Speaking of love, about a week later, there was a buzz going on for the school play. Denny and Silver were participating in it as it was Beauty and the Beast, Denny was a stage hand and Silver played the bad guy, of course never really meaning it as Gumball was the beast who would turn into a handsome prince in the end as Penny was his princess.

'Gumball better not forget his lines.' Silver thought to himself.

Denny walked over with a beret and had a clipboard. "Opening Night, I can't believe it's finally here... Oh, Silver, here's your sword." she then took out a prop sword for the wolf boy.

"Thanks." Silver said, accepting the prop sword.

"Okay, you're on in five." Denny said.

Silver nodded and blushed once he saw a sparkled girl in the eighth grade come over. "Amaryllis!"

"I just wanted to wish you luck during intermission, you're a really great actor, Silver." Amaryllis smiled to him.

"Thanks, Amaryllis, but for performers, wishing them luck we say break a leg," Silver said. "Which I never understood why."

"Oh... Sorry, break a leg then." Amaryllis then said.

"Thanks." Silver smiled.

"Okay, back to your seat, please." Denny rushed the girl. "We have four minutes, Mr. Small put me in charge!"

"Okay, okay, I'm going." Amaryllis said before she went back to her seat.

Silver smiled back.

"FOCUS!" Denny snapped.

"Man, you've been really edgy since you've been put in charge." Silver said.

"I'm fine!" Denny's eye twitched as she drank a cup of coffee. "Be ready in three!"

"Why are you drinking coffee?" Silver asked.

"I've been up all night for the past month trying to make sure this play becomes the best show ever!" Denny replied. "Don't test me, Orion!"

"I'm not, I'm not." Silver said.

"Good..." Denny narrowed her eyes and walked away.

"Good thing she's sleeping over at Penny's tonight, maybe then she'll get some sleep..." Silver said to himself before his cue.

"ONE MINUTE!" Denny then called.


The curtains pulled back and the parents in the crowd cheered as Silver had to fight Gumball as the bad guy. And where of course, as the bad guy, he had a death scene as his way of losing.

"It's over, Beast," Silver glared to Gumball with his sword. "BELLE IS MINE!"

"Wow, he really is good at acting." Nathan whispered.

Gumball then lunged out for Silver. Silver then did not go down while Gumball tried to take him down.

"Silver!" Gumball whispered.

"Huh? Oh, sorry..." Silver replied before making himself fall down on purpose.

"That was close." Elizabeth whispered.

Eric held Elizabeth as they watched the play. Silver then pretended to stab Gumball before falling to his own death. Denny then quickly rushed over and took Silver out of the room while Gumball would do his death scene as the beast until Penny would come. And where his death scene was over dramatic and where the only ones that were moved by his acting was his father and where after a short while, Gumball finally fell to the floor, looking dead. Anais was rather bored about being here and was reading a book during the whole show to keep herself entertained.

"Is the beast gonna be alright?" Richard looked captivated by Gumball's acting. "He just wanted to be loved!"

Once Gumball was done, the spotlight shined on a stage fright struck Darwin.


Denny knew just what to do as she decided to move his mouth so he could talk while in stage fright.

"When Belle came to see The Beast, she realized that she had loved him all along and cried for her lost love." Darwin said with some help from Denny.

The light then switched to Gumball and Penny.

"I'm never gonna be a famous director at this rate..." Denny sighed to Darwin.

"Of course you are I just have to try and get over my stage fright." Darwin said.

Denny sighed and walked away.

"Poor Denny, she's been so stressed..." Darwin frowned.


Penny began to cry out of acting.

"Thanks to your tears, Belle, the curse has been lifted!" Gumball stood bravely to the girl he liked.

"They called him a beast because he looked like a beast, but her tears made him beautiful!" Richard exclaimed.

Denny groaned and face-palmed Mr. Watterson.

"Uh, yeah..." Penny blinked to him then turned to Gumball. "Yeah. Now that the fairy's curse has been lifted, we can finally seal our love with a kiss..." she then whispered to he last bit.

This caused Gumball to smile out of excitement and where only to them the surrounding changed and where they were now floating in space.

"This isn't in the script!" Denny panicked. "What does that Penny think she's doing! There are NO kisses in my-"

Silver covered her mouth so Gumball and Penny could have their moment. Penny looked like she was ready to kiss Gumball as he started to look nervous, not remembering any kiss scenes in any of the rehearsals.

"This is not happening; there were no kisses in rehearsals." Gumball said quietly while nervously.

"I kind of improvised." Penny whispered back.

"Then how come we're not exploding?!" Gumball took a deep breath. "We're in space! And why are we always in space when we're gonna kiss? Also-"

"Come on, hurry up, everybody's looking," Penny urged him to kiss her. "Three... Two... One..."

Gumball then took a deep inhale and accidentally headbutted Penny. Silver quickly closed the curtains so they could end it from there.


In the dressing room...

Gumball was sobbing as he had unintentionally hurt the love of his life.

"Come on, I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Darwin coaxed.

"Not that bad?!" Gumball cried out. "If I did that in a cage fight, I'd be disqualified! This can't be happening!"

"I'm sure it's not that bad." Silver said.

"Come on, Penny, I gotcha..." Denny walked with the antlered peanut girl. "Easy does it..."

"How is she?" Darwin asked.

Denny chuckled nervously. "Let's just say I wouldn't wanna be in Gumball's shoes right now."

"Oh, come on, it can't be that bad." Silver said.

"Tell me how it looks." Penny removed her hand to show there was a crack in one of her eyes.

"I stand corrected." Silver said with wide eyes.

"Uh, it's a nice scar, gives you character like a beautiful warlord or an adorable Frankenstein," Gumball smiled nervously before frowning. "Or something."

"Wait, I've got a scar?!" Penny panicked.

"No, don't worry, it's not a scar, it's more of a crack." Darwin replied nervously.

"What?! HOW BAD IS IT?!" Penny looked terrified.

"It's okay, Penny, I'm sure it's just a blemish." Denny chuckled nervously.

"Yeah," Silver smiled nervously. "I would just not look into any mirrors for a while."

Penny looked anyway to take a look for herself and a spark seemed to come in her broken eye.

"What the heck?!" Silver asked out of surprise as he saw the spark in the mirror.

"Did you see that?!" Denny said to Silver.

"I sure did, what was that?" Silver asked.

"Yeah, what was that?" Gumball added.

"Nothing!" Penny replied.

"Oh, what have I done?" Gumball frowned before taking Penny's hand and slapping himself in the face with it.

"What are you doing?" Penny sighed.

"Hurting your head made his heart hurt, so he's hurting his head with your hand to heal his heart." Darwin said before taking Penny's foot and made it kick Gumball over and over.

"Look, if you really want to do something, just help me fix this." Penny sighed.

"We could make it look like you didn't get a crack." Silver said.

"And how do we do that, Poindexter Wolfenstein?" Denny asked Silver.

"Make-Up?" Silver shrugged.

Gumball and Darwin tried to apply make-up, but Penny found it hopeless.

"Guys, she's just gonna have to tell her dad..." Denny sighed as she grabbed her backpack with a sleeping bag and pillow. "Come on, Penny, let's get to your house."

"We'll walk you girls home," Gumball said before smirking at Silver. "While Silver walks Amaryllis home."

Silver blushed a little. "I can do that... Erm, good luck, Gumball."

Gumball nodded and went to the Fitzgerald household and Denny was going to be sleeping over tonight.