ph0tography

Homecoming / Fill My Heart With Song

It was already the last week of the first month of high school. The photography club had grown to 6 members. Consisting of: Gumball, Darwin, Penny, Carrie, Bobert, and a junior named Nacho, a tortilla chip.

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Gumball woke up and stretched his arms. He looked at the calendar, specifically at the box with a 25 in the top left corner. Under it read, 'HOMECOMING WEEK' in red pen. Gumball groaned, notifying his brother.

"What's wrong dude?" Darwin asked

"Today is the start of Homecoming week." Gumball tiredly complained.

"What's wrong with that?" Darwin asked enthusiastically, adding, "It's supposed to be a magical fun week for the whole school."

"We have to run around with a camera taking pictures of everything for the school paper," He sighed.

"Oh."

As the bus neared the school building, a jungle of toilet paper came into view. Every tree, bush, and tall object was covered in it. The sound of oohs and aahs took the place of conversations as the passengers observed the forest of tp. As the brothers got off the bus, Gumball ran towards a field near the school, quickly taking a picture of the paper-covered trees.

Gumball waved goodbye to Darwin as he went to his first class of the day. As Gumball turned onto the hallway to his first-period ELA class, he saw that the entire hallway was decorated.

"What the what?" He said to himself.

White and yellow star-shaped papers hung from the ceiling, the papers glowed as a small light was attached to all of them, a crescent Moon hung from the ceiling at the end of the hallway, and the lights in the hallway were also off to add to the starry universe theme. Gumball took out his camera, turned the flash off, and snapped a quick picture before heading over to his class. He knew it wouldn't be used.

[*o]

Gumball zoned out on his computer screen, waiting for Penny or Darwin to respond to an Elmore Plus message. His teacher blabbed on about grammar rules in the background. Suddenly, he heard a bling from the computer. Finally being somewhat entertained, he found it came from his email. Mr. Corneille had emailed him that he needed to attend the homecoming football game and dance. He knew he had to so what was the point of confirmation?

After his boring ELA class had finished, Gumball headed off to his locker. On his way to his locker, he ran into Penny.

"Oh hey Gumball," Penny greeted the cat, "I was wondering if you could go to the mall after school tomorrow?"

"Sure!" Gumball immediately answered.

"Yeah, I need to get a dress for the dance this Saturday." Penny added, "Need you to tell me if they look good."

Gumball happily strutted through the hallway to his locker and his next class, noticing that the hallways were each differently decorated. The hallway he walked down had a wild west theme.

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The cat and a fish stood at the front door of the school in complete silence, hoping that the person working the desk would check the doorbell camera and notice them. Gumball checked his phone, 6:30 AM. Eventually, someone did, "State why you are here," an older woman said.

"Uhh, we're here to take pictures of the hallways for the school newspaper," Gumball answered, showing his ID to the camera. Darwin doing the same.

The door unlocked with a click and they entered, Gumball sighing to himself as he dragged his feet over to the English hallway, camera in hand. They lined up the shot, waited for it to focus, Ka-Chick, next hallway, lined up the shot, waited for it to focus, Ka-Chick They repeated this process two more times, taking pictures of all the hallways the four grades had decorated. Gumball took the last picture and walked out of the hallway, going to the cafeteria to look at the pictures he took. He sat at a random table and waited for school to start. Darwin sitting next to him. Gumball notified his mom about his after-school plans and she wanted him home by 5:00.