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The nightly sky had finished setting and the day had come. Even though he didn't hear an alarm go off, Gumball had still woken up with the morning came. Thanks to this challenge, Gumball had gotten used to waking up early in the morning.

"Man it's early" Gumball said as he stretched out his limbs, not noticing the raccoon carcass that was behind him. He got up and took a few steps forward, only to fall and land on the ground flat on his face. "Ow…" He groaned in pain. "How'd I… Oh, that's right; I was looking for what made that noise last night" he said to himself.

Truth be told, he couldn't remember anything beyond going out his room through his window. I didn't really seem to bother him much, but it was still pretty weird. He then walked into the house through the back entrance like he did yesterday.

Soon he was back inside. Now that he was inside, he went back upstairs to get dressed for school.

"Morning, Gumball" Darwin happily gave his morning greeting to his feline brother as he came into the room.

"Morning, dude…" Gumball greeted back groggily as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Gumball then headed to the closet to change out of his sleep clothes and into his normal clothes. "Ready for another boring day of school?" Gumball asked as he finished putting on his sweater.

"Of course!" Darwin said with excited enthusiasm, hopping out of his fish bowl. However, his smile soon turned into a frown. "Gumball… you're still not giving up on this challenge are you?" he asked with a look of worry. A light smirk grew upon Gumball's face.

"…Not even close, buddy" Gumball patted Darwin on the shoulder as he walked out of the room. After a moment of silence, Darwin let out a deep sigh, and then walked out soon after.

-Miss Simian's class-

The boys were now in class. And not just any class, but Miss Simian's class. Granted Miss Simian wasn't their most favorite teacher in the world, and the same could be said Gumball and Darwin being her students, but they had to be there regardless of their opinions of each other.

Right now it was their English class and all the students had to write two paragraphs on which member of their family that they were most fond of. Darwin had chosen to write about their dad and how much fun he was, despite his lazy attitude.

Gumball on the other hand… well, the person in his family he was writing about was more of a classified measure. It certainly wasn't either of his parents, that's for sure. He loved both of them dearly, but the family member he was writing about just made him feel special when ever they visited. For once, Gumball was given an assignment that he could actually enjoy doing, maybe even pass.

-Recess-

After English class had finished, the students were let out to enjoy recess.

Gumball and Darwin were on the black top playing basketball. The two of them weren't normally athletic, but basketball was the one sport that they were actually decently good at playing.

"And the feline evades the fish" Gumball narrated the play through as he dribbled the ball past Darwin. "The cat shoots…" he threw the ball, sending it flying into the basket. "He SCORES, proving once again that cats rule over fish in basketball!" Gumball concluded with his arms raised in victory as he gloated, Darwin giving him an annoyed glare in the process.

Gumball's victory was short lived however, for he was soon pushed down hard to the ground. He turned his head around to see who it was who pushed him. His eyes widened as they fell upon just who did the act. It was none other than Jamie, his bully… Well, one of his bullies at least.

"What'd you do that for, Jamie?!" Gumball said with slight fear in his eyes.

"I felt like it, dork!" She replied harshly, kicking him in the stomach shortly after, knocking the wind out of him. She then grabbed him and lifted him up by the back of his sweater collar. Afterwards she threw him across black top, making him slam into a nearby dumpster. Gumball held his head in pain.

Jamie soon walked up to him and kicked him several times in the face, staining his fur with blood. He lifted him up once more and punched him in the face, giving him a black eye on the left side.

Jamie then proceeded to walk into the building, taking Gumball with her.

"What are you doing?!" he asked, trembling. He question was answered when they reached his locker.

"Have fun, runt"

"No, don't!" it was too late; as Jamie threw him into his own locker and slammed it shut, walking away afterwards. "No! Let me out!" Gumball shouted as he bang on the inside of the metal locker he was in.

He kept banging and banging, hoping the door would open, but it wouldn't. After the third hit Gumball sighed in defeat, lightly hitting his head against the metal door. There was a silent pause as he clenched his fist in anger.

Looking up with tears of anger in his eyes, Gumball pulled back his fist in an attempt to strike the door down. However, just as he as about to deliver the blow, his locker open and he fell to the floor before he could even make contact.

He looked to see it was Darwin who freed him.

"Gumball, you ok?" he asked his brother with concern. Gumball stood up with a sigh.

"I'm fine, Darwin. I'm just… fine" he said, looking of the side with slight discontent. Gumball then felt the familiar sense of his stomach growling. "Look, let's just go get some lunch, ok?" he said, walking past his fish friend, not wanting to talk about the situation he was just in.

-The Watterson house-

"I have to say, this day was pretty crappy for me" Gumball said with an upset tone of voice as he and his sibling walked up to the front door.

"It's probably not as bad as any other day you've had" Darwin commented which only made Gumball glare at him out of the corner of his eye.

"He's got a point, Gumball" Anias said in agreement with Darwin. Gumball rolled his eyes and simply opened the front door, wanting to sit on the couch and relax. Once he opened the door, he set his backpack down.

"Kids, is that you?" Their mother's voice asked from the kitchen.

"Yeah" Gumball told her in confirmation.

"Come into the kitchen, we have a visitor" She told them.

A visitor? What kind of person would want to visit them? For the love of god, all Gumball wanted to do was sit down and relax. But no, he couldn't even do that!

The Watterson siblings soon entered kitchen to see what their mother wanted them see.

"So who's this visitor you were…" Gumball cut himself of midsentence when he saw just who this visitor was. "No way!" he said in surprise, seeing the person before him who was sitting at the kitchen table with his mom.

She was a snow white cat wearing a dark red shirt, a short skirt similar to Nicole's, and gray medium-heeled boots. To top it all off, she was also wearing rose pink eye shadow. This cat went by the name of…

"Aunt Cathy!" Gumball said with excitement as he ran up to his aunt, giving her a hug in the process.

"Hey there, Gummy" his aunt said with a smile as she hugged her nephew back. Cathy was Gumball, Darwin, and Anias' aunt and she was related to them by blood due to her being their mother's sister.

"What are you doing here, Aunt Cathy?" Gumball asked.

"Can't I drop by to see my nephews, niece and big sister?" Cathy asked playfully. It was then that she noticed something about Gumball's face. "Oh my god, Gumball, what happened to your eye?" she asked with concern with her hand placed gently upon his cheek.

"I, uh…" Gumball nervously looked off to the side.

"It's ok; you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to" she told him as she walked to the fridge with him in her arms, taking out an ice pack.

She sat back down with him as she placed the ice pack on his swollen eye. Gumball winced, feeling the icy chill upon his face.

"Just hold that right there. I've got a gift for the each of you, I just wanted to wait until you kids got here" she said. She then took a shopping bag from under the table and took out four wrapped presents out of it.

Anias was the first to open her gift. "A chemistry set!" Anias said with joy, holding her gift.

"I know you're into that science-y stuff, so I got you that" she said. Anias didn't have to say anything; all she had to do was smile as a sign of thanks. Nicole looked at her sister with a raised eyebrow, which Cathy replied with a look that said the gift was cheap.

Up next was Darwin. "A… pair of pants?" Darwin looked at his gift.

"It's about time you wore some, Darwin" Nicole said and the others agreed.

"Now it's your turn, Gumball" Cathy said, smiling at her nephew. He placed the ice pack down and carefully opened his gift. Upon opening it, his eyes widened in surprised, shocked at what his present was.

"A PS4!?" Gumball gasped in utter astonishment, not expecting to have this of all things as a gift. "These things are extremely expensive, how did you afford this?"

"Yeah, how did you afford it?" Nicole asked her sister with as much shock as her son.

"I've got a job in video game animation, so it wasn't really that hard for me to get" she told them.

"Thanks, Aunt Cathy!" Gumball embraced her in a hug.

"You're welcome, sweetie" she said, patting his head. "Oh, and I even got something for you, big sis" she told her, hand her sister a small box. Nicole opened it to see the item inside.

"A gold necklace. Wow, thanks, Cathy" Nicole thanked her as she put the item of jewelry around her neck. "So did you get anything for Richard?"

"Did you see that football sized chili cheese dog with everything on it in the refrigerator?" Cathy asked in response.

"Y-Yeah, I think he ate that… sorry" Nicole apologized with regret.

"It's ok, that was his present anyway" she replied, not thinking anything of it. "So Gumball, what have you been up to?" she asked the young blue cat.

"Aside from getting butt kick every now and then, I've been good; I've even got a girlfriend now" Gumball told his aunt.

"Oh? So you finally got Penny to be your girl, huh?" Cathy wittily asked.

"Yeah, and it turns out she's not even a peanut, she's a fairy-like creature who can shape shift with her emotions" Gumball told and explained about Penny.

Cathy lightly chuckled. "Anything else?" she asked.

"Just that mom and I having a challenge. Since I won't apologize to dad, I pretty much have to doings for myself until I do" Gumball filled in the details.

"Is that so…?" Cathy rose in eyebrow, asking in a curious tone as she looked up at her sister with a suspicious glare. "Gumball, why don't you go play your PS4 with your brother and sister? I need to talk to your mother… in private" she suggested.

Gumball nodded and went in the living room with his siblings to hook up his new game system. Cathy glared at Nicole with narrowed eyes.

"What?" Nicole asked.

"Are you serious?" Cathy shot back. "Why would you do something like this? Making poor little Gumball fend for himself"

"I know this may seem bad…"

"It IS bad, Nicole! Gumball's too young to be independent. I thought you of all people would understand that!" Cathy said in an annoyed yet concerned tone of voice. Nicole simply looked at her sister with her arms crossed. "Never mind, just forget what I said" Cathy said with a sigh

"Thank you, little sister" Nicole lightly smiled.

It was at that moment that Cathy thought of something. She got up and walked into the living room. "Hey Gumball, after you're done playing on your PS4, why don't we go out for some pizza? Just you and me, what do you say?" she offered.

"Sure, that'd be cool, Aunt Cathy" he replied happily.

"Good" she said with a nod. "I just hope Gumball isn't going through what I think he's going through" she thought in her head with a serious expression without any of kids noticing.

It was as if she knew something… but what?

And that's the end of Chapter 3. Looks like Nicole's got a sister we never knew about. What kind of roll will she play in the story? Only to find out is to keep reading.

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