"Okay, so where do we... hide?" Poppy asks. I shrug.
"Listen, for all I know we just need to barricade the door." I say, pointing at Goob and Scraps's door. Scraps nods.
"Alright, getting some materials." She goes to her closet.
"Shrimpo, will Dandy will be extra mad at me for stealing some of his tapes?" Goob whispers to me.
"Probably. I mean, if he can get more enraged than this." I whisper back. Poppy leans into us.
"So... what are the lovers conversing about?" She asks with a small snicker. Both of our faces turn red.
"We're not-" Goob tries to explain, but I cut him off.
"It's more likely that you like Scraps more than I like him." I scoff. Poppy looks at Scraps, face red, who looks at us back.
"Stop arguing, this is basically a life-or-death moment, and you're talking about crushes that don't exist??" Scraps glares at us. Well, the crush that I have on Goob is real, at least.
"Fine..." Poppy grumbles.
"Found it!" Scraps gets out lots of duct tape, nails, and planks, and she begins to get to work.
"How the h*ll do you even get-" I start to say, but Scraps cuts me off.
"Just get to work blocking the door." Scraps sighs. I roll my eyes and get to nailing the planks. "And guys, after the door is barricaded turn off the lights and whisper if you need to. We don't want Dandy having a clue where we are." Scraps whisper-yells to us. We all nod.
Goob's POV:
As I begin finishing the door protection, I think about what Shrimpo said earlier.
'It's more likely that you like Scraps than I like him.'
I felt a bit hurt from that, I don't know why. Do I... no, we're just friends! But that is useful information, that I can tease Poppy about her crush on my sister. Which, I never knew she had! Or maybe that was just a lie that Shrimpo used to protect himself? What even is Poppy's attraction? I know that I'm pansexual, and Scraps is bi... hmm... I wish that everyone just wore a nametag that said: "My name is: , I'm attracted to: , My pronouns are: ," Or something like that. It would make things so much easier.
"OW-" I cover my mouth to stop from yelling out in pain. I accidentally hit one of the nails on the side of my thumb-claw (what even is Goob's hands-), and it was bleeding ichor a little bit. Actually, a little bit is a bit of an overstatement. A lot.
"Goob, are you okay?!?" Scraps whispers. I nod.
"Just- a little... bit of pain..." I clench my other hand into a fist to stop myself from shouting. I look over at Poppy, who's right beside Scraps. And over there, by my closet, Shrimpo's rumaging around in it. What is he doing...?
"Goob, just- don't look at the injury, I've heard that people feel less pain when they don't look at it. I'm sure the toon handlers created us that way too." Poppy reassures me. I weakly nod and close my eyes. I hear footsteps in the direction of my closet, heading towards us.
"Use this or something." I open my eyes to a slit to see Shrimpo hand Scraps a bandaid. Scraps gets to work right away wrapping the injury. After about 3 minutes, Scraps announced that she's done.
"Finished!" She announces, still whispering. I look at my injured claw, and see it wrapped up neatly. I hug Scraps.
"Thank you thank you thank you!!" I tell her, trying to keep my voice at a whisper.
"No problem!" She says back. I give Shrimpo a hug next. I can feel his muscles tense up, and untense. Maybe I should hug him more often, he's clearly not used to them. I let go.
"We should probably make a weapon, y'know just in case." Shrimpo suggests. He heads to Scraps's closet and turns to her. "Where did you find the nails again?"
"Uh, right here." She shows Shrimpo the nails and he walks back to my closet and rumages around in it, again. Poppy and Scraps head to her closet to find something useful. I walk to Shrimpo.
"Whatcha looking for?" I ask.
"Y'know the time where we played baseball with the toon handlers? Well where's your bat?" Shrimpo asks me.
"Hmm... I don't really know...." I think about where I placed it. Shrimpo groans. "Oh wait- it's right here!" I take Shrimpo's hands and lead him to the activity drawer. We take it out, and we both look for it in there. "Be careful not to break anything!" I whisper to him. I notice that his face is slightly pink. I suddenly remember that I technically held Shrimpo's hands. My face turns baby pink too. Found it! I hold up the baseball bat that I was keeping.
"...Thanks." Shrimpo thanks me as he takes the bat. He doesn't look all happy, but at least he's saying 'thank you'! Curious, I look over to see what Shrimpo's doing with the bat and nails. He looks over at me. "Is it okay if I...use this?" He asks me.
"Sure, if it's gonna help with Dandy." I tell him. He begins to hammer the nails into the baseball bat. Meanwhile Poppy and Scraps found something called a paper popper that makes this ear-splitting sound if you snap the paper the right way.
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(What a paper popper looks like)
(Heheh...I love not sleeping. Bye bye I'm gonna join my friends on Dress To Impress or whatever they're playing nowadays)
