The next day, all Gumball could do was watch Darwin and Mindy. He could tell that Darwin was happy to be making to new student happy. Happy to do whatever she wants. He didn't know Mindy well at all, but she was uninterested and impatient. She's always find something to complain about. Whatever Darwin did for her it was never good enough for her...she'd always find a way to make him feel bad about himself. As you could probably guess, throughout the day Darwin got less happy, but this only made him more determined to do what she wanted, he felt like it was his fault that the new student wasn't happy. Poor Darwin, if only he knew.
"You can't just stand there, Gumball" he thought to himself. "You have to do something, you can't just let her treat your little brother like this, it's only gonna get worse..." but he was too scared, if this girl was nearly as terrible and manipulative as Penny described...he did not want to be her victim along with Darwin. Gumball felt terrible for letting Darwin do all the suffering, but he did come up with a different plan. Maybe if he convinces Darwin to stand up for himself now, it will prevent the situation from getting worse later. Gumball missed the bus so he had to walk home, causing him to get home later than his brother. He ran as fast as he could, he really needed to talk to Darwin. When he got home, he couldn't find him
"Hey Anais, do you know where Darwin is"
"I think I saw him go upstairs to our room"
"Ok, thank you."
Gumball was afraid to open the door. He wanted to see Darwin being his normal self. Happy, optimistic, positive...but after what he saw today, he knew that wouldn't be the reality. He took a deep breath and opened the door. He saw Darwin curled up into a ball in the corner and his heart broke a little. Darwin wasn't crying or anything, but Gumball could've sworn this is the saddest he've ever seen him.
Gumball immediately put his hands up to his mouth to keep from crying. He wanted to run over there and hug Darwin as tight as he could. Despite this, Gumball calmly walked over to him and put his hand on his brothers head.
"Are you ok buddy?"
"Mm-mm" Darwin answered without looking at Gumball
"You wanna talk about it?"
"Just had a bad day" Darwin said, trying to cover of the reason his day was so terrible
"Yeah, because of that new girl"br /"How did you know"
"Dude, Penny told me all about this girl, apparently they're cousins and she's super toxic and manipulative. I've been watching you guys all day and I think-"
"You've been watching us?"
"Yeah and-"
"And you didn't do anything?" Darwin asked, his voice breaking. Ouch, that stung. Gumball would hate to think he's part of the reason Darwin was so sad right now.
"No, I wanted to do something, trust me, I was just scared, trust me Darwin, I feel terrible for letting this happen, anyways, I really think you should stand up for yourself before it's too late."
"But how? I don't want to hurt her feelings."
"Dude, she's the one hurting you, you need to put yourself first sometimes."
"But I just want to make everybody happy"
"Well, some people don't deserve to be happy."
The amount of hatred Gumball had for Mindy was immeasurable, and he'd only known her for about 2 days.
"I promise I'll be there for you this time, weather or not it goes well."
Darwin sniffed and looked at Gumball "Thank you" he said, his voice still breaking.
Gumball hugged him "anytime buddy"
