party post } let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find (forward dated to 1/28))

[krmvgivv]

Who: The WIRTHDAY BOY, Dipper, Mabel, anyone friends with Wirt/anyone who happens to show up.
Where: fourth floor tea room
When: forward dated to 1/28
Rating: unlikely to get higher than PG-13
Summary: It's Wirt's 17th birthday! Dipper and Mabel are in charge of planning, and Wirt doesn't want anything too big or crazy. So you know. Time for an open mic party.
The Story:

Invitations spread quietly by word of mouth. "Surprise Party. Come to the fourth floor tea room. Bring something to perform. Don't tell Wirt!" Dipper and Mabel make sure to tell the people they know are Wirt's friends, but they also expect word to get around. Others can hear about it or just come in. Wirt doesn't want a big party, but they're guessing the particulars of this party will keep it small.

By the time people start to arrive, the tea room's been transformed. It looks like the most cliche hipster cafe you can imagine, like a preteen girl's imagination made flesh. There are mismatched chairs and low windows and exposed brick, and a stage that looks more like a wooden platform than anything else. There's a coffee bar with tea and hot chocolate and lots of cookies and snacks piled high, plus a cake. There aren't any baristas here. Just a sign that reads Cafe Music and Wirts.

Price of admission is agreeing to perform something, though the birthday boy is excused from this unless he wants to go. It's supposed to be fun for him, after all.

Comments

[singloversing]

What? Nothing! I-I'm not hiding anything!

[HE IS DEFINITELY HIDING A ROMANCE-RELATED THING.]

[powerofmabel]

You are! You totally are! [accusatory pointing!!] Who do you have a crush on? Tell me now and you won't have to deal with me relentlessly trying to find out. I found out about Stan and Rick. I'm unstoppable.

[singloversing]

[Wirt completely believes that, so it's a pretty compelling argument. He still hesitates though, because oh boy does he not want to have this conversation. But, she's right. If he doesn't say it now, she will endlessly hound him until he does.]

W-Well, um. Do you remember Beatrice? Long red hair, a-and looked a little like she walked out of a regency period piece? She used to be here and uh. ...She was one of the people who showed up again last month. I got to see her again, and she was still a human girl.

[Maybe an odd thing to specify, but sometimes when she returns to Wonderland she's been a bird again. His face is going pink, and he won't look Mabel in the face.]

We...i-it's not a big deal or anything? Well, no actually it kind of is. [He doesn't want it to become a big deal is probably a more accurate way to put it.] ...wemadeoutalittle.

[powerofmabel]

[Mabel shrieks so loud that a few people look alarmed- including whoever is up doing their piece. She quiets and then shakes his shoulders, making inaubile screaming noises now.]

Wirt, you stud. Was it your first kiss? It's okay if it was. Dipper and I had the same first kiss on the same day.

[singloversing]

[That shriek could pierce the heavens, and before he can give the person an apologetic look she start shaking him. But, if he's being kind of honest? He knew she would react like this. And even if he's not going to jump up and down and be quite as loud about it, it's still kind of exciting.]

Y-Yeah, it was. I-- wait, what? You guys kissed the same person?

[That seems extremely unlikely for...well, a lot of reasons.]

[powerofmabel]

Yup! His name is Mermando, and Dipper had to give him reverse CPR, because he was a Merman and he was drowning on land. Don't think about it too hard. It was totally a kiss.

[So now you know her brother has kissed a boy. Do with that what you like, Wirt.]

[singloversing]

[Wirt just has this look on his face for a moment as he tries really, really hard to imagine what the heck reverse CPR would be. But, maybe that's weird to think about? So he shakes his head and tries desperately to lose that train of thought. She did say not to think about it too hard, but he has so many questions. Why was this merman on land? And why did his parents name him Mermando? That would be like a human baby being named Humando!

Not thinking about things too hard is difficult, so he just narrows it down to one thing, somehow. The most important thing, obviously.]

I don't know about that... Does that mean regular CPR counts as kissing too?

[powerofmabel]

He was basically spitting water into his lungs. I feel like removing fluids and exchanging fluids is the difference between a kiss and actual CPR.

[She says this like she's

actually thought about it a lot.

Then again, this is the girl who used leaf blower suction to practice kissing.]

[singloversing]

Huh. I...guess that makes sense.

[Sort of. Maybe.]

But, um. Yeah...definitely my first kiss? It was...nice. [He shrugs a little, helplessly.] I always figured it would be embarrassing or that I'd screw it up somehow.

[It was probably a little awkward, especially at first, but he didn't make a complete idiot of himself.]

[powerofmabel]

[She takes his face in his hands and just... smooshes his cheeks. Speaking of embarrassment.] See? I knew there was a prince inside all that weird gnomish energy somewhere.