promises of a delphinium [Dipper x Pacifica]

Chapter Five - Book it, bastard!

Pacifica, in all honesty, could not believe what the fuck she was hearing.

"I'm telling you guys, it was real. I saw Mr. Gleeful. He took an eyeball, gave us 100-" He had made an 'o' shape with his hands to further empathize his point "Two 0's, guys. Two! And he didn't take his change!"

When Soos first barged into her room to say that while she practiced her makeup on Gideon, she thought he was joking. Even her cousin, who was so shaken up by that Gleeful had frowned his purple glittery shaded lips in disbelief. Gideon had his fair share of suffering from the loud twin - he knew how her brother was. He rarely, if ever, tagged along and the last time he was here someone had gotten hurt.

With that being said, it was even more shocking when Gideon barged in Pacifica's room, over a week later sharing the same frantic expression, "He was here! Mr. Gleeful! I saw him!"

Pacifica stood still for a bit.

Then she continued cleaning her sneakers, brushing all the dirt off so she could soon challenge her grunkle Stan to her own version of baseball - "faceball". Maybe this time she can bet on his left shoe instead.

"Pacifica! Pacifica Northwest, are you listening?!" Her cousin screamed into her eardrums, shaking her back and forth.

"Ugh," She groaned, forcing herself to turn to her panicked cousin "What."

Noticing his cousin's laidback expression, Gideon repeats his sentence with an added sense of urgency. "I told you, I saw Mr. Gleeful!"

She deadpanned, giving him a long hard stare before sighing, "What did Soos bribe you with? Hair gel? Don't you have enough hair serums at this point?"

"He didn't bribe-" Gideon stopped himself short, "Hey! I have the average required number of hair serums. You wouldn't get it cause you just brush that horsehair of yours after a wash and hope for the best."

"Did you just call my hair horsehair?!" Pacifica shouts back and gapes, grabbing a fistful of hair and shoving it infront of Gideon's face. "You call this-?" She starts pushing her hair closer to his eyes "You call this horsehair?!"

"Eww get that away from me, you stink."

"You come back here you little shit-"

"KIDS! Are you safe?!"

A huff and puff was coming from the hallway and the cousins' fight came to a halt. They switched their gaze to the door left ajar, waiting for their grunkle to arrive. Not long after, his signature hat finally comes into view - along with the worried look in his eyes.

Pacifica didn't need to hear the next line. Soos trying to make a dumb joke or misunderstanding a situation was normal, Gideon joining in on the prank was nothing out of ordinary - but her Grunkle? Even with his teasing attitude, he would never lie about something like this. Maybe it's due to his long list of criminal records that made him acquainted with danger, but all she knew is that he was good great-uncle. And she could trust him.

And that Dipper must've had definitely paid a visit.

***

"If im right, he might come by again in about three days. Last week, he came on Monday and Thursday. And he came back this Monday so..."

Gideon's words echoed in her head. There was no way that rich bastard was paying them a visit weekly. It must've been some sort of coincidence. Technically, she doesn't know him well. But she knew enough to understand that he was a busy person. What kind of busy person pays a weekly visit to a rundown off-putting shack to buy random things? After all that rudeness he portrayed? After she heard about just how much Dipper used to hate coming here?