Chapter six: The Girlfriends find out

## Plot

After Gumball/Darwin begin hiding away from society, Penny and Carrie become suspicious by why they haven't seen the two. However, they'll get their answers soon enough.

## Chapter (warning spoilers)

The chapter starts out with a narration, which tells that it had been a week since everything that had happened. Gumball/Darwin still did the things the two usually used to do before, well, if it wasn't too difficult, since they're the same person technically. Everyone else got used to it, but G/D didn't. They were practically scarred for life by the incident. They soon start hiding out at the house, worried of anyone else's reactions, and whether or not they would accept them. The narration ends.

Anais wakes up and gets ready for school. Gumball/Darwin are a little annoyed by the noise, but quickly decline her claim of them going too, telling her people might not take it that well. She understands, and heads off to the bathroom. The two try to fully wake up, and goes on the computer.

Anais goes downstairs and has breakfast. Nicole greets her, giving the bunny some pancakes. Anais is concerned about the two, Nicole replying that they're mostly trying to still get used to the situation. Anais then heads off to the bus.

Nobody sits with her on the bus. Rocky asks her if brothers are sick again, which she says yes, trying to not look suspicious. The puppet then closes the doors and the bus gets going. Penny shares her concern with Anais, the bunny telling her that they'll get better soon.

Penny is slightly suspicious by this. It's revealed that she had tried to call Gumball before, but it left at voice mail all the time. She even came over a few times, but the family told her the same thing. She was quite frustrated by it.

Carrie notices Anais is hiding something. She had tried visiting too, but ended up with the same result. She and Penny exchanged glances, knowing something was definitely wrong.

The bus arrives at school, and everyone heads in. Anais gets ready to go to class, but is stopped by Carrie. The ghost questions her, but Anais denies it, telling her the two are just sick. Penny shares her concern as well, Anais trying to get through. The bunny gives up, and requests the girls to come after school. Penny and Carrie agree, and let her get to class.

Soon it's after school. Anais walks home, preparing what to say to the girls when she sees them. She didn't want to upset them, but she didn't want to sugarcoat the truth either. She arrives, noticing Penny and Carrie waiting at the steps, presumably Carrie teleported herself and Penny there.

Anais then tells the truth, and opens the door. She looked into the house, asking Richard if the two were upstairs. He responds yes, and her and the girls go to the bedroom. She reluctantly opens the door, but keeps Penny and Carrie from getting inside at first. They see her whisper, but cannot make it out. Anais looks back at them, warning to not freak out. They nod. The bunny soon opens the door all the way, and lets the girls in. They see a figure standing by the window.

Penny and Carrie are surprised, and a little horrified. Penny questions the figure if it's them, somewhat recognizing them. The two nod, and she relaxes. Carrie comments it as freaky. She was used to unnatural things, but she did show concern.

Gumball/Darwin then explain what had happened. Their reason for not being at school for a week was since they (mostly Gumball) were worried about people doing typical movie tropes if they saw them. (the oh no zombie one and the kill it with fire tropes)

Penny and Carrie both agree that they're fine with it, but tell them that those tropes don't really happen. Gumball tries to back this up, bringing up when Penny came out of her shell. She denies the claim. The two then explain that people might just not be accepting of what they were now, with a kinda saddened look.

Penny cheers them up, telling the two that they're still the same inside, and people will realize that sooner or later. G/D question if they aren't accepted, and Carrie adds that they'll try and get them to notice it. The fairy realizes her and Carrie have to get home. The girls both kiss the two goodbye, and leave.

G/D realize because of this, it means they're going back to school, Anais agreeing. The two sigh, knowing tomorrow was going to be interesting.

END OF CHAPTER.

## Fun facts!

* Chapter six was originally a question asked by someone over on Fanfiction.Net, which asked how Penny and Carrie would react to the situation.
* There was a scene from FF.Net that didn't appear in the DeviantArt and Wattpad version of the story. In the original chapter, Gumball continues to argue in the ending, but is stopped by Darwin, who says there is no point in arguing about it. This was cut because ImaginationStudios8 thought it was kind of boring. So she rewrote the scene a little.
* This chapter takes place before the events of the season 6 episode "The Buddy" from the show.
* Though be it minor, the line "Let me guess, we're going to school aren't we?" had tomorrow in the original chapter. While drawing the cover art for ch. 6 Is8 forgot to add it in, and decided to just leave it out of the updated version.
* Chapter six was one of the first chapters to be released quickly, coming out a month later after the FDAU Meets the Canon special. The other quickly released chapter from 2019 was chapter 5.