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God , I love her.
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February 9th .
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Today was the worst.. First, Everyone was on my ass because I slept in and didn't have breakfast ready, like, come ON. DO THESE PEOPLE NOT KNOW HOW TO COOK??
And then when I walked in there to cook for them, stupid Vee was in MY kitchen cooking some icky looking pancakes on MY grill. Everyone was raving about how 'fluffy' they were, ugh, please. she just ripped open some freezer pancakes and called them 'home-made'.

But, like, then i saw her.., it felt like time slowed down by hours, she was so pretty i couldn't focus on anything else, it took 5 full minutes for me to stop staring at her, who could blame me? Her face, those warm hazel eyes, they way she lit up whenever she talks about dinosaurs, She's eye-catching as hell.

After that i had a HORRIBLE coughing fit and almost burnt my whole hand, and then fucking COSMO gave me a smug ass look and said some shit like "Ooh, d'ya have a crush on someone~?" like, COSMO. WAS IT THAT OBVIOUS?? YEAH, NO SHIT.

Like a sane person, I lied. "Ugh, No." And that fuckface did some corny shit and basically THREATENED ME and said "I've got my eyes on you.." did that corny ass hand-thingy and walked off to go talk to his gIrLfRiEnd, Yatta. I guess, i want a girlfriend. I want Shelly to be my girlfriend.

An hour later Cosmo invited me to bake with him, and I agreed, of course, and when I went to bake with him, Shelly was there. SHELLY. WAS. THERE. Cosmo seriously LIED to get me and Shelly close together like this was some corny rom-com. As he was running away like a coward he gave me a thumbs-up like he didn't just ruin everything for me. It was SO awkward, we made an apple crisp together but we barely even talked to each other the most we talked was when she added too much butter to the crumb coat, But at the end she said that she likes guys that can bake. Oh my god. I felt like i was on cloud nine, After that we went to serve the apple crisp to the others, when VEE DECIDED TO RUB HER UGLY FACE ALL OVER THE CRUMB COAT. SHE CAN'T EVEN TASTE IT. I BET HER GREEDY ASS SHARED IT WITH ASTRO. PROBABLY HAD HIM LICK IT OFF OR SOME SHIT LIKE THAT.

After being told by Astro that 'She just wanted a taste of it' I went to bed ecstatic that I had a chance with Her.

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February 10th.
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Today I was on my way to the library when i saw the other mains, Astro, Dandy, Vee, and.. Shelly, they all said 'hi' to me and went on their own ways, but ASTRO stayed behind to chat with me and got all close and whispered 'I hope you have fun catching some ammonites, i heard they've been hard to catch' like the smug bitch he's dating. I wanted to strangle him.
Like, who the fuck even told HIM??? I didn't tell ANYONE, not even Sam. I obviously asked that jerk how he knew, and he fucking reminded me, 'I can see your dreams.., Remember?' I BEGGED him not to be a snitch and he was all like 'Okay, your secret's safe with me, oh, by the way, can i get some hot chocolate..?'

After wasting FIVE WHOLE MINUTES ON THAT, I went over to the library to get some 'special' books, by special I mean dinosaur books of course !! (you freaks.) Brightney was super shocked for no reason, she said something like 'Oh, are you getting something for Shelly..?' I was like, 'No these are for myself !!' She made this weird face like she was gonna throw up or something and told me where they were, I had burned through like 20 books during the afternoon when I read enough, I ripped out some pages on ammonites before I gave all the books back to Brightney.

Once i went back to my room I went back to my room to look for episodes with...Shelly and re-read the pages i ripped out earlier, when for SOME REASON, DANDICUS DANCIFER DECIDED 'Oh yeah, let's go ruin Sprout's privacy and barge in !!' that loser asked me if I liked re-watching old episodes, and pried about why I was watching only the episodes with Shelly in them, I had to pull out an excuse that it was just a coincidence. After he left insulting Shelly by calling her episodes 'boring', I went to bed surrounded by the pages I had ripped out earlier, hoping that maybe i could discuss it.

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February 11th.
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As it hit my usual waking time, I noticed that nobody was pounding on my door for breakfast, With this newly-found freedom I did some quick meal-prep and went to the main only couch to eat, The only person there was Shelly, Even though my brain was screaming at me to just drop my food and run I took the shred of dignity I had and sat down next to her. It was actually,, kind of nice we talked a bit, but then for some reason Shelly started staring at me weirdly, 'oh god, do i have food in my teeth? is my hair weird? what's the issue??' and then I made either the best or the worst decision I'd ever make. 'I like you Shelly'... how could i mess up this badly. And just as she was gonna say something ALMOST ALL OF THE FUCKING TOONS CAME AND SHOVED ME AND SHELLY OVER TO THE ARMREST. I almost slapped Dandy then I remembered, Today was the fucking Superbowl. February 11th. No wonder I had such a peaceful morning.

Oh god, I was so close to her, this would be heavenly if I didn't have to hear Shrimpo and Dandy yelling about the game. 'DANDY YOU FUCKER WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HATE TRAVIS KELCE??' 'HIS ASS IS BORING. THE ONLY REASON PEOPLE LIKE HIM IS BECAUSE OF TAYLOR SWIFT.' 'SHUT UP HALF-TIME'S ABOUT TO START.' During half-time while Rodger and Toodles were singing along to whatever song that fucking- uhh- what's her name again.. Taylor swift i think- was singing, Pebble was barking SO LOUD at something so Toodles went to check it out, and Rodger tagged along in dismay to make sure his daughter didn't die, While Astro and Vee went off together to probably go make-out or something so Dandy went to make sure they didn't bang, after that everyone slowly trickled out once the half-time started.

Everyone was gone except me and her. The tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife (sorry for that corny ass line). Shelly was just, staring at me, I was so scared, was she judging me?? did she hate me?? was there something in my hair?? 'I like you too, Sprout.' what. 'What?' OH MY GOD FUCK YEAH I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS HELL YEAH. 'I've liked you for a while now, but I never knew you liked me back..' OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO RUN INTO A WALL I'M SO HAPPY.
We both stared at each other for a bit then shelly pulled me in for a kiss, A KISS..! I was so happy, until DANDY FUCKING RUINED THE MOMENT AS EVERYONE CAME BACK SINCE HALF-TIME WAS OVER, Cosmo and Astro sure took their time being smug about me being kind of a coward. They shut up real quick after I reminded them that I was the only one that makes edible food.

But I'm just so glad that Shelly likes me.

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Not gonna lie, SMASH.

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February 12th
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Dear Diary,

Today I went on a walk with Vee and we had a small talk about,,,choices I made. ''Why Sprout?" ...Are you kidding right now? am I being JUDGED BY SOME BITCH WHOS DATING SOMEONE THAT CAN'T EVEN STAY AWAKE FOR 30 MINUTES? ''Oh, I just like him, y'know?" I just had to walk away so I didn't say things about her male-wife.