Gumball sat in his room listening to "I Vow" on his boombox. He couldn't understand it, his plan worked, Rob was his nemesis again. So why didn't he feel happy? Darwin came in the room in the middle of his moping and said "Uh oh, sitting alone in your room listening to a sad song on the boombox? That's never a good sign. But I thought everything worked out between you and Penny, did the message on Alan not work?"

"No, it did. I got everything I wanted." Gumball said sadly. Darwin picked up on this. He knew his brother way to well, so he was pretty sure he knew what was going on here. He decided to tread lightly though, in case he was wrong.

"But maybe what you thought you wanted isn't the same thing as what you actually wanted?" Darwin guessed. Gumball nodded. "And what you really wanted wasn't for Rob to be your nemesis again?" Gumball thought about it for a bit and eventually nodded again, that did seem like the most likely reason for his feelings. Darwin sighed, it was time to just come out and say it. "I figured it was something like that. Look Gumball, I think you have feelings for Rob. More than nemesis type feelings."

"What? No! Of course I don't!" Gumball shouted. Darwin rolled his eyes.

"Oh come on Gumball, it's so obvious. You get excited every time he texts you, you follow him around whenever you run into him at the mall, and you talk about him all the time!"

"That doesn't mean anything!" Gumball insisted.

"Dude, you're even listening to the same song that you played for him on our porch!"

"You heard that, huh?" Gumball said sheepishly.

"Of course I did, it's a small house." Darwin said. Of course, he and Penny had also watched them from the window wondering what was going to happen, but Darwin didn't mention that part. "Why won't you just admit that you like him?"

"I can't like him! I'm in love with Penny! You know, my girlfriend?"

"You know, you can have a crush on two people at the same time. It's not unheard of."

"But if I really had a crush on him, I would know about it!"

"Not necessarily, remember when you first met Penny? You kept denying that you liked her, even to yourself. You kept saying that fourth graders didn't like girls."

"So, what? I don't know my own feelings?"

"No, I think you do, deep down. But whenever you don't want to deal with something you go into denial mode and pretend like it's not happening. You do it a lot, and it's not healthy." Gumball tried to rebuff him but he found that he was unable to do so. Was he really that denial crazy?

"Ok, so maybe I have a bit of a denial issue, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I like Rob. What with his stupid hexagonal face and those stupid traps that don't even work even though he puts a lot of effort into them and it makes me feel special, and he never smiles! He never smiles so the very few times he does you can tell that he means it and oh god."

"I know this isn't the right time to say "I told you so" but, I told you so."

"But I still like Penny! My feelings for her haven't changed! Ugh, what am I gonna do!"

"Honestly? I'm not sure. This is a complicated situation here. But I suggest you figure it out before someone gets hurt."

"I don't want anyone to get hurt! I didn't ask for these feelings!"

"I know. You know when I said "someone" that includes you too." Darwin told him. Gumball sighed.

"It doesn't matter anyways, he hates me. Just like I wanted." Gumball put his head in his hands and took a deep breath. "Alright, whatever. The best thing to do would be to just forget about this whole thing. Penny is my girlfriend and Rob is my nemesis, that's how it's supposed to be."

"I don't think it's a good idea to deny your feelings like that."

"I'm sure they'll go away eventually."

"Gumball, no. You're doing it again. You're going back into denial."

"Well, it's worked out ok for me in the past, hasn't it?"

"Not really."

"Well, i'm not going to wreck a perfectly good relationship for these weird feelings that might not even mean anything!" Darwin sighed, he knew this wasn't going to work out, but it seemed there was no convincing Gumball otherwise. There never was when it came to Gumball.