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Chapter 12 of Opportunity
🕑 Added 2018-10-05 20:02:11 +0000 UTC I do not own the Amazing World of Gumball.
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The vehicle carrying the Watterson children stopped in front of a large open gate with what looked like heavy security.
There were buff people in suits everywhere, and they were tackling anything that even looked remotely suspicious.
Several fully-grown adults were uncovered holding camera's and were handed to the police waiting nearby.
Their door was opened, and all three got out, they could smell the clean air, and every kid was dressed just like they were but they looked like they hade money.
Suddenly they were swamped from all sides by men in suits because they had never seen them before.
"Your ID, please." Said, one of them.
The Wattersons IDs came days later, and all three handed it to them, everyone was okay except for Gumball ID that had one of his many unflattering pictures.
The man who held it snorted and motioned for everyone else to come and look.
"I get it! I look terrible in photos!" Gumball said, seeing all of them break character and smile.
They were all serious once again.
"All your IDs check out" Said, the man before handing it back to them. "You may proceed."
The guards had been told that the Watterson children were starting today and wanted to make sure there were no fakes.
"...Thank you?" Darwin said as all three walked inside the gate and past it and into the land of going to a private school.
Just then a van pulled up on the opposite street if it wasn't disguised there would be a big camera on it.
It was Press Paparazzi van, and he had followed them all the way from Elmore.
# Inside the Van#
"Just because I can't get into your home or follow you to the mall, now. Does not mean I'm going to give up" He said, he had spent several days in the van. "With the photo's, I'll take off the Watterson children at school. I'll have my next paycheck. You've been snapping a lot of photo's recently, so you value to me has gone up."
Those photos on the social media account were useless to him because anybody could view them for free.
He was about to get out disguised as a bush when he heard.
"That van has been there longer than necessary, and I've scanned the license plate. It belongs to one 'Press Paparazzi' a paparazzi."
Suddenly Press was made very much aware of buff men in suits walking to his van.
Behind them were one or two police.
He had seen the town; they had a jail here.
Shoot.
Realising this could only end badly for him, he stepped on the gas, and the van drove off.
Tomorrow was another day.
Ch 12: Private school.
Gumball and Darwin split from their sister, and they tried their best to find the class they were in.
The waxed corridor was so much more spacious than the one at Elmore, and the hallway looked squeaky clean and had a much bigger space than the one at their old school.
They could see elevators going from level to level.
"Excuse me?" Gumball said, trying to get somebody else attention.
The students nearby ignored them.
However, the adults in the school sure weren't.
"Excuse me. Are you new students" Said, a female that was way prettier than Miss Simian, she had long golden hair and was a deer.
"Yes, we are," Gumball said. "Can you direct us to Miss Calais class?"
"Oh, that's me," said, the woman smiling.
Both he and his brother were understandably stunned.
Its because she was a teacher and smiling, there were no bags under her eyes.
They followed her to an elevator, which was much more beautiful than any lifts they had ever been to.
They went to the second floor and came out, the hallway was extremely lovely, and they could see several adults in green uniforms performing janitor duty like rocky.
They were smiling!
They walked to a door that hadn't been there for 100 years, and they walked in.
Both Gumball and Darwin were immediately subjected to ten stares.
Wait.
Ten?
They both counted and found that there was indeed only ten students in the room.
"Everybody. These are our new students. Gumball and Darwin Watterson. They recently moved here from a town called Elmore" She said.
"Um. Miss Calais were is the rest of the class" Gumball said. "Are they outside or something?"
"No. This is the rest of the class" she said. "In private school, our classes are not overcrowded like those places called 'public school'. This way it makes it much easier for one teacher to help each student individually."
Both of them stunned.
They were getting individual help?
"Gumball and Darwin, please sit in the chairs that have your names in," she said, and both of them were further stunned to discover nice looking chairs that exactly had their names engraved.
They walked passed the two rows and sat, there was no creek or lumpiness that they were both used to when they did so.
"We will now start the lesson," she said. "And if anybody needs any help feel free to ask, and I'll come right over. I have more than 10 degrees that are all on the wall for you to see, so I am highly qualified to answer you."
Both Gumball and Darwin jaw dropped not once did Miss simian show any qualification especially ones that looked so fancy and official like she did.
Her voice was calming and spoke with passion, for the first time in their lives both Gumball and Darwin were shocked to be able to enjoy class.
With a beautiful appearance and her willingness to engage the whole class instead of reading from a textbook was like a breath of fresh air.
And when she gave them work, she went to them individually to make sure they understood everything and if they had questions.
She would answer no matter how dumb the question was.
Both Gumball and Darwin did not even realise it was nearly the short break until the bell rang.
"We will now take a 30-minute break. Meet here afterwards" said, the teacher smiling at them and making both Gumball and Darwin smile as well.
Then she left as if she wasn't running away from them.
Immediately after she left the room, both Gumball and Darwin were surrounded by their classmates who were very curious about them.
"So, you guys are new here?" Said, a girl who reminded them a lot of the ghost goth girl in Elmore. "What was Elmore like? Does everybody have their own small cars and eat shrimp every day?"
"...ur, no," Darwin said.
"The kids in our class got to school by bus, and the school lunches sometimes didn't look like food," Gumball said.
All of the kids had looks of disgust on their faces.
"No wonder you left" Said, the girl before saying. "I got a party coming up soon, and I want to invite you guys. You suffered and now its time to leave. What's your number?"
And Gumball and Darwin both looked each other.
Were they about to have their first Private school party?
Both Gumball and Darwin immediately put out their phones.
However, the moment they did so, something on their classmate's face's changed.
"..what the heck is that?" Said the girl.
"What?" Gumball said.
The girl pointed to their phones.
"You mean our phones?" Gumball said, before saying. "Pretty sweet huh."
However what both of them did not expect was the sudden laughter.
"Those are your phones!?" Said, the girl. "Those look like the phones you get; if you were on a budget, they're so ugly!"
"THEY'RE BUDGET PHONES!" A boy black sheep said. "I saw them in a commoners store."
Both Gumball and Darwin were shocked.
They were praised for their phones in their old school and got looks of awe, but they could see ridicule in their once friendly classmate's eyes.
Hearing the laughter make their cheeks go red.
"This is what a phone should look like," said, the girl before getting out a phone that was thin as paper and was dual screen and gold plated.
They were both shocked by the difference. In quality.
"If your phone doesn't cost several thousand dollars than your not worth my time," said, the girl "I didn't want to believe it when I heard that you guys arrived in the cheapest Chofer, but your phones confirmed it. I can't believe I almost invited low-status people to my party. Stay away from me, Losers."
And that was the end of everybody s friendliness towards them.
In Elmore, they were hated, but they were top dog, but now they were suddenly reduced to loser again.
The teacher came and continued the class.
The bell rang for dinner an hour later, and every one of their classmates pretty much ignored them as if they were the plague.
The teacher showed them to the cafeteria and they both almost bent down from shock when they saw the nicely lit room, beautifully decorated tables, beautiful looking food and that there was more than one person serving food.
Everybody didn't have plastic plates, and several stations were selling different things.
"Dude, let's go to the taco stand," Gumball said, and both of them looked with shiny eyes.
However, they did not see the price until they got to the front of the line.
"That will be 100 dollars," said, the cashier, as he did both of them together, they both had crazy drinks.
Both Gumball and Darwin almost could not believe their ears when they heard the price.
"Why is the food so expensive?" Gumball said.
Only to get a snorted not that far away.
A boy who happened to be their neighbour said "Told you they're not truly rich. They're just better off. How lame is that to be complaining about the price of all things."
Followed by laughter.
However, both Gumball and Darwin had run out of embarrassment unlike their mother since they had been ridiculed so many times for being poor.
They had learned to budget from their mother and knew that's how they survived so long.
Gumball got the wallet and said. "Here you go."
Although 100 dollars for lunch was ridiculous and no ordinary person would pay the amount, it was something they could afford.
The person took their money, and they were free to find a table.
They saw Anais at a table and walked to towards her, but he seemed to be trying to say something.
They found out too late what she was on about; they slammed into what looked an invisible wall.
"Huh?" Darwin said before they both saw Anais pointed at something.
Both Gumball and Darwin were stunned to see a pay meter!
"To sit down,15 dollars per 5 minutes?" Darwin read.
"YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS!" Gumball said, "Is everything we do here burning money!?"
"I tried, but this place won't let me sit down without cash," Anais said through the invisible wall.
Both Gumball and Darwin looked at each other before getting out their wallets and putting in into the machine.
Maybe, private school wasn't that great after all.
The barrier around the table was lowered once it had swallowed their money and they could sit down.
For five minutes.
"So how was your morning?" Anais said. "Mine was going well until everybody found out, I wasn't as rich as they were. Not having a make-up assistant when I'm a girl is a crime, here."
"Well, we were about to be invited to our first private party," Darwin said, before saying. "But when we took out our phone, they started laughing because of how cheap they were to them. Here, a phone is supposed to cost a thousand or so dollars instead of 200 dollars.”
“Just great” Gumball said, “We were big in Elmore, even though nobody liked us but now were nobodies here.”
“We just have to face it,” Anais said, “We are better than our classmates in Elmore, no doubt but here in the land of the rich, we’re losers. We don’t even count as rich. 100,000 thousand dollars is nothing to these people. And Dad worked so hard as well.”
They thought their lives were at the very peak of what it could be, but they were so wrong.
And then Anais time was up, and she was kicked out of the barrier.
“Serious. What kind of nonsense is this!?” Anais said, before walking away, having already finished her lunch.
Both Gumball and Darwin found themselves going to the outdoor school swimming pool after lunch, they were stunned to find showers that had their own cubical with their names on it but when they saw the locker’s they were amazed to see they had to pay.
Just for an hour, the locker was asking 25 dollars.
“You guys didn’t book a locker for a year?” Said, the same girl. “Lame. Now you have to put your clothes in lockers, that are already used”then she walked away.
Gumball and Darwin gave the lockers their money and watched them swallow their money whole.
Then they want to the showers and were amazed by how beautiful it was before putting on their swimming trunks.
Their 2,000-dollar swimming trunks.
When they got out, the other kids looked at them.
“Not bad. At least you didn’t go for the super cheap stuff like with your phones” Said, the girl, wearing a 12,000-dollar bathing suit.
Both Gumball and Darwin know that swimming suit must have come from one of the shops, their family didn’t touch when they want shopping.
Then the instructor came, and he was chill and down to earth kind of guy, behind him were his assistants, two hunks guys and one knock out female.
Everybody saw the eye-candy, and the assistants helped themselves to their wallets.
Both Gumball and Darwin did not even realise until it was too late that they had gotten their wallets from the locker rooms and given the knock female 20 dollars from the both of them.
When it was over, and they left school, all three Watterson children had spent almost 600 dollars just on their first school day alone.
“I COULDN’T STOP!” Gumball said, with red eyes. “SHE WAS JUST SO BEAUTIFUL!”
“I know, dude,” Darwin said.
“I spent so much, just trying not to look cheap,” Anais said. “I only got 15 dollars left in my wallet!”
“7” Gumball said.
“10 dollars,” Darwin said.
Then a car that looked like it belonged to them pulled up and the Watterson children were about to go in when they were suddenly stopped by security.
“Wait” Said, a man in a suit, before walking to the driving and saying. “Where is your ID and your company ID?”
The moment, he said that the driver went into panic mode and stepped on the gas, but the Cops were already on the car's trail.
“What was that?” Gumball said.
“Maybe, the driver was merely stopping for a breather?” Darwin said, but Anais did not think so.
Their real driver came and quickly showed his ID and Company ID to the guards who had it check out before the Watterson’s were free to go in.
They had no idea, that if they hadn’t been stopped, they would have been kidnapped by Press paparazzi.
And scene!
Next chapter, the kid’s come home to find their grandparents who they had never met before at the table with a barely holding it in Nichole. Review/fav and follow!
