Following this unexpected act, there are a few seconds of awkward silence.

Dipper gets freaked out at first, but for some reason... He recognizes some of Samuel's kindness in the move, and so he doesn't actually object much, only finding the strenght to say... "Why, Bill...?"

Between strong breaths of sorrow, he lets out a small "I'm sorry..."

Dipper can't believe what he hears. "Wait, what do you mean, sorry?" As he stares at the emotion in Bill's eyes... He feels like he's seeing Samuel himself again, despite Bill being the one in control of everything.

Bill speaks with genuine regret in his voice. "I didn't mean to get you expelled... I even defended you... And yet, here you are suffering because of me. And... I accidentally did something worse today..."

Dipper still feels some distrust, but he still finds the heart to answer... "Look, explain the whole thing to me..."

With that, the boy let the demon possessing his best friend inside the bedroom, closing the door.

And so, Bill begins an explanation about what happened, how he possessed Dipper's body periodically to mess with Sammy's feelings, and how he managed to guilt trip him into being his permanent vessel.

"You... used my body... to terrorize and trick my best friend?" The news is obviously not pleasant to hear for him "YOU MONSTER!" Bill stays silent, letting him express his justified anger before he continues.

"... This was two days ago, and you know what happened yesterday... But I only wanted to mess with you, I didn't mean for you to get in that much trouble... I promise, I tried to help you... But I couldn't show it then... But now I have to, because..." He talks about the prank he did, and how it accidentally lead to the whole class blaming him for this.

Dipper actually finds the paint bomb prank amusing to some degree. "That does sound like something you'd do... But... why are you... actually feeling regret?"

Bill gets angry, he actually has yet to figure out an answer to that. "You think I know?"

The boy asks him a different question. "And... why are you even telling me this?"

The demon answers with a bit of a grumpy tone and expression. "Part of the deal I had with Fuzzball is that I wouldn't get you or your sister in too much trouble."

He gets surprised. "... Fuzzball...? What the...?" He then remembers how Bill uses nicknames, and he looks at Samuel's hair and gets it. "I... see... And... is there another reason why... you're doing this?" Bill avoids the question and looks away, not realizing he makes Sammy's cheeks blush. "Are you... feeling ashamed of something?"

He gives an annoyed stare for an answer. "I think YOU should feel ashamed for losing your temper yesterday, Pinetree! Everyone sees you as someone crazy now and we have to fix this."

Dipper gets hit with a realization. "Oh... Oh wow, I... I did, uh...?" He gets sadder still. "And I..."

Bill makes the human body he uses raises an eyebrow. "And you...?"

He tears up a lot. "Not only lost my temper, did something horrible in front of the whole class... I also..."

Seeing these emotions makes Bill annoyed. "Gee, calm the waterworks or we'll drown, Pinetree!"

The sentence actually makes him giggle a bit, giving him the strenght to continue. "I was a jerk to my sweet sister because I was letting my rage get the best of me... I don't think she'll forgive me..."

Bill acts surprisingly serious about something. "She will." He starts standing up. "Because I'll apologize to her! And maybe it'll prove to you how sincere I am about all of this."

The brown-haired boy can't believe what he just heard. "You would actually do that...?"

Avoiding to answer, Sammy goes down the stairs, finding Mabel keeping her mind busy with a magazine. She hears a fairly scary voice without noticing.

"Hey! Shooting star!" She gets startled and finds Sammy standing there. He doesn't look treatening, and she can tell that Bill isn't looking directly at her because he seems to lack confidence.

Mabel stays still for the most part, not knowing what to be expecting. All the while, Dipper is listening to the conversation from upstairs in a mixture of being worried and in disbelief of what's going on.

"... Yes...?" She's a little scared, and definitely not prepared for what she's about to hear.

He goes straight to the point. "Yesterday and today, your brother has been a bit of a... let's say, jerk to you, hasn't he?"

Mabel starts tearing up as she thinks about it again, causing Bill to react with annoyance. "Oh gee, why is it like that with you? Is every generation of your family like this?"

Mabel stays silent, fearing a bit, so Bill continues with a shocking honesty. "Either way, please don't hold him responsible for that... The culprit is me... I drove him angry, and that's why he's been like that to you. It was my fault, and you did nothing wrong... So I apologize..." He says it with some disgust, but he is mostly honest about this.

Mabel still cries, but... there's a part of happiness in those tears now. She's shocked to find Bill saying and doing something so brave and kind. But he can't tell that, so Bill gets closer, touching her arm gently and looking at her directly. "You believe me, right?"

Between some tears, Mabel nods. "... Uh-uh..."

Bill is glad this is over and avoids more embarassment from the situation by looking away. "Good... Catchya later..." He goes back up, and Dipper is shocked.

As he sees Samuel in front of him, he is speechless. He feels shocked, relieved, confused, happy... all at once. And he does something he never thought possible in a million years. He goes to hug him. "Thank you... Bill..."

Bill showcases annoyance to get out of this situation. "Cut the pity out, Pinetree! We need to think on how to prove your innocence tomorrow!"

Dipper recognizes what he's doing and states. "I think I have an idea. Trust me on this..."

Sammy just doesn't question anything and he says. "We'll meet at school tomorrow then... And was I mistaken, or did you seem... amused at my prank?"

The kid admits "I mean, it's not something I'd do, but... I have to admit, you have a pretty funny humor when you don't seek to physically harm others."

Bill gets surprised. "You like my wicked sense of humor? The more you know..."

"ONLY when you're not doing things that are too evil..." The boy frowns as he says this.

Bill rolls the eyes and Dipper finds this amusing. "So now what? How will we prove you're not guilty?"

He gets an answer with optimism "Don't you worry about that! I'm sure it will go perfectly fine! I'll just make an honest declaration of apology."

"Alright then..." He gets closer to the door. "Are you sure you're okay? Can I leave?"

"Yes, everything's fine. I'm amazed of what you've done, Bill! Thanks you..."

"Sure thing..." He stops before leaving the room. "But one more thing..."

Dipper answers with a smile. "Yes? Anything else you wanna say?"

Bill takes his scariest tone possible through Sammy's body. "I WILL BE DESTROYING YOUR SOUL THE NEXT TIME YOU DARE ANGER ME!"

Dipper gets chills and a massive scare in his entire body. Bill then gets his normal tone again with belly laughs: "HAHAHAHAHA! You should've seen the look on your face...! HAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The kid now has a very cold stare and speaks with a lot of anger. "That... wasn't... FUNNY!"

Samuel's body gets a confused look. "Uh? But you just said you like my grim humor, didn't you?"

This doesn't change a thing to how he feels. "That wasn't funny... AT ALL!"

Bill sighs. "Humans are so complicated..."

Dipper glares with hatred and anger as a reaction to the terror he just felt. "Don't you EVER do something like that again! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"

Bill's usual demeanor... kind of breaks... As he is using Sammy's body, he feels something new... He wonders to himself... "What is this feeling in my stomach...?". He's suddenly unable to control his breathing. And for the first time ever... he feels tears rising from the human body he's using.

The boy remains angry, but he feels... very intrigued. "Wait, are you... crying...?" He can't believe what he just said...

Samuel's head looks down to hide his shameful tears. "I... I'm sorry, Dipper... Really, really sorry..."

Dipper gets shocked from that behavior. "You feel sorry because...?" As he starts speaking, something just hit him. "Wait... did you just call me...?"

Bill feels very frustrated with himself for ruining the mood of trust he started to get with the two kids. He yells, clearly upset with himself: "I'M STUPID! I don't deserve your kindness!" He runs away out of the house, so fast that it's like he teleported away. Except he didn't because the front door was left open.

Dipper is flabbergasted... All he did was react to how he normally would to Bill's antics, and... he didn't expect anything like that as a result. It felt like how Samuel would react if his best friend did break his heart by yelling at him...

Mabel arrives in the living room after being gone for the time to feed Waddles. "Hey bro, what happened? Why are you standing in front of the door?"

Her brother knows it won't sound credible, but he answers honestly. "I... Sammy... Or rather, Bill... left... He was.. crying."

She reacts just like how he was expecting. "What? You're kidding me, right? Him, crying?"

She sees her brother feeling guilty. "I got furious at him, let him know, and then... It's like Sammy himself reacted to my anger."

Mabel takes a few seconds to think. "Could he be... feeling Samuel's feelings to some extent now...?"

Her brother thinks about it, and how he thought himself that he behaved like his best friend. "Maybe you're right... I hope I can fix that tomorrow, before we go to school..."

Mabel gets a little cautious. "Well, be careful, he's still Bill... However... There were some weird vibes from him today, so hopefully, it'll be okay..."

Samuel walks home, wiping tears, being angry with himself. "What the heck was that? Humans being angry at me is supposed to be amazing, and yet... it made me feel... vulnerable, just like them... How could I be feeling such a bad thing about Pinetree?"

As night comes, posing as a regular boy to the kid's family, he meets drowziness fairly early in the night from the emotions he had for the day.

Author notes: Yeah, this is the point of the story where it starts going into an interesting direction character-wise. I didn't really hint much at this before, so I hope you'll bear with me on that if you liked the story so far.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!