Nicole and Anais were looking at more and more pictures of the memories with Gumball and Darwin as a family. The more pictures they were looking at, the more teary-eyed they were becoming. "Ph my babies." Nicole said, curling up to a ball in anguish. "What have I done?"
"What have we done, mom?" Anais snivled and softly cried. "We're monsters."
Both ladies trembled and curled up into a ball, feelijg so guilty and sad over ehsy looked like they kicked Gumball and Darwin out of the house. "Richard, you're right!" Nicole cried. "These are our babies we were infuriated with! Now I am a terrible mother! I am such a horrible mother!"
"Easy, honey." Richard reassured her. "Take it easy." He gently placed a soft hand on her left shoulder as his wife still looked curled up in anguish. "You guys are not monsters. You guys are just going about this all wrong."
"Yeah, you are only people. We all make mistakes and it is nothing to be ashamed of." Mr Small added. "All you have to do is go apologize to them both in the hotel room they are staying in."
"Yeah, and everything can go back to normal." Richard added.
The two ladies stopped their sulking and got back on their feet, and Nicole said: "you're right, Richard. We just need to get our boys back."
In the nice hotel that the boys were staying in for the time being, Gumball and Darwin were laying on their nice, soft beds while watching some TV and eating some potato chips. Things were going rather well for both these boys, snd this hotel was really nice. This was nothing like a cheap motel you would find on the side of the desert road, this was one of those welcoming and friendly hotels that anyone would want to stay in if they wanted to.
Yes, things were going perfectly for these two. Gumball and Darwin wished they had a lot more money to stay here with. Gumball suddenly remembered that he knows his mother's credit card number and he paid for more room service.
"Well Darwin, this can be our new home." Gumball admitted. "We have nice employees, treating us like we're the kings of this castle, and all these networks on this TV, what more can kids like us want?" Darwin looked a little worried for a moment.
"Yeah, but... but what about Mr Dad, Mrs Mom, and Anais? I'm a little worried about them."
"Both those ladies deserved to be fired and all after what they did to us." Gumball pointed while eating some more chips."
"True, but what about Mr Dad?"
"Don't worry." Gumball reassured his brother. "We'll find a way to see him again. I promise."
"How are we going to see him?" Darwin asked, rolling over, and laying on his right side.
Thinking, Gumball replied: "well, if we go over there to the house, mom and Anais will just kill us, and leave our corpses for the vultures or raccoons."
"Good point."
"We still have dad's phone number, right?"
"Yeah. We do."
Little did they know that Nicole and Anais were regretting everything they had done before, and they were coming over to apologize to them both. "As long as we have mom's credit card number, we'll be fine."
"But what if Mrs. Mom finds out about that? If she does, she'll kill us."
"Bah, I don't care." Gumball said. "If they do try to lay another harmful claw on us, the least we can do is call the cops again, and they'll go straight back to jail, serving a longer sentence. It would just be you, me, and dad as the boys living together if those stupid ladies get a sentence of a few years to life in prison."
"Good point. I would love to see the looks on their faces when they get all the way back to jail." Darwin admitted while drinking some hibiscus juice. Suddenly, tbe door knocked and Gumball went to answer it.
What he saw next caught him by surprise. It was his parents, Anais, and Mr. Small together.
"Oh. There you boys are." Nicole got teary-eyed before bugging her eldest son. What she received in return, however, was a claw to the face by Gumball, and it hurt her face a lot.
"Hey hey hey, no need for such brutality." Mr. Small intervened.
"What are you guys doing here?" Gumball asked.
Nicole was silent, but she sighed and answered: "okay boys, get your stuff, your father and I are taking you home."
"Oh no." Darwin said, putting his foot down. "After the way she and Anais treated us, we're not going back there!"
"Not as long as you Nicole, and Anais, are still around."
"Well you can't stay here in this room forever," Richard pointed. "Thr credit card has to be maxed out some time. And- and-what are you going to do when it happens? Live under a bridge and steal food from dumpsters?"
"Or go into the wild and live with a pack of wolves?" Mr Small added.
"No!" Gumball said. "But we are not going home. We have had it with the way you, Nicole and Anais treat us, and we are done with all the yelling and criticizing!"
"You two women are a bad influence on us.
"Mom, all you ever do is scream and ground us!" Gumball shouted.
"And order us around like we're soldiers instead of kids!" Darwin added.
"You know what, there is something wrong with this family. You are always making it difficult for us and you always approved lf Anais more than us! Dad, please file a divorce with mom and kick her out!"
"Boys! Boys. Calm down." Nicole gently said. "Now, I know what you are saying. I am not going to yell, I am not going to scream. Me and Anais do have ways of talking to you without getting angry or raising our voices."
Gumball snd Darwin scowled with their arms crossed at the ladies.
"Gumball, Darwin, we are very very very sorry for everything." Nicole began her apology, sounding so sincere. "About purpously neglecting you, and turning you into malnourished children you would see in North Korea."
"Yeah, and we're sorry for almost trying to kill you a month ago woth the knives."
"But you have to understand, I get emotional when yoyr father gets severely hurt. Physically, or emotionally, I have to always support your father and make his spirit as ul as I can. Now it doesn't mean I don't love you. I was just shocked that day, and when you got me fired and blackballed from my job. So now... now I might never get another job again. But, I don't care. I deserved to be blackballed."
"And I deserve to be forever banished from the Daisy the Donkey dan club. Whay we want is to... start over."
"Yeah boys. I am yoyr mother. And... can we please start over?"