Each drabble is 618 words.

Eight days...

Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls.

So many questi o n s,

So little time,

Notice my perfect measure and rhyme.

I could've been a poet,

Didn't you know it?

No? Really? I'm surprised.

You're not as dumb as you look.

The mysterious ways of Soos Rameriez took much more thinking out on his part, compared to the average person. Not that anyone could ever keep a secret from him for long. That would just be stupid. Three main things would pick at him whenever a thought was spared to the Pines handy-man.

First, why was it that this man, barely a day over twenty-two seemed to know so much, and yet so little at the same time? Why was it that he chose to keep so many secrets, despite the naïve, sociable façade he wore?

The man-child was so loyal to the Pines it seemed that keeping a secret from them would have been physically impossible! For a human that was. Physics didn't apply to himself of course. Too much mathematics and tangents... Yeesh, he had better things to do with his time than consider the illogicity of his every movement.

Following that was another thought. Why did this man bother staying loyal to the Pines? At least before the twins had gotten in to the picture. Sure Stan had given him a job, but so what?! The guy was hardly a saint, and treated his employees like garbage! It wasn't until Dipper and Mabel came along that he dared show that softer side to the people around them.

The enigma had no reason to be loyal to that man. He was not even paid minimum wage until recently. And that was because a pig had done the haggling. Stan never had a kind word to share, a smile, anything to uplift the spirits of such a devoted worker.

So why was it that Soos remained with the grumpy old man? It was not like Stan secretly cared about him or anything. That would just be ridiculous. He knew and saw all! Nothing Stan did seemed affectionate to him.

Maybe he was just blind to the matter at hand. Human affection was not exactly his strong point after all. He couldn't really understand it. There just had to be something he had overlooked to explain why the man-child worked for Stanford Pines.

That loyalty of his was a problem. A very genuine problem that would not go away. He just knew that the man-baby would do something to hinder him. He'd try to get in the way, save life of one of the Pines. Just some sort of maddening endeavour that would leave him the worse for wear.

Why did he bother to stay with the Pines? Didn't he realize that his blind faith to them would be the end of the line for him? That would mean no more sandwich-eating, video gaming, breaking things as he tried to fix them, and all of those other pathetic things the man-child occupied his short life with. The longer he spent with the Pines in the end, the worse he was going to find himself when the time had come. Seeing as time was already running short, it would be best for him to make haste in his get away.

If Soos was as secretly smart as he seemed to be, then he would get out of Gravity Falls before it was too late. Gravity caused things to fall. And considering how much that tub of lard weighed, he was going to fall pretty hard.