Gage The Hedgehog: Thanks :)

Anyways, I did see the latest Gravity Falls episode and since Dipper said "not wanting to miss out on Mabel's awkward teen years" or something about that, I realized that my head-cannon of Dipper actually accepting the apprenticeship is now non-canon (because he didn't choose the apprenticeship). So, I'll need to write something in the next chapter about the bubble thingy.

Also because it's a "parody", I make fun of a certain website (not FanFiction or Deviantart btw) asking me to join a contest. Enjoy this chapter. I only focused on a few characters in this chapter so warning!


Day 17 – 2:34am – The (Private) Bedroom

It was very early morning in the house and Mabel & Chris were in the private bedroom after Chris accidently stumbled across some secret room keys earlier on Tuesday. Funny enough, when he opened the locked door with the key, he was amazed to find a two-person bedroom decorated generously with blue. In the room were two lavish beds laid side by side to each other, some furniture as well as other fancy things.

Obviously, for Chris, it was natural for him to keep it a secret from everyone. After all, it was technically his mansion at the moment. However, he felt bad about it so in order to ease the guilt a little, he told the housemate he trusted the most about it. After all, it was a two-person bedroom. Why let it go to waste? So he told Mabel.

Chris woke up with an annoyed look on his face at the exact moment when Mabel woke up from her own nightmare. Because the beds haven't been used in a while (and because Chris didn't even know about the secret room until a few hours ago), they were creaky and loud whenever a lot of movement was made on it.

"Bad dream again huh?" Chris asked as he looked at Mabel, hair visibly messy, redness in her eyes, the usual signs.

Mabel mumbled as rubbed her eyes in tiredness, "Yeah, it's the same dream."

Chris mentally sighed in his head. He was a little annoyed yet he didn't show it in his face. However, he knew he had to do or say something.

"Hey, you wanna sleep in my bed tonight?" Chris offered.

Mabel hesitated for a bit before she pulled the covers off her creaky bed and walked over to the other side. Slowly, she leapt into Chris's bed and snuggled him under the blanket.

"Comfortable?"

"Yeah and it's surprisingly warm too!" Mabel noticed.

However, before Chris could even say anything in reply, he could already see feel Mabel's head on his shoulder.

Chris smiled as her body heat warmed the both of them up. Maybe next time he would confront her about her recurring dream. Maybe.


3:25am – The Living Room

Faint sounds of footsteps echoed around the boundaries of the living room, just barely audible enough to question one's sanity. With everybody else asleep, Marco, Star & Sonic volunteered to take the next midnight shift.

"Did any of you hear that?" Marco asked the other two housemates as the noises suddenly disappeared.

"Hear what?" Star replied, completely oblivious to the noise that he had just heard earlier.

"Geez Marco, no wonder why everyone calls you the safe kid," Sonic chuckles.

"I'm just a misun-"

"-derstood bad boy," Sonic finished, "You've already told us a million times."

"More like five times," Marco crossed his arms in frustration.

"C'mon Marco!" Star grinned, pulling Marco in for a hug and a noogie, "Cheer up grumpypants!"

Marco gave in and let Star hug him. It felt nice regardless of his current mood.

Soon enough, the three of them waited anxiously. Seconds turned into minutes. Minutes turned into..a few minutes. It really wasn't that long unti-

"I'll get it!" Marco exclaimed as he grabbed the currently ringing phone.

"Hello housemates!" the voice on the phone called. Strangely, the voice was robotic as if it weren't human.

"I think this might be a great opportunity for all of you," the robotic voice continued, "There is a contest for Fanfiction novels at In-"

The phone suddenly cut out as if an entity was determined to disrupt the phone connections.

"That was unsettling to say the least," Marco gulped.

"What happened? Do you have to do another task set up by 'John Cena'?" Star asked, mocking the wrestler's name.

"Nah, it was unusual," Marco paused to think about the message, "I think the phone lines were hacked."

As the three of them were theorizing on the weird message, the phone rung up again, only five minutes after the first phone call was picked up. This time Sonic picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Marco, Star & Sonic, can you please make your way to the Diary Room?" the all-too-familiar announcer voice echoed through the phone this time, "There has been a serious breach of contract."

"Wha-"

"None of you are in trouble Sonic. It concerns what Marco just heard a few minutes ago."


3:48am – The Diary Room

The three housemates who were awake entered the dimly lighted Diary Room where there awaited Big Brother's instructions. Star was sitting on the huge oversized chair with Marco while Sonic was seated on top of their laps despite Marco's pleas to 'get off him'. Instead, Sonic listened to Star who insisting that 'his butt felt warm'. Sonic was slightly disgusted to what Star just said but he couldn't really care at quarter before four in the morning.

"Hello Marco, Star & Sonic. I have brought you here to the Diary Room to give you saddening news. Unfortunately, a rival network hacked into our communications room and sent an advertisement asking to Fanfiction novels to their website."

"But we don't write FanFiction!" Marco exclaimed, "Except maybe Star. She's into a lot of weird stuff."

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Star smiled as if she wasn't affect by his comments.

"Anyways, we have tracked down their hacker ID and it seems it's the infamous cyber-criminal David Ranki or otherwise known by his hacker alias DenzelRank. We have arrested this man due to criminal hacking."

"What sort of a hacker names themselves Denzel Rank? Seems like something Doctor Egghead would do. The other two housemates perked their eyes in confusion. Sonic notices, "Long story, wouldn't want to explain it."

"Because of this, the producers have decided to replace the John Cena task with something else."

"To be honest, I never really enjoyed him anyways," Star commented.

"Don't worry; you won't like this task either. You three have been assigned the first secret mission of this season."

"Huh?"

"You three have to convince everyone that the task is still going until after Friday's eviction. The phone won't ring anymore but there must be at least one housemate standing guard over it. If you fail, there will be no luxury budget! Clear."

"Yep. Perfectly clear."

"Good. Now I'd suggest you three still be in the Living Room for your own sake," Big Brother suggested.


1:00pm – Living Room

Sonic took a little nap on the couch after volunteering to look out on the phone. Timmy & Jimmy looked up at the hedgehog as he was snoring loudly.

"Wow," Timmy said to Jimmy, "He's sleeping... again."

"I can't really blame him," Jimmy defended, "After all; he did take the midnight shift on the phone even though the phone didn't ring."

"Speaking of the phone, it should've rung by now," Timmy noticed, "What's up with that?"

"It's probably to let our guard down," Jimmy theorised, "After all, we are in a reality show."

"True," Timmy agreed, "So we just wait it out?"

Jimmy nodded without saying a word.


2:14pm – The Kitchen

"They've been waiting for the past hour already for the phone, should we tell them?" Star questioned, "I feel a bit sorry for those two."

"No Star, we can't tell them until Friday. Besides, I'm sorta finding this a bit funny," Marco admitted as he looked over towards the Living Room. He coughed up a few chuckles when he saw Timmy & Jimmy still anxiously waiting for the phone to ring.


5:43pm – The Swimming Pool

Dipper & SpongeBob were busy relaxing in the pool section of the Thorndyke mansion. However, Sonic was doing anything but relax. It was one thing to be deathly scared of water but it was another issue with keeping a secret. Sure he can keep secrets better than his two-tailed friend Tails outside the house but with the population of the world watching you; it was making the pressure harder and harder. It was only time until he made a mistake. But when?

"It's so weird how the phone hasn't rang since early in the morning," Dipper commented as he dived into the pool.

"What phone? There is no phone! Of course it rang! I gotta go! Bye!" Sonic sped off into the house trying to avoid his horrible lie. Fortunately for him, neither Dipper nor SpongeBob heard him.

SpongeBob got out of the water and looked around.

"Did Sonic say something?" SpongeBob asked as he looked around the pool, unable to find Sonic. Shrugging, SpongeBob jumped back into the pool.


6:30pm – The Dining Room

"Hey Chris, I forgot to give you something," Mabel walked up to Chris.

"Yeah Mabel?"

Immediately Chris felt another hug from Mabel, "Thanks for being such a good friend."

As Chris & Mabel shared a hug, Gumball & Penny observed the whole thing.

"I wish Rigby was still in the house," the blue cat admitted.

"Why?"

"Because he would barge in and yell 'FRIENDZONED' all over Chris," Gumball chuckled much to Penny's disappointment, "Oh c'mon Penny! You gotta admit how funny it would be if that ever happened!"