Hello again. Yeah, I'm already done with the third chapter of this story.
Before all, I would like to thank all the reviews. It seems you find the story good so far, so it makes sense I would continue with it. That, and I've already decided what would happen next.
So, here's chapter 3. This one is in third person POV again. Enjoy!
Chapter 3: A tear in her left eye
Gumball was laying in his bed, staring upwards, eyes wide open. He was in utter disbelief, he felt horribly unstable, and he was beyond shocked. And he had a very good reason to be.
He had just found out that he was going to become a father. In a somewhat ordinary situation, a man would be thrilled to know of such a thing. But this had nothing to do with ordinary. Because Gumball Watterson was just an irresponsible sixteen-year-old boy, nowhere near capable of taking care of a child. Well, that's at least how he felt about it.
After Penny told Gumball the big news, he was completely unable to believe that this was happening, but after calming down as much as he could - which, in all honesty, wasn't really much - the two agreed to tell their families as soon as possible.
"You mean, like, today?" Gumball asked insecurely.
Penny just nodded. And Gumball realized it was probably the right thing to do. Because waiting too long to tell anyone news this big could only do damage.
He had just come home from Penny and laid on his bed. He was still as shocked as when he found out.
At one moment, Anais came into the room, but Gumball didn't notice it, due to being lost deep in his thoughts. Anais immediately began doing her and both of her brothers' homework, because they never did theirs on their own. It wasn't any difficult for her, as usual. However, something in the room didn't feel right to her. While entering the room, she noticed Gumball in his bed with a horrified expression on his face.
She, of course, had no clue whatsoever to the cause of it.
The fact that her brother was acting the way he was at the moment her harder to concentrate on Darwin's homework, so she spoke to him.
"Gumba-"
"AAAAHHH!" Gumball snapped out of his thoughts in an instant. Anais was frightened for a split second, but then she asked:
"Gumball, are you okay?"
Gumball then looked at his sister. He stopped for a second. He let thoughts flow through him. They flew. He gulped.
"Yeah, I'm totally fine, why wouldn't I be?" he lied, insecurely. Then, he got out of his bed. "I gotta go... yeah..." and he left the room.
Only now did he realize he had absolutely no idea how he would tell anyone about this.
He got downstairs and sat on the dining table and instantly fell asleep. His mother was in the kitchen.
"Oh, hi, hone-" Nicole said, but when she saw him asleep, she stopped. She came to him and kissed him on the top of his head.
"I made your favorite," Nicole said, placing a freshly baked cake on the table. But he was still asleep and not at all hungry. Nicole sighed and went on to clean the house. But not before taking one slice of the cake.
The two hours that Gumball spent sleeping on the dining table, to him, seemed like five seconds. When he woke up, he felt like did not get any sleep at all, and his mother was still in the process of cleaning the house. He saw the cake on the table, and he thought he could use some of it. So he took a slice. After one bite, he was full.
And then, BAM!
The entrance door of the house were crashed, and a lot of smoke appeared. Gumball jumped in his chair. He thought; "Ha? What just happened?" and looked towards the entrance door and the smoke. After the smoke dispersed, Gumball once again gulped. Also for a good reason. Standing there, with his fists clenched tight, was a furious Patrick Fitzgerald, Penny's father.
Penny had told him.
Gumball knew there was no way out of this.
"You!" Patrick went angrily at Gumball. "You little shit! What do you think you're DOING?!" he yelled, furiously walking in his direction, ready to strangle him, right then, right there.
Luckily, Nicole couldn't stand to hear anybody insult her son even for a moment, so she stepped in his way and looked him straight in the eyes, full of rage, being the Nicole Watterson she was before divorcing Richard, at least for a moment.
"That's the last time you called my son that, is that cle-"
"Did I ask you anything?" Patrick interrupted her, visibly even angrier than her. Without even giving her a chance to respond, he then yelled: "Then SHUT UP!" and spoke back to Gumball. "And as for you, touch my daughter ever again and I will-"
"And what?" somebody said. Everybody turned around to see who said that.
It was Penny. Frustrated. Very frustrated.
"What are you doing here, Penny?" Patrick asked her.
"Me?!" Penny said, even more frustrated. "What are you doing here?!"
"Teaching your lovely cute boyfriend a lesson!" Patrick said, full of rage. "And as for you, Penny-"
But then, Nicole unleashed herself.
"WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU CAN STORM IN MY HOUSE JUST LIKE THAT AND START YELLING FOR NO REASON?!"
And to think her calmness was gonna last...
Patrick then looked at Nicole in an almost threatening way, but with an ounce of confusion.
"Did your son not tell you what he did?!" he told her.
"Tell me what?" Nicole was now also confused. Gumball had not told her. Or anyone from his family.
Not yet.
But now was the time.
He looked around, having absolutely zero idea how to tell his family the big news. But he decided to do things one by one.
"Um, mom..." he spoke to Nicole, "...you might wanna call Darwin and Anais from upstairs..." he said nervously.
And so she did.
While Darwin and Anais were coming downstairs, Gumball and Penny approached each other and held hands.
Everyone - Nicole, Darwin, Anais, and Patrick - gathered in front of Gumball and Penny. Nicole was still confused, Darwin and Anais were almost uninterested, but Patrick stood with his arms crossed and an angry facial expression.
"Guys..." Gumball began, extremely nervously, constantly changing whom he was looking in the eyes. "Penny and I have something important to announce." he breathed in and out, heavily.
Patrick was breathing very loudly.
Then, Gumball and Penny looked at each other, and they both nodded. Then Penny took a deep breath.
And then she let it out.
"I'm pregnant."
All of a sudden, everybody except for Patrick reacted as if a bomb had just exploded.
"WHAT THE WHAT?" Darwin and Anais shouted.
"How did this happen?" Darwin asked, and Gumball looked at him in disappointment.
"Dude, I think you should already know how it happened." he told him.
Nicole, at first, didn't know what to say. She was now the one who was looking at everyone. However, she was thrilled by this news.
"That's... that's great!"
"What?!" Patrick then shouted. "What's great about this?! Are you kidding me?! Have you no shame?!"
"Look, Mr. Fitzgerald," Anais then came in, "I know you're not ha-"
"Did I ask you anything?" Patrick interrupted her the same way she did with Nicole.
"No..."
"Then shut up!"
But then Nicole spoke to Patrick.
"What's wrong with you, Mr. Fitzgerald? You should be proud of your daughter. You're gonna be a gra-"
"PROUD?!" Patrick shouted, and looked at Nicole angrily, as if she had just sworn. "OF THIS?! THIS IS WHAT I SHOULD BE PROUD OF?! HOW DEGENERATED, IDIOTICALLY STUPID, DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO EVEN THI-"
And then, Penny burst into tears. And stormed out.
The remaining four people in the house stared at the entrance door, through which Penny had stormed out, in silence.
"Way to go, Patrick," Gumball applauded Patrick sarcastically. "Way to go."
"SHUT UP!" Patrick yelled at him. "Just because you're fucking around with my daughter, doesn't mean you can talk to me like shit, okay?!" Then, he looked at Nicole, then at the door, then back at Gumball. He pointed a finger at Gumball and said: "This is nowhere near over yet!" and stormed out as well.
Gumball felt endlessly embarrassed by what just happened. Endlessly uncomfortable. But it was at least good to know that his mother supported him.
"I'm so proud of you," she said. Gumball looked at the floor and unhappily said:
"Thank you..." and went back to his room.
He knew that the argument between Penny and Patrick, in the Fitzgerald house, would be unpleasant, but he couldn't even imagine how unpleasant it eventually was.
Penny was sitting on the couch in the Fitzgerald house, crying immensely. Judith, Penny's mother, saw this and asked, already knowing the answer:
"It didn't go well?"
"No, of course not!" Penny said, infuriated.
Judith could tell her daughter was not in a good mood, so she left her alone.
Suddenly, Patrick rushed in the house, without even saying hi, and he had a lot to say to Penny. He was already starting, but Penny asked:
"What do you think you were doing back the-"
"ENOUGH!" Patrick stopped her right there. "I'm not gonna let that little shit be my grandchildren's father!"
"Well, I'm sorry he's not your idea of a perfect son-in-law, but he makes me happy, and-"
"I don't care! You're aborting the child!"
"WHAT?! No, I'm not gonna abort it, what's wrong with y-"
"Don't you say no to me, is that clear? You're going to abort it and that's my final!"
"Or else what?"
"There's no or else what. You're aborting the child and that's i-"
"I'M NOT GONNA ABORT MY CHILD!" Penny yelled from the bottom of her lungs.
Gumball was sitting on the stairs, highly disappointed in the way this all ended, thinking if there could've been another way. It was now late in the evening. Darwin and Anais were on the dining table, but neither was eating the cake that was still on the table, due to still being shocked from the news. Darwin was thinking about how he would become an uncle, but Anais was kinda sad, because she would no longer be able to manipulate her family with her cuteness, for she would no longer be the baby of the family.
"Everything's gonna be alright, honey," Nicole tried to comfort Gumball.
He just sighed. He tried to get some sleep, but to no avail.
Then, somebody knocked on the door. Gumball feared if Patrick had come to finish him, but he decided to confront him.
To his surprise, when he answered the door, standing there was Penny, with a tear in her left eye, and a suitcase in her right hand.
"Penny...?" Gumball asked, a little confused, but he knew what this meant.
"Dad kicked me out," Penny said.
That's chapter 3. So, Penny didn't abort her child after all. But then Patrick kicked her out of the house. And now what? Well, wait to see. Chapter 4 coming soon. Until then, of course, leave some more reviews. See you!
