Hello everybody! This is NRG-OVA-9000, presenting you with yet another chapter of Nicole x Richard romance fiction. But this time... well, they're getting warm-up for more romantical adventure. Just read it; it's sweet and tender, and also somewhat funny as I do want to add humor into it. Although that this primarily focus on Nicole and Richard's romance, there will be a some side-story or subplot. Anyway, enjoy the show.
Also, original concepts belong to Ben Bocquelet and Cartoon Network. And the basic storyboard ideas and the conceptualization of this project belongs to lexboss, fellow fan-fiction author, along with her OCs Lexy Watterson and Lucy Jackson.
And also, Happy New Year! XD. Hope you all have the great year of 2015! And good luck with your new year resolutions!
7-Day Romance in Exotic Vacation
Day 1: The Departure
The next day, Nicole and Richard are packing their luggage into their bright yellow station wagon with wooden brown horizontal stripe. The parents are seen in their vacation attire with Richard wearing a fisherman hat, red open shirt, and blue short while Nicole is wearing her same business attire. While they are packing for their vacation, Nicole has a moment with Lexy and her friend, Lucy Jackson. Lucy is a female white cat wearing blue shirt and black skirt.
"Well," said Nicole. "Your dad and I will be leaving to vacation. And I entrust you girls to take care of our house and your siblings."
The two girls gasp as they bend their knees with both hands near their chin. From the look of their face, they're elated to have authority in the Watterson residence while they're gone.
"Us you say?" the two girls asked.
"Yes, you two," said the mother. "I mean, you're the most responsible people that I can afford to take care of the house and the kids."
"What!" the three siblings protest. Mostly, Gumball is the one who protest the most.
"What is it?" asked Nicole as she already sensed her children's protest with her extrasensory "mother sense."
"You're… basically going to give them the authority in this house?" Gumball asked with a somewhat confused expression.
"Yep," the mother gave out a straight forward answer. "These girls will be having the authority in the house."
"You said the girls will be having authority in the house?" Anais asked with a sheepish expression. She hoped to somehow trick her mother into giving her the authority over her older brothers.
"Nope. Just Lexy and Lucy. Nice try, Anais."
"What?" the little girl protests. "But…"
"We're responsible!" Gumball butts in.
"You have no idea of what responsibility is, do you?" said the mother.
"Yeah… we do! It's whatever you do." The blue cat boy responded with a weak answer.
"Yeah… no! You sometimes destroyed our house and even some other places."
"For my defense…"
"NO!" the mother become super serious.
"For starter, I wasn't as irresponsible and destructive as these boys," said Anais.
"But you're a baby," Nicole make mention to her age. "And you just need to wait a few more years to grow up in order to have the role of responsibility."
Anais mutters something in a disappointed manner so quietly that nobody can hear that.
"I heard that. And no cursing!"
"But I didn't do anything!" The little girl defended herself.
"Don't underestimate my super senses!" said Nicole.
To make mockery of her super sense, she merely just moves her mouth. Absolutely no vocalization is heard.
"You wanna be ground?" asked Nicole.
"No, mom," Anais quickly become submissive as she sense the fearsomeness of her mom.
"Good." The mother returns to her cheerful mood. "Now, we will be going. So Lexy and Lucy, take care of the house and the kids!"
"Okay!" the two older girls replied.
As the vacation goers' luggage are in the trunk of the station wagon, Nicole is seated on the driver's seat on her left and Richard is seated on the passenger's seat on her right. With everything set to go, Nicole started the engine and drives off.
With the parents off the scene, the two girls look at each other smiling as they are generating some awesome plans to spend their week of summer without parents being in the house. Anais is sits down with a subtle sense of defeat. And the brothers sensing something ominous from the sisters, they nod each other, planning to make a quick run out of it.
In a split second, the boys just sprint off the scene. The two girls quickly noticed them running away.
"Oh…" said Lucy. "We got ourselves some runners. After them!" The white cat smiles gleefully as she loves the thrill of chasing some prey.
"Wait!" said Lexy. "What about Anais? She can't be here alone in the house and she can't catch up with us." The eldest daughter showed concern for her little sister.
"Ah what!" said Anais. "Screw this whole thing. I'll just watch freaking Daisy in the living room."
"Language!" Lexy scolded.
"But I…"
"And you're still coming with us!" Lexy had already prepared the baby carrier backpack with extra reinforcement as to not let the child loose from it. The pink cat quickly catches up with maternal responsibility, which her mother has.
"Ohh… sh…" The scene cuts off Anais' brief statement.
Later, Nicole and Richard have already arrived at Elmore Wings, the city-owned airline service that takes them to anywhere. More so, the couple is already seated on their assigned seating, with two of them filled up on one aisle on the left side. There are seven seating for each row: two on the left, three on the middle, and two on the right. On the space between the left-and-middle and right-and-middle are two walkways for airline stewards and stewardesses to walk around and provide the passengers drinks, snacks, and anything to make them feel comfortable. Richard is seated on the far left, seeing the airport outside the window. Nicole is seated on right next to her husband. This is a fortunate seating arrangement for the two as they are able to have their private moment with a convenient curtain blinds designed to ensure undisturbed rest.
Luckily for the two, they have already gone through many of the airline's administrative processes to ensure safe travel and some other international policies. Aside from that, a lot of vacation goers are excited to go to a seven-day exotic vacation in tropical islands, situated in the middle of the vast ocean. Especially for the couple, Nicole is slightly shaking as she is squealing with excitement from her inside. Richard is staring intently outside, wanting to see the magical ride through the sky.
"Ohh…" said Nicole with excitement. "I can't wait to be on the tropical island in the middle of the ocean!"
"Same here!" said Richard. The fat rabbit is staring outside of the window.
"Umm… What are you doing?"
"Looking out of the window. Eventually, we can see Elmore in an aerial view. Then, we can see what surrounds Elmore. Seeing clouds as if they're islands made of white cotton. And finally, we will see the tropical islands in aerial view." The man has prepared himself with a photography camera.
"I see. But, the airplane didn't lift off. It won't be until…"
"The departure time is at 4:30 p.m. Our tickets said so."
"But right now isn't 4:30. It's around 5:00."
Later, an awkward silence breaks between the two. Then all of the sudden, Nicole breaks out with impatience.
"What the freak is going on out there! I mean what's taking him so long? Why with the sudden delay on our departure time!" The cat lashes out as she is not content with the flight delay."
"Honey, it'll be okay." Richard tries to soothe his wife as he pet her head softly and lightly. His wife is still growling, but is growing less. It is becoming a calmer and soother purr.
"There, there. Does this feel nice?" The rabbit is caressing the cat's face.
"Yeah..." said Nicole as she returned to her normal state. "Sorry about that. It's just that..."
"Shh..." The husband hushes his wife. "You don't have to say anymore. You have been working too hard and you're so anxious to have a nice relaxing vacation."
"Yeah. That's all. It been a vary long while since we could even have our lovely moments together. The long time of having to assume responsibility as a family breadwinner had made me forgot what it means to be relaxed."
"Yeah. Sorry about that. It's my fault that we couldn't have a peaceful family life in Elmore with some of the craziest antics we did along with some consequences they have."
"Yeah... It's alright. I don't mind too much about these wild adventures anymore. In fact, I sort of enjoy these moment. But still, I just want to experience it in a more unrestrained way. I mean, remember our youth, when we were so carefree?"
"Yeah... I still love these moment. these time were my golden age."
"Yeah..." Nicole is reminiscing their time of youth with a near-mournful mood. She really missed the time due to her workaholic mindset having some toll on her well-being. "Too bad that time had moved on quickly. Today in Elmore, we are now adults, having responsibilities to withheld along with the city's law. It's not like that we can do the same thing that Gumball, Lexy, Darwin, and Anais do. We're are now their parents and we need to make sure that they don't get into too much trouble."
"What are you talking about? Of course that we can have all these fantastic escapades! It just that we just let ourselves feel that way. And for me, well... youth is one of the many things that I refuse to let go off as doing so will be the same as letting go of my love for you." Richard make a romantic comment of retaining his youth being like keep loving his dream girl, being Nicole herself.
"Aww..." Nicole's eyes widen with sparkles. She is touched by Richard's brief statement to her.
"After all, I am Peter Pan. And you're my Wendy Darling. Now, let us fly to the Neverland, a magical island faraway from the world where nobody will grow old and everybody can relive their childhood for a long while."
"You really love Peter Pan, do you?" Their romantic moment is tensing up.
"Yep. He's not just my personal hero, but is also a living icon, a symbol that I aspire for!" Richard has stated his great opinion on the legendary child hero that never ages and can fly freely.
As the two lovers gaze into each others' eyes, their heads had tilted toward each other. Then, their faces are approaching closer to one another. With their lips getting closer to each others, almost touching, the electronics in the plane suddenly starts up with announcement speaker having activated.
"Hello!" said the pilot's voice. "And sorry for the delay in our flight. Now that I'm here, we're ready to fly off! So, enjoy your travel with our complimentary dinner. And as always, thank you for choosing Elmore Wings, where it can get you to anywhere!"
The announcement ended with the vacation goers that had been seated for long time cheered. Strangely, this happens at the precise timing Nicole and Richard were about to have a tender loving moment with a lip-to-lip kissing.
"Yay!" Richard cheered. "the flight is starting!"
"Hmmphh..." Nicole pouts, disappointed twice in a row. First time was the departure delay. And second time, the pilot has arrive right at their romantic moment, effectually killing the mood.
"Hey! Don't worry honey." Richard reassured his wife. "We could continue it at anytime. After all, they don't disturb people while sleeping."
"Alright." Nicole smiles back.
"Plus, this long wait makes me hungry."
"Don't worry. We will get dinner soon."
Richard and Nicole are smiling at each other, loving the shared moment they are having in the plane as their ride is having its departure to the tropical paradise, where the real romance will start.
Meanwhile in Elmore, Lexy and Lucy are eating a generic dinner items: being baked chicken, green vegetables, and hearty white cheesy pasta with dinner roll. By their sides are the two runaway boys they caught and a baby rabbit, who all are eating in a rather grumpy manner. Surprisingly, they had already captured Gumball and Darwin with much efficiency like their torso well tied up to the chair. And Anais is seated on the baby seat with her portions.
Everyone is just eating their dinner alone without any adults in the house. The adult responsibilities have fallen onto the older girls' hands.
"So..." said the white cat. "How's it going?" Lucy stares at Gumball with sharp eyes.
"Fine..." Gumball responded. He tried to maintain his grumpy outlook due to the girls having already ruined his plans. But seeing that his sister's best friend is staring at him intently, he is feeling nervous. "Until you girls have to ruin it."
"What?" said the pink cat. "We were doing the responsible thing!"
After saying that, Lucy was giggling, gesturing her best friend to do the same. But Lexy nodded sideway, refusing to abuse the responsibility that is vested within them both.
"Oh good lordy!" said Anais with a bit of lethargy. "Well, this could be something better than what the boys would do when responsibility falls into their hands." The baby rabbit made a snide remark on her brothers' immaturity. Then, she imagined the hypothetical situation where the brothers are given responsibility over the house, which she pictures them being super violent and destructive toward their family property in the name of her safety, leashed her like a dog, make crappy meal like a joke, and end up flooding the whole house.
Having imagined the catastrophe the older brothers could have done, she shuddered in fear, making her appreciating her mom for bestowing Lexy and Lucy responsibility for the house. They managed to handle the whole ordeal of responsibility well-done with them having prepared well-cooked dinner.
"On second thought..." Anais speaks as she saw the horrid image.
"Hey, don't worry about it," said Lucy as she turns her attention to Anais. "You should thank us. After all, boys can't cook." The white cat snickers. "Or worse, they can't handle responsibility very well."
"Hey!" Gumball protests against the white cat's statement.
"Hey Lucy," said the orange goldfish with a curious face. "I meant to ask this question, but are you going to sleep over in our place."
"Oh heck yeah!" Lucy exclaimed. "After all, I got nothing to do better for summer. And my family is doing something else. I wouldn't want to be there; it'll be boring as hell."
As Gumball heard the white cat's statement while drinking milk, he quickly spit the liquid content at Darwin's face, being surprised.
"Oh, what's wrong? Don't want me to be here?" the white cat asked slyly while doing a provocative yet seductive pose. She just sticks her hip backward, facing toward the blue cat. Naturally, the male cat will be really nervous as the female cat is teasing him.
"Of course not..." said Gumball as he flusters violently in red color. "I wouldn't mind at all. In fact, you may even sleep over in my bedroom with Darwin in Lexy and Anais' room. Ah hahaha..." The older brother laughs crazily as if he is holding off some secret feelings he is having.
"Great!" the white cat was ecstatic to hear Gumball's offer. "I'm excited to be sleeping in the same bed..." Gumball becomes tensed up as she said bed. "...room! Ha! Gotcha! Oh what? Got blocked for a sec?" the white cat continues on with her playful teasing.
Then all of the sudden, the audible ding is heard from the kitchen.
"That's the dessert!" Lucy exclaimed. "I'll get that!"
The white cat gleefully left the scene, only for the whole Watterson family to look at Gumball with a somewhat serious face. They get caught up from a comical drama scene.
"Oh dam!" said Gumball as he is calming himself from the violent flustering of his face. "What will I do?"
"Dude," said Darwin. "You brought it to yourself!"
"Yeah..." said Anais. "Better fest up the truth!"
"What, NO!" Gumball protests with embarrassment.
"They're right," Lexy adds on. "You can't hold it up anymore. You're on that tipping point. Eventually, you just got to tell or otherwise you will never get over it."
"Yeah," said Darwin. "Just tell her the real reason why we ran off, which is to get something romantic for Lucy and confess yourself that you like-like her."
"But I just can't..." the blue cat whines.
"Just do it alright!" Anais pressures him, to which Lexy and Darwin does the same. With Gumball's secret crush for Lucy revealed, he will find himself into a far stickier situation. Not only does Gumball find himself unable to make a move on Lucy, but is also stuck with her sleeping over in his bedroom with him while Darwin will be sleeping with Anais and Lexy. Fortunately for the male cat, the tall white female cat was not in-scene to hear all this.
With the parents in the airplane leaving to the tropical paradise and Gumball struggling with his feelings for Lucy, how do you all like this chapter. Any conceptual mistakes or grammar errors to correct? Please comment me on the review box down below and also PM me to discuss more on generally anything, I guess. As you can see, Gumball's mystery crush is revealed. And I guess that you can call it alternate continuity, with different history. Although that there is reference to some TAWOG episodes like "The Responsible," the scene is just presented as a hypothetical what-if scenario thought out by Anais. So as I said earlier, if any of you fans have any more questions, you can review or PM me and I'll respond it.
And also, thank you for reading this story and stay tune for the next chapter! You'll see the REAL tropical adventure of the two lovers, and even see the subplot on what's going on in Elmore with the kids and their own little adventures.