The Trip [Comic Script]

Chapter 1

[It was a pretty nice summer day in Elmore, hot enough for swimming but also cool enough to stay out for hours.
While the Watterson boys are playing with water balloons and ruff housing their mother, Nicole Watterson was finishing up paying the bills for the month.]

Nicole: Water bill, check! Electricity bill, check! That should be it so water plus electricity minus our net amount... Wow!

[The net amount equals to more then 15,000 dollars.]

Nicole: That's a lot left over then I thought!

[After Nicole got her wage increased by twice the amount she originally had two months before Darwin's 11th birthday the Wattersons were in the best place financially in a long time. Nicole was able to upgrade Darwin's fish bowl into a fish tank on his 11th birthday, pay all the dept they needed to pay off, and gave Gumball an allowance after he got his driver's permit.]

Nicole: Hmm, maybe I should...

[She gets interrupted by knocking on her bedroom door.]

Nicole: Come in!

[7 year old Anais shows up behind the door with an annoyed expression.]

Anais: Gumball and Darwin came back from playing with water balloons and are making the couch wet!

Nicole: *Sighs* I'll be there in a minute.

[Anais shuts the door]

Nicole: I will finish this later.

[Nicole gets up out of her seat and stretches a few times and gets out of the bedroom to see what all the commotion is about.]

Nicole: Gumball! Darwin! Get off the couch! Especially you young man!

[She eyeballs Gumball which makes Darwin chuckle a little.]

Gumball: Wha, why me?!

Nicole: Because you're getting older your cat scent gets worse, it's even worse when you're wet and I don't want that smell on the couch!

[Gumball grunts while getting off of the couch, he's brother gets off shortly after. The two boys disappear into their room and Nicole lets out a sigh after hearing the door shut.]

Nicole: I hope I didn't sound too harsh.

Anais: Eh, the tone was a bit much but it wasn't that bad.

[Nicole felt a little guilty, it wasn't Gumball's fault that he was born a cat. "Maybe I should talk to him about how he can manage his odor, it's what my parents did for me.", Nicole thought to herself while staring into space.]

Anais: Umm, Mom?

[Nicole gets snapped back into reality.]

Nicole: Oh sorry Anais, what was it?

Anais: What are we going to eat?

Nicole: A specific pasta I want to make but I need your father to come back from the store with the ingredients in order to start.

[Richard comes into the house with a few bags of groceries. He places the bags in front of the door and immediately goes onto the couch and falls asleep. Nicole takes the bags and kisses Richard's forehead.]

Nicole: Thanks Richard.

[She starts making the pasta with ingredients Richard brought from the store.
Some Time passes by and now it's almost time for dinner.]

Anais: Is the food almost done?

Nicole: Yup! Can you call the boys to come down here for dinner and wake up your father?

[Anais nods and gets up from the table and walks to the end of the stairs.]

Anais: GUMBALL! DARWIN! DINNER IS ALMOST DONE!

[Anais walks to her dad and hovers a sausage in front of his nose. The small of it wakes him up immediately and eats it.]

Anais: Dinner is almost ready, Dad.

Richard: Good! My stomach was going to eat itself!

[Right after Richard sat down at the table Darwin came down the stairs and did the same.]

Anais: Where's Gumball?

Darwin: He just finished taking a shower so he'll be here in a minute.

Nicole: He took a shower? Didn't he take one this morning?

Darwin: He did but his odor was getting worse so he decided to take one again.

Nicole: Yup, I remember it got that bad for me when I was younger.

[Gumball came down the stairs to join his family for dinner.]

Darwin: Took you long enough, at least that odor is finally gone.

Gumball: Yeah I don't know what was up with that.

Nicole: I do but it's not appropriate to talk about it here.

[The family chuckles a little with a slightly embarrassed Gumball. They all started to eat when Gumball remembered something.]

Gumball: Oh Dude! We were supposed to tell mom about what we were talking about earlier!

Darwin: About what earlier? Your odor?

Gumball: No! The other thing!

Darwin: Oh that! Yeah we are!

[Nicole was eavesdropping on their conversation while swallowing the rest of her food.]

Nicole: Tell me about what?

Gumball: Ok so, me and Darwin were planning on doing this for a while but we need your permission first.

Nicole: Ok?

Darwin: Is it ok if me and Gumball can go on a double date at the new buffet near the mall?

Nicole: A double date?

Gumball: We already asked our girls if they were fine with it and they said they were so all we need is your permission.

Nicole: Sure, I'm fine with it! Do you boys need me to drop you off and pick you up?

Gumball: That's fine with me! Darwin?

Darwin: Same with me!

[Author's note: This is the first time I published anything on Wattpad so I'm sorry if I make any mistakes.
Also, if you see any grammar mistakes in any of the scripts I make please correct me on them so I can fix them before doing the comic!]