Hello! First of all, I'd like to thank you for your kind reviews of my first TAWoG story, Never Alone. I really appreciate the favorites and the reviews it got. To be honest, I don't have much faith in my writing skills, and when I first published my story, I felt really nervous. Your kind reviews encourage me to continue writing, so thank you.

Second of all, yes, the title is silly, it's a reference to Carrie's "Love is invisible" line in "The Love" and I just sat there thinking of clever fanfiction titles and that's... the best I could come up with. As you can see, Lovelin is so creative *COUGH* GOOD JOB LOVELIN

Anyway, I do not own The Amazing World of Gumball. Enjoy my excessively cheesy rambling about... stuff. This is only the prologue, more or less. It doesn't really get into the storyline until the second (technically first?) chapter. Chapter 2 (1?) will probably be up in a little bit. This is just minor foreshadowing, even though I already spoiled the main conflict in the summary. -nervous laughter-


Prologue

(Carrie's POV)

It's funny, isn't it?

How love blossoms in the strangest ways, to people you'd least expect...

I never expected him to be my first kiss. I thought that I was like an unbreakable, solid wall of ice. I thought nobody would be able to see through me, see the kind of person I was deep down inside, but that's the moment when I realized that I was wrong. That's when it started. When he became the fire that caused the wall of ice to begin to melt.

...

Perhaps that metaphor is ironic, considering the fact that he's a fish, but whatever.

(Author's Note: Introduction in a prologue, wow. Onto the rest.)

Despite one of us being a ghost and the other a living being, we are somehow capable of being able to touch. Perhaps love is powerful enough to break the boundaries between the living and the supernatural. It's inexplicable like that.

Perhaps that sensation is just an illusion to me, brought on by the inescapable joy that I feel whenever I see him. But nevertheless, I'm still happy. I've honestly never felt this happy in a long time.

Darwin is different from others, I think. That's what makes him so interesting. When you suddenly grow lungs and legs and are suddenly thrown into society, living an unfamiliar life on land rather than the sea from which you came from, wouldn't you also be confused? Being a literal fish out of water, having to adapt to something completely foreign to you?

He's innocent, sweet, and helpful, especially when he isn't following any of Gumball's examples or plans. (Let's all agree, Gumball's a pretty bad role model.) But his sense of morality is strong enough that he almost never does. ...Not to mention, he's really adorable... I can't believe I used that word, but it's true...

I would say that he's a goody two shoes. In fact, he is. But you don't find many people like that.

Of course he isn't perfect. Darwin isn't so cheerful all the time. He tends to bottle up his negative emotions to be polite to people, he is afraid of being alone, or replaced...

I can actually relate to that. That's something that surprised me when I found out. Fears that his family and friends could possibly abandon him, a lack of self worth...? He's usually so bright and happy, and it wasn't something I expected from someone like him, but I can't say I never felt like that, too. That's how we grew even closer. It's been said that sometimes the ones with the brightest smiles hurt the most.

When I was around three or four years old, my ghost mother left me all alone when my living father became the Snatcher. I only had my grandmother for company, and being a detached hand... she doesn't do much. I was afraid. Going to school, I tried not to let it show through a façade of deadpan behavior.

(AN: The "costs" of the spells in the forbidden book in "The Mirror" took immediate effect on Gumball and Darwin, but apparently, not on Vladus, considering the fact that he recognized Carrie... Maybe it's because he used the spell on himself? I don't know. TAWoG logic is weird and broken, let's leave it at that.)

Darwin understood how I felt, and I understood how he felt. He came straight from the ocean to find his family, only to watch as he nearly got replaced. If Gumball hadn't sensed his presence that day, he probably wouldn't be here today.

Gumball and Darwin were also the ones who managed to help me get my father back. ...while he died painfully the moment he was freed from the curse, he became a ghost and we were finally able to hug. I'm grateful to the Wattersons for that.

Darwin and I just... know each other. We're able to share our feelings without any trouble.

That's why he's perfect to me, and I hope he never changes.