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In the morning, Gumball was first to wake up.

"Uhh...my head."

He tried to get up but stopped when he felt the weight of Marmalade on his chest. He decided to let her sleep and layed back down. He grabbed the TV remote and turned on the TV, but the volume on low enough volume so that he could hear it without waking anybody up. Carrie was next get up.

"Morning, Gumball."

"Morning, Mrs. Watterson."

Carrie blushed. "S-Shut up..." Gumball smiled. "Wanna get some breakfast?" asked Carrie.

"Not yet, I don't wanna wake Marms."

"Okay." Carrie sat up rested her head on Gumball's shoulder.

"What is this, International Sleep on Gumball Day?"

"Heh, yeah."

~After School~

The three went to Gumball's house after school. They were greeted by Nicole.

"Hey Carrie, Hey Gumball. Who's the little one?"

They went on and told the story they had been telling everybody else.

"Well, isn't that nice of you two? By the way, you may wanna head upstairs, Darwin and Anais are sick on the couch."

They went upstairs.

"Ugh, I can't believe Miss Simian gave me an F on that homework! I did the entire assignment!" exclaimed Gumball.

"Gumball, you did it in red crayon."

"So?"

"You also said 4 times 3 was 43."

"But it is!"

"...Nevermind." said Carrie.

"So now what?" asked Marmalade.

"How much longer will the time machine take to charge?" asked Gumball. Marmalade took it out.

"This saturday, it'll be ready. Right now it's only enough to send me 6 months in to the future. I need to go ahead 13 years."

"Wait a minute...13 years? But that means..." Gumball said.

"Oh man, I wasn't suppose to say that..." said Marms, now scared.

"That means you'll be born in a year!" said Carrie.

"Okay, okay, maybe I forgot to tell you that I'm born when you're 16..."

"Forgot, did ya?" said Gumball, now slightly aggrivated.

"I wanted to go to college!" exclaimed Carrie.

"You did!" said Marmalade.

"So you're saying that we juggled a kid AND school?" said Gumball.

"Well, Mom did. Dad, your career as a comedian was taking off and you started getting paid for shows."

"I'm a comedian in the future?"

"Yep, dumb humor and bad jokes will become really popular in the next year."

"Cool..." said Gumball in awe.

"Yeah, but taking care of a baby...the late nights, the school work, making money...I don't know if I could handle all that."

"But you did! You did and you were happy you did! Even though there were bad times when you just wanted give up, you still-" Marmalade couldn't choke out the rest of the sentence through her tears. Carrie and Gumball felt bad inside.

"Maybe it would be better if I was never born..." said Marmalade through her sniffles.

"No! That's not true!" said Gumball as he kneeled next to Marmalade and pulled her close.

"Yea it is..."

"No, Marms, I'm sorry. I was just shocked. It's not everyday you get your future told." said Carrie.

"It's okay." They had a group hug.

"Dinnertime!" called Nicole from the kitchen

"What's for dinner?" asked Carrie.

"Tacos." answered Gumball.

They were in the kitchen in half a second.

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