Music suggestion: Zack Hemsey - The Way (Instrumental)

Chapter 1: Ironic

Mabel was playing with Waddles in the attic room on the floor. This was the twins second summer in Gravity Falls after the battle, and after a long stroll in the woods, they went straight up to relax.

"You know it's Ironic right?" Mabel remarked with a side look to her twin.

"What?" Dipper looked up from the new journal.

"You hate secrets. Go after every mystery and uncover every single secret you can find. Yet you hold one of the biggest in this town." Slowly, Mabel put down her pig and looked Dipper in the eyes.

Dipper closed the journal with the pine tree on it and sat there in silence. Mabel's words were uncharacteristic for her usually cheerful behaviour. Even Waddles was silent and just sit there next to Mabel. But that summer they almost died, the world almost went bombastic and happenings like that tend to change a person. After they went home everything was surreal for them. Their parents were confused about the sudden maturity of their children.

"Kids dinner is ready!" Came the shout from Grunkle Stan, that ended the silence.

"You know this is not over." Mabel said as she stood up from the ground. There was not a hint of a smile on her face, and that terrified Dipper.

"You are right, but not tonight." Mabel just nodded at Dipper's words, and with a huge smile bolted out from their room.

She knew Dipper is afraid and in need of help to reveal this secret, so she let her twin think. This was a huge step and huge steps need time to take. She also knew the reason why her twin hesitated. In Piedmont, this secret was not a secret and everyone they knew outside the family kept a distance from Dipper. They were in the 21st century and still a thing like this, put a stigma on her twin. But she knew this secret slowly driving her twin crazy so it is time to act.

Mabel sat down at the table, and with little bobs in her chair waited for dinner. Gruncle Ford sat across the table with a newspaper in his hands reading it. He smiled at Mabel and returned to the article he was reading. Secretly he was thinking and calculating what to say when to say. In the other dimensions and universes where he was for 30 years, seen so many things and still he can't find a good way to approach the secret he recently discovered.

Stan took the pumpkin out of the oven and put it on the table, and sat down. When Mabel reached to take a good chunk of it to her plate, they heard Dipper coming down. Slower than usual, and deep in thoughts.

Dipper knew the time to reveal this secret is close. Puberty hit Mabel hard and she was growing in the right places for a girl, but Dipper seemingly not changed at all beyond height. Dipper knew Ford knew something but still stayed silent about it. Stan was a completely other case. He behaved like every other summer so far and gave tasks that meant to tough up Dipper. In Dippers opinion, Ford was a ticking bomb and needed to defuse as fast as possible. Dipper needed to plan the next step, but not at the dinner table.

Mabel's cheerful behaviour was contagious and everyone in the table smiled because of it. She shoved pumpkin in her mouth like her life depended on it, and made funny faces on her plate with it. Ford slowly ate, and write notes in his journal, while Dipper explained the new things they found in the forest that day with Mabel. Stan was helping Mabel make silly faces on her table and laughed with her.

"Hey, s-bro-bro!" Mabel exclaimed, and caught herself in the last moment. Dipper's eyes flew up to her in surprise, then morphed in a subtle glare.

"Wendy and Candy coming for movie night, and maybe Pacifica is coming too." The Gruncles stared at her in surprise. They didn't know she orchestrated a movie night, then shrugged their shoulders. Mabel was like this. Doing what she thinks a good idea, and then out of the blue announce it. Dipper had mixed feelings about it. Liked most of her ideas and had fun because of them, but sometimes liked to left alone. Tonight, was one of those occasions.

They went up to their room after preparing the living room for the movie night. Dipper plopped down on the bed in the right corner of the room and let loose a tired sigh, then laid back. Mabel looked at her twin with concern and sit next to Dipper.

"Why are you doing this to yourself?" Dipper looked at her then back to the ceiling and said nothing. After a minute Mabel had enough.

"I tried it too and after a few hours I was so sore I wanted to scream! And you wear it all day!"

"You not helping with this movie night." Said Dipper and immediately regretted it, at Mabel's hurt expression. "I'm going to the hot spring before it so I'm not going to be that sore." This not helped and Mabel stayed concerned.

"If you tell them then you could get rid of it." Her voice was so small Dipper almost didn't hear her.

"And then they going to reject me, like the others in Piedmont. No thanks! This way I can get crushes like everybody and no one is going to look at me strangely." Dipper explained to her and after that got up and picked up a towel from their bathroom.

"At least take it off while you are in your vest. That way nobody going to notice and you can get some relief!" Exclaimed Mabel with her hands thrown up in the air. "I know why you are doing this but it's not healthy, and I can't stand the thought that you are suffering!" Mabel had tears in her eyes and her voice was trembling slightly. Seeing that Dipper hugged her, and they stayed quiet for a few moments.

"Sorry sis, and thank you. I didn't know you were going through this much trouble." Said Dipper while unzipping the blue vest. After that taking off the red t-shirt revealing ace-wraps.

"They are not going to reject you. We all were there and nobody going to let anybody behind. After what happened that summer, nothing going to stand between us!" Said Mabel with determination on her face. And just as Dipper took off the ace wraps the door burst open Wendy standing there.

"You know she is … right ..." Wendy started to point out as she kicked in the door, but trailed off in the end, because what she saw.

"Shiiit!" Dipper exclaimed in a high-pitched voice and covered herself.


Author's note:

Corrected some grammatical issues with the help of TehMasterpiece.

Sooooo yeah I finally did it

This is my first fanfiction I ever write, and this is just the first chapter. Please send reviews, so I can learn from my mistakes.

English is not my native language, so sorry if any grammar issues left in the story. And this is the reason, why I ask all of you who read this, if you have the affinity and patience to be a beta reader let me know.

I still don't know, what ship this story is going to have, but Dipcifica ship has a high possibility.

Thank you for reading this.