„a Sixer, please."

confusing situation

POV Dipper.

I woke up as the first sun shines tickled my nose through the triangle window in our room.
Ford should really consider getting rid of all these Bill references.
I stretched myself and slowly sit up in my bed.
Mabel was still asleep, so I decided to go down to the kitchen and get something for breakfast.

As I arrived in the kitchen I saw a sleepy looking Willam sitting on the table eating cereals.
I felt a bit uncomfortable, I always felt uncomfortable around people I barely knew, otherwise than Mabel I was more the introverted type of guy.

William was so tired, he didn't seem to acknowledge me standing in the door frame. But I didn't wanted to come off as rude, after all I will spend my summer with that boy.

„Good morning William.", I said with a small smile. The boy looked confused to me, I guess he wasn't expecting me to be the first one to wake up after him.
„Morning pin- Dipper!", he corrected himself quickly. „Sorry, it's just a bit to early for me." he excused himself.
„It's alright.", I answered as I also get a bowl and make myself some cereals with milk, sitting down in front of him.
„Why are you even up this early?", I asked him as I eat.
„Well, someone has to get the shop ready for the day, and it's obviously not the shop owner who does it.", he said with a hint of annoyance.

I chuckled.
„I know what you mean. When Mabel and I had to work in the shop last time we were here he treated us like his pawns. I feel sorry for you."
William shrugged his shoulders.
„At least I have a roof over my head", the blond boy said before he shoved the next spoon of cereals in his mouth.

„How did you even ended up here?", I asked curiously. I still can not imagine that Stan and Ford would just like...adopt a stranger? It seems so off.
Stan generally dislikes most people and Ford also likes to be by himself in his lab.

„I uhm...", the blond boy started struggling with the words.
„I ah- got into a fight with my parents. And yeah they kicked me out and so on. And now I'm here.", he explained halfhearted.

He stuttered a lot till he ended his sentence.
I have somehow a weird feeling about this William.

„How old are you? You seem young. Do your parents know that you're here?"
„I'm 19, and yes they know but they couldn't careless.", he answered as he finished up his bowl. He stood up and cleaned it in his sink.

Ford arrived in the kitchen and glared at William slightly.
Usually Ford is rather nice to the people around him instead of Stan, but I have the feeling that Ford dislikes William more than Stan does.

„Good morning Dipper...and William.", I kinda want to know if something happened between them. I should ask Ford later.
„Good morning Grunkel Ford."
„Morning.", me and William greeted him back.

„shouldnt make the shop ready for the day by now?", Ford asked William, not even looking at the blonde, as he makes himself a coffee.
„Shouldn't you be down in your lab working on your silly stuff?", the blonde asked back with a slight smirk.

Ford slowly turned to William, with a straight face. The situation is uncomfortable, it felt like the air in the room stood still.

Ford can really get mad if someone disrespects his work. Maybe that's why Ford disliked William.

William stopped to smirk after the scary glance of Ford and sighed annoyed.
„Alright, alright I will go.", he said as he rolled his eyes and left the kitchen to prepare the shop.

After William left Ford instantly relaxed and took a sip of his black coffee.

POV: Bill (William)

Stupid Sixer. Stupid little pathetic Sixer.
I thought darkly.
Loves to treat me like a little pet since I'm below him.
It's not even his shop! It's Fez shop! This 12 fingered brainiac doesn't even has the right to tell me when I have to work.

He can be happy that Pinetree was there and that I have to play the act of a normal person just so that the kids don't find out I still exist.

I opened the door to the shop and started to sort new items in before the customers come.

Oh, how badly i wished to have an argument with Sixer. But I have to play the nice employee boy who lives here.
And I'm 100% sure that the little Pines twins will find out sooner or later that something is up with me.
Maybe not directly find out that I'm actually Bill Cipher, but they will definitely find out that something about me is off.

This whole act is useless in my opinion, and my opinion is always right. But since Ford has the upper hand I have no right to say it.

AND WHO EVEN CAME UP WITH THE "FAKE" NAME WILLIAM?!
It's literally my actual first name it must be obviously to the kids who I am.

I'm so lost in thoughts that I didn't even noticed that the rag in my hand caught blue fire as I clean the shelves in the shop.

„Yikes!", I dropped the rag an it directly stopped to burn after it lost the contact with my palm.
I might be stuck in a fleshpack body, but I still have a bit o my powers.
Of course not as strong as before, but in my year of living as a human i feel how my powers slowly come more back.
I just lost my control over them.

I took some deep breath to calm down before picking the rag up and officially opened the shop for today.

POV Dipper

I watched as Ford took a sip of his coffee.
„Umm Grunkel Ford why are you so harsh to William?", i asked him still feeling a bit weird about what I have witnessed.

„Harsh? I just told him to go to work.", he said innocent, but I could see in his face that he knew he was to harsh.
„And also he insulted my hard work, and that's not for the first time.", he added.

„I thought Grunkel Stan would be the one of you two who would be more sternly with him.", I said eating my last spoon of cereals.
„How did you two even end up letting some boy live with you?", I finally asked.

Ford looked like he would be struggling to find words.
I just know something is wrong here. Something is going on here that they badly tried to hide from us. And I'm going to find out what it is with Mabel.
I thought determined.

„Oh well,....", Ford started to say.
„....B-William is a young boy who obviously needed help. So we decided to help him", Ford ended his sentence quickly.

I noticed how he misspoke Williams name, shouldn't he be able to know Willams name? After all he lives here since a year with them.

I think Ford noticed that my brain slowly started to connect some dots so he switched the subject quickly.

„Hey do you want to go on an new adventure today? It's something I just recently started to work on and I'm sure you and Mabel could help me", Ford said as he ruffles my hair with a smile.

Who in the world would say no to this opportunity?
I nodded my head with a big grin.

„I will go wake Mabel up!", I stood up and ran up to our room.

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