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Nichole did not know that there was a camera in the office but she know when a magazine came out with a picture of her talking to her boss.
The headline was.
'Nichole Watterson barely survives for 15 years because Boss is too sexist to pay her more'
Suddenly this headline was everywhere.
It was a sexism case with a celebrity, so it was on more than one magazine.
Nichole was stunned when her own neighbours arrived at her house and were amazed by how much she endured under a wicked man.
People had always thought the Watterson's were unusually poor and now in their own heads, they know why.
Suddenly in the eyes of the public, her boss was the big bad guy and she was the defenceless woman who just wanted to make sure her family doesn't end up on the streets.
The public was crucifying her own boss, but Nichole had stopped caring.
She was leaving anyway and never coming back to Elmore, a place where the public could be swayed so easily.
They had rented out their house to a couple who were eager to move in and they would be paying them rent through bank transfer.
They now had a lawyer so that everything could be drawn up and they could kick them out if they so wished.
"Is everybody ready?" She said, the moving truck had pretty much taken all their stuff to the new house.
Suddenly both Darwin and Gumball rushed passed her and into the car.
Just then, the landline phone rang and she decided to get it.
"Hello?" She said.
"Mrs Watterson, please come back!" She was stunned to hear that it was her old boss's voice.
"My whole business is falling apart" He said, "I didn't realise how much you did for the company. Hardly anybody really knows how to do their job. If you come back, I'll immediately promote you to executive"
"Oh, really now?" She said, she found it funny that she would have never heard that word directed at her if she stayed. "Are you saying that because nobody is willing to do business with your company because they found out what you did to me? Where was all of this while I was at the company slaving away, at the desk? Do you know how many days I cried myself to sleep because of what my family had to do on a salary you gave me? You're, not so smug now, are you?"
Indeed, nobody dared to do business with the Rainbow factory and he and his wife was shunned by society.
Hell, his own wife was thinking of leaving him and taking their child with her.
A sexist can be one when nobody cares but the moment, they do it to somebody who can make a lot of noise, it can ruin them.
It was only a matter of time, before Mr. Yoshida loses everything and ends up on the streets.
Something she had feared for her family countless times in the past 15 years.
Now she was the one rich and he was the one struggling, begging for her help.
How the table have turned.
"P-Please" He said, "At least issue a statement to the press that you had a good time here and we left on mutual terms. I can see it in my wives' eyes. She planning on leaving me and taking my daughter with her."
"Mr. Yoshida. We both know that you wouldn't have cared if your livelihood wasn't at stake" She said, "The fact that you want me to brush under the rug what you put my family through, proves that you still don't care what you did to me for 15 years. You never once truly acknowledged me and even promoted a plant, before telling me to smile. If save you, you are very likely to do it again to another unsuspecting woman. At least your wife now knows what kind of man you are. Good day, Mr. Yoshida.
"W-WAIT-" He said, but then she ended the call.
She took a breather and then walked out and got into the driver seat.
The Navigator they recently brought, was switched on.
"What took you so long?" Richard said.
"I had to cut ties with somebody who was ungrateful and now wants me to safe his skin" Nichole said, before saying.
"Now off we go to our new house"
They all cheered as they car drove away.
The new resident entered the house with their moving van immediately afterwards.
Ch 10: New House, new Neighbourhood
If somebody had told the Watterson's that one day, they would be able to move out of the house and move to a much nicer house, they would not have believed it.
However, as they drove out of Elmore while feeling the universe shift, they entered another town that was far nicer than Elmore.
They saw a large mall, they saw a nice-looking park, they saw fit police hunting down people and doing their job.
It was like they had entered a completely different world.
They stopped at some posh looking gates.
There were two guards on duty who saw them pull up.
"Name? What business do you have here?" Said, the guard to Nichole side.
"Hi. We're the Watterson's" she said, "My husband is Richard Watterson. We were supposed to move into one of the houses today"
"Richard Watterson?" Said, the guard, there know what he looked like. "Where is he?"
Suddenly Richard got out of the car in his expensive clothes that displayed his buff looking muscles and said. "Here I am"
The other guard held up a picture and put it next to him.
However, one of them said. "Strike a pose"
And Richard struck a professional pose.
The two guards had seen many pretenders but none of them could fake skills.
Richard was clearly a seasoned model.
"Welcome, Watterson family to your new home. We hope you have a wonderful stay" Said, one of the guards before they were all subjected to a flashing light, that out of habit made Richard pose.
"What was that!?" Gumball said.
"We just needed to scan you all in" Said, the other guard. "There are many people who try to get into this neighbourhood, many with cameras. We pride ourselves in keeping celebrity's privacy. Before you go in, we just want to do car search"
Then they both got out a strange device, and the whole family was alarmed to see something blow up under the car seat and the car itself had several thing's blow up.
"All the camera's and bugs have been removed" Said, the guard on the left and before the gates were open and they drove right in.
They jaw's dropped as they drove by beautiful house after beautiful house.
"Which one is ours?" Darwin said.
"Almost there" Nichole said, before they heard.
"You have reached your destination" from the Navigator.
They all looked out of the window and found a beautiful big house that put their old one to shame, there was at least a dozen rooms they could see.
And that's when they saw the moving van that had the rest of the stuff that they hadn't moved yet and was being taken inside by what looked like walkers.
They parked in the drive through and they felt power wash through them, as they took a step towards the house.
They walked inside and were stunned by how beautiful it was.
The floor was made of marble and there was Collums, there were stair leading to the rooms.
"Would you like me to take your bag, Madam?" Suddenly a voice said from behind them and they all turned to find a person dressed like a butler who bowed to all of them.
They were all stunned.
"U-Um, no thank you" She said.
"Hello, Master Richard" the man said.
"Hello, again Charles" Richard said, making all their jaws drop as he said. "I did a photoshoot here once. Because Elmore didn't have a nice enough background to use"
"I was employed by the owner of the house to make sure, it was always shinning" The man explained. "However, the owner never stayed in this house so I was happy to find out a family was moving in. So please use me, anyway you see fit. I am here to serve."
And all the Watterson's were surprised.
They suddenly had a butler that came with the house.
Nobody had ever served their family before and now they were suddenly getting a butler.
Suddenly one of the workers want up to Nichole and said. "Where do you want the living room to be?"
It was a good question.
The place they were standing in looked like a hallway, not a place to setup a living room.
"Where do you think we should put it?" Nichole said, she asked the worker, they hadn't even begun to explore the whole house.
"Dude" Gumball said, to Darwin. "Let's pick out a room."
"I need to pick out my own room" Anais said, before the kid's want up the steps and went from room to room.
Each room was spacious and had a comfortable bed, but it was bare.
"Look at this room." Gumball said, walking with Darwin behind him. "There are two wardrobes in here"
"Wait. So, our clothes won't mash with each other?" Darwin said, before yelling. "This room is perfect!"
That's when they noticed the workers who had been following them around the house, enter the room set their stuff up.
Anais chose the room, two doors down from them and was soon playing with her Daisy.
Than Gumball noticed something outside the window and said. "Dude...We have a swimming pool"
Darwin was instantly by his side and both of them gawked together at the large area filled with water that could not be mistaken for anything else but a pool.
If they had parties in it, that alone would make them the most popular kids in Elmore Elementary school.
Suddenly the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it" Nichole said, as she walked to the door and opened it.
She opened it to find it was a family that seemed to mix of leopards and a bee.
She could see a teenage girl with music note t-shirt and a skirt, without any shoes.
A boy who could be gumball's age had the leopards yellow skin but had giant fly wings growing from his bag and antenna's on his head, he wore a black top over a stripped sleeved shirt, jeans and sneaks.
He seemed a bit arrogant.
The father was the leopard while the mother was the bee.
"Hello. We are your new neighbours. The Nathen's." Said, the bee woman. "We live just down the street and would like to give you a warm welcome"
And that's when Nichole noticed the pie in her hand.
The pie that looked amazing and normal looking despite the hand that was carrying it.
"Oh, thank you" Nichole said, taking it before saying. "We're the Watterson. We had to move from our old town because of certain issues. It's nice that we have new neighbours like you. Perhaps, we'll see each other around"
"Maybe" Said, the woman before the door was shut.
However, not long after that, she heard.
"That family only got rich recently, it's so obvious" Which she know came from the boy and made her stop.
"Everybody knows that you have your servant get the door for you. She got poor blood written all over her." she heard, making her gasp. "Watch her try to fit in. It's going to be hilarious"
"Jack!" Said, his mother.
"I'm just stating the obvious" Said, the boy. "And look at their car. Talk about ugly and cheap. They should scrap it or the rest of the neighbourhood will be laughing behind their backs"
And Nichole walked away, hearing what the boy said it really hammered home that this wasn't Elmore, a town where they would be looked on in awe for simply having a gold card.
They were in the land of the rich and famous.
Having, 100 thousand in the bank did not mean squat here and the car that was pretty good for a big family, was already being ridiculed.
It was like her whole family had become a big fish in a small pond and decided to move to a river, only to find out that the world was a much larger place and they were actually the smallest fish in a river.
The kid's in the neighbourhood, could probably pay 100 thousand without batting an eye and that was their whole bank account.
It had been a long time since Nichole felt poor.
And scene!
Next chapter, Gumball and Darwin update their Elmore plus account and show their former classmates how great their new lives are and are shocked to enter the ranks of the rich, along with the perks that come with it. On the same day, they get their new school uniforms. Review/fav and follow!