Gumball and Darwin headed to their classroom, the feline still deep in thought.

"Hey, Gumball?" Darwin called, only to receive no response.

"Gumball?" He called again. Still nothing.

"Gumball!" He placed his fin on his brother's shoulder.

"AHH!"Gumball back in surprise.

"Oh my god, I'm so s-sorry! I didn't mean to startle you!" Darwin apologized.

"It's fine, I was just so lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice you. What's up?"

"I just noticed you don't have your bag on you? Where is it?"

"What do you mean? My bag is right..." He felt around his back before letting out an exasperated sigh. "Ah, gosh darn it! I was so caught up in my argument with Mom that I forgot to grab my bag on the way out!"

"Hey, it's alright. It's not that big a deal."

"Not that big a deal? Dude, I don't have any of my textbooks or notebooks or anything! I won't be able to follow along or make any notes! Oh man, I'm gonna get in so much trouble! What am I gonna do Darwin!?" Gumball panicked, beginning to tear up slightly.

"It's okay dude, relax!" Darwin tried to calm him down, with no success.

The feline began to hyperventilate and he strolled back and forth. "No, it's not okay! Ms Simian is gonna be right on my case! I'm gonna get weeks of detention, and Mom is gonna be even madder at me, and, and, and-"

Darwin, realizing his brother was threatening to slip into a panic attack at any moment, quickly took hold of his paws and squeeze . "Gumball, calm down. Take deep breaths!"

Gumball stopped, looking at his brother. He saw the genuine look of concern is his eyes. Slowly, he closed his eyes and begun to take deep breaths, calming himself down.

"There we go, that's it, just keep taking deep breaths." Darwin reassured him.

"W-what am I gonna do though? I'm screwed!"

"No, you're not You can just sit next to me and share my stuff, okay? Honestly, it's really not that big a deal. You're just getting yourself all worked up over nothing."

"-R-Really? Y-You're sure you don't mind?" The feline asked, sounding slightly surprised.

"Of course not dude! It's no problem!"

"W-What about you though? Do you have enough stuff for yourself? I d-don't want you getting into trouble for helping me.."

"Yes Gunball, I have more than enough paper and I always bring a couple of pens in case one runs out. Plus we can just share my textbook together"

Gumball let out a sigh of relief. "Phew, thanks Dar. I don't know what I'd do without you."

"No problem buddy. This is what friends are for."

"No, seriously, I really owe you one. I promise I'll make it up to you soon."

"Don't worry about it dude, you don't need to make it up to me. I'm just glad to help you out."

The young feline hesitated, before wrapping his arms around Darwin in a hug. "I really don't deserve someone like you dude...you really are the best."

"Awwww, of course you do!" Darwin smiled, hugging him back. "You're a great guy, don't put yourself down, buddy!"

"You really think so?" Gumball asked surprised.

"I know so." His brother smiled.

The kitten couldn't help but smile as this. Darwin allow himself to finally sigh in relief, relieved to have prevented what could have been another panic attack from his brother.

"Right, came on, the bell is gonna ring any minute!"

Gumball gasped. "Oh shoot, I forgot! Let's go!"

The two hurried to their classroom, where Ms Simian was waiting in the doorway.

"Oh look, the Wattersons. I was hoping you'd decided to take the day off..." She glared at them.

"Well, unfortunately for you we're here." Darwin smiled as he walked in.

Gumball placed a foot in the doorway but paused to turn and smirk at Ms Simian. "Yup, and it looks like we were just in time t-"

RIIIIIIIIIIIING!

"Oh, would you look at that? You're late." She crossed her arms and managed to make what seemed like a smirk on her face.

"What!? But I was literally just about to walk in!" Gumball complained.

"Yes, but then you decided to stop and taunt me. And now the bell has rung and you're still outside. Which means you're late"

"But my foot is in the doorway! I'm basically inside!"

"Basically inside is not good enough Watterson. One hour detention after school."

"But-"

"No buts! Now get inside!" Ms Simian shouted as she began to lose her temper.

Gumball sighed and walked in, sitting down at the desk next to Darwin, as Ms Simian sat done and began attendance.

As he sat down the classmates who'd seen him earlier snickered amongst themselves. Gumball growled quietly. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up..."

Suddenly he felt Darwin nudge him and turned to face him. "Hmm? What's up?" He whispered.

"I'm sorry about your detention dude. It's all my fault..." He whispered.

"What? How?" Gumball whispered back confused.

"I stopped you and pointed out your missing bag to you, then you had that mini breakdown. If I had just ignored it we would have made it on time."

"Awww, it wasn't your fault bud! You didn't know that would happen. If anything it's my fault for trying to taunt Ms Simian."

"So...we're still good?" The fish asked.

The feline chuckled. "Course we are dude!"

"Something you want to share with the rest of the class, Watterson?" Ms. Simian suddenly called out.

"Huh?" He looked over confused.

"I asked you if there was something you wished to share with the rest of the class because whatever you were whispering about over there must have been pretty funny to warrant you talking during attendance." The ape raised an eyebrow.

"No, no, Darwin was just-"

"Quiet! I don't want to hear your excuses! I'll see you for our two hour detention after school!"

"What!? Two hours!?" Gumball exclaimed.

"You heard me correctly, Watterson! And unless you want it to be raised to three hours I suggest you keep your mouth shut! Understood?"

"But that's not fair! I wasn't the only one who-"

"Three hours!"

"Grrrr!" The feline quietly crossed his arms, exhaling frustratedly.

"Good, now where was I?" Ms Simian turned back to her attendance list and continued calling names.

"...Sorry..." Darwin quietly whispered, earning only an annoyed grunt from Gumball in response.

Ms Simian finally finished taking attendance. She put the register away before turning to the glass with an evil grin.

"Right then, onto the lesson. Now, what better way to start a lovely Monday morning than. sitting back and relax with a nice old.."

She reached under her desk and took out a large stack of papers, slamming them on the desk.

"...surprise test!"

The whole class groaned in despair.

"That's the spirit!" Ms Simian replied in an unusually cheerful tone as she began to hand out the tests.

Gumball planted his face into his desk and moaned. Oh, come on! As if this morning wasn't bad enough already, now I have to do a dumb test!?

He sighed. Any semblance of his good mood from earlier had completely disappeared.He felt even worse now than he had after his argument with his Mom.

At this point, he wanted nothing more than for this day to be over and done with.

As Ms Simian finished handing out the tests, he felt a tap on his shoulder, and turned to see Darwin holding out a pen for him in one fin, and few sheets of paper in the other.

"Here you go. One pen, and some sheets of paper to make notes on."

"Thanks." The feline replied bluntly, taking the items from him.

"Are...you mad at me for getting you another of detention? You know i didn't mean to, right?"

Gumball hesitated before sighing. "Yeah, I know. It's okay dude. I'm just in a bad mood."

"Awwww, buddy...it's okay, just get through this lesson and then we can go hang out with Anais at break. Between me and her, I'm sure we'll cheer you up!"

The kitten managed a small smile. "Yeah. that'll be nice. Thanks dude."

"No problem!" His brother smiled back.

They turned back to face the front of the room as they heard Ms Simian clear her throat. "Right, you all know the rules! No phones and no talking or you get detention! This test will extend through to the end of second period. You will have until then to finish. Am I understood?"

"Yes Ms Simian..." The class droned.

"Then you may begin!"

"Right..." Gumball sighed as he clicked his pen. "This oughta be fun..."

A good hour into the test and so far every seemed fine. Second period was almost over and so far nothing had gone wrong. He just hoped this peacefulness lasted. For once today he was actually have a somewhat enjoyable time. He'd decided to just block out any other thoughts and just focus on the test, giving it his all, and he was actually doing surprisingly okay. He'd struggled on a few questions, but most he'd worked out fairly easily.

He was currently in the process of trying to work out an equation to find X when suddenly a scrunched-up piece of paper landed on his desk.

"Huh? What's this?"

Confused, he looked around in an attempt to see who had thrown the ball of paper but everyone was head down and working on their tests, with not a single one of them showing any signs of being the culprit.

The feline shrugged and turned back to the paper ball. Curiosity getting the better of him, he picked it up and unscrunched it. What he saw was an incredibly insulting drawing of Ms Simian.

He quickly folded up the paper and covered his mouth, barely stifling a laugh. This laughter turned to horror however as the drawing was suddenly snatched off his desk.

"and what do have here, hmm?" Ms Simian asked as she unfolded the paper. Her eyes widened as she saw what was on the paper.

"What is this!?" Ms Simian screeched. She turned and glared at the young ktiten before her with hatred. "How dare you make such a vile mockery of me!? Seeing as three hours detention doesn't seem to have been enough for you, how does three hours of detention every day for the rest of the week sound!?"

"WHAT!? But that's not fair, I wasn't the one who drew that!"

"No buts! Back to your test!"

The feline gritted his teeth, growling. Great! Even more detentions, this time for something I didn't even do! Absolutely fan-freaking-tastic!

Frustrated and fed up, the feline snatched his pen and went back to his test .

Only a couple of minutes later however he felt someone tapping his back.

"Psst!" He heard Tobias whisper.

The young kitten sighed, trying to ignore it and focus on his test instead.

"Psst!"

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Just ignore it, just ignore it...

"Gumball!"

Shut up...

" Gumball! Gumball!"

Shut up! He gritted his teeth.

"Gum! Ball!"

SHUT UP!

"Gumball! What's the answer to Question 8?"

"FIFTY SEVEN!" The feline finally snapped before quickly covering his mouth with his paws, horrified.

"Oh ho, trying to cheat are we Watterson?"Ms Simian glared.

Gumball began to shake his frantically. "What!? No, no, no, no, no, Tobi-"

"I don't want excuses, go to the Principal's office, now!"

"But I wasn't-"

"NOW!" She screeched, pointing toward the classroom door.

"FINE!" The young kitten stood up, pushed his chair over in anger, and stormed out of the room, slamming the door shut behind him.

As he stormed toward the principal's offer he clenched his fist, beginning to breathe heavily. He was starting to really lose it now. He had argued with his Mom, missed the school bus, gotten drenched in rain, wasn't able to dry his clothes properly, ripped his underwear, embarrassed himself, left his bag at home, gotten detention three times, one for something he didn't even do and now he'd been sent to the principal's office!

Why was life so unfair!? What had he done to deserve any of this?!

Suddenly the bell for recess rang. Great, there went most of his recess...

As he reached the door to Principal Brown's office the feline stopped and took a deep breath.

You know what? Fine. If the universe wanted to screw him over, it could do just that. But he wouldn't let it get to him. He wouldn't let the universe win.

He paused, looking up at the ceiling. "Go on universe. Do your worst. See if I care."

With that he strolled into the Principal's office.