
Darwin only bowed his head in shame, but let his father go on, "Second off, she was talking about her parents! She was talking about her grandparents!" "First off, you were eavesdropping?!" Richard asked, slightly offended. She was talking to you about how much she missed them!" The goldfish replied. He couldn't recall a time where his wife ever admitted to yearning her parents' presence. "She never said that." Richard said, slightly confused. Mom said she missed them that one time?" Darwin asked. I really appreciate you kids trying to do a nice thing for her but this was probably the worst thing that could've happened to her on Christmas." All I'm gonna say is things ended badly.and she had to walk out. "I.don't know if she wants me to tell you. "The last time she say them was at least 17 years ago when she was supposed to go to college." "Okay, you didn't know so its not your fault at all, but.your mother didn't end things on good terms with her parents." Richard said, getting down on one knee to sort-of face them. "We invited our grandparents to the family reunion." Darwin said, not understanding what they could've done wrong. He constantly glanced back in the living room, anxiously biting his lip. "Kids, what have you done?" Richard asked urgently, but in a low volume so no one would hear the conversation. Nicole rolled her eyes, "Yeah, glad you know how reproduction works." Senicourt asked, amused yet slightly repulsed. It was difficult to tell with their usually bored/unimpressed expressions.

" Very." Nicole muttered, glancing back at her parents-who seemed to be either confused or disgusted. "Oh, family reunions are so fun! Aren't they, Nicole?" He asked nervously, dragging the kids away into the kitchen. Richard power walked into the room and chuckled nervously, wrapping his arms around the kids to bring them a distance away from their mother. Nicole widened her eyes then slowly turned around to look at her kids-who were smiling nervously. "Well, we received on from your account, though we weren't surprised to see it was nwatterson!" Her father said, raising his voice a little at the end. "Email? I didn't send you an email." She said, then muttered bitterly to herself, "I didn't think you even had one, considering how vacuous you are." Nicole suddenly snapped out of her shocked state and looked at her confused.
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"Well, aren't you going to welcome us into your humble home? Or did you send that electronic mail by accident?" Mrs. The two elders standing in the doorway looked down at the children and back up at their daughter.


"Aww.look at her." Darwin said as he and his siblings stared at their mother in awe, small twinkles in the center of their eyes. Nicole's shocked expression remained, though she raised a brow, as if refusing to believe she was actually seeing this. Senicourt said boredly, eyeing her daughter up and down. "Ah Nicole, I see you haven't changed a bit." Mrs. Richard, who was watching from the kitchen, put his hand to his face and sighed wearily, "oh brother." "Surprise!" Gumball, Darwin, and Anais exclaimed as they hopped behind her, wide grins plastered on their faces. The people who raised her, the people who controlled her. Her eyes were shrunk in shock and disbelief, staring at the people in front of her. She opened her mouth to say something, anything, but no words would come out. Nicole was frozen in place, the only movements she was able to make were the small trembling in her arms.
