This…is not the sixteenth house. [The simple realization helps everything fall into place, and he sheepishly lowers his guitar. No offense, Dipper, but that particular song wasn’t meant for you.
After a moment, his gaze settles onto the instrument, and something else clicks.]
Polka, huh. Very European, it's nice. You should play for Joaquin sometime, I think he might enjoy it!
[He grins at the thought. A lot of people back home were in love with European culture, but Joaquin is half German, so such things may rest a little closer to his heart than, say, Manolo's.]
[Manolo almost takea that first comment as shyness, but he already knows Dipper has no problem sharing his talent -- at the very least, he'll easily drown out a lost man's very sincere love ballad.]
I think I've seen it in movies. But usually they get the right house. And it's not like, 1 in the morning.
[Dipper wonders briefly if he should sousaphone romantically at Ken, but imagines the reaction from the rest of Nonah 5 and discards the idea immediately.]
[By the time this happens Ken probably has gotten his hamster. There's a large cage in the room that wasn't there before Dipper ported out, and inside it are a couple of small round rodents. One of them is stubbornly trying to climb the outside of his wheel while the other is napping. A new addition to the Nonah Zoo.
On one day when Dipper is visiting, Ken takes a moment to add food to the hamsters' cage and gets up to join Dipper on the bean bag. Or try to, at least, before he plops down... then wiggles uncomfortably. And again.
And again until he slides off to sit on the floor, back leaning against the bag, and looks up at Dipper with a thoughtful frown.]
[Most of Dipper's attention is on his book, though he does distractedly try to make some space for Ken on the bean bag. When Ken slides off, he's still focused on his reading and thus, doesn't look up even when Ken actually speaks to him.]
Uh... No? We left the shrink ray back in the Shack.
I don't mean it like that. [He thinks after the fact that he must be so used to the Pines now, with how he didn't even think to react to the shrink ray, but for now he reaches up to poke Dipper's side.]
I mean, you grew bigger. You're too big for this room now.
[a giant, he means. but Ken scoots himself back up so he's perched on the bag besides Dipper. Ken's head definitely only comes up to Dipper's nose or something.]
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