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LBW: Part One

"Hey Wendy, by any chance do you believe in zombies?"

Pacifica looked up at Wendy, who was spinning around on the globe that was atop of the cash register. Just watching spin around and around constantly was not only making her feel dizzy, but it was making her feel rather disoriented and sick, too. She looked back down at the journal.

"You know what I do believe in?" Wendy said.

"What?" Pacifica asked.

"Us not sitting around and going and doing something awesome," Wendy replied.

Pacifica admitted, her sister was right. The day had seemed to be passing by so slowly that she actually felt her brain cells dying, if that was even possible. Though she doubted it was. The point was still clear though, she wanted to do so,etching to alleviate the boredom somewhat.

But what to do, was the question? There didn't seem to be much to do in Gravity Falls without driving, and she didn't want to approach her Great Uncle Fiddleford at the moment, since that would require going downstairs. Something in Pacifica told her that by her going downstairs he wouldn't be very happy.

Wendy had suggested monster hunting, but Pacifica had turned that one down. While she had been pouring over the journals for days she still didn't feel she had the experience needed yet. Plus, Wendy would want to fight something huge, whereas Pacifica preferred to start small, which would just cause arguments.

"Speaking of zombies, you know what would be cool?" Gideon asked, joining in on their conversation. Pacifica has almost forgotten he was there.

"What? A zombie karaoke party? A dance off with a bunch of zombies?" Wendy asked. "I can see zombies wearing tutus being hilarious."

"I don't think any of those would be cool if we had to experience them ourselves. . ." Pacifica said quietly.

"No, those weren't it," Gideon said, smiling. "What I was thinking was that a movie where a bunch of mutated creatures take in zombies, scary, but cool."

"That would be so awesome!" Wendy said. "I'd love to see that kind of zombie apocalypse action movie."

Pacifica noticed that Wendy, possibly deliberately left out the part that their parents didn't let them see those movies. Sometimes Pacifica didn't mind, other times Pacifica and Wendy agreed they should have more freedom to what they want to watch.

"That would be so awesome," Gideon said, looking back at the cash for a second.

At that moment, Candy walked into the room. She was holding the newspaper, her glasses peaked against her nose carefully. Her concentration shifted up to Gideon, Wendy, and Pacifica. "What would be awesome?"

"Nothing, Cands," Gideon said, smiling at her. "What's all in the paper?"

"Oh, the usual," Candy said, sitting down on a chair near the cash register. "There's usually nothing to report on, so when there is, it's all over every page."

What's all over every page?

Candy handed the paper over to Gideon for a second, who didn't take very long to skim through all the pages, and his face looked to not be very amused. In fact the expression looked to be somewhere between in thought and annoyed.

"He's even in the crosswords," Gideon said, handing the newspaper back to Candy.

He? Pacifica thought. Who's he?

"Crosswords?" Wendy said, bursting into the conversation. Pacifica felt slightly embarrassed. "I love crosswords. My family usually does them at breakfast together on the days we get the newspaper, although I'm not very good at them. Pacifica's pretty good, though. I'm much better at the word searches, I rock those every time."