Hello, my name is EvelioandZgroup. Here is this long overdue chapter "The Circle". My most acclaimed story along with "I Killed Penny Fitzgerald". Enjoy.

Gumball was walking home, thinking about was going to happen. He would go to Penny's to talk with her parents, he always thought of it as no problem, but he knew he would meet the girl he loved, at her parents to get together and become, so what of a family. Penny wasn't that girl, no now, not anymore. As Gumball is walking to his house, he then thinks about Carrie.

Strangely he couldn't get her out of his blue feline head. He wanted to know what was so important to Carrie that she was looking for and why she didn't want him, especially him, to not see it. What was she hiding from him? Was it something bad? Was it devastating? Would it change how he sees her as a person? Whatever it was, he thinks it's best not to think about that.

He made it to his house, so he walked up to it a bit neutral, but was a bit down for two things. One was that he was going to dinner with Penny's parents, who he thought would ever be good and that he didn't get the chance to talk to Rachel after school. He just wanted to see his girlfriend after school so at least there was one person he can turn to that he can turn to.

As he opened the door to his house he saw something he knew he should see, but didn't expect so soon. He saw Darwin and Rachel on the family couch; Darwin was on the left side from the TV's view and Rachel on the right. He knew that both of them, Gumball and Rachel, had to keep their act of pretending to be the opposing relation of Darwin and Penny, but sometimes you can only hope that this charade would end already.

"Hey." Gumball said as surprised as he will be as he soon learns "The birds and the bees". "Oh, hey Gumball." Said Darwin, but Gumball and Rachel knew who he was talking to. "Hey Darwin. I didn't expect you to be with Rachel. In our house." Darwin then lets out a laugh, but sounded like a gasp a bit. "Well you should. Rachel's my girlfriend." Gumball didn't want to hear that, but that is what he, Darwin, needs to believe. "Yeah. That's right." Then he lifts his right arm and finger to Rachel. "You're girlfriend."

That allowed to nearly cause some awkwardness and Rachel knew that. "Darwin, can you give me a minute to talk to Gumball." Darwin turned a bit confused, but then he remembered that they were like best friends, so he decided to go. "Okay Rachel." Then he kisses Rachel on the cheek. Rachel didn't smile, nor did Gumball at that matter. Darwin went to his room and went to get something from his room.

Gumball walked to the couch and sat next to Rachel. "Now before you say anything, I need to know something." Rachel said in a serious matter, so Gumball gave her his full undivided attention. "Where were you? I waited, and then I had to leave." Gumball looked a bit down on himself since that wasn't a good thing to do, keep her waiting. "I know. I was still in school, helping out Carrie find-" Then he was cut off by Rachel, since Carrie was involved.

"Carrie? Gumball why were you with her? And don't lie to me." Rachel answered with a bit of a temper. "I was helping find something. She wouldn't tell me what it was and then I wasn't given any details of what it was us and then she found it. Though since you left, and me and her missed the bus, I decided to take her home and go back home." Rachel wanted to make sure that he wasn't lying. Rachel pinched his arm and let out an "ouch".

Gumball rubbed his shoulder, but then he understood what she was thinking of what could have happened. He grabbed arms that were on her laps. "Rachel, I don't like Carrie that way. She's my friend and there's no need to get jealous." That made Rachel to get a bit of red cheeks. "What? I'm not jealous." Gumball then let his hand go on her cheek.

Rachel felt a certain touch towards him, so soft, yet so warm. It warms her hearting knowing this was one person she didn't want to lose. "Rachel…I love you, and nothing of that will ever change." They stared into each other's eyes. Rachel looked into Gumball's eyes, what she saw was happiness with him. Gumball looked into Rachel's eyes and he heard a symphony when he looks into her eyes.

They get closer to each and slowly reached out to a kiss, but then Darwin came rushing down the stairs. So close, but no dice. They stopped it and went back to watching the TV. Darwin went down and then went to Gumball, though he didn't look, until Darwin called him out. Gumball slowly turned and then he saw a phone next to him. "It's for you." Gumball grabbed it and walked to the kitchen, there he saw the sun getting close from setting from dawn to night.

"Hello." "Hey Gumball." Gumball knew that it was Penny. "Hey Penny, what's going on?" Said the humble but guilty Gumball. "Just want to let you know that the time for you for the dinner with my parents is 6:30." Gumball turned and saw 6:21, that caused Gumball to nearly have a heart attack, since it was going to take time to get there. Gumball rush to upstairs that Rachel notice and wondered what the hurry was.

Gumball then was holding on to the phone by his ear and rushed by taking off his pants in his room and struggled with the sweater. "I just wanted to make sure that you were coming on time." Gumball fell to the floor, though he got his pants off, and then threw his sweater. "What? Of course I coming on time, what boyfriend would miss a talk with his girlfriend's parents?" Gumball looked for other clothing, but then found his black sweater.

It was a hoodie sweater and had stripes, but only like one gray and white line on it and then a wide gap, which was also a pattern, which can put on and take off by its zipper. "Oh I know, but I just wanted to make sure." Then he found a pair of girl skinny jeans. He wondered why they were there in the first place, but decided to not argue with logic and just hurry.

Then he got them on and then ran saying his last words out through and then throwing the phone at Darwin. "Okay, I'll be there. Bye." He ran to a hurry that he rushed out the door. Rachel wondered what was up with him, but only one question was left in her mind. What did Gumball wanted to talk to her about? Though she knew that she would have to wait until Gumball came back or until school, but all she wanted to do is see Gumball happy as he made her.

"What was Gumball talking to you about anyway?" Rachel knew she had to come up with a lie. "Just some stuff." Darwin gave her a "really" look. "What. It's not like I'm cheating on you." "Oh I know you wouldn't cheat on me." That gave her a sign that Darwin trusted her completely but that made Rachel feel bad, since she didn't love him or like him that way anymore. Only with Gumball she would ever think of that kind of affection with.

-5 minutes later-

Gumball has been running and hasn't stopped since, he needed to get to her friend and fast, but then he tripped and fell on the floor. He got up but at his surprise he was still scratch free. Was it a good or bad thing, but then he ran and then he had just seen Penny's house. Which he calmed down a bit and walked towards there. He then walked up to her front door and saw a bit of his reflection and he looked good but then he heard the wind blowing through his ears.

The door opened and there was Penny happy. "Hey Gumball." Then giving him a hug, but then from the reflection he saw not Penny hugging him, but Rachel. It was his mind playing tricks on him. After the hug, Penny told Gumball to come in. Gumball entered in the first step and then he felt a sudden bad feeling. He knew what it was all about. It has always been about guilt on Penny. He was hurting her by continuing doing this, but he needed to go on since he knew what happened last time.

Gumball didn't have the nervous or shy with them anymore, since he was more focus on something else but what was it exactly. Then Mr. Fitzgerald came in and said hi to him, in a polite manner as Penny told him to. Then something surprised him, Gumball did something that came totally uncalled. He shook his hand with a strong grip and said "Hello Mr. Fitzgerald, pleasure to meet you." He kept his eye on him and rubbed his shaken hand with Gumball and Gumball didn't understand what was happening.

"Is there something the matter?" Said Gumball keeping a straight face and not pulling any kind of shenanigan. "No, nothing out of the ordinary." Though he thought Gumball had finally gained confidence or something. While in reality it was just that Gumball treated him as he was talking to family. "Come sit with us for dinner, then." He grabbed him by the shoulder and then he put him by a chair closer to a side where only one person would sit. "Sit next to me."

Gumball wasn't sure what was going on, but then he saw Penny coming out and then Gumball and got out of his chair and pulled a chair for Penny. She thought that he was doing this to impress her, but he was just being polite to her. Then he sat back to his seat, but then he saw Mr. Fitzgerald giving him a look. Gumball just wanted to get through this so he wouldn't strain his relationship from both.

-1 Hour Later-

Gumball was just finishing up his night with the Fitzgerald's. Though Gumball was able, for the first time, to give a positive perspective with Penny's father. Penny told him about the time that he helped Penny pass a couple of her classes and able to reconnect with a couple of her friends. It wasn't enough, but then she brought up an event that wasn't remembered.

-3 Weeks Ago-

Gumball and Penny were not talking to each other, but Gumball was with Rachel. As Gumball was walking to his next class, he saw something that he just plain didn't like what was happening. Tobias was asking out Penny, but she kept denying his offer. "Come on. You got no one else with you." "I'm sorry but the answer is no." When Penny was walking away, Tobias grabbed her arm.

He grabbed her arm, it hurt her, who she tried to break free form but then he got her other hand. "Why not? We would make a perfect couple?" "Stop! Stop!" Gumball decided to stop it. "Tobias! She's not interested, just let her go!" Then Tobias threw Penny to the floor that caused Gumball to flare up. "What? You think you're better or-" Before he could finish he received a sucker punch by Tobias.

Tobias ran away with his hand covering his mouth and possibly a broken nose. Penny was on the floor, but Gumball laid out a hand for her, which she saw and looked up. She grabbed his hand and Gumball helped her get up. Just as before they could talk, the bell rang. They had nothing to say so they went to their class. Penny never forgot that day.

-Present-

As they were clearing, Mr. Fitzgerald stopped them all and wanted to say a few words. "I know for a fact that Gumball and me didn't had the best first impression, but here I see my daughter dating, not a boy, but a gentleman who, I can't of anyone else, to be with her." Gumball could not believe what he had heard, the man that was sworn to hate him, actually said those nice things, but then Gumball looked at Penny, smiling, he knew what he was doing was too far.

"I-I…I can't do this anymore." Then he got out of his seat and went outside and then Penny followed him and wanted to know what was going on with him. She saw him outside at the porch and he was laying both of his hands on his head. "Gumball what's going on?" He turned to Penny; he then knew what his mind was telling him. He was hurting someone, but it wasn't Penny, it was Rachel.

"Penny, from the first day I met you, I fell in love with you. I thought I would never hurt you. I was wrong. But I still love you enough to say that this has to end." Penny didn't believe what he saying, he was breaking up with her. "Are-Are you breaking up with me?" Penny was starting to tear up, but then Gumball said he was sorry and then he ran, leaving Penny, heartbroken, the one boy she loved was gone. He was the one that got away.

-Meanwhile-

Darwin and Rachel were still at the house. "Rachel, can I ask you something?" Rachel was next to him in his bedroom that he shares with Gumball. "Sure, ask away." "Why are you friends with Gumball?" Rachel didn't know why he asks that so she wanted to why so she asked him. He said that he just wanted to know. She answered either way. "Well, he was the only person that helped me through worst" Rachel referring to her break up with Darwin. "Then he helped me find something that I never thought I find."

Darwin didn't understand. "But why him? Why didn't you turn to your other friends?" Rachel never thought of that, but then she realized that she could have looked for help, but if she did so, then she would have been with the boy of her dreams. "Because if I did, then I wouldn't be here as I know Gumball today." Darwin went back to acting causally, but then Rachel started to think of what Gumball was thinking of cheating on each other.

She may have said it was okay, but it wasn't right, she belonged with only one boy and that was Gumball, Gumball Watterson. "Darwin, I want to break up." Darwin turned and replied with a what. "I don't think we should have gotten back together in the first place. It's better to end this now." Darwin didn't know what to say, but then Rachel went out the front door, leaving him speechless.

Rachel got outside and was a bit sad, she couldn't believe what she had did before, letting Gumball be with Penny. Then she saw someone running towards her direction, but then she saw it was Gumball. Then he stopped when Rachel started to run after him, by crossing the street and they stopped. "Gumball what are you doing?" "I couldn't do it." "Do what?" "I couldn't go with the lies. Rachel I want to be with you, and only you." Then they shared a kiss and was so everlasting.

-Meanwhile-

Darwin was going to check out through the bedroom window and turns out that Penny went after Gumball. Darwin opened the curtains and witness Rachel kissing Gumball. "Gumball?" As for Penny, she turned to the street corner and saw Gumball taking to Rachel and then was about to say something, she saw the kiss. She fell to the ground and could not believe what she had seen. Nor could Darwin, Gumball and Rachel kiss and they were together.

Don't think this is over. This is far from over. Also announcing that I'm making a Halloween special fanfiction based on my series that strongly inspired from "The Amazing World of Gumball" and I'm writing a novel that in time you can see in shelves. My name is EvelioandZgroup, I'm signing off.

~ EvelioandZgroup