Random Acts of Spongebob
Chapter 4: New Barrier
Spongebob was just arriving home from another day at the Krusty Krab and he had now come to the front door of his house. "Ah, another successful day at my favourite workplace and doing my favourite job. Now it's time to do nothing but relax and re-enact my day at the Krusty Krab." Spongebob smiled and he opened the door to his house, but just as he was about to go inside he suddenly heard a scream coming from the back of the Easter Island house beside his own and he turned his head to find out what that was. "That sounds like someone yelling out in frustration. I better go see the cause of this." Spongebob said raising his finger up in the air like he usually did whenever he had something serious in his mind made up. With this, he headed over to the back of the house to find Squidward looking at his coral flowers; they had been stamped and trampled on and now they looked like a complete wreck.
"Look at the state of my flowers! They're a mess! And I had just planted them yesterday, too." Squidward cried as he looked at his ruined flowers in dismay. Spongebob came over and looked down to see the wrecked flowers and he quickly understood what Squidward meant; they didn't look the same as when Squidward planted them. Squidward then looked up to see Spongebob staring down at his flowers and a frown quickly appeared on his face. "What are you doing here?" he asked, prompting Spongebob to look at his neighbour.
"Well, I heard you from my house so I thought I'd come over to see what was happening." Spongebob replied. Squidward couldn't help but sigh in annoyance; Spongebob somehow always found a way to get involved in his business even when it was something that he shouldn't be worrying about. But this was Spongebob after all, and he always got concerned about things that he was certain was urgent especially when it came to Squidward himself. So Squidward got back up on his feet from his kneeling position after looking at his flowers and then he looked down at Spongebob who was looking up at him.
"I planted these flowers just yesterday, and now they look like this! I just don't know how I'm supposed to let these people know to stay away from my garden." Squidward explained, and then he frowned again in annoyance at the fact that someone was going through without knowing that they weren't supposed to be there. Having been paying attention to all of that, Spongebob then started scratching his chin to figure out what to do to help Squidward during this predicament. But after a few seconds, a bright smile suddenly crossed Spongebob's face and he snapped his fingers which prompted Squidward to look down at him wondering what he was up to.
"I think I know just how to help with that! Wait here, Squidward; I'll be right back with something." Spongebob said before rushing off to get what he had in mind while Squidward watched him leave. Once the yellow sponge was gone, Squidward then turned his head and sighed.
"This can only end so well." Squidward commented; he was certain that whenever Spongebob had an idea, it almost never ended well and sometimes resulted in injuries towards Squidward himself. But then, he turned his head to see Spongebob running back over with a small picket fence that he apparently put together himself. "And what's that supposed to be for?" Squidward asked pointing down to the fence. Spongebob then placed the fence down at a position around the flowers so it was protecting them.
"That way, no one will step on your flowers by mistake. I've got to get back to my house now. See you tomorrow, Squidward!" Spongebob said before rushing back to his pineapple while waving to Squidward, who was staring in surprise trying to register what just happened.