Chapter 5: Bill
So it's Sunday, the day of the party, Dipper, Soos and Mabel are getting the party room ready. Dipper and Mabel were in the middle of preparing the snack bar:
"So, should we put the popcorn next to the pretzels? or next to the pizzas?" Dipper asked.
"Next to the pretzels, then put the pizzas next to the pretzels." Mabel replied. So Dipper placed the items in the order Mabel told him, then Stan came in:
"So, who's coming Dipper?" Asked Stan with the biggest smile on his face, it looked like he was about to start laughing.
"Well, there's Pacifica, a few of Pacifica's friends, Victoria, Candy, Grenda, Ernest, Wendy and some of her friends." Dipper replied.
"Don't forget Waddles." Yelled Mabel as she held Waddles up. He replied with an oink.
"So, who are you aiming for tonight?" Stan asked still with that big grin on his face.
"What do you mean?" Dipper asked a little perplexed. But before anything else could be said, Ford walked into the room and said:
"I'm not against you kids having this party, but please don't be so loud, cause I'm working downstairs."
"No problem uncle Ford, no one will disturb you while you work." Replied Mabel.
"Good, so have a good party." Ford said then he went but to the basement.
"I'm done dudes." Soos said, he finished preparing his DJ setup.
"Good job Soos." Mabel said giving him a thumbs up.
"Well that means we're done everything, there's nothing else to prepare." Dipper said with joy.
"Yeah, now I can go see Candy and Grenda!" Mabel yelled running out the door with Waddles in her arms.
"Dude, I'm gonna talk to Melody." Soos said while walking away. 'What should I do?' Thought Dipper. He decided to catch up on his sleep by having a power nap. He put an alarm on, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
In Dipper's dream, Inside Dipper's dream, he was in a forest, he didn't know what to do, so he walked around. After a few minutes, Dipper saw a light from a distance, he started walking towards it, but he stopped, he couldn't walk any further, something was holding him back, and just then someone appeared in front of him, it was Bill.
"Hey Pine tree, how've ya been?" He asked.
"Bill, what do you want now?" Asked Dipper in anger.
"Come down kid, I'm here to warn you." Replied Bill.
"I don't believe you." Dipper said as he rolled his eyes.
"It's got to do with the party."
"What? what's going to happen?" He asked.
"Ah so now your interested." Bill said with a smirk.
"Just tell me. Stop with the beating around the bush!"
"Oh Pine Tree, you are so stressed, has anyone told you need to relax, try yoga, it can really help. Anyway, at the party, you going to destroy a great friendship."
"How?"
"Ok so you're going to be asked by a girl with red hair to dance with you, you must avoid saying yes! Even if P insists! I can't properly express how important it is to avoid destroying such a relationship!" Bill yelled.
"Okay, but why should I trust you and how do you know this?" Asked Dipper.
"You can't, anyway, I'll give you some extra little info you'll like: Someone you know who isn't invited yet will be coming." Bill said.
"Just tell me who it is." Dipper said.
"I'd love to but it's time to wake up, remember don't dance with the red haired." Bill said then he snapped his fingers and Dipper woke up with his alarm going off.
It's 5pm, the party will start in two hours and Pacifica arrived early to check everything. She was wearing a dark blue dress with no sleeves and with frills at the end of the dress and she had curly hair. Dipper was wearing a white shirt with a pair of jeans. And Mabel was in her sweater dress that she finished sowing and her hair was in a bun.
"Ok so that's done, and so is that. Well everything is done." Pacifica said.
"Just as I told you, it's all done." Dipper said.
"Yep." Mabel said with Waddles in her arms, but Waddles escaped.
"Waddles, get back here." Mabel said while running after him. Dipper and Pacifica both laughed.
"Well thanks Dipper for getting everything ready." Pacifica said and gave him a hug. Dipper was surprised 'Wow, just like at the Mansion, that's two within the week.'
"Wow, you're happy. two hugs in a week." Dipper said with a laugh.
"So, you got a problem with my hugs? Plus one of them was for Diana, not you." Pacifica said.
"Of course not, but you have given me more hugs than angry glares this week, that's a new record." Dipper said with a smile on this face.
"Why are you smiling like that?" Asked Pacifica.
"I'm just sort of glad that you're not heartless." Dipper said.
"Hey! I was never heartless!" Pacifica said angrily.
"Well you seemed like you where, because you made fun of Mabel and I." Dipper said. At that moment, Mabel walked back into the room with Waddles in her arms again.
"So, what are you two talking about?" Asked Mabel.
"About the DJ." Both Dipper and Pacifica said at the same time.
"Yeah, but i wish Marco could have been DJ." Mabel said.
"Who's Marco?" Asked Pacifica.
"My best friend, we've known each other since birth." Dipper said.
"Yeah, and his super handsome, his got dark brown hair, brown eyes, his got a cute mole on his face and he always wears the same red hoody." Mabel said joyfully.
"Sounds like he has attachment issues, plus I wouldn't want to smell him if he always has the same clothing. Is he coming?" Pacifica asked.
"Sadly, no. And he has more than one of that hoodie, he isn't a dirty hobo." Dipper said.
"Well that's ok, but where's Soos?" Asked Pacifica. Dipper got out his phone and called Soos.
"Soos, where are you?" Asked Dipper.
"Well, funny story dude, Melody told me that she's going to be here tonight, so I'm going to meet up with her." Soos said.
"But you said that you would be DJ tonight!" Dipper exclaimed.
"Sorry dude." Soos said. Dipper started to dial on his phone.
"Hello?" answered the person on the other line.
"Marco, it's me, Dipper." Said Dipper.
"Hey bro, how are you?" Marco asked.
"Good and you?"
"Great, so why are you calling?"
"Marco, I need a favour." Dipper said.
"Sure, what ch'a need?"
"I need you to be DJ at a party I'm hosting."
"Ok, I'll be there in 2 minutes, but where are you?" Asked Marco.
"Gravity falls, Oregon."
"Ok, I'm on my way." Marco said. Dipper got off the phone with Marco and told the girls everything.
"Yeah Marco's coming!" Mabel exclaimed joyfully.
"Well at least we have a DJ." Pacifica said.
"But how is he going to get here in 2 minutes?" Asked Mabel.
"No idea, we'll have to wait and see." Dipper said. Two minutes later, a ray of light was coming from the front door. Then a voice came from outside:
"Pines, it's me Marco."
"Coming." Dipper said. Dipper opened the door. And Marco was standing there wearing the same red hoodie, next to him, there was a girl with blond hair all tied up in a bun, blue eyes and hearts on her cheeks and was wearing a nice red dress.
"Diaz, it's been so long." Dipper said and gave Marco a bro hug.
"And who's your friend?" Dipper asked.
"I'm Star, Marco's best friend on earth."
"Best earth friend really?" Dipper said sarcastically.
"Of course, who else would be friends with Marco? He's so silly and paranoid." She replied.
"Your cheek symbols seem familiar, are you a Mewmin?" He asked.
"Yep, I'm the princess of Mewni even!" Star shouted.
"Oh wow, I read about your species in the journals, well that would explain how you got here so fast, you can use magic. Anyway why don't you both come in, Marco can I talk to you for a second." Dipper said while pulling Marco away.
"Dude, that's the cutest girl you've ever dated." Dipper said.
"I'm not dating her." Marco said.
"And I didn't hot glue my hair to the table in 5th grade, look, it's pretty obvious that you two are a great match, give it a try." Dipper said happily.
"No dude, it would be like dating my sister, if I had one." Marco said.
"Please try." Dipper said with a sad look on his face.
"Fine." Marco said.
"Yeah, and by the way, Star is a better choice for you than Jackie." Dipper said. So Dipper and Marco join the girls.
"So, what are you girls talking about?" Dipper asked."
"It's a secret, sorry boys." Mabel said. It was 8pm and everyone had arrived, Wendy and her friends were all dancing, Mabel, Star, Grenda and Candy were all in a group dancing like crazy, Dipper and Ernest were sitting with Marco who was DJing like a boss, and Pacifica, Victoria and all of Pacifica's friend were in their little group gossiping.
"So Ernest, what do you think of Pacifica?" Asked Marco. Dipper turned his head and look at Ernest. He made a turned his hand into a fist.
"Well she's nice, but she's not my type." Ernest replied calmly. Dipper calmed down but then he started to think: 'I don't know why but when Ernest was going to reply to the question, i was ready to punch Ernest.'
"What about Victoria?" Marco asked.
"Yeah I'd probably go for her." He replied.
"Hey Dipper." Marco said.
"Yeah?"
"How's it going with Pacifica? I can tell you have the hots for her." Marco said.
"Don't say things like that here and i don't like her, we're just friends." Dipper said.
"That's what they all say." Marco replied.
"Well you said the exact same about you and Star. Are you saying that you and Star are more than friends?" Dipper said.
"He's got you there." Ernest said.
"True, but come on Dipper, at least admit she's hot." Marco said.
"Fine, i admit it, i think she's hot." Dipper said.
"Good, now we can continue." Ernest said.
"Ah Ernest, you just reminded me of something i have to do, Dipper keep on DJing." Marco said, then he turned off the tape recorder he had next to his DJ equipment and walked away.
Meanwhile with Pacifica, Victoria and Pacifica's friends
"So Pacifica, where's Diana?" Asked Victoria.
"Well she couldn't come, her parents were invited to a party and Diana had to go." She replied calmly.
"Ah that's too bad." Victoria said.
"So how's it going with Ernest?" Asked Pacifica.
"What do you mean? There's nothing going between Ernest and I, you have things twisted." Victoria replied.
"Oh really? I think you are hiding something from me, or you just don't want to admit you have feelings for the little Parisian." She said.
"Haha, you're funny Pacifica. You really think I can't admit what feelings I have? You know who you are talking to right? I'm Victoria de Montadent, the bulldozer, the one with the fiery passion that can put the sun to shame! If I had feelings for him, I'd tell you or even him! I'll tell you once, I'm not interested in him. Because I'm going for someone else." Victoria added proudly.
"Don't play games with me, I know you only like Ernest." Pacifica said.
"I'm not lying, I like someone else." Victoria said.
"Then who is it?" Pacifica asked.
"I won't tell you." She said and walked away.
"Fine." Pacifica sighed. Marco went up to her and asked her to do the same request he's doing for her.
"Sure, I can do that, but who? Star?" She said.
"Yep. thanks Pacifica."
"No prob." Marco smiled and started walking back to Dipper and Ernest, but in the distance, Star saw when he was talking to Pacifica and saw him smile. She headed over to Star, Mabel, Grenada and Candy who were dancing like maniacs. She was embarrassed to even be around them, but she swallowed her pride and when over to them.
"Yeah, Pacifica's here to party with us!" Mabel said.
"Yay!" Star said.
"Yep, I'm here to party!" Pacifica said. 'Marco you owe me big time.'
"So Pacifica, what's with you and my bro, Did you send him nudes or something?" Mabel asked.
"What the hell are you talking about!?" She shouted.
"I'm just teasing Pacifica, but seriously, why are you hanging around my brother so much?"
"I haven't been around him so much, I wanted to apologise for the way I acted so I wanted to talk to him, he forgot his hat so I brought it to him, and I happened to be in the room when he had the idea of the party, its all really been coincidences." Pacifica explained.
"But you invited him to your house to apologise, you could have just sent another letter for him to get his hat, but you came and gave it yourself, plus you didn't need to help with the party, but you wanted to."
"You are really digging stone, you don't know what you are saying."
"Oh come on, I can tell you like him. You've been acting nicer than usual and you two are spending a lot of time together." Mabel pointed out.
"Just because I spend time with your brother doesn't mean I like him. We're friends and that's that." Pacifica said firmly.
"You say that now, but just wait, you'll end up like Star." Mabel said.
"And what does that mean?" Star asked.
"You and Marco, it's way too obvious." Pacifica said.
"What?! Me and Marco are friends." She replied hesitantly.
"Nah, you two like each other, but you're both afraid to admit it." Pacifica said.
"Yeah, that's so true." Mabel added.
"No, Marco and I are Mess up twins, and besides I prefer Oscar." Star said.
"You say that now, but give it two days." Mabel said.
"And you know Mabel, we need to get you Ernest." Pacifica said.
"Okay, let's do it." Star said happily. 'Perfect, I got everything I needed. It's all in place. I got to tell Marco. But Mabel is so close to finding out about operation Pines. If she finds out, the plans will be useless.' Pacifica thought.
"Well good luck Mabel, but I got something to do first." Pacifica said while leaving.
Meanwhile, Ernest and Dipper were chatting about Lord Folix's Cosmological adventures when Marco come back.
"Wow Marco, you were quick." Dipper said.
"Yeah, I know." He replied.
"So what did you go do?" Ernest asked.
"Sorry I can't say." Marco said. And at that moment, Pacifica walked over and said:
"Marco, it's all in place." Marco suddenly lit up more than he already was and was filled with joy.
"Really?" He asked. She replied with a nod. Marco jumped up, hugged Pacifica and ran around joyfully.
"So P, you enjoying the party?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah, I'm having a blast. How about you?" She replied.
"Yeah, but I don't know I feel like something's missing." He said.
"Like what?" Pacifica asked.
"I don't know." Dipper replied. Marco finally stopped running around like a lunatic and went back to his DJing equipment.
"Hey Marco." Pacifica said.
"Yeah?"
"Can you play a slow song? It's Mabel's request." Pacifica asked.
"Sure, but once this song ends." He replied.
"No problem, and how are you going Ernest?" She asked.
"I'm good thanks." He replied in a monotone voice.
"Are you going to ask a girl to dance?" She asked.
"Maybe, I'm not sure yet." He said.
"But who would you ask?"
"Probably...Mabel." He said with no emotion.
"Really, but what about Victoria?" Pacifica asked.
"I don't know, I can dance with Victoria any time because we live next door. But I will never see Mabel again after the summer holidays." He said still holding his monotone voice.
"But I really think Victoria would prefer if you asked her."
"Maybe, but still." He replied.
'Shit, if he doesn't ask Victoria, the plan will fail. It can only work is Victoria is distracted.' Pacifica thought.
"Okay then, good luck. How about you Dipper, you going to ask anyone to dance?" She said in an overly flirty manner. Dipper chuckled and said:
"Maybe, if I do I'll probably ask Victoria."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I would suggest not to, cause Ernest might go and ask her." Pacifica said.
"Well then he's got to be quick." Dipper said while walking over to Victoria. And at that moment Marco got his microphone and said:
"Guys, Girls, it's time to slow things down." And Marco left his DJing equipment and walked over to Star.
"So Star, care to dance?" He asked.
"Sure, it will be just like at the blood moon ball." She said.
"Then I hope your Ex doesn't come to burn everything." Marco stated. Star laughed.
Meanwhile back with Dipper.
"Don't ask Victoria, Ernest will ask her." Pacifica said.
"Well he should have been faster." Dipper replied.
"But still."
"Why don't you want me to ask her?" He asked.
"Cause Ernest is going to ask her." She replied.
"No there's something more than that. But I can't figure it out." Dipper said. But before he could ask Victoria to dance, a girl stood in Dipper's way.
"Hello, you want to dance?" The girl asked in her high-pitched voice. Pacifica whispered to Dipper:
"You have to accept otherwise it's bad manners." Dipper looked at the girl, she was short, she was a bit husky, had a brown hair and she was wearing a red frilly dress.
"Sure, why not." Dipper said happily.
"Great." The girl replied, then she pulled him onto the dance floor. 'Maybe it wasn't a good idea to make him dance with Lucy. Oh great, I forgot that he was part of the plan.' Pacifica thought while doing a face palm.
"So what's your name!?" She asked while yelling.
"Dipper." He said in fear
"That's a really cool name, my name's Lucy."
"Really?"
"Yep, I'm one of Pacifica's great friends."
"That's cool." He said.
"You know Pacifica? Do you like her? Do you think she's hot? Do you want to marry her? Why do you think she's hot? I'm just as pretty and rich as her, but she still gets all the boys chasing after her." She said in anger.
"Well first, I don't like Pacifica. Second, I don't think she's that hot. Three, I don't chase after her, we're only friends." Dipper explained.
"Really?"
"Yes."
"Then kiss me." She said.
"What?"
"Well prove you don't like her by kissing me." Lucy said.
"No, I'm not going to kiss you." He replied.
"Why not? Is it because you like Pacifica? I knew it!"
"It's not because of that. It's because we've just met, I'm not going to kiss a stranger."
"But please!" And at that moment the song ended.
"Ah, finally. Now I can rest my head." Dipper said.
"Do you want me to come with you?" Lucy asked.
"No thanks, I'm good." He said while walking away. He walked over to Marco who was back DJing.
"Never again." Dipper said.
"Never again what?" Marco asked.
"I'm never dancing with Lucy again." Dipper said.
"Who's Lucy?"
"One of Pacifica's friends who's a complete maniac."
"Really?"
"Yeah." Dipper said and he explained the whole story.
"Wow, I should stay away from her as well." Marco said.
"Yeah, so how did it go with Star?" Dipper asked.
"You saw?"
"Well yeah, there aren't many people here." Dipper said.
"Well it was good, we danced, talked, and laughed." Marco said.
"Well good job man, you're moving ahead."
"What does that mean?" Marco asked.
"Well it's obvious that you like her, I can tell cause you're my Bro. But we don't know if she likes you."
"Well we do know and she does, but she doesn't realize." Marco said proudly.
"And how do you know that? Wait, Pacifica."
"Yep."
"Wow, you two are really getting along." Dipper said.
"Yeah, I know." 'But I hope you don't fall into P's trap.' Marco thought. It was time for another slow song, so Marco got his mic again and said:
"Alright everyone, it's romance time." Dipper made his way to Victoria, but he was too late. She was already dancing with Ernest.
"Hey Dipper, you alright?" Pacifica asked.
"Yeah I'm fine." He said. 'Thank gosh Ernest asked her. The plan's almost done for tonight.' She thought.
"You know, not everyone is dancing. There's still Lucy." She said.
"Haha very funny." He replied sarcastically.
"Why don't we dance Pines?" Pacifica asked.
"Sure, why not." He replied. So they took the floor and they started dancing.
"Wow Dipper, I didn't know you could dance." Pacifica said.
"Neither did I." He replied.
"No seriously, how can you dance so well?" She asked.
"I seriously don't know, I'm guessing its thanks to theatre, or maybe I'm just naturally gifted." He said. She giggled.
"Wow, I think that's the first time I've ever heard you laugh." Dipper said.
"So what are you saying?" She said.
"I'm saying, you must be really happy right now." He said.
"Well Yeah, Of course, I'm having a great time at the party." Pacifica said.
"True." Pacifica when silent, she thought back to when they were younger at the lumberjack ghost party. She thought about how she enjoyed being in Dipper's company. She smiled and said:
"Well I'm actually glad we got to dance together. I like hanging around you, it's really fun."
"Awn, thanks. I'm glad you enjoy being around me. I also like chatting with you, it's always fun." Pacifica giggled.
"I KNEW IT!" Lucy screamed. She started running to tackle Pacifica, but Dipper pushed her out of the way. So Lucy tackle Dipper to the ground.
"Dipper! You alright?" Mabel asked.
"Dipper are you okay?" Pacifica asked.
"Bro, you okay?" Marco asked.
"I'm okay, how about you P?" He asked.
"I'm fine you idiot." She replied. Dipper just smiled. Then he fainted.
In Dipper's Dream, he was sitting on a beach in front of a river, a gentile wind was blowing. Awhile later Bill appeared next to him.
"Well, you destroyed their friendship." Bill said.
"I know. But you said, watch out for the girl with red hair." Dipper said.
"Did I say hair? I meant dress." Bill said.
"What!"
"It was for your owe good, I lied to you for a reason." He said.
"What? Why did you lie?" Dipper asked.
"Look pine tree, if I had told you to avoid Lucy, you would have ended up by kissing her in front of that blondie." Bill said.
"Really?"
"Yep. Trust me kid, you went on the best possible path."
"Okay, but how did you know about Lucy and the fact that Marco would come?" Dipper asked.
"Sorry pines, I can't tell you, but I will tell you this: If you follow your orb's advice, you'll be truly happy." Bill said.
"Just tell me, don't leave me with a stupid impossible brain teaser." He said.
"I'd love to, but your little friend is waiting." Bill said. Then Dipper woke up and found himself in his bed.
End of chapter 5: Bill