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"MY LIFE IS AWESOME!" Gumball sang in the shower.
He walked out and wrapped a lush towel around his frame, he then went to the mirror cabinet and got out his new cologne.
It has been two weeks since the big shopping day and his father had been getting more and more jobs and that meant more and more money.
Oh.
And his mother got paid as well.
He put on his warm fuzzy slippers before walking out of the room and walked into his room to change.
"Hey, Darwin," Gumball said, seeing his brother.
"Hey, Gumball," Darwin said, near the wardrobe. "What kind of shoes, should I wear, today?" he had five pairs of shoes.
Because of the money, they got him multiple shoes and he could afford to switch it up a bit.
"I don't know. What are you feeling today?" Gumball said, in the mirror flexing.
"Happy," Darwin said, before saying. "I know! I'll wear my most colourful shoes"
"Are you going to wear pants as well?" Gumball said.
"Nah," Darwin said, "It's restricting. Maybe, I'll wear shorts for PE"
"Well, I'm going to dress amazingly as always," Gumball said, "I had a date with Penny yesterday and she complimented me on my sense of style"
"That you because you got that sense of style from the internet," Darwin said. "You spent all day on the internet, looking at how to dress."
"Err. Yeah" Gumball said, sweating before saying. "And with money, I can finally afford to treat Penny like a lady. You should have seen me splash out cash. It's so awesome that both of our parents are working and giving us fat wallets"
"I know," Darwin said, before saying. "I just wish that Mister Dad was home more often. The Robinsons babysit us most of the time but Mrs Robinson isn't very nice"
"I know," Gumball said, "Our parents are paying them, now. I'll much rather have a babysitter like Rocky."
"That's a great idea," Darwin said. "He's fun and I'm sure our parents would pay him more than his salary at school."
"Dad, becoming a Model was the best thing that has ever happened to us," Gumball said. "I heard that the house repairs are coming today. This place would finally stop falling apart."
"But where are we going to stay while they fix this place?" Darwin said.
"Mom said, we're going to stay in the hotel and we should take our belongings with us," Gumball said.
"Make sense," Darwin said before he said. "Dude...have you ever got the feeling like your being watched?"
"What?' Gumball said.
"...I don't know" Darwin said, "It just feels like I'm being watched sometimes. Sometimes I can't even sleep"
"Dude, why would anybody want to watch us?" Gumball said. "it all in your head"
"Maybe, your right" Darwin said.
#Unknown House#
Press Paparazzi laughed.
Ch 7: Their Lives blasted live.
Both Gumball and Darwin walked into the classroom and noticed that their classmates seemed to be glued to a thin magazine.
Suddenly Penny approached them and said. "Gumball, did you talk to the press about our date?"
"Wait. What?" Gumball said, sitting down.
"In this magazine, it details what you planned for our date, that only happened yesterday," Penny said.
She felt incredibly betrayed and gave him the magazine.
The Magazine was named 'Elmore Celebrity Kids' and it looked like the kind of magazine that was made for soppy teenagers.
Both Gumball and Darwin looked at the page.
It was an image of Gumball and Darwin at their computer in their room and underneath the picture was what he told Darwin, word for word in confidence.
"WHAT THE! WHAT!?" Gumball said.
"Gumball, you took Penny to that cheesy place called Diner?" Sarah said. "I thought it would be a bit more romantic, like having dinner for two in your own home."
"Who takes a girl to such a gross looking place" Carrier said, flipping her hair back. "That place has only been open for several month and it smells like Jim socks."
Suddenly the whole class was talking about their date.
Both Gumball and Penny were stunned, the date was supposed to be something private between the two of them and now it was mysteriously on full blast.
"Well... look on the bright side. The magazine looks like Trash. How many people have seen it?" Darwin said.
But then he Banana Joe came up to him and said. "Darwin, you didn't tell me you sleep in a small fishbowl? How can your entire body fit in there?" and then he showed him an image of Darwin clearly asleep in his fishbowl.
Darwin face drained of all colour and he joined Gumball.
Than Mrs Simain came in and started class.
When it was break time, they found Anais looking for them and in her hand was the trash Magazine.
"WHICH OF YOU TOLD THE PRESS THAT I PLAY WITH DOLL'S!?" She said, with a red face. "My whole class is laughing at me! There is even a clip of me playing with Daisy on Elmore Plus! I'm supposed to be cool, right now!"
It was be fine to openly play with Daisy when she did not have any friend and there was no expectations of her, but now that she was apparently cool with a phone and clothes to match, she had to hide Daisy away.
Now she couldn't walk down the corridor and not have kids laugh at her because she was popular and still played with a kid toy.
Even though she was four!
Just then a group of kid's walked past them and pointed at Anais and said. "That's the popular girl who has that lame Daisy doll. Doesn't she know, she's supposed to hide that because it's social suicide for a girl as popular as she is?"
"What a loser!" Said the other and then, they all preceded to laugh at her as they walked past them.
Anais' eyes started tearing up.
"I can't go back to being a loser!" She said, before suddenly grabbing both of them by the neck. "I'm too popular to go back to creeping every kid I meet, out! I've tasted the Popular table! I can't go back to sitting alone! I just can't! I'm the coolest 4-year-old in this entire school!"
To think that only two months ago, every kid she reached out to avoided her like the plague and now they were begging her to be her friend.
She couldn't go back to that.
She refused to go back that.
"O-Okay, calm down," Gumball said, as he and Darwin managed to free themselves from her grip despite the fire in her eyes.
"Maybe, it's not that bad?" Darwin said as he read the page.
Both of them cringed.
"Oooh. It's bad. Your new Daisy and the full playset is in the picture" Gumball said, with an uncomfortable face. "You're popular now, so that's social suicide"
"How did the magazine even know I have the new Daisy and playset?" She said, "Why does the picture look like it was taken from inside the house?"
"It gets worse. You should look on page 23, 24 and 25." Gumball said.
She turned and was stunned.
Mom was even in here!
"Huh. So that's her morning make-up routine" She said, before snapping out of it. "Wait a minute! All the Pictures are from inside the house! Who is the photographer!?"
Both of them did not know the answer so she rolled her eyes and got out her phone.
"Thank god, we have phones and mom let me renew my internet allowance," She said, before using the phone to get into the internet and search.
Things had really changed in their lives.
But when she saw who was the photographer, she froze.
"What is it?" Darwin said as both he and Gumball looked over her shoulder.
However, they joined their sister when they saw a man with a camera for a head, below was the name.
Press Paparazzi.
"Wait. Isn't that guy in jail?" Gumball said.
"We'll. He's obviously out!" She said. "But how did he get these photos?"
Then the school bell rang.
They had no choice but to go inside.
Which meant they had no choice but to listen to complete strangers talk about their personal lives.
"Gumball," Tobias said, in the locker room, showing them a certain page. "How much weight do you think this is, that your dad is lifting? And how far does your dad jog every morning, I want to compare"
"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" Gumball said as he and his brother want to their much better Lockers.
"Okay. Okay" Said, the guy backing off.
However, the questions kept coming which made them happy to get out of school, when the bell finally rang, however, they were surprised to be picked up by a very angry looking Nichole Watterson.
"KIDS! GET IN!" She yelled, and they did as they were told.
"Mom. What about work?" Anais said.
"Screw work!" She said, "I spent the whole day, having my co-workers criticize my face routine even from the woman who puts on way too much make-up, to the point she looks like a clown! My own boss was even saying that I would look so much prettier if I gave a person, he know a call"
And all three of them cringed.
She drove manically passed the house, just in time to see the repair people arrive.
"MY STUFF!" Gumball said, what if his stuff was stolen?
"Don't worry about your stuff. If there is anything missing from the house than I have it tagged" She said, surprising them all until they remembered this was the woman who would beat a man with his own walking stick if he even showed any interest in what they had.
They drove to the Hotel they had booked for a few days.
It was a 3-star hotel.
"Welcome!' Said, the employee outside the hotel but Nichole stormed right past him and right to the counter and said, in a pleasant tone.
"Hi, I'm Nichole Watterson, I called a week ago. These are my three kids. Where is our room?"
Which made it that much scarier.
"The room is upstairs and it's the one on the right" Said, the counter person, he had seen how mad she was.
"Thank you," She said, before going to the elevator and waiting for her children to join her.
The ride was only 10 seconds before they found their room on the right and she opened the door.
The room they were met with was a lot nicer than both their rooms in the house.
Then she stormed to the largest bed and flopped down on it, letting out all her anger in a single muffled scream.
Gumball, Darwin and Anais looked at each other awkwardly.
She finally got up and said. "If it wasn't for that stupid magazine..."
"A Magazine that has 'Press Paparazzi' name attached," Anais said.
"Who?" Nichole said.
"He's the guy who stalked us for a day and almost made the bus crash, some time ago." Darwin explained, "He might be out jail, now"
Just than Nichole heard ringing from her phone and saw it was the repair guys.
Just great.
Some problem, she needed to solve and no doubt pay extra for.
She answered the phone and said. "Hello?"
She did not even care that it was on Loudspeaker.
"Mrs Watterson, are you and your family on a Reality TV show?" Said, the voice on the other end.
"What? No!" She said all four of them thought it was a very strange question to ask.
"Then this is awkward," The voice said. "I and the crew were just starting to move things out of the way when we found a tiny Camera. And it, not just one. There's a bunch of tiny cameras scattered around your home. Each one of them is on too. Who knows how long they've been recording for"
Silence.
"W-What?" She said, she began to go pale and so did her kid's.
"A lot of them are in the bathroom and bedroom. The places that are meant to be the most private." Said, the voice. "Luckily we got a guy who likes to collect super Magnifying glasses and he let us borrow one so we can see the fine print on them. It says property of P.P. Do you know a P.P?"
"P.P?" She said.
And suddenly it clicked for Anais.
"Press Paparazzi," She said, making them all look at her. "...That's how he got those pictures! He's been monitoring us in our own home!"
Every one of them looked at each other in absolute horror.
Hidden cameras have been filming them
For how long had he been monitoring them!?
How much did he see?
"Mrs Watterson?" Said the voice on the other end.
Nichole suddenly picked up the phone and said.
"You have my permission to use the phone and call the police. I want this guy caught"
Nobody spied on her in the shower and got away with it.
And scene!
Next chapter, the Watterson arrive at the home to meet the Police there, but their incompetence is shocking. Review/fav and follow!