YOU! Welcome back again for the next chapter. Alpha here, as simple as this is, I enjoy writing this story for you readers. This is where I feel where I can be someone, as a respected writer. A quick note: if you want to do a fan-art on a character/scene from "Starting Anew", do one if you want to and send me the art on Google plus under AeroAlpha. I would love to see what you readers see from your point in the fan-art. You can also check a few drawings that I did for other authors. Wanted to take this space to tell you that. What about Alpha you ask? (or not). Well why don't I just shut up and let you read then. Please enjoy.
Starting Anew
By: AeroAlpha
Chapter Nine-Smells Fishy
"Who was she? I thought you went to the lake." Carrie said as she and Alpha started to walk out of the Highlands.
"I did." Alpha plainly said, "Her name is Carolina and I met her while I was at the lake."
"Oh well that is nice." Carrie flipped her hair.
"Yeah, so question, what were you doing at the Highlands?" Alpha asked, stopping in place from walking out the area with the ghost girl.
"That's a good question. Uh…I-um…was looking for…my DOG! Yeah, my dog." Carrie answered, showing an awkward smile. Now Alpha would of questioned this but decided to do so at another time. They continued to walk, in silence, as Alpha and Carrie went to their individual home, seeing that it was getting late. After exchanging goodbyes, Alpha went into his house, going upstairs, and plopped himself right onto his soft bed in his room. It took a while for the wolf to sleep, but after listening to some music, Alpha finally relaxed and drifted off to sleep.
The Next Day: Monday
Alpha got up from his bed as he stretched and yawned, then got out of his bed and took off his clothes and went to take a shower. After his shower and being dried off, he started to brush his teeth and putted on another fresh pair of a black shirt and khaki shorts, and finished getting ready before fixing and brushing his hair. He made his way downstairs and into the kitchen as he saw his father taking a sip from his coffee mug while reading through the newspaper.
"Hey son, how'd you sleep?" Jason asked, setting the newspaper down on the table.
"I slept fine." Alpha taking a seat next to his dad. "What about you?"
"I'd managed to get some sleep. Been working, that's all."
"Soooo, where is mom at?" Alpha said, looking around the area.
"Oh! Your mother is at the salon getting her hair done." Jason answered.
"What?! But it's like 7:30! That's early." Alpha exclaimed as he opened the kitchen cabin and getting out a box of cereal.
Alpha's father pondered for a moment, then said something.
"Girls I guess." the adult wolf stated.
Alpha just shrugged at that while getting some milk, a bowl and a spoon. As he prepared his cereal, Alpha sat back at the table and started to eat his breakfast while his dad continued reading the papers.
After some time, Jason spoke, letting out the silence in the room.
"So how's it like living here so far champ?" Alpha's dad wondered.
Alpha finished eating his cereal and went to put the bowl in the sink, thinking about his answer.
"It's going great. Met some new people and stuff." he finally said.
Jason looked at his son and grinned, pleased that Alpha is adjusting to Elmore. Alpha then went back upstairs to brush his teeth again. There was a knock at the door as Alpha's father got up.
"I'll get it." Jason reaching the doorknob and opening the door.
When he opened it, Gumball and Darwin were the ones standing behind it.
"Hello and good morning Mr. Wolfe." the duo said in unison.
"Well hello you guys. Come on in, Alpha is upstairs in his room." Jason told them as he let them inside.
Gumball and Darwin went up the steps, walking into Alpha's room. Once they were inside in his room, the two were greeted by their friend.
"Hey guys." Alpha said happily, "What's up?"
"Nothing much." Darwin told him, not making eye contact with him.
"Are you sure man? Looks like something is up." Alpha questioned.
"Welllllll…I need help with something." Darwin said.
"With what bro?" Gumball asked, turning to face towards the fish.
Darwin was just standing there in silence, thinking if he should tell them or not. Darwin looked at the floor then back at his friends, seeing that they were expecting an answer.
"I don't want to tell you yet but I just need help with a thing."
Gumball and Alpha looked at each other, wondering what it could possibly be.
"Don't worry dude, I got your back." Gumball in a proud stance.
"Actually…I was hoping that Alpha could help me." Darwin cautiously said.
"What?! What's wrong with me helping?"
"Umm. Things go wrong and.. uh.. bad luck happens when you help." Darwin explained while rubbing the back of his head.
Alpha was laughing about Gumball until the blue cat looked at him, as the latter slowly stopped.
"Sorry. But it is kinda true Gumball." Alpha told him.
Gumball was about to say something as he lifted up his finger in the air but decided not to.
"So Alpha, can you help?" Darwin plainly said.
"I would be gladly to help out but I don't think I can help much, does it involve a certain dolphin Darwin?" Alpha said, aware of Darwin's 'problem'.
"Gasp! How did you know." Darwin shocked as he took a step back.
"Well.. It was obvious. The way your face was when you first saw that girl Sky that day."
"Yeah, even I knew that." Gumball added.
"Aright, alright. It's about her, I was hoping that I would ask and take her out for lunch but I don't know how." Darwin explaining the issue.
"Look Darwin, I wish I can help but here is one thing, I have no advice nor experience with asking a girl out to aid you. Sorry buddy." Alpha told Darwin, reasoning as he was fixing his bed.
"Wait, what about that time when you asked Lexy out to the movies." Gumball question.
"Wha- oh that was different, you asked me to do so, remember." Alpha sitting on the edge of the bed.
The room was awkwardly quiet for a short moment. Darwin pondered, thinking of a plan.
"I think I know who can help me out!" the orange fish shouted, while running out the room and leaving the Wolfe's residence.
'I hope she can help in any way.' he thought.
Darwin closed the door behind him as he entered his house, then started making his way to Lexy's room. He knocked on her bedroom door, aware of her privacy. Darwin was waiting for an answer but didn't get one. He stood there for a while, then decided to leave but stopped when he heard Lexy's voice.
"Come on in!" she said from the other side of the door. Darwin was glad that she was there and slowly opened the door, looking in and seeing that she was listening to music. He was standing in the open as Lexy putted away her ear buds music player.
"Sorry about that Darwin, music was kinda loud and didn't hear anyone at the door." Lexy clamping her paws together.
"It's all good in the neighborhood." Darwin understanding, "Just came here to talk to you."
"Aright, about what?" the pink cat asked.
"You see, I need some help."
"Okay, what do you need help with?"
"Well, there's this girl and I want to ask her out for lunch but I don't how to. I'm all flip-flop right now!"
"Oooo! A girl? My little brother is becoming a man!" Lexy squealed as she was patting on Darwin's head.
"Yeah, yeah ok. Can you not do that? It's embarrassing."
"Whatever. So you came to me for assistance huh? Well, you got help."
"Great!" Darwin happily said, "So when do we begin? It's about to be eight an I am planning to ask her at one." he explained, hoping to get things done quickly.
"I guess we start now." Lexy grabbed Darwin's fin and dragged him out the room to go start.
"Alright! Let's begin." Lexy said.
The two were in the backyard, thinking it was the best place for Lexy to teach Darwin.
"Okay, so we're going to start on asking a girl out. So Darwin, pretend that I am that girl. Began."
Darwin seemed a bit confused but decided to give it a try.
"Hey, um…d-do you…uh maybe w-want t-to go…AHHH! Forget it! Why is it so hard?" Darwin sitting on the grass, frustrated that he could so it on his first try.
"Darwin, it's okay." Lexy sitting on the grass as well, "You're just a bit nervous, you just need some confidence that's all."
As much as Darwin though that even though they just started and was already about to quit, she was right. He was nervous, totally nervous at the fact that Sky might say no. Ever since Rachel, Tobias older sister had gone to high school, things were different.
"You're right Lexy." Darwin told her, getting up, "Let's continue."
He then helped her up and when he did, Lexy though of an idea. She told him to stay put as she went inside the house. Lexy search around the house and manage to find a blanket, two plates, and a picnic basket. After she gathered what she was looking for, she went back outside to Darwin and sat the things down, setting up a simple picnic.
"What a coincidence, I was planning to have a picnic lunch with Sky." Darwin said, sitting on the blanket.
"Great! Then this can really help. I set this up so that we can simulate the lunch and advise you to have more confidence, to keep things from being awkward of course." Lexy happily explained as she reached in the basket and pulled out some leftover pumpkin pie.
"OOOHH! PIE!" Darwin eyes widened as he held up his plate.
"And that's what happened yesterday" Alpha was telling Gumball as the two were walking to Gumball's place.
"Man, Carrie sure was acting weird." the wolf added.
"You're right dude, especially that the fact that Carrie doesn't even have a dog." Gumball told him, reaching the door and walking inside his house.
Alpha stood there thinking about what Gumball just said. Why did she lie to him is such a weird manner? He shrugged that thought off and headed inside as well, catching up to his friend.
"Oh hey boys." Nicole greeted as she came from the kitchen.
"Hey mom."
"Hi ." Alpha and Gumball said.
"Hey sweetie, hi Alpha, well I'll be back, apparently your father did something wrong while at the 'Puncake Factory'." Gumball's mother told him.
"Really, again?" Gumball irritated, rolling his eyes.
"Yes, again." Nicole sighed, gave Gumball a kiss on his forehead, "Bye Gumball." and left out the door.
The duo walked to the kitchen and Gumball was looking through the fridge for some food while Alpha was laid back against a wall. After looking through, Gumball had gotten two soda cans for Alpha and himself. When they took a sip, they liked the flavor and decided to head out to the backyard. As they got outside, they saw Lexy and Darwin eating some pie and talking. They didn't seem to notice Alpha's or Gumball's presence because they were facing away from the house. Gumball and Alpha walked in on an interesting part. Darwin was having a practice conversation as Lexy pretended to be like Sky.
"I really like spending time with you. It's like, we can be more than friends." Darwin said.
"What the hell." Alpha whispered quietly to Gumball. The two guys took another sip from their sodas.
"I think..." Lexy, still with the pretending act, "I-I really like you Darwin."
After what she said, Gumball and Alpha immediately did a huge spit-take, shocked at the statement, and alerting them of their presence.
"What the-?" Darwin questioned, so he and Lexy turned around and saw Gumball with Alpha, having shocked faces.
"Whoa, whoa…WHOA! What the heck was that all about?" Gumball fixing himself, then walking up to them.
"What? OH! All this was a way to boost up Darwin's confidence." Lexy explained, finishing up her piece of pie.
"Yeah! And it worked. Thanks Lexy for this pretend picnic." Darwin added.
"Pretend picnic?" Alpha said.
After that explanation, both Alpha and Gumball face palmed, understanding what happened.
"That makes sense." Gumball told Alpha.
After some time had passed, Darwin thought it would be a good time to ask Sky, the dolphin, for a real picnic. The two-legged fish got a picnic blanket and folded it, placing it in the basket. He then prepared some food and placed them in the basket as well. Darwin checked and was all set.
"Well guys, wish me luck." he told to the other three.
"Good luck buddy." Gumball first said.
"You'll be fine." Alpha giving him a thumbs up.
"Go get her, fishy!" Lexy lastly exclaimed.
Darwin went out the door and headed to Sky's place.
Darwin was lucky that Sky had told him where she lives otherwise he would have been looking dumb trying to find it. He reached upon the door and rang the door bell. Darwin stood there for only a short moment until the door opened, revealing a shark, looking in his mid-thirties.
"Hello little dude, what can I do for you?" the shark said, straitening his white tank-top.
"Ummm…I-I'm here to see Sky. Is she here?"
"You're here for Sky? Okay, hang on for a sec. Sky! Someone's here to see you." he called for her.
The next second, Sky showed up and smiled when she saw Darwin at the door. She then turned to face the shark.
"Thanks Uncle Simon."
'So he's her uncle. Phew!' Darwin said in his head.
"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to have some lunch with me?" Darwin asked. He winced in hopes of being rejected.
"Actually, yes. I would like to." She answered with excitement.
"If that's okay with you, Uncle Simon." Sky wondered.
"Hmm. Yeah, it's fine. I'll tell your dad that you'll be out." Uncle Simon told her and walked away.
"Oh thank you." She exclaimed, "Well, what's with the basket?" Sky pointed at what Darwin was holding.
"I thought it would be nice if we had a picnic at the park." he replied.
"Sounds great. So what are we having?"
"Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."
"Ahh, I love those!"
They stared to walk their way to the park and Darwin was happy that he got this chance.
"Thanks Lexy." he said quietly to himself and smiled.
Well, wasn't one of my best chapters, but it went nicely. Sorry about the long wait, my computer was just being retarded. Technology these day I tell you.. Anyways I deeply apologize in advance if it takes a while for the next one, I have things going on in my mind. PM or review on how this chapter or story went, I would like to know :D Tune in next time for another chapter of "Starting Anew".
Peace be with you! ~AeroAlpha
