PROMPT: Things You Said Through Your Teeth


Pacifica's toe slammed into the unforgiving wooden surface of the large, antique turnstile that always sat in a place tailor made to obstruct foot-traffic in the small dorm that she, Dipper and Mabel called home at college.

"Dipper!" She seethed, her voice hissing through her clenched teeth. "When are you going to find a place for this stupid thing?!"

Dipper's head peaked around the corner, and he raised an eyebrow quizzically. He glanced down at Pacifica's foot, the turnstile, and then Pacifica, before giving her a quizzical look. "You called me?"

Pacifica gave him a baffled look. It was then that Pacifica noticed the headphones in his ears.

"Can you even hear me?" she asked, crossing her arms and shifting her weight to the foot that didn't have a stubbed toe. The pair had been 'going steady' for at least a year now, but Pacifica still managed to be baffled by Dipper's absentmindedness sometimes.

Dipper shook his head, pointing to the headphones in his ears. "Sorry, can't hear you!"

Pacifica let out a long groan, and then started to walk as best she could to Dipper, grabbing a headphone and ripping it out. "I said, 'when are you going to find a place for that stupid thing?!'"

"What stupid thing?" Dipper asked, looking genuinely confused.

Pacifica facepalmed. "That idiotic turnstile silly! You can't just leave it in the middle of the living room! I've stubbed my toe on it at least seven times!"

Dipper glanced at the turnstile, before rubbing his chin. "Oh, gee, I don't know, Paz. Moving it would sorta disrupt 'the feng shui' that Mabel had going."

"'Feng shui'?" Pacifica replied incredulously. "Mabel's idea of feng shui is to have sparkles and neon stickers on everything! We can't just have that mammoth thing sitting in the middle of the room! At least stick it by the window!"

Dipper nodded slightly, tapping his chin as if ruminating on the idea. "Yeah, but by the window is where the table is." he replied with a slight smirk.

"It's a fold-up table, Dipper! We can just fold it up!" Pacifica angrily waived her hands in the air, her voice now becoming a shrill shout. "And furthermore–" she halted mid sentence as she noticed Dipper giving her a huge smirk.

"What are you so smug about?"

Dipper shrugged. "Oh, nothing," he then leaned in close. "Just that you're hilariously cute when you're angry." He then gave her a peck on the nose, and strode away with the same smug look on his face, leaving a red faced and stunned silent Pacifica behind.