I was going to upload this yesterday but I couldn't. I was at my dad's house watching the Royal Rumble and there was a problem with the internet. Sorry for the wait. I hope you enjoy the first part of the date between Gumball and Carrie.
Chapter 10 The Date part 1
Today was the day. When Gumball woke up he got dress and was about to go down stairs to eat breakfast but Darwin stood in the doorway.
"What are you doing?" Gumball asked.
"Is that what you are going to wear?"
Gumball looked at himself. "What's wrong with it?" he asked. He was just wearing his normal clothes.
Darwin sighed. "It looks like you put no effort into your appearance. You need to wear something a bit better than that."
Gumball looked at him confused. "Like what?"
"Come on, let's look in your closet and find you some decent clothes to change into after school." Gumball was about to protest but stopped when he realised that Darwin was right. He should really make sure that he looks like he is taking this seriously. What if Carrie had done something special with her hair or something and Gumball showed up like he didn't care.
After school Carrie waited for Gumball by the front door. He seemed pretty relaxed today which was good. She however was nervous. This was the first date that she had ever been on. She was starting to wonder if it was a bad thing that she let Gumball do all the work. Maybe she should've said that she would think of what they would do, or at least some of it. Instead Gumball has probably been thinking of how to make the date good, while all she had done for the last week was be nervous and make Gumball feel awkward because she avoided him. Well there was nothing she could do about it now. All she could do was have a good time with Gumball and see how the day went.
"Hey Carrie."
Carrie turned around and her eyes widened a bit. There was Gumball wearing a white button up shirt and some black jeans. He was not wearing those clothes in school today. He must have had them in his bag to change into after school. He really was putting in some effort. It made her feel bad that she didn't go the extra mile. Then again, she was a ghost, it's not like she could have done much.
"Carrie?"
Carrie snapped back to reality. "Hey Gumball. You look….. nice."
Gumball blushed slightly. "Thanks."
"Where is your school bag?" Carrie asked. "Did you leave it in your locker?"
"Nah, I gave it to Darwin to take home for me." he explained. "So are you ready to go?"
"Oh y-yes." she said as she was starting to feel nervous again. She needed to calm down. She didn't want to ruin the evening.
"Great." Gumball said with a smile. "Let's go then." they walked to the bus stop and waited for the late bus. No one from there class took that bus so there was a good chance that they would avoid any awkward moments if they took it.
When the bus arrived they got on and sat at the back. They sat there in silence for a while before Gumball spoke.
"So Carrie, are you ready for today?"
Carrie only nodded as she looked out the window. She didn't really know what she was supposed to be doing right now.
"Carrie?"
She turned her head to look at Gumball.
"You don't have to act any differently then you normally do. Just be yourself and treat me how you normally do, ok?"
Carrie smiled. Gumball really knew how to handle this situation. His reassurance was exactly what she needed to hear.
"Thanks Gumball," she said. "So, have you been planning out what we are going to do for a while?"
This time it was Gumball's turn to feel awkward. "Oh yeah." he lied. "I have been spending the whole week deciding what to do today." he figured that it would be better to tell her that then to tell her that he had actually forgotten about figuring out what they were going to do until yesterday.
Carrie could sense that Gumball wasn't being completely honest but she decided to let it drop. "So where are we going?" she asked.
Gumball smiled. "We're going to the bus station. From there we are going to take a bus out of town to that theatre you were going to take me to last weekend and watch a movie."
'A movie huh?' Carrie thought. 'It sounds simple enough.'
"So what are we going to go see?"
"Well actually I have got us tickets for two different movies." he said, pulling them out from his pockets.
"What are they for?"
"One is for the latest sequel in your favourite movie series Nightmare on Elmore street, Nightmare on Elmore Street Part XIII." he said as he handed her the ticket.
"How are we going to get in though?" Carrie asked. Normally those movies were Rated R sixteen.
"The movie is rated PG thirteen so we will be able to get in." he explained. "And the other is for the movie, The Loving Bears 2."
Carrie looked at him confused. Why in the world did he choose to take her to that movie? That show was for kids. Did he think that because she liked A Pony's Tail, which is animated by the same studio, that she would be interested in seeing that movie?
"Well that's….. an interesting choice." she said, trying to sound as nice as possible about it. She didn't want to hurt his feelings after he paid for two movies for the both of them.
Gumball had a smile on his face. "I know what you're thinking but the reason I bought a ticket for The Loving Bears 2 is because before the movie starts, they're going to air a 10 minute preview of the third A Pony's Tail movie that's going to release next year. I figure that we would watch that and then leave and go and watch the other movie. It should be on twenty minutes after that."
Carrie was surprised. She had heard that there was going to be a preview for the third A Pony's Tail movie at The Loving Bears 2 but she had completely forgotten about it. Gumball really had put a lot of thought into this date. "Thanks Gumball." Carrie said as a warm smile appeared on her face. "I'm really looking forward to it."
"Good, I am glad. After that I was thinking that since we 're going to be in a different town, we could take the time to scare some new victims." he said as a mischievous grin appeared on his face. "Then I was planning for us to come back to town, go eat at a restaurant and then head home."
It seemed like she had nothing to worry about. She was in good hands with Gumball. Carrie felt really calm about today.
When they arrived at the theatre, it was packed with kids. She hoped that they all weren't here to see The Loving Bears 2. She hated being in the theatre with a bunch of kids. They were loud and talked throughout the whole movie.
They went to the theatre and got to their seats. It turns out she was right. They all were here to see that movie. They ended up sitting in the third from front row because of how full it was.
"Sorry about this." Gumball said. "These were the best seats that I could get."
"Don't worry about it." Carrie reassured. "This is what we get for going to see a kid's movie after school."
The trailers began playing. There wasn't really anything of interest in the trailers. Carrie thought that a couple of them might be good if she was younger but not at her age. Then again, she really enjoyed A Pony's Tail so there was a chance that she would like these movies. Still, she didn't think she would go out of her way to see them. She might wait till they come out on DVD and see if she feels like renting them.
The preview began to play and right away Carrie got excited. As it went on it looked just as good if not better than the first two movies. They had added some new characters and the villain looked very intimidating. She was disappointed that the preview ended so quickly.
"So should we go?" Gumball whispered.
"Yeah." Carrie replied. They got up and left just as the production logos for The Loving Bears movie came on screen.
"So what did you think of the preview?" Gumball asked as they exited the theatre room.
"I thought it looked just as good as the first two." she said.
"Really, I thought that it looked better than the first movie but not as good as the second movie."
Carrie was surprised by Gumball's statement. "Wait, I thought you'd only seen half of the second movie."
"After I watched the first half of the second movie I decided to watch the rest of it and the first one."
"I see," she said. She was partly happy that he had seen them because now she had someone that she could gush about how good they were to. "So, why do you think this only looks better than the first one and not the second one?" she asked.
"Because of the villain." he explained. "I thought the villain in the first one was not very interesting. The second one was a lot better and funnier. This one kind of seems like a mixture of the two. Everything else looks just as good as the other movies though."
"Why did you find the villain in the first one uninteresting?" Carrie asked confused.
"Because he didn't really do anything interesting. He just kept going 'Mwhahaha, I am evil.'"
"Really, I found the villain quite intimidating in the first one. When he broke out of his prison, that was quite scary."
"I guess bu-" Gumball looked at the clock. "We better get into our next movie." he said.
They walked over to theatre 6 and got ready to see the movie they were really looking forward to.
To say they were disappointed was an understatement. This was the first time either of them had been old enough to go and see one of these movies in the theatre and it was terrible. It wasn't even so bad that it's good, like that movie they saw last week. This movie was just bad. There was hardly any blood, they cut away whenever a death got brutal and most of the characters were so annoying that you wanted to see them die.
Not to mention there were a lot of douchebags in the audience talking throughout the whole movie. Carrie thought that if they stayed through the kids movie it would have been bad but those kids can't have been any worse than the guys in this movie.
"Well that wasn't what I was expecting." Carrie said.
"Sorry about that." Gumball replied, feeling awkward. "I saw some of the reviews but I just thought that it was one of those cases where the critics were being snobby."
Realising that Gumball was feeling bad, Carrie punched him on the arm playfully and gave him a smile. "Don't worry about it Gumball. I would have gone to see it myself anyway. I'm glad that I saw it with someone else then by myself."
"Yeah?" Gumball asked just to be sure.
"Yeah. After all, misery loves company right?" she joked.
Gumball laughed a little at that. "So do you want to go out there and give the people of this town something to really be scared of?"
Carrie nodded. "Sure. Who knows, we might end up scaring some of the people that were in that theatre. I would enjoy that after I had to listen to those people comment throughout the whole movie." she said as they left the theatre.
Author's note: For fun, see if you can guess in the reviews, what movie franchise I'm refrencing when I'm talking about the villains in A pony's tail.
