Hello, everyone. Here I am with chapter two of this story.

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Since there is not much more to be added, here it is. Enjoy!

"Huh?" Gumball called out confusedly, feeling something in his shirt.

After taking it off, he looked inside it, only to discover that there was a piece of paper in there. It was apparently one of the things that had fallen down on him when he was in the basement.

"Oh, it's just a piece of paper," he said nonchalantly, but just as he was about to get a bin to throw it away, he noticed something on it.

His mother's handwriting.

So apparently, it was some sort of a letter.

This was what got Gumball curious. It wasn't exactly often that he came across letters written by his mother, so he wondered if he might as well read this one, thinking it wouldn't matter too much to him. He then looked at the inner side of the bathroom door, actually thinking about the outside.

After two seconds of thinking, he decided:

"Oh, well." After all, his showering would only be postponed for a few minutes.

So he started reading it.

Dear caretakers,

Hold on. Already these first two words threw Gumball on a surface of confusion. "Huh?" he said to himself.

But he kept reading.

this cute little cat is called Gumball. He is only a few months old, but he already looks like he could do so much in his life. Unfortunately, due to our current situation, we are no longer capable of taking care of him.

"Wait a second," Gumball thought to himself, beginning to get vividly shocked from reading this, "What?"

We were sure we would be ready for this. We thought we had everything planned out. However, it did not turn out almost at all the way we thought it would. Too many unpredicted things got in the way, and the situation we ended up in isn't one we can handle right now.

This was where Gumball started to lose balance. He hoped that this was just a joke, a prank of some sort, but deep, deep down, he knew it was not. He always knew his family had financial difficulties, but not only was he never aware that it was this difficult for them, it also only now crossed his mind that those difficulties may not only have been financial. That, in fact, he might have been a cause of the family's hardships. Even back when he was mere months old.

We are hereby leaving Gumball over to you, in hopes that you will treat him better than we did.

We're sorry.

This was where the letter ended.

No signature, of course.

After finishing reading this letter, Gumball just stared at it. In utter disbelief. Not making a sound. He couldn't yet bring himself to admit it, but he knew he would, in a matter of mere minutes. He lifted his look up from the letter to look at the bathroom door again, just trying to put himself in the position his mother was in when he was just a baby.

And then, it flew inside his head.

And his heart broke.

Bursting into tears, it was now the only thing he would be able to think about for a while.

"They were gonna abandon me?"

Well, that concludes chapter two. Sorry for the short chapter. Hopefully, it was emotional. If otherwise, please let me know. Before going into the consequences of this heartbreaking discovery, the next chapter will dig into how Nicole and Richard handled taking care of Gumball back when he was just a baby, that they decided to draw such a move. Until then, leave reviews. See you!