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Ever since that day, their lives had become a living hell.
Press Paparazzi was slandering them left and right and centre, and they could do nothing about it.
Their lives that were pretty great before, had become a publicity nightmare.
They tried their best to run but he also found them.
And then Richard got more work and two more people with camera's appeared at their step to add to their problems.
With each time, Richard want out to work, the number would scarily increase.
Eventually it got too much for the man.
"I DON'T WANT TO GO!" Richard said, as they tried to push him out.
"We don't have the money to dispute this in Court" Nichole said, she had bag's under her eyes.
In fact, even the kid's had bags under their eyes.
The fame was great at first but it had become a living hell.
What she wouldn't trade in for a day where her eyes weren't blinded by flashes of the camera.
Richard who was much lighter, was soon forced out of the house and walked towards the limousine like he was on death row.
Of course, his attitude was a cause of concern, when he got into it and didn't once crack a smile.
"Richard...What's wrong?" Tana said.
"...It's nothing" He said.
"No, Richard. Tell me" Tana said.
And Richard took a chance and said. "We'll, the Paparazzi won't leave my family alone. It used to be just one guy but each time I go to work, the number increases. They take pictures of me and my family at their most private moments. Nichole can't even sleep because of camera flashes. Every time I go to work, I feel like I'm abandoning them."
"We'll, welcome to the world of celebrity's" Tana said, making Richard look at her. "When your famous. These kinds of people show up because you use your appearance to make money. The Paparazzai was bound to stalk you eventually. It comes with the money."
"...Oh" Richard said. "So, I can't anything about it?"
His family was doomed to endure for the rest of their lives and never be able to sleep again?
"Who said you can't?" She said, surprising him. "As the Paparazzai try their best to invade the famous, privacy and come up with new ways to do it. The famous have evolved as well. I know of a way for your family to get their privacy back and still be rich and famous'
"Really?" Richard said, smiling. "That's great"
However, when he heard it, his smile vanished.
They had to do something that would affect their lives forever.
Leave Elmore.
Ch 9: The spirit of leaving.
Everybody rushed home when they got a text from Richard about their privacy problem.
Somehow, he know of a way for them to the Paparazzai, off their back and they could keep the money and the exposure.
However, when they met Richard, he was kind of down.
"What's wrong Richard?" Nichole said, "Didn't you tell us, that you have a way of getting our privacy back? What is it?"
"Yes I did...But. It comes with a price" Richard said.
"We'll, do anything!" Anais said.
"I want to be able to sleep and not have my face on a front cover!" Darwin said.
However, what Richard said next was a bomb shell.
"Nichole...Kids" he said. "We have to leave Elmore"
Silence.
"What?" Gumball said.
"Richard, you're not making any sense" Nichole said.
"All those famous people who have privacy don't live in Elmore, Nichole." Richard said. "You heard what Press Paparazzai said. The police won't be able to do anything against those who invade our privacy. We have to move to a place much more secure that actual has prison and guards. You'll have to get another job in the town and the kids will have to go another school."
They all looked at him stunned.
"W-What?" Darwin said.
"Nichole, kids. It's the only way" Richard said,
"What about hiring body guards?" Anais said.
"Then, they'll just stalk us from a far" Gumball said, "They might even sue us if a bodyguard assaults them for just 'looking'."
"I can't leave my job and look for another in some unknown town" Nichole said, "The kids can't leave the school. Our whole life is here."
"Actually, we can" Anais said, surprising her parents. "The whole school pretty much hates our guts because of what the Paparazzai, are doing. Hardly anybody is talking to us."
"Penny broke up with me!" Gumball said, breaking down and crying. "She said, she couldn't be in a relationship with somebody who is famous. Camera's stalk our date and Press is even stalking her. He put up camera's and wire tapes! Her dad said it was the only way to keep their family privacy."
The news was devastating.
They all know how long he had fantasied dating Penny and then it actually happened.
However, their relationship ended because of who he was related too.
"My popularity is now none-existent" Anais said.
"Nobody wants to be my friend" Darwin said.
They both joined their brother in tears.
"I hate my job so much!" Nichole said, breaking down.
"We'll. It looks like we can leave" Richard said.
"But we don't have the money for a brand-new house" Nichole said, those things were crazy expensive.
"That's why Tana talked to the head of the Modelling agency" Richard said, "She explained the situation and he agreed to let us live in one of his house's. All, I have to do is sacrifice a little bit of my cut of the money."
"How much are you making now?" Gumball said.
"About 27, 000 dollars per shoot" He said.
However, there wasn't absolute shock.
Once they had more money that they know what to do with, hearing thousands made them numb.
"And it would get higher the more exposure you get" Nichole said, "I don't want to see what happens, when you hit the 30,000 mark"
All of them might wake up to their windows filled with camera's.
"We'll, the company gets a bigger cut, so it's no big deal" Darwin said, they had so much that a few thousands was nothing to them now.
"However, wouldn't it be much harder for Dad to get out of the contract If they are making more money off of him?" Anais said.
Silence.
However, they still wanted the finical security the jobs bring without the Paparazzi following their every move.
"Great. We can move in next month." Richard said, "The place needs time to be ready for us"
"I'll call the school in the morning and Richard, you can give me the town the house is in, so I can enrol them into the nearest public school" Nichole said, before she had an idea. "Wait. Let's enrol them into a private school"
All three kids were shocked.
"Y-You mean...join the kids who have the air of being better than us in every way and look away when they see Elmore public kids walking down the street?" Anais said.
Those guys were douchbag's but boy did they have a fabulous life, that every kid secretly wished they had.
"What does that even look like..." Gumball said, with wide eyes.
All three had a fantasy about going through a fancy hall in fancy school uniforms and not sitting in a classroom that smelled like something died in it.
They had fantasies of walking down the street and making poor people jokes at the regular kid's and going everywhere in massive car's even if it was just to get around the corner.
"It would be glorious" Darwin said, before saying. "Without the douchbagness"
All three wondered what it would be like to have a up to date everything inside a school.
#The next day#
"I'm going to miss that bus" Darwin said, as they got off the bus.
"I'm not going to miss the smell." Anais said.
Then all three walked in and immediately got hateful glares.
However, something mysterious happened, all of those glares were reflected like a shield back to them, knocking them over.
"What just happened?" Gumball said.
"It's the power of leaving" Anais said, shocked. "We don't care anymore about what happens to us while at school. The other thing we care about is counting the days until we leave."
"Wait, so we're immune?" Darwin said.
"Just like every kid who has managed to truly leave this terrible school!" Gumball said, "Their last few days were always glorious"
Suddenly they were all looking forward to their own class.
All three of them were shunned by their own class's.
However, they didn't care.
Everybody noticed they didn't care and wore smiles on their faces instead.
"Why are you two so happy?" Banana joe said.
"We leaving" Darwin said, surprising the whole class.
"We're leaving the school and the town" Gumball said, before his smile bigger as he said. "So, do whatever you want with us. We don't care!"
The whole class was stunned.
They were leaving?
And Miss Simian was about to find out, what it was like with Gumball and Darwin smiling at hour of the day as the result of the spirit of leaving.
Nichole Watterson was about to be hit with it as well.
#Rainbow Factory#
"Mrs Watterson. How is the assignment for next month coming along?" Said, her boss Mr Yoshida.
"Huh?" She said, "What assignment for next month?"
"The one, I briefed everybody on in the meeting last Friday in my office" Said, Mr Yoshida.
And that's when Nichole understood.
He had nominated her at a meeting she wasn't allowed to go.
She was once again going to have to find and beg anybody who was at that meeting, so that she know what the hell he was talking about and managed to make the deadline.
"Seriously, Nichole" Mr Yoshida said, "You should listen more. No wonder you're not employee of the month"
And Nichole had to stop herself from strangling the man by digging her claws into her table, the same table that had many claw marks on it from over the years.
However, something happened.
It was like a light had hit her and the anger went away.
Suddenly she got up and said.
"Mr Yamada. Why don't you do it?"
"Excuse me?" The man said, about to walk away.
"I'm not going to get any credit so why should I do it?" Nichole said, calmly. "Oh, I get it now. You love to see me beg my fellow male co-workers for information because you're a sexist pig"
You could just hear the whole office go silent and the man looked stunned.
"Mr Yamada look at the employee of the month wall" She said, "The only time I got employee of the month was because I was friends with your wife, at the time and we both know it. Your own sexism is on display for every worker here to see and it done so proudly."
Everybody jaws dropped one by one.
Had Nichole lost it?
But why was she so calm?
"And Mr Yamada. If you weren't so blinded to your own sexism, you would realise I work twice as hard as my average male counterparts but it's always them who get the credit" Nichole said, "I was being paid a fraction of what I should have been paid and because of that, my whole family could not escape poverty. I had to wear the same clothes over and over again and so did everybody in my family because we couldn't afford new clothes. We could only afford the essential. But you don't care because I'm a woman who is only here to look pretty."
Mr Yamada looked like he was being slapped and said. "Mrs Watterson, I don't know what's gotten into you but don't expect a pay check at the end of the month"
"Go ahead" She said, shocking all of them.
Nichole was always the one who practically begged for her pay check.
"If you haven't noticed, I'm wearing newer and more expensive clothes AND I have a new hairstyle" She said, making them all looked to see she did have newer clothes and a better hairstyle.
She had shoes!
"And do you know how I can afford it?" She said, "My husband. My husband now makes more money than even you do in a single day. Do you think I need your lousy pay check?"
She then pulled out her Elmore Gold card like a boss and you could feel the power trying to sweep them off their feet.
"See this?" Nichole said, "I got several"
All of them were stunned.
Only the rich got that card and she had several!?
She didn't need this job!
It was the first time, Nichole could actually brag about her husband without feeling shame.
"Now with how much my husband is making, I can afford all the things that I has only been a dream" She said, before getting out..
"Is that a?" Mr Yamada said, while the employees looked at the mystical object with wide eyes.
"It's a mobile phone. Not a business one. A personal one." She said, before further shocking them. "And it cost over 200 dollars. My whole family has these. Do you think I could have gotten one if I used my pay check? I don't need to work here. I haven't needed to work here in a very long time. I walked through the door out of habit."
Before she said.
"So Mr Yamada. Thank you for the past 15 years" She said, before she said the words that no employer had ever said to his face.
"I quit"
A shockwave wrung out the whole office and Nichole felt the invisible chains tying her down to this job just drop off like they were made out of tin foil.
The Employees were shocked.
They had never seen an Employee get free!
It was usually them being fired!
"I'M FREE!" She said, in shock and happiness, before yelling. "See you around town everyone. Mr Yamada keep my check and any future checks, I don't need them. I'll never step foot in this building as an employee, ever again"
Then she went to the elevator and did a little dance that they could all clear see before the door closed.
She was free!
Before the Elevator moved she heard.
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS STARING FOR!? BACK TO WORK OR YOUR FIRED!" Came Mr Yamada voice.
Many Employees wanted to be free like her but they didn't have a model gorgeous husband like she did to bring a massive amount of cash in.
Nichole kissed everybody on the way down before getting in her car, she was the happiest people had ever seen her in years.
Mr Yamada stormed into his office.
In all his years, he had never been spoken in a such a way.
However, even if she were to beg for her job back, he wouldn't give it back to her this time.
He didn't need her.
However, nobody noticed the camera in that office as the whole thing went down.
Mr Yamada did not realise that Nichole Watterson was no longer just anybody who the public did not care about.
Cameras have been following her for several weeks, which meant the public did care about what she did.
Mr Yamada was about to find out what happens when the paparazzi get a worthwhile scoop especially one about blunt sexism.
They were about to ruin him and dance on his corpse while doing it.
And scene!
Next chapter, Nichole gets a call from her boss begging her to come back which she ignores and the Watterson's leave Elmore behind for good and move into their new place. Review/fav and follow!