Muppet Love: The Beginning.

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Sesame, there was a little boy called Ernie.

Ernie was a very nice boy, ordinary like you and I, but just that he has orange skin, a too-wide mouth and doesn't have any eyebrows. Because of this, his classmates at school loved to tease him to no end. Ernie was sad and lonely all the time.
He even had early-onset childhood depression because of his low self-esteem caused by the constant bullying and teasing.

One day, there was a transfer student that joined Ernie's class at school, and he was called Bert.

Bert had almost the same problems as Ernie. He was all yellow, had a straight line for his mouth and had a massive case of brow-gina.

Since no one offered to make friends with Bert, Ernie thought, "Why not?" and went to talk to him. They became fast friends and pretty soon, they were the kind of friends who were considered inseparable.
Where Ernie is short and a little plump, Bert is tall and skinny.

However, there came to a time when Ernie felt that his feelings for Bert were beyond the normal-friends line and he was worried. He fretted that Bert might not feel the same way and even worse, might stop being friends with him if he told Bert the truth.

Little did Ernie know that Bert was feeling exactly the same way toward him.

Ernie should have seen the signs of Bert's sexual tendencies.

The white turtleneck shirt under a v-necked vertical striped sweater and bright green pants Bert love to wear all the time. And whereas Ernie always chose to hide his sexuality with a normal sweatshirt and jeans, you could always realise that singing in the shower with a rubber-ducky is all too obvious for a boy as old as him.

After they graduated, they decided to move in together. Ernie could never sleep or stay still in his small bed when Bert was so close beside him. He loved to do irritating things just to keep Bert awake at night.
And Bert on the other hand, tried to keep his feelings for Ernie to himself by pretending to be grumpy everyday. They were a perfect match for one another.

One night when Ernie was in the toilet examining his non-existent eyebrows, Bert accidentally came in and asked Ernie what he was doing.

Ernie said, "Oh Bert, I have no eyebrows."

Bert's heart softened because frankly, he loved Ernie for having no eyebrows. It made him feel much better about his extra overgrown ones.
Bert quickly tried to cover it by saying in an extra sulky voice, "Well, I have enough eyebrows for both of us. They're even stuck together."

Ernie was not finished with self-loathing and continued, "But my mouth is big enough to swallow your whole face, Bert."

Bert's heart nearly leaped out of his chest when he heard this and said, "And my mouth is a straight line. Can you get over it?"

They kept quiet and looked into one another's eyes. And in that moment they knew.

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