Hey everyone, I hope you had a good Christmas and New Years. I did. I went down to the South Island of New Zealand to see Family and I have been hanging out with a friend rectently. I have free time now so I uploaded another chapter. I hope you enjoy.
Chapter 9 Monday to Thursday
-Monday-
"So, you and Carrie are really going on a date this Friday?"
Gumball let out a sigh. "Yes!" he said, so loud that people walking by stopped and stared. This was the third time Darwin asked since Gumball told him yesterday. He almost felt offended that his brother was having a hard time believing that he got a girl to go on a date with him. Gumball had, had two real girlfriends where as Darwin has had none. That was twice as many.
"Sorry dude, I am just really happy for you." Darwin said as he rubbed his fin along Gumball's back. "I am glad something is working out for you. I thought it would be a lot longer before you dated another woman again."
Gumball relaxed when hearing that. "Thanks man." he said.
"No problem," Darwin said with a smile. "So how are you and Carrie going to act around school?" a smirk appeared on Darwin's face. "Are you two going to be all lovey dovey?"
Gumball punched Darwin lightly on the arm. "Knock it off dude. We are going to act normal. Right now we are still only friends, so there is no reason to start acting like a couple." Gumball heard a noise. He looked to his left and saw what they were waiting for. "The bus is coming." Gumball said.
When the yellow vehicle stopped in front of them, they got on and went to sit in the back seats. A couple of seats in front of them to the left, Gumball noticed Carrie sitting down next to Terri. He decided to call her over to sit next to them.
"Hey Carrie, come over here." he called but she didn't reply. She didn't even turn back to face him. He tried again but nothing changed. He started to wonder what was up with her.
"That doesn't seem like acting normally to me." Darwin said. Though Gumball was annoyed at his brother for feeling the need to bring it up, he was right. There was something up.
The day did not get better. During classes Carrie didn't sit as close to Gumball as she had been lately and when he tried to get her attention she ignored him completely. So when she walked past the table he and Darwin sat at, at lunch, he decided to give it one more try to get her attention.
"Carrie."
This time she turned around and gave Gumball her attention. "Hey Gumball." she said, quieter then Gumball expected.
"Uh…." Gumball tried to find the right words. He was a little lost for what to say after hearing her so soft spoken. "Would you like to sit with us?" he eventually got out.
Carrie shook her head. "No thanks. I'll sit with the girl's today." she then floated away before Gumball could say anything else.
Gumball let out a sigh and buried his face in his hands.
"What's with her?"
"I don't know" Gumball said. "I guess the date on Friday is getting to her more than I thought it would."
"What?!"
Gumball looked up and let out a groan. He had forgotten that Tobias was sitting with him and Darwin today. This was just perfect. He'd better do some damage control quick before he told the whole school. Just Banana Joe knowing would be bad.
"Tobias, don't tell anyone. Carrie and I are just going to give it a try. There is a possibility that we won't do it again after Friday and I would prefer if the whole school didn't know about It."
"Don't worry about it." Tobias reassured. "I won't tell anyone. I promise."
Gumball relaxed. "Thanks man."
"No problem." he said with a wink. "By the way, I hope you enjoy your K-I-S-S-I-N-G."
"Tobias!" Gumball yelled.
"Hey, I said I would keep your secret. I didn't say that I wouldn't tease you mercilessly for It." he said as he started singing the song about being up in a tree. Gumball let out a groan.
'This is going to be a long week.' he thought to himself.
-Tuesday-
After another Day of Carrie not talking to him, Gumball decided that he had, had enough. When he got home he told Darwin to wait outside as he locked the door to their room. He took a deep breath and prepared to summon Carrie.
"Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie, Carrie."
In a flash, Carrie appeared in Gumball's room, looking very bewildered. When she noticed Gumball, a look of irritation appeared on her face.
"Will you please stop doing that!" she yelled. "It is really annoying when someone can make you appear out of nowhere."
"I just want to talk and since you seem to be avoiding me, I figured this was the best option."
Carrie's face softened as she everted her gaze from Gumball. "I wasn't avoiding you."
"Righttttt." Gumball said.
"I…" Carrie let out a breath before continuing. "I was just trying to act normally, like we agreed."
Gumball raised an eyebrow. "And how is you avoiding me when you and I have been doing nothing but hanging out together for the last six weeks acting 'normally'?"
"You're right." Carrie said through a sigh before turning her gaze back to Gumball. "I suppose it is not acting very normal is it. Today a couple of the girls asked me if something had happened between us."
"What did you tell them?" Gumball asked curiously.
"I just said that I wanted to eat with them today. I don't think they bought it but they did eventually stop asking me about It."
"I see," Gumball said with a smile. His face turned serious as he prepared to ask a difficult question. "Do you still want to do this?"
A confused look appeared on Carries face. "Do what?"
"I mean do you still want to go on a date?" Gumball said. "It is clearly making you nervous. It is not too late to back out now. I promise that I won't make it weird between us if you do."
"No," Carrie said, a slight panic in her voice. "I still want to do this. I just….." she paused for a second before continuing. "I just don't know how to act around you now."
"Just do as we agreed." Gumball said as if the answer was obvious. "Act normally. You don't need to avoid me. We are still friends. Let's just keep hanging out and we will think about the date on Friday, ok?"
Carrie smiled. He really knew how to handle this situation. "Ok."
Gumball let out a sigh of relief. "Good because Tobias won't stop teasing me and I feel he will stop if you are hanging out with me."
"Why is Tobias teasing you?" Carrie asked, confused.
Gumball, realising that Carrie might not be happy with what he is about to tell her, took a deep breath before talking. "I kind of let it slip that you and I were going on a date."
"What?!" Carrie yelled. She was concerned now. Tobias had a big mouth. If he knew, then how many other people in the school know.
"Don't worry," Gumball said, putting up his hands defensively. "He won't tell anyone. He is just teasing me a little bit. It is irritating but I can handle it."
Carrie took a deep breath and relaxed. A smile then appeared on her face. "Don't worry Gumball, I will sort it out." and just like that, Carrie teleported from the room.
-Wednesday-
When the bus arrived at school, Carrie went right into the building and looked for Tobias's locker. When she found it, she went through the door and waited inside it. She felt a little uncomfortable when she saw the contents of his locker. It was normal for a guy to have pictures of girls or even a mirror in his locker. When someone had pictures of himself, posing, inside his locker, that's when it got creepy.
When she heard the combination lock of the locker starting to turn Carrie got ready. The door opened and Tobias jumped a little bit. Carrie grabbed him by his sweat band and pulled his face in front of hers.
"C-Carrie," he said nervously. "What's up?"
"Stop teasing Gumball." she said as intimidatingly as she could.
"Come on. I haven't told anyone that you two are going to go out on a date on Friday." he said through a nervous laugh. "All I'm doing is teasing him a little bit. It is normal for guys to do that. Does he need a girl to fight his battles for him? If he can't handle it then he doesn't deserve to call himself a ma-"
Carrie let out a growl which made Tobias stop talking. "I mean it." she said. "Leave him alone or I am going to haunt you. You got that?"
Tobias nervously nodded.
"Good," Carrie said as she let go of his head band. She floated right through him and headed to class.
When lunch came around, Carrie sat at the same table as Gumball, Darwin and Tobias.
"So, everything cool now?" Darwin asked.
Carrie smiled. "Yeah, don't worry, everything is fine now. I am sorry I was acting weird. I promise that it won't happen again."
As they ate, Gumball noticed that Tobias was being very quiet. It's not that he minded. On the contrary, it was better than all the teasing that he had been doing to him the last couple days. Still, it seemed a little strange that he wasn't talking at all.
"Tobias, are you ok?"
Tobias only nodded as he continued eating his food.
Carrie smiled. "Don't worry about him." she said. "We had a little talk about his teasing. He will start acting more mature, right Tobias."
Tobias paled as he nodded his head slightly.
Gumball didn't know what she did, but it had clearly gotten him off his back.
-Thursday-
School today had gone off without a hitch. Now it was only one more night's sleep before the date. He was nervous but also excited at the same time.
"Hey dude."
Gumball looked over at Darwin to give him his attention.
"What are you going to do on the date? I mean you have had four days to plan out what you two are going to do. Do you want to go through it with me so we can make sure your plans sound good when you say them out loud?"
Gumball's eyes widened. "Oh man, I forgot to think about what we are going to do."
"What?!" Darwin said shocked. "How could you forget?"
"I don't know man. I guess I was caught up with Carrie avoiding me and Tobias's teasing that I didn't have time to think about it." Gumball got off of his bed and headed to his computer. "No worries, I will look online and figure out some stuff. How hard could it be?"
Darwin let out a sigh. "You are also going to need some money for whatever you figure out. You better go and talk to mum about that."
"Good idea," Gumball said with a smile. "Thanks buddy." after searching online for a good hour, Gumball had figured out what they would do tomorrow. Now that, that was sorted out, he went down stairs to take Darwin's advice and ask there mum for some money.
When he found her in the kitchen, he said her name to get her attention.
She turned around and asked him, "What is it Gumball."
"Can I have some money for tomorrow?"
"Why? What for?" she asked.
"Well I kinda…. have a date tomorrow."
A big smile appeared on his mother's face. "That's great honey. I am so happy for you. Who are you going out with?"
"Carrie." he replied.
Nichole was a bit surprised by that at first, but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense. They had become closer in the last couple of months and it was her that helped Gumball get over his depression over Penny leaving.
"Well, I hope you two have a good time." she said.
"Thanks mum."
Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed it and am looking forward to chapter 10, were Gumball and Carrie will go on a date.
