As the days went by, nothing much had changed. Gumball and Darwin were still listless, still depressed and nobody knew how to snap them out of it. Not even their family could manage to do it. People were starting to get really worried, even the people who didn't really care before were now wondering what was going on with those two. Until one day, about two weeks after the incident. Gumball woke up to Darwin cheerily saying "good morning Gumball!" 'Well, seems like he bounced back.' Gumball thought. He thought two weeks was a little fast to recover from discovering that their entire world was nothing more than an illusion, but Darwin always been the more optimistic one between the two of them, so he didn't think to much of it. When they got back to school, people were happy to see Darwin back to his old self, everyone except Gumball. Darwin's happiness was seriously getting on his nerves. How come Darwin could move on when he couldn't? He was acting like none of what they discovered even mattered. He sat there, stewing in the corner for the rest of class. "Are you ok dude?" Darwin asked. "You look kind of angry, what's going on?" Gumball couldn't take it anymore, he just lost it.

"'What's going on?' Seriously? You have no idea why I'm mad? Look Darwin, maybe you can forget about what happened, but I can't!"

"What are you talking about?" Darwin asked.

"Don't play dumb, you know exactly what I'm talking about."

"No, I really don't."

"You know, the car, the glitches, the show."

"Gumball, what are you talking about? What show?"

"What? You seriously don't remember?"

"Can't say that I do."

"How is that possible? I know we said that we would try and forget about it but I didn't think you would actually forget about it." Suddenly the ramifications of this hit Gumball all at once. Now that Darwin had forgotten all about the TV show, that meant that Gumball had to bear the weight of the knowledge all on his own. "No, no no no no, Darwin you have to remember! There were all these glitches, and we had this big fight, but we made up in the car, but then no one was driving, and we crashed into the mall, and discovered that the glitches were caused by a bad tv signal, and somehow we were affected. Darwin, please try to remember."

"I don't understand Gumball, are you saying that all of Elmore is just a TV show? Are you sure this wasn't just a bad dream?"

"It wasn't a dream, it was real! Or, as real as you can get around here. Oh man, what is going on?" Gumball cried out in desperation before collapsing in the hallway and bursting into tears. Darwin was caught off guard and didn't know what to do. Gumball was clearly upset, he couldn't remember the last time he cried at school, but he still had no memory of what happened and thought that Gumball was going a little nuts.

"Look Gumball, I don't normally say this, but maybe you should talk to someone? Mr. Small maybe?"

"I'm not crazy!" Gumball protested.

"I don't think you're crazy, just that maybe you could use some help, there's nothing wrong with that, you know." Darwin said, although, secretly, he did think Gumball was being a little crazy, I mean, a TV show? How would he have even come up with something like that? Gumball wasn't fooled, he knew Darwin thought he was a little nuts, but what he couldn't figure out was why, Darwin was right next to him for most of it, how could he just forget? Was it possible that he dreamt the entire thing? But then what would Darwin have been upset about during the past two weeks? None of this added up, it wasn't making sense.

"Gumball, maybe you should go home, get some rest?" Darwin said, concerned.

"Darwin, are you sure that you don't remember anything about that day? What about the televisions going haywire, do you remember that?"

"I'm sorry Gumball, I don't remember any of that." Gumball was dismayed. For as long as he could remember Darwin had always been his partner in crime. Whenever there was some sort of adventure, he was always by his side. That was the one good thing about this whole mess, that he was going through it with his best friend, but now that Darwin couldn't remember….

For the first time in a long while, Gumball Watterson was really and truly alone.