Chapter 7: Solution?
Gumball was standing outside of school with Anais and Bobert. He had went and found them for their assistance, and he was patiently waiting for his younger sister to read the folder with written documents he had found left in his backpack from an anonymous person. "Let's see… it reads here that you were injected with multiple new types of medicines for therapy, mainly around victims of war trauma," Anais read what the folder proclaimed. Gumball swiped it away, but his eyes stayed blue as he stood there, nowhere happy about this. "I don't believe this… they lied to me! They said it was medicine for therapy, not military recovery!" Gumball shouted, but his robotic friend noticed something which he couldn't help but point out.
"Gumball, your eye didn't change color when you got mad this time," Bobert pointed out, noticing this. Gumball let Anais read over the next page of the folder. He noticed it as well that he felt the same, and wasn't in a fit of uncontrollable rage. "Oh yeah… I didn't," Gumball replied, surprised by this. Anais gave the folder back to him so he could do what he needed with it. "The last page basically explains that the personality changes are, based off suppressed emotions and feelings. The only way to deal with it is to confront what makes them go off the most," Anais explained what it read. Gumball scratched his head, but noticed the bus drive off. They had missed it due to the long conversation they had.
"…Oh… that might explain my anger problem being dealt with," Gumball muttered silently to himself, looking away awkwardly. "What do you mean?" Bobert questioned, glad to be spending more time with his friends. "I kind of beat Tobias badly over a rumor he started," Gumball answered. The sun was shining brightly now since the heavy rainstorm that had been annoying the three since this morning had finally ended. "So you dealt with your anger personality? That's great! Now we just gotta figure out the other three," Anais exclaimed, cheerfully thinking this was so far going well.
Gumball looked at the time and sighed. "We need to go home. I'm too tired right now…" Gumball claimed. The siblings gave small waves to Bobert before walking away. Gumball was contemplating to himself over what they should do in case they were unable to help the young boy anymore with the Multiple Personality Disorder he which was still suffering from.
Gumball was walking beside Anais through the wet streets of Elmore, thinking to himself and pondering what to do now. "You have no idea who makes you act out into those other personalities the most?" Anais asked. "No idea…" he shrugged. He had not a clue on who set him off or who to confront to deal with his last three personalities. All he knew was the sooner he figured out who, the better. Along the way, the young rabbit noticed her older brother stop on his tracks. Penny was coming towards them with her books in her arms. "Anais, stay quiet," Gumball whispered, not wanting her to say anything. He had a bad feeling over just being near her.
Gumball stood silent while seeing Penny stop in front of him. "Oh, hey Gumball," she greeted him. It was an awkward moment for Gumball, for he didn't expect to run into her today at all. It seemed like they now avoided each other on purpose. "Hey, Penny…" he hesitantly responded, unable to bring himself to acknowledging her. "How have you been? I've been hearing a lot of things about you lately in school," she said, trying to strike up conversation which just confused gumball even more, but his curiosity was only captured by her last sentence.
"What did you hear?" Gumball questioned, curious to what else was being heard around school. "Well, as a start, you brutalized Tobias, you helped Teri with some wound of hers, and you haven't been acting like yourself at all," Penny explained what she had heard, even though the principal believed Gumball would have never even harmed Tobias, everyone else was hearing otherwise from Tina and Jamie, the one thing he thought was inevitable. "Listen, Gumball. I'm sorry about what I said, but you shouldn't be trying to change yourself for me. I also wanted to say…" she told him with a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "W-well…" Gumball stuttered, interrupting Penny, thinking of it as the perfect excuse to avoid confessing his current problem.
"L-Listen, Penny, I gotta go," Gumball insisted, cutting her off. He was starting to feel like one of his personalities was trying to take over again. He grabbed Anais by the wrist and dragged her off, not wanting his former girlfriend to witness his sudden change in actions. He continued on home as planned.
Later on at home, the two siblings were sitting in Gumball's room while Darwin was doing his chores. They thought that it would be the best time to try and find out ways to get rid of the other personalities. "I forgot to say sooner. Thanks for doing my homework for me," Anais thanked him since her big brother had let his smarter personality do their homework for them in a breeze. "Yeah, it was nothing," he responded, his blue eyes gazing at the floor like he had been scolded. He was saddened and lost in a sea of thoughts and emotions beyond reason at this point, due to the encounter with Penny not long ago.
"Right, let's begin. I'm just gonna ask questions and I want you to answer them truthfully," Anais forewarned him about how it was going to work, since she was acting like a practical therapist for her big brother at this point. "Have you noticed anything make you sadder than usual lately?" Anais began the questioning. Gumball rubbed his eyes, thinking back on it. "I don't know…" he muttered. "You said you couldn't even smile around mom, right? Like you feel even sadder?" she added onto the questions. "Whenever I'm around her, I think everything I do makes her angry at me," he declared and sighed. He went and sat down on his bed, lying down and thinking on everything that had happened today.
"Alright… you said Penny dumped you for being immature, right?" Anais questioned, only receiving a nod from her brother while he lay in his bed. She just wrote it down on a sheet of paper. After another couple of hours, she was now viewing everything she had written down from the session. She just let out a sigh from reading the many results. "You're probably not gonna like this, but I think the best hope you got out of all the things you told me on this list is to confront mom and Penny," Anais declared that out of everything she had listened to and written down, this was the kind of solution that made the most sense of the last three personalities. She hoped this would at least solve two of them.
Gumball couldn't help but fall asleep from the long day, knowing that he had a lot more to do tomorrow. At least now he knew a method on how to solve his remaining three personalities, hoping this will be an effective remedy for this.
End of Chapter 7