Hey everyone ChaosLover10 here. This might be the longest chapter I ever created. I had to add in some things to try make sense of the story. Nothing major, just a heads up. Hope y'all enjoy.
(Last scene of the romantic in chapter 1)
Gumball: (With all the Guilt he feels, anger towards himself, and sadness because of how mad penny is at him. He looks at the ground, gaining every of emotional strength he has left to say) I'm…. I'm very Sorry (Holding back the tears forming in his eyes)
[Penny looks at Gumball's tear filled eyes, she calms down but still annoyed]
Penny: Just… Don't talk to me for a short while. Ok?
[With that penny starts to walk back to her house]
(As penny was walking on the moonlit sidewalk to her house, she couldn't stop thinking about what has happen to her today)
Penny: (thinking). "(grunts) I can't believe how this day turn out to be. It started out with so much promise to be a good day, but then Gumball just had to over complicate things. I don't understand why he will go so far just for an emoji."
(Penny reaches her house and step in, she is soon greeted by her mother Marie Fitzgerald)
Marie: Hello penny how was your…(gasps and dash towards penny) What happened to you? Patrick! Come look at penny!
Penny: No! Mom I'm fi…(sudden interrupted by her father Patrick Fitzgerald)
Patrick: What happened! (notice penny's appearance) Oh My Goodness you're a mess! (dash towards her and holds her by the shoulders) Are you ok!? What happened to you ?! Did someone hurt you!?
Penny: (shouts) MOM! DAD! CALM DOWN!
(Patrick and Marie are silence by penny's outburst)
Penny: I'm fine, I just had a very misfortunate day. Ok!
Marie: (hugs penny) Well I'm so glad you are all right... but what kind of misfortunate day will bring you home with dirt and bruises all over you?
Penny: I...I really don't want to talk about it.
Patrick: Come on penny. Please just tell us. Your Mother and I will understand.
Penny: ….Ok but promise you won't get mad.
Patrick & Marie: We promise
[With that penny starts to walk toward and sit on the living room couch, Marie sit beside her,and Patrick sit on his recliner chair]
Marie: Ok penny, tell us what happen.
Penny: Well this morning I received a letter from Gumball.
Patrick: (hit his armrest) I should have know that Watterson kid will be involved in this!
Penny: DAD!
Patrick: I'm sorry honey, please continue.
Penny: Well the letter said I should go on a quest to Elmore Mall water fountain, so I went to the mall's fountain and then everybody there just started dancing, apparently the dance is suppose show Gumball felt when he first saw me there.
Marie: Wait a minute. How did he get random people to start dancing in a mall?
Penny: He sent a video to random people, asking them to do this favor for him.
Marie. O...k…?
Penny: Anyways, everyone there told me to now head towards the bus stop for my next clue. When I got there I notice my bus driver Rocky was waiting for me on the school bus. When he started driving, he started reading a poem from Gumball. He was too busy reading Gumball's poem than paying attention to road. We than crashed into the school but we were not hurt. Then he told me that my not clue was in the science lab.
Patrick: Ok. Why in the world would your bus driver be reading to you while driving on the road?! Instead of reading before he was on the road?!
Penny: That even I can't answer Dad.
Patrick: (facepalms)(sigh) continue on.
Penny: Well I went into the science lab and inside was a note and some open chemicals beside it. The note said it was our first assignment together in school and the outcome was unpredictable. So I mix the chemicals and….. Well, He was right about the experiment being unpredictable.
Marie: What in the world is wrong with your boyfriend doesn't he know not to mix random chemicals?!
Penny: Not likely. His next clue was on the chalkboard and it says to go into the Desert
Patrick & Marie: THE DESERT!
Penny: Yes. When I was at the desert, I found a message that the message on the chalkboard was a typo and actually said to dessert shop.
Patrick: Penny trying to keep my promise to not get angry, I really am, but this Watterson kid is acting like a total idiot!
Penny: I know, I know. Like I was saying when I got to the dessert shop, I was very thirsty when I sat down, all of a sudden Larry the bartender gave me double Ice cream sundae. I was so thirsty that I didn't even care what flavor ice cream there was. Until Larry started to read another note from Gumball saying the flavored was suppose to remind of each other. The first layer was apparently peanut but the second layer was blueberry.
Marie: But you're allergic to blueberries.
Penny: I know but Gumball did leave me an allergy pill.
Marie: Wait. just 1 pill?
Penny: Don't worry I always carry my emergency pills just in case. So when I took my pills Larry gave my final clue to go to the woods and meet him where we shared our first kiss. I had towards the woods but I'm then attack by random creatures and they back me up to corner. All of the sudden Gumball jump off a cliff where I was cornered on and lands in front of the animals in a fighting stance. But Gumball, being gumball should have know that he is not that tough, and sprains his ankle. I couldn't control my morphin power by will yet so I told him to make me angry. How he made me mad was he told that he did this quest because I gave 1 heart emoji on Elmoreplus instead his usually 3.
Patrick: (furious) OK. THAT IS IT. I'M GONNA TEACH THAT BLUE MANIAC A LESSON! (Starts to marching towards the door)
Penny: NO DAD! (Suddenly morphs into black rabbit then dash and blocks the door.)
Patrick: WHY ARE YOU TO PROTECT HIM PENNY?! AFTER ALL THE THINGS HE DID TO YOU! AND HE DID ALL OF THAT FOR SOMETHING SO LITTLE!
Penny: (Morphs back to normal) IT'S NOT LIKE HE DID ALL OF THEM ON PURPOSE DAD! CALM DOWN!
Patrick: UM TECHNICALLY HE DID DO ALL OF THOSE THINGS ON PURPOSE! GET OUT OF MY WAY PENNY!
Penny: DAD NO!
[All of sudden Marie appears in front of penny, now blocking Patrick's path]
Marie: (Angered) ENOUGH IS ENOUGH PATRICK!
Patrick: NOW YOU ARE GOING DEFEND HIM MARIE?!
Marie: I'M NOT DEFENDING HIM, I'M MAKING SURE YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING YOU WILL REGRET. IF PENNY SAYS TO LEAVE HIM ALONE, THEN TRUST IN HER WORDS!
[Patrick and Marie stares each other's down for a mention]
Patrick: (calms down) Fine then. (Goes back to his recliner)
Penny: Thanks Mom, Now I can finish my story.
Marie:(sternly) You better hope for both your father sake and your boyfriend sake that nothing gets worse after that.
Penny: After this point everything is starting to ease down
[Everyone suddenly hears penny's 4 year old sister, Melanie Fitzgerald on the bottom step]
Melanie: Mommy...Dadty...PenPen... Why all of y'all shouting (holding her teddy bear tightly)
Patrick: Oohh...umm...Don't worry sweetheart. All of us just playing a little game.(gets up and picks up Melanie)
Melanie: A game Dadty?
Patrick: Yes. Now come, let get you back into bed.
Melanie: Can I play the game, next time Dadty ?
Patrick: Maybe later sweetheart.
[Patrick takes Melanie back upstairs into her room, and read her a bedtime story]
[Penny and Marie are now back on the couch]
Marie: Ok so how bad can the story get now?
Penny: Like I said, it eases down, so we did got out the woods and back on the streets of Elmore. He does one last final gesture and unleash some fireworks.
Marie: So that must been those popping noises I heard.
Penny: Yeah, after that he told me that today was suppose to be a big romantic day together, but I told him that his gestures were too intense and full of flaws. We went our separate ways after that.
Marie: So are you two broken up?
[Patrick is now coming back downstairs and lean against the stairs handrail, listening]
Penny: No, I'm just not gonna talk to him for a while.
Marie: So what I'm getting at with your whole story, Gumball freaked out over a message, He tries to fix it by making you go through a day full of "supposedly romantic gestures", he didn't think that most of his gestures will have dangerous consequences, and now you both is on break. Did I leave anything out?
Penny: Nope. That basically it
[After a few seconds of pure silence, Marie starts giggling uncontrollably]
Penny: What so funny Mom?
Marie: (giggles calm down) I'm sorry penny, it just your story reminds me of an over intense gesture your father did for me in high school.
Penny: Dad Did What !?
Patrick: (grunts) Oh come on honey, why you to bring that back up for?!
Marie: Calm down Patrick, This might be able to help penny with her boy problem.
Penny: So what did Dad do?
Marie: Well in high your father always had a certain style of doing things. The best phrase I would use to describe him the most was "All Action, No Logic". In high school your father would literally snap into action without thinking about how he gonna do it. That attitude was great for the Elmore Warriors Football team, but not so much anywhere else.
Patrick: Hey, my pride told me to take action first and think about question later. Straight to the point! (crossing him arms)
Marie: (mockingly) Yes, but didn't that same pride got you in trouble with many teachers? Especially when you insisted on taking all 400 students plastic lunch trays, stuffing them all in one bag, and towing the bag on you back thinking it will be good leg training.
Patrick: Well...yes..I.
Marie: And the moment before you was about to toss the bag away in the dumpster, it exploded, and you had to pick up and throw away 400 dirty trays all by yourself.
Patrick: (embarrassed) Don't mock me.
Penny: (laughs) I never knew you was so prideful Dad.
Patrick: I wasn't so prideful. I just thought action speaks louder than words that all.
Marie: So your father and I was about to be on our first year of dating at that time. One day I receive a call from Lucas which as you know is your cousin Leslie's father. He call saying he will be moving back to Elmore and see me again after years of studying for a bachelor degree in Paleobotany, which is the study of fossilized plants. I was really excite and catch up with him. Little did I know, your father was eavesdropping and watching my reaction over the phone. When he ask me about, I told him that it was a surprise. With his all action no logic attitude he quickly assume that the surprise was that I was leaving him for another man. So he instantly can up with a gesture that suppose to be "Highly romantic" to prove no other guy is like him. Your father had a big game on the same day on our first year anniversary. Patrick you want to tell the rest?
Patrick: I...um…(sigh) ok. Well, it was the beginning of the last season championship for the Great Elmore Football Cup, it was the Elmore Warriors against Richwood Vikings. At the pre show thought it best to show Marie my love her by taking some unused fireworks and arrange them in order that saying I heart U and me holding a big sign saying Marie. With a few help of few friends I was able get my message across to your mom and light the fireworks but….
Marie: Your father did not check if the works were planted properly in the ground and when they lit up the fireworks, some firework explode on others and that cause a chain reaction that made many firework go all over the football field and cause the field to be on fire. Lucky no one got hurt and the fire was put out by a nearby fire department.
Penny: I…..um…I...wow. So was the game cancelled?
Marie: Nope the officials just sprayed painted the burnt field so the game could continue, but your father received dirty looks and he was cutback from the first half of the game. The Elmore Warriors was able to win by 1 point with the score 20-19 but your father still received dirty looks for a full year. After the game I confronted your father asking why did he do such a thing where him and everyone else could have gotten hurt, he said the way I have said the surprise for him made thought I was leaving for someone because either I sounded too excited or sounded like I was flirty and he was trying prove why he was the only for me. I told my stepbrother would be able to meet us after getting off from college. Your father did this because of a misunderstanding, but even though your father messed up very bad, and I was steamed at him for messing up badly. I still loved his gesture even though it was very intense.
Patrick: After that I was finally able to meet Lucas, We shared some interest about quick fast determination, shared some stories, and spent a whole day getting to know each. With the help of Lucas and your mother, they thought me how to actually think reasonably and not step into action unless there is a logical reason.
Penny: Wow I can't believe all of that was caused by misunderstanding. You really over complicate things, didn't you Dad?
Patrick: Yeah but that was in the past.
Marie: It seems you are following in my footsteps. Doesn't penny?
Penny: What do you mean?
Marie: Well I fell in love with your father, because of his all action, no logic attitude, and when he did something too intense, I was mad,but I always love and appreciate him by what he did from his heart. And lets face it, your boyfriend does over complicated thing a lot of times. One time at the mall, he put up a giant poster for his mom on Mother's Day on the parking complex and he was about fall off if his mom didn't saved him.
[Everyone laughs]
Patrick: He actually baked a cake, follow me on my daily jog, tried to one up me at work, and actually learn to play ukulele just for him to study and complete his history project with you penny.
[Laughs]
Penny: At school, he sacrifice his dignity with awful an cheerleading dance, to clear up a misunderstanding and get me on the cheer squad.
[Laughs]
Penny: I have to admit Gumball is a handful a lot of times, but he does have kind heart. When he mess up, he always find a way to fix the problem, He knows when to get serious, and have a intense imagination when necessary. He always knows how to make boring day extremely exciting. I know his head is very dense but his actions make up for them.
Marie: Don't forget what he has done to you on the night of the play. (Point to her hand)
Penny: (blushes) Yeah. He accepted me for who I really am...Now it's time for me to accept Gumball for who he is. I'm going make up with him tomo….. Wait I..I can't.
Patrick & Marie: Why not?
Penny: Gumball probably still thinks I'm really mad at him...and I wouldn't be surprised if he is upset with me too.
Marie: I'm sure he is not mad at you, he must feel terrible about it right now. Penny always remember it takes 2 to tango, 1 can't be doing random movement while other tries to dance properly. You both have to be in sync to understand each other's movement. Do you get what I'm saying?
Penny: Yes, I think I do.
Marie: You and Gumball have a beautiful relationship, I can tell you both know how to give and take from each other. Gumball have done his part of giving, Now it is your time to give back. I'm confident that Gumball really regrets his mistakes, it is your choice if you can forgive him for it. Understand?
Penny: Yes I do, thanks Mom and Dad. I'm happy I spoke to you both.
[Penny hugs her parents, and head upstairs to her room, as she goes to bed pulls out a recent picture of her and Gumball from dresser]
Penny: You have given me so many things. We gone through so many things together. You showed me how to be myself. You may have a small brain, but you truly have a big heart. Gumball you are the best guy I have ever known in my entire life.
[With that she lays in bed and drifts to sleep, with the picture in her hand]
End of this chapter