Prompt 44: Bullet
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It was no secret that Squidward didn't see eye to eye with SpongeBob.
His next- door neighbour/co-worker was annoying, childish, idiotic, uncultured, irresponsible, and too affectionate for his liking.
Not to mention so oblivious to Squidward's hatred for him.
Even if Squidward called SpongeBob an idiot fifty times before lunchtime, or insulted the poriferan's past times daily, SpongeBob always- always- seemed happy to see Squidward. He always tried to do his best by the octopus, and gave his co-worker bucket-loads of hugs and kisses every day, either oblivious to or ignoring the fact there were a lot of witnesses in the Krusty Krab.
Squidward never understood his neighbour. But he felt that if he was shot at by a crazy, bank robbing megalomaniac, then SpongeBob would be the one idiot crazier than them and take the bullet for him.
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Although the story involved no shooting, it came as a bombshell when, one night, SpongeBob was driven to tears by an angry customer after a failed pizza delivery from the Krusty Krab.
Squidward wouldn't have given a stuff about the job if it hadn't taken them all night just to get around the corner with a lost boatmobile, several brushes with death and SpongeBob rambling on and on about those stupid pioneers.
Squidward would have been glad to teach SpongeBob a lesson after that soul dredging experience; but not even he deserved the customer's unfairly placed wrath. The 'customer' had ordered a pizza, they got it there, after much mishaps of getting lost and nearly dying of starvation- and he turned them away at the door-for the lack of a soft drink he didn't even order!
Now SpongeBob is lying at his feet, pouring his heartbreak into the sidewalk at having disappointed the customers so badly, and Squidward is furious.
But not at SpongeBob.
"Sponge?"
SpongeBob just lets out a louder sob than the last, and Squidward's heart wrenches in his chest. He snatches the pizza from his weeping co-worker and marches boldly with it to the front door.
He will fire the bullet.
It will be a sweet, delicious bullet; cheesy with just the right amount of pepperoni to counterbalance the cheese topping.
But a bullet, nonetheless.