Gage the Hedgehog: Thanks. This chapter is longer now (around 2000 words). Enjoy :)

Next week (18th of September), I'll put a public poll on my profile page where anyone can vote to save the housemates up for eviction.


Saturday – 8:33am – Hallway

For Jimmy, the responsibility of keeping the bakery key safe was crumbling. Jimmy had checked his pockets for the metal object used to unlock the door but found that it was empty. He took a deep breath and tried to look calm, thinking about the possible location of the keys. Timmy Turner, his best friend in the house looked at him in concern.

"Jimmy, you alright? You've been fidgeting and looking around like we're doing something suspicious." Timmy asked Jimmy who was showing more and more signs of stress.

"I'm fine, Turner. I'm just worried that the others will discover the whereabouts of this room." Jimmy replied back before checking his pockets again.

Timmy impatiently tapped his foot and rolled his eyes at Jimmy, "You don't seem like it. We've been standing here for five minutes now! Did you lose the key?"

"Uh... I might have." Jimmy admitted, avoiding eye-contact with Timmy.

"What are we gonna tell the Dipper & the others?"

"I don't know but if we don't find that key soon, we'll be in big trouble!"

"Let's go look for it before anyone wakes up." Timmy said, "I'll check the garden while you check the bedroom. Be careful about it!"


As the two boys parted their ways, a certain hedgehog, raccoon & mole hid in the hallway closet, recapping the conversation that occurred earlier.

"See! I knew they were hiding something! And they have that key!" Sonic whispered.

"Had." Corrected Eileen, "We need to find that key before they do! Who knows what secrets lie inside it!"

"Probably some luxury items," Rigby guessed.

"The key is hidden somewhere so we need to split up to find it." Sonic stated.

Eileen itched her nose, "But what if we run into Timmy or Jimmy?"

"Just chat to them about ordinary stuff. Anything to keep them from finding those keys. Say you're looking for your contact lenses." Sonic suggested.

"Are you sure that would work?" Eileen asked, "I mean, Rigby isn't really a good liar to begin with."

"I'm a good liar!" Rigby defended, "It's not my fault that Mordecai is better than me!"

"Anyways, I'll check the hallway while you two can check the kitchen." Sonic explained while Rigby & Eileen were nodding in agreement.

"Okay, got it!" Rigby confirmed.

"Just don't let them find it first!" Sonic reminded as the three of them went their separate ways.


8:43am – The Living Room Where All the Slot Machines Are

"Ew!" Penny gasped at the sight of the oily boxes from last night, sitting on top of the poker table, "What's with all the empty pizza boxes?"

"They probably had a pizza party without us." Gumball pointed out, "But at least the slot machines work now!"

Penny proceeded to pick up the pizza boxes, "Well we might as well get rid of these. It smells really awful!"

As Penny picked up the stack of the three boxes with her free hand, Gumball noticed a golden key, once hidden from the pizza boxes.

"Penny!" Gumball gasped, "Look what I found."

"A key? What is it doing here, just lying around?" Penny said.

"I think it's the skeleton key!" Gumball whispered, not wanting anyone else to hear, "We need to keep it a secret until Monday."

"But where should we hide it?"

"I'll just keep it hidden with me," Gumball replied, placing the key in one of his pockets, "We can't let anybody know about this!"


10:19am – The Hallway

Inside the Big Brother hallway, Dipper, Mabel, Marco & Star proceeded to try entering the secret room to no avail.

"That's strange." Dipper commented, "It isn't usually locked."

"Maybe they're already inside?" Marco thought, knocking on the door, "It's us! Let us in!"

There was no answer.

"Did we do anything to piss them off?"

Mabel gasped loudly, "Dipper, you just said the 'p' word! We're not allowed to say the 'p' word!"

Dipper shrugged, "So what? We're not in Grunkle Stan's shack anymore!"

"Doesn't mean you're allowed! What if SpongeBob hears the 'F' word?"

"You mean, the word fu-"

"Hi everyone!" SpongeBob interrupted, "What are you all doing around a locked door?"

"Um... what locked door?" Star tried to divert attention.

"The one behind you?"

"That silly thing? That's just a drawing!" Star explained, unconvincingly.

"Looks real to me."

"That's because Marco drew it! Right?" Star nudged.

"Ye-yeah. I'm a great artist so it looks... um... real."

SpongeBob grew suspicious, "I have a feeling that you're all lying to me... but friends never lie behind other friends back so bye!"

SpongeBob smiled and walked away. The four twelve/fourteen somethings sighed in relief as soon as he was gone.

"That was close." Dipper exclaimed.

"Too close." Mabel agreed, "But I have a warm feeling of guilt inside me!"

"It's part of the game. We shouldn't take it personal." Dipper responded.


11:36am – The Living Room

In the living room, a certain blue cat & shapeshifting fairy were playing on the slot machines together, taking turns pulling the lever. SpongeBob then walked in the room in hopes of joining them.

"Hi Gumball! Hi Penny!" SpongeBob greeted.

"Hey SpongeBob, what's up?" Gumball smiled, pulling the slot-machine lever again.

"Not much but I find out that Marco's an artist!"

Penny's face turned into confusion, "Marco's an artist?"

SpongeBob nodded, "Yeah, Marco & the others were all looking at the painting of a door."

"Are you sure it was a painting?" Gumball raised an eyebrow.

"Obviously. They said it was a painting!"

"I think they were lying to you." Gumball said.

SpongeBob laughed, "Nah, they wouldn't. We're friends! Friends don't lie to each other!"

"Maybe they don't think of you as a friend?"

SpongeBob's face went blank, as if he was about to cry. "Th-they do-don't like m-me?"

"Hey, don't cry!" Gumball patted SpongeBob on the back, "Me & Penny are your friends!"

"Really?"

The two of them nodded. SpongeBob smiled and engaged in a group hug with the two.


12:39pm – The Garden

All of the housemates were huddled up in the garden, ready to receive a BB slop bucket for lunch. For the six human housemates, they were struggling with the taste of it.

"Ew!" Star complained, "This brown slop tastes like blended cardboard."

"I know right!" Mabel agreed, "It tastes more horrible than I thought!"

"We've been eating this for a few days already? Why are you just saying how horrible it is?" Sonic asked with suspicion.

"Yeah why?" Rigby added on.

Mabel & Star were sweating now. Before anyone could divert the subject, Mabel gave in and confessed.

"Alright alright! Me, Star, Marco, Jimmy, Timmy & my bro Dipper were hiding a secret bakery from everyone! If anybody else found out about it, we would lose it!"

"I knew something was up!" Rigby fist-pumped the air! Eileen shook her head.

"You just bandwagoned on Sonic."

"So that explains it!" Sonic smirked before he frowned again, "Why aren't you inside the bakery?"

"Jimmy lost the key to the room." Dipper explained.

"About that key..." Gumball spoke up, grabbing the secret key from his pocket "Me & Penny found it under the pizza boxes."

"You guys had Pizza?" Spongebob asked in surprise.

"Well not everyone." Gumball frowned, "Still, we should still see if there's still some food in the Bakery."


12:53pm – The Diary Room

The housemates used the key that Gumball had on the locked Bakery door. The door-lock clicked and the door opened. Unfortunately, the room behind the door was restyled into a fancy Diary room.

"Wait what?" one of them gasped, "I thought this was the bakery."

"It was, until Gumball found out about it." Big Brother told everyone with the new Diary Room intercom, "So we made it into a diary room since someone destroyed it. Feel free to say your feelings inside the room."

"That's nice I guess." Eileen the mole commented.

"Also, I would like Gumball & Penny to head to the diary room to claim their reward for using the key. Everyone else, please proceed to the living room."

"Alright, see you later Gumball!" Spongebob waved as he followed the others to the living room.

"Ok buddy!" Gumball smiled as he and his girlfriend locked themselves in the Diary Room. Once everybody was gone, Big Brother spoke privately to Gumball & Penny.

"Hello Gumball & Penny."

"Hi Big Brother!" the two of them greeted.

"Gumball, as you can already know, you found the key of the secret room and used it to open it. You didn't necessarily find it but technically you got the tools to uncover it. Do you feel like you deserve it?"

Gumball thought for a moment before replying, "Now that I think about it, I'm torn. On one side, I feel like I do because without the key, we wouldn't be able to prove it but on the other side, if it wasn't for Sonic & Rigby pointing out what Mabel said, me & Penny would've still thought they were for the handcuffs."

"I see. Now Penny, do you think you deserve to share the reward with Gumball?"

"Honestly no. As much as I love Gumball..." Penny explained, kissing Gumball on the cheek, causing a blush to appear on his cheeks, "I feel like Gumball deserves all the credit. I'm just the girlfriend that is handcuffed to Gumball."

"Don't say that Penny!" Gumball comforted, "You're cool and you helped me find it when you wanted to clean up the pizza boxes!"

"It seems that you two have a strong relationship." Big Brother spoke.

"Yeah, we've been going out together ever since I convinced her to crack open her shell."

"Figuratively I presume?"

"No, she was literally was a Peanut before the whole shell incident."

"Yeah, I hid my emotions really well." Penny added.

"Back on topic, since Gumball found the key, the two of you will have to deliver a killer nomination. The person you nominate will automatically be put up for public vote. The other two nominations will be voted on by everyone on Sunday."

"Is there a catch?" Penny asked.

"Yes there is. The first is that you may only pick one person from the group that knew about the secret room."

"Can I reminded on who is in the group?"

"Of course! In alphabetical order, the people you may nominate are Dipper, Jimmy, Mabel, Marco, Star & Timmy."

"Thanks. May I whisper to Penny about my choice of person?"

"Yes." Big Brother responded. Gumball & Penny whispered to each other, wandering about who deserves that nomination. After a few minutes, the two of them stopped whispering, indicating that they were ready.

"Who's going to deliver the nomination?"

"I will." Gumball said.

"Alright. We would like you to nominate one housemate to be put to the public vote for the Friday eviction. Also, please state why."

"Me & Penny have decided to nominate Marco for the eviction."

"Why did you pick Marco?"

"Well it's mainly because SpongeBob complained about Marco lying to him. I felt bad for him since he was about to cry. I just hope SpongeBob is alright now thanks to my decision."

"Thank you. Your nomination has been accepted. You can now head over to the others."


The next chapter will be just a recap of pretty much the first six chapters, some extras and of course the nominations. Stay tuned for next week and hope you enjoyed it!