Chapter 1: The Club
The clock ticks slowly on the classroom wall, everyone was deciding which club they should join.
They're writing on a piece of paper where various club names are imprinted.
Everyone was having a hard time on which club to join; Gumball on the other hand, have no intention of joining any of it.
Why should i? it's just a waste of my precious time.
"Ok, please pass your papers to me"
Ms. Simian gathered all of the papers and put it on her desk; She read the papers and organized it accordingly for each of the club that were chosen by the students.
"I knew that some of you will not fill this form, well if you thought that was a clever idea… I had a better one"
Ms. Simian smiled and raised the papers that she is holding on her right hand.
"These two thought they can get away with it, not so clever anymore huh? Mr. Watterson and Ms. Fitzgerald"
She slammed their papers back on their sit while still keeping her smile.
"Because you two failed to choose any of the club… I picked a club for both of you!"
The whole class was shocked, and everyone is looking at Gumball and Penny.
They both read their club form, which now had a red ink marked on the same club name.
"Drama Club!?"
They were both surprised and ashamed at the time.
"Well It has the least members, so I decided to enlist both of you; enjoy the rest of your school days"
Ms. Simian laugh maniacally before exiting the room.
After that darn ape left, the class went back to normal; doing things like a normal student would… gossip.
I felt a light tap on my left shoulder, it was her again.
"Let's do our best!"
She did her usual "we can do it" pose, which makes me sick.
Why…? Out of all the people in this room, you were the only one who did the same thing as me; I can't believe that a cheerful girl like you would do that.
If you like playing the game of façade, then I'll join you.
"Yeah, let's do our best"
She gave me a high five, and a way too friendly hug.
The bell rang; end of the school day, and the start of our first club activities.
I went to the faculty to get the key to our club room, Penny insisted that she will come with me, but I said that she should just wait there.
Ms. Simian gave me a forms and stuff, written there are the names of the Drama club member.
"Only the of us?"
"Yes"
"But aren't clubs, supposed to be consisted of more than 4 members?"
She gave me the same answer, almost like saying that this is our punishment for wanting to slack off.
"I'll give you until tomorrow to gather 2 more members, if you fail then I'll call both of your parents here"
"Not a huge deal, i mean… parents? They don't have time for this, so I won't even bother"
"Yes, your parents won't, but what about her? Penny? Are you saying that you're willing to be selfish enough to see her get punished?"
She was right, even though I didn't like her actions, this isn't really her fault that she got dragged into this.
I knew Ms. Simian always had a grudge towards me; even though I knew that, I still decided to play a little trick.
I'm the reason why Penny is stuck here with me; she probably did that because she was tired and didn't wanted to join any of the clubs… and here I am thinking that my doing will probably do no harm.
"Ok then, I'll gather more members before the next club meetings"
"A deal is a deal Mr. Watterson"
She smiled, she knew from that start, after she saw my name on that paper… she already had a plan to make me dig my own grave.
I went back to the hallway, and to the stairs on my way to the club room.
*sniff*
I heard a soft crying sound… was it Penny?
I didn't approach her, I stand there behind the corner of the wall waiting for the crying to stop.
I've never seen this side of her before, what was she hiding behind all those smiles?
The sobbing stopped, but I failed to notice the person who is now beside me.
"When did you got back?"
She smiled, but I can't help to noticed those eyes; It was still red, and for some reason it's here again…
This aching feelings on my chest that I can't get rid of.
"Ah- I just got here; were you crying?"
"No, absolutely not"
"But- never mind"
I let out a sigh and unlocked the room.
"Shall we?"
I said before sliding the door open
*crash*
The inside of the club room is trashed, and everything is messy; dust and spider webs everywhere.
"I think we should start cleaning first"
I said, I tried not to look at her.
"Hey, it's fine don't worry"
She smiled like this is nothing, she smiled like nothing happened; well I guess this club suits us, A club where we act, a place where you have to be somebody else.
"Right"
We both went inside the room, and as we walk into this room, with windows covered with dusty curtains; it happened, she tripped over a box and fell on her back.
"Are you ok?"
"Yes"
I gave her a hand, that was my first time touching a woman's hand other than my mom.
I quickly let go of it, and she fell on her back again.
"Ah sorry"
"It's ok, don't worry"
She tried to stand up by grabbing the unstable box on her left side.
"Oh wait, no!" *Crash*
I managed to cover her with my body, luckily the box only had papers in it.
"Are you alright?"
She didn't respond to my question; I was confused why, not until I realized that I was on top of her, with both of my hands on the floor.
Her face went red, and she quickly pushed me back.
"I'm really, really sorry"
I apologized, and she gave me a little nod; we continued cleaning the room, but not a single word were spoken after that incident.
AHHH! And I'm finally done with chapter 1, did you guys like it? I hope so. See you guys on the next chapter
Note: I tried doing 3rd person perspective, but I think 1st person is my forte.