Chapter 1

This is a rewrite of a very old story. This one is a reimagined one - although for this chapter, I use some dialogue from the original. Anyhow I hope you enjoy the story ~ Mr Endr

The doctors and the nurses just happily enjoyed their break - all probably ignorant of what just happened. I looked away from the window on the door and redirected my attention to plaque which reminded the hospital's state in Elmore. According to the plaque, it had record amounts of cancer patients cured, with the highest diagnosis to dismissal ratio in the country. Well, that was what the plaque said. I just listened intently as the clock ticked endlessly, slowly making my head go numb.

I couldn't comprehend the turn of events that resulted me to be here. Apparently, my parents and my sister died from a fatal car crash. At the time, I was home, alone, doing nothing more than scroll up and down my Elmore Plus feed, feeling bored. This petty feeling, however, would be taken over by the overwhelming feeling of sadness. The sadness of everything taken away from me. Everything.

Soon, I let my greatest dreams be consumed by my worst nightmares. And, in turn, they were the only dreams I had; nightmares. Nightmares that took over reality, when I slept. In a trapped world where I stood alone, my greatest fears made me their prey. But, it was just a way to make time seem faster, so that the night would go and the morning would take its place. Oh, how much I longed for the following day, hoping that all these things wouldn't come to haunt me.

With my vision slowly blurring, I lost myself to my dreams. Well, nightmares.

"OW!"

I woke up, to a voice, which evidently was in pain. Of all people it shouldn't be him, but I had an odd feeling that it was him but I hoped that it really really shouldn't be. I sat up and stretched, looking towards that voice's direction. There I found him - Gumball standing next to Darwin, looking as confused as I was.

"Gumball what are you doing in..." I leapt off the bed, not realising it was a double-decker. I landed, face flat. "What the fuzz!?"

I stood up, as Gumball and Darwin exchanged looks, and then I exchanged looks with Gumball. I wasn't giving him a good look. He was a blue cat, who wore a light brown-ish jumper, while his brother, Darwin, was an orange fish that wore green shoes. It took me some time to realise but, my room didn't have an old-ish computer, neither did it have a double-decker or a fish bowl.

"Guys, you can't just go and take me from my house and drop me in yours," I scolded the two, letting out a sigh. "I know we're best friends but…"

"I didn't bring you in," Gumball stammered then pointed towards Darwin. "Darwin did!"

Darwin then scoffed, pointing at some sort of lid thing on the fishbowl. "I couldn't and didn't do anything last night! That lid thing, remember?"

Gumball looked at the lid and gasped. "Oh, I do remember…"

I paid attention to them like how the audience of a tennis match would to the ball. To Gumball then to Darwin then vice versa. However I had enough and just ended it between them.

"You two, stop putting up a circus act," I said to them, sternly. "This is serious."

Finally, I saw the door open. It was their mother, Nicole. I knew her so well, after the multiple times she had to save Gumball from his small random ventures into trouble which I always watched intently from the start, when I could.

"Mrs Watterson, can you please take me home?" I asked politely as I could

"Umm, about that," Nicole replied with a nervous tone. I could tell where this was going. "I was going to explain to you… what has happened."

Nicole leaned on the door frame, with her arms crossed, with my stern look aimed right at her. She was a blue cat, much like Gumball, and wore a white polo top, with her sleeves folded upwards. She had a gray skirt and, along with that, had a rainbow badge. This meant she was part of the Rainbow Factory - a literal westernised version of a sweatshop factory. However, it was one of the only sources of jobs here in Elmore. It's a hard truth I wished I didn't have to accept.

"The department called in," Nicole started. "Your family went missing after your family car was crashed near an abandoned train station. They said that they have investigators and policemen across the country looking for your family but nothing has showed up yet."

I looked down and remembered the night before; my feelings of sadness. Everything was coming back together.

"Their shells were found on the road, cracked open," the blue cat said dryly. "They're most likely dead."

I stayed silent. I was in the verge of crying but, I shouldn't. It was outright wrong to what my parents believed. But I couldn't just hold it in anymore, not after all of this…

"I-I'm s-sorry…" I muttered under my tears, "...I c-could be stronger…"

Then suddenly, I felt a warm embrace from Gumball, making me feel warm. I stopped crying, to realise that Darwin and Nicole was hugging me as well. I smiled.

"I just realised that hugging you was absolutely not helping the situation." I just had to laugh, after Gumball said that.

"Yeah, Gumball," I said smiling. "Totally not helping."