First of all let me say that I have different styles of writing. Some chapters may be short while others are long. This story may make characters seem out of character. This story contains Spandy. Ok this story takes place after the episode Gone. In that episode they came up with National No Spongebob Day. So in this story Spongebob remembers that everyone left town and feels under appreciated. His friends feel sorry for him and want to make him feel better. So they come up with Spongebob Appreciation Day.

Spongebob Appreciation Day

(Chapter One)

One day at the Krusty Krab Spongebob comes home upset because he was yelled at for accidentally burning Krabby Patties. Usually things like that would not happen but he had something on his mind. Everyone in town, including his friends left town to get away from him. They called it National No Spongebob Day, but they were gone longer than that. Nobody knew how bad he felt when he found out that everyone left him. He thought that everyone had went missing and literally lost his mind.

Spongebob came home remembering those few weeks when everyone left town. He also had a bad day at work so he wasn't feeling too happy. He fed Gary his dinner and then sat down in his chair to think. Why would everyone leave town? Was he really that annoying to be around? Then he remembered all of the times that Squidward called him annoying. Of course it probably wasn't just Squidward that he had annoyed. Since everyone left town that would mean that he would have annoyed everyone at some point.

"Wow… I didn't know that I was so annoying to the point where everyone would leave town. I was just worries that something might have happened to my friends, but instead… they just go off and leave me. If they needed time alone … I sure wish they would've told me instead of making me worry."

Spongebob didn't feel like doing anything and no one really called him or came over to his house so he just decided to go to bed. The next day he woke up not feeling much better. He didn't have to work that day so wasn't really sure of what to do. He wasn't sure if he wanted to talk to anyone so instead he just went for a walk. It was still early morning so he knew that Squidward and Patrick would be asleep. The sun was just starting to come up over the horizon. He looked at his watch and it read seven thirty.

He walked through Jellyfish Fields and saw a few jellyfish. Then he was glad that he remembered his jellyfishing net. To take his mind off of things he decided to catch a few jellyfish to try to have a few minutes of happiness. His happiness didn't last long because he remembered that when everyone left town he was all alone jellyfishing. He looked at his watch again.

He had spent more time jellyfishing than he thought. He spent three hours there so he decided to walk some more. Spongebob walks by Sandy's Treedome only to see her busy working on an experiment. Not wanting to interrupt he just decided to walk on by. Sandy had been so busy with her science experiment anyway that they never got to spend much time together anymore. As he walked away sadly she noticed this and became concerned. Since he just walked on by without coming inside she wondered if she had done something wrong.

Spongebob returned back to his street and he heard Patrick come up behind him. Patrick was about to say something until he noticed that something was wrong with Spongebob. He just watched as Spongebob went back to his pineapple. Squidward was looking at Spongebob from his window and noticed he was acting strange. Usually Squidward wouldn't care about this, but he knew that sooner or later he was going to get stuck in a situation where he felt bad for Spongebob. He knew he was going to regret this later but he decided to talk to him.

"Hey Spongebob what's the matter with you? Why are you so upset?"

"What you're actually talking to me? Don't you and everyone else find me annoying?"

Spongebob was starting to get angry and get tears in his eyes when he said this so after he said it he ran straight into his pineapple. Patrick just stood there for a minute confused and then looked at Squidward. Squidward also felt confused, but also felt sort of bad for Spongebob. Squidward then thought to himself…Did Spongebob finally get the hint? If so it must have hurt his feelings. Patrick then said…

"What did you do to him this time Squidward?"

"I didn't do anything… It must have been something that I said. Since when does he become Mr. Sensitive?"

"I don't know Squidward, but do you think that maybe… we should check on him?"

"Why?"

"Well… sooner or later you'll probably get involved anyway Squidward."

"I can't believe this, but you're probably right Patrick. Fine we can go check on him."

Squidward and Patrick went to Spongebob's front door. When they got there they saw Sandy there too. Patrick and Squidward then started to wonder if Spongebob was upset with everyone. Then Squidward thought of something.

"I think I know what's going on here."

"You do?" (Patrick and Sandy both say at the same time)

"Yeah… Spongebob is upset because of what happened yesterday at the Krusty Krab. He burned a few Krabby Patties and he got yelled at for it. Now he's acting like it's the end of the world. He's just trying to get our attention."

(Spongebob hears what he says and then opens his window and says…)

"That's not the reason and besides none of you probably care anyway."

(He slams his window shut.)

Patrick and Sandy just get a little concerned and Squidward decides to go get to see if he could help with Spongebob. At this point even Squidward was a little concerned.

(To be continued)