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Astro, Shelly and all the other mains were sitting on a picnic blanket on Sprout's floor, having a picnic. Without Dandy, of course… Vee and Sprout were having a “friendly” argument on which of either of them would win in a race. Shelly sat at the corner of the blanket, eating a sandwich peacefully. Astro looked at her and instantly felt butterflies.
What was wrong with him??
This has been happening for the past few days, whenever he sees or talks to Shelly, he gets nervous and starts to mess up his words. But he saw that she wasn't really enjoying herself so he got up and sat next to her and asked her about any new documentaries she saw? An instant smile showed up on her face and she started rambling on about a documentary of a chicken ( which she says are descendants of dinosaurs, but Astro doesn't see it ), the chicken was so cute and she wanted to snuggle it right out of the screen.
Astro laughed at that a little and he accidentally started staring at her and she was so focused on the chicken that she didn't realize he was looking so intently… But all the others did. Astro snapped out of it when he heard muffled laughs, he looked over at Vee and Sprout who were both trying to hold their laughter and his face burned with a dark shade of pink. He pulled his hat down in an attempt to hide his embarrassment from the two who couldn't care less of how feels about Shelly.
Shelly saw Astro pull his hat down and pulled it back up to see a flustered moon underneath, trying to find the words to explain but all that came out was, “uh.. I uh-uhmm… hi.”
“Hi Astro!... Are you okay?”
Vee and Sprout couldn't hold their laughter anymore, the scene in front of them was hilarious. Astro’s entire face was flushing and he was kneeling in front of a very oblivious Shelly who is just sitting there staring at this lovestruck toon.
Shelly's gaze snapped to Vee and Sprout and she asked why they were laughing.
Astro got even more butterflies in his stomach because Shelly's hands were holding his entire face after she took off his hat. He's staring at the ground trying not to make an absolute fool of himself, even though that's inevitable now that Vee and Sprout caught on.
“Oh Shelly, can't you see it? Astro's just been-” Sprout started
“Sprout stop!” Astro interrupted. He was humiliated and was just sitting there because he didn't really know what else to do. His face was practically red from how much he was blushing.
Astro got up and mumbled something about needing to use the bathroom and he speed walked away.
Shelly looked over at Vee and asked her if Astro wasn't feeling well. Vee just smiled and said that he probably felt something in his stomach.
Sprout snickered and said, “I could totally beat HIM in a race!”