Pearl's Mature Birthday
Catching Prince Charming
After doing her assigned homework, getting some food and playing with her wetness to calm herself before she went to ask out her suitor, the Krusty Krab fry cook; Pearl walked from the anchor house and made her way to the Krusty Krab restaurant.
Down at the fast food eatery, it was almost 5:00, and they were in the midst of the dinner rush, the grumpy octopus cashier bellowed, "SpongeBob, I need a Krabby Patty with Extra ketchup." The fry cook replied, "Coming right up." and began preparing the sandwich, though he was able to make it properly, he still felt some doubts in between, he still had no idea what he would do this weekend. After managing to complete the order, he rang the bell and said, "One krabby patty, extra red, order up!" Squidward said, "Uh huh. Enjoy your meal." and he handed them their patty in a bag. Once they began walking out the door, the now 18-year old whale daughter of Mr. Krabs came into the door, but instead of whining and stomping through the paths and shaking the floorboards, she just walked briefly tough, as she is larger and once she got in said, "Excuse me everyone, now I'm sure many of you are aware that I am a senior at Bikini Bottom High School, and you know that I will be graduating next month, now we have our prom 7 days after this Saturday and I am here to ask my suitor to the prom." Her father said, "Oh isn't that great, Pearly found herself a date for her prom." Now I need both employees to come out of their posts and step forward please." And that definitely caught both of them off guard, before they responded, they did as she wanted and both Squidward and SpongeBob stood in front of the whale and she said, "Now I have realized that both of you tolerate my father's miserly actions and accepted me to a point when I took over this place. But I can say that my suitor is not usually taken seriously, can be entertaining and the decider - loves to say 'I'm ready.'
And that revealed it immediately, Squidward looked only slightly defeated and said, "Really, you want this absorbent imbecile to be your prom date?" Pearl said, "Yes, this is true, he did get me kicked out of my sophomore prom, but SpongeBob, I believe you have learned a lot in the time in between that, so would you like to take me to my Senior prom?"
The sea sponge had to really think this over, "Wow, I don't know what to say, I need to think this over." He now had to really think, while he did say he was gonna be bored this weekend with the others away or not wanting his company, escorting Pearl to another prom would be difficult. However, he did think of something, 'This would be a great experience and I could definitely enjoy myself.'
After finally finding his words, "Yes, I will once again escort you to the Prom." Pearl said, "Oh thank you so much. But first, let me lay down the rules this time, now while after you did mess up a few things, I did enjoy the evening, regardless of disaster, I do want to leave when everybody else does, so please no making yourself taller this time, I do NOT care if you're not as tall as other guys, I want a guy who's not egotistical to talk to. Also, let's not try to injure several people to have a dance, if you can't do it properly, just try and we'll pass it off as a joke. You got it, just be you and the night will end well." The last part she winked a bit, but no one caught on. SpongeBob said, "Okay I promise, nothing special, just be me." Eugene then said, "Hold your yellow rumpus, now while I did name you as the escort for her sophomore prom, I do need you to understand, that while my Pearly is 18 now, I do still want you to treat her kindly and give her a great evening for her final prom. Understand, Spongeboy." The sea sponge said, "Yes sir, I will do my best." His crustaceous boss said, "Very well, pick her up at 9:30 and be presentable." Pearl said, "So I'll see you next Saturday evening. It will be the greatest NIGHT of your whole life. Okay daddy, don't forget you have my birthday dinner tonight." The sponge didn't realize the way she said 'night', but just moved on and then the crab said, "Oh barnacles, I still have to get that and it needs to be there at 6pm. Attention boys, I have a one-time offer, if both of you go and get the cake and flowers, you can leave immediately, I have two fills-in that will take your places. Squidward said, "Oh shell yes, where is this cake?" Krabs said, "It's at the downtown bakery, ask for the cake that says, "Happy 18th Birthday, Pearl." The cephlapod said, "If it allows me a shorter shift, I'll even sing to her myself." His boss said, "No, that's all." SpongeBob said, "Well since she does want me to be her prom date, I might as well get her bouquet offlowers, which where do I get them sir?" His boss again said, "They're at the Oyster Orchard just on the west part of town, you want daisies." The fry cook said, "You got it sir." Okay, I also better head home and get ready. But first, here is the money you two will need to pay for the items and now... come on out temporary crew. And out came, SpongeBob's rival Bubble Bass and surfer dude Scooter. The actual fry cook said, "Bubble Bass, but why?" The overweight fish said, "Relax Squarepants, since my little swindling act, rather than be arrested, I had to agree to be on call to Mr. Krabs for 40 hours and this is part of it." Krabs said, "And you will be working the register. Now Scooter, you understand that you will be making the patties." The surfer said, "Totally understand, Mr. K dude." The crustaceous miser said, "Very well then, I wish both of you well manning the quarters and I will see you two by 6:00 with the cake and flowers." All of them said, "Aye aye captain." The cashiers being uncheerful, while the fry cooks were honored.
Everyone got on their ways, Squidward went home to grab his bicycle which he made the purchase of a wheelbarrow that he attached behind it, he would place the cake inside of it to get it to Krabs' house. While SpongeBob got onto the bus and it began travelling to the west part of town, once he got just a short bit away from it, he pulled the string, signalling for the driver to stop. He got out and walked into the shop, he said, "Hello, I am here to pick up a bouquet of daisies for Eugene Krabs, he is my boss." The fish lady said, "Okay very well, so what is the special occasion this evening?" SpongeBob said, "It is his daughter Pearl's 18th birthday and he's giving her a mature dinner tonight, and it seems right for me to get her flowers since I will be her prom date." The fish lady again said, "Well aren't you a lucky critter, so shall I expect to see you soon?" The sea sponge said, "You most likely will. Here you go.", handing her the $50 and she said, "Thank you so much and I hope she enjoys these."
Over at the bakery, our grumpy cephlapod arrives and walks to the front and instead of being grouchy immediately, he says only mildly unenthused, "Hello, I am here to pick up a cake order for my boss Eugene Krabs." The lady said, "Oh yes, here it is." And there it was, the chocolate cake with white frosting and it did say in nice black print - Happy 18th Birthday Pearl
Now while Squidward would normally just be ungrateful and pay for the cake and immediately leave, however after realizing that once he drops the cake off, he can go home and be by himself. So he says, slightly cheered up from before, "I thank you very much, as does my boss. Here is your payment, he hands her the $30 and she says, "Enjoy your evening." So Squidward placed the cake in the
wheelbarrow and made his journey to the anchor house, he then said, "Oh thank you, just have to leave this cake and I will be home with a cup of tea and the new Fancy Living, whoever hired those original barnaclehead TV producers should be fed to kelks.
Eventually, it was just before 6pm and Pearl's friends had arrived at the Krabs' house and they noticed all the nice decorations, Natalie, her friend who is an angelfish said, "Wow Pearl, your dad did make this look really mature." The whale said, "Yeah well done Dad." Eugene said, "Now don't you ladies worry, the food is on its way, I just called them back." And just like that, a knock on the door was heard, and the miserly crab said, "Who can that be?" and at the front door was the grumpy cephlapod who said, "Did somebody ask for a birthday cake?" And he walked in and placed it on the cupboard. Krabs looked it at and said, "Well done Mr. Squidward, you did well getting it here, now if you don't want to stay, I won't be upset." The cephlapod actually contemplated, he wasn't as angry since his boss did let him go home early just for picking up the cake, however he did want to go home and watch his show. He said, "Yeah sorry sir, I do want to enjoy my night at home, but thank you very much for allowing me to leave early for doing this task." Pearl said, "Well thank you Squidward, for bringing the cake here." The cephlapod said, "Well I hope you have a wonderful birthday, Pearl. Good night everyone." Not long after, the chipper sea sponge arrived with the bouquet of daisies and said, "Did someone ask for flowers?" The miserly crab said, "Well done my boy, you successfully got them here." Pearl said, "Why SpongeBob, I wasn't expecting flowers from you right away." The sponge said, "Nah, these are just from daddy for the party." The crab said, "And like I said, I kept my word tonight, no stinginess, all the nice things for my Pearly and there's a big surprise honey, but we'll see it after dinner. And right on cue, the delivery boat arrived. He said, "Right on time." The delivery fish said, "Yes, that's 2 lasagnas, caesar salad and garlic bread." Krabs said, "That is right, my good man." The fish said, "That will be $74.30" and while he was shocked at first, he did remind what he just said, "Yes very well, here you go." and handed him three $20s, a $10 and a $5, and handed him the change of 2 quarters and 2 dimes. He said, "Thank you for your services." The delivery fish said, "Enjoy your food, all." Krabs said, "Well then, let's eat." SpongeBob decided to stay for the rest of the night, taking a seat beside the birthday girl who was near the end of the dining room table with her friends surrounding her beside and across from her, the sponge was sat directly across the table from his boss. Pearl said, "By the way thank you Spongey, for getting the flowers for my party." SpongeBob said, "Oh it wasn't much, anything to give you a wonderful evening, Pearl." And they all began to dig in to the meal, Krabs even said, "Great neptune, this is really good, I'll definitely get this again." Now once everyone was done and Krabs brought the cake over and the candles ready to light them with a match. He said, "Alright everyone let's sing Happy Birthday to Pearly." and everyone sang. Afterwards, the whale blew out her candles. And the miserly crab said, "And as promised, here is your surprise my precious Pearly. Bring it into the garage, boys."
And just like that, they walked outside and in the garage, there it was, a beautiful new boat. Krabs said, "Here it is." The whale said, "Oh my neptune, this is amazing, thank you so much Daddy." and hugged him. Krabs said, "You're welcome Pearly, this is also your graduation present." SpongeBob said, "Well done Mr. K, you definitely did this one right." Breezie, the girl blowfish said, "Good job Mr. K, this is a really great boat, I know you will enjoy this after we all get our licenses before graduation." Pearl said, "Thank you Daddy, you gave me a mature 18th birthday.", hugged her father. The miserly crab said, "Anything for you, my precious Pearly." and everyone else departed from the house, heading home while both Eugene and Pearl began to unwind for the evening.
SpongeBob made his way to his pineapple house, unlocked the door, sat in his chair, thinking about being Pearl's escort to her Senior prom. He tried to ease his mind some, so he turned on his TV and just watched shows until he was exhausted and went upstairs to his bed. Saying to his loyal pet snail, "Oh Gary, it was such a wonderful day, Pearl wants me to escort her to her Senior prom and she had a wonderful 18th birthday. Well good night."
The snail said, "Meow."
And that wraps up Chapter 3, boy this is getting really good, this was also a really long one, and now SpongeBob will take Pearl to her Senior prom and we'll have more great stuff in Chapter 4, so until then, so long.
