"Masky... What games do you have?" Bobble asked. She was still a happy inkling, but on the inside... she looked; broken?

"Well, you can choose. I have a ton of them. I'll show you; but first, let me get them okay?" Mask asked, "You can look around if you want."

"Okie! Thanks!" She gave off a radiant smile. She started to walk around examining every place in Mask's house. Then she came across a picture.

Was that Mask? Wait wait wait, where WAS his mask? Is THAT what he looked like without his mask? I guess he looked pretty cute... Bobble thought to herself.

Then she mentally slapped herself.

WHAT THE... Bobble screamed (Mentally of course). Then she examined the rest of the pictures closer. It seemed as if every photo with his team or friends (If there were any pictures of them there), he always had is mask on. But with family it was usually off.

"Whaaat are youuuu looking at Bobble Hat?" Mask asked as he came back into the room with an armload of games.

"Whoa!" Bobble cheered, seeing the stack of games, "A-And I wasn't looking at anything," she added, making sure to plaster on another grin to make sure that she wasn't lacking a happy face. 

Then, Mask removed his gas mask.

"W-Whoa!" Bobble said, "I didn't know you could take off your mask..."

"I can, I just have hay feeeever... sooo I can't goooo outside without haviiiing 'issuuues' with my breathing. That's why I never take it off, that's all..." Mask said lowering his gaze.

"Oh! Well that's actually a better reason then Goggles had. He said that you were just ugly or something and that's why you covered it up," Bobble commented. Then she instantly regretted that decision.

"Bobble Hat, do youuu think I'm ugly?" Mask asked, his voice faltering for a second. Bobble felt her heart twist. She didn't know how to act.

"N-No? Of course not! I'm just not used to you taking your mask off, it's the first time for me seeing that. Has anyone else seen that?" Bobble said carefully, making sure that she didn't say anything wrong.

"Nooope, just my team aaaaand that's prettyyyy much it actually, then there's youuuu," Mask told her. Bobble felt really guilty about what she said. She didn't know that Mask could be um... emotional if you will? She suddenly forgot about smiling and Mask looked up.

"Bobble Hat? Are you NOT smiliiiiling?" Mask said, ultimately confused at that point. She ALWAYS smiled, and it had been HIM that wanted to wipe it off of her face.

"W-What? N-No!" Bobble quickly plastered yet ANOTHER smile onto her face. "I just was thinking about something, yeah!"

"Bobble Hat, youuu don't ALWAYS need tooo smile, people wooon't think lessss of you..." Mask told her. Bobble had never heard anyone say that before.

"Your sure?" she asked. She looked down at her shoes sadly. Everyone told her that she should "SMILE MORE" "SMILE BRIGHTER" "BIGGER!" "GET YOUR SMILE ON!" "TURN THAT FROWN UPSIDE DOWN!" and she was SICK of it.

"Offff coouuuurse I'm suuure!" Mask confirmed it. That was what Bobble hat had wanted to hear all these years. But no, nobody was very supportive of her. She was just used to do the cooking, cleaning, and washing.

Team blue... the only inklings who had EVER supported her. Even after she spilled a bucket of water on their sand castle, they still allowed her to play with them, and surprisingly, she became great friends with all of the members.

Then she snapped back to reality. This time, she truly smiled and leapt at Mask, tackling him into a hug. "Thank you Mask!" she giggled.

"Youuuur welcome..." Mask was blushing now. He did NOT see that coming. Then he did something he would never do EVER. He hugged her back. Something about her made him understand what it was like. And he accepted that.

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Word count for part 2: 666 words!

That's okay, despite being in 2 parts I guess. Yay! -Mochi