Part 25:

Spongebob: (sighs) "Come on Pat, let's get going."

Patrick: "...aren't you gonna go talk to her?"

Spongebob: "No, I'll just make it worse." (hangs his head)

Patrick: "Well...you look like you need a quiet moment. I'll be at home if you need me."

Spongebob: "Thanks, Patrick."

Patrick: (walks back home)

Spongebob: (sighs again) "This is all my fault!" (thinks to himself) That's what happens when you judge situations too quickly, Squarepants! "What do you know!" I know what you're thinking. And you know it's the truth. "Yeah! Well...well..." (starts crying) (runs toward the theatre to see it completely abandoned, all except for the cast of the play) (discluding Sandy, of course)

Jim: "We're ruined! Simply RUINED!" (spots Spongebob) "Hey kid, where'd that squirrel friend of yours go?"

Spongebob: "She went home." (wipes away some tears) (walks to the back room of the theatre, where there's a piano) "Oh Sandy, I'm so sorry!" (sniffs) (sits down on the piano bench) (starts playing a random melody) (starts singing)

"There was a girl, one I thought I loved,
She was like an angel, sent from up above.

But in one swift move, I sent her far away

And now that I have scared her off, I don't know what to say."

Jim: (walks in) (raises his eyebrows and stares)

Spongebob: "Things, they always went so smooth,

I had no clue what I could do

To ruin everything in the blink of an eye

And now that my girl is gone,

I don't know if I can move on,

But maybe I'll succeed if I only try."

Sandy: (approaches the room, silently) (peeks around the corner)

Spongebob: (continues singing)

Jim: (whispers to Sandy) "He's incredible. Simply incredible."

Sandy: (sniffs) (nods, slowly)

Spongebob: (stops playing) (sighs, staring at the piano)

Jim: (starts clapping)

Spongebob: (jumps and spins around)

Jim: "Bravo, my boy! Bravo!"

Spongebob: (turns pink) "Have you...been standing there the whole time?"

Sandy: (runs in) "Spongebob, I'm sorry too!"

Spongebob: (gasps) "You too?"

Sandy: (hugs him, crying) "I overreacted, and I was a jerk."

Spongebob: (hugs her back) "I'm sorry I was so quick to judge."

Jim: "Well...we've got a play to finish!"

Sandy: (sighs) "I'm sorry, Mr. Haney, but...I simply can't perform with Larry. It doesn't feel real."

Jim: (looks at Spongebob) (grins) "No, not with Larry."

Several Minutes Later...

Jim: "Welcome back, my audience! I apologize for our earlier difficulties...but I'd like to re-introduce our cast! Miss Sandra Cheeks as Juliet, and Spongebob Squarepants as Romeo!"

(audience applauds quietly)

Jim: "And is is my pleasure to re-open our play Undersea Capulets and Montagues, on Act five, scene three, part B!"

Sandy: (lays down on a stone table) (whispers) "Ready, Spongebob?"

Spongebob: (whispers back) "As I'll ever be!"

(curtains open)

Spongebob: (walks to the other side of the stage)

Paris: "O, I am slain!" (falls to the stage) "If thou be merciful, open the tomb; lay me with Juliet!" (flops down completely)

Spongebob: "In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris! What said my man, when my betossed soul Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet: Said he not so? or did I dream it so? Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, To think it was so? O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book! I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave; A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth, For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light. Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd." (drags the actor across the stage) (lets him down by the stone table) (stares at Sandy) (sighs) "How oft when men are at the point of death Have they been merry! which their keepers call A lightning before death: O, how may I Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? O, what more favour can I do to thee, Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain To sunder his that was thine enemy? Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee; And never from this palace of dim night Depart again: here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace!" (wraps his arms around Sandy, who is playing dead)

"And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!" (kisses Sandy on the lips)

Sandy: (blushes)

Spongebob: (blushes also) "Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!" (raises a small glass vial) "Here's to my love!" (drinks the contents) "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die." (kisses Sandy once more) (falls to the stage in a rather believable performance)

Later...scene four...

Sandy: (slowly sits up) (stretches) (smiles) "Oh comfortable friar. Where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, And there I am. Where is my Romeo?"

(there is a loud sound backstage)

Friar Laurence: "I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep: A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee Among a sisterhood of holy nuns: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
Come, go, good Juliet."

(the sound comes again)

Friar Laurence: "I dare no longer stay."

Sandy: "Go get thee, hence." (sighs) "For I will not away."

Friar Laurence: (stares for a long moment) (quickly exits the stage)

Sandy: (climbs down off of the table) (hovers over the "dead" Spongebob) (begins to cry, very convincingly) (pauses) "What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make die with a restorative." (leans down and kisses him deeply)

Spongebob: (eyes pop open)

Sandy: (draws back) (stares at him for a very long moment)

Jim: (clears his throat loudly)

Sandy: (snaps back) "Thy lips are warm."

(a voice can be heard backstage)

Voice: "Lead, boy; which way?"

Sandy: "Yea noise? Then I'll be brief. Oh, happy dagger!" (takes the plastic knife from Spongebob's belt) "This is thy sheath!" (pretends to stab herself through the stomach) (begins coughing) "There rust, and let me die!" (slowly lays down with her arms wrapped around Spongebob)

Audience: (gasps)

Page: (enters the scene) "This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn."

Watchman: "The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard: Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach. Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain, And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead, Who here hath lain these two days buried. Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets: Raise up the Montagues: some others search: We see the ground whereon these woes do lie; But the true ground of all these piteous woes We cannot without circumstance descry."

After the program...

Jim: "That was fantastic! Simply marvelous!" (talking to Sandy and Spongebob)

Sandy: "You really think so!?"

Jim: "Magnificent! Like nothing I've ever seen!"

Spongebob: "Thank you, Mr. Haney."

Jim: (smiles) "I've never seen a more believable exchange of kisses or condolensces in my entire life."

Spongebob and Sandy: (look at each other)

Spongebob: (turns red) (looks away from Sandy, to the floor)

Jim: "Wonderful performance!" (walks away to congratulate the rest of the cast)

Sandy: "Well Spongebob, we did it!"

Spongebob: (looks back at Sandy) "Yeah, we did."

Sandy: "What's wrong Spongebob? You don't sound happy."

Spongebob: (sighs) "It's nothing."

Sandy: "...nothing?"

Spongebob: "Sandy, I...it's just..." (bites his lip) "You want to do dinner with me later?"

Sandy: (smiles) "I'd love to." (extends her elbow) "Wanna go for a walk?"

Spongebob: (smiles back) "I'd love to."

Narrator: "And so it's yet another happy ending for our two lovebirds."