13 Reasons Why (Billdip)

Chapter 12

(Bill pov)

I lay in bed looking up at the ceiling, sunlight streaming in through my window. The curtains do a bad job at blocking out the sunlight. After Will and I got back we kinda both camped out in my room. I don't think either of us ended up getting any sleep at all.

I roll onto my right side reaching into my nightstand and pulling out two necklaces. One has a blue pine tree hanging off of it, the other a yellow triangle. I should have given him his necklace when I had the chance.

The door opens and Will walks back into the room carrying a plate, it holding a waffle with blueberries and banana slices in each hole. "Mom made breakfeast, our favorite as you can probably see."

"I'm not hungry."

"That's fine." He sets the plate on my desk. I sit up as he takes a seat next to me.

"Will, why did he give you the tapes to pass around?"

"......you know that I was close to going to juvie."

"Yeah. But you're good now."

"Now I am, but last year I was only one strike away from going to juvie. So one day when you were grounded, some friends and I were at the store. We went to leave but the thing by the doors went off. Turns out one of the other guys put some tequila in my backpack without me knowing. They booked it leaving me there, underage with a bottle of booze that I couldn't explain. Dipper came over from another aisle, acting like he had asked me to hold it. Showed the cashier a fake ID."

"I gave him that. To make it easier for us to get into concerts and raves."

"I drove him home, explained that I would have been sent to juvie if I got arrested for even something as stupid as shoplifting. He said it was no big deal as long as I repaid him when the time came. The day he....I found these in my locker with a note. All the note said was that it was time to pay him back, to listen to the tapes if I wanted and make sure they got around to everyone."

I look at the walkman on the nightstand. "There is only two more, right?"

"Yeah. But they don't get any easier."

"I can't do this. Not alone at least."

"I can listen with you. It might help."

I pick up the walkman, putting in side A of the last tape. I put in one earbud as he puts in the other and I press play.

"Bill, since you were on the last one, this is important. Never let number 12 hear these. When you're done, just pass them to 13. Never let 12 know of htese. Because if he knows what you and everyone else knows, he will skip town and never be seen again. So here it goes. The school year was only a few months in but already I was struggling. Ford was angry at me and then during a shift at the Mystery Shack, I stepped away for a minute and when I came back the cash register was robbed. So now both Ford and Stan were angry as all hell. I just needed some space to calm down."

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(Dipper pov)

My fingers drum the counter as I watch two people looking through the gift shop. I really just want to close but can't with them here. Seeing my phone vibrating on the counter I pick it up seeing it's Bill calling. I glance at the other two people here before I take the phone and step out answering the call. "Hey Bill. What's up?"

"Hey. So for physics there is that project where the teacher is letting us pair up. You know I am a dumbass when it comes to the science stuff and thought if you didn't have a partner already, maybe we could pair up? Maybe, I don't know, talk a bit about what happened at the party if you want? If not just forget about it. I sound stupid."