•~Stanford Pines X Birth Defect Reader~•

•Part 22 | Gift Shop•

You walked over to Soos, who you realized you haven't even spoken to since you've been here. "Hey. I don't believe we've had a proper conversation. I'm Y/N" you said to him. "Cool. I'm Soos, want me to show you the museum so you know what to get ready for?" He asked as he pointed his thumb to a doorway, which supposedly led to the museum. "Yeah, thanks." You said with a smile. "No problem dude." He said before walking into the museum, you following behind.

He showed you around at all the things, which were all fake. After a few minutes, the bell to the gift shop dinged. "Okay dude, first customers are here. You ready?" He asked, and you nodded. Soos walked over to the entrance of the museum as the customers flowed in. Soos gave the first 13 or 14 people a tour, and you waited for your group to fill.

You were slightly nervous, but you were ready to do improv, all you had to do was stay confident. You slipped on your own eyepatch, as you had an idea for later. As your group flowed in, you greeted them. "Hello my friends! My name is Y/N and ill be your tour guide today. Are you all ready to see the mysteries of the mystery shack?" You asked with confidence. The kids in your group cheered and the adulted nodded or gave a collective 'yeah'.

You walked and waved your hand for the group to follow. You showed them all the statues and things in the room, giving a little story to each of them, exaggerating things and making a few jokes along the way. At the end of your tour, soos had already started on his second group, and you had another one starting to form.

"Alright folks!" You spoke to your current group. I hope you all enjoyed the tour, but it is sadly over now. I hope to see you all again, but I hope none of you touched any of the items in this room." You said, one of the kids spoke up. "Or what miss?" "Or you might've been cursed like I was." You said with a smile as you flipped up your eyepatch, showing your red eye. All the kids gasped and some of the adults chuckled.

"We have a gift shop of things for you kiddos to take home though, and I promise those won't curse you." You said as you guided them out of the museum, your eyepatch falling back into place. Your group left and you waited for the next group to fill up before starting.

                   •》Time Skip《•

You finished the tours and the gift shop closed. You were sitting cross legged on the ground, Wendy was reading a magazine behind the counter while Soos and Dipper did a final sweep around the shop. Mabel was putting the merchandise that was moved to the wrong shelf back to the right shelves. Wendy spoke up to you. "You did great" She said, looking down at you. You stood up and leaned on the counter. "How do you know that? I was in the other room the whole time." You asked as you raised an eyebrow.

"Because most of the groups that came for the tours kept compliemting you, saying it was engaging and hilarious. Along with 'the red eye being cool'. A few of them gave us extra money for how good it was, Mr. Pines is gonna love that some extra cash was made because of you. Along with the 2 tours at the same time? That's way more than what the place usually makes." Wendy said with a smile. "Mr. Pines-? Oh right- Stanely. Happy to help. He and his brother needed a good day to themselves." You said in return.

"Thanks for all the help by the way. I'll tell Mr. Pines how good you were. But you should go relax for a bit" Wendy said. "Yeah, I will. Have a great day Wendy." You said before starting your walk out of the gift shop. "You to, Y/N." Wendy said before you left. You walked to your room and sat on the bed, taking off your boots, which felt quite relieving.

You lay in bed, on top of the blankets, zoning out and relaxing while staring at the ceiling, listening to the birds outside your window. After a few minutes, a knock at your door snapped you out of your thoughts. You sat up in bed before speaking "Come in-!" After you said that, Stanley walked in.

  He started speaking "Hey- I wanna thank you for multiple things right now. First off, for talking to my brother, and helping him unpack all that. He did thank me for the portal thing today, which felt nice to finally hear. Secondly thanks for helping in the gift shop. I expected you to stay in your room all day, so thanks for that as well. And finally, Wendy told me about all the extra cash the gift shop made because of you! That was pretty amazing. So thanks for all of that, Y/N."

You smiled at him and stood up. "No problem Stanley. It was fun anyway. I think I scare some kids with my eye- but they did keep their hands off things." You said proudly. "Yeah? I usually scare the kids anyway, but how'd you keep up from touching everything? That's usually a bit of a struggle for me." He said with a chuckle. "I told them I was cursed- with the eye and all. So the kids kept their hands to themselves and the adults laughed." You said with a shrug.

"Heh, and you were okay with that?" Stan asked, which made you a bit confused as to what he meant. "What do you mean by that?" You asked him. "I mean that you seemed pretty self-conscious about your eye, and then you told a bunch of people that it was a curse." He stated. You realized he was slight, but your confidence had built up since the beginning of this summer. "Yeah, I am okay with it. My confidence has grown a lot being in this town." You said proudly.

"That's good to hear kid. You do look tired though, so why don't you take a nap for a bit?" Stan said as he started to leave your room. "Alright then. See you later Stanley." You said as he left the room, shutting the door behind him. You plopped down on your bed and started to drift off to sleep.

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Here's 2 chapters in one night to make up for me not posting for so long 🤭
It's also near 2000 words for yall.
Have a goodnight everybody <3