Hello everybody! This is NRG-OVA-9000, presenting you the Nicole x Richard romance fiction. Fellow fan author, lexboss, request me to write this project and we often work together on it. She originally conceive the idea of this story, so credits go to her. We discussed on it through PM, on how the story goes and yeah... She's the creator and I'm the writer. Though, I write with my own style or twist. So yep, enjoy this love story.
Also, original concept belongs to Ben Bocquelet and Cartoon Network. The "storyboard," plot, ideas, whatnot all belong to lexboss, fellow fan author. And OC Lexy Watterson also belongs to lexboss.
And another thing, since this project is published at Christmas Eve, which is occurring right now in many different local, I just want to wish you all, Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year! XD (It's a little bit ironic as this story takes place during the summer instead of winter... what? Exotic vacation in tropical paradise must occur in summertime! According to my logic that is... just think about it for a moment)

7-Day Romance in Exotic Vacation

Day Zero: The Tickets

It is a peaceful day in Elmore. The city is filled with towering office buildings, bustling businesses, and a widely diverse people of interesting characteristics. This city is not an ordinary city that anyone would expect as anything can spring into life at any moment. And right now, summer is up.

Right now, the pink bipedal cat in black t-shirt and blue skirt is in some building, participating in some lottery event. Strangely, Elmore is super lenient about the lottery participation. And not to mention, this city essentially functioned as if it's its own country like Vatican City; or even far wilder proposal, if Elmore is its own small world, a habitable planetoid with incredibly wild biodiversity. Nobody have any idea what Elmore even is!

Despite of many people coming out with nothing from the lottery line-up, it is still nonetheless exhilarating as people just naturally love the thrill of winning or losing. It's like being in Las Vegas. Well, Elmore can be a lot of places; as mentioned before, nobody knows what or where Elmore is.

As the line-up keeps shrinking and shrinking, Lexy Watterson is up with her lottery card. She is walking up closer to the lottery receptionist, being a yellow bucktoothed woman. She may look like some bipedal cephalopod or some cartoonish moose person, but nobody knows.

"Okay," said the receptionist, after she debriefed the other person. The person in front of Lexy left with frowning face. "Next!"

The pink cat walked up.

"Oh hello," said the receptionist. "You have the ticket, right?"

Lexy showed her the lottery ticket.

"Alright then, let me take that for you," the receptionist takes the slip of paper and has it scanned through some state-of-the-art computer. The computer is scanning the ticket, calculating on its digital algorithms and decrypting it into easily readable numerical code to confirm whether if the twelve-years-old wins something.

"So, how's your day?" asked the receptionist with a friendly smile.

"Good," Lexy replied.

"That's good to hear." Then suddenly, the decrypting computer finished with a ding, ejecting the same ticket out with new decoded results on it. The receptionist grabs the paper and read it, further analyzing it with some quick computer work. "Congratulation, Ms. Lexy Watterson! You won two tickets to a seven-day exotic vacation in a tropical island in the middle of the ocean. You must be a really lucky girl; you could invite one person with you or even give these two to anybody of your choosing."

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!" Lexy thanked the receptionist for the prize.

"You're welcome and have a nice day!" said the receptionist.

The pink cat in black t-shirt ran off with excitement.

Later, Lexy arrived to Watterson residence, where she and her family live in. She runs up the stair with excitement. This arouses some attention from her siblings, who were sitting on the couch and watching television with bored expression. But, they didn't pay close attention to it, causing them to resume back to what they were doing earlier.

Meanwhile, Richard the fat pink rabbit in white collar shirt and brown pants is seen on his bed reading some comic books while Nicole the slender blue cat in white shirt with rainbow badge and gray skirt is on the computer doing some work. The mother is a grown-up splitting image of her daughter, Lexy. As the parents are minding their business, Lexy opened the door and bursts into the room with excitement. She is squealing, causing some reaction from her parents.

"What's going on?" Richard asked with confusion.

"What is it?" asked Nicole.

"I won the lottery game!" Lexy exclaimed.

"Really!" said Richard. "Tell me, girl!"

"It's two tickets to a seven-day vacation in a tropical island in the middle of the ocean!"

"Well…" said Nicole as she is happy for her daughter being lucky. "Are you going to invite some special someone?" She tries to illicit some answer of whether if her daughter has a crush on someone. It's something that many mothers do when their daughters have a crush or fallen in love with someone.

"Actually, both tickets belong to you," Lexy replied.

"What!?" both parents become surprised.

"Are you sure about that Lexy?" the mother asked. "I mean, it's something that you won by yourself."

"True…" said the daughter. "But, I think that you'll put it to great use. After all, you both worked so hard and I love you both as you two are the best parents any girl can ever have."

"Thank you. I really appreciate it." Nicole thanks her daughter as she hugs her, smiling as she appreciates the kind thought her daughter has. Richard did the same thing as Nicole, feeling appreciated for having a daughter that love him too.

After the tender moment of hugging, Lexy departs to her own room as she moved on to doing her own things along with her siblings. With Lexy having exited the room, the parents are left with privacy.

"Richard, we're going to have another honeymoon…" the mother squeals with excitement as she leans onto her husband. Having their private vacation will reignite the romantic mood they had since honeymoon, before they even have children and start having family.

"Well, I guess that you don't have to be on the internet, searching for a vacation to go to," said Richard. He stated exactly what Nicole was doing while using the desktop computer.

"Yeah…" said Nicole. "You could say that." The mother confirmed that her husband's deduction, one of his rare moments. He usually doesn't catch up to his surrounding too quickly as he's usually distracted or preoccupied with his own activities like watching television, reading books (or comic books), playing videogames, anything people typically do at home. He essentially stays in home and doesn't do much in comparison to any of his family members.

Coincidentally, Lexy had won them two tickets, nulling Nicole's reason to browse for vacation plans through the internet. But thanks to their daughter's kindness and consideration, the two lovers will be having an adventure in their lifetime as they delve in the private world of serenity and passionate love.

Some moment later, Lexy is seen watching some cartoon with her siblings. The brothers, being Gumball the male blue cat in light brown sweater and gray trouser and Darwin the legged goldfish with socks, are lying on the couch with bored expression. Although that Gumball and Lexy are twins born from the same parents, Lexy resembles the most to her mom. And on the floor are the girls, being Lexy herself and her little sister, Anais the small pink rabbit in orange dress with white rim and white socks. The cartoon they are watching is an animated music video about two equine characters that are momentarily cast away in a desert island, trying to make the best of their vacation despite of its change of plan. The music video lasted for about three minutes or less.

"Well, that was quite soothing," said Darwin as he seems to like the music video.

"Yeah," said Anais. "I like how the mastermind behind this project arranged words. It is ingenuous and well-paced."

"Yeah," said Gumball. "I got to agree that it is both soothing and well-paced with upbeat tropical feels. Speaking of 'tropical,' it makes me thing of vacation for some reason."

"Yeah…" said Lexy. "Someone will be having a nice time…"

As soon as the pink cat has spoken her line, the blue cat quickly catches on.

"Didn't you have those two tickets to some seven-day worth of exotic vacation in a tropical paradise at the middle of the ocean?" Gumball asked.

"Yeah…"

"And where is it…"

The two younger siblings have their attention caught on to the cat twins' conversation.

"Oh, I gave it to our parents."

"You could have given it to me," the eldest brother replied with a straight face. "I could use it to…"

"Take me to some wild adventures in some tropical islands?" said Darwin with excitement.

"No. Take someone else out to have seven-day romance." The blue cat added ambiguity or mystery of who his crush is.

"Hurr," the goldfish pouts.

"What? I love her. And I want to be more romantic with her!" The identity of the person Gumball has crush on is confirmed to be a girl.

"But what about…"

"Your bro-time?" asked Anais with an uninterested face. "Forget that! The point is that mom and dad had been doing everything for us and it should be time for us to return the favor."

Gumball and Darwin thinks about it for a moment.

"Yeah," said Gumball. "You're right. They do deserve the tickets more than any one of us can deserve. That's why we will just figure of some other thing to do."

"Thank you for being so understanding," said Lexy as she hugged her older brother.

"No problem," the whole Watterson siblings hug each other tenderly.

With the parents having tickets to exotic vacation place, how do you all like it so far? Are there any grammar problems, conceptual errors, anything that needs fixing? Please comment on the review box down below or even PM me. As you can see, this story will be at best, true to "canon" with Nicole being bipedal blue cat and everyone being the same usual selves as they are originally depicted in the TAWOG television series.
Also, Gumball have a different mystery crush. And she will be introduced on the next episode. I repeat, the mystery crush will be different from what any of you will expect. So stay hype and stay tune as this romance continues on. After all, this chapter is just only a beginning.
A moment of "random" fun fact: December, January, and February are winter months in the Northern Hemisphere and summer months in the Southern Hemisphere. This means that while it may be winter in United States, United Kingdom, and some other places up North; it's also summer in Australia and some countries down south. And Elmore could be anywhere, who-knows-what. It could be in Australia as far as we're concerned or some obscure settlement. Just something I like to share for you fans.