People Change // A VeggieTales Fanfiction

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Larry was acting strange, to say the least.

Bob seemed to be the only one to care—or to even notice. The other cast and crew members had been either turning a blind eye or they hadn't been paying Larry any mind, which Bob thought was ridiculous, seeing as Larry was his costar. Almost all of the attention is always on him, so why? Why hasn't anyone noticed?  thought Bob.

He couldn't pinpoint exactly when this started, but it had to be around two months ago, after Gourdon angrily handed in his resignation letter and stormed off of the set. Everybody was shocked, and a public statement had to be sent out that Gourdon would no longer be making any appearances on the show.

Not soon after that, Larry began to act differently. He still smiled, but the way he smiled changed. Before it was friendly and goofy, an almost perfect projection of who Larry was as a person. Now, his smile was even wider, but it never seemed to reach his eyes somehow. Plastic.

One red flag was that Silly Songs with Larry, the songs that Larry wrote and performed every week progressively became less, well, silly. The week after Gourdon left, Larry sang about a lonely gourd that believed nobody would love him. Of course, the gourd made a friend in the end. Last week, however, his song taught that no matter how kind you are, not everyone will be kind back. The number ended with a long shot of Junior sitting in a dark room alone, crying.

The last big change was Larry and Bob's relationship. Despite seeing each other almost every day, the two rarely talked. Larry stopped initiating conversations and as much as Bob tried, their conversations would just fall flat. When they did talk, the the way Larry spoke was just... different, somehow. It wasn't a rude or uninterested tone, no. Bob would've much preferred that.

Larry's words and tone were just so sickeningly sweet. So much so that it seemed fake. Threatening, even. Bob was shocked at how not Larry-like it was.

Bob was more worried than scared. The fear was definitely there—that's what kept Bob from confronting Larry about it. Even so, the amount of concern the tomato had for his friend was overwhelming. He knew that something had to have triggered this chain of odd behavior, and he wanted to find out for sure. The only possibility he thought of was Gourdon's sudden resignation. Bob didn't think that they were close at all, but maybe he thought wrong. Could something like that really be the cause of all this?

All of this made Bob's head hurt. The thought of seeing Larry made the tomato dread going to work the next day, but he had to do what he had to do.

Things can't go on like this, Bob thought to himself. I have to do something about it before things get worse.

He sighed. That's right. I'll talk to Larry about it, he decided, turning to his side and covering himself with his bed covers. He shut his eyes.

Just not tomorrow.