Our Awkwardness

Chapter 13

" I'm anxious!"

It was a Saturday afternoon and gumball and Darwin were together in Gumball's room. The two were playing games till then but Gumball spoke out of the blue. Darwin was confused. " why are you anxious?" He asked as he paused the game. Gumball played with his thumbs still not saying anything. "Usually you're the one talking about your relationship and being dramatic about how Carrie might dump you one day, and every single time I'm the one who has to suffer through your blabber sessions." Gumball finally said. "Blabber? Really?" Darwin was a little offended that Gumball called his worries blabber. " But I guess it's my turn." Darwin immediately turned his head to face Gumball. " wait what?"

" The year is going by so fast that it's almost the end of the school year. I've really liked my time with Dray this year but now that the end of the school year is around the corner, I am really anxious." Darwin stayed quiet and listening to his best friend talk. He can tell where this was going and already understood why Gumball said he's feeling anxious. Gumball sighed and buried his face in his hands. " Dray's graduating soon. He's going to have to leave for college or university or whatever..... That means he'll have to move away." Gumball spoke, his voice not wanting to leave his throat. " what if .... What if he also..." Darwin cut him off. "Gumball, no! Why would you think about that?" Gumball frowned. " why wouldn't I? There's no way in hell I couldn't think about that!?"

There was silence in the room. Darwin didn't know what to say. He couldn't act like he knows what Gumball is feeling. He got his heart torn by the girl he thought would be his forever. Darwin couldn't possibly understand, he was still with the girl he started dating since he was 12. Suddenly there was a message alert on Gumball's phone. He read it and started to pick things up in his room. " I'm going to the skatepark to meet Dray." He picked up his skateboard and left the room. " call me if you something happens, but it probably won't change anything cuz I won't come back home early. Bye!" With that he was out the front door and skated down the street.

With Dray, he was waiting for gumball at the skatepark on a bench under a tree. He looked at the other people skating and remembered that he was there cuz he wanted Gumball to show him if he really knows how to skate. 'there's no way right?' He asked himself. He soon noticed Gumball entering through the entrance on his board. 'oh damn, he actually knows how to skate? But isn't he still a hazard?' Dray watched Gumball get off the board and kick it into his hand then stood next to the wall and peeked to the road. ' what is he doing?' Then suddenly a tire rolled down the street. " what the...?" Dray was confused. " what did he do this time?" Gumball then turned from the wall and walked towards the trees. He noticed Dray sitting there and went up to him.

Gumball stopped in front of Dray and looked down at him. He didn't say anything, he just stood there. Dray looked up at Gumball. "Why are you just standing in front of me and not saying anything?" He asked. He got a shrug as a reply. " I don't want to say hello, is that so wrong? My presence is what's greeting you" Gumball replied. " can you sit down, I can't keep looking up at you like this. The sun is extra bright today, it hurts my eyes " Dray looked away from Gumball. But he soon sat right next to him. "Why are you outside at a skatepark if your going to complain about the sun?" Gumball asked lifting Dray's shades revealing his squinted eyes. " I just wanted to come see you skate and besides I'll sit under a tree, it's fine?" Gumball smiled. "Aren't you going to be lonely sitting under this tree by yourself?" He teased making Dray smile too. " well you can keep me company if you want, but aren't you here to skate?" He asked. "I can wait until later. Maybe there'll be more clouds and you'll come out and skate with me." The two were getting a bit too comfortable in public. Even Dray noticed that. " I don't know how to skate. You want to teach me?" Gumball looked down at his feet which were on his board. He rolled it around a little. "Yeah sure I'll teach you. I know I'm a great teacher too" Dray looked at him suspiciously. " Darwin told me about how you were teaching him how to skate and he ended up in the tightest skinny jeans in existence the rolled down the hill.... With cars on the road." Gumball awkwardly laughed. "Whaaaat? Oh please he was ... Joking." Dray didn't believe him.

Soon people started to leave the park little by little till there weren't that many left. Gumball decided to finally get up and get moving, Dray followed along. They got to the center and Gumball turned to the taller boy, he grabbed his hand and pulled him closer. " get on the board, I'll hold your hand." Gumball smiled at his boyfriend clearly happy to teach him how to skate. The same can't be said about Dray. Boy was nervous. " Gumball I love you and all but, I don't trust you sometimes!" Still, even voicing his concerns about this whole situation wasn't going to stop Gumball from trying to teach Dray how to skate.

Later, the skatepark was empty. The sun has set behind the hill leaving only the tall park lights to illuminate the surroundings. Gumball and Dray were still there but dray has long given up on trying to skate after falling multiple times and Gumball laughing at him. He at least managed to be able to stand on a board but he still found skating wasn't for him. He sat on a bench as he put a patch on a scrape he got on the back of his hand during one of his falling moments. As for were the patch came from, even he doesn't know. He just dug in his hood pocket and found it. Gumball on the other hand seemed to be lost in thought as he slowly skated around the area in front of Dray. He still couldn't get rid of all his worries concerning Dray's graduation. He sighed and continued to roll around. He glanced at Dray on the bench, he was still looking at him patched hand. Gumball decided to go to him. He slowly skated toward the bench and effortlessly got off the board.

As he sat down next to Dray he took his patched hand and held in with both his hands. "does it hurt?" He softly brushed his thumbs over the patch. Dray blinked. ' am I imagining things?' Dray thought before he replied to Gumball's question. " no it doesn't, it's just a bruise and I just found a patch in my pocket. So I just put it on my han....d ..." dray trailed off when he was surprised by what Gumball was doing. Gumball wasn't really listening to what Dray was saying, he just stared at the patch area as he softly massaged it. But he then pulled Drays hand closer towards himself and leaned in to plant a soft kiss on the hand. Dray blushed. ' what is going on?!' He had an internal panic. When Gumball realized what he had done he quickly let go of his hand and also blushed. " uh wait!! I didn't mean to..." he nervously tried to explain. " I don't know why I did that " Gumball covered his face in embarrassment as he flushed red. Lucky for him is was dark outside. ' I don't know what's going on with him being so forward today, but I'll just ask him another time.' Dray brushed his concerns off to deal with another time. "I think that made me feel a little better, why don't you ... kiss it again and maybe I'll feel even better." Dray said with a low tone, a tone so intimate it made Gumball almost forget that they're outside on a bench.

But he still did it anyway, he took Dray's hand in his and leaned down ready to kiss it again but dray stopped him. He grabbed Gumball by the jaw and lifted his face up to face his. " on second thought, maybe if you kiss me directly I'll feel a lot more than better." Dray continued to talk to Gumball in that tone. Gumball gulped. He reached up and removed Dray's shades so they won't be in the way. He leaned in and planted a soft and delicate kiss on Dray's lips. He never usually did this, be the one to initiate intimacy like this but he was feeling up to it right now. The kiss was so sweet, so light, not Dray's style at all. Whenever he tried to kiss Gumball sweetly it always ends up with him feeling like he was going to explode. He slightly opened his eyes to peek at Gumball. Seeing him all flushed and embarrassed like this just made him want to devour him.

He reached a hand behind Gumball's neck and held him in place. The kiss went from sweet and delicate to hot and aggressive. It made Gumball run out of air that he released a small moan. They finally parted for air and Gumball panted. " why - do you always get so aggressive?" Dray only smirked " I can't help it .... now come here" he said. "I'm already here." Dray chuckled a bit at Gumball's answer. "Stop joking around and come closer." He pulled Gumball even closer to him to the point where Gumball's legs were on Dray's thighs. "What are you doing? Did you forget we're outside?!" Gumball panicked. " do you see any here?" Dray said not caring to even check if there were people around, he merely kissed Gumball on the cheek. There wasn't anyone around but it was still embarrassing for Gumball. "It's getting late though, I think I should be heading home." He felt Dray's relentless kisses a long his jaw line. " I'll walk you home" he replied. " but what if—" Gumball was cut off by dray kissing him again.

* Author's Note *

I hope you guys enjoyed that because the end is coming!

I wont lie though, I kinda lost control of my mind at the end there!