Authors note: Sorry this took so long to upload. I promise to have the next few chapters out quicker.


Chapter 5 Movie

"Is this the right place honey?" Gumball's mother asked as she stopped in front of a very creepy looking mansion.

"Yeah, this is it" Gumball said as he picked up the plastic bag that was next to him and got out of the car. "Thanks for dropping me off."

"No problem. Have a nice time with your friend." she said with a smile.

"I will mum. Give me a call if Darwin gets better." he closed the door to the car. He waved his mother off as she left. When she was out of eye shot, he started walking to Carrie's house.

Today the three of them planned on going to a horror movie that Carrie was looking forward to, ironically about ghosts. They were even going to a theatre out of town, by train, to see it. However, Darwin had been sick for the last two days and couldn't come with them to the movies liked they had planned. This would be the first time that he and Carrie would be on their own together in the six weeks they have been hanging out.

'Six weeks,' he thought to himself. He couldn't believe that it had been six weeks since Carrie had randomly shown up in his room with Darwin to cheer him up about his former girlfriend Penny breaking up with him. He had no idea that they would have become closer friends because of it. He would have liked to have thought it would have happen eventually between them even if Penny hadn't moved away, though he had his doubts. He was just happy that something good came out of something bad.

He knocked on the door a few time as he waited for Carrie to answer. When Carrie open the door she gave Gumball a smile before a confused look slowly appeared on her face.

"Where is Darwin?" she asked.

"You know that cold that made him miss the last couple of days of school? Well he still isn't better, so it is just going to be you and me today." Gumball explained.

Carrie nodded and said, "Well, come on in." Gumball did just that. When they got to Carrie's room she floated over to her computer and began typing something into it. "You make yourself at home while I have a look at what movies are on that we can watch."

Gumball scratched his head, confused by what Carrie had just said. "I thought that we were going to see that new horror movie that you wanted to see?"

Carrie let out a sigh. "It turns out that, that movie is rated R sixteen now, so we can't go see It." she explained.

"Aw man," Gumball said in frustration. "I'm sorry about that Carrie. I remember you were looking forward to this for a while."

Carrie gave a shrug. "Don't worry about it." she said as she continued typing "I can go see it the next time I am on my own at the local theatre. I wanted to spend time with you today so whatever we see will be fine."

"What do you mean you can go see it on your own?" Gumball asked, again confused. "You're not sixteen. And why will you go see it at the local theatre? I thought you liked the theatre out of town. That's why you invited me there, isn't it? "

"Well you see when I can't go to a movie I want to see, I just go around the back of the local theatre, go through the walls and watch the movie from the top of the room," she explained. "No one has ever caught me doing It."

"Wow, that's so cool." Gumball said as he went to sit on Carrie's bed. After a while an idea popped into Gumball's head. "Let's do that then." he said.

Carrie turned around to give Gumball her attention. "Do what?" she asked.

"Let's go through the walls of the theatre and watch the movie."

This time it was Carrie's turn to look confused. "And how do you suppose we do that? You can't go through walls let alone float to the top of the theatre room."

A smirk appeared on Gumball's face. "Do you still have that potion from that Halloween party?"

Carrie's eyes widened. "I don't think that is a good idea Gumball. You remember what happened last time."

"Yeah but the difference is that it isn't Halloween, so there is not going to be any ghosts dragging me into the underworld. Also it is like mid-day, so I have plenty of time to get back into my body before midnight."

Carrie stopped to think about it for a minute. She did really want to see this movie with Gumball and he was right, the risks were not that high of him not making it back to his body in time. Still, to say there was no risk would be stupid.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Carrie asked seriously. Gumball gave her a nod. Carrie quickly went through the idea in her head again before making a decision. She went to her closet and looked among the various potions. When she found the right one she handed it over to Gumball. He drank the whole thing and a few seconds later he floated out of his body.

"Wow, I forgot how strange this feels," Gumball said as he began floating around.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Carrie said trying to sound offended. In all honesty she wasn't offended at all. She just wanted to see how he would react.

Gumball wasn't able to see through Carrie and began backtracking. "I didn't…. I wasn't trying to say….. I really didn't mean to say….."

Carrie started laughing at his nervous display. "Relax I was just teasing." she said. Gumball pouted and Carrie laughed again. "Don't do that, it is not very manly."

"Whatever." he said.

"So you ready to go to the movies now. If we float there now we can make it to an earlier showing."

Gumball gave a nod and the two of them headed out.


"You ready?" Carrie asked.

"Are you sure that we are at the right part?" he asked.

"Relax." she said, giving him a reassuring smile. "I told you I have done this before. We go through this wall and we will be inside cinema six."

Gumball gave her a nod and took a breath to mentally prepare himself. They counted up to three and went through the wall. Sure enough they were in the right theatre and the movie had just started.

"Alright!" Gumball said with enthusiasm. "We did it. Way to go Car-" he was cut off by Carrie putting her hand on his mouth.

"Be quite." Carrie whispered. "You don't want us to get caught do you?" Gumball shook his head no. "Good now let's watch the movie." she said, removing her hand from his mouth and turning to face the screen.

"Sorry," Gumball whispered.

"Don't worry about it,"

About half way though the movie Gumball was really confused why Carrie wanted to see this movie. It wasn't scary at all. In fact, he found he had to stop himself from laughing most of the time because of how cheesy the film was. The acting was terrible, the effects looked so fake and the camera couldn't stay still for even a minute. The only thing that was stopping him from laughing and making jokes about the movie was the fact that he knew Carrie was here and he felt she might find it disrespectful to laugh at a ghost horror movie.

He hadn't even looked at Carrie at all the whole movie. He had been just quietly watching the screen because he knew how much she wanted to see it. He decided to have a look and to his surprise, she looked like she was on the verge of laughing as well. She had one hand covering her mouth and the other hand was wrapped around her waist.

"Are you ok?" he asked.

Carrie took the next few seconds getting a hold of herself, before answering him. "Yeah, I'm fine. Can you believe how bad this movie is?"

"What?" Gumball questioned.

"I mean, the ghost looks so fake. I know it is hard to make a ghost look real but they look like they didn't even spend a quarter of their budget on it. Unless they had the budget of a sandwich. And the acting is horrendous. Did they just get guys off the street to be in this movie? I knew it was going to be bad but this is a whole new level then what I thought."

Gumball was confused. "What do you mean you knew it was going to be bad?"

Carrie snorted. "Are you kidding? Not a lot of modern day horror movies are good and ghost horror movies have never been the best of the genre."

"Why did you want to see the movie then if you thought it was going to be bad?" he asked.

"Because there is a difference between a bad movie and a hilariously bad movie and this one is definitely the latter. I love to watch and riff on these movies." suddenly one of the characters died on screen in a very over the top way and Carrie started laughing into her hand again. "I was surprised you didn't say anything about how bad the movie is. You seemed like the type of person who would totally make fun about how bad a movie is."

"Well I thought you were enjoying the movie so I kept my mouth shut." Gumball explained.

Carrie let out another laugh because of what Gumball said. "You actually thought I thought this was a good movie? You've seen some of the horror movies I like. Did you think that I would like this because it has ghosts or do you think I have no standards and like all horror movies?"

Gumball felt a little awkward right now. He didn't know what he thought. He just felt like keeping quiet and paying attention to the screen. He didn't mean to offend Carrie or make her feel that he felt she had no standards.

Carrie saw the guilty look on Gumball's face and hit him lightly on the shoulder. "Relax," she said. "I know you were just thinking about me and my enjoyment of the film. Thank you Gumball, I appreciate it."

Gumball smiled and they went back to watching the movie. For the rest of the movie they quietly whispered jokes to each other. The movie was a lot more enjoyable now that he was talking about it with Carrie. He learnt that she had a good sense of humour since they started hanging out but she was really in her element talking about these kinds of movies.

Carrie was also having a much better time now that she was talking to Gumball. He was one of those people who was naturally funny. No matter what the situation, Gumball was always able to think of something funny to say.

When the movie ended Gumball looked down and noticed that only a few people were leaving?

"What's up with them?" he asked.

Carrie looked down to see what he was talking about. "Oh they are probably staying for the scene that happens at the end of the movie." She explained. A smirk appeared on Carrie's face. "Hey Gumball, since you're a ghost do you want to try really scaring people?"

Gumball looked up at Carrie and returned her smirk. "It sounds like you have a plan." he said. Carrie leaned into Gumball's ear and whispered her plan. His smirk turned into a big grin as she talked. "This is going to be awesome." Gumball said. He floated through the wall to get in position.

When Carrie was sure Gumball was in the right place, she flew through the wall to the projector room and took control of the system. She took a deep breath and began the plan.

"Foolish mortals!" she yelled through the speaker in as creepy of a voice as possible. "You watch your films about ghosts? You think ghosts are entertaining?"

"Is this part of the scene after the credits?" one person said in confusion.

"This can't be it. The credits aren't even over?" another one said.

"This isn't it. I saw this film yesterday and nothing like this happened?"

"It's probably some new guy in the projector room playing a prank."

"This is not a prank!" Carrie yelled as loudly as possible. A lot of the members of the audience jumped. "You treat us like we're a joke. You think it is funny being dead? Being trapped on earth because of unfinished business that we can't possibly hope to get rid of because we're dead." this is going perfectly in Carrie's mind. There were a lot of people in the room that looked terrified. It was now time to give Gumball the signal. "Well now it is time for you to feel our suffering?"

Gumball suddenly appeared through the projector and let out a big roar. Many people screamed as Gumball flew around people's faces. It was now Carrie turn. She flew out through one of the speakers and let out a roar as she also flew around people. The people all screamed and went running out of the theatre room.

"That was great." Gumball said in glee.

"Yeah," Carrie said as she got control of herself. "We better get out of here though. The person in charge of this place might recognise me and he won't be happy with what I did."

Gumball realized something when she said that. "That's why you don't go to the local theatre when you are just going to sit down and watch a movie. You scare people when you are here and you would be recognised."

Carrie nodded before she flew through the wall with Gumball following closely behind.