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Marshall's version.

"I'm goona suck your blood!" I scream and run after the children who scatter around the nursery squealing in laughter.

I take two large steps and catch LSP who had tripped on a doll, "I caught you!" I say as the boy giggles and screams. "This tasty human is going to be my dinner!"

"Not so fast ugly fampire!"

I look down and see Fiona holding her toy sword towards me, "Oh no! It's Fiona!"

Fiona charges at me and hits me hard on my shin, which hurt a lot. "AHHHH!" I yell letting LSP go, then I pretend to stagger and fall down on the floor. Thank goodness the scattered plushies softened my fall. "Curse you Fiona the human." I breathe

Fiona laughs then puts her left foot on my chest and says, "I haf slaint the fampire king! The kingtom of Aaa is now safe!" all the children cheer for her and Fiona leaves me to join her admirers.

I open one eye to glance at the kids and find them huddled together playing another game, the threat of the vampire king is already forgotten. I smile and slowly get up; the place where Fiona hit me will be bruised tomorrow. I look at the children one more time and count them, to make sure that everyone is here, when realize a pink head isn't among them. I look around about to call for him when I find him sitting in the corner playing by himself.

I sigh and go to him and sit myself beside him, "Hey Gumball whatcha doin' ?" I ask

The three year old Gumball looks at me with his big blue eyes and says, "I'm builtin a tastle."

"You mean you build that? That's very impressive!" I say as Gumball puffy cheeks turn red and he smiles. I was very impressed; the castle that Gumball is building with his pink blocks was very well made. It's something only an adult would be able to build.

"So, is there a prince to this castle?" I ask

Gumball nods and digs out a small pink gumball from his pocket, he places it on a tiny balcony in the castle. "This ish the pwince." He says.

Then he pulls out a small cat and a tiny doll from the box of toys beside him and places them at the castle's door. "This ish Fiona, and this ish tate. They pwotect the pwince." He adds

"That's nice, I'm pretty sure Fiona would love that role." I smile, "But what about the princess? The prince deserves a princess doesn't he?"

Gumball looks at me then shakes his head, "He doesn't haf a pwincess." He says as he pulls a candy from his pocket and eats it. Then he gets up and starts looking through his toy box, when he doesn't find what he's looking for he looks through his pocket and pulls out a small black bat. He then places the bat beside the pink gumball on the balcony.

"Who's that?" I ask bewildered

"That's the pwince's best fwiend, he's the fampire king. They lif together."

I smile and nod. Gumball then puts his finger to his lips and says quietly, "Shh! No one must know that."

I look back at the children and find them still busy playing their game, no one seems to take notice of Gumball's pink castle.

Gumball stands up and motions for me to come closer; I bend down and give him my ear. "It's a secwet." He whispers.

I chuckle and say, "Don't worry Gumball, I won't tell a soul."

Gumball smiles, then hugs my neck and kisses my cheek, "Thank you Malshie."

After putting the children to sleep I walk to the kitchen and make myself a nice hot cup of coffee.

"Time for some me-time" I say to no one.

Once the coffee is done I sit on my chair plug my headphones on and enjoy listening to music while sipping my coffee. Don't get me wrong, working with kids is great and all but it's also tiring. I wouldn't be surprised if I lost weight because of it. It's not all the kids that are trouble…well kind of all of them except for cute little Gumball. I feel bad for him sometimes because he's always playing alone in the corner.

The ones that cause trouble a lot are LSP and Ignis. They always fight over who can be Fiona's side kick; yes they're both in love with her. Then there's Cake the mature one, except for the fact that she hates me.

So, I'm enjoying some me-time listening to my favorite band, when I suddenly hear the sound of a child crying. Immediately I take my headphones off and strain my ears to listen carefully, when I hear nothing I slowly get up and walk to the area where all the children are sleeping. I find all of them, little devils, fast asleep except for one. Gumball is sitting on his sleeping matt, eyes covered by his hands, sniffing loudly. Worry washes all over me as I slowly and carefully make my way towards him; I crouch down and gently pat his back saying,

"Hey Gumball, you okay?"

Gumball sniffs again but refuses to talk. I continue caressing his back gently thinking he probably had a nightmare.

"It's alright Gumball, it was just a nightmare."

He shakes his head and sniffs again; I see a few tear drops rolling down his rosy cheeks. Deciding that he might need a hug to calm him down, I place my hands around his small waist and say,

"Come on now, let's get—"

I stop abruptly when I feel his wet shirt. Slowly I stand him up and look at his pajama bottoms to find them wet.

"You peed your pants." I say stoically

Gumball removes his hands from his eyes, his face red from embarrassment. One look at him and I know he will start crying loudly.

"It's okay! Don't cry!" I say in hurry afraid that if he started crying he'll wake the other children.

"I sowy" he whimpers

"It's okay Gumball, I'm not mad."

Carefully I pick him up, keeping him away from me, and carry him to the washroom. Once I place him down I close the door to the washroom then walk to the bath tub to fill it with some warm water.

"Come on, take your clothes off." I say

But Gumball clutches the bottom of his shirt and looks down at his feet.

"It's okay Gumball, don't be embarrassed." I say but I should know Gumball better than that, he's too shy to take his clothes off in front of people. So I pat his head and walk to the door, "Alright I'll leave now so you can take them off."

I step out of the washroom and go back to the sleeping room, there I remove Gumball's wet matt and replace it with a clean one. I take the wet matt and walk back to the washroom. I find a naked Gumball standing beside the bath tub giving me his back, his wet clothes are sitting beside him. I smile and pick them up and put them in the washing machine along with the sleeping matt.

"Come on Gumball, time for a bath." I say and Gumball looks up at me with the cutest smile.

Once Gumball was all cleaned up, I carry him to the kitchen where I make him a cup of warm milk with a small plate of cookies. I set him down at the kids table with his milk and cookies then go back and sit at my chair. I take a sip from my coffee and note its cold now, so I heat it up in the microwave before going back to my seat. I am about to take a sip when I see Gumball approach me,

"What's up?" I say setting my mug down

Gumball looks down at his feet then says, "May I sit with you?"

"Yes, you can." I say smiling, and then I go grab his milk and cookies and set them beside my coffee before grabbing Gumball and placing him on my lap. He turns around to look at me and gives me a toothy grin before digging into his cookies.

I put one headphone on and take a sip from my now hot coffee when Gumball asks politely,

"May I take a sip?"

"No, you may not. It's for big people." I say

"I'm a bik boy!" he says

"Alright, you can have a taste, but you won't like it."

Slowly I bring the mug to Gumball's mouth and allow him a tiny sip, immediately he pushes the cup away and sticks his tongue out. "eugh!"

I laugh at his reaction and say, "I told you so."

Gumball goes back to drinking his milk and then suddenly he offers me his last cookie.

"Don't you want it?" I ask

He shakes his head and shoves the cookie at me; I smile then take the cookie from him finishing it in two bites.

"Mashie?"

"Hm?"

"I wuve you."