Envious Love - GumDog

chapter seven - the aspiration

Gumball sits down in the living room, doodling on his schoolwork but finally finishing his homework. Darwin sits next to him, playing Legend of Zelmore, while Nicole makes dinner. Gumball's phone occasionally goes off for post notifications. A couple minutes later, Gumball has finished all his work, and put it in his book bag that he puts next to the door. He carries the small green book bag against the wall next to the door, it slumping down after being placed on the cold floor.

Darwin finishes beating a boss on Zelmore, then turns off the console to go take a shower. Gumball continues sitting on the couch, scrolling through Elmore Plus and such. He decides to unblock Penny and send her a follow request, and goes to his DMs to send HDG a message. He clicks on the little icon to show up the messages, and sees the messages from before, including the text from him and the meme he had sent him.

Gumball: hey can we talk about some stuff?

He sends the message, then gets off his phone to go to the dinner table, all though Nicole had not finished the dinner quite yet. Nicole had been working on a new recipe, some weird scottish meatballs and gravy with it. (if you guys havent tried it you gotta get on that its SOOOOOO good). The smell was overwhelming, but it smelt good, so Gumball was excited to try it. He always loved trying new foods, all though that is probably why he had gotten food poisoning so often, and the situation leading to HDG and Gumball dating.

"What's up with you?" Nicole asks, pouring milk into the gravy base. Gumball looks over at her, who is stirring the pan of gravy. Gumball smiles while he dances his legs off the table.

"Oh, I dunno, really," Gumball lies. All though he is happy that the conflict between Penny and him is finished, he was not exactly wanting to tell her the entire story since... there is a lot of stuff between the cracks that make it harder to explain.

"So, you're happy because you can?" She says, finishing the gravy and putting it over noodles and the meatballs. Gumball nods, and she yells out dinner for the household, in which the other three come out of wherever they were, and sit down at the dinner table. She places the food in front of everyone, then sits down in her spot. Gumball tries one bite of his food, then proceeds to eat the rest in about thirty seconds.

Gumball washes his bowl off, then puts it in the dishwasher, then goes up to take a shower. After finishing, he checks his phone to see if HDG has replied. Nope. He gets into his pajamas and throws his towel on the back of the computer chair, then goes into his bed. He scrolls through his phone more, and he gets text from Penny.

Penny: let's try this again, Hey

Gumball chuckles at her comment, then texts her back like he should of before.

Gumball: hey! Whats up?

The two continue talking until Gumball had to go to bed.

HDG tiredly blinks as he wakes up from the three hour nap he had gotten. He could not sleep at all that night. Everything hurt, from his wrists, arms, to his thighs and stomach. He spent the entire night hurting himself. There was a medium sized mound of blood covered tissues in the corner, his blade still on the night stand with his phone and old lamp he had since he was about seven or six years old. Oh, how innocent and unaware he was.

The light shines onto the floor of his room, the temperature starting to get a bit warmer now. Spring was getting closer, and he was scared that it would get too hot to wear skinny jeans and a jacket all day. He stands up, and looks around the room, surveying the emptiness of the floor since he had gotten everything put away and whatnot. His hoodie was on the floor, along with his book bag, but that is about it.