Pacifica

"W-what?"
Dipper seemed at a loss for words.
"But why?"

I reached my gloved hand up to wipe away a tear, as I recalled before I had run into the hidden room.
"He isn't rich enough."
"There's much richer boys you can be with."
"I would prefer if you didn't date one of those guys in the 'show business'."
"Tent of Telepathy? Sounds sketchy."

"It-it doesn't matter right now." I stuttered. "We'll talk about it later. Didn't you say the ghost was turning people into wood?"
"Yes. He turned Mabel into wood, too!"
"What about Gideon?" I asked.
"I didn't see him, but odds are he is. Let's go! I think he said a Southeast has to open the gates." Dipper tugged my arm, and we ran out of the room, through the flap in the painting, and down the hallway to the ballroom.
The ghost was floating, laughing, over the ballroom of wooden guests and overgrowth.
"It's too late! You are all wood!" He cackled.
"Go and open the gate!" Dipper whispered to me, and I nodded. I dashed over to the lever in the front of the ballroom by the large doors that would open the gates.
"Hey, ghost! Over here!" I yelled. The ghost's eyes darted over to me. "You want me to let in the townsfolk? 'Cause I'll do it! Just change everyone back!"
"YOU WISH TO PROVE YOURSELF?"
He asked, in his deep voice. "PULL THAT LEVER AND OPEN THE GRAND GATE TO THE TOWN! FUFILL YOUR ANCESTORS' PROMISE!"
I reached my hand over to the gate, but then I heard a squeak of a trapdoor opening. From a hatch underneath the floor was the faces of my mother and father.
"Pacifica Elise Southeast!" He hissed. "Stop this instant! We can't let the townsfolk see us like this! We have a reputation to uphold. Now come into the panic room. There's enough mini-sandwiches to last me, you, and your mother a week." He then added in quietly, "We'll eat your mother."
I looked around the ballroom, and I saw Gideon frozen in wood. I couldn't just leave him like this. And Mabel was frozen too. Even though we did both hate each other, she was Dipper's sister.
But could I really disobey my Dad?
I hesitated for a moment.
"Pacifica, come on!" Dipper whispered loudly.
"Pacifica, come here right now!"
Taking a deep breath, I pulled the lever down, and from outside, I could hear the creak of the gates opening.
"YES, YES, IT'S HAPPENING! MY HEART, ONCE AS HARD AS AN OAK, GROWS SOFT LIKE... umm... more of a birch or something."
The ghost dissolved into blue light, and the overgrowth disappeared. The guests turned back from wood into humans.
I didn't have long to savor the moment though, because then a bunch of fangirls and fan guys ran in screaming. Most of them were Justin Bieber fans that heard he would be here.
"Pacifica, you are not like the other Southeasts. I feel... lumber justice." The ghost's voice echoed in my head, and I smiled.
My parents, meanwhile, were running out of the panic room and getting frustrated by the amount of middle-class, tabloid-reading Californians that had no idea how to behave at a fancy party.
"Pacifica! Thank you!" Dipper ran up and kissed me on the cheek, then put his arm around my shoulders.
"Relax, I only did it for Gideon." I smiled.
"Yeah, I know you would love to kill Mabel." Dipper chuckled.
"I'm going to go get some chocolate, okay?" I said. Dipper nodded.
"Okay, cool."

Gideon

"Huh? What happened?" I felt like I had been shaken awake from a daydream. "Whatever. Where is Mar-"
I turned around to see Marius and Grenda flirting with each other. Guess he is straight.
I sighed, and turned back around to get more punch when I saw Mabel standing behind me.
"Hi Gideon! Too bad Marius is taken now! Guess I'm the only single person left at this party, huh?"
"No, there's still Candy. If I flirt with her, will that annoy you?"
"Actually, I don't know where she is." Mabel shrugged. "Anyways, Gideon, want to go on a date when we get back to Gravity Falls?"
"No, Mabel." I said, stepping to the side to go past her, and she moved to block me.
"Pleaseeeee?" She whined.
"It obviously didn't work out, so get off of my back." I huffed, crossing my arms.
"Alright, if you're over me, I dare you to go flirt with one person in this room. And if you can't find one, guess who gets to go on a date with me?"
"Okay, fine. Easy." I fired back. I started to look around. "I see someone."
Mabel turned around to see the person I was looking at. "That guy? I don't know, he looks straight."
"As long as I flirt with him, I don't have to date you." I scoffed, and started walking over to the guy.

Pacifica

I walked through the hallway, to go to my room to fix my hair. After the whole ghost ordeal, it had gotten pretty messy.
Ahead of me in the hallway, I saw somebody standing in front of me.
"Hi, can you move?" I asked, but as I got closer, I saw it was an infuriated Candy. "Oh, um, hi Candy! Why are you holding a...knife?"
"I've had a crush on Dipper for the longest time, and you can't just come and take him from me!" She cried, holding up the knife. "Dipper is mine!"
"There's no need to act all Yandere-Simulator. Just put the knife down and we can talk-"
"No!" Candy ran towards me, holding the knife, and I dodged. She tripped and fell over. I leaped on top of her to keep her from getting up, but she pushed me off her, leaving me lying on the ground on my back. She quickly got up and stood over me with the knife. Quickly, she whipped the knife at me, and I rolled over. I could hear the dull thud as it got wedged between two floorboards.
"Candy! Stop this right now!" I said. She pulled the knife out, and stuck it out at me.
"Never!" She hissed. "Dipper was supposed to be mine! And now you will pay!"
"I can now see why Mabel chose you as a friend. You're a psychopath just like her!"
"Exactly why I am friends with her, because it means I can take you out and nobody will bat an eyelash!" She shot back.
"Maybe in Gravity Falls, sure, but this is my party. If I get murdered, they'll be eager to find out who did. And what if Dipper found out? He would be so disappointed. You know how much he loves me." I countered, as Candy backed me up against the wall, gripping the handle of the knife tightly.
"He doesn't love you!"
"Really?" I tilted my head to the side a bit. "Then how come he gave me this?"
I pulled off my black satin glove to reveal my ring glowing brightly underneath it.
"Huh?" Candy narrowed an eyebrow. "Why is it lit up?"
"Because, Candy," I started to giggle. "You just made me mad."
A blue aura started to pulse from my hands, and Candy was enveloped in the glow as I floated her up. She struggled, but I snatched the knife from her hands.
"Please! What is this? Let me down!" She screamed. "Help! Help!"
I ran my finger across the flat part of the blade. "So, Mabel and Dipper never showed you their amulet? Pity. Guess you don't know them as well as you thought you did."
"Liar!" She screamed. "Mabel wouldn't hide anything from me!"
"It looks like she did. I guess she never really trusted you, did she?" I asked, holding up the knife to see my reflection. "Hm, this blade is very shiny. Too bad it's going to be covered in your blood."
"What?! No! Don't!" She screamed, and I held the knife to her neck. A tear from her eyes fell onto the knife blade. "I never did anything to deserve this!"
"You tried killing me, of course you deserve it." I sighed. "Guess I win, huh?"
"Just because you're rich doesn't mean you'll get away with it! Think about what everyone will think if they find out!"
I laughed. "Look, Candy, my parents taught me how to hide bodies and have committed bank fraud in sixteen different countries. To top that off, they had to eliminate some business rival to get where they are today. Crime is part of the Southeast name, and that's how it'll always be." I pushed the blade further, and small streams of blood trickled out. "Oh, whoops, somebody is bleeding!"
"Stop it!" She gasped, trying to reach for the knife to stop me, but I grinned.
"Say goodbye, Candy." I laughed.
With the flick of a wrist, I pushed the blade deeper into her neck. I let her fall to the ground, and her head snapped off onto the floor. "Now, how do I dispose of a body again?"