•~Stanford Pines X Birth Defect Reader~•

•Part 9 | Overhearing•

After moments of staring at eachother, you realized the kids weren't there. "Where did dipper and Mabel go?" You said looking ahead on the path. "We are close enough to the shack, they are probably there already." He said looking ahead. You wanted you eyepatch back but he was still holding it.

The best thing you could think of is to ask for it back, "Can I have My eyepatch back now.?" You said looking back to him. "I'll give it back if you leave it off till we get to the shack." He said with a teasing manner. "Fine." You said smiling back at him. He gave it back and you both continued walking. Honestly after all the time wearing the eyepatch, it felt nice to have it off for once.

After a few more minutes of walking you saw the shack up ahead. "Alright you can put back on the eyepatch if you want to." Ford said facing to you a moment. "The walks not over yet, you said till we get to the shack. We see it but we aren't at it yet." You said as a sparky remark. He let out a small chuckle, "Alright" He said while still in a chuckle.

You both got to the steps and you tied the eyepatch back on, Ford walked over to the kitchen and you went upstairs to relax. That was enough tension for you today, you curled up in bed and fell asleep.

Ford POV:

Alright, good walk but I need to find my journal, did dipper take it? I got up from the table and just as I was about to start walking, Mabel was in the doorway. "Oh- Hello Mabel, you were very quiet, have you seen my journal??" I said hoping she would know if dipper had it or not.

"Yeah dipper has it, but I noticed you and Y/N on the walk. You like her!" She said pointing at me. "Well I- Mabel I just need my journal-" I said trying to steer clear from the subject. "Don't change the topic. You can get your journal later, but now I wanna know why you like her!" She always notices when people change subjects, especially with this kind of thing.

"Mabel- so what if I did. I- nevermind. Just let me get my journal and go to the basement Mabel." I said trying to walk by but she wouldn't let me. "You do like her! I knew it!" She said with confidence. "Mabel- please keep it down, your gonna wake the whole house up."

Back To You:

You woke up suddenly from someone yelling, or squeeling? Maybe waddles. You got up and walked downstairs, you heard people talking in the kitchen. You looked over and waddles was fast asleep on the couch, you didn't wake up to him. You walked a bit closer to the kitchen and heard Mabel and Ford talking, you weren't sure what about yet but it couldn't hurt to find out.

You got a bit closer trying not to be heard yet. In range you could finally hear what they were saying. "Im gonna help you ask her out!" Mabel said a shout - whisper tone. "Mabel listen Y/N probably won't want to date me, and it will make things weird." He said trying to keep quiet. You were shocked. You couldn't even listen to what was being said, you were to flustered.

You had to come up with something, you took a couple steps away from the kitchen quietly, and to make your self known at a distance, you started walking, but not trying to cover up to sound, you made yourself look like you just woke up.

You rounded the corner into the kitchen and Ford was sitting there, face almost as red as his sweater, looking out the window into the dark woods, considering the sun already went down a bit ago. "Hi Y/N did we wake you?" Mabel said trying to cover up the last conversation. "No, I woke up on my own and heard you both talking, what about though?" You said hoping they wouldn't find out what you heard.

"Uhhh- OH well you said you knew how to skate and I thought maybe we could go to a skating rink, just for fun one day!" Mabel said as soon as the idea popped in her head, she was good at lying fast. "Oh, uhh- sure I haven't skated in a while but I'd be down. For now I'm still tired, I'm going back to bed, I was just checking in on you guys." You said and left the room, you heard a deep exhale, like Ford started holding his breath at some point.

You calmly walked back into your room and you couldn't even comprehend what you heard, you didn't even know how long you could keep it a secret. You couldn't  sleep now, not after hearing that, you started pacing around your room to try and tire yourself out, bit it wasn't working. You were to flustered and happy about what you heard.

You sat on the bed and curled up in a ball, you could contain how happy you felt, you were just happily lying in bed, and after what felt like and hour, but was really 10 minutes. You calmed down enough the lay still, still not able to sleep though.

Calmly after another 5 minutes, you fell back asleep and were sleeping hard, you could'nt even be woken up by anymore yelling. You woke up in the morning all dazed, you got up and got dressed in a decent looking outfit. You brushed your hair and realized you fell asleep with your eyepatch on, and couldn't find it on the bed.

You were scanning through your bed and couldn't see it, you searched through the things around the room and eventually found an old one, it had a broken string but you could still tie it on just fine.