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Goob wakes up in the dead of night. Laying in his bed, hungry, but not hungry enough to actually make himself something to eat. He slowly gets out of bed, trying to stay as quiet as possible. Goob steps out into the hallway, looking to see if anyone else is up. He sees a small amount of light coming from Astro’s room, of course he’s up. Goob makes his way down the hallway. Finally arriving at the kitchen he looks inside the fridge. Goob sees; a cupcake in a bag with the words “Sprout’s, DO NOT TOUCH” and a couple uneaten cupcakes from the morning. He takes one of the uneaten cupcakes and goes to the main lobby. Taking the elevator down he decides to sit under the skylight
Shrimpo is having trouble sleeping, currently laying in his bed staring at the ceiling. Hearing the faint sounds of the elevator screeching, he grabs his diary from his nightstand and walks down the hall. He walks by Goob and Scrap’s room to see that the door is unlocked and slightly ajar. Shrimpo notices that Goob is gone from his bed. Shrimpo walks down the hall; he decides to go sit at the train stop. Shrimpo calls the elevator back and rides it down to the main lobby. Shrimpo gets off the elevator and looks around to make sure nobody sees him, but he gets spotted by Goob. “Ah shit” Shrimpo says to himself. He then walks to a bench and sits at the end of it.
Shrimpo tries to ignore Goob’s gaze, so he makes his way to the train stop. Goob watching from under the skylight walks to the train stop.
“Hey shrimpy?”
“What do you want?” Shrimpo barked at Goob
“What; I cant check up on my friend?”
“Shut up”
Goob walks over to the bench that Shrimpo is sitting at and sits at the other end
“What ya doing up so late?”
“I could ask the same thing”
“Touché”
The two sit there until Goob spots the diary that Shrimpo is holding
“What’s that?” Goob asks
“Nunya”
“Come on” Goob says playfully “Can I see it?”
“NO” Shrimpo instinctively pulls the diary away from Goob’s reach
‘Pleasee?”
“No, now shut it before I make you”
“Fine, but can I ask why you brought it?”
“Because I didn’t want to deal with people, alright?”
“Yea-yea, not surprising coming from you”
Shrimpo turns away from Goob and starts writing in his diary visibly having trouble due to the lighting . Goob waits a bit before asking
“Whatcha writing about?”
“Why do you wanna know?”
“Because I’m curious?” Goob says unconvincingly
“Do you have an actual reason?”
“No’ Goob admits
“That’s what I thought” Shrimpo says sharply
Shrimpo starts writing in the diary, occasionally taking glances at Goob, who is sitting and watching the train tracks. Eventually he notices the cupcake that Goob had
“Why do you have that?”
Goob turns his head to Shrimpo “Have what?”
“The cupcake you dumby”
“Oh, thought I would be able to snack while looking at the moon, didn’t think I would see you.”
“Then why don’t you go back?”
“Don’t wanna leave you alone” Goob says with a silent chuckle
“Fine then, I’ll just move over there, probably better lighting too”
Shrimpo gets up and moves across to the skylight, Goob follows. Shrimpo sits down in the middle while Goob sits beside him
“If I give you half of this, can I see what you’re writing about?” Goob says holding up the cupcake
“Where’d you even get that”
“I’ll tell you after”
Shrimpo thinks for a few seconds “Fine but only one page”
Goob smiled gratefully then made a sloppy cut through the cupcake with one of his claws.
“Which one do you want?” Goob asked holding the two halves of the cupcake.
Shrimpo snatches a half from Goob, and practically shoves it down his throat
“Now, where’d you get this, did you get sprout to makes extras for you?”
“Nope, they’re just in the fridge; You would know if you weren’t staying in your room all day.”
Goob says playfully, Shrimpo glares daggers at him
“Seriously?”
“Yep. Can I see the diary now?”
“FINE” Shrimpo throws the diary at Goob
Goob looks inside the diary while Shrimpo vehemently watches
‘diary entry 57
Holy shit these toons need shut up, dandy especially. Like shit we get it, you are dating astro, please shut your shit about it. Sprout too, I cant even get a fucking snack or walk through the kitchen without hearing his dumbass. You have a room, GO USE IT. At least I got to see goob today, he was less annoying today than he has been. Weirdly he’s been hanging around me-.’
the text stops there
Goob closes the diary and looks to Shrimpo sympathetically
Shrimpo snatches it from Goob after he closes
“What you lookin at me for, you asked for it” Shrimpo says defensively
“Nothing, nice to know that you thought positively about me”
“Screw off. I still hate you.”
“Sure buddy”
“I’m going back to bed” Shrimpo gets up and starts walking back to the elevator
Goob gets up and walks behind Shrimpo “Why’d you come down here anyway?”
“You know the elevator does make noise, right?”
“Ohh”
“Goddamn airhead”
“Ooh you said a bad word”
They both arrive at the elevator and Shrimpo punches in the residential floor.
“If you say anything about this I will punch you”
“Well you don’t punch that hard” goob says playfully
Shrimpo punches Goob in the side
“yea, I deserved that” they walk to their respective doors, “night shrimply”
“Have a terrible night” Shrimpo says exasperatedly
They lay down in their respective beds’
‘I didn’t hate that, no NO what the hell are you thinking Shrimpo, get a hold of yourself. He’s a fucken dumbass, but cute somehow. There is no way you PLAN on dating him. I mean would he want to? Shrimpo bangs his head into his pillow trying to force himself to sleep. Which works but only after lots of thoughts about the craft.’
“Why are you up so late” scrap asks sitting up from her bed
“no reason” Goob responds guiltily
“Are you saying that to protect yourself or someone else” scraps asks worriedly
“Both?”
“Fine, just let me know if you get hurt, I promise not to judge.. too much.”
“yea-yea, thanks” goob flops onto his bed passively thinking about how his night has been going, along with a slight embarrassment at the thought of the shrimp