Chapter 3

UnExPeCtEd GuEsTs

           "MEOW!" Gary said, "MEOW! MEOW! MEOW! MEOW!" he continued.

Gary was a sea snail. SpongeBob's pet. He had eyes on stalks and had soft, light blue, silky skin. His pink shell was as big as a watermelon.

           "OHHHHH!!! What is it Gary?? Want some breakfast?" SpongeBob woke up and climbed out of his bed. "MEOW!" Gary continued. "What did you say? Someone's coming?" SpongeBob walked to his kitchen and grabbed Gary's bowl and poured some food on it.

            "Who's coming, Gary?" SpongeBob said as he handed Gary some food. "MEEEEOOOOWWW!!!!" "WHAT??!!?? THEIR COMING???!!???" SpongeBob said in shock as he dropped a box of milk. "OH NO!"

             SpongeBob however, didn't really understand Gary. He was just pretending to understand him with an amazing expression. SmallBob walked into the kitchen and sat down on the floor beside Gary. "Good Morning SmallBob!" SpongeBob said. SmallBob ignored him because he was talking to Gary.

               "He wants to tell you that someone is comin', uncle." He said looking at Gary. "I KNOW THAT!!" SpongeBob said. "Says you don't know any words he's saying." "Well how do you know?" SpongeBob said. "I know cause I'm young and small." SmallBob replied. "Well I am too!" SpongeBob sai angrily. "Oh! No! I'm late for work. See ya later!" SpongeBob ran upstairs and and got his squarepants and ran outside saying,"I'M READY! I'M READY! I'M READY!"

                He remembered it was inspection day. Every year there's inspection.

He opened the glass door and saw Squidward standing on the left of the restaurant. He also saw Mr. Krabs all clean from yesterday's Squirt Duel.

                "HIYA ME BOY!" He said cheerfully , waving his pointy claws. "C'MON! IT'S INSPECTION time"

SpongeBob hurried and stopped beside Squidward which was half sleeping. "Ok! We're al' here???" Mr. Krabs said.

                 "There's only three of us!" Squidward suddenly woke up. "Ok." There was silence for three minutes. Five minutes. Ten and a half minutes.  "Mr. Krabs??" SpongeBob said, looking at his boss. "Yeah?" He replied. "Isn't it inspection time?"

                  "Uhhhhhhhh…….n-er-YEAH!!" Mr. Krabs said as a fake smile grew on his face,"Ummmmm…….NO WORK FOR A WEEK! UHHH…..YEAH! SO GO!!" SpongeBob and Squidward left the Krusty Krab as Mr. Krab's smile died away.

                   He yawned. "That was close." He said, sitting on the floor eating a Krabby Patty. Once SpongeBob was close to his house, he saw two old sea snails.

                  One had a rusty brown shell with small polka dots on it and its eyes were on stalks like Gary's. The snail also had green hard silky skin and had grayish eyebrows above its eyes.

"Wow." Said SpongeBob. He quickly turned his head and saw the other snail. This time she had pink silky skin and also had a rusty old brown shell, but this time it had no polka dots. SpongeBob immediately knew that the green-skinned one has a boy and the pink-skinned one was a girl.

          He noticed that they were headed towards his pineapple house. "Oh no! What do they want from me?!" SpongeBob said nervously. He quickly his behind his pineapple's side and turned his head if the snails were still there. And they still were!

        "AHHHHHH!!!" SpongeBob yelled. He jumped up to reach his open bathroom window, but his tiny legs were to short! He looked around for something he could use as a stool so that he could reach the window.

         All he could see was a rock. A small rock. "Oh well! It'll do." He ran quickly and grabbed the rock and tossed it into the air. It landed right in the spot SpongeBob wanted it to go.

         He ran and jumped and landed lightly on top of the rock. He tried again. He could only touch the edge of it!

         "It's hopeless!" He thought. He turned his head once again and saw that the two snails were still there. They were almost to the door! Suddenly the door swung open and out came Gary.

           He wasn't to pleased to see the other snails but they were. SpongeBob could only hear meowing. Then, Gary and the other two snails slowly entered the pineapple. Once the door closed, SpongeBob slowly crawled away from his hiding place.

           He opened the door slowly to releave a  small crack. He saw that all the snails were sitting on the couch watching television.

           SpongeBob opened the door pretending that he had never saw the two old snails. "Oh Hello Gary!!! And what do we have here??" He said, as if he had never saw the snails.  "Meow!" Gary replied. "Those are your parents??!?" SpongeBob said, shocked.

"Well,-uhhhh……H-hello there!" "Ummm…" He was interrupted by a big, low,"ME-

OOOOOOOOOOOW!!" SpongeBob turned his head and saw the boy.

            "MEOW." Said Gary. SpongeBob was shocked to hear Gary's sentence.

"Ummm…..Finally nice to meet you,…..uhhh..Mr. and Mrs. Gary."

Could this be Gary's parents? Could it be? SpongeBob had never met Gary's parents before!

             "Ummm…I'll go get us some food! Won't that be perfect!?!"

"Meow!" Gary said. "Ok you guys watch some tv while I get us some food.

SpongeBob walked to the kitchen and got three bowls. Next, he poured some brown food in each bowl, then he made himself a jellyfish jelly sandwich and he poured him self some milk.

               "Here ya go!" He said handing Gary and his parents the bowls full of brown stuff. "Meow!" Said Mr. And Mrs. Gary. "Your welcome!"SpongeBob said.

Once the food was all gone, the door swung open and in came a mini yellow sponge.

                "SmallBob!" SpongeBob said, as a smile grew on his face.. SmallBob didn't respond. He looked as though he had never slept of three days.

"Let me guess……." SpongeBob said, the smile slowly faded away,"Got homework?"

                SmallBob yawned. Then he nodded.

          "Oh Hey! Looks like Gary's parents are here!" He said happily. "Yeah they arrived thi- Hey! How did you know they were comin'?" SpongeBob asked.

"Oh! Umm…Gary told me while you were at work." He said. "Oh!" SpongeBob replied. "But he says that he ain't happy." SmallBob whispered.

           "We had a test today. I got B- Puny Pat got a C. But he's happy about it!"

"What was it on?" SpongeBob asked curiously. "Umm….it was about ummm…….

Snails. Gary said he would help me." Gary was embarrassed when SmallBob said those words,"He called his parents for help then he just said that they were comin'." Gary sunk into the couch redder than SpongeBob's tie.

          "Oh." SpongeBob said looking at his pet. "Meow." Gary snapped, changing the subject. "No, nothing new at work, Gary." SpongeBob said. SmallBob opened his knapsack and took out a piece of paper.

           "Here, you need to sign it. Teacher says,'Parents have to sign it, just to check that your parents have seen it.' Then I have to return it." SpongeBob took out his black ink pen and scribbled:

                                                       SpUnGEbuB sQuArPaTz   

"That doesn't look like your name." Said SmallBob, grabbing his test. "That's 'cause I never have signed a test and I never had a signature." SpongeBob growled. "Oh well." SmallBob muttered to himself.

              "Meow." Said Mr. Gary. "No, sorry, I can't. I've got plans tomorrow. Maybe some other time?" SpongeBob answered. SpongeBob was going jelly fishing the next day.