Chapter 2: Return
"I love you Gumball, I always have…"
"I…" then Gumball froze.
Gumball looked up, afraid he had hurt Darwin by stopping. He didn't know what to say…he wanted to tell him the truth, but the only problem was…he didn't quite know what the truth was. He glanced back down at the small seventeen year old. Who was sniffling and burying his face in Gumball's chest.
"Darwin I-"
Darwin lifted his head and stared at Gumball knowingly, "I understand…it's okay. I knew that this would happen like this anyways…"
Gumball frowned, but set his forehead on Darwin's, "I…might have a small crush…on you." Gumball whispered.
Darwin smiled and leaned forwards, eyelids drooping over his green eyes, "That means so much…"
Gumball's gasp got cut off as Darwin's soft lips pressed against his. He smiled, when he finally recovered from his shock…he returned the kiss eagerly. Gumball slowly felt himself push Darwin to the ground, and laid on top of the orange haired boy. Darwin moaned and wrapped his arms around Gumball's waist, pressing them together. Gumball pulled away for air, and grinned cockily.
"Let's go upstairs…" Gumball said.
Darwin blushed and agreed, "Yeah, no more table."
They separated and crawled out from beneath the table. They put the food back into the fridge and soon left the kitchen, up to their room. Gumball sat on the bottom bunk of their bed, and Darwin stood awkwardly, blushing and rubbing his arm. Gumball reached out and grabbed Darwin's wrist, then softly pulled him towards himself…and onto his lap. Darwin blushed and looked again. Gumball smiled and kissed his forehead, while the younger boy was distracted he flipped them over, Gumball laying on top of Darwin once again. Darwin blinked then looked up at the boy above himself and smiled, which Gumball returned. Darwin wrapped his legs -ever so slowly- around Gumball's waist, causing the said boy's eyes to widen. They shared a passionate kiss, and Darwin licked Gumball's bottom lip, silently asking for him to open his mouth. Gumball obeyed, and gripped Darwin's hips tightly.
Darwin felt Gumball slide his dark green tee off of his head, leaving Darwin only in swim trunks and boxers, and Gumball fully dressed. Darwin pulled back in shock, and looked at Gumball, who was starting to sweat as he grit his teeth. Darwin raised an eyebrow, and Gumball nodded eagerly. Darwin smiled slowly and gripped the bottom of Gumball's shirt, and his finger tips brushed the exposed skin of Gumball's waist, causing the blue eyed boy to shiver. Darwin chuckled and pulled Gumball's shirt over his head and tossed it on the floor. Gumball -almost immediately- pressed their bodies together while kissing Darwin hungrily. Darwin scrapped his nails down Gumball's back, causing Gumball to do something he had never, never in his life time, do. Purr, while arching his back in response. The purr vibrated through their lips and Darwin had to stop himself from giggling…but failed horribly.
Gumball pulled back and he eyed Darwin -who was giggling like a school girl, "What?" he hissed, but he failed to add the venom into the words 'cause of his purring.
"Y-you…just…purred! You've never purred before! It's…cute." Darwin gasped.
Gumball blushed, beads of sweat crawling across his forehead, "Thanks…" he purred and shifted off of Darwin, while wrapping his arms around the smaller boys waist.
Darwin shivered, "Only telling you the truth…"
Gumball continued purring, vibrating through the bed. Gumball lightly licked Darwin's ear lobe, "Night…Darwin." He whispered, still purring.
"Night Gumball." Darwin whispered before closing his eyes, preparing for the up coming day of school.
~Next Day~
Gumball-who's still purring-groans, and nuzzles into something warm. He slowly opens his eyes and see's a orange blob in front of his face, he blinks and tries to clear his vision. When his eyes adjust to the light in the room he ignores the annoying beeping of his alarm clock, and realizes that it is Darwin's hair that's tickling his nose. He grins and hugs the sleeping boy tighter, pressing his chest against Darwin's warm back. Finally his purring disappears and the room is almost completely silent, all but the alarm clock and Darwin's quiet breathing. Gumball grumbles and sits up, turning the alarm clock off and standing up. He turned and shook Darwin awake.
Darwin opens his eyes slowly, only to see the blurry form of Gumball's face. He smiles as Gumball stops shaking him. The blue haired boy leans forwards and plants a soft kiss on Darwin's nose. This caused Darwin to giggle, and blush.
"Time to get ready for school," Gumball said. "I'm gonna take a cold shower." He hissed and his ears dropped.
Just about everyone knew that Gumball hated showers, water in general, but he absolutely hated cold ones. Which, just about every morning a guy had to take, "Okay…I'll go next." Darwin giggled at Gumball's tone.
Gumball rolled his eyes, "What eves, I'll try not to make a mess this time." He looked down and blushed, grabbing his fluffed up tail.
"Why's your tail do that? It was like that all night." Darwin asked looking at the boy in front of him, who was trying to smooth the fur down.
Gumball blushed and looked up, "Ugh…it does that when…never mind." He then scurried out of the room, grabbing a pair of jeans and his famous turtle neck.
Darwin chuckled and got up, shuffling around the room for new pants and a shirt. He soon found a light green tee, and dark wash jeans. He rolled them into a wad of clothes and found a towel, how old it was, he didn't know. He sat down and waited for Gumball to finish his shower. He blushed and closed his eyes tightly when a image of Gumball in the shower flashed through his mind. He sighed and looked at his feet. When Gumball entered their room he stood and smiled, while he walked out and into the bathroom. Now, unlike Gumball, Darwin lovedthe water, he was part fish anyways.
After both boys took their separate showers, they ate breakfast, then left with Gumball's younger sister, Anais. They stood awkwardly at the bus stop, Anais eyeing the two boys curiously. Gumball glances over at Darwin then Anais, who caught him and raised an eyebrow. Gumball just looked away while a light blush formed on his cheeks. When the bus arrived the three of them sighed, and climbed aboard the bus.
Gumball and Darwin walked away from their lockers in science. They both kept giving each other small smiles and quiet giggles. Tina walked in front of the two giggling boys and put her hand on Gumball's chest, causing him to stop walking. He glared at the nineteen year old girl, who had bright yellow-green eyes and dark green hair, sharp razor teeth and a T-Rex tail. Her small claws poked Gumball's chest when she said.
"Where you two off to? You need to give me some…" she then tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Food! Where's your lunch?"
"Uh…at the lunch room…where we buy lunch. Duh. Now move out of the way plea-"
"Fine…give me your food at lunch. Or else…" Then the beautiful T-Rex snickered while walking away.
"Or else what?" Darwin asked Gumball, who just shrugged in response.
The two boys continued their journey to the lunch room to hang with their friends. They soon entered and found the group of boys Gumball had named the previous night. Gumball wandered over to his admirer, Alan. The boy had bright teal hair that could be as smooth and shiny as a balloon.
"Hey Gumball!" Alan greeted happily.
"Hey Alen…"
"ALAN! Get it right Gumball…" He chuckled, Gumball had always gotten the boy's name wrong.
"Yeah yeah…you know I'll never remember it," Gumball watched as Darwin made his way over to Tobias.
"Gumball…you okay? Your tail is fluffing up again." Banana Joe asked behind Gumball.
Gumball mumbled angrily as he smoothed his stupid emotional tail. "Yeah…everything's fine."
Gumball turned around and saw the giggling blonde boy that wore a banana hair clip and a yellow zip-up hoodie. "What's up?"
"Oh you know…" Then he broke into one of the blondes random laughing fits. He lay on the floor, clutching his stomach as tears trailed down his face.
"O…kay then." Gumball said, mainly to himself. The cat boy turned and froze in place as he watched Tobias and Darwin talk.
Darwin said something and Tobias's face dropped, looking strange with his dark skin and rainbow hair. He then grinned that stupid grin of his and waited for Darwin to turn around so he could pinch the fishes ass. Darwin jumped and looked at the rainbow boy strangely. Gumball growled and is ears flattened. His muscles flexed ready pounce on the stupid rainbow boy, when he saw said boy kiss Darwin's cheek, causing Darwin to blink a few times. Just enough for the cat to pounce.
Gumball growled and pounced over Darwin and onto Tobias, who gasped when the feline scratched his cheek with his retractable claws, leaving a bloody claw mark in it's place. The two tousled and finally it got worse than just clawing and name calling. Gumball laid on the cold tiles as Tobias cradled his waist and sent punches at Gumball's face. Gumball hissed and tossed rainbow-child off of himself then tackled Tobias. Gumball punched Tobias in the gut a few times before Darwin's and their friends voices broke through their fight.
"Gumball! Stop it!" Darwin wailed.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" The others chanted.
"I bet on…Gumball." Alan said to Banana Joe.
"I bet on Tobias!" BJ replied back.
Gumball had stopped to listen for far to long as Tobias punched him in the jaw, sending him flying into Darwin. They fell in a heap on the floor, Gumball groaned and whimpered while he finally felt the wounds Tobias had given him, that he had ignored in the bliss of fighting. Darwin gasped and touched Gumball's forehead which was now bearing a deep cut, definitely from a knife or blade.
"Gumball…?" Darwin whimpered as he pulled Gumball's head onto his lap…rather than his shoulder.
Gumball only moaned and hissed in pain.
Darwin looked up at Tobias, who smiled wickedly. "Why did you do that?" Darwin asked Gumball.
"Mew…" Was Gumball's only response, just a small mew that sounded like it came from a kitten.
On a other occasion Darwin would have giggled or smiled, but this time he only frowned. "He deserved it. He tackled me first! I was only using self-defense!" Tobias shouted angrily at their teacher, Ms. Simian.
"Uh, hu. GET TO CLASS NOW! ALL BUT YOU THREE!" Ms. Simian shouted, pointing at Darwin, Gumball and Tobias. All students nodded and scrambled out of the room.
Gumball slowly opened his eyes and saw Darwin, that made him smile immediately. He blinked several times before sitting up, and looking at Tobias, and Ms. Simian. He glared at Tobias, who just returned the favor with a snicker. Gumball scooted away from the cute green eyed boy's lap and sat next to him instead. Gumball rubbed his hand across his burning forehead and his eyes widened when he saw his hand covered in fresh blood. He inwardly groaned, and wiped in off and onto his blue jeans, leaving a dark red stain.
"Why did you two get into a fight?" Ms. Simian asked angrily.
"I don't know! He pounced me for no reason!" Tobias snarled.
"And why would he do that?" Ms. Simian rolled her eyes and they landed on Gumball, a daring look flickered across them.
"He…he pinched Darwin's butt!" Gumball defended the smaller boy.
"…Tobias, is that true?" Ms. Simian asked the rainbow haired boy.
"Yes…his ass is just so…so perfect!" He smiled evilly.
Darwin looked over to Gumball, and saw that the older boy was going to pounce again. So he grabbed Gumball's arm and when the blue haired boy looked at him, he shook his head no. Gumball groaned and sat down. Darwin and the two bloody boys sighed and gave bored expressions as Ms. Simian yelled her ugly head off at them. Then a thought struck Darwin like a ton of bricks, as Gumball gagged and coughed.
"Ms. Simian! Do you not notice that Gumball and Tobias both are bleeding and getting paler by each moment you yell at them?!" Darwin shouted, thrusting his fists into the air. "They need to be brought to the nurses office pronto!"
Ms. Simian just stared at Darwin, jaw slack. "Well, now that you do mention it…yes, Darwin get Gumball to the nurses office and I'll go bandage Tobias up until then…" She said and pulled Tobias out of the room.
Darwin frowned and looked over to Gumball who was currently looking lost at the moment, "Gumball…let's go." Darwin said and stood. He reached out and pulled a shocked Gumball off the floor.
"Okay…sorry Darwin. I just…" D```arwin shushed him with his finger against his lips.
"It's okay…just-Gumball? You okay?" Darwin asked, tossing Gumball's arm around his shoulder for support, as the blue haired boy rocked.
"Uh…wha-?" He asked, closing his eyes and groaning.
Darwin sighed and headed towards the nurses office.
Gumball was passed out the rest the day, all the way until lunch. Darwin was pretty lonely at the time being. He sighed and stared into his glob of "food" , poking and prodding it with his fork. He was scared out of his mind when Gumball started coughing up blood. He hopped the older boy would be okay, and that they could do their annual "feeding each other their food" thing. Darwin groaned and pushed his dish away, and laid his forehead on the cool table.
"What's wrong with you?" He heard Carrie's familiar voice behind him.
"Nothing…." He moaned.
"Uh….like I believe that. Pft, come on tell me! I'm a close friend. Where's Gumball?" She laughed.
"Nurses office." Darwin said glumly.
"Oh no. What'd he do this time?" The ghost girl asked floating over by Darwin.
"He attacked Tobias, who fought back. I think he had a knife or something 'cause Gumball had a deep gash on his forehead." Darwin said.
"Why'd he do that? I mean, I know he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he hates Tobias…but…It's not like him." she said.
"He attacked Tobias because…Tobias, he uh…" Darwin blushed. "Pinched my bum…"
Carrie stared at Darwin before cracking up. When the pale girl calmed down she spoke, "He did! Ha! But…why would Gumball do something like that for that reason?"
"Um…no idea." Darwin blushed but hid it by putting his head on the table again.
"Hey is that…no way." Carrie said to herself.
Darwin looked at the white haired girl with a confused look, "Who are you talking about?"
Carrie grinned widely, "Hey Penny! Come over here!"
Darwin's eyes widened and he followed Carrie's gaze, and sure enough. There was the brown haired girl with hazel eyes and moose like antlers. Penny looked over at the table they were sitting at and ran over to it. Not every friend of Gumball's knew about Penny, so they still thought she was perfect little miss innocent.
She plopped onto the bench attached to the table, and smiled sweetly. "Hey Carrie, and Darwin! OMG you've grown so much! How are you?" She turned her gaze and smile on Darwin.
"Umm…Thanks? Good I guess…" He smiled a very forced smile. He hated Penny now, ever since she broke Gumball's heart.
"That's good! How bout you Carrie?" She glanced at the ghost.
"Oh I'm great! How bout you?" She replied happily.
"Good, as always of course!" Penny giggled.
Darwin scoffed, which made Penny and Carrie look at him. "Sorry, something in my…uh throat!" He lied.
"Okay Then…" They chimed.
Just then Gumball decided he'd come into the lunch room. Darwin immediately turned panicked. Gumball went through the lunch line quickly and quickly walked over to Darwin, looking agitated.
He sat down on the other side of Darwin and smiled warmly, not yet seeing Penny. "Hey Darwin! Sorry I was late…nurses office," He pointed at the bandage around his forehead, ears swiveling.
"It's…fine." Darwin replied, noticing Penny's staring at Gumball.
"Hey Gummypuss," Penny giggled.
"Hey…" Gumball said, looking at his food with disgust.
"Hello…? It would be nice if you'd look at me." Penny said.
Gumball looked up and Darwin could completely see the ice take over his whole body, considering how he froze in place, staring at Penny. Darwin could also see the tears threatening to fall, that made Darwin angry.
"You've gotten so much taller and so much more muscle! You're actually pretty cute now…" Penny said.
Gumball blinked and he stared at Penny with a shock expression, which she giggled at. Darwin couldn't help but narrow his eyes at the brunette. Had she just called Gumball cute after not seeing him for what? Four years now? And after trying to kill him?
"Are you going to talk or…?" Penny rolled her eyes playfully.
Gumball slowly turned his gaze to the lunch room doors and to the table. He slowly moved his legs out from under the bench and sat for a few seconds, acting like nothing was up. But he then jolted up and bolted -faster than anyone had ever seen Gumball run- out of the doors, leaving his lunch behind.
"What did I do?" Penny asked Darwin.
Darwin just glared at her, "Don't act so innocent Penny." He then stood and picked both his and Gumball's tray's up, and dumped them, before looking for his crush/boyfriend.
He knew that when he found Gumball that it'd be a very broken Gumball.