Grim knocked on Mandy's door with loud fists.
"Mandy? Open up at once, woman, what are you doing in dere? Mandy!"
"..Grim, you idiot, what's the meaning of this!" Mandy yelled.
Grim swallowed. Was it really such a good idea to approach her, she almost sounded bloodthirsty. And she should be, it's the middle of the night.
But it was too late to go back now.
"Eh..Billy knows what you're doing, and I was just wondering...why I don't!" Grim said nervously.
It was typical for him to worry more about him being left out than about any possible danger. Of course Mandy scolded him for being a nuisance since this wasn't really worth bothering her about, what he understood and also regretted saying the very second after he did.
Then it stayed quiet. Grim used the silence to calm both him and Mandy down before asking any more questions, but then noticed the empty space next to her door where once the giant pile of gifts were. Did she actually take them inside?
Couldn't be. She must've thrown them away while nobody was looking.
..But let's say if she did, why would she throw it away when nobody was looking? She would've loved for everyone to see how she threw away millions of presents given by a "dear friend", right? But nobody saw her, and he never saw any of the presents lying in the trashcan. It was a strange thought, but not as strange as the thought of her actually accepting the disturbing junk.
Finally Grim stopped pondering and tried to find the courage to knock on her door again, since the silence was taking too long.
"Come on, you've locked yourself up all Summer Vacation! Billy misses you and you're being a jerk! Open dis door!"
Nothing.
"You'll have to talk to me sooner or later."
Nothing.
"Billy is worried about you. He asks you to be careful."
Grim waited and waited, but nothing happened. He didn't hear a sound, not even the sound of breathing. Maybe she hung herself? Grim started smiling like a maniac and was being carried away by his daydreaming again, but since he sensed nothing she must've been alive. Too bad.
He was tired of waiting and had much doubt that Mandy would turn up any day soon, so decided to just leave her be. But right when he was about to leave, he heard the knob of the door being turned.
Grim stopped and saw how the door slowly opened. It was dark, but so far he could look inside the room everything was still clean and tidy.
After the door was ajar, Mandy appeared. To his surprise she looked just as clean and tidy, while he never spotted her bathing even once all this time. Well, not that he had a habit of spying on Mandy taking baths, but you get the drift.
She stared at Grim with her usual unsatisfied expression, but she didn't look like she was about to kill him, so he quickly said:
"Ah, well, dere you are, so wh-"
"Shut up." Mandy interrupted him. "Billy will come home soon. I have to prepare myself."
She silently walked past him and went downstairs. When she was out of sight, Grim dared to take a little peek inside of her room. But he spotted nothing unusual. Her room was still as pink as ever, and there was no sign of Billy's gifts in there, either. That means she must've disposed of them after all.
There wasn't more time for him to inspect the room since Mandy was already coming back with a glass of orange juice.
She walked directly towards her room, said "Good night" and closed the door behind her.
"Eh..good night" Grim replied one minute later, and headed to his own room. He didn't know what that was all about, but he didn't care either, he was happy he got through unharmed. For now.