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"Sandy! I'm back!" Spongebob walked over to Sandy and kissed her.

"Well, welcome back." Sandy says. "I made dinner"

"Ooh, dinner!" Spongebob ran to the kitchen.

They sat down and began to eat their lasagna.

After they finished dinner Spongebob was quick to say something. "Hey Sandy."

"What Spongebob?" Sandy got up and took the plates to the dishwasher.

"Want to go to the park?" Spongebob jumped out of his chair.

"Sure..?"

Sandy and Spongebob put on coats and walked to the park.

Once they got to the park they started looking around.
Spongebob grabbed a small box out of his pocket and did the classic kneel.

"Sandy... Will you marry me."

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"I'm sorry... No" Sandy ran off.

Spongebob didn't know what to do.
Why did Sandy say no? Did he say or do something?
A few minutes later Patrick walked up

"Hiya Sponge!"

"Hey Patrick.."

"What got you in a sad mood?" Patrick sat next to Spongebob.

"Sandy said no."

"Oh, well, you don't need her! You have me!"

"I do need her Patrick, shes my girlfriend."

"How 'bout we get some ice cream!" Patrick tries to lighten the mood.

"Okay"

Spongebob and Patrick head to the ice cream shop.
They order their ice cream and sit at a table to eat.

Only a minute later Patrick is done with his ice cream.

"That was fast." Spongebob laughs.

"Quick finish yours! We can go to Squidward's house!" Patrick jumps up from his chair and runs to the door

Once Spongebob finishes his ice cream they walk to Squidwards house

"Hi Squidward!" Spongebob knocks on Squid's door.

The door opens and he sees Sandy and Squidward kissing.

"Sandy..."

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"Spongebob!" Sandy shouts.

"Spongebob!?" Squidwards stared.

"How could you!" Spongebob runs off crying.

"Yeah, how could you." Patrick runs after Spongebob.

"Do you think he'll be okay?" Sandy says.

"Yeah hes just Spongebob." Squidward sits up.

Spongebob ran into his house and hugged Gary.

"Sandy cheated on meeeee" Spongebob stars crying.

He new Gary didn't really understand what
he was saying but he felt better when he talked to Gary.

"Spongebob?" Patrick walks into Sponge's house.

"Spongebobbbbbbbbbb" Patrick walks up to Spongebob.

"Oh, there you are!" Patrick pets Gary.

"What Patrick, I'm not in the mood."

"Okay.." Patrick goes back to his rock.

Later that day Patrick wen't back to Spongebob's house.

"Hiiiiiii" Patrick only saw Gary.

"Sponge..?" Gary signals to a note.
The note says:

Dear whoever finds this note, I have moved back to my parents house forever knowing they will comfort me for forever.
If you come to m parents house I won't open the door. From, Spongebob.

"Gary has no one to take care of him know." Patrick looks down at Gary which is staring right at him.

"OH! I can take care of you, like I did a couple of months ago!" Gary does remember what he is talking
about but he doesn't care anymore because he's hungry and cold now with no one to hang out with.

Patrick and Gary go back to his rock. Patrick never saw Spongebob again.

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One day Patrick went to the store. While he was shopping he saw Spongebob.
"Sponge!" Patrick says. "I thought i'd never see you again!"

"Patrick!" Spongebob and Patrick run over to each other.

"How is Gary?" Spongebob asked.

"Who's Gary?" Patrick stares at Spongebob.
"My pet snail! Gary!" Spongebob shouts.
"Ohhhh, I named him Peanut butter." Patrick laughs.

"I don't care what you re-named him! How is he?" Spongebob asked again.

"He's doing great no need to worry." Patrick continues shopping.

"Can I see him" Spongebob says.
"Sure pal!" Patrick and Sponge
start walking to Patrick's rock. Once they get to his place they go inside.

"Gary!" Spongebob screams. A second later Gary runs over to Spongebob.

"Gary I missed you!" Spongebob hugs Gary.

"Wait.... When was the last time you gave Gary a bath?" Spongebob says.
"Uh, like two months ago." Patrick says as he grabs out a can of beans and puts it on a table.

"Gary, let me wash you, you need a bath." Spongebob grabs Gary and takes him over to his house
and gives him a bath. "All better!" Sponge says.
"Now we can go to sleep" Spongebob and Gary get on their beds and fall asleep.

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A few days later Spongebob thought of Sandy. He wanted to go see how she has been doing.
Once he got done with his work shift he went to Sandy's house.

"Sandy...?" Spongebob says.

"Spongebob!" Sandy screams as she runs towards him. "Where have you been!?"

"Forget that. What has happened between you and Squidward for the last two years?" Spongebob asked.

"Oh, we're getting married.." Sandy trails off.

"Am I invited?" Spongebob says.

"Sure.." Sandy walks away.

"When is it...?" Spongebob asked.

"Tomorrow, at one"

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The next day Spongebob and Patrick were getting ready to go to Squidward and Sandy's wedding.

"Does this look good on me?" Patrick asked.
Spongebob didn't think it looked good but he didn't wanna say it so all he says is "Yes"

"Okay, then lets go to the wedding!" Patrick says. Once they get to the wedding they sit at some chairs next to other fish and critters.

"Today is Christmas and there's a wedding!" Spongebob says.

"Very merry!" Patrick laughs.

"Okay, okay, its starting!" Spongebob whispers.

Spongebob din't care to listen to what the guy was saying so all he heard was "Blah, blah blah." For a few minutes.

"You may now kiss the bride." The guy says.

Spongebob couldn't bare watching Sandy an Squidward kiss so he closed his eyes.

Once it was over Spongebob was quick to leave.

Once he got to this house he slammed the door closed, and cried.

A couple minutes later there was knocking on his front door so he ran to the door and opened it.

"That's the first wedding I've been to!" Patrick says.
"I'm not in the mood to talk Patrick." Spongebob says as he closes the door.

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A few months later Spongebob went over to Squidward's house.
He knocked on the door twice before Squidward opened the door.

"How could you!" Spongebob screams.

"What?" Squidward says.

"I thought we were friends! How could you marry my girlfriend!" Spongebob blurts.

"Spongebob, we were NEVER friends." Squidward screams and slams his door close.

Spongebob ran back to his own huse and cried.
Gary goes over to Sponge, and comforts him.

"Thanks Gary." Spongebob says as he hugs Gary.
A few hours later Sandy knocks on Spongebob's door.

"Sponge?" Sandy says.

No response...

Sandy kicks down the door and sees Spongebob sitting on the floor staring at her.

"Hi..." Sandy trails off.

"Why did you cheat on me!" Spongebob screams

"Spongebob... That happened two years ago, I've changed.." Sandy says.

"Leave!" Spongebob cries.

"Okay..." Sandy walks outside and closes the door.

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Spongebob goes to the kitchen to make dinner. He decides to make lasagna, even though it still hurts to eat because he used to eat it with Sandy.
After Spongebob eats he goes to his favorite park. This is where Spongebob proposed to Sandy. Suddenly, Patrick runs up to Spongebob and screams "SANDY WENT MISSING!"
WHAT!? How could Sandy go missing!? Spongebob didn't even expect someone to be at this park since it closed years ago.

"She was even on the news!" Patrick adds. "I need to find her!" Spongebob shouts as he runs to Squidward's house. Once he got to the door he screamed
"HOW COULD YOU LET SANDY GO MISSING?" as he opened the door, only to see no Squidward. Frantically, Spongebob starts running around Squidward's house screaming.

Patrick runs to Spongebob panting and says "We need to check the Krusty Krab!" "You're right!" Spongebob shrieks. Spongebob and Patrick run to the Krusty Krab.
When they arrive they see customers, and even Mr. Krabs! But, no Squidward. "How could you let Squidward go missing!" Spongebob screams.

"Er.. Investigating is money, boy." Mr. Krabs sighed. "We need to call the cops!" Spongebob cried. Spongebob and Patrick ran back to Spongebob's house.
Spongebob grabbed his phone and called the cops. After the phone call ended he sat down and turned on the TV to watch the news.

"Bikini Bottom news, two missing cases. Their names are Squidward Tentacles and Sandy Cheeks. On the screen will be pictures of them. And that's all for now, good bye."
Spongebob was glad that people were looking for them, but he wished they were never gone. Spongebob got up and went to Squidward's house to investigate it.

Once he got to Squidward's house he started looking around. Not even a minute later Patrick walks in and goes to the fridge. "Squidward has been missing for about four days."
Spongebob states. "No, he's been missing for a week." Patrick corrects. "How do you know that?" Spongebob asked.

"The milk is spoiled." Patrick stated. "We need to go to Sandy's house and investigate there." Spongebob said. They both ran to Sandy's house and put on their helmets.
Once they got inside there was stuff laying across the floor. "What happened here..?" Spongebob mumbled. "I don't know but it's creepy.." Patrick says.

"We should go-" Spongebob gets cut of by the sound of something falling. "Spongebob.. What was that..?" Patrick asked. "I don't know-" And again Spongebob gets cut of, but this time it was because they saw a black figure. "AHHHHHHH"

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"AAAAHH PATRICK RUN!" Spongebob screams running away from the mysterious creature. Once they got outside of Sandy's house Spongebob realized something.
"Wait, Patrick.. If we leave it, it might hurt Sandy!" Spongebob says, with a sadden face. "We should go catch it! Like a jelly fish!" Patrick shouts.

Spongebob and Patrick head back to their houses to get their jelly fishing equipment. After they get everything they need they head back to Sandy's house.
"We need to catch it!! For Sandy!" Spongebob says, "For Sandy!" Patrick shouts.

They head back inside, remembering to wear their helmets. "Okay Patrick, we have to be very quiet-" Spongebob was cut off by Patrick screaming and running out of Sandy's house. "Okay, I guess its up to me." Spongebob says quietly trying to not disrupt the mysterious creature.

Spongebob slowly moved closer to the mysterious creature that seemed to be taking a nap. As quietly as he could, Spongebob quickly put the net around the mysterious creature. "Yes!" Spongebob shouts, waking up the mysterious creature. The mysterious creature got mad and tried to attack Spongebob, but it couldn't. Once the mysterious creature calmed down, Spongebob and Patrick stood in front of it.

"Okay, we have some questions for you." Spongebob says, with a sigh. "First, what is your name?" Spongebob and Patrick stood looking at the mysterious creature as it did nothing. "Hey! Answer him!" Patrick screams, quickly backing away so the creature can't attack him. Spongebob didn't have time to be scared, he needed to get to the bottom of this case.

"Can you speak at all?" Spongebob asks. The creature stared at him and started walking around. "Hey! No walking around, this is serious. Can you speak?" Spongebob asks again only to be ignored by the mysterious creature. Spongebob knew this wouldn't work but he ended up doing it anyways.

"Why are you here?" Spongebob asks, "This is my friend's house." he added on. Suddenly the door flew open and the mysterious creature ran out.
"PATRICK IT'S HEADING STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE KRUSTY KRAB!" Spongebob screams running after the strange creature.

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Sponge and Patrick start running after the creature. "Patrick! The creature is too fast!" Spongebob shouts.
"I have an idea!" Patrick says as he grabs out a big jelly fishing net. "Patrick! This isn't a jelly fish!"

"I'll throw this net to scare it!" Patrick says. Spongebob pauses realizing that it was a good idea. "Patrick, you're a genius!"
"I am?" Spongebob looks over to Patrick and says, "Yes! Now, if you throw the net I can go and get help!

Spongebob starts running for help after Patrick throws the net.
"Oh, it didn't stop.." Patrick says. "IT DIDN''T STOP!" But Spongebob didn't hear him. Spongebob had already ran off searching for help. Patrick new that this beast was going tear up Bikini Bottom if he didn't stop it, so he decided to lure the creature into the Chum Bucket. "Hey! Creepy monster! Follow me!" Patrick yelled as he ran towards the Chum Bucket. The creature followed Patrick into the Chum Bucket. Plankton heard the door and ran to see who came in. "Welcome costumer- Oh dear Neptune what is that?!" Plankton said as he saw the creature. Patrick looked around and said, "I don't know, but I think he's hungry.. Do you have any Chum?" _______________________________________ Spongebob didn't have much time, he had to find help, and find it quick! He ran around for a couple of minutes until he ran into.. "SQUIDWARD?"

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Plankton finishes making the Chum and hands it over to Patrick who then fed it to the creature.
The creature seems to really like it because it starts chowing down on it.

Once the creature is down eating the Chum, it gets tired and falls asleep.

"Hahaha, I knew it would work!" Patrick shouts

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"SQUIDWARD?! IS THAT YOU!" Spongebob screams.

"Will you stop yelling!" Squidward says as he starts walking away.

"Squidward what are you doing here?! I thought you went missing!" Sponge runs up to him and hugs him.

"What? I wasn't missing, me and Sandy went to Texas on vacation.."

"SO YOU ARE SANDY ARE OKAY?!" Spongebob starts jumping up and down.

"YES! Now stop yelling!" Squidward fixes his Krusty Krab hat that is on his head, and continues to walk to The Krusty Krab.

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"..So what is that thing?" Plankton asks as he stares at the creature, which is fast asleep by now.

"I'm not sure, but I'm gonna call it fluffy!" Patrick says.

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Spongebob runs around Bikini Bottom trying to find Patrick.
Finally, he makes it to the Chum Bucket and goes inside.

"PATRICK! PATRICK! I SAW SQUIDWARD!" Spongebob screams as he runs towards Plankton and Patrick.

Spongebob slows down, because he is tired due to running around a lot.

"Him and Sandy went to Texas! But, they are back now!" Sponge says

"Oh, yeah, I knew that!" Patrick says

"What? You.. knew?" Spongebob looks at Patrick confused.

"Yeah, Sandy told me before they left! I just forgot about it!" Patrick laughs

"We should probably go now and figure out what this creature is." Spongebob says as he pets the creature.

Spongebob, Patrick, and the creature walk out of the Chum Bucket.

"Hey! You didn't pay for the Chum!!" Plankton shouts as they leave.

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Spongebob and Patrick lead the creature to a shady scientist lab. "This place is creepy...!" Spongebob whispers, as he is very scared.
"Don't be scared, Spongebob!" Patrick smiles, "This look's just like my uncle Bill's house."

"Uhh.. Patrick? I didn't know you had an Un-" Spongebob's words are interrupted by a scientist walking in.
"Why, hello there! I am Pl- DEFINITELY NOT PLANKTON! What can I do for you today?" The scientist pauses, looking over at the creature.
The creature walks over to "Definitely Not Plankton", and begins licking him. "AGH! What is this thing?!" The scientist asks.

"We don't know!" Spongebob adds, "This guy has been tearing up Bikini Bottom! That's why we came here..." Spongebob glances over to Patrick. "Yeah! That's why we came here." Patrick confirms.

"Well.. I can see that it breathes, and licks, and other animal things.. So.. This must be a wild beast! Oh, hey I know. I'll go check in my TOP SECRET book, containing secrets!" The scientist says as he walks away, leaving Spongebob and Patrick confused.

As Patrick and Sponge wait for the scientist to get back, they get very bored. They get so bored they start singing a song. "Five-Hundred cartons of milk in the fridge, Five-Hundred cartons of milk! Take one down, pass it around, Four-Hundred Ninety-Nine cartons of milk in the fridge!" After they start singing that awful version of the classic song, the scientist luckily comes back in time to free you from thinking about cartons of milk.

"Ah-hah! I have figured it out! So, do not be afraid little ones!" The scientist yells, "BEHOLD.. IT IS A..." before the man can continue, the lights flicker off.
"Oh, no!" Spongebob shrieks. "What are we going to do!" Patrick runs over, hugging Spongebob. "Please help us!" Sponge and Patrick say, "We are so afraid!"

"Relax, relax. I Just forgot to pay my bills is all." The scientist comforts. "Anywho.. This creature is no ordinary creature, this is in fact an Airlian Gloom!"
"An Airlian Gloom..?" Spongebob asks, "What's that?"

"What do you mean 'What's that?"! An Airlian Gloom is that thing, you bottom feeder!" The scientist shouts.
"What do we do now?" Patrick asks, as he looks over to Spongebob. "I think we have to set it free.." Spongebob responds.
"Alright! Playtime's over." The scientist says, "Now.. OUT!" the scientist yells, while pushing Spongebob, Patrick, and the Airlian Gloom outside.

"Come on, buddy." Spongebob leads the Airlian Gloom, and Patrick, to a far-away town. "Wow.. What is this place?" Patrick looks, in awe.
"This is TownThatis FarAway!" Spongebob tells Patrick, "This is where weird creatures live, I wonder if the Airlian Gloom species live?" Spongebob questions as he continues forward, leading the Airlian Gloom, and Patrick.

As they walk further into the town of TownThatis FarAway, they see many creatures, but none are Airlian Glooms, or even look like one. "Wow.. I sure am hungry, Sponge.." Patrick mumbles, slowing down. "Me too.." Spongebob agrees, "Hey, what if we stop there!" Spongebob suggests, pointing towards a cafe. "Yay, let's go!" Patrick runs to the cafe.

As they walk into the cafe, they notice there are no other "fish" like them, and only weird creatures. They decide to order something anyways.
"Hello! Can we get three Seanut Butter sandwiches, please?" Spongebob asks. The creature behind the register only stares at him.

Suddenly, the Airlian Gloom walks to the cashier, and speaks in a different language. Spongebob and Patrick are unsure what the Airlian Gloom said, but they hoped it ordered some food for them, because they were very hungry. The two creatures interacted, and then the Airlian Gloom, Sponge, and Patrick sat down at a table. After Spongebob sits down, the chair falls on the floor, breaking into a few pieces. "It's okay!" Spongebob shouts, "I'll just stand.."

A waiter then brings them their food, and sits the plates infront of Spongebob and Patrick. They successfully ordered Seanut Butter sandwiches!! The waiter and Airlian Gloom then start talking to eachother, but Spongebob and Patrick don't know what they are saying.

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"So, Sponge..." Patrick starts, "Have you been doing good since... Sandy?"

"Yes, I have! I actually have a new crush!" Spongebob says happily. Spongebob and Patrick finish their sandwiches and pay for their meal.

"Well, I don't really want to share my biggest secret!" Sponge smiles.

"But..." Patrick frowns, "I tell you all of my secrets!"

"No, you don't! Remember your secret box?" Spongebob asks, as he, Patrick, and the Airlian Gloom walk outside, leaving the cafe.

"Well, okay.." Patrick trails off. Patrick respected Sponge's boundaries, but he really wanted to know who Sponge's crush was.

"Maybe you will give me a... hint?" Patrick laughs, but he wasn't joking.

"Well, they are one of my close friends! That's all I will say." Spongebob promises.

The three continue on their journey, making it across the entire area of the town. Some time passed as they continued to walk around, "So.." Patricks starts.

"No, Patrick! I'm not telling you anymore." Spongebob says sternly.