♱ ─── ❝IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER❞
𓏲ּ𝄢… GRAVITY FALLS LOCAL BF MARTIN EDWARDS 𝔁 PINES READER # ─── headcanons (guys I love gravity falls sm this is literally just self indulgent, also kinda long)
♱ gravity falls local martin who grew up in the small strange town and was close friends with wendy and their other friends.
♱ gravity falls local martin who worked at a record store in town but always spent his time at the mystery shack.
♱ gravity falls local martin who didn’t pay much mind to wendy when she told him stan’s great nephew and nieces would be spending the summer in gravity falls. what was he gonna do with three kids that are like 12?
─── “dude, are you even listening?” wendy asked, leaning against the locker beside his while he untangled the cord of his wired headphones from the depths of his jeans pocket.
“not really,” martin muttered. “what am I supposed to do with a bunch of twelve year old triplets?”
“I don’t think they’re triplets,”
“doesn’t matter,” he cut in, finally slinging the headphones around his neck. “kids are weird especially the ones related to stan. that guy’s weird by association alone.”
wendy snorted. “you literally spend half your days at the mystery shack.”
“yeah, because watching tourists get scammed is funny.”
she rolled her eyes, nudging his shoulder “all I’m saying is maybe try being nice when they get here.”
martin shut his locker with a clang, brows raised. “wendy corduroy asking me to be nice? who are you and what’d you do with the real wendy?”
he grinned lazily, starting down the hallway while she followed after him. “seriously though, I work six days a week at the record store. I’m not spending my summer babysitting middle schoolers.”
wendy gave him a look that should’ve warned him.
because about a month we later, standing outside the mystery shack with the summer heat sticking to the back of his neck, martin would meet the pines kids and realize two things almost immediately.
first, they weren’t triplets, they were twins.
and second, the third one standing beside them was definitely not twelve.
and was definitely beautiful.
♱ gravity falls local martin who made the biggest switch up ever made to man when he laid eyes on the oldest out of the three and he all could do was stare while leaning behind the cashier with wendy who gave a nod towards them.
“you didn’t tell me one of them was our age.”
“dude, I literally said they weren’t triplets.”
“shut up, she’s coming towards us.”
───“hey,” you greeted with a small smile once you reached the counter, pointing your thumb behind you towards your younger siblings and great uncle. “stan told me to go ‘hang with my people,’ whatever that means, I’m yn.”
wendy instantly smiled back, leaning against the counter casually. “I’m wendy, and this is martin.”
she pointed beside her but martin just stared at you which only made your smile turn slightly awkward.
“dude?” wendy glanced at him.
she finally elbowed him hard enough to nearly send him into the cash register.
“ah!” he snapped out of it immediately, shooting wendy an offended glare before turning back to you way too fast. “sorry uh, yeah. hey. welcome to gravity falls.”
“thanks,” you smiled. “definitely wasn’t my first choice for a summer destination, but who doesn’t love potentially helping their uncle with money laundering?”
martin snorted before he could stop himself and somehow that single joke made him look at you like angels had personally descended from the heavens and taken human form.
“wendy!” all three of you turned toward stan, who was halfway towards the back door.
“help yn bring her stuff to her room, will ya?”
“ugh, on it!” wendy groaned, pushing herself off the counter.
before martin could even open his mouth, “martin, watch the cash!” stan barked, pointing at him accusingly.
martin looked genuinely devastated.
“I don’t even work here!” he yelled back while stan went through the door without listening.
♱ gravity falls local martin who started spending more time at the mystery shack than he usually did, just to get a glimpse of you.
“martin I think mabel is dating a zombie!”
“cool man… look is your older sister here?”
♱ gravity falls local martin who suggested to wendy to invite you to their hangout with tambry, lee, nate, thompson and robbie at the cemetery.
♱ gravity falls local martin who awkwardly sat beside you on the grass not saying anything while you talked to tambry. (his mind was running miles trying to find a way to talk to you)
♱ gravity falls local martin who couldn’t believe his ears when you beat him to it.
───“so… martin,” you started, glancing over at him, “wendy told me you work at the record store. that’s pretty cool.”
martin leaned back on his hands, trying very hard to look nonchalant.
“yeah, uh,” he shrugged. “as much as I complain about it, it’s actually pretty sick. I mean, I love music, so it could be worse.”
your face brightened immediately.
“same!” you shifted a little closer to him, excitement slipping into your voice. “I love music. I collect cds actually, I brought some with me for the summer.”
martin was suddenly very aware of how close your shoulder was to his. “really?” he asked, trying not to sound too interested.
“yeah,” you laughed softly. “maybe I can drive with you this time on the way back and I can show you them in my room.”
oh you had way more guts than he did.
martin pushed himself up slightly on his elbows, quickly looking off to the side so you wouldn’t notice the way his entire face was practically red.
“cool,” he said, voice noticeably tighter than before. “yeah. that’d be really cool.”
“yn!” both of you turned toward wendy, who was waving dramatically from across the cemetery. “get over here!”
you laughed under your breath. “she’s probably about to show me some bullshit.”
you stood up, brushing grass off your jeans before looking back at him with another smile that martin was pretty sure was going to kill him one day.
“let me know when you’re ready to go, okay?”
then you walked off toward wendy and martin stared after you for a long moment.
how about right now? was the only thought left in his head.
♱ gravity falls local martin who waited about approximately 30 minutes before getting up and walking towards you, wendy and nate to let you know he’s ready to drop you home, ignoring all the groans and boos from everyone.
♱ gravity falls local martin who had to sneak into the mystery shack with you because apparently you weren’t allowed to bring the “male species” into the house at night.
“I don’t get it, he doesn’t give two shits about mabel’s failed relationship attempts but I can’t bring a boy home? I just don’t understand.”
“I can think of a few reasons”
♱ gravity falls local martin who was in awe at how you decorated your room, it felt more like your own bedroom than a room you’re just staying in for the summer.
♱ gravity falls local martin who sat on your bed scanning the posters of movies and bands on your walls before you plopped beside him with a stack of cds.
♱ gravity falls local martin who felt like he was going to explode as you leaned into his shoulder and showed him your cds.
♱ gravity falls local martin who’s gradually got more comfortable as he looked through your cds, dropping the nonchalant act and starting acting like himself.
“is that a several times cd yn?
♱ gravity falls local martin who doesn’t remember falling asleep on your bedroom floor beside you but he woke up just before sunrise even though he planned to only spend about an hour at the shack with you.
♱ gravity falls local martin who snuck out before you could wake up because you’ve mentioned that your family (who tend to always wake up before you) have a habit of bursting into your room to annoy you in the mornings
and who knows what would happen to him if it was stan’s turn to wake you up.
♱ gravity falls local martin who couldn’t stop the smile that made its way to his face when he got a text from you a couple hours later.
you: couldn’t wake me up to at least send you off?
martin: I was thinking about my safety hope u understand sweetheart
♱ gravity falls local martin who bumped into you at the carnival, you were standing beside stan’s rigged game, calling over people to play.
“helping stan rain havoc on the delightful community of gravity falls?”
“what else is there to do?”
♱ gravity falls local martin who talked to you the whole time, even started helping you call over people to play stan’s game.
♱ gravity falls local martin who couldn’t help but think hanging out with you (and unfortunately stan) at the carnival was one of the best days he’s had this summer so far.
♱ gravity falls local martin who after that day knew he had to do something about his crush on you.
♱ gravity falls local martin who stopped by the shack a couple days later to hopefully talk to wendy about how to ask you out.
♱ gravity falls local martin who instead of wendy he was met with you in her place at the cashier.
─── “oh.” martin stopped just inside the mystery shack entrance, one hand still on the door as he spotted you behind the register.
you were leaned back lazily in wendy’s chair, arms crossed over your stomach while you tried and failed not to yawn.
the second you noticed him, your entire face brightened. “martin! hey.”
you straightened immediately, waving him over like you’d been waiting for something interesting to happen all day.
martin tried not to smile too hard at that as he walked over to the counter, leaning against it casually.
“family trip,” you sighed dramatically, leaning closer toward him. “which means guess who got forced into covering her shift?”
you pointed at yourself with the most painfully fake customer service smile he’d ever seen.
martin had to physically stop himself from saying you’re so cute out loud.
instead, he nodded. “shit, right. I think she mentioned that.”
“yeah. thankfully it’s dead today.” you spun slowly in the chair again. “I’ve basically just been sitting here doing nothing.”
martin glanced around the shack.
for once, it actually was empty. no screaming tourists. no sticky kids touching everything. not even stan lurking around trying to scam someone.
“where is everybody?” he asked.
“dipper’s apparently about to fight robbie,” you answered casually. “soos went with him and mabel’s helping stan get over his fear of heights.”
“stan has a fear of heights?”
you spun once more before stopping yourself with your shoe against the counter. “and I’m stuck here bored out of my mind,” you finished. “so honestly? pretty average day.”
martin laughed softly, shaking his head.
he didn’t need wendy there to save him from himself, he could do this. probably
“I think,” he started, trying to sound smoother than he felt, “I can help with your boredom problem.”
your brows lifted instantly. “oh really?”
“yeah.” he leaned forward slightly over the counter. “I say you close the shack early since nobody’s here anyway… and I take you to this cool spot I know so we can…” he paused. “hang out.”
you leaned forward too until you were both resting dangerously close across the counter.
“hang out?” you repeated slowly. “like… hang out?”
martin’s heart was beating so hard he was sure you could hear it.
“or,” you continued, eyes fixed on his, “hang out as in something else?”
his face absolutely felt hot now, but there was no backing out.
“maybe,” he murmured, voice quieter this time, “something else.”
martin stared at you for half a second too long, completely caught in your eyes.
a smile spread across your face so fast it nearly knocked the breath out of him.
before he could even process that, you hopped off the stool and walked toward the front entrance, flipping the sign from OPEN to CLOSED.
you came back over, grabbed his hand without hesitation, and started dragging him towards the back door that leads to the living area behind the shack.
“go watch tv or something while I get ready.”
martin let himself be dragged along in complete silence.
♱ gravity falls local martin who took you to this hill in the woods that had an amazing view of the sunset.
♱ gravity falls local martin who has never felt so comfortable just talking to someone and just being comfortable in each others presence.
♱ gravity falls local martin who froze when you leaned over to him and pressed a kiss on his cheek before turning back to look at the sunset.
─── martin was pretty sure his entire face looked like a fire truck the second your lips left his cheek.
the spot still burned pleasantly as he turned to look at you, completely speechless for once.
but you weren’t looking at him, you were staring out at the sunset stretching over the trees, gold light spilling across your face while the evening breeze moved gently through your hair.
and somehow that almost made it worse, because you looked unreal.
martin swallowed hard before letting out a sigh, “yn.”
he said your name quietly, almost like he was testing how it sounded when nobody else was around.
you turned toward him immediately, “yeah?”
the look on your face, soft and a little shy now despite all the confidence you’d had teasing him earlier.
martin didn’t think after that, he just leaned in.
slow enough for you to pull away if you wanted to but you didn’t.
his hand brushed lightly against your arm as his lips pressed against yours, careful and warm and a little nervous despite how badly he’d wanted to do this since the day he met you.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who snuck into the shack with you that night and watched movies with you on your laptop on illegal sites on your bed.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who made the mistake again of falling asleep but this time he didn’t wake up before sunrise, he woke up to stan standing above him at the foot of your bed while you still slept soundly.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who had to awkwardly sit beside stan while you made a presentation on why martin should be allowed to be your boyfriend with the help of mabel.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who loved when you would surprise him with a visit at work, immediately taking is break to eat with you in his car.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who realized that you were just as weird as your family at times but found it so endearing.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who sleeps at your house so much now that he’s also subjected to being annoyingly woken up in your room by your siblings and stan.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who laid beside you on your bedroom floor and listened to you talk about how rocky your relationship with your parents are back home and that you wouldn’t mind moving here.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who realized that you’re gonna have to leave at some point and that you were just a summer girlfriend but that’s something to worry about later. (he literally got a stomach ache thinking about it)
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who instead of going to a summerween party with wendy and robbie, he watched scary movies with you in the living room while stan tried to scare trick or treaters.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who loved going to the pool with you on hot summer days.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who brings you back cds from work after every shift he has. (he loves the smile you get everytime he slides one over to you)
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who only has morning shifts now so he can spend the rest of day with you.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who takes you out to eat breakfast at the diner every saturday when he has his day off.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who found your polaroid camera in your room and took a bunch of photos of you. and now he has a polaroid of you in his car, in his wallet and on the mirror in his room.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who for the first time had you sleep at his house after gideon took over the shack because you didn’t want to cry in front of dipper and mabel.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who sat beside you on his bed and listened to you talk to stan on the phone, while stan told you he’s sending you and your siblings home.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who then brought up to you the thought of actually living in gravity falls like you’ve mentioned before.
─── you were practically curled into martin’s chest, cheek pressed against him. the room was quiet except for the faint buzz of his old fan in the corner and the occasional sound of your sniffling muffled into his shirt.
“martin,” your voice came out small, exhausted from crying, “the tiny chance of my parents letting me move here is gone now.”
his hand moved slowly up and down your back, trying to soothe you even though his own chest felt painfully tight.
“they’d never let me stay after stan lost the shack,” you whispered. “there’s literally no reason for me to stay in gravity falls anymore.”
the thought of you leaving made him feel sick in a way he couldn’t even joke about.
“I thought we had another month to go through this… so what?” he asked quietly, fingers curling slightly against your hoodie. “you’re just… leaving?”
he tried to keep his voice soft, tried not to sound as upset as he actually was, but you still heard it.
“yeah,” your voice cracked as you buried your face deeper into his neck. “bro, I’ve literally been crying since yesterday.”
martin let out a weak laugh through the ache sitting in his chest, resting his cheek against the top of your head.
“I might start crying with you, to be honest,”
that finally pulled the tiniest laugh out of you, just enough to make his heart hurt even more.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who couldn’t bare to say bye to you the night he drove you over to soos’s house to pack your stuff.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who laid in his bed the next day ignoring his parents who came to his door every now and then.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who couldn’t even look at his phone also ignoring every message you’ve sent him.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who finally let curiosity get to him and saw that your most recent message was you screaming how a giant robot of gideon was chasing you but that was about 40 minutes ago…
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who definitely went over the speed limit as he drove over to mystery shack where the whole town was basically crowded and a giant robot gideon was laying on the ground.
♱ gravity falls local bf martin who pushed through the crowd to see you, mabel, dipper and stan getting your photo taken by the news with bright smiles.
───“yn.” martin practically breathed your name the second he spotted you through the crowd.
he shoved past people without apologizing, heart still pounding violently from the drive over, from the dozens of unanswered messages sitting on his phone, from the absolutely insane sight of a giant metal robot collapsed in front of the mystery shack.
none of that mattered now that he could see you standing there alive.
“yn,” he reached you quickly, hands immediately finding your arms like he needed to physically confirm you were real. “I saw your texts and what…what the hell happened?”
before he could say anything else, you wrapped your arms tightly around him and buried your face into his chest.
“this town is really weird,” you mumbled against him. “like… way weirder than I thought.”
martin frowned slightly, glancing over your head toward the destroyed robot, the crowd, the reporters swarming around stan and the twins.
“yeah,” he muttered slowly. “starting to figure that out.”
you finally looked up at him then, and despite everything, the chaos, the dirt on your clothes, the exhaustion, you were smiling.
a real smile this time. “but,” you said, eyes brighter than they’d been all week, “at least we got the shack back.”
something in martin’s chest loosened instantly, he pulled you closer again before pressing a lingering kiss against your forehead, his lips curling into the first genuine smile he’d managed since yesterday.
“so,” he murmured near your ear, “convincing your parents to let you move here back on the table?”
maybe you weren’t just a summer girlfriend after all.
𓏲ּ𝄢… I love summer love to permanent love
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