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"7...6...5...4...3...2-" The elevator snapped shut. Looey had just made it in a blink of a second.
The last few floors had Twisted Shelly, Vee, and Flutter, Looey was pretty beaten up and was on one heart.
"Can I-... not distract this floor..?" Looey asked, "Brusha- maybe.. or Sprout?"
"..." A beat passed. "I mean- I can.. I can distract?"
"No. Looey it's okay. I would distract but-..." Sprout paused. He had one heart, and only extracting trinkets. So the only one who could distract was Brusha.
"Brusha?" Sprout asked. The low him of the elevator stretched out.
After a long pause. "No Why do I have to distract?!"
"Because you're the only one who's fast?! and you literally have good distracting trinkets you'll be fine! Besides i have enought tapes I can heal once we get to the floor!!" Sprout fought back.
"Ok well why doesn't that no good boyfriend of yours go distract?! Why don't you heal his ass instead?!"
"Because he's been distracting for the last 17 floors give him a break!! And- He's not my boyfriend?!"
Looey watched as the two went back and forth,
Sprout getting angrier and angrier.
"GO DISTRACT YOU USELESS BITCH-"
"DONT YOU DARE YELL AT LOOEY LIKE THAT-"
"GUYS WTF CALM DOWN-"
Everyone was yelling, Looeys ears lowered, he backed away slightly.
"I- it's fine.. I can distract." Looey mumbled,
"... Are you sure..?"
"Yea don't worry sprout.. just heal me."
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They had made it to floor 38 when dandy decided to let them back up.
Sprout was walking on the lower room floor, a floor for the normal toons unlike the mains. He was going to visit cosmo to ask him if he wanted to bake something when he heard something.
"CREASH!!"
He turned, the air around him swiftly moving with him. What was that?!
He walked back, looming over.. Looey's door?
"Looey..?" Nothing. "You alright in there?"
"....uh-... yea- yea don't worry about it."
That didn't sound believable. "Looey open the door."
"No really sprout- i- i'm fine don't worry about me I-"
"Open the door."
After a beat passed.
"Click!"
The gap between the door was small, Sprout could see Looey's barely visible face. But just by looking at it already he could tell he wasn't okay.
Streaks of tears fell down his cheeks, on his frick ahh balloon face get out ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
His eyes were red and puffy from crying. Tears streaked across his face, his ears lowered and tail curled between his legs.
“Looey.. please let me in.”
“No really- it’s fine.. i’m fine-“
“Looey.”
“I wouldn’t wanna bother you-“ Looey said as his voice shook.
“Looey please, you’ll never be a bother.”
The door creaked open and Sprout got a good glance at the room, and Looey. Looey was clutching his arm, slightly trembling as tears held behind his eyes.
Sprout shut the door behind him. “Oh Looey..”
"Why..?" Looey mumbled
"Why..?.. Why what?" Sprout asked in response. Looeys face turned to look to the side.
"Looey. Look at me."
"They're always yelling.." he paused. "At me.."
Sprouts eyes widened. He had been on runs with Looey before, and he never noticed.. how could he?! How could he not notice.
Every single time someone scolded him for getting hit- or being the reason someone else got hit.
It made no sense! Why would they yell at Looey?! He was the best distractor he knew! Better than pebble per say! And he totally wasn't being biased.
"What.. what do you mean?" He asked eagerly.
"All they do! All they do is yell and yell and yell and yell and yell and yell and yell AND YELL AND YELL AND YELLL AND YELLLLLL-"
"Looey calm tf down."
Looey looked at Sprout. His face immediately grew grim.
Suddenly, Sporut felt something around his waist. Feeling of latex on his strawberry ass imagine being a strawberry ☠️☠️☠️🥹🥹🥹
Sprout felt the wet sensation of tears on his shoulder. As looey sobbed into his shoulder.
"Hey it's ok.. don't cry looey! you're the best distractor i know! Don't listen to brusha." He assured, his eyes full of reassurance. "And even if youre not a good distractor.. you're amazing, and the funniest person i know, and your so, SO talented Looey, so don't doubt yourself."
Looey froze, he couldn't say anything after that. His eyes glimmered over like ice, Sprout smiled warmly into his eyes.
"Thank you.." Looey nodded, and for the first time in a while he smiled truely.