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2026-03-29
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The Things I Never Got To Tell You When I Liked You

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Summary:

Sprout desperately tries to seek consolidation from all of his other toon friends in response to his arising feelings for Cosmo— that have come back once more. He fears of risking the beautiful friendship he shares with Cosmo all for his romantic feelings; he rambles about this to his close friend, no matter how many times they tell him to just go confess already. Sprout knows it’s too soon, therefore, he’s advised to wait his feelings out for a couple of months to maintain a healthy friendship, rather than forcefully pushing them away like last time. During Sprout’s visit at the book club meeting without Cosmo, he learns how to format and create a story with Brightney’s help. He told Brightney he’d be writing a cookbook, but instead, he has other plans: he makes a confession letter in disguise of a book, documenting of all of his romantic feelings toward Cosmo before he may lose them in a couple of months— in hopes that coincidentally, Cosmo may pick out this book in particular on the shelf; or, Squirm to eat it and this letter may never be seen again.

Chapter 1: Author’s Note

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“Well… if you’re unsure of a book cover, then we could simply start with the author’s note!” Brightney grins, plopping next to Sprout, his eyebrows furrowing at her.

“A what?” He inquires, questioning how necessary it would be.

She continues, “An author’s note. You can almost interact with your audience behind the book! Many stories have these! They could also hint on what’s upcoming the next following chapters.”

“I wouldn’t want to spoil it, though.”

“Well, sometimes, if there’s a certain topic presented sensitive to the reader, they may not read it anymore because it could hurt them. Other than that, these could give you a kickstart to writing your story!”

Sprout tapped the eraser of his pencil against his chin, processing the information from Brightney.

He doesn’t want to hurt Cosmo.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

To start off, this memoir does not have any harmful or belittling intentions. It’s not a written piece meant to shame anyone in particular. If my chosen wordplay, or, diction, makes it sound that way, then I’m sorry! I’ve only recently started seriously writing with extra help from the Gardenview Book Club. I’m sorry if it seems like I don’t know what I’m doing– I can’t think from the top of my head on what to write.

I like the idea of this. An author’s note is what Brightney suggested to engage with the readers, but I don’t really know anyone who would read this except you.

I’ll never know if you do pick this book out of all the other cookbooks on the bookshelf, Cosmo. And if you did, I bet you’re surprised I mentioned your name, yeah? Well, realistically, I don’t think anyone really reads the books anymore at Gardenview since the children are all gone. Honestly, even the book club is too overwhelmed with the stress of the ichor situation, and I too, agree on that. Maybe you’d never know how I truly felt, and you know the type of toon I am.

I think I’ve been quite obvious, though. I could have misread everything on your end, but I’m positive that lately I’ve been far more obvious than I’ve ever been— and it might be looked as overwhelming to you, so currently.. I think I should stop.

I liked you, Cosmo, if the title was not obvious enough.

You could keep reading.

Notes:

Sprout cringes, looking at the very familiar name mentioned in the author’s note: Cosmo. He contemplated whether he should publish it or not, trying to weigh the possibilities if Cosmo would even read this or not.

Before he proceeds on writing the next chapter, he sinks into a pool of mass-overthinking— maybe on the inside, he hopes Cosmo wouldn’t read this and ask him about it.

Sprout’s a coward.

How the hell would he even start this without immediately confessing his past almighty love?