I forgot this part... Disclaimer: I don't own... Anything really in this fic, I don't own Gumball, I don't own Carrie, I don't even own Marmalade, it's all borrowed... So yeah, now I can't be sued hooray...

Things Change

"Daddy?" The tiny child asked innocently enough. "What was Mommy's name before she married you?"

"Booregard." Her father answered simply as he flipped a pancake for his daughter's breakfast. "But it was always Carrie,"

"Daddy?" She asked again. "How did you and mommy fall in love?"

"That, my dear Marmalade is a long tale, full of details that aren't for little ghosts."

"But I'm not all ghost, I have your hair and I'm old enough to go to school." She said addressing her vibrant blue hair falling over one of her eyes.

"Touché… Okay, but I can't tell you every detail because your mother would totally hit me… I first fell in love with your mother on a morning a lot like this one… Queue ripple effect." He said and waved his hands with the transitioning screen.

"Stop breaking the forth wall!" Marmalade whined.

"Right... Any way, back to the story."

The sun shined through the half closed blinds into the Watterson household, right into the face on a particular blue cat, peacefully sleeping with his arm around his face and drool falling from his open moth. Next to him lie his goldfish and brother, who recently out grew his fish bowl and now slept in a fish aquarium, complete with bubble spewing chest. Gumball was now the age of fifteen, he grew slightly, though compared to some classmates he was still miniscule, and his muscles began to develop but he kept his hair well cut. Darwin had also grown, right into the envy of every guy of Elmore High school, though he wasn't the most buff, he had become a track star and his personality won the hearts of nearly every girl in school. Gumball and he had an episode of sorts after freshman year when Penny asked Darwin to a party, but they quickly recovered, like all brothers must do.

Gumball rolled over in his bed trying to pretend the sun wasn't there and covered his face with his pillow. Darwin on the other hand eagerly woke up with a smile on his face, which to be fair, was common, but this smile, and was rather mischievous. He stepped from his aquarium and leaned over his cat brother, right up to his sensitive ear and… "HEY GUMBALL!" He practically screeched. Gumball's eyes popped from his head as he fell from his bed, hitting his head on the floor. "Darwin! What the hell? It's Saturday!"

"I know, I just didn't want you to be late." Darwin mused with a clearly faked innocent looked. "I see your eyes moving to the side, what did you do?" Gumball asked becoming worried.

"You'll see!" And with that Darwin was out the door of their room and heading down the stairs. Gumball grumbled as he picked himself off the floor and found the black hoodie he'd taken a liking to and the jeans he wore yesterday before stumbling down the stairs. When he made it to the living room he found his father Richard on the couch with his usual, toothed, grin. In the past three years, Richard had attempted to lose weight, which technically he did, about thirty pounds, but he looked as plump and lovable as always. During Gumball's eighth grade year, he got a job selling used cars; he was by no means excellent at his job, but it kept him occupied and away from hazardous situations. "Hey Dad, what cha watching?" Gumball asked casually stopping to observe the television.

"I don't know, but Juan needs to get with Carlota now!" His Father said with teary eyes. "Juan! Sofia doesn't love you, why can't you see the love you and Carlota share!" Richard fell to his knees and began shaking the T.V. Gumball scooted past him until he reached the kitchen, Darwin had a waffle on his planet and there next to him sat his seven year old, genius of a sister, Anais. She retained her big eyes and overall adorable appearance, with the only noticeable difference is she wore more than one type of dress and it generally changed with the seasons. Behind the kitchen counter stood Gumball's mother, Nicole, who, ever since Richard began providing no longer had to be a workaholic mom, she still was, but she didn't necessarily need to be. Gumball suspiciously eyed Darwin as he passed him and Darwin retained his content smile as he ate.

"You two aren't fighting over girls again are you?" Anais said noticing the tension and no response came. She sighed to herself, then out of the blue a wooden block crashed against Darwin and Gumball's heads.

"Ow, Anais! Don't throw things at us." Gumball ordered.

"I wouldn't have to if you too weren't fighting again." Anais shrugged.

"We're not fighting, Darwin just did something and is refusing to tell me what." Gumball said sitting down with his cereal, still eyeing Darwin. "Well, I'll give you hint, it'll be here in forty minutes and you should totally shower, you stink." Darwin's hint left more questions in Gumball's mind than answers, but Gumball figured why the heck not, and headed for the shower.

Down on another side of town, a creepier side of town, stood the Booregard household and fifteen year-old Carrie floated down the stairs. At thirteen she was able to change her shape into the form of legs as she pleased and being tangible became easier and easier, food still eluded her, but Gumball managed to find her willing hosts every so often and offered himself up when he couldn't. She was better at keeping her cravings reasonable, but she wasn't perfect. Appearance wise, Carrie grew her hair out longer, it still hung over her left eye with a shiny new skull clip, clothes were something Carrie found herself enjoying more than she thought as well. She wore a T-shirt with a similar skull and a grey hoodie over that with ripped jeans and shoes she would doodle on in her spare time.

When she reached the bottom of the stairs, she noticed her sister, Cierra was staring intensely at a thousand piece puzzle in front of her. "Hey." Carrie emotionlessly said standing over her sister. Cierra was jumped a bit at the sudden appearance but her surprise turned to joy and she bear hugged Carrie.

"I have wonderful news for you!" Cierra said in her usual energetic voice. Carrie pried Cierra off her. "And what would that be?" Carrie asked her one exposed eye raised in surprise.

"I got you a date!" Cierra cheered waving her arms and screaming with glee. Carrie placed her hand over her mouth to shush her.

"What?" She asked in a serious tone.

"Well, remember yesterday, when didn't come home? Well, I went into your room and found your phone."

"I was in detention…" Carrie said but Cierra didn't appear to

"Well, anyway, you left your phone here and I started texting that guy you always text, and one thing led to another and…"

"Wait, the guy I'm always texting? You mean Gumball, he was in detention with me!"

"Doesn't matter, you and him are going to the park in… Thirty minutes, go make yourself look pretty!" Cierra chimed and pushed Carrie back into her room. "Can I at least know where mom and dad are?" She called from inside her room.

"Doing parent stuff, now get to work, you don't want Gumball to think you're a slob." Cierra said one last time before floating away from the door. Behind the door, Carrie wanted to scream with anticipation, wearing the biggest smile she'd ever had.

Back at the Watterson house, Gumball removed himself from the bathroom, freshly cleaned and looking fluffier than ever. He peeked open the door, towel around his waist, and called out to Darwin.

"Can I least know what I should wear?" In an instant Darwin was at the door and pondering options in his head.

"Casual, but it has to have a certain essence of, I care about being here with you." Darwin said satisfied.

"What? With who? Darwin, tell me right now what's going on or I'll tell Rachael how much you liked that rubber ducky from Penny." Gumball threatened. Darwin's expression slowly went from confidence to sheet terror until he threw his arms in the air in defeat.

"Alright, I stole your phone when you went to detention and then you got a text from Carrie and you and her clearly have sexual tension so I thought I'd help get a date with her." Darwin fell to his knees and clasped his hands together. "Tell no one I love that ducky, damnit, I love you Sir Wettsworth!" Darwin proclaimed to the sky.

Gumball rolled his eyes at his gesture before his head clicked what he said. "You put me on a date with Carrie?"

"Yes! I mean seriously, do you guys not see that you hang out all the time? And she's been inside your body more times than I can count, and I can count to seventeen now." Darwin said proudly.

"Uh…" Was all Gumball could say before shutting the door on Darwin, with the door closed, Gumball performed a fist pump before breaking out into a small dance, until his towel dropped to remind him he wasn't wearing anything yet.

Darwin sat in front of the T.V. though he wasn't really paying attention to the show, he was too busy with all the conversations he was having on his phone with six different girls, all of whom wanted to hang out. Texting was incredibly difficult without fingers, but that was part of the fun, when the door bell rang. He cheerily stood from his sat and pranced to the door and swung it open. He was greeted by Cierra, which honestly surprised Darwin.

"Where's Carrie?" Darwin asked innocently.

"That all depends where Gumball is." Cierra responded.

"I'm here!" Gumball called coming up the stairs. He wore a silky black, hoodless jacket, with a fine white shirt underneath and neat blue jeans, but no shoes as usual. Darwin stoked his chin inspecting his brother and Cierra shortly joined the inspection. Gumball watched the two with the upmost confusion written on his face.

"I deem him worthy of my sister!" Cierra announced. "Carrie, show yourself," She waved her hand in front of the door only to have nothing happen. "Damnit Carrie, we talked about this!" Carrie came in seconds later holding her sides in laughter. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Cierra said, slightly annoyed at her joke. "Well, Gumball, what do think of our girl?" No response came from him and Darwin turned to Gumball who had his eyes glued to Carrie in sheer amazement.

Carrie had her pale white, delicate legs exposed from wearing a black miniskirt, black and red corset with black t-shirt underneath and black hand warmers that came to her elbow, finally, in place of her skull clip was a small black ribbon, Darwin forgot sometimes she was the school's only emo girl… Carrie began blushing at the sight of Gumball's wowed expression. "Gumball, you should stop staring at me now." She playfully said.

Gumball stood up straight out of embarrassment and awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck. "He-he, you uh… You look good Carrie."

"I always do, but you don't look terrible yourself." Carrie smirked.

"I'll have you know this is the finest in junk yard clothing." Gumball countered with a similar look on his face.

"A model? Well, good thing I kept you around, finally someone I can mooch off of."

"Stop!" Darwin and Cierra said in unison. "Just, go to the park already." Darwin added.

"Is that where we're going?" Gumball asked.

"I can tell we're off to a good start." Carrie teased and led him to the door. After they had left, Cierra floated inside the Watterson house, unmoving. Darwin looked around unsure of what to make of her.

"Uh… Can I help you?" He tried being polite.

"Nope." Cierra said with a naïve grin and continued floating. Darwin slowly tiptoed away, back up the stairs. Richard entered with a tub of ice cream before he noticed the Cierra. His expression went blank and his nose slightly twitched.

"GHOST!" He screamed and bolted up stairs to set ghost traps. Nicole heard the scream from where she was in the house and gave a very tired sigh.

"Not again…" She moaned.