Chapter 7: Double Dipper, Single Emily
(Emily's P.O.V)
Well I'm please to declare Bill hasn't bothered coming into my mind for a while. It been quite peaceful lately. Now I could be more focused on getting through episodes without too much going wrong. I was helping Soos and Wendy getting ready for the party at the Shack. Mainly with the balloons with Wendy. I then glanced at the twins who were on the couch.
"Oh no, Mabel. I-I don't feel so good. I-BBBBLLLAAAA!" Dipper faked gagged as he sprayed pink Silly String on Mabel.
"Ohhh, Grunkle Stan, what did you feed us?! BBBBBLLLAAAA!" Mabel said, copying Dipper's actions with purple Silly String.
"BBBBLLLAAAA!"
"BBBBLLLAAAA!"
"BBBBLLLAAAA!"
"Hahaha, barfing!" Mabel laughed as she and her bother were now covered in the Silly String. Wendy winked at me and handed me a can as we rushed over to the twins, hiding our surprise behind us.
"Guys, guys, stop! Something terrible just happened!" Wendy said in a serious tone. I did my best to keep a straight face as Dipper and Mabel stared at us, wondering if we were actually joking or not.
"BBBBLLLAAAA!" Wendy and I cried as we spared our Silly String at the two. Here's was green while mine was a dark blue. Earth colors, nice. We all burst out laughing, many I wish I played with this stuff sooner.
"Comedy gold!" Mabel exclaimed as she tossed confetti in the air. Stan then came up and took away our Silly String and confetti.
"Alright, alright! Party supplies are now off-limits." Stan huffed in annoyance.
"Aw, boo! We were just having fun!" I fake pouted.
"Mr. Pines, whose birthday is it again?" Soos asked.
"Nobody's. Thought this party might be a good way to get kids to spend money at the Shack." Stan explained as he unrolled a 'Pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey' game.
"Nice!" Soos said in approval.
"The young people of this town want fun; I'll smother 'em with fun!" Stan said proudly.
"Maybe comments like that are why kids don't go to the Mystery Shack." Dipper said as he poured some Diet Pitt into a cup. Stan then took the bottle away.
"Hey, hey! Hows about you make yourself useful and copy these flyers?" Stan asked and I rolled my eyes. The poster just made no sense, but it was funny.
"Oh boy, a trip to the copier store!" Mabel said excitedly.
"Calendars, mugs, t-shirts and more! They got it all at the copier store! That's not their slogan, I just really feel that way about the copier store." Soos said.
"Well, yuh should really suggest that to them, they may like it so much they could give you a discount." I said.
"Save the trouble. You know the old copier in my office? I finally fixed the old girl up! Good as new!" Stan said.
"By 'good as new' do you mean works flawlessly or you just slapped a bunch of tape on it?" I asked.
"Uh...no comment." Stan said as Mabel and Dipper walked to Stan's office. Later I heard a muffled 'BBBBLLLAAAA' and smirked to myself.
Cue theme song!
"Hey Emily, speaking of birthdays, when do you celebrate yours?" Wendy asked.
"Well, since I was left at an orphanage, I never knew my true birthday, but I usually celebrated it May 16." I shrugged.
"Aww, we missed it. Don't worry come next May, we'll make sure to remember it." Wendy said and I smiled.
"Thanks Wendy."
Soon Stan was ready to give us our party assignments and quite frankly I had no idea what mine would be.
"Alright party people... and Dipper." Stan said, causing Dipper to frown. "Let's talk business. Soos, because you'll work for free, and you begged, I'm lettin' you be DJ." Stan said.
"You won't regret it, Mr. Pines. I got this book to teach me how to DJ R-R-Right!" Soos said, holding up a book.
"Not encouraging. Emily, you'll be handling the snacks. I don't want to see any bowls empty. No snacks means people will leave." Stan said.
"You got it Stan." I assured him. Guess that wasn't so bad.
"Wendy, you and Mabel will work at the ticket stand." Stan said.
"What? But Grunkle Stan, this party is my chance to make new friends!" Mabel protested.
"I... I could work with Wendy." Dipper offered. Stan rolled his eyes.
"You realize that if you do, you gotta commit to stay in at the ticket stand with Wendy. No getting out of it, just the two of you, alone, all night." Stan explained. Was he trying to sell it or shut it down?
Dipper then turned to us as Wendy sprayed purple Silly String on Soos's belly to make a face and we all laughed.
"I promise." Dipper vowed.
"Hey Emily, what are you gonna wear to the party?" Mabel asked excitedly. I gave her a playful wink.
"You'll see, and no I'm not just gonna wear a bow tie." I said and Mabel squealed in excitement.
Later I was in the bathroom and putting on some hoop earrings while looking in the mirror. I was wearing a light blue one shoulder top and leggings that was red going down to the knees and orange and yellow at the end. Of course I still wore my necklace. I finally placed the left earring on my ear and was satisfied with how it looked and exited the bathroom.
"EEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee! You look awesome!" Mabel cheered, now in her party attire.
"Thanks, you look great too." I said and before I knew it the Shack was filled with music and people dancing. I walked down to the dance floor and hung out by the side and kept a close eye on the bowls of snack. In the corner of my eye I saw Stan at the top of the stairs and dancing.
"The energy, it's electric! Uhh, lightning, lightning, lightning, lightning..." Soos muttered from the D.J. stand. I smiled and spotted Lee and Nate counting up their money.
"We've only got 13!" Nate cried.
"We're trapped!" Lee exclaimed and the two pounded on the window in desperation. I walked over to them.
"You boys alright?" I asked jokingly they turned and both pairs of eyes widened.
"Whoa...looking good Emily...not that you never look good...it's just that now you look a different kind of good...uh..." Nate stuttered out.
"Ha, smooth moves!" Lee laughed.
"Shut up." Nate muttered.
"Um, thanks Nate. You guys wanna dance? If you're trapped you might as well make the most of it until Stan kicks everyone out." I suggested.
"Yeah! Let do it!" They cried and high-fived as we went in the dance floor. It was a lot of back and forth but mostly fun. Later as I was restocking snacked at the table I noticed Mabel sitting with Candy and Grenda. Those two are definitely Mabel's people, as she puts it.
"Remember dudes, whoever, um, party hardies, what? Gets the party crown!" Soos announced and held up the golden crown itself.
"Most applause at the end of the night wins!" Soos explained as the crowd stared at the crown in awe. I wonder where he even got that...eh, I may never know. I then saw that Pacifica walked up to Soos with her 'friends'.
"Party crown? I'll take that, thank you very much!" She said as if it was an order. I know that she reforms later on, (thank goodness) but I can't help but feel a little sour at her attitude.
"I can't just give you the crown. It's sort of a competition thing." Soos explained slightly awkwardly. Pacifica just laughed and picked up a microphone.
"Honestly, who's gonna compete against me? Fork girl? Lizard lady?" She asked gesturing to Candy and Grenda before laughing.
"Hold me Candy!" Grenda said and hugged Candy, who hugged back.
"Our kind isn't welcome here!" Candy said sadly. Mabel glared angrily and walked up to Soos.
"Hey, I'll compete!" She said happily, causing her new friends to gasp.
"I'm Mabel." She greeted to Pacifica.
"That sounds like a fat old lady's name." Pacifica retorted. I facepalmed, mainly trying hard not to laugh. Worst comeback ever.
"I'll take that as a compliment!" Mabel replied. See!? Didn't affect her at all. Then again it's hard to hurt Mabel's feelings.
"May the better partier win." Pacifica said and she walked into the background with the other mean girls.
"Nice meeting you!" Mabel waved at her new rival. "She's going down." She added to her new friends happily.
"Let the battle for the party crown begin! Mabel comes out strong! Watch out, Pacifica!" Soos's announced as Mabel started dancing her heart out on the dance floor.
"Woo, go Mabel!" I cheered and several other audience members joined me. I had noticed Robbie showed up with Wendy and Dipper getting all nervous. But I let it slid, he'd freak out more if I'd learned that he'd cloned himself. Later it was the karaoke part and Pacifica was wrapping up her song.
"Always means forever. ALWAAAAAYYYSS!" She sang and her voice caused someones plastic sup to break. "Forever." She whispered softly and pointed to know one in particular.
"I used to sing like that, before my voice changed." Grenda said sadly.
"Pacifica pulls ahead!" Soos announced.
"Try and top that!" Pacifica said as she rudely handed the microphone to Mabel. "Oh, and Grenda, by the way, you sound like a professional wrestler." She laughed and walked off stage.
I shook my head in a disappointed fashion and Pacifica caught sight of me doing that. I held my stance and crossed my arms. We stood in silence for a moment and I couldn't help but imagine she saw me as an upset parent.
"I WANNA PUT HER IN A HEADLOCK AND MAKE HER FEEL PAIN!" Grenda then shouted, breaking our silence. Huh...it felt like I was staring at her for at least a minute. Oh well.
"It's not over 'til it's over, sisters! Watch this." Mabel said and ran onstage. "Soos! Give me the 80s-ist, crowd pleasing-ist, rock ballad-y-ist song you got!" She yelled in determination. Soos then started playing 'Don't Start Un-Believing'.
"Excellent." Mabel said and begun singing as Candy and Grenda danced in the background.
"Don't start UN-BELIEVING! Never don't not feel your feelings!" She sang proudly as the crowd cheered as she twirled her mic around.
"Watch me do a flip!" Mabel then jumped and fell on her face. "That was for you guys!" She exclaimed and everyone didn't seem to mind it wasn't exactly a flip. I then noticed that Dipper was now whispering something in Soos's ear.
"Dudes, would the owner of a silver and red dirt bike please report outside. It is being stolen right now." Soos announced and Robbie's eyes widened.
"Wait, WHAT?!" Robbie cried and looked out the window to see clones 3 and 4 riding his bike. "Hey, come back here!" He cried and chased after them.
"Oh, tough break. I wonder who those guys are who aren't me because I'm right here." Dipper said and Wendy gave him a strange look.
"Man, that bike was expensive, hope Robbie gets it back in one piece." Nate said, suddenly appearing right behind me.
"Yeah, I hope so too." I said in agreement.
"Now we're gonna bring it down for a minute. Ladies, dudes, now's the time." Soos said and a slow song played and many people started dancing with one another. Except me...and...
"May I?"
I turned and saw Nate was holding his hand out. I smiled and took it.
"Sure. Thanks." I said and we begun to dance slowly.
I couldn't exactly explain how I felt, but I never felt this way before. It was nice, the soft music, great lights. Suddenly it was just me and Nate there. Just dancing. Soon the song stopped and everyone let off of their partners. I just stared at Nate like an idiot until I felt a pang in my head. I let go of Nate and gripped it tightly.
"Uh...ow..." I groaned.
"Oh, are you okay?" He asked. I nodded meekly, but the pain continued.
"Yeah, yeah...just need a minute. Be right back." I said and rushed to the bathroom, which was thankfully empty, and splashed some water in my face.
"Ug, why did this have to come right after I danced..." I moaned as I looked in the mirror and noticed that my necklace started to glow. I gazed as it seemed to pulse gently, and it suddenly stopped as quickly as it started.
"Okay...weird...and...hey, headaches gone!" I said happily and I heard pounding on the door.
"Alright, hang on!" I said and opened the door and saw Pacifica. She stared at me in shock, but I just stepped out of the door way.
"All yours." I said calmly and walked away. I passed Wendy and she gave me a wave and wink as I passed her. I then walk down the stairs and went over to Nate.
"Hey, sorry I had to rush out like that, guess I've been working to hard." I said, not mentioning the glowing necklace.
"No worries, I get it. Just glad you aren't sick." He said and we laughed. I then saw that Nate was glaring at something behind me and turned to see Lee at the wall, pretending to whistle at innocent like.
"Um, wanna keep dancing?" I asked and Nate then smiled.
"Sure! Yeah, let's do that." He said and we got on the dance floor. Soon Nate then looked around and frowned in confusion.
"Call me crazy, but I think I saw three different Dippers run by." He said and I sighed.
"Don't question it, we've already seen a haunted convince store." I said and he laughed.
"Yeah, as long at these 'clones' don't attack us, we'll be fine." He agreed and soon Mabel began doing the worm and gained a crowds attention.
"One more song, dudes, and then it's time for the bestowing of the party crown. It's gonna be the–" Soos then pressed a button in the keyboard, making an explosion sound. "Nailed it." He whispered proudly.
"Pacifica, I just wanna say that whoever wins, it's been a super fun party." Mabel said, being a good sport and holding her hand out for a shake.
"Tsk. Awwww, it thinks it's gonna win. Hey, did you hear that?" Mabel placed a hand by her ear. "People clapping for the weird girls? Yeah, me neither." Pacifica said and walked away.
I rolled my eyes, I'm glad she gets some character development later on, she needed it. I looked over and saw the Robbie had magically appeared and was talking with Wendy. Still wasn't sure what happened to him, not sure it matters to much.
"Let the party crown voting commence!" Soos announced and played a bell sound.
"Good luck, Mabel." Pacifica spat sarcastically.
"Applaud to vote for Mabel." Soos said and the crowd, including me cheered loudly.
"Let's check the applause meter." Soos said and raised his hand above Mabel. "Oh, oh, very good." He reported and Mabel smiled happily.
"And the next contestant: Pacifica." Soos said and gestured to Pacifica. The crowd gave a weak applause, but after getting a 'death glare' by the young Northwest, they started cheering loudly. Soos then held his arm over Pacifica.
"Uh-oh, a tie! This has like, never happened before." Soos said, not sure what to do about it.
Pacifica looked around to see McGucket sleeping in one of the bench and quickly waved a dollar on front of his face. He quickly took it eagerly and started clapping.
"Ha! Haha! Hahahahaha!" Soos then tilted his arm, that was over Pacifica, over slightly, making her ahead of Mabel.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we-we have a winner. The winner of the contest, is Pacifica Northwest." He said and reluctantly handed the crown to Pacifica, who happily placed it on her head.
"Thank you, Jorge. Thank you everyone! Everyone comes to the after-party at my parents' boat! Woo-hoo!" She announced and the crowed cheered happily.
"Pacifica! Pacifica! Pacifica!" They chanted as they carried her off.
"Well that was...actually it was expected. That girl gets whatever she wants." Nate huffed and I nodded.
"Yeah, let's hope there's more to her then fame and fortune." I said and we stood there for a moment as Mabel talked to her friends.
"Well, I should get back home. Great party, and you are a great dancer too." He added and caught himself.
"Oh...uh..." I smiled and gave him a quick hug.
"You're not so bad yourself. I'll see ya around." I said and he nodded.
"Count on it." He said and walked out the door.
"Soos! Play another song! This thing's going all night!" Mabel cheered.
"Way ahead of you, hambone." Soos said and played another sing and the girls began syncing once more. I decided to hand by the side.
"This is it! This is it!" Mabel cheered happily.
"Dance! Dance! Dance!" Candy danced happily.
"I'm moving my feet to the music!" Grenda added and I smiled and Mabel then danced to me.
"So, I saw you and Nate hanging out...was that some chemistry I saw? Wink wink." Mabel asked playfully.
"You just keep dancing with your new friends." I said simply.
"I didn't hear a no!" Mabel replied in a sing-song voice. I rolled my eye playfully as Wendy came up next to me and bobbed her head to the music. Dipper then entered the Shack and his twin noticed him immediately.
"Dipper! Where have you been? Meet my girlfriends!" She cried happily and I smiled.
This was a great night. And it's still young!
Author's Note
Done! *falls in a heap* And I'm up again! Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter...or should I call it episode...hmmm...Oh, and guess who got the Gravity Falls Graphic Novel...THIS GAL RIGHT HERE! I've read it so many time already and can't figure out which story is my favorite!
I highly suggest you get it, the stories are amazing. Filled with both adventure and laughter! Also, don't for get to leave a review and in the spirit of the new novel, I'm allowing a few commenters to ask me ANYTHING they want about my O.C. Emily, or the story in general. I'll answer it at the next chapter so you have until then. Only one question per person!
Lunar Moon Butterfly: I thought the bubble pounding was hilarious as well! I'm so glad you did too!
Hourglass Cipher: Yeah...Emily is getting lucky so far...wonder how long it'll last...Dun dun dun!