Smiles (A Reverse Falls Story)

Annoyance

My eyes skimmed over the notebook page before me, taking in the notes for tomorrow's performance. This was FAR easier with my broody brother out of the room. He could be SO annoying at times. What was even out that window to stare out?

Ugh, no, I was dwelling on my annoyances again. I'm not Dipper, what was I doing thinking about this? I returned my attention to my notes. There was a fairly complicated spell planned, for some cheap sparkly payoff. My talents were wasted on this magic show... Still, it's nice to be admired, and I liked knowing I had the whole town in the palm of my hand. Anyways, whenever Dipper came back, hopefully he'd be in a better mood so I could go over this spell with him.

I stood up from my bed, straightening out a few wrinkles in my skirt. Oh, but not by hand. Of course I used magic. Simply because I can~! Dipper would call that 'pointless' and a 'waste of magic', but it's my magic and I can do what I like with it.

I walked over to the window, looking outside. Just as I'd thought. Nothing worth looking at. I sighed, leaning back against the cold glass. The temperature didn't particularly bother me, and even if it did, I had magic to warm myself with.

"Will." I spoke out into the room, calling for our pet demon. He was really such a cutie... Surprisingly, it took a minute for him to appear before me. I narrowed my eyes in disapproval, ignoring his flinch.

When we'd first summoned Will, he'd appeared as a floating blue triangle, a single eye in the middle of his face. In order to make him less... conspicuous, we'd convinced him to take a more human shape. In my opinion, he looked MUCH better this way.

"Y-Yes, M-Mabel?" He always sounded so... nervous. Why couldn't we get a demon with BACKBONE? He was so pathetic...

"This spell." I shoved my notebook towards him. He jumped slightly, looking down at the open page. "How easy is it to perform? And is your... feeble ability enough?"

I watched as his catlike gaze moved across the page. Such an interesting appearance he had.

"I-I can do it... it would definitely be t-too much for one of your amulets."

"Well, obviously I knew that." I tapped my foot impatiently. "These stupid things aren't good for much more than levitation. Otherwise why would we even NEED a demon, Will."

"R... right." He nodded, staring at the floor. I rolled my eyes. He was so pathetic.

"Well, get going, then." I turned to the window, waving him away. "You should practice that before tomorrow."

"Of course, I'll get r-right on that." Will said softly.

"And Will?" I glanced back over my shoulder at him. He looked up quickly. "DON'T screw it up."

"I..." He was practically shaking at this point. "I won't, Mabel."

"You'd better not." I muttered as he disappeared in a flash of blue and yellow.

As soon as he was gone, I floated myself over to my bed and lied back in it. Sometimes I thought perhaps I was too harsh on Will. But he was just so ANNOYING. Grow a backbone, then maybe I'd consider showing him a bit more respect. He was just SO useless.

It was also annoying that he preferred Dipper to me. It was obvious, in the way he spoke to us. Why did Dipper have to be so... polite? He wasn't NICE, but he was nicer than me.

People shouldn't like him better! He's the worst!!

I would just have to deal with it, I guessed. At least I got to be the star of the show.