Chapter 8 Talk

"Mum." Gumball said, getting her attention.

She turned around to face her son. "What is it sweetie?"

"Could you take me to Carrie's?" Gumball asked with a smile.

"But you were just there yesterday." she asked confused. "You asked me to pick you up earlier then we agreed yesterday and now you want to go back? It's getting a bit late."

"Well… uh….." Gumball said, trying to think of a good excuse. "It's because I left something at Carrie's and I need to go pick it up."

"Can't you just ask her to bring it to school so she can give it to you there tomorrow?"

"No!" Gumball yelled a little louder than he expected. "I mean that I need to get it back now. Come on mum I promise I will be quick."

She was about to say no but she stopped when she saw the look of desperation in his eyes. She let out a sigh and said, "Alright, let's go get it. Quickly though."

Gumball smiled and said, "Thanks mum." before he headed to the car.


When Gumball made it to Carrie's house, he took a deep breath to relax his nerves and then knocked on the door. Her father was the one that opened the door.

"Hello Mr Louko-watc…." Gumball paused, getting tongue tided at Carrie's father's name. You think he would learn how to pronounce it after all the times they have gone to Carrie's house. "Hello Vlad."

"Hello Gumball, it is nice to see you again." he said with a smile. Gumball felt a lot calmer after seeing Carrie's father like this. It looked like he didn't know about the kiss.

"It is nice to see you too again Vlad. Can I please talk to Carrie about…. Something," he said, trying not to give anything away.

Valdus's smile turned into a smirk. "Is it about the kiss?" he said. Gumball paled which cause Vladus to laugh. "Relax, I am not mad." Gumball relaxed when he heard that. If he wasn't mad then maybe there is a chance that Carrie is not mad at him. "You might find it hard to get Carrie to talk to you though. She is a little confused right now."

'It looks like Darwin was right.' Gumball thought. He wondered what he will have to do to get Carrie to talk to her.

Gumball then snapped his fingers as an idea came to his head. He took a deep breath and said, "Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie."

Carrie suddenly appeared in between Gumball and Vladus looking very confused. When she looked over at Gumball she got annoyed. "What's the big idea? I told you I don't like that."

"Relax," Gumball said. "I just did it outside your house. Anyway I think we need to talk."

Carrie ignored Gumball and started floating up the house to her room.

"Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie."

Carrie appeared right where she did before, this time looking very irritated.

"Gumball! Don't do that! I mean it!" she yelled at him.

"Look, I think we shou-"

"Carrie." her father said, cutting Gumball off. "You should talk to him about it."

Carrie looked at her father annoyed for a while. When she realised that she wasn't going to get out of this she sighed and gave her father a nod. Vladus smiled and closed the door, leaving Gumball and Carrie alone.

Carrie looked over at Gumball and said, "Ok, you want to talk, talk."

Gumball was suddenly a little uncertain of what to say after being just put on the spot. "Don't you want to go somewhere instead of standing right here?"

"I'm fine with being here." she said, not giving away any emotion on her face.

"Oh, ok." Gumball said. He took a deep breath and got ready to talk. "Look I am sorry I kissed you. I can understand that it made you uncomfortable."

Carrie floated there quietly for a while before she replied. "I wasn't uncomfortable with you kissing me. I was just confused."

Gumball let out a sigh of relief. "Good." he said. Carrie raised an eyebrow at his response. "No, I don't mean it was good that you were confused. I mean it was good because I was confused as well. I wasn't even sure why I was doing it at the time."

Carrie relaxed and smiled at Gumball. She was about to say something but Gumball continued talking.

"That is kind of what I want to talk to you about." Gumball said. This was the part of the conversation that he was looking forward to talking about the most and the least at the same time. "I didn't realise at the time why I kissed you yesterday but I think that I might know why now."

Carrie eyes widened. Was he going to say what she thought he was going to say?

"The thing is, it might have had something to do with being caught in the moment with you leaning on my shoulder and all. However, Darwin reminded me that I wouldn't have kissed someone I didn't feel something for. So…." he paused.

'This is it.' he thought.

"I think I might like you." he said, taking a second to relax now that he had said it, before he started talking again. "It's cool if you don't feel the same way about me. I might have subconsciously thought that you might have liked me as well and that's why I did it but it is cool if you don't. I just want us to be friends again."

Carrie was really conflicted with what to say here. If she just said that she wasn't interested in him then they can go back to being friends and nothing would have changed. Which would be good. But Gumball was just so honest with her about how he felt and she felt that she should return that kindness. He had earnt that from her.

Carrie thought about it before deciding to do what she thought was the right thing. "I think I might have subconsciously wanted it to….." she paused, really hoping that telling him this was the right thing. "Happen as well. The kiss I mean."

Gumball looked at her with wide eyes. "Really?"

"I don't know….. Yes….. Maybe. I don't know." she said. Carrie was worried now that maybe she should have just said she wasn't interested.

There was a silence between them that felt like it went on for a lot longer than it actually was.

When Carrie saw Gumball move closer to her, she got a little startled and backed up. "Sorry," Gumball said as he took a step back. "So what do you want to do about this?"

Carrie really didn't know what to say. "I have never been in a relationship." she just blurted out a little louder than a normal voice.

Gumball laughed awkwardly at Carrie's random outburst and scratched the back of his head. "I have only ever gone out and liked the one girl myself, so I am not much better than you?"

"So you want me to be your girlfriend?" she questioned. "I am not like Penny you know."

"I know." Gumball said, a little confused by her last statement. Gumball then realised something. "I hope you don't think I am hanging out with you because I think of you as a replacement for Penny. You are nothing like her. You are your own person. You're funny, smart and twisted."

"And why would you want to go out with someone that is 'twisted'?" she said, almost as if she was accusing him of something.

"Is that the only thing you heard out of what I just said?" He asked calmly. He knew that if he got snippy with her it wouldn't work out well. "If I didn't like that side of you then I wouldn't have hung out with you all this time. I like you Carrie, all of you."

A blush appeared on Carrie face. She couldn't think of anything to say to that.

The blush wasn't lost on Gumball and it cause him to blush. Seeing Carrie embarrassed was kind of…..cute? That was the only words he could think of to describe it. He took a moment to choose his next words carefully.

"Look, I am not trying to say let's be boyfriend and girlfriend now. But I like you and I think you like me, or at least not opposed to the idea of me kissing you. So why don't we just try going out once and see what happens? We can decide what we will do about this after that."

Carrie was unsure what to do. At first, the thoughts that she had when she was talking to her father came back to her head until she remembered exactly what her dad said in response.

'One day you will want to be in a relationship and you are going to have to put your worries to the side and trust someone.'

Maybe she should give it a try. She knew that she liked him more than other boys.

"What if, this doesn't work out and we end up not wanting to be friends?" she asked, letting her insecurities take over one more time.

"You don't know when it comes to these kind of things. However, I am certain that even if this doesn't work out, I will still want to be friends with you and I believe that you consider me a close enough friend that you will not end our friendship because of something like this."

A lot of Carrie insecurities were answered with this. She didn't know if she loved him or not but she knew that if this didn't work out that Gumball would still be her friend after this. And if she was going to try being in a relationship, maybe she should do it with someone she not only trusted but someone that she knew that she had at least some feelings for.

"Alright."

Gumball looked up at her. "Alright?"

Carrie looked away from Gumball and took a deep breath. "I don't mind giving this a try as long as you promise me that we will still be friends after this."

Gumball was frozen on the spot.

"Gumball?"

Carrie's voice brought Gumball back to reality. "Sure, as long as you promise me the same thing."

Carrie smiled at him. "Of course." They stood there awkwardly staring at each other, not knowing what to say next. "Well?"

Gumball blinked in confusion. "Well what?"

"When are we going to give this a try? I haven't been in a relationship before so I thought you were going to sort that part out."

"Oh, right." Gumball said as he laughed awkwardly. "We can't really do it today because Sunday is nearly over, so how about we do it next Friday after school?"

Carrie nodded. "And until then we act normal at school, agreed?" Gumball, nodded his head. "Ok, I guess I will see you tomorrow at school."

"Right," Gumball said awkwardly, "See you later."

"Bye," Carrie smiled and went through her front door into her house.

Gumball turned around and tried to take in the fact that he is going on a date next week and he was very uncertain with what to do. He got into the car and did up his seat belt.

His mum looked at him confused. "Did you get what you forgot?"

Gumball was confused before he realised what his mother was talking about. "Oh, it turns out that I never left it there. Sorry about that mum, I guess I made you drive all this way for nothing."

Gumball's mother looked annoyed but quickly got control of her anger and started driving them home. Gumball sat in the car and tried to think of what they will do on Friday. He needed to make sure that Carrie at least had a good time so she wouldn't have bad memories of her first date ever.


Author's Note: Merry early Christmas. It is December 23rd in my country and it will be the last day hat I am in my regular environment for a while. I wanted to get one more chapter out before the end of the year. I feel kind of bad that I won't be posting a chapter for the next couple of weeks because I think that the GumballxCarrie fans will feel that the fanfiction is getting to the part that they want to see, the date. If it makes you feel any better, the next chapter wasn't going to be the dating chapter. It will be the next chapter after the next chapter. I will try my best to get the next chapter out as soon as possible next year.

I hope you all have a good Christmas and New Years.