It was a beautiful day in Elmore. And many kids were having fun playing in the sun. Gumball Waterson, on the other hand, was stuck inside, working on a project for science class. However, despite the fact that it was super boring, he didn't mind too much. Because, Miss Simian had paired him up with Penny Fitzgerald.

The fact that Gumball had a crush on Penny was an understatement. Everybody at their school knew. Heck, even Penny knew. But, being a woman, she would wait for Gumball to make the first move. For she had a crush on Gumball as well. She, on the other hand, did a better job of hiding it.

So, there they were, two junior high students alone in a house, each one having a crush on the other, researching the different lab safety techniques used in professional science classes across the world, then making a collage about them. We join the research process, already in progress.

"This website says here that students are expected to not remove chemicals from the classroom," Gumball stated.

"It's not Wikipedia is it," Penny asked, "Because made it clear that that is not a reliable source."

"Of course it's not," Gumball reassured, "It's from Wikileaks."

"Oh," Penny responded as she wrote the information Gumball gave her down, "Good."

They worked on the project pretty late. So late, in fact, that Penny asked the Wattersons if she could sleep at their house for the night. After a talk with the Fitzgeralds, they agreed to let Penny stay at the Wattersons' house for the night. While Gumball had offered Penny his bed while he slept on the couch, Penny insisted that that was too generous and that she would sleep on the couch.

When the family went too bed, Gumball went to get Penny a blanket, since the couch already had a pillow on it. However, when Gumball came back, Penny was already fast asleep.

"I know you can't hear me," Gumball stated to Penny as he put a blanket around her, "So, I won't be embarrassed when I say that, you just need to know that I will always be around to protect you and keep you safe. I will always be there in appropriate times to get you what you need. And, most importantly, I will always love you."

Then, as Gumball started walking off towards the stairs so he could go to bed, feeling a little weight off his shoulders, heard Penny say, "It's a promise."