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Shrimpo POV:
It's morning and I am slowly waking up. I hate getting up in the morning. I would rather just stay in my room all day, but I can't. I know if I try, then THAT CERTAIN SOMEONE will try to get me out. I head off of my bed and change out of my pajamas. Once I open the door, I see a dorky fish bowl right outside.
"Hi Shrimpo! Water you doing?" Finn says.
"NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" I yell.
Finn chuckles. "You shore are in a mood this morning!"
"WHATEVER!" I move Finn out of the way and storm off to the kitchen. Finn ends up following after me for breakfast.
Finn POV:
Cosmo and Sprout greet us both.
"What an odd combo of toons to walk together." Cosmo says.
"We aren't really walking together... We both were just going in the same direction, that's all." I say.
"Sure....." Sprout says.
Sprout was giving Shrimpo a death glare. Sprout and Shrimpo had have some tension going on for the longest time. I don't really get why, Shrimpo never told me why. Not like Shrimpo would ever tell me... I kind of wished he would though.
"Hey hey Sprout... Shrimpo isn't doing anything." Cosmo says.
"Alright, Shrimpo stay out of trouble." Sprout grumbles.
I look at Shrimpo finally gonna ask him why he and Sprout are like this "What did you do to him to make him that mad at you??"
Shrimpo looks away with his arms crossed like he won't tell me. Of course he won't tell me.
"None of your business." Shrimpo says.
I frown a bit. Should've expected that answer. Shrimpo doesn't really tell anyone anything. I have no clue why I am sad about this, maybe because I want to get closer to Shrimpo more than I am trying. I feel drawn to him in a way. I want to know more about him behind all that anger. I know there's more to him than just that.
"What... what are you doing...?" Shrimpo looks confused.
I realized I was unknowingly leaning into him. I back up flustered. I have no clue why I am flustered by this. We are just friends. Well, he's MY friend. I don't even know if it's mutual. Why did I lean into him? I didn't even know it was happening. I calm myself down.
"Sorry about that, I didn't realize how close I was." I say with a chuckle. Rubbing the back of my head.
Shrimpo seems to already have taken his breakfast and started sitting by himself. I went to get breakfast and sat right next to him.
"Are you following me? I hate being followed!" Shrimpo angrily states.
"No! I haven't! I just felt like sitting next to you... that's all..." I say.
"Why...?" Shrimpo questions. Of course he's questioning me. Not many toons willingly sit next to him.
"Well, we're friends... aren't we?" I ask.
"Who said that?! Did someone get that idea in your head?!" Shrimpo yells.
"No! I just assumed... I guess I was wrong..." I say while keeping my head down.
I feel like I just made things worse. Will he ever want to be my friend after this? Will he even tolerate being around me?
"I thought Dandy said something, that's all. Dandy is so nosy! I hate how nosy Dandy is! It's worse when he teases me about it and calling me soft!" Shrimpo complains.
Oh so it's not about us being friends. It's about Dandy talking about it. Shrimpo seems upset that Dandy could be blabbering about it to the other toons.
"Well, Dandy has never mentioned it to me." I said.
Shrimpo still seems grumpy, but my reassurance seems to have calmed him down a bit.
"And you're the toughest toon I know!" I say gleefully.
"OF COURSE I AM!" Shrimpo proudly states.
I start to laugh a bit. It's kind of funny seeing Shrimpo like this, but it's nice too. Seeing him show something that isn't anger.
Shrimpo POV:
He's laughing at me? No one makes fun of me! I will NOT tolerate this mocking!
"HEY! DON'T MOCK ME!" I yell.
"I wasn't trying to mock you! It just made me happy to see you not show anger for once." Finn awkwardly chuckles.
My heart is beating. Why...? I hate this. I shouldn't even feel stuff like this! I don't feel this kind of attachment to another toon! It won't be good for me! It won't be good for them! Especially what happened last time someone got their feelings involved with me... I hate this.
"Whatever!" I say.
We both sit there silently. I go to gobble my food and then put my dishes in the sink and storm off. This sucks. I need to get away from him. Finn is nothing but trouble for me. I think I should at least tell Finn later that we're friends, I think. I might've given him the impression we weren't earlier. I don't even know why I care, but the thought of Finn being upset that he thinks it's one sided is annoying me! I got to tell him eventually. Maybe a letter. I don't really want to tell him face to face or else he'd get too excited and give off that stupid dorky smile. Maybe I could tell him why Sprout has beef with me. It's Sprout's fault anyways, he was too slow and I was just quicker than him.