My Li'l Gummypuss – Chapter IV – A Carrie x Gumball Fan Fiction
A/N : So like… imagine everything in the past chapters were in a middle-school setting, which should be pretty easy because it already is in said setting, so I'm gonna change the setting to that, I'm too young to know of College stuffs, more familiar with High-School so… Gumball's 15 and I'll leave you to convert everyone else's age.
It was an afternoon after school, Gumball had arrived home. His mum greets him while he was going up the stairs, he couldn't care less about it, hence making his mom even more worried about him. He makes his way to his room, checks and it was empty.
Gumball lied down, his bed ever so comfortable. He wasn't snoozing, he was wide awake, listening to sad indie songs from his MP3 Player. Remembering what the girl he knew he loved had said to him three days before. He did as she asked, whenever he'd see her, he'd leave the room, he didn't want to make her feel worse as the damage he had already done was enough.
The depressed boy stares endlessly at the ceiling, occasionally a small drop of tears would emit from the crisis he was experiencing. He hears a knock from the door, he looks up, and it was Darwin and Anais. He puts his head back in the position it originally was when he was gazing upon the dull ceiling.
Anais takes a seat on the computer chair and faces it towards Gumball, Darwin just sits next to him on the unoccupied part of the bad. Anais examines the sad specimen lying discouraged on the bed. She sighs and breaks the silence.
"Gumball, can I ask you a question?"
Gumball sits up on the bed and takes one earphone out, still remaining silent.
"What'd you see in Carrie that made you this devastated?"
He couldn't answer the question, searching the depths of his head, he couldn't find an exact answer to his sister's question, so he just shrugs, putting his earphones back and lying back down.
"Look… Gumball, you gotta pull yourself together, because no one else is gonna do it for you." Darwin utters
"What's the point though?"
"What do you mean? It's not like you…"
"I love her man… I haven't felt this way about someone since I had Penny. I just don't know why…"
The two understood what he said, they look at each other and decided to leave him alone. Gumball had skipped dinner that night, and the two nights before. He could only listen to so much songs before falling asleep.
The alarm clock beeps 6AM sharp and Gumball gets up from his deep sleep. He takes a shower and brushes his teeth. He takes his clothes from the closet and puts it on. Slim-fit jeans and his favorite sweater, for his undershirt he wore a light-grey t-shirt which was from his hamper.
He goes downstairs and gets a bowl, a carton of milk and cereal. He poured what's left of the milk and cereal into the bowl. Head laying on his hand over the bowl of cereal he plays with it for a bit. Finally he takes a spoonful of it and puts it in his mouth. He takes a few more spoons before deciding he'd eaten enough, barely finishing the bowl. He throws out the excess and puts the bowl next to the sink.
Going down the stairs was Darwin, still half-asleep. Spent all night studying for a test the following day, it's expected of him to be in this state. Gumball puts his earphones on and listens to the same songs he had on repeat the day before. It was Thursday, second to the last day before he'd be free to sulk at home all day as was his intent.
Darwin sits on the old but still comfortable couch and turns the T.V. on to watch a show while waiting for his sister to finish showering. He switched to a lesser-known news channel, a segment of the news about an unsolved murder-rape comes to screen, and so far nobody has been identified as a suspect. Gumball heard this as he had put his volume to be low enough to hear the T.V. Speakers. The news then switches to a couple's suicide, a dispute between the two led to the female overdosing herself in bed. When the male found out, he'd decided to follow her to death, supporting it with a suicide note that says "I'm sorry, I'll help you once I find you-". Darwin switches the morning news channel where a weather forecaster begins to state the weather for today, tomorrow and Saturday. "Light drizzles" to "Heavy rain" is expected these 3 days. He takes off his earphones and pockets it but leaves his MP3 Player on the counter and heads to brush his teeth.
Gumball checks the time on his phone "6:30". Still 15 minutes before the bus usually arrives, even so, he exits the house to wait for the bus, the clouds were grey, but not a single drop of rain yet. He keeps walking to the bus stop, knowing he didn't have to worry about Carrie being there because she's now taken to school by her dad.
He realizes he left his MP3 Player at home but realizes he has his phone so he just plugs the aux cord for his earphones in. He uses his music to isolate himself away from social interactions. He has collections of music on his MP3 and Smartphone, his MP3 Player is just more updated where in the case of his smartphone, he can't quite remember the last time he updated his music folders. Looking at the albums in the music app, he can get an idea. Albums such as "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" and "39/Smooth"; pop-punk, the genre most-often Carrie favors.
Finding these in his phone, he had no other choice than to listen to it, he taps "All Tracks" and presses "Shuffle" which leads him to listen to a song with a steady clean guitar. The vocalist lazily starts to sing "Late dawns and early sunsets", but lazy in a good, impactful way, like in grunge music.
His siblings come up behind him and right in time, the bus is spotted in the distance.
"Hey Gumball! You left your MP3 player at the counter." Darwin says.
"Wha-? Oh, I don't need it" replies Gumball, totally feeling with the music in his phone.
"Oh… What're you listening to?"
"Ummm… old stuff…"
"Right…"
The bus finally comes to pick them up after the awkward small-talk. Gumball and Darwin take an empty seat as Anais takes a vacant seat behind them. Right at the moment they left the bus stop, it started to drizzle. Gumball likes to cherish atmospheres like this, watching tiny droplets of water on the glass race downwards. The music from his phone then switches to a completely different song, a disturbing pick slide is present in the intro, the same vocalist starts singing but in a different tone, this being more aggressive and fast paced.
After a few bumps, 2 bus stops, they arrived at school. Gumball gets down from the bus and looks around. He spots Carrie looking at him, no emotion in her face, they lock eyes with either of them having no apparent emotion evident to their face. The bell rings, they head toward the school entrance, heading to different rooms.
Gumball still felt guilty, all he did while they were together was be his obnoxious self and get Carrie humiliated. "What's wrong with me?", "Why am I like this" he often asks himself. He wants to change, not only for his good, but for the good of Carrie.
END OF CHAPTER 4
A/N:
Yes, I know I've been gone for about a year, maybe new readers will stumble upon this carcass of a fan fiction and enjoy it, but yeah, thanks for reading frickers. I'm osrry if you expected it to be better than the last one, I mean... you'd expect me to get better at writing with a year of absence, but nahh. k bye.