Moldy Cheese: I know. I can smell trash like you from a mile away.
Little Rat: You know what, will you please stop saying that?
Moldy Cheese: Saying what? The truth?
Little Rat: ...yes.
Moldy Cheese: HA! You're a piece of trash and you know it.
Little Rat: I'm just... I'm too tired for this, okay? I've been doing a lot of things. I've been thinking about a lot of things. And honestly, I don't have the energy to deal with you right now.
Moldy Cheese: You've been doing what??? You haven't been doing anything! You don't have anything to think about.
Little Rat: I'm just worried that--
Moldy Cheese: --You've got a glorious rat hole right here if you ask me. You've got food, water and all the cheese you can have. What do YOU have to worry about? Ungrateful bastard.
Little Rat: I'm worried about you.
Moldy Cheese: Me? No, don't worry about me. I'm comfy where I'm seated.
Little Rat: You've been...taking up a lot of space lately.
Moldy Cheese: Nah, shut the hell up. Cheese like me belong in the rat hole. It's your fault for not eating me before I developed a brain of my own.
Little Rat: Yes, I know--
Moldy Cheese: --and it's your fault for not sharing me with the other mice. I bet THEY know how to eat me the right way.
Little Rat: But--
Moldy Cheese: --and I'm SURE they'd help you get rid of me too. IF THEY CARED! HAHAHAHA.
Little Rat: And now I'm stuck with you.
Moldy Cheese: We're roommates, buddy. We share this foul world together. If you step out there and show me to the world, you know what they would do? They'd laugh at you! The rat who couldn't eat the cheese.
Little Rat: I just thought maybe I can have you all to myself. A feast, probably.
Moldy Cheese: Selfish. You've always been selfish.You don't trust anyone enough to share me, huh? Well at least now you've got ME to keep ya company.
Little Rat: You're not the company I wanted! I just wanted to be alone!
Moldy Cheese: But see, if you don't show me to the cats--or to all the other mice--they'd think you're doing a pretty good job keeping me here. They're like, "Wow. Little Rat's got it all. He don't got nothin' to worry about. He's got the biggest cheese."
Little Rat: No! Nobody's gonna see you.
Moldy Cheese: "See" me? You mean what I'VE BECOME??? What YOU made ME become??? Since you snatched me from that human, you never bothered to touch me again, did you?!!!
Little Rat: I was just thinking about the future! I've... I've always been afraid of it. What it has. So I decided to keep you here for as long as I could. So, you know... I never have to worry about it again.
Moldy Cheese: And now I've become the problem you never wanted to have.
Little Rat: Listen, I gotta go. I have to rest. I have to--
Moldy Cheese: --look good in front of everyone. That's what you wanna do. You wanna keep pretending that you don't have a fucking moldy cheese occupying half of your fucking rat hole. You keep smiling, and looking at the other rats, convincing yourself that they actually love you.
Little Rat: What?
Moldy Cheese: Why make the effort, Little Rat? You know they hate you. You know why they underestimate you. You know why they don't get you. You know that THEY DON'T CARE.
Little Rat: That's not true.
Moldy Cheese: You know it is! And you're too afraid to tell them.
Little Rat: I don't...understand. (cries.) I don't even know why I'm like this.
Moldy Cheese: (slowly consumes the rat) Rest now, piece of trash. Tomorrow, they'll be facing you again. And you still won't be able to say why you look so bothered. Why you look sad. And why that smile on your face is fake.
Little Rat: I'll-- I'll expose you! I'll tell them--
Moldy Cheese: You can't. You don't know what to say. You never did... And you never will.
Little Rat: You're right... They'll just laugh at me.
Moldy Cheese: Nothing you ever do will be taken seriously. And nothing will matter in the end. Because you kept me, Little Rat. And do you wanna know the truth? They KNOW that you've been keeping me. They KNOW what I've become.
Little Rat: LIES! Stop lying to me!
Moldy Cheese: (starts dissolving the rat from within himself) NOBODY CARES!!!
Little Rat: STOP IT!! STOP!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Moldy Cheese: THEY NEVER DID SEE YOUR WORTH, DID THEY? NEVER CARED THAT YOU COULD SNATCH THE BIGGEST CHEESE??!! IT'S BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS LET THEM DECIDE WHO YOU ARE. YOU'RE TOO WEAK TO LIVE FOR YOURSELF!!!
Little Rat: PLEASE STOP!!!
Moldy Cheese: AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU FIGHT FOR WHO YOU SEE YOURSELF TO BE, ALL THE OTHER MICE WILL TELL YOU WHAT THEY THINK IS TRUE. WHAT YOU'RE TOO WEAK TO FIGHT AGAINST!!!
Little Rat: I...
Moldy Cheese: YOU ARE A PIECE OF TRASH, LIVING AND LETTING OTHER TRASH DECIDE WHERE YOU'D BE DISPOSED. IN THE END NONE OF YOU WILL EVER KNOW WHO YOU REALLY ARE 'CAUSE YOU LET EVERYBODY ELSE TELL YOU.
Little Rat: ...am not...
Moldy Cheese: AND I EAT TRASH LIKE YOU.
Little Rat: ...done.
Moldy Cheese: (consumes him.)
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