Chapter 10: Outside:

The three inside looked out the window, Annie was there yelling at Moe. "I've never seen her yell before..." Swoosie quietly said. "Or heard her" Willie quietly chimed in. Spyke stood there watching in curiosity. "O-Oh... Shes crying now..." Swoosie noted looking down to her and the fish. Spyke left the room and headed outside to where the two were 'fighting'. Moe looked up at the sudden noise of Spyke coming out. "Hey where do you're going...s-..." Moe said trying to fight back the urge to call him 'street urchin'. Annie was sitting against the wall of her shop, hands covering her face still crying. Spyke took the fish and headed to a little parking lot near Shrimp Kicks. "Unhand me s-s-... Unhand me!" Moe said struggling to get out Spykes grip. "Its Spyke by the way, my name; not street urchin," Spyke said to the fish unhanding him and placing him on the top of a arcade machine "I can tell you really just want to call me street urchin, mate". Moe got surprised by him knowing that. "Am I that easy to read?" Moe asked. "Well I just have a knack of noting some things about people; it's part of my job." Spyke answered back calmly. "What do you do anyways..." he asked almost turning it into an insult. "Well I guess it's hard to explain, many people call it sketchy on the streets but I basically get and upgrade gear that inklings want; in return I get delicious snails, or sometimes coins." he explained. "Oh..." he said. "What did Annie say to you, before I came out?" the urchin asked. "She uh-... something about me being rude and how she just wanted a peaceful dinner where I got to meet you, I really don't remember except for the fact that I made her cry." Moe said with a hint of sadness in his voice. "You do care about Annie don't you..." Spyke said to him. "Why wouldn't I? I've known her since I was basically born and she always takes care of me..." Moe started to say with a realization. "You just want me to apologize don't you?" He asked Spyke. He started to cunningly smile. "Well I never said that" he replied. "You tricky bastard!" he exclaimed with on frustration, "But I guess I'll do what's right." Moe said as he went on Spykes hand to lower him down. Spyke lowered him down to the ground and then sat on top of the arcade machine. He started to whistle the squid sisters song they sing every splatfest, "It's almost that time," he happily whispered to himself, "Two more days...".

The clownfish quietly flopped his way towards Annie who was still crying. "H-Hey uh, Annie?" he asked getting closer to the anemone. She looked up towards the fish, her face was worn out and her sclera red and tired. "W-What is it?" Annie sniffled. "Hey remember that time when we first opened this store and I had to scare the customers out?" he asked. "W-What about it?" she asked. "Or that time when me and your dad got in that huge fight on which team was going to win Splatfest?" he asked again. Annie slowly nodded. "Or even that time when I called Marie the better squid sister in front of Callie and both of you got really upset?" SHe started to giggle a bit and nodded. "Well I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all of those times and many more that I've made you upset. Especially today, this was the first chance I had to meet Spyke but I judged him and was mean to him without actually talking to him. I'm really sorry one hundred times over." The fish said with a pleading tone. Annie started to cry again while smiling. "O-Oh shit!" Moe said devastated at making her cry again. "Get over here you!" she said giggling and she reached out for him and ending up falling over onto the pavement and reaching him and hugging him really tight. "A-Annie! Annie!" she said gasping. "Cant... Breathe!" he gasped again. "Oh sorry!" she said loosing up the hug. Spyke came over and picked her up and hugged her too, along with Moe. Annie started to giggle more. Swoosie and Willie made there way out too and joined the hug. They ended up hugging for five minutes before inklings started to look at them and question them.