Behind my right eye aches as I wake up this morning completely disoriented. Groaning, I toss and turn, nothing relieves the pain so I crack open an eye to grab my phone down the side of my bed, where I keep it. 'Please don't be too late...eleven forty seven...greaaat. What episode is it again?'  

Realization setting in, I sit up quickly, disturbing Chat Noir, and then wincing from the aching. "Crap, it's 'Sock Opera'." I get out of bed struggling for a few seconds from my tangled covers, and rush down the ladder. Throwing on my clothes and swinging the door open, I trip downstairs and topple into the kitchen. I brush myself off and look up to see my Grunkle sitting at the table with his fork stilled in mid-air with a piece of waffle hanging off. "Heh, uh, sorry!" I smile and make my way to the fridge.

"So, uh, what's goin' on?" I hear Stan's voice behind my back as I pull out some apple juice.

"Not much," I say as I pour a glass of yellow liquid, "Where's Dipper and Mabel?" 'I have a feeling, but you never know...'

"Left in a rush this mornin' to the library, I dunno." He waves his hand. 'Knew it...'

"Why did they not wake me up and or invite me?" I set the now empty glass into the sink.

"Heck if I know, they left in a hurry carrying a laptop or somethin'," the man says, mouth full of syrupy waffle chunks. I avert my gaze and sigh as I make my way out of the room.

"Thanks anyways, Grunkle Stan," I reply before leaving the kitchen completely. Plopping down onto the yellow chair in the living room, I look around to see anything that might peak my interest. 'Ugh, so bored. Why didn't they wake me? S'not like them to just NOT invite me...'

*SLAM* I jump, startled by the sudden sound of the front door slamming open. "What the flyin'-heck-a-hedron!?" The twins smile sheepishly and while the female bursts upstairs after a small and quick apology, the male stays behind and scoots past me, taking my seat. "Hey! I was sitting there you know- and why didn't you guys wake me up this morning and or invite me to your excursion to the library!?" 

His eyes widen for a second until he lowers his gaze and looks away guiltily. "Well, I was super excited about it, and Mabel was already awake. You seemed really tired from last night, so I thought I should let you sleep," he explains, then looks up with a smile on his face, "But! we are so close to knowing who the author is," he holds up the laptop, "all we need to do is figure out the password. It's eight letters and I borrowed the dictionary from the library, so Mabel's gonna help me later," Dipper rolls his eyes, "after I help her make some puppets, though...want me to fill you in?"

"No need." I hold my hand up, "Anyway, thanks for letting me sleep, I guess...although I don't like waking up late, no matter what time I fall asleep. I don't know why..." I zone out but come back when my brother snaps his fingers in my face, "Sorry." I grin, embarrassed.

"Oh, but I do want your help with the password, if you could help me research and what-not, that'd be great!" He starts opening the laptop and powering it on while I think to myself, 'What's gonna happen if I help him so then he won't get mad at Mabel for bailing and not have Cipher 'help' him? Scratch that, I'm not even making sense to myself...whatever, I'll help anyway.'

"No prob, Bob." 'Well that was the stupidest answer if I've ever given one.'

"Great! Thanks, Macie!" He smiles and returns his view back to the screen. "Hey, do you-"

"DIPPER!!!" Mabel's shriek cuts Dipper off from what he was going to say as he sighs, shuts the lid, stands up, tucks the laptop under his arm, and makes his way upstairs. 

"Gotta go help Mabel, wanna join?" He looks to me like he's completely done with everything.

"Ehhhh, not really but I feel like it'd be super rude if I don't help."  Before he could respond, I change my mind for some reason, "Never mind, I'll help, let's go." I grab the laptop from under him and start walking upstairs, ignoring his complaints about me being clumsy and dropping it. 'I am so not clumsy!' I make sure I stomp the rest of the steps to bug him and or make him more nervous than he already is.

"Macie! Please stop!"

'Hahahaha.' I cease the stomping out of the kindness of my heart. Just kidding, I don't have a heart.

Getting into our room, Dipper grabs the computer back and neatly places it on his messy bed, 'Could tidy up a bit...' then Mabel comes up and twirls me around excitably, spewing nonsense about puppets and boys. "Mabel! Please let me go and then speak clearly!" I rub my wrist after she does so, having it red from her grip.

"Dipper is the BEST brother ever!"

"He's our only brother..."

"Shhhhhhh!" She shushes me by putting her glue covered fingers upon my lips.

"Ugh! Mabel!" I toss them away and wipe my mouth, disgusted by the glue that seeped onto my tongue.

"Anyway!" She gallops around the room. I glance to Dipper and see that he's pulling fabric and googly eyes out of some bags, ignoring Mabel and her antics at the moment. 'I wish I could be in that position right now...'  "Dipper said he'd help make stuff for my puppet show to impress Gabe! He's puppet crazy and I told him I'm also puppet crazy and also that I'm having a puppet show and, and-"

"Calm down, girl!" I grab her by the shoulders as she stops her talking and settles on just breathing hard. "Geez, another boy to obsess over, huh?" The girl only rolls her eyes but smiles as well. "Anyway, I guess I'll have to be the best sister ever, because I'm helping, too." I place my hands on my hips. She brightens up and squeals, hugging me with a silent, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"First things first! Getting some socks!" She runs out the door before we could say anything.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: This montage is going to be a hassle to write :(~~

After getting a couple boxes of used socks from the thrift store, it was already late by the time we get home, so with much reluctance, Mabel calls it quits for the night and retires. As I go to get in bed, I look to see Mabel is already sound asleep, hugging her unicorn plush tightly. Dipper, on the other hand, is typing away on the laptop, which is propped up by some books to meet his height.

"Are you going to bed?" I ask, right as the beeping sound plays from another failed attempt.

"Can't, gotta try these combinations," he states with no emotion, not looking away from the screen.

"Dude, that screen is bright, and I don't see any brightness options, so I don't think it'd be a good idea to stare at it all night." I take my hand off my ladder and sit next to him as he types another word in but failing.

"Ugh!" He throws his arms up after the laptop yells at him again, shining a bright red light with each failed attempt. Seeing a lone book tossed to the side on his bed, I lift it up and place it on his head. Furrowing his eyebrows, he reaches a hand up to grab it. "Macie, why?"

"Cuz' you weren't paying attention to me!" I pout.

He chuckles and closes the lid. "Alright, alright. Go to bed." 

'Wait did I actually convince him to stop? Better test it.'

"Only if you go to sleep, too!" Standing up, I climb up my ladder and burrow into my blankets.

"Yeah, I know, I'm going," he says, also crawling into his blankets. 'Oh my Thor, I did do it! Score one for Macie!'

~~The next day~~

"COME ON DIPPER, MACIE, WE GOTTA SEW!!!" Mabel wakes me up eagerly to start the day by sewing, on a sewing machine I didn't even know we had.

"Ugh," I rub my eyes, "where did you even get three sewing machines?"

Plugging them in and not turning around as she speaks, Mabel responds, "Eh, don't worry about it! Haha!" 

"Thaaaaat doesn't help." I sideways frown.

"Let's get this over with then." Dipper yawns and sits in a chair in front of a machine. 'That little sneak! He was up late last night working on the laptop after I saw him go to bed!'

"Right!" Mabel sits in the one to Dipper's right.

"Hold- *Yawn*- on, I'm comin'" I almost squish Chat and trip on my way off the bed. "K, now what?" I say, sitting in the chair to Dipper's left. 

Sewing is hard, by the looks of it,  but Dipper is doing worse than I am, seeing that he's sewing his shirt down. "Ah! Augh!" he cries out, struggling against the never ending string sewing him down.

"Haha, need some help over there?" I smirk.

"Not. Funny."

I couldn't help but snort after that remark.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: Can I stop doing this montage yet...on second thought...screw it, you guys get the gist.~~

"Alright. This is gonna be called Glove Story: A Sock Opera. Just to warn you, people's eyes will get wet. Cause they'll be crying. From laughter! From how tragic it is," Mabel says, kneeled in front of a small electric piano, working on a puppet. I aimlessly shuffle around with the puppet I'm working on, not really paying attention as I glue on some eyes.

After the first night, I haven't kept an eye on Dipper to make sure he wasn't killing himself by not sleeping, and right now, he looks pretty tired. During those days I've just been doing what Mabel tells me to do, aimlessly, and after we're done, I'm so tired I forget about keeping Dipper company.

I miss Dipper's dialogue, but I don't miss him coughing up pom poms. Laughing, I re-focus on my work as Wendy starts to speak, "Come on, Dipper, you gotta roll with Mabel's craziness. It's what makes life worth living."

We all glance over to Mabel, who then starts tapping keys on that piano, signing, "Puppet boy, puppet boy you're the one I-"

We all join in at this part, including me because I love the songs this episode holds, "Lovvvveeee!" Waddles squeals along as well. 

Stan starts to walk in, coffee mug in hand, then stops after seeing us, "Not even gonna ask," and walks away.

"Wise choice!" I call out, giggling.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: A head that's always screaming! #TotallyNotNightmareFuelForAKidsShow~~

'Ugh, too tired to fall asleep.' I toss and turn on my bed, Mabel already long gone off into dreamland while I don't know what Dipper's doing. Maybe reading, or trying the password again. We need to get time to work on it during the day but we've been so busy with puppet nonsense and I can't even stand puppets! "The things I do for love..." I mentally chuckle at my inside joke that no one in this universe would get.

'Now I'm too hot!!'  I whine as I kick my blankets off me, one almost falling over the edge if I didn't hastily sit up to catch it. Breathing a sigh of relief, I notice, from the corner of my eye, that Dipper is not in his bed. 'Ugh, he's on the roof isn't he. Should I join him?...Hmm.'

'Well, I can't sleep, it's way too hot up here, I might as well go down and do something.'

Deciding on what I'm gonna do, I descend down my ladder, throwing on some pants, and exiting our room, making my way to the roof access. I move the curtain that hides the ladder and start climbing. Reaching the hatch, I open it quietly and peek out. 'Coast clear.'  I lift myself up, shivering from the cold breeze, but still pressing on to the side Dipper's at.

When I get there, Dipper is face planted into the laptop screen. He would look dead if it wasn't for the steady rise and fall in his chest I can just make out. 'Guess I'll just sit next to him until he wakes up...'  I think to myself as I sit down next to the sleeping boy.

It only takes approximately two minutes before Dipper wakes up screaming and flailing his arms all over the place. Obviously, I startle and flip out for a moment before gathering my bearings and grabbing hold of his wrists, holding them down to make sure he doesn't smack me in the face. He looks every which way before finally calming down after seeing me. Then Dipper sighs and places his hand on his forehead. "When-when, when did you come out here?"

"Five minutes ago... Bad dream?" I inquire.

"Yeah, you could say that." I can tell he wants to change the topic, but I'm not about that life.

"Tell me!" I smile, hoping he'll give in if he sees it.

He sighs again, but I can tell he's giving in. "No, please, I'm really tired and just want to go to bed," he says, standing up and walking off, leaving me alone and confused. 'Well, that's not what I expected...What was that all about?'

I stand up and stretch. Guess I'll go to bed as well, then.

I had a lot of fun writing this chapter! I hope this suffices for all of your guys's anticipation for this episode! Big things are coming! You can't stop me! :D

Did anyone get the reference I put in?