I live in her house with her family but I am not her son. In fact, I'm nothing to her but a nuisance. An extra mouth to feed. Another troublemaker. A pet with too much freedom.

Gumball, Anais, and Mr. Dad have all accepted me as a part of their family, but not Mrs. Mom. Nicole Waterson merely tolerates me. She puts up a good show for the others, but she shows me the cold truth with her eyes. I am not her son, and she will never let me think otherwise.

Her eyes go hollow when they land on me. She could be talking in the most caring of voices to me and the rest of her family, but her eyes scream at me "This isn't for you!" Her motherly words of praise, advice and rebuke will never be for me. Whenever I get into trouble with Gumball, where he gets a paternal scolding with a path to eventual forgiveness, I get a look of distain and a reminder that I do not belong.

To her, I will always be a pet that got a little too smart.

But to me, she will always be my mother. And there's nothing I can do to change who she is to me.


A/n: Just something random. Am i the only one who feels a small sliver of hostility from Nicole towards Darwin? I might just be imagining it though...