Dipper and Mabel had just finished eating with Stan.

"I thought you guys would know by now to only get something cheap." Stan said.

"But we always get that" Mabel complained.

Stan grunted and sat in his favourite chair. He ended up calling Wendy and Soos to watch over the kids while slept through the day.

"Woah" Dipper said as he looked at Soos' hands. They were like stubs with thumbs.

Wendy was getting antsy. "Let's go outside and do something, I'm bored."

"I dunno Doods, what if, like something happens." Soos said.

"Outside! Outside! Outside!" Wendy started chanting.

The twins joined in.

"Yess! Three against 1!" Mabel half-yelled.

Dipper and Wendy ran outside, with Mabel close behind, in her hamster ball.

Soos followed.

Wendy chased Dipper around playfully.

Mabel rolled around."Hey guys?" She said.

Dipper stopped, making Wendy bump into him. "yeah?" they both asked.

"Can we go to the pool now?"

"Sure" Wendy said.

They all walked to the pool.

Mr.Poolcheck was a sea monster, the one that's like a scary mermaid, but is all scaly and has no fish tail.

"No furry people aloud." He pointed to a new sign below the no dogs sign.

They all began walking to the shack. "Well that was a bust." Wendy said.

Mabel looked sad.

"Uhhh, Doods was that, y'know... there before?" Soos said, pointing to what looked like a fountain next to the shack.

Mabel looked at it happily.

"Soos, I don't think that's a fountain." Dipper said. "It's a giant pool."

Mabel rolled as fast as she could towards it. It was on the side of the shack where there was nothing.

She opened her ball when she was close enough and leaped into the water. "Yeah!" She cried happily.

She loved the water. It felt amazing to be swimming in it.

Everyone was on the sidelines watching Mabel swim.

Mabel noticed them backing away. "What's wrong?" She asked.

Everything around them was grey and the group was pointing right beside Mabel.

Bill looked like he was lying down in the air having both hands on both cheeks.

Mabel noticed him and backed away.

He waved, not your usual wave, but the wave where you wriggle you fingers.

"How's my shooting star liking her pool?" He asked.

"You look so much younger." Was all Mabel could say.

Bill floated a little higher and looked at himself. "Wow, I haven't even noticed" He said as he made himself grow older.

Dipper just looked at him.

"How'd he do that?" Wendy asked.

"Like your pool or not?" Bill said, starting get impatient.

"Uh, yeah... Wait is it from you? is it cursed?"

"Yeah I did get it for you... and no it's not cursed." Bill said.

"Then why do I have it? Was it apart of a deal you want me to make?"

I should've made it a deal.. Bill thought. "It's so I don't have to owe you for those pancakes."

"But there was no deal... you literally don't have to owe her anything." Dipper said, confused.

"It's called common curtesy" Bill said before disappearing.

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"That felt awkward. At least that pool is a good distraction, but just in case... I'll need to get that flower." Bill said as he was pacing in the junkyard. At this point, he decided to ignore his new petty human emotions and get on with his plan.

It was getting late, Bill didn't want to sleep in that hammock again sure pain was fun, but aching pain bothered him.

That's when he came up with an ingenious idea.

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Stan wasn't sleeping. He looked at the journal page the entire time. "If they weren't in the stream... how'd everyone get like this?"

Stan had both flowers on his desk. This was a mystery he wanted to solve.