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Gumball woke up to the sound of the alarm clock buzzing. He groaned and turned over in his bed. He hated mornings more than anything in the world. All he wanted to do was sleep in. He always wondered why his school had to start so early, not that school would be any more fun if he did sleep in. Still, it would be a lot better if he could just have a few more hours to stay in bed. He waited for the buzzing to stop like it usually did but the buzzing continued, getting louder and more menacing each second. He found that strange, Darwin always turned off the alarm clock right away. At that moment, however, all he could feel was annoyance. Without moving, Gumball said "Darwin, turn off the alarm clock"
Gumball waited a few moments but the alarm clock continued blaring. With an annoyed groan, he turned over and shut the alarm clock himself. He turned over to see Darwin still in his fish bowl, sleeping. That was weird. He was always up at this time. Was he sick?
Gumball got up from his bed and gently knocked on his fishbowl. "Are you awake?" He whispered.
Darwin's eyes shot open. "What?" He answered.
"Well, good morning to you too," Gumball said with a chuckle. "I know how it feels to be grumpy in the mornings too," He said as he stretched his arms out. Darwin just rolled his eyes. He then got out of his fish bowl and began getting ready for school.
"Are you okay?" Gumball asked.
"Yes," Darwin said impatiently. "I'm fine"
"Well okay," Gumball said a little taken back, "You don't have to get all mad at me,"
"I'm leaving," Darwin simply said as he grabbed his backpack from the corner and left the room.
Gumball shrugged. He must be having a bad morning, it was bound to happen one day. He always found it weird that Darwin was always in a good mood every morning. It wasn't normal well, at least to him it wasn't.
After getting dressed, Gumball walked downstairs to see his family eating breakfast, but Darwin wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Did Darwin leave already?" Gumball asked.
"Yeah, he seemed to be in a bad mood," Anais responded.
Nicole got up from her seat and grabbed some of the empty dishes from the table. "Well, Darwin needs to stop having this bad attitude or else no one will want to talk to him ever again." She said as she entered the kitchen.
"What's with her?" Gumball asked, pointing at the direction his mother went.
"Darwin and Mom got into an argument last night," Anais said as she took a sip from her orange juice.
"Ohhhh," Gumball said. Now, Darwin's bad attitude seemed to make a lot more sense.
Darwin walked down the hallway, eyes straight forward, not paying any attention to anyone around him. Chrissy finished putting her books and turned around to see Darwin walking.
She smiled and waved "Hey, Darwin" Darwin didn't say anything, he didn't even turn around. He just continued walking. She was confused for a moment but assumed that he just simply didn't see her. She walked over to Darwin, who was putting things into his locker.
"Hey, are you okay?" Chrissy asked.
"Yeah" Darwin replied, not turning around.
Chrissy waited a few moments before speaking again, not entirely convinced by his answer. "Are you sure?"
Darwin closed his locker and finally turned to her. "Well, I've been thinking and I don't think this whole relationship thing is working out."
Chrissy's heart began to race, she had no idea what was going on. "What do you mean?"
"I think we should break up,"
That answer hit Chrissy like a truck, she felt like she wanted to throw up. She couldn't believe what had just come out of Darwin's mouth. Did he really just say that? "Well, what did I do wrong?" She asked.
"Nothing," He said as he closed his locker and walked away. Chrissy stood there by herself, taking everything in. She didn't know what to do next. She wanted to run over to Darwin, ask him why. Ask him what went wrong, but she knew that would be a mistake. Her stomach was all twisted up, something about his behavior seemed familiar. Very familiar. She quickly shrugged it off. She turned to see Gumball walking down the hallway. After taking a deep breath to relax, she walked up to him.
"Hey," Chrissy said. Gumball stopped and gave her an awkward smile. Gumball had never really met Chrissy before but he knew how much Darwin liked her. He wondered why she was talking to him, though.
"Hi," Gumball said with a smile.
Chrissy paused, trying to find the right words to say. "Is your brother okay?"
Gumball was confused by her tone of voice. She sounded as if Darwin was dying in the hospital. Talk about being over dramatic, he thought. "Uh, yeah. Why?"
Chrissy shrugged as she put her hands in her pockets. "He was just acting really weird today, have you noticed?"
Gumball shrugged. "Well yeah, he's just a little cranky this morning, that's all."
"Cranky?" Chrissy asked in disbelief. "You call that cranky?"
"Yeah"
Chrissy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms at his casual response.
Gumball quickly got annoyed. He didn't like it when people rolled their eyes at him. Especially from someone he barely knew. "What?"
Chrissy shook her head. "Nothing,"
Gumball got closer to her, challenging her. "What's your problem?"
Chrissy noticed how threatened Gumball seemed. If he wanted a challenge he was going to get one. "My problem is that Darwin is acting strange and you don't even care" Chrissy nearly shouted.
Gumball threw his hands in the air. "He's having a bad day, what do you expect me to do?"
Chrissy looked him dead in the eye. "I just expected you to care about your brother"
Gumball was taken back. He couldn't believe what she had just said. Darwin barely knew her and now she's acting like she knows everything about him and their relationship. It was taking everything in him to not attack her at that moment. "I care about him a lot, you don't come here and judge me and my brother's relationship" He stated. "Now, If I were you, I would just walk away."
Chrissy took a deep breath and exhaled. "Fine," She said and began walking away.
Gumball watched her leave. He couldn't understand why Darwin ever fell for her. They seemed completely different, Darwin was quiet and nice but her? He couldn't find any nice words to describe her.
Gumball came home from school exhausted. He was happy to finally come home and take a nap, his favorite thing to do after a long day. Despite being happy that he was home, he couldn't help but think of what happened with Darwin and Chrissy. He hadn't seen Darwin all day today. He was probably hiding away from everyone and he didn't blame him. Gumball continued to think about the "fight" that Darwin and his mom had the night before, which was most likely the reason why he was such in a crabby mood in the first place. He felt bad for Darwin. Him and Nicole never really ever interacted all that much and it seemed to upset Darwin. Gumball recalled a time when Darwin came up to him upset that he didn't have as great of a relationship with his mother like Gumball did. Gumball knew how important that was to Darwin since he loved his whole family. All he wanted to do was make everyone happy. Despite feeling a little bad, Gumball couldn't help but feel a little bit angry about the argument he had with Chrissy a few hours before. Her acting like he didn't care about his brother. What does she know? Gumball thought. She hasn't known him her whole life. As he was walking down the hallway into his room. He ran into Anais.
"Oh hey Gumball," She said as she looked around, seemingly distracted by something else.
Gumball quickly took notice."You okay?"
She stopped looking around and focused her attention on Gumball. "Yeah, have you seen Darwin?"
Gumball shook his head. "Not in a while, why?"
Anais sighed. "Never mind"
"What's wrong?
"Well," Anais said hesitantly, she didn't know if it was a good idea to tell Gumball, but she thought it would be worth a shot. "It's just, Darwin was acting really weird today."
Gumball couldn't feel like this was Deja Vu. The way Anais said that was similar to the way Chrissy said it. Gumball suddenly became more interested in what Anais had to say. "What do you mean?"
"Well, I saw him alone today, he refused to talk to anyone," Anais explained. A sad tone could be heard in her voice.
"Maybe he was still in a bad mood after what happened between him and mom," Gumball said.
"Well," Anais said with helpless shrug, "that's what I thought at first, but then.." She paused.
"What?"
Anais sighed. "He snapped at me,"
Gumball couldn't believe it. Darwin had never snapped at Anais before, even when he was really annoyed with her. It just wasn't him. "Really?"
"Yeah, I wanted to talk to him during lunch since he was all alone, and then he started yelling at me, telling me to leave him alone," Anais said. "It got so bad that.." Anais paused again. "That he had to leave and go to the Principal's office."
"What?!" Gumball asked. How could he have missed that? He had the same lunch period with both of them. But then he remembered, he had skipped lunch that day because he needed to catch up on some work he had to do in the library.
"Yeah, it was weird." She said. "I just hope he's okay, he's acting all angry again like he was before." She then walked into her room and closed the door, leaving a confused Gumball alone in the hallway.
Gumball stood there for a few more moments and then walked into his room. Closing the door behind him, he walked to his bed and laid down, not believing what Anais had just told him. Was Darwin acting like he was just a couple of days before? Angry and rude. He thought that attitude was gone. Was he wrong? Was something seriously wrong with Darwin? Was he really in a bad mood or worse? He was acting unusual this morning and he did it find weird that he broke up with Chrissy after he talked about how much he liked her. He sat up in his bed, he tried not thinking like that but, he couldn't help it. He felt like something was wrong with Darwin, very wrong. He could feel it in his heart. He had to do something, but he didn't know what. He then thought about Chrissy, who had asked if there was something wrong with Darwin. Gumball started to feel bad, maybe she was right all along, maybe there was something wrong with Darwin. He knew the only way to find out was to talk to Chrissy.
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