Chapter 4: A Caring Wolf

(A few minutes later)

(School Hallway)

Gumball was walking to his new class after he got split up with the others to get to Endo's office. Once he got to the classroom, he saw a female dark blue furred wolf sitting in front of the classroom door. Gumball walked up to her and greeted her.

Gumball: Hi there!

?: Oh, hi.

Gumball: Um.. what's your name?

Christine: My name's Christine. But you can call me CJ. What's yours?

Gumball: My name's Gumball. Nice to meet you.

Gumball smiled and put out his hand to shake hands but the wolf turned her head away facing downwards. Feeling a bit awkward, Gumball put down his hand.

Gumball: So uh.. what are you doing here?

Christine: I'm the new student here.

Gumball: Oh, me too.

Christine: Really?

Gumball: Yeah. But I got a history here.

Christine: Oh, so you're used to the surroundings already I guess?

Gumball: You could say that.

Christine: By the way, your singing was lovely just now.

Gumball: Heh, thanks. So, where were you from?

Christine: Um,.. I came fro-

Suddenly, a leopard popped his head out of the classroom door. It was Mr. Baxwell.

Mr. Baxwell: Alright, you can come in now.

Both Gumball and Christine went inside and stood in front of an entire class.

Mr. Baxwell: Okay, students. These are your new classmates. Please introduce yourselves.

Gumball: Hi, guys. My name's Gumball Watterson. If you don't know, I was the guy singing earlier today.

Everyone started cheering excitedly as he finished.

Mr. Baxwell: Class, quiet down. We're not done yet. What about you, young lady?

Christine: My name's Christine Jackson. I came from Florida. And, um.. I'm a bit shy.

Mr. Baxwell: Alright, thank you, Gumball and Christine. Now, please sit wherever you want. Then again, there's only two seats empty, so pick which one.

Gumball went and sat next to Darwin at the middle while Christine sat in front of Gumball.

Mr. Baxwell: Okay, now that The new students have introduced themselves and Ivan apologised about what he did the other day, let's start the class.

(Lunchtime)

Gumball walked into the new cafeteria and saw a bunch of students there. It took him awhile to find his friends sitting at the side of the cafeteria.

Gumball: Hey, guys.

Dante: You got lost finding us, didn't you?

Gumball: Well, you could say that.

Darwin: Don't worry, we all got lost the first time we walked in here. Literally.

Gumball: Well, I feel better already.

Ivan: So what happened for the past four years?

Gumball: Uh... I uhh..

Cato: Gumball. What did you do?

Gumball: Nothing actually. I was just hiding.

Lexy: Would you be surprised if we told you you were innocent the entire time?

Gumball: What?!

Amber: Dude, you were innocent. We, as in Ivan and Bobert, proved your innocence the day after you ran off.

Ivan: And some of us really took it hard at first. You know who I'm talking about.

Gumball: Carrie.

Ivan: Bingo.

Kelsey: She was really sad when you left.

Darwin: Well, sadder than ever, so to speak. Even worse than before you two were a thing.

Gumball: Well, where is she now?

Jake: No clue. She disappeared after the performance. If you wanna make it up to her, better do it as fast as you can.

Gumball: I hope so. Guess I ran away for no reason then.

Anna: Well, in technically it wasn't entirely your fault. You didn't know you were innocent.

Gumball: Yeah, but still.. DAMMIT!

Gumball smashed the table in anger self consciously thinking he was an idiot for not thinking well.

Darwin: Um.. maybe we should leave you alone. C'mon guys.

Everyone left to give Gumball some space to think. He started regretting whatever he did for the past four years wishing that he could go back to that day and change it for the better.

Gumball: What the hell have I done?

Gumball put his hands on his face and cried a little, not knowing that someone was talking to him.

Christine: Gumball? Gumball.

Gumball: Huh, what?

Christine: Are you okay? You look down for your first day in school.

Gumball: Nah, I'm fine.

Christine: Okay, um.. mind if I sit here?

Gumball: *sigh* Sure.

Christine: If I'm bothering, then I guess I don't need to..

Gumball: Nah, I insist. I need someone to talk to anyway.

Christine: Okay.

Christine sat in front of the 16 year old cat putting her scrapbook on the table.

Gumball: Not having lunch?

Christine: Nah, usually I eat after school and draw stuff during lunchtime.

Gumball: Mind if I see some of them?

Christine: Sure.

Gumball looked through Christine's scrapbook and saw marvellous drawings. Mostly about nature and life.

Gumball: Wow, this is really good.

Christine: Really?

Gumball: Yeah. Compared to my drawing skills, yours would beat mine by a mile.

Christine: *smiling* Thanks.

Gumball: You're welcome. Anyway, about why I was sad..

Christine: I know, I overheard you guys.

Gumball: Oh, so you know?

Christine: Yeah, you were all over the news for the first couple of years. But then, people stopped talking about you. It was really sad to see your parents crying during news interviews.

Gumball: Was there a ghost in any of those interviews?

Christine: Hmm.. not that I remember. I think the only ghost that was interviewed was the one you were with just earlier.

Gumball: Oh. Actually, remember when I said that I had a history here?

Christine: Yeah.

Gumball: Well, I had a bunch of friends and I even had a girlfriend. The ghost that was sitting here, her cousin was my girlfriend. And, I just left them.

Christine: Don't worry. She'll understand that you didn't know you were innocent.

Gumball: Yeah but, she was horrible without me. We both fell in love with each other and it's like I just threw it down the drain.

Christine: Hey, it's okay. You just gotta talk it out with her. Maybe things will turn out for the better.

Gumball: Okay, I will. Thanks.

Christine: You're welcome. Well, I gotta go.

Gumball: But you haven't drawn anything yet.

Christine: Don't need to worry. I can draw something later on. Maybe when a teacher's blabbering about something I wouldn't care.

Gumball: Heh, I remember that feeling.

Christine: Okay, see you at class.

Gumball: Alright.

Christine walked away as Gumball continued munching on his food before the bell rings. He thought of what Christine said.

Gumball: Hmm, maybe I should meet up with her.

And that's all for now. Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and the story so far. And also hope you like the new character, cuz that CJ is actually important to this story. Maybe not in the next few chapters but later in time. Sorry for the short chapter though, I thought that the rest of this should be in another chapter where we learn a little bit more about CJ. But in the meantime, drop a like and a comment down below and I'll catch up with you guys next time. Peace out!