When Spongebob got to the jellyfish fields, he saw Patrick from afar and waved his hand out to him.
"Hey Patrick!" Spongebob shouted as he walked over and sat on the floating seaweed grass right next to Patrick, who looked over his shoulder and waved back.
"Oh, hi Spongebob. I saved this ice cream for you" Patrick said cheerfully while handing Spongebob his other ice cream.
Spongebob grabbed it from his hand and softly smile.
"Thanks Patrick. You shouldn't have." Spongebob said while licking his ice cream.
"Hey, that's what friends are for" Patrick replied kindly as the two quietly enjoy their ice cream.
After a few minutes, Spongebob stopped eating abruptly and looked at his ice cream for a second before looking back at Patrick again.
He took a deep breath and sighed.
"Hey Pat? There's.... something that I have to tell you." Spongebob said nervously while rubbing his neck roughly.
Patrick looked at Spongebob while he was licking on his ice cream and nodded his head.
"Yeah go on, I'm listening" Patrick answered.
"I think.... I have feelings for Squidward and... I don't know how to confess to him without him freaking out on me. But, the more I think about it, the more I seem to think that he actually does hate me. He....always hates me.." Spongebob explained sadly and looked down.
Patrick didn't know what to say at this point as the two slowly begin an awkward moment of silence and continued to eat their ice cream once more in peace.
Patrick closed his eyes and thought carefully about what kind of advice could he say to his friend without giving him false hope before he finally spoke.
Surprisedly, like a true wise man.
"Well from the way I see it, you may need to take some time for him to love you first before you tell him how you feel. But that doesn't necessary mean that you have to wait forever. The best thing I can suggest is, that you take all of the time you need for you both to be comfortable around one another and when the right moment comes, only then you'll be able to tell him yourself." Patrick advised sophistically and a in whimsical fashion.
A second later, he opened his eyes up again and immediately revert back to usual personality of a goofy starfish as he enlarges his mouth wide enough to shove all his ice cream down his throat.
Spongebob watched him swallow the ice cream in amazement, which made his insides freeze up and shiver a bit in response.
Afterwards, he decide to make Spongebob feel better by putting his ice cream cone on top of his head to make him look stupid.
Obviously it had worked.
Spongebob, as predicted, start to giggle at his silliness and smiled warmly to him.
"Well, I guess you're right! And maybe if it's okay with you, I''ll be able talk to you more about it until I feel ready enough to confess to Squidward." Spongebob planned out excitedly while looking at Patrick.
Patrick smiled back and then switch expressions a bit to mess with him.
"Okay sure, why not. But only if it helps you with your loooove to Squidward" Patrick teased while making childish gossip sounds.
Sponegbob blushed bright pink and flailed his arms around at Patrick hysterically.
"Patrick! Please don't tell him I like him like that. It'll ruin my chances with him!" Spongebob plead.
Patrick laughed at his misery and kept on aggravating him.
"He he. Well how about I just go tell him now!" Patrick said as he starts to get up until he was held back by Spongebob, whose strong firm grip to his green shorts tugged aggressively to get him to stay out.
"Please nooo! I'm begging you!" Spongebob wailed out.
Patrick laughed and then sat back down just after Spongebob released him when he felt like he can trust him enough to.
"I'm just kidding buddy. You know that friends don't tell secrets to anyone and your secret is safe with me. As long as we can stay and talk about this love thing that you have for him some more." Patrick explained.
Spongebob, much to his relief, chuckle in delight and smiled.
"Dahahahah. Awwww. You really are my best friend!" Spongebob beamed as the two hugged each other gleefully.
While that happened, Squidward, who unnoticeably followed behind Spongebob this whole time, have finally caught up to them after receiving multiple jellyfish stings that he was getting across the entire park and finally found a spot to sit and spy, which was only a mile apart from them.
Unfortunately for him, the first thing that he sees when he got there, was the two hugging tightly in joy.
It made his stomach sick and boy was he angry.
"Bleh, it's disgusting! I did not come all this way here just so I could be staring at this....this pathetic attempt of them making out! Grr! This is a complete waste of time! I'm out of here." Squidward grumbled and stood up as he turned around to head back to the Krusty Krab before either of them finds out that he was trying to snoop on them.
Later, after the two cuddle for what felt like several hours, Spongebob released himself from Patrick and looked at his watch to see that it was 1:30pm.
Spongebob then stood up from the grass.
"Sorry Patrick, I gotta go to work now. Do you wanna come with me and order something?" Spongebob offered.
"Oh, yeah sure. Let me just eat this cone first." Patrick said with a quick nod as he grabbed his ice cream cone from his head and ate it in a rush.
Spongebob lent him a hand and pulled him up from the ground.
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Several minutes later, Patrick and Spongebob arrived back to his work place and walked inside the Krusty Krab, holding hands.
Squidward, who looked as if he was taking a long nap with his magazine on top of his head and immediately fixed himself when he heard the two walk in.
His face then grew dark, crossing his arms tightly as he tries to control his burning resentment of the two.
"Look at him. He's not even trying to hide it anymore. Is he really trying to intimidating me? Well it's obviously not working." Squidward muttered under his breath in a low voice so no one else would hear.
Squidward glared at Spongebob with stabbing daggers as the sweet sponge looks back at him with direct eye contact and smiles at him.
Surprisedly for a small moment, it somehow made his heart flutter a bit before he starts to realize it and begins to gets angry at him again.
Squidward can feel his jealously pulsating though his purple veins that start to slowly enlarge at an alarming rate on his head.
He then closed his eyes and took a deep breath as he exhaled out all of his anger in the Nick of time just before the two can walk close enough to talk to him.
"Hey squiddy! I'm finally done with my break. Good thing I made here it on time or else Mr. Krabs would kill me he he." Spongebob said nervously to him, sweat and light shadings of pink begin to cover his face.
Squidward looked at his watch and shook his head in dismay.
"Actually Spongebob, you're 2 minutes late" Squidward corrected in his usual monotone voice.
Spongebob, embarrassed by his immediate error, let's go of Patrick's hand and rubs his neck nervously.
His sweat intensified l and his light blush had now turned into much more darker red shade color.
"uhh yeah..hahah..your right. I am late. Sorry about that, I'm just gonna to go to the kitchen now." Spongebob said as he rushes to the kitchen while Patrick calmly order his food.
"i'll take 2 krabby patties and 1 kelp soda." Patrick announces as Spongebob immediately starts making his food.
At this point he had enough energy to work again.
"On it! Two krabby patties coming right up!" Spongebob yelled out while flipping the patties.
"That'll be $8.06" Squiward informed with a distasteful glare as Patrick hands him over the money.
Squidward puts the money in the cash register and continues to stare as patrick walks over table 5 and sat down while waiting.
Squidward huffed and decides to look at his magazine to occupy himself until he begins to have a rare, sad feeling in his mind and puts the magazine down in hurt and frustration.
why...am i feeling so jealous around them? Ugh. Squidward this isn't like you. You need to learn to control yourself. It's just two idiots holding hands and hugging..... Squidward thought as immediate flashback images project in his mind with him once again witnessing the too friendly hug.
Squidward's body started to shake and tremor.
He felt the sudden urge to cry but managed to resist it by sticking his face onto his magazine in attempt to try to distract himself from his pain.
"ORDER UP!" Spongebob then shouted as he exited the kitchen with a tray in his hands and
walks over to Patrick to give him his food.
"Here you go Pat" Spongebob said cheerfully while placing the order down and sat next to him on the table.
"Thanks I also ordered this other krabby patty for you too." Patrick offered.
"Gosh really?!" Spongebob said, surprised with his smile wider in amazement.
"Yeah! Here take it, I know you didn't have lunch yet" Patrick encouraged while he started to munch on his own krabby patty.
"Thanks Patrick" Spongebob said as he took a bite of his krabby patty.
"So are we gonna talk about it now?" Patrick asked Spongebob without revealing too much.
"Oh, yeah. So if I want to confess to someone that I really like, how do i do that?" Spongebob asked curiously with Squidward unexpectedly listening in on the conversation as he looked up from his magazine, wearing a sudden confused expression on his face.
Huh?! Squidward thought puzzled as he continued to listen.
Patrick swallowed his food and spoke "Well you're just gotta have to say it from the heart." Spongebob then blushed, but obviously not to Patrick of course and smiled.
He kissed patrick on the cheek with glee and shouted.
"Thank you so much Patrick! You're the best!" Spongebob exclaimed while Patrick smiled and kept on eating his food.
Squidward as a result with a sudden urge to explode at any second, stood up abruptly and walked to the restroom to calm himself down.
Patrick and Spongebob noticed his rage from afar and began to question about it.
"Hey Pat? Do you know what's going on with squiddy? He seems to be acting funny lately." Spongebob asked as Patrick drank his kelp soda down before he can respond.
"I don't know. Maybe he's just angry again." Patrick suggested with a shrug.
"It Seems like it. Wait here, I'm gonna go check on him" Spongebob said as he got up from the table and walked inside to find Squidward locked up in a bathroom stall.
Spongebob knocked on the door and spoke up.
"Umm Squidward? Is everything okay in there?.." Spongebob asked as Squidward held onto his knees tightly, refusing to answer him.
After no response was made, Spongebob tried to come up with the next few words to say while Squidward's mind constantly spins, fearing that patrick and spongebob might have always been together this whole time all these years and just couldn't bother with their stupidity or their friendship any longer.
Squidward suddenly blurted out his words out of hurt that was compressed harshly to his chest.
"Go away Spongebob! I..." Squidward yelled out until he realize his mistake and tries to fix it quick.
"....I'm just thinking. There's no need to worry. I'll be out in a few minutes." Squidward said after he cooled off from his boiling temper.
Spongebob dropped his head down and sigh while nodding, understandably.
He only wanted to help, but knows that it's not needed right now and learns to give him some space.
"Okay squiddy. If that's what you want. I'll leave you to it then." Spongebob said as he slowly exited the bathroom and sat back back with Patrick.
"Squiddy wont come out.." Spongebob said, worried as Patrick burped from his empty kelp soda and shrugged.
"Well, give him some time at least. He'll be fine" Patrick said as his phone vibrated in his pocket and quickly took it out to look at a text.
"I gotta go now. Spongebob I'll see you later" Patrick said while putting his phone away as Squidward ironically walks outside of the restroom and sees the two hugging once again.
"Bye Spongebob!" Patrick said while waving goodbye.
"Bye Patrick! See you later." Spongebob said as he waved back and watched him leave.
Squidward then goes back to his post, still jealous as ever.
"So you and him have anything special going on?" Squidward asked in a mocking tone with holding his magazine to hide his face.
Spongebob, who didn't recognize his rude tone, looked back at Squidward and blushed a little by his obscure question.
"Uhh...no, nothing like that he he." Spongebob said nervously while laughing a little.
Squidward then looked up from the magazine and rolled his eyes at him.
"Whatever, just go back to the kitchen so I don't have to see your face.." Squidward said harshly.
Spongebob who was shocked and confused by his tone, nodded his head, sadly.
"Sorry Squidward....I'll go now." Spongebob said as he went back to the kitchen to finish frying up the patties.
When the coast was clear, Squidward all of a sudden felt bad for what he had said earlier and threw his magazine down in frustration.
He didn't mean to hurt his feelings, he just wished that he would have told him sooner about how he really feels and now believes that it's too late to say anything.