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Mabel pines - 16: Piedmont, California
Mabel was sitting on her bed staring at the few boxes left on the floor. It was completely quiet but to her everything was much too loud.
“Mabel?“ Dipper’s voice was quiet and calm. Mabel turned her head to look at him, her regular look of excitement and happiness was gone and replaced with an empty hollow look.
“Hey.” she mumbled in a small toneless voice
Staring down at her hands on her lap.
Dipper sat down beside her on the bed normally filled with stuffed animals and brightly colored blankets now left empty with nothing but the bright pink sheets. “Mabel?”
She hummed in acknowledgement, “are you…okay?”
She blinked, scanning his face for any trace of insincerity. Of course she found none this is Dipper we're talking about be so for real right now he really does care for Mabel and all he felt right now was concern for his clearly upset twin.
“I-” she paused glancing up at Dipper “this is just so- so out of nowhere? We've lived in Piedmont our whole life! And now mom suddenly decided to move us to some random town! “ she spoke, getting more and more frustrated with each word. “It's just so frustrating, you know? “
Dipper looked at his sister in surprise. They had been bullied their entire lives. Did Mabel realize that this meant that they would move schools? This was their chance to seem normal! Then again Mabel was never one to care about being seen as “normal” nor was she one to like change let alone one that would change their entire high school experience.
Dipper paused, choosing his words carefully before speaking calmly in an attempt to console Mabel, “ yeah, I guess it is annoying but look at it this way, new town means new adventures, new mysteries to explore!” He smiled at her.
“You promise we'll go mystery hunting? “, she looked at him suspiciously.
“I promise “ he said, raising his pinky up to her, watching her face light up.
Mabel locked pinkies with Dipper before launching herself at him into a hug. “Thanks Dip. “ she squealed excitedly. “Do you think you could help me bring these last few boxes down stairs?” she pouted and blinked at him in a way that would always sway him to do something.
“Fine… but you owe me! “ he said jokingly, standing up with Mabel soon following.
“Yeah, yeah” she giggled and rolled her eyes at Dipper.
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As she pulled her headphones on she turned her head to look at the Piedmont sign as they drove away.
After about 5 hours of driving they finally arrived in Gravity Falls, her head rose from her phone where she was reading some fluffy romance fanfic from one of her favorite book series “the good witch Azura”, staring out her window she was pleasantly surprised by the town. Mabel had always thought that little towns where everyone knew each other were SO cute so knowing that she would be living in one was extremely exciting to her.
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Dipper pines -16: Gravity Falls, Oregon
Getting out of the car Mabel and him heard their mom yell to them that they could pick one of the 2 upstairs rooms but to leave the master bedroom.
As Mabel and him heard this they shared a knowing look and began racing towards their new house and up the stairs dodging big and small boxes left and right.
Mabel eventually made it to the top of the stairs and stared at the two rooms. she peaked her head into one before running into the other yelling ”MINE! “ loud enough for Dipper to hear from the stairs(where he had almost reached the top, he had gotten far behind her after tripping on a small box that Mabel had jumped over)
running in behind her, he immediately saw why she wanted this room, right there on the left of one of the walls were one of those cute little window seats, Something Mabel had always gushed about wanting.
Mabel would never elaborate why but Dipper knew why, Mabel loved reading, writing and drawing and she would obviously think that this would be an amazing spot for that.
“This is amazing!” Mabel squealed, turning to dipper, “Cmon I wanna see your reaction to your new room dip dip!”
“alright alright, lets-” he was cut off by Mabel excitedly pulling him by the wrist into the other room.
“ LOOK AT IT! “ Mabel screamed as she sprinted in with Dipper stumbling behind her
Dipper smiled at Mabel as she bolted across the room rambling on about how she was going to decorate Dipper's room.
Mabel loved decorating stuff, especially rooms, so she would constantly rearrange Dipper's and really Dipper didn't mind it at all because it made Mabel happy and that made him happy.
-BANG-
Then she fell.
He snickered trying not to burst out laughing at his twin staring vengefully at him as he snorted.
“Need some help? “ he said carefully stepping over to Mabel, still giggling about her staring daggers at him.
-THUD-
Dipper stumbled on top of Mabel as she burst out laughing, cackling at the irony of the situation as Dipper giggled on his knees beside her.
Their fits of laughter were abruptly ended by their mom yelling for them to take the last of their boxes to their rooms. Dipper and Mabel gave each other a look and rolled their eyes, helping each other to stand again and sluggishly made their ways down stairs.
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After they had brought their boxes upstairs to their rooms(and brought boxes from outside into the living room and kitchen as their mom instructed) and finished dinner, Dipper and Mabel went to their rooms. It was a Sunday night and they were going to their new school the next day.
Dipper sat with his back against the wall on the mattress his mom had helped him bring up to his room. Their furniture had gotten delayed and wouldn't show up till Friday so for now him and Mabel would be sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
He was chewing on a pen well catching up on the week of school he and Mabel had missed well moving ,something Mabel hadn't bothered to do which frustrated their mom more than anything.
Their mom was…. Strict it didn't bother dipper, he was excited about school and very rule abiding even if that meant finding loop holes when he could but Mabel on the other hand although very smart she tended to care less about school and rules often having her grades be barely above a 50% except in art and drama her grades were always up in those two but that was no surprise to anyone, Mabel loved art and colors and the exaggerated feelings of acting.
-crack-
“Blegh” he grimaced at the repulsive taste of the pens ink as it leaked into his mouth. He walked to the bathroom at the end of the hall
To spit out the ink and wash his mouth out.
“BOO! “ Mabel yelled and giggled startling dipper who almost choked at the abrupt noise
“Break another pen dip dip? “ she asked, still snickering about startling him.
“Yeah, bleh I hate that taste! “ he complained knowing that he would still keep chewing on pens later despite the recurring problem of ink leaking from pens into his mouth.
Mabel snickered knowing the exact same fact as him. “Why are you still up anyway? If anything I thought you would at least try to sleep for school tomorrow? “ Mabel questioned, sounding a bit concerned.
“ eh you know me I can never get to sleep. Why are you still up? You only ever stay up late when you're crafting and I'm pretty sure mom banned you from that till we were finished setting up? “ he teased, casting an interrogating look towards Mabel.
“ couldn't sleep. “ she mumbled playing with the hem of her shirt looking a bit embarrassed “I'm just a bit nervous for school tomorrow. Do you think we'll get bullied at this new school too? “ she glanced worryingly up at Dipper.
“If they do, we'll still have each other “ Dipper reassured, smiling well, pulling Mabel's hands up and holding them in his own.
“Thanks Dipper “ she smiled at him, seeming much more relaxed then she was a second ago.
“Now go to sleep! “ she teased, grinning at Dipper, lightening the mood drastically.
Dipper smiled at her rolling his eyes jokingly as they both walked back to their rooms and went to sleep.