball and Darwin were talking in the hallway, ready to go home. Darwin tried to get his mind off the meeting he had with the principal. He had detention for two weeks and failed his test. To top it all off, he had no report to turn in that day and he knew that it would make a dramatic change in his grade. The thing that scared him the most was facing his mom. He knew that she wouldn't be happy to find out what happened that day. He was listening to Gumball talk about something when he looked over and saw his crush. Her name was Christina and she had just moved to the school the month before. She was a lion with darkish brunette hair, and had on a plain white t-shirt and ripped jeans. Darwin noticed her when she walked into his math class and at that moment, he was head over heels in love. She seemed different from the other girls and Darwin was drawn into that. However, he hadn't gotten the courage to go up and talk to her yet. Gumball was still talking when he noticed that Darwin seemed to not pay attention. Darwin had his turned to the right and had a smug grin on his face. Like he was in another world.
"What's up dude?" Gumball asked, watching Darwin continuing to stare at another direction. Darwin whipped his head back at Gumball. He didn't want to tell him that he saw Christina. He had mentioned her to him, but he didn't go into much detail.
Darwin smiled, acting like he wasn't distracted at all. "Nothing," Gumball looked over to the direction Darwin was staring at and saw the Christina. That's when it clicked. Gumball remembered Darwin had mentioned that he had a crush on a new girl, but he had no idea what she looked like until then. He was always curious and wanted to see her with his own eyes.
"Is that the girl you have a crush on?" Gumball asked.
Darwin blushed. "No." Darwin wasn't ever good at lying. Judging by the obvious lie Gumball received from Darwin, it was her. Darwin quickly got a fluttery feeling in his stomach and looked back at Christina but subtly, so she wouldn't notice that he was staring. She was going through her locker, putting away her books.
"You should go talk to her," Gumball said. Darwin was hesitant. He had never really spoken to her and he didn't want to embarrass himself. He'd always got nervous when he just thought of her, he couldn't imagine what he'd do if he ever actually said a word to her.
"Nah, I don't even think she knows I exist," Darwin said, looking down at his shoes. He had a slight sadness in his voice. Darwin was never the cool guy and he knew that. Inside, he felt like he wasn't good enough to talk to her, he didn't want to admit it, though. Gumball rolled his eyes and began pushing him towards her.
"You'll be fine," Gumball insisted. Darwin tried fighting him, but every time he resisted, Gumball would push harder. Christina turned around from her locker and saw noticed Gumball and Darwin coming in her direction. The moment Darwin saw Christina turn around, he stopped struggling and pushed Gumball off of him. He slowly walked up to her. Christina smiled.
"Hi," Christina said.
"Hi," Darwin stuttered. Darwin didn't know what to say. He had never been so close to her before. He couldn't stop staring at her. He noticed her eyes straight away. They were shiny and hazel. He could see his reflection through them. Her hair, her eyes, everything, was beautiful.
"Sooo", Christina said. Darwin was quickly snapped out of his thoughts. He blinked and looked over at her again. He saw that she had a confused look. He realized he hadn't said anything in a good while. Ah man, he thought to himself, this isn't the way he wanted to have a conversation with her.
"Uh sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable," Darwin said, rubbing the back of his head. He could feel himself start to sweat and he hoped she wouldn't notice. "It's just you're so pretty," Darwin said, but he quickly regretted. He tried to take it back. "I mean, uh" Darwin stood frozen. After 10 seconds, Darwin quickly said "never mind" and ran outside. Gumball watched in horror as he saw his brother run. He then looked over to Christina, still looking puzzled.
"Is he okay?" Christina asked, concerned.
"Oh yeah," Gumball said, playing it off. "He's just really shy, he's really a nice guy, well I better go," Gumball said. He then left and followed Darwin outside. He found him sitting on a bench, with his head in his hands.
"Are you ready to go home?" Gumball said. Darwin looked up and, without a word, nodded his head. They both started walking home. Their walk home started out quietly, Darwin just kept on thinking about how much he screwed up today. First, he didn't have the assignment to turn in, then he got in trouble and failed his test and now he embarrassed himself in front of his crush. He couldn't that moment out of his head. It kept replaying over and over again. The way he almost admitted he had a crush on her, how he froze and her face when he ran.
"You okay?' Gumball asked.
"Yeah, I just don't feel like talking," Darwin said.
"Oh well, do you want to hear about my day?" Gumball said, a slight excitement in his voice.
"Sure," Darwin said, unenthusiastic. Gumball began talking about how "awesome" his day while Darwin silently walked. He tried to listen to Gumball, he really did, but he just couldn't.
"Man will he ever shut up?"
Darwin stopped and looked around. Gumball noticed Darwin wasn't next to him and stopped as well. He turned around and saw Darwin a couple of feet behind him.
"What happened?" Gumball asked. Darwin just shook his head and ran over to Gumball.
"Nothing," He said. They then continued walking.
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