Summer with the Pine Twins

Soos and the Real Girl: Part 2

Mabel's p.o.v.

Lesson number three: "Confidence." Soos walks up to a goth chick at the Edgy On Purpose store. "So you're probably a girl, right? Wrong? No, I was right the first time...Wrong...?" Short story, it wasn't going well.

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

I take Old Goldie outback and heave him into the dumpster when he gives me a look. "Ah, don't look at me like that, this is how it's gotta be," His eyes well up with oil tears. I shudder as I shut the bin when I hear children's laughter. "What in the?" I follow them into a pizza and bear-themed arcade? "What is this nightmare?" I asked as I continued to look around. "Why do kids love it so much?" I asked as an animatronic badger appears on stage with a pizza-themed guitar.

The owner comes up to me with a smirk. "Oh yeah, that's Willy Badger He opens for the Hoo-Ha and the Jamboree," I watch in amazement as kids throw their money at the robot. "Sir, I would like to buy that badger," He laughs in my face stating "You're in over your head Gramps. Animatronics is a young man's game. You couldn't handle the hardcore life of a pizza robot manager." He walks off and I grumble under my breath "I'm gonna get that badger..."

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

We hadn't had any luck with finding Soos a date. Right now we were taking a break in front of a video game store and I reassure Soos "Don't worry Soos, you'll find the right girl, you just need to stick with it," Mabel emphasizes that point by throwing a sticky hand at his face. "Could this day get any worse?" Soos huffs out before he starts to freak out. "Oh no! Cousin Reggie! He can't see me like this, I gotta hide!" He runs into the game store.

We look over to see it was his cousin with his fiancée walking around, once they had walked into another portion of the mall we go into the video game store to get Soos. We find him in the corner looking over a game. "Virtually improve your dating skills, nine out of ten basement dwellers recommend, this is perfect!" "Well, I guess you are better at games than at flirting," Dipper shrugs, and Mabel nods. "Anything to get you out there Soos," We go to the checkout and the cashier looks between the game and us before giving us a warning. "I'm not sure you wanna buy that game. This is the third time someone's brought it back and there's a note on it that says destroy at all costs."

Our attention turns to Soos to see he was trying to flirt with a cardboard cut out of a female character from the game Pit Spellinker. It falls over and he screams how he killed her. "We'll take our chances," I tell her as we pay for the game and head home.

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

"You don't understand Wendy, this animatronic badger sings, dances, it's the perfect money-taking attraction but he won't sell it to me!" I tell Wendy while pacing the gift shop and she gives me a look stating "This is literally too dumb for me to care about. That's when the kids come in and look around before asking "Hey have you guys seen Soos? We're supposed to help him with matchmaking today." "Yeah! I wore my motivational sweater and everything! I messed up that part," Mabel says, pointing at her handmade sweater.

"He didn't come in today, it's the first time he's missed work ever," I tell them and they exchanged worried glances. "Let's try his house."