Chapter 17: Emily is Boyz Crazy!?
(Emily's P.O.V)
Living in a tree house can be really great sometimes. Key word, sometimes. I don't often complain, but the curtains that Soos' grandmother gave me had started to get holes in them, letting in certain pests. And not the Bill Cipher kind, the buggy kind. So my solution was to get a screen to put in the window. I had them ordered weeks ago and they finally arrived, I just needed to get a few tools to put it in place. I was gathering a few things as I over heard Wendy and Dipper talking.
"Do you have this T-shirt in my size?" Dipper 'asked'. Oh, episode time, sweet.
"I have something even better! Behold: My butt!" Wendy joked and the two started laughing. I smiled as I knew what was coming.
"I could play this game forever." Dipper 'whispered'. Yeah, I see how Wendy has overheard him all these years.
"What'd you say?" Wendy asked.
"Coughing! I was coughing! Those weren't words!" Dipper insisted, fake coughing.
"This is fun, what you two have." Mabel laughed.
"Mabel? How long have you been standing there?" Dipper asked nervously.
"Hello, Emily is here too!" I joked waving my hand in a 'hi' motion.
"Don't worry about that. Let's talk about why I'm doing this dance! Do-do-do-do-do..." Mabel said and everyone noticed her crazy happy dance.
"Oh, no! She got into the Smile Dip again!" Dipper gasped.
"Dipper, Mabel would never eat that candy reject again. I don't even wanna see it again. So it's definitely something else." I commented.
"Wrong one-thousand to Dipper and 'Right On' to Emily. It's because today is the greatest day of my life!" Mabel exclaimed and threw a calendar at her twins face.
"Ow!" Dipper winced and got a closer look at the calendar.
"Sev'ral Timez is playing at the Gravity Falls Civic Center and Buffet!" She beamed happily.
"Ugh. Sev'ral Timez? Aren't they that boy band that came a decade too late?" Dipper groaned.
"Some people happen to like that kind of music." I shrugged as I gathered a few more supplies.
"Mabel, you know all those boy bands are fake, right?" Dipper asked as Mabel continued dancing.
"Dipper's right. They're just a manufactured product of the bloated corporate music industry." Wendy added.
"You're making my dance sad..." Mabel pouted as she stopped dancing.
"There's probably a machine that mass-produces them." Dipper snorted.
"Oh ho, or maybe the boys are grown from pods." Wendy joked and the two burst out laughing.
"Yeah and they'll gain an army, follow a master of the dark side, and overthrow our galaxy." I said sarcastically and they stared at me.
"What? That's a movie plot from my neck of the woods." I shrugged.
"Uh, yeah pods, totally!" Dipper laughed.
"You guys can't ruin this for me. Mabel's got back up!" Mabel smiled and the door opened as Candy and Grenda walked in.
"Hey guys!" Grenda greeted.
"Woot-woot!" Candy cheered, waving her foam fingers around.
"Who's ready for the greatest night of our lives? How many times am I gonna love ya?" Mabel started.
"Sev'ral times!" The three cheered and laughed as the ran to the living area.
"Ugh. Girls." Dipper groaned.
"I know, right?" Wendy added as Mabel and Grenda walked through the door while Candy ran into the vending machine.
"I'm okay!" She said and ran in the door. Cue theme song!
"Okay you all have fun, I'm gonna go and put these screens in." I said and grabbed the screens before leaving the Shack. I hummed the theme song to myself as I made it to my home. I carefully climbed up the ladder and placed the screens down as I walked over to the chest and opened it.
"Okay, where'd I put the safety googles?" I muttered and rummaged through it and my hand brushed against the box that held the gun Stan gave me. I stared at it for a moment, and turned to the tiny box that held the glass lens that Trembly gave me, before grabbing the safety googles and closing the chest.
After a few tries, I managed to get the first screen on the window and moved on to the second window. I had to grab a few screws when I heard a familiar voice.
"Hello, Emily?" It was Nate!
"Hey Nate, I'll be right down!" I called and put the drill down before going to the entrance and climbing down the ladder and jumped down, skipping a few steps.
"Hi, what's up?" I asked as I lifted my googles up.
"Oh uh...well. You know how Robbie and Wendy are, not quite seeing eye to eye?" Nate asked.
"Yeah, he stood her up last night, right?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. Where was he going with this?
"Well, Robbie and I were thinking about hanging out. All of us together. To ease the tension a bit." Nate explained, rubbing the back of his neck.
"Are you...asking me out?" I asked cautiously.
"What!? Ah, I mean...it can be. If you're cool with that..." Nate rambled, but I caught him off.
"Whoa, whoa, calm down! Uh...I actually wouldn't mind if it was a double date." I admitted. Oh crap I'm blushing and I have a headache. Nate then grinned.
"Great, we'll meet up tomorrow night. Sound good?" He asked.
"Yeah, yeah, it'll be a lot of fun!" I smiled, though the headache continued.
"Great! Um, I have to get going, but I'll see you later." He said and backed away, but ended up hitting a tree. I giggled a bit, covering my mouth to try and hide it. Nate laughed too and waved as he walked off. My necklace then started to glow as the aching in my head ceased.
"I really hope that doesn't affect me too much this weekend." I said to myself and climbed back up the ladder.
Wait, in this episode, Robbie said that Nate and his girlfriend were going to lookout point, but as far as I knew, Nate wasn't dating anyone when I came to Gravity Falls. Come to think of it, the girl he should have danced with wasn't there. Nate had danced with me. I felt my cheeks flush and grabbed some water.
"Ug, my brain hurts. Too many differences and similarities...gah! I don't even know why I'm here, or how I got here. Man, I really gotta relax once in a while." I sighed and slipped the goggles over my face before getting back to work. Once I was done, I headed down and decided to take a little bit of a walk in the woods.
As I did I thought back to when I first came here. Wendy introduced me to everyone after my first day at working with the Mystery Shack. I remember how hard I tried to make it seem like I didn't know who they were. We all had a lot of fun over those few weeks.
Ring, ring, ring!
It took my a moment to realize that it was my phone ringing and I flipped it open. Hmm, didn't recognize this number. Eh, might as well answer it.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Emily, this is Mabel, I need a favor." Mabel said.
"Sure, what's up?" I asked.
"Well, it's kinda hard to explain. But we're helping Sev'ral Timez escape their mean boss keeps them in cages, and they're clones. Oh, and they've never been free so can you come get us?" Mabel explained in practically one breath.
"Uh okay...not what I expected, but I'll come get you guys, just don't start a fire or anything crazy like that until I get there." I instructed.
"Right, got it, please hurry." Mabel responded and hung up and I ran back to the Shack. I went inside and grabbed a large duffel bag that I recognized from the episode and went to Stan, who was with Dipper.
"Stan, I need your car for none specific reasons!" I called and Stan fumbled around in his pocket before tossing me his keys. Sweet!
"Try and bring it back in one piece and no snacks." Stan deadpanned.
"Right, got it!" I waved, heading to the door.
"Wait can she even drive?" Dipper asked as I ran out.
"Emily, can you drive!?" Dipper called out again, but I was too busy getting in Stan's car and started the engine. Yeah, I don't have my permit, but Georgia and I took a drivers ed class before. So I know how to not crash it, good enough for me!
I finally made it to the Gravity Falls Civic Center and Buffet, and after almost running a red light because the stupid yellow light only lasted a millisecond! I parked, grabbed the duffel bag and got out of Stan's car. I crept towards the entrance of the building and I heard a raspy voice.
"What kind of a lemon water is this? It's 25% lemon, and 75% water! Why isn't it 50-50!?" Bratesmen yelled and I rolled my eyes. Man, he's a jerk. I snuck towards the back door and saw it was open.
"Emily! In here!" Mabel whispered and I ran over, closing the door behind me.
"Hey, got here as soon as I could." I said.
"Whoa, check it dawg, it's another lady!" I turned and saw the clone band, who were staring at me, and waved.
"Hello, I'm Emily and we are getting away from your boss." I said and put the duffel bag down. "Now get in the bag, chop-chop." I instructed.
"Okay!" They sang, with jazz hands, and each took turns getting in the bag.
"Well that was easy." Candy commented.
"Let's blow this popsicle stand!" Grenda exclaimed and took out a match from nowhere and lit it, but Mabel quickly blew it out.
"Emily said 'no fires' plus we wanna get out of here sneakily." Mabel explained.
"Let's call that idea, plan...z. Now come on!" I said and we lifted the duffel bag and made our way to Stan's car. Though those boys were HEAVY! I'm surprised that the three dragged them to the Mystery Shack at all in the episode. Anyway, once I pulled up the the Shack we sighed to ourselves and started dragging the bag into the Shack. Once inside Dipper came up to us.
"Hey, guys. How was the concert, and what's in the bag?" Dipper asked.
"Uh... money! Money we stole!" Mabel blurted out.
"We are criminals! We will cut you!" Candy added, going along with it.
"Let's go away from here now!" Mabel said and urgently gestured for us to move.
"Haha, just joking. It's just souvenirs." I laughed awkwardly, giving a thumbs up.
"Oh and thanks for letting me borrow the car!" I added, tossing Stan his keys and helped the girls push the duffel bag upstairs. No doubt having Stan and Dipper give us weirded out looked behind us. Once in the attic, we unzipped the duffel bag and the band members fell out, ending in a pose. Once they all were out they stood up and took in their surroundings.
"Your tour bus is really strange, Mabel girl. Where the feedin' tubes at?" Leggy P. asked.
"Not a tour bus, and I don't know how to respond to the next one." I said, giving him a concerned look.
"Yo what up, girl?" Deep Chris asked, petting Waddles, who oinks happily. We all started to giggle at each other, it was so cute...in a way.
"So, when do we get to go outside?" Creggy G. asked.
"I wanna cavort like a woodland creature!" Chubby Z. added.
"Not something I thought I'd hear from a pop star." I commented and a screeching sound was heard from outside and Mabel and I ran to the window.
"It's your producer!" Mabel gasped.
"I thought I smelled a rat." I glared as the boys hid under Mabel's bed.
"I can't believe those boys escaped from their cage. You there! I found this trail of frosted tips leading to this very location. Have you seen any perfect boys around here?" Bratsman asked Soos.
"Only when I look in the mirror. Haha, up top!" Soos raised his hand up for a high five, but ended up giving himself one, since Bratsman...is well a BRAT!
"They must be around here somewhere! I'll find those boys if I have to turn this town upside down!" Bratsman declared and noticed Gompers chewing in his license plate.
"Shoo! Shoo! Ehh..." He spat and entered his limousine and left, giving Soos a stink eye.
"Good boy." Soos smiled at my favorite goat.
"Guys, it's not safe out there! Ergman's still looking for you!" Mabel cried.
"What do we do?" Chubby Z. asked.
"Aw, dang!" Deep Chris cried.
"I'm scared Mabel!" Greggy C. whimpered.
"Don't worry, guys. He has to give up eventually. Hey...in the meantime you guys can stay here with us!" Mable suggested. The clone band seemed to agree to that solution.
"Aw right, twenty-thirteen!" Chubby Z. exclaimed happily.
"Girls, do you realize what's happening here? We have our very own pet boy band that we can do whatever we want with!" Mabel beamed.
"Mabel, we wanna show them how to be independent people, not pets." I deadpanned.
"Emily is right. Remember, eventually we will have to let them go. We have to promise not to get too attached to them. Right, Mabel? Mabel?" Candy noticed that her f I end was sitting with the band members.
"All aboard the braid train! Braid braid!" Mabel cheered, Grenda, Candy and I exchanged worried looks.
"What?" Mabel asked, obvious. My phone then chimed, signaling I got a text, and I reached in my pocket, got it out and I saw Mabel had appeared right beside me.
"Gah!" I cried in surprise.
"Who was that?" She asked.
"Uh...why do you want to know?" I asked. Mabel's eyes widened double their normal size and she squealed.
"I knew it! It's Nate! Gimme that phone!" Mabel cried, making grabby motions.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How about I keep it!" I said, raising my arm above my head and using my other arm to stop her from getting near me.
"Ug...come on Emily! Girls, little help!?" Before I could comprehend what Mabel said I was tackled down by Grenda and Candy snatched my phone.
"Ooh, it reads 'looking forward tomorrow' and a winky face!" She squealed and was joined by her friends. I turned to the boy band.
"Is it too much to ask for you to get the, off me?" I asked and before they could answer Mabel grabbed my face and forced my head to turn to her.
"Emily, you are not leaving this spot until you tell me everything." Mabel said in a serious tone.
"Nothing much to tell, Nate and I are just going to hang out with Robbie and Wendy." I shrugged. Mabel frowned, but gestured for Grenda to get off of me.
"I still think that this is a sign! You're entering your very own love story!" She said sincerely and I rolled my eyes playfully.
"Yeah, yeah, you just have fun with these guys. I'm going to bed. Good night!" I waved.
"Good night, girl!" The boys sang and I giggled, they were so sweet.
The next day pretty much passed as a blur. I was kinda trying to relax since I knew Nate was taking me on a 'mystery date'. I was more nervous about the headaches Bill would sent. I wanted to keep the secret of my necklace under wraps score now. If someone found out things could go down hill. Very quickly. I was just brushing my hair when I heard a knock on my tree.
"Hey Emily, it's me!" Nate called up.
"Alright, just let me grab my purse!" I replied and got my brown purse and put my phone in it and climbed down.
"Ready to go?" He asked and offered his arm, which I linked with my own with.
"You bet."
Nate took me to a nice restaurant. It's wasn't The Club, but it wasn't Greasy's Diner either. I was happy either way. We sat in a booth and ordered our food. I noticed Nate was nervous so I decided to start a conversation.
"So, how have you've been?" I asked.
"Um...good...good.." Nate replied.
"Yeah..." I sighed and took a sip of my drink.
"So...pasta...that's a nice food choice." Nate blurted out.
"Um yeah, I like spaghetti." I said, Nate then face-palmed.
"Why did I say that?" He muttered into his hand.
Awkward silence again.
"Is this too awkward?" We both said in unison and started to laugh after we realized what happened.
"Jinx, you owe me a soda." Nate said smugly.
"Aha, but I believe there is 'no jinxing under a roof' and what is that above us?" I asked playfully pointing up and Nate fake groaned in annoyance.
"You got me. I surrender." Nate then waved around a napkin. I burst out laughing, covering me mouth. I just found it funny. Once I calmed down we were in silence again.
"Sorry if it's been awkward...cause...I sort of lied to you..." Nate admitted.
"Okay...what do you mean by 'sort of'?" I asked doing quotation marks with my hands.
"Well, Robbie and I told you and Wendy that we would be going with the other two. In reality, Robbie is going to Lookout Point with Wendy and we are here." Nate explained.
"Okay." I smiled.
"Wait...you're not gonna splash me with water and storm off?" Nate asked in confusion.
"Haha, no. You're my friend Nate, I know you wouldn't purposely hurt me like that. Of you were Robbie that would be another story. But as long as this doesn't become a habit I'll let it slid." I said sincerely.
"Really?" Nate asked.
"Really. You don't need to lie to me to get a date." I reassured him and placed my hand onto his and we locked eyes. Our world then froze for a second. Like when we were dancing. No one but us were their...until a familiar pain started in my head.
"Ah, excuse me. I need to use the restroom." I excused myself and rushed to the restroom and, thankfully, it was a just one bathroom so no one would come in a see me splash water on my face.
"Okay, just relax...relax..." I sighed to myself and my necklace started to glow as the pain ceased once more. I looked in the mirror and glared.
"What the heck does he think he'll accomplish by doing this?" I asked, though I didn't receive and answer. I sighed and walked out back to my table, thankful to see our food their.
"So, where were we?" I asked as I sat down.
Later, after we ate, Nate and I walked through town and laughed together.
"No I'm serious. Thompson literally covered him self in red and blue paint for the Fourth of July, but ended up purple!" Nate said and I couldn't stop laughing.
"Then he 'causally' said he was a firework grape." Nate continued.
"Stop, I can't breath!" I laughed and wiped a tear from my eye.
"Yeah, that was a fun year." Nate sighed.
"I'll bet. Georgia and I loved fireworks when we were younger." I said the realized what I said.
"Oh that's cool." Nate replied. "You don't always talk about her, though she sounds really cool." He added.
"She was. Unlike me, Georgia didn't have a last name, so she took mine. I always thought it was ironic she didn't have a last name though." I admitted.
"Why's that? I think Jewel is a nice last name." Nate said.
"Well, when I was left on the orphanage steps, all one me was a box, blanket, and a tag that read 'Emily Jewel'. Nothing else. But when Georgia was left on the steps, she had her necklace and a note saying 'Please take care of Georgia, I'm in condition to take care of her and she deserves a better life. Sighed Ms. Lily'. I just found it weird that her mother didn't give her a last name." I explained.
"Wow...you never even tried to find where you came from?" Nate asked and I shook my head.
"No, I figured whoever left me didn't want to be found. So I never looked. Besides, I had Georgia and she's the only family I could have asked for." I smiled then felt a tear roll down my face as I clutched my necklace. Nate then stopped walking a placed his hand in my shoulder.
"I'm sorry if I but a rough subject." He apologized, I smiled at him.
"No, I brought it up. And thanks...for listening." I said. He then took my hand and we walked when Nate dragged me into an alleyway.
"Uh what are we doing?" I asked and he smiled.
"You'll see." Nate then pulled down a ladder for a fire escape and climbed up. He stopped a few steps and turned back to me.
"Come on." He said simply and I climbed after him. Once we made it the roof he pulled me up and smirked.
"It's not Lookout Point, but it's nice view." I looked out and gasped.
It was an amazing view of the sky. The Star were just...so bright and amazing to look at. Nate and sat next to each other and admired the view. It was perfect. Simply perfect. I held Nate's hand and he held it back and we stared at each other for a moment and turned back to the view.
Later Nate was walking me back to the Shack as the sun started to rise. We had a nice conversation and I'm thankful for no more headaches. Once The Shack was in view we stopped and turned to each other.
"Thanks for a great night Nate." I said.
"No problem I had a great time with you...not that I never had a good time with you...just this time was...uh..." I laughed, cutting Nate off.
"You don't have to explain." I smiled and we laughed.
"JUST KISS ALREADY!" We turned and saw Mabel, Candy, and Grenda from the steps of the Shack and I laughed, hoping to hide my blush. Then my phone Rand and I pulled it out of my purse. It was Tambry.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Wendy and Robbie broke up. She needs us. How soon can you get to her house?" She asked.
"Oh...um, less then ten minutes. I'm on my way." I said and hung up.
"Whoa, what's wrong?" Nate asked.
"Wendy and Robbie broke up, I'm needed for support. Thanks for tonight again." I said and gave him a peck in the check before running off to Wendy's house. I didn't bother knocking, Mr. Corduroy was out chopping wood and her brothers were most likely with him. I went to Wendy's room and knocked on the door.
"Hey it's Emily." I said.
"Come...'hic'...in." Wendy answered and I opened the door to find Wendy clutching a pillow, crying and Tambry by her side and I sat down on the other side of her.
"Wendy, I'm so sorry." I said and gave her a one armed hug.
"It's not...'hic'...you're fault...'hic'...Robbie's a lying...'hic'...jerk." Wendy sobbed and Tambry whipped out her phone.
"Status update: No more updates until I help my friend." She typed and put her phone down and turned back to Wendy.
"Let's go to my place. We are having a girls day, no exceptions. Pack your bag." She said, more of an order than a suggestion, but we helped Wendy pack and we left for Wendy's place and she smiled thankfully.
"You guys are the best." She said.
"You would do the same for us." I replied.
Author's Note:
Merry Christmas! Hope you enjoyed this chapter! I really enjoyed it! And I hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's. And here's a Christmas gift!:
Emily: *runs in wearing a Santa hat* Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you enjoyed my story so far...and I hope you'll stay until the end.
Angelwings2002 (me): Yeah...it'll end after the series...*laughs awkwardly
Emily: Wait what?
Me: Nothing...onto the reviewers!
Miss Mystery: That's cool you dressed up as Mabel for Halloween and without knowing it!
Pizza: Yep, Bill went too far, but he can go farther.