//------------------------------// // Squidward's Sick Daze (Rewritten version) // Story: The Ben Cownie Series // by SagwaandThomas //------------------------------// At the Krusty Krab, all was going so well until......a drop of rain fell from a visible hole on the roof and into Squidward's head. "Hey!" shouted Squidward. "What's taking so long!?" snapped a customer. "I never got my fries!" snapped another. "Why doesn't my father love me!?" wailed Fred. "Come on! Why are you so slow!?" snapped the fourth customer. Just then, SpongeBob appeared from the kitchen window and started tapping on Squidward's shoulder with his spatula. "Hey, Squidward". "Quit it." "Hey, Squidward." "Quit it." "Hey, Squidward." "QUIIIT IIIIIIIIIIT!" Just then, a toilet flush was heard and Mr. Krabs came out of the bathroom. "MR. SQUIDWARD, CLEAN UP IN THE HEAD!" he shouted. He spilt a soda which turned into a flood. "ALSO CLEAN UP HERE!" Squidward whimpered as SpongeBob and the customers continued to be loud. "I SAID CLEAN UP!" shouted Krabs. There was worst to come, as loads of rain water fell on Squidward. A few moments later, Squidward's head fell on the floor. "Oh no." "DON'T JUST LAY THERE!" screamed Krabs. "CLEAN UP, CLEAN UP, CLEAN UUUUUP!" Squidward let out a very loud scream. Suddenly, it turned out to be a dream as Squidward woke up with a yelp. He gasped in breaths. "It was just a dream. Just a horrible, realistic, totally on point dream." He walked into his art room. ,"Oh, I can't believe I'm dreaming about work when there's so many more interesting things I could be doing. Just look at my unfinished painting. And my unfinished symphony. And my uneaten strudel." Just then Patrick appeared and ate the studel. "My strudel!" cried Squidward. "Oh sorry. I thought it tasted like layer pie." said Patrick. "Ohh... I just woke up and the day is already a disaster. I can't face the Krusty Krab today. I am staying home and diving into an ocean of Squidward." He had a light hearted dream sequence of a waterfall, where he dived, painted a masterpiece of himself, played some clarinet notes, atw one of the Bon Bons from a food table, which slipped off his tentacle hand and made him shrug, and relaxed with the water pouring on him; when he woke up, he finds Patrick drooling on him. "What the!?" He wipped the drool off of his face. "Any more of that strudel?" asked Patrick. Squidward let out a scream of "GET OOOOOUT!" as Patrick fell. "Now, to get rid of the other monkey on my back!"He got the phone and started to fake cough while calling Mr. Krabs. Krabs answered. "Krusty Krab?" Squidward began fake coughing. "Oh, Mr. Krabs, it's...*cough".....Squidward! "Mr. Squidward, what are you doing on the phone!? You should be working!" "*cough*.....I can't work! Too...*cough*.....sick." He fake sneezed, sending the germs onto Krabs. "Hmm, you do sound pretty bad. You sure you're too sick to work?" Squidward chuckled while painting. "I mean, I mean...*cough*...positive." "Hmmm." Krabs pushed his eye through the phone to peek on what Squidward was doing. "Mmm too sick, eh? Oh, I've got the cure for what ails ya. Well, you just rest up, Mr. Squidward. I'll take care of everything." "Okay, bye, talk to ya-- I mean, I mean, uh...*cough"...Bye!" Squidward hung up the phone. Mr. Krabs hung up too. He was cross. "No one fakes sick on Mr. Krabs and gets away with it! Ugh." Squidward began to sing. ♪ No work for me today / Mr. Squidward gets to play / No customers for me to fear / SpongeBob can take a long walk off a very short pier ♪ Just then he heard a knock. "Oh, that must be the crudité I ordered." He opened to see.... "Well I... whoa!" It was Mr. Krabs, and closed the door. He came out again, with a blanket and ice pack. "Oh, Mr. Krabs. I didn't see you there. How thoughtful of you to visit me in my...*cough*....weekend stay. "Oh, think nothing of it, Mr. Squidward." said Krabs. "You sounded so bad on the phone. I rushed right over to make sure you were taking good care of yourself!" "Well, I wouldn't want to infect anyone, so you should probably go now." "Oh, you are in no condition to be alone! That's why I brought you some help."Krabs pulled out SpongeBob from behind his back wearing a doctor's outfit. "Take one of these and call me in the morning!" "The doctor is in!" said SpongeBob. He ran up and wrapped up Squidward in a blanket and holded him like a baby. "Swaddle swaddle swaddle." As Squidward tries to break free from him, SpongeBob told him. "Hush-a-bye now. Don't strain yourself." He kissed Squidward's eyes, making Squidward angry. Squidward pulled SpongeBob's lips and lets go of them, making him fling. "Humph!" he snarled. "Really, Mr. Krab, this isn't necessary!" "Of course it is!" declared Krabs. "If I find out you were faking it just to get out of work, me young lad will put ya in your place!" "Oh, no faking here." lied Squidward. "No, I'm really...*wheeze*...sick.". He dashed back to SpongeBob. "Okay, back to the swaddling." SpongeBob laughed, kissed Squidward, put his icepack on his head, and carried him into his own house. Mr. Krabs walked off laughing. Later, SpongeBob was preparing soup and he walked off towards Squidward's art room. Squidward was painting his artwork, just as SpongeBob came in. He at first didn't know Squidward was taking his sickness. "Squidward, you're overexciting yourself! Now, you just rest that sick little body of yours while SpongeBob finishes up your self-portrait of you." Squidward thought SpongeBob was gonna ruin his painting, but Spongebob didn't. "Done." SpongeBob said. "It's a picture of you riding on a seahorse." "Oh!" exclaimed Squidward. "I thought you're gonna change it to something else I dislike, but that's what I wanted. Thank you!" "No problem, Squidward." Next, Squidward decided to play notes of his symphony. "Just forget that yellow nuisance, and lose yourself in music." Just as he started, SpongeBob came in. "Squidward! You shouldn't be wasting your breath in your weakened state. Let me blow the clarinet for you." At that moment, Squidward thought SpongeBob was going to ruin his symphony, but SpongeBob didn't ruin it. Squidward, to his surprise, realize that the symphony SpongeBob finished is what he wanted. "Oh, that's what I just wanted." sighed Squidward. "Thank you." Later, Squidward decided to make his strudel. "Ah, the perfect strudel will make everything alright." He took the strudel out after a few minutes, and ate it. Once he was done, SpongeBob arrived with a thermometer. "Oh, Squidward, time to take your temperature!" he said. Squidward was cross. "Get that thing away from my-" SpongeBob shoved the thermometer into his mouth and took it back out, leaving Squidward's tongue all over his own face. SpongeBob looking over the thermometer. "Ah, ah, ah! Woo, 98.6!" Suddenly, he realized the truth. "Oh, wait a minute! You are REALLY FAKING YOUR SICKNESS!" He was angry. "I KNOW YOU NIGHTMARES ABOUT THE KRUSTY KRAB, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T OF FAKED YOUR SICKNESS JUST TO GET OUT OF WORK!" He tried to calm down. "I've put up with a lot of garbage from you Squidward, but this I will not! You aren't a proper friend! You are what will bring Bikini Bottom to ruins! You are the biggest waste of space in this entire country!! And my patience has pretty much vanished at this point! You make Mrs. Puff look considerate!" Squidward gulped. "And for this, get back to your room! I am calling Mr. Krabs on you!" And as SpongeBob did, Squidward was starting to feel remorse. "I know I had nightmares about the Krusty Krab, but I should never faked being sick today. And it's all my fault. I have to make this right tomorrow." Next morning at the Krusty Krab, Squidward arrived and started to apologize. "SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, I know I had nightmares about work, but faking being sick is NO better. I should of told you about my nightmare. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I lied about being sick. Please forgive me. Can you please forgive me. I hope the Krusty Krab isn't as bad as I thought." "We forgive you." said Mr. Krabs. "But you should never faked about being sick. If you do that again, you will be fired. Got that?" "Yes, Mr. Krabs." While business was going, it was revealed that Squidward's workplac didn't come off as true. It was just fine. It turned out that Ben Cownie wrote this rewrite.