Everyone was lined up to hear what they were going to be doing for the night for the party. Stan and Skyla had already gotten what each of them was going to do for the night. "Alright party people… And Dipper and Mira." Stan said, "Let's talk business. Soos, because you'll work for free, and because you begged, I'm letting you be DJ."
"You won't regret it Mr. Pines." Soos said holding up a book, "I got this book to teach me how to DJ R-R-right!"
"That's not very encouraging." Skyla said, before moving onto her sons, "Andrew and Gary you're both in charge restocking and serving food."
"Let's make our signature burritos!" Gary said.
"Don't you mean, nacho burritos?" Andrew said, before high fiving his little brother.
"Just promise me you boys will go easy on the chili sauce and you can serve them." Skyla said.
Stan moved onto to Mabel and Mira, "Wendy, Mira and Mabel, you three work the ticket stand." He said.
"What?" Mabel said, "But Grunkle Stan this party is my chance to make new friends, and Mira has to work on her social skills with other people so she can make friends."
Mira rubbed her arm nervously at this, "But Mabel, I don't do so well with crowds you know that."
"You got along with Wendy and Andrews friends didn't you?" Mabel said to her sister.
"That was different, but this is a party. And you know that if there is one thing I can't handle, it's parties." Mira said, "I'd just end up humiliating myself in some way."
"Oh come on, you're being paranoid as usual." Mabel said, "You'll be just fine since you've got me, I even got you the perfect party outfit. I was gonna save it for you to wear on our birthday, but I think this event will be a close second."
"A party outfit?" Mira said worriedly
Dipper raised his hand to Stan, "You know, instead of Mabel and Mira working at the ticket stands, I could work maybe work with Wendy."
Mabel and Mira looked at Dipper with curious eyes, than looked over in Stan's direction. "You do realize that if you do you gotta commit to stay at the ticket stand with Wendy. No getting out of it, just the two of you, alone, all night."
Dipper looked over at Wendy and saw as she sprayed some silly string on Soos's stomach making a face. Soos had started to make his stomach move making Andrew, Wendy, Mabel, Mira and Gary laugh. Though really he was just watching Wendy laugh and smile.
He turned back to his Grunkle, "I promise."
The triplets were getting ready for the party that was gonna be held in the next hour. Mabel had Mira put on her party outfit; The party outfit was of a short sleeved purple striped shirt with a black skirt with a white frill and purple striped high knee socks. Mabel was finishing up by tying her hair into pigtails
"Are the pigtails really necessary?" Mira asked Mabel, "My braid is just fine."
"Of course!" She said, "Pigtails go good with an outfit like this! You're gonna make the girls at this party so jealous!"
Mira slightly laughed as her face turned red, "Mabel, don't sound like mom. Besides your much prettier than I am."
"Don't be so modest sister." Mabel said.
"I really appreciate what you're doing here Mabel, but what if I can't make a friend at this party?" Mira asked, "I can't even make a friend at school back at home."
"Don't be like that." Mabel said, looking over at Mira's outfit, "If you can win a music competition by playing one of your beautiful songs, than I'm sure you can make a friend at this party. All you gotta do is have confidence and you'll make one in no time."
Just than they saw Dipper enter the room; he was humming himself cheerfully as he went over to look in the mirror. Mabel and Mira looked at one another and seemed to get the idea as to why he was so happy as he got on a black bowtie.
Mabel snuck next to him, and as soon as Dipper saw her in the mirror, he jumped and screamed.
He saw the smile on her face, "What?" He said.
Mabel started to do her impression of her brother, "Uh, uh, I can work the counter with you, Wendy! Let's kiss!" She than pretended to kiss someone; Mira couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous Mabel looked.
"Yeah, yeah." Dipper said, "Mock all you want Mabel, but I have devised a plan to make sure my night with Wendy goes perfect." Dipper clicked his tongue at this. Mira face-palmed herself at this, "Oh no, please tell me it's not gonna be like one of those over complicated lists you put together, is it?"
"What?" Dipper said, "Pssh, nah, it's not over complicated. Let me just…"
From out of Dipper's pocket he took out a folded paper, but when he unfolded it it was a long list. As he unfolded the large list he kept mumbling to himself. Mabel and Mira both let out a sigh as they sat down on the floor.
"Step 1: Getting to know each other with playful banter." Dipper read from the list, "Banter is like talking but smarter."
"This just sounds like a dumb idea for poopheads." Mabel said.
"Yeah, see? This is what I want to avoid with Wendy." He said, "The final step is to ask Wendy to dance."
Dipper stood tall as he danced with Wendy on the dance floor. Slow music was playing as they danced slowly with one another.
"Oh Dipper!" Wendy said, "I'm so happy you decided to work the ticket stand with me; you're so organized. Show me that checked list again."
Dipper took out the huge list just to show Wendy, to which she had fainted at the sight.
Mabel and Mira both had their faces stuffed in their hands at this. "Dipper, I may not be an expert on relationships, but I doubt she's gonna go head over heels with the list." Mira said.
"Okay, so I might have exaggerated a little, but if I just follow steps 1 through 11, nothing can get in my way." Dipper said to them.
Mabel sighed and said, "Dipper, if you ask me, you're the one that's getting in your own way."
"Yeah, can't you just talk to her like how a regular person does?" Mira asked.
"Don't worry, that's on step 9." Dipper said pointing to step 9, which literally read, "Talk to her like a regular person". Mabel and Mira both let out a groan at this. They both knew there was no way of talking their brother out of this one.
The party had begun at the Shack. Music was playing loudly and all the lights had shined like stars throughout the large room; a lot of the guests were enjoying Andrew and Gary's signature burrito nachos. Mabel and Mira who stood at the top of the stairs were in awe by all of this.
"This is amazing!" Mabel said.
"Wow, there are sure a lot of people here." Mira said rubbing her arm nervously.
"Of course, who wouldn't come to a party like this?" Mabel said to Mira. Soon enough Stan and Skyla came entering the room; All Skyla wore was a simple blue dress with a black belt around her waist and black shoes to go with it. Stan danced to the song that was playing while humming to himself. "Can your uncle and cousin throw a party or what?" Stan asked his two nieces as he leaned against the railing.
"Grunkle Stan, cousin Sky, all of this is amazing!" Mabel said, "And people are going crazy over those burritos!"
"What can I say?" Skyla said, "My boys are great cooks. Especially when it comes to making their own recipes."
"And if anyone tries to leave, I'm charging an exit fee of 15 bucks." Stan said.
Lee and Nate heard the cost of the exit fee and started to panic.
"I've only got 13!" Nate said.
"We're trapped!" Lee exclaimed. They started to pound on the window, like they were in prison.
Mabel had practically dragged Mira on the dance floor and dance with her, much to Mira's protest at it since she wasn't really good at dancing. Though she had decided to go along with it, since there was no way to argue with her sister once she started to make her dance. Eventually they were sitting on the chairs provided, and ate some burrito nachos.
Though Mira at one point went to get another soda while Mabel continued to sit at the sidelines. Just as she reached for the bottle, she stopped herself when she saw another hand reaching for the soda bottle. She looked to her right and saw a young girl at the same age as her looking back at her awkwardly. It was a young girl with short raven black hair with dark blue eyes wearing a green sailor dress with grey socks and brown shoes. Her hair was tied up into a small side ponytail.
"Oh!" The girl said nervously, "Sorry, did you want the soda?"
"Yeah, but-" Mira said, shyly, "You can pour first if you want."
"Really?" The girl asked, "Are you sure?"
Mira nodded, "I'm sure, go ahead."
"Thanks." The girl said, before pouring herself a cup.
As soon the girl got her drink, she noticed the ocarina around her neck. "Hey, isn't that an ocarina around your neck?"
Mira didn't process what she was talking about, until she realized she was talking about her instrument. "Oh this?" Mira said, "Ye-yeah, it sitting in the store of the Shack, though no one seemed to have wanna buy it, so my Grunkle Stan let me have it."
"Can I see?" The girl asked.
"Sure." Mira said. She removed the ocarina and handed it to the girl; she looked at it amazed by it. "This is really pretty. I bet it sings like a bird in the morning."
"It does. I like the sound it makes."
"It's no wonder, whoever carved this nailed it. This kind of wood texture is usually used with regular flutes though it's perfect for this."
"You know instruments?"
"A little, my uncle is mostly the musical expert."
The girl handed Mira back her ocarina, "Oh I'm sorry, where are my manners? My name is Wren. What's your name?"
Mira rubbed the back of her head, "Oh… I'm uh-My name is Miracle."
"Miracle huh?" The girl named Wren said, astonished to hear that name.
Mira turned red with embarrassment, and rubbed the back of her head, "I know, it's a strange name isn't it? Wasn't really my idea with the name."
Wren smiled and shook her head, "Actually… I like strange."
Mira was surprised to hear that, "You… You like my name? You don't think it's weird?"
"No." Wren replied with a smile, "It's unique. Where's the fun in it being unique if it isn't strange?"
Mira let out a smile, "Well… Wow… That's the nicest thing that anyone has ever said, thank you. Though if it makes it easier, you can just call me Mira."
"Okay than." Wren said with a friendly smile, "Mira it is."
Mabel had watched from a distance Mira talking to another girl; her eyes sparkled.
"Aw Mira!" Mabel said with a kitten smile. Though she noticed a lizard looking right at her. She noticed that two girls sat beside her. One girl had auburn hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a pink shirt that had read "Cool" and wearing purple shorts with pink sneakers. The other girl that sat beside her had long black hair and wore round glasses wearing a jade striped shirt and a skirt that was purple with a pink backpack; she had a light shade of pink on her cheeks.
Both of them were sharing a bowl of popcorn.
"Wow!" Mabel said to the girl with the ponytail, "You've got an animal on your body! I'm Mabel."
"Hi, I'm Grenda." The girl with the ponytail said with a surprisingly manly voice as she introduced the other girl sitting next to her, "And this is Candy."
The girl sitting next to Grenda name Candy waved to her; Mabel saw forks taped on her fingers.
"Why do you have forks taped to your fingers?" Mabel asked curiously.
Candy placed her hand with forks into the bowl of popcorn; when she pulled her hand out, the forks had popcorn on it; Mabel was left amazed by this.
"Improvement of human being." Candy said.
Grenda took a single popcorn, and fed it to her lizard and both girls laughed.
Mira and Wren walked back to where Mabel was. "Hey Mabel." Mira said, "What's going on?"
"Mira!" Mabel said excitedly to her, "I have found my people!"
As Mabel introduced her to her new friends and Mira introduced her to her new friend, Soos had announced a competition over the microphone.
"Remember dudes, whoever… Um, party hardies? What?" Soos said reading from the DJ book, "What? Gets the party crown!"
Soos held up a golden crown encrusted with jewels, high into the air so that everyone could see, "Most applause at the end of the night wins!"
Everyone was in awe the fact how beautiful the crown was. Though everyone seemed to have taken a step back when a girl with blonde hair wearing purple and earring loops, accompanied by two other girls.
"Party crown?" She said, "I'll take that, thank you very much."
"Who is that girl?" Mira asked.
"That's the most popular girl in all of Gravity Falls." Candy said, "Pacifica Northwest."
"I always feel bad about myself when I'm around her!" Grenda said.
"Oh come on, she can't be that bad." Wren said.
Soos told Pacifica, "I can't just give you the crown. It's sort of a competition thing."
Pacifica laughed at this. "Honestly, who's gonna compete against me?" She said, picking up the microphone, "Fork girl? Lizard lady? Freak lover?"
Pacifica and her friends laughed at this. "Freak lover?" Wren said, unimpressed by that insult, "Really?"
Grenda and Candy however took those words to the heart. "Hold me Candy!" Grenda said hugging Candy.
"Our kind is not welcome here!" Candy said.
Mira immediately went to comfort them. "Hey, it's gonna be okay." She than noticed Mabel walking up to the DJ stage. "Mabel? What are you doing?" Mira called out to her.
Mabel jumped, closing the laptop as she said, "Hey! I'll compete!" The whole crowd gasped at this, as did Candy and Grenda. Mabel stuck her hand out to Pacifica so that she could shake it, though Pacifica didn't want to shake it.
"Mabel?" She said, "That sounds like an old lady's name."
"I'll take that as a compliment!" Mabel said with a smile. Pacifica gave a quizzical look at that. "May the better partier win." She said.
With that, Pacifica walked away menacingly into the darkness with her friends. "Nice meeting you!" Mabel said as she waved. Though as soon as Pacifica was out of sight, Mabel had said to the group, "She's going down."
-Meanwhile with Dipper-
Dipper sat outside at the ticket stands with Wendy; the customers paid for the tickets and they had collected the money. Dipper had tapped his fingers on the table, prepared to talk Wendy after looking over his list.
"Okay, here we go." Dipper said to himself, "Casual banter, casual banter."
After hiding the list he said to Wendy, "So here's a casual question! What's your favorite snack food?"
"Oh man." Wendy said, "I can't just pick one."
"No way! Mine too!" Dipper suddenly said, leaving Wendy confused.
"Wait, what?" Wendy said with a quizzical look.
"No, wait I mean uh-" Dipper said as he started to stammer. He quickly took out the list and mumbled to himself, "Okay, new topic, new topic, new topic! Come on think of a new topic!" They soon heard loud music blasting inside and loud cheers coming from the inside.
"Whoa!" Wendy said, "Sounds like the party's getting nuts."
They both looked through the window and saw Mabel on the dance floor dancing like crazy.
"Oh man I gotta get in there." Wendy said turning to Dipper, "Cover for me?"
"Umm, I well-Umm…"
"Cool thanks man!"
Wendy went inside the Shack and went straight to the dance floor and started to break it down. Dipper looked to Wendy than to the crowd of people that was on the line. He turned the sign saw that it had read closed.
"I'll be back shortly!" Dipper said, he mumbled to himself, "Sure Stan won't mind if I'm gone for a few minutes." He turned to go inside, though he was suddenly lifted off the ground by the shirt, courtesy of Stan.
"Hey! What are you doing kid?" Stan said to him, "These suckers aren't gonna rip themselves off!"
"Yeah!" One of the people said on the line.
"You promised remember?" Stan said placing Dipper on his feet on the ground.
"Wait, I did?" He asked not really remembering.
Stan took out a tape recorder and played back the recording of Dipper promising. "I promise." The recording said. Stan walked away still keeping his eyes on Dipper. He let out a sigh and sat back down at the stands, taking money from the customers. He looked back inside the Shack watching Wendy dance.
He was soon approached by Gary eating one of the nacho burritos him and his brother.
"Man, people are going nuts in there, both on the dance floor and over these." Gary said. He soon noticed the look on his face.
"Hey, why the long face?" Gary asked.
"It's just that…" Dipper replied hesitantly, "Wendy's inside enjoying the party, and it's my perfect chance to go dance with her, but I can't leave the ticket stand otherwise I'll either get in trouble with Grunkle Stan or your mom."
"Oh." Gary said, "Well that sucks. I mean it's too bad you can't be in two places at once."
"Yeah…" Dipper said.
He looked to the posters that hung on the wall and hatched an idea. "Wait a minute…" He said, "That's it!"
Gary looked at him with confusion, "Huh?"
-Stan's Office-
Dipper and Gary were in Stan's office by the copier machine; he had already explained to Gary what the machine does.
"So if I'm getting this right, Stan's old copier machine is able to make clones?" Gary said curiously, "You sure that's a good idea?"
"It's the only way I'll be able to dance with Wendy." Dipper said, "So this is the only choice I've got."
"This had better not be like those movies with the clones." Gary said.
"Don't worry, it won't be." Dipper said, "Help me on the copier machine."
Gary helped Dipper climb on, and he laid on his back. Gary turned on the copy machine and a green light had scanned him. The paper fell out of the copier machine and Gary jumped when it had started to ripple. A perfect copy of Dipper came out of the paper, and the only difference was that the pine tree was missing from his hat.
"Whoa." Dipper and Gary said, seeing the perfect clone.
"I have a really big head." Was all Dipper had said.
