Bill's POV

Three hours have passed. Three hours and I still haven't been contacted by Star. What on earth is she doing outside this barrier? Is she okay? Is she safe? I try to calm myself but my own thoughts start to make me worried. What if she has found another to replace me with? Someone better, someone who would never lie or manipulate her...

Shut up, Cipher! You can't keep thinking like this. Can you blame me though? Two years and she hasn't tried once to come back and visit. It gets lonely not having her around, not having the only one who has ever understood me or has tried to care for me as a friend and a lover.

I look around the gift shop to see Daggers passed out on the counter. My eyes dart to the permanent sharpie laying next to his head; I sigh knowing this would be very immature of me but then again he is the one who hasn't learned yet to not pass out next to a sharpie while I am in the room. I pick it up and begin to draw on his face and as I am creating my masterpiece, Pinetree enters the gift shop.

"Hey, Bill, I was wondering if-...are you drawing on his face again?" Pinetree asks, cocking his head to the side.

I have to tell you, human puberty is like magic to me in which I cannot understand. Just two years ago, Dipper Pines was a pathetic thirteen year-old (going on fourteen) with a voice that cracked at every other word and noodle arms he couldn't do anything with. Now, his voice is much deeper but still continues to crack every now and then, his blue vest has been thrown out and has been replaced with a navy blue sweatshirt, he wears jeans instead of shorts, and he now wears a golden triangle necklace around his neck. Why the triangle necklace? After my girlfriend was oh so lucky to retrieve demonic powers from me, the young brunette had came up to me willing to make a deal.

Truthfully, I didn't think he'd ever make a deal with me again after last time I had used his body as my own marionette, my puppet in which I got to play around with. He said that he wanted to retrieve powers and in return he would do me a favor that I could cash in at any moment. Ha, this Meatsack is such an idiot but I'll give him credit that he's not too shabby with the magic. He did want a charm of a pine tree but that would be too dull so a triangle it was!

"Well I've been trying to distract myself and this seemed like the best solution!" I said, continuing to work on Markus' face with my sharpie.

Dipper sighed as he went over and sat on the counter right next to the green demon's head. "Why are you trying to distract yourself this time?"

I laughed, it was a real one but more of a forced laugh. I put down the sharpie and reach for my phone in my sweatshirt. Turning it on, I still see no text or call from my Star and I sigh. "It's nothing, Pinetree, really..."

"You said that last time and the last time you acted depressed like this you set the entire woods behind us on fire. So, before we let it come down to that again, mind telling me what's really bothering you?"

I look up as my golden bangs fall in front of my eye. As a demon, I feel ashamed to show this side of me but I know that for me it is completely normal seeing as I have emotions now. Still, a human such as himself shouldn't watch the Bill Cipher fall apart at the seams just because he misses his girlfriend...but he can't help it. I can't help but miss her and worry when I am not able to be there by her side and just know that she is safe so long as I am there with her.

"Star hasn't texted me yet, she's three hours late. What if she's hurt? What if she is unable to contact me? I'm afraid because I'm in here, inside the barrier, and she's out there with the rest of the world and the dreadful Meatsacks that live in it. I'm worried, Pinetree, I can't help but be worried when I am incapable to know that she is safe!" My shouting and going out of control woke Markus up startled as Dipper rests both of his hands on my shoulder, trying to control and calm me. It is now that I realize how violently I've been shaking with my knuckles whitening around my phone.

"Hey, it's okay, Bill. I'm sure she's fine, she's probably just busy. You did just say the other day she found a new job, didn't you? She's probably just busy with the new job she's working at. She's fine, Bill, and it's all going to be alright." Dipper tries to assure me.

In response I only shake his hands off me and walk to the corner of the shop. Pinetree can tell me she's fine but how can he know? How can any of them know when I don't even know?! The door to the gift shop opened as the silver bell on top began ringing. I turned my attention to the wooden door; entering inside the gift shop of this tourist hoax is a brunette girl with chocolate brown eyes, freckles that are dotted across her cheeks and nose, black glasses and she wore a green sweatshirt, a maroon t-shirt with the word 'Kitten' written across, and a pair of navy blue jeans. An added accessory to this look of hers would be the grass stains, dirt, and leaves on her clothes and in her hair.

"Do any of you know how to fight an army of gnomes? Like, gnomes that have transformed themselves into one giant beast and wish to make my friend and I their Queen?!" the girl asked as it is as clear as day that she is trying to catch her breath from running.

Close after her screaming, Mabel Pines decides to join the party. This enthusiastic, optimistic teenager has grown up to be a very beautiful human but of course she could never compare to my Star's beauty. She lost the braces and she doesn't wear her sweaters that much anymore. Her hair is much longer but still has the wave style of an ocean. Now every guy here in Gravity Falls tries to get her attention but just as they had all done before to her, she's turning them all down.

I turn my attention back to the brunette as I cock my eyebrows, not exactly interested in what she has to say but I am a bit curious for this girl is not a resident in Gravity Falls. So, why is she here?

A/N: Hey everyone! I'm glad to see that you guys enjoyed the first chapter of NIR and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story as well. I will continue this for as long as Gravity Falls lives and according to Jason Ritter it shall never die. See you guys in the next update!