"Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul!" - Gravity Falls

[Chapter 4]-InBetween The Lines

[Eris is going through the torture of school work! So Bill, being the incredible friend he is, saves Eris from her work! (And definitely isn't doing it to further his plans)
Or
Eris gets reading glasses!]
[Hey, writer here! Ik the past few fics were pretty short, BUT this one is gonna make up for that! I might even split it up into two parts lol]

"Eris! Can you come down here?" Dipper yelled from the living room. He heard as Eris' feet tapped down the steps. She looked at her dad with a smile.
Before, it immediately snapped to a face that could only be described as complete and utter disappointment as Eris saw what her dad was holding.
It was a huge envelope, thicker than syrup, she knew immediately what it was. It was all the work and homework she had missed over the past few days she was stuck at home.

Dipper bent down, took off his reading glasses, and handed it to her. "Alright, you know the drill. Work on the stuff you already know and call me up on the stuff you're stuck on." Eris took the envelope from hell and went back up to her room.

Eris entered her room and closed the door tightly behind her. Then groaned loudly. Bill slid out from his little drawer, and Eris walked over to her little desk. "Morning, Eyeball! How'd ya-" Bill looked down at the envelope on the desk, and he cocked his head (body?) to the side. "The hell is THAT?"

"It's my stupid school work." Eris grumbled.
"SCHOOL WORK?! What do they have you kids doing these days? Writing novels? And why does it look like a restricted government document? Did you piss in that teacher's coffee or something?!" Bill's eye widens in complete shock. Eris opened the envelope up, and the work fell out. Sweet frills, did this kid not do a single bit of work the entire school year??

"Well... it's not ALL from this past few days... it's also the stuff I haven't been able to do. None of this makes any sense to me! I just... don't get it..." Eris sighes, taking out a pencil covered in chew marks.
"Just ask the teacher for help?" Bill tried not to let his voice sound as sound as patronizing as it did, but he couldn't help it. He crossed his arms as he looked down at the kid.
"I do!" Eris looked up at Bill, her face slightly scrunched up with both confusion and mild sadness. "I ask, but I don't get it! Then the teachers get annoyed, and the kids next to me start giggling, and then I get embarrassed a-and-" Eris was starting to spiral, Bill quickly floats down and lightly pats the kid's back.

"Okay, okay, I think we get it! Just uh... what's confusing about this? Aren't you in like second grade?" Bill cocked his head to the side again.
Eris actually looked a bit proud of herself for a moment,"Nope! I'm in fourth! I went up a grade early because I was sooo smart!" Eris then turned sour.

"But i guess I wasn't actually that smart... I mean, even Apollo got this in like a week! And he just sucks at school! It's not fair!" Eris looked back at her paper for a moment and sighed. "Sorry... that was mean.."
Quickly turning away to look at something else.

Her eyes landed on a bit of paper sticking out from the drawer where Bill normally slept. Eris cocked her head to the side. She got up and went over to the paper. Gently, Eris opened the drawer and picked up the paper. It was covered in weird symbols. Eris looked over the paper a few times before finally looking over at Bill. "Hey Billy, what's this?" She held out the paper for Bill to grab.

Bill floated over to Eris and took the paper. "Well, like you, I have some 'homework' I fill out for my boss! Nothing to worry about, kid!" Bill snapped his fingers, and the oaper disappeared in a blue flame. Bill was silently glad he still had that ability.
In reality, the paper was a letter to himself. Axolotl had left him a stickie note suggesting (more like politely telling) Bill to start writing private notes about how his day is going and such for his quote on quote "Mental Health." Bill thought it was a bunch of horse shit, but he didn't want to risk getting sent back to Theraprism, so he forced himself to get SOME of it done.