Previously:
"I don't trust him any farther than I could throw him," she stated, "and why would a guy be in a graveyard during the day? Suspicious, I do think so."
Gideon looked at the book and nodded, "A-agreed."
And so, in the duty of a best friend, I made Gideon help me protect the naive girl from the stranger. Thank you for finding that book, cuz.
The Pines duo were hovering over the unusual journal, trying to find out if their suspicions on Norman's abnormality was real or just imagined. Several times, Minerva would get up and pace the attic room. She was hoping it was just imagined. Her friend was having a summer fling, something she had always tried to have, and Minerva didn't want to ruin it.
"Known for their pale skin and bad attitudes these creatures are often mistaken for... teenagers?! Beware Reverse Falls's nefarious..." the younger cousin read aloud for the elder, his words turning into a strangled gasp, "Z-zombies!?"
Minerva froze in mid step, her mind automatically assuming the worst. Images of a zombified Norman flashed through her head before jumping to a zombie version of Pacifica. She fell to her knees and groaned in misery.
"She would be unlucky enough for that," bemoaned the friend, hands dragging down her face slowly. "Gideon, what do we do?"
"W-well, we w-would need evidence first," he pointed out to the woeful cousin of his honestly, "b-because we w-wouldn't want t-to sound l-like we're mah-mad."
"And this is why you get to be the brains, Detective Gideon," she eventually said, looking at him with a single eye. "So, how do we get the evidence? Stalk- I mean, follow them?"
So we ended up bringing a video camera and stalked followed them.
Park
The duo filmed the couple from a fair distance away, bushes and trees hiding them. They watched as the preppy blonde threw a bright red Frisbee at the suspect, who managed to catch it. Though he ended up falling over a moment later. Minerva looked at Norman with a frown as Gideon lowered the camera.
Diner
From inside the diner, Minerva and Gideon carefully observed the couple entering the building. The shattering of glass caused by Norman made Minerva glower from behind her menu, unhappy the teen was seemingly a fool.
"A-at least he's a gen-gentleman...?" muttered Gideon quietly as Norman opened the door for Pacifica, whom giggled shyly at the gesture.
"Merg..." was all that came from the grey girl.
Graveyard
The couple cheerfully frolicked through Reverse Falls' ancient cemetery, their laughter loudly ringing in the air. Minerva and Gideon hid behind large, elaborate gravestones as they kept stalking the pair all around Reverse Falls. They focused intently on Norman when he stumbled and fell into an open grave. Three eyes seemed to zero on the brunette as he crawled awkwardly out of the grave with a groaning scream.
"Arrrguuuhhh!"
The focused turned onto the blonde girl whom stared at the teen awkwardly for a moment before the pair burst out in puerile laughter.
Gideon and I both agreed, we had enough evidence to prove our case.
The trio were in the annex bedroom the cousins shared at the Shack, the door closed behind them. Gideon was nervously fiddling with the red journal, eyes looking anywhere but Pacifica. Said blonde was bouncing cheerfully on Minerva's bed unaware of the awkward tension filling the room while Minerva leaned against the wall, staring quietly out the window.
"Hey," Minerva spoke, deciding the silence lasted long enough, "I want to talk to you about Norman, Cif."
"Isn't he just a cuteh? I'd love for him to give me a little smooch," giggled the cheerful girl carelessly. "He's just perfs."
"Cif, I don't like or trust him," she deadpanned, staring straight at her friend. "He's a stranger, older than you, and too suspicious!"
"Bu-But Minnie..." Pacifica was startled by her friend disapproving of her boyfriend.
"Cif, I'm sorry. But for all you know, he could be a zombie or... or some kind of super pervert!" Minerva gestured to Gideon, motioning that he should open the book and show Pacifica what they were talking about.
He flipped the book open and showed them the page about zombies, or at least he thought he did. Minerva felt her eye twitch slightly as she and Pacifica looked awkwardly at the gnome page. Gideon looked down at the book, flushed brightly and flipped quickly to the zombie page.
"N-Norman fits th-the cr-criteria f-for being a zuh-zuh-zombie," stuttered the shy boy as he looked at Pacifica. "W-we juh-just want yuh-you sa-"
"Silence thine selves!" Pacifica interrupted indignantly. "You're just jelly I caught me a cuteh."
The blonde didn't wait to hear anymore from her friends before she stalked out, her chin held high in childish disregard. The silent look shared between the cousins stated all that needed to be said, 'That could have gone a lot better.'
Hey, duckies! So, I'm hoping you've all enjoyed Reverse Falls so far, and I'd like to mention that I've recently gotten a co-author to help me write this lovely brainchild.
-This ThatWeirdGirlYouKnow with a cheerful sign off.