Exploring
After his breakfast, Gary snuck out of the pineapple. It was a bright and sunny day, and there were a lot of kids outside playing. Gary slithered past them into Squidward's yard. Squidward was outside, gardening and humming a happy tune. Gary would've gasped if snails could. He moved on to Patrick's yard. The starfish was outside, too, but he was scratching complicated equations into the sand and glancing at his rock every now and then. He looked up and saw Gary.
"Hello, Gary," he said, looking back down at his equations. "Just trying to think of a way to make my house more whirlpool safe." He began muttering to himself as he returned to his math. Gary slithered up and looked at them, expecting to see stick figures or scribbles. Instead he saw real equations. He looked over them, and to his great surprise, they were all correct.
"Meow," Gary said to himself as he crawled away, meaning "Whoa." He continued exploring, walking all over the town. His confusion grew as he watched familiar people's behavior. Mr. Krabs donating money to a school, Mrs. Puff teaching people about the dangers of driving, Plankton picking flowers. Gary stopped in the park under a tree and thought, Why is everyone opposite? He couldn't think of anything that would cause something like this. He saw Sandy walk out of a bookstore, a book titled Corn Shucking for Dummies tucked in her arm. She walked out and noticed Gary.
"Hi Gary!" she yelled across the street. She began running towards him. Gary becomes nervous when people run towards him like that. He turned around and slid along the ground as fast as he could.
"Wait!" he heard Sandy yell. "I just wanna give you an acorn, critter!" Gary turned a corner sharply and hid in a hole in the side of a brick wall. Sandy ran right past, still shouting. Gary let out a sigh of relief. He came out and began heading back in the direction of his home. He had completely forgotten about what caused the opposite-ness...
