Dipper was excited, he was going to spend his first summer away from the house, with an old family friend of his mom, she was going to work out of town for a month or two and didn't want him to have too move around with her from hotel to hotel, and two months home alone was too much for anyone, even a fourteen year old.
"So mom, how old is your friend anyways?" Dipper asked.
"He's pretty old sweetie, much older than me, but I think you'll like him, he runs a tourist trap in Gravity falls all the way up in Oregon."she answered, they were on the way to the airport, she would fly with him to Oregon anyways, as her flight connected there.
Dipper was lost in thought, which happened often enough, and as always, one of the first topics that came up was his dad, he had asked his mom about his other parent, but whenever the subject was brought up she just froze up and refused to talk until the subject was changed, over the years he had managed to get a few details out of her, but that was it. He knew they had been married, but split up right after he was born, his mom had changed her name back to its maiden variety and he still didn't know his dad's last name. Other than those few minor details he knew nothing about his other side of the family.
They arrived at the airport a little late, and almost missed their flight, but luckily they made it in before the final call. After that they didn't talk much on the plane, she was filling out paper work, and Dipper was dosing in and out of consciousness, usually only long enough to change the music playing on his iPod.
When the plane finally touched down, Dipper was thankful his back and neck were sore from sitting for that long, and he was ready to get a good stretch.
When he got all his luggage off the plane his mom guided him to her friends car and the introductions started.
"Well Dipper here he is, Stan Pines my oldest friend in the world." She said.
Dipper extended his hand to greet the man, Stan smiled and shook his hand.
"We'll have to work on that handshake sometime m'boy." He said jokingly.
Dipper smiled.
Stan pulled Dipper's mom off to the side, while Dipper was loading his bags into the car.
"Thank you Charisse for letting me see him, I haven't seen him for almost 12 years, he's gotten so big." Stan remarked.
Charisse smiled, "I know how you feel, I still wonder about Mabel, have you seen her lately, how is she?" Charisse asked.
Stan sighed, "that's what I need to talk to you about, apparently I'm watching her this summer too." He said slow as a bomb defuser.
Charisse cocked her head sideways and said, "excuse me now." She said.
"I know, I know, but Chris just dropped her off begging me to watch her, because he has to go out of town for the summer, for work and all, I just couldn't say no." He said looking at the ground.
"Does she know?" Charisse asked.
"Know what?" Stan remarked.
"About me, and Dipper." She said.
"No defiantly not, and I know Dipper doesn't, you've told me that much." Stan said.
Charisse milled it over for a few minutes in her head, before letting out a sigh, "I guess it couldn't hurt, and I've got nowhere else for him to go, so thank you again for letting him stay, just please don't tell him who she is in that way." She said.
"My lips are sealed." He said giving her a hug.
After saying a long goodbye to his mom, he and were off to Gravity falls about a half hour from where they were.
"So little man, are you excited to spend some time away from your mom?" Stan asked.
Dipper smiled, "of course I am, what teenager isn't." He replied.
"So what kinda stuff do you do for fun Dip." He said.
"Umm, it's embarrassing, but I'm kind of a nerd, I read a lot, and stuff like that." Dipper said.
Stan laughed, "ain't nothing wrong with being a nerd, you always remember that, and you'll be just fine." He finished.
Dipper was actually enjoying the old man's company, it was a refreshing mentality to his mom.
Stan looked over at him, "oh and I got to tell ya something, your mom already knows, but you'll be sharing a room with my great niece, her father needs somebody to watch her, is that okay?" He asked.
Dipper thought for a minute, "how old is she?"he asked.
"She's fourteen like you, it's funny, you and her actually share a birthday." He said.a
"That's cool, so she'll be fifteen in a couple of weeks too." He said.
"Oh, you should know, her name is Mabel." He said.
"Thanks, that will probably help to know." Dipper said to him.
The rest of the way there they drove through Oregon in a peaceful silence, Dipper was amazed at all of the stars he could see already, even as the sun was just starting to sink below the horizon slowly started to go down.
They arrived at Stan's house and Dipper got his two bags he had brought, out of the car and started hauling them inside. When he had gone only a few feet, he looked at the doorway and saw a Brunette teen walking towards them.
"Is that her Stan?" He asked in a whisper.
"Yeah, that's her all right." He whispered back.
"She's Gorgeous." Dipper said quietly to himself.
"Ah there you are Mabel, this is Dipper, the other person living here this summer." Stan said.
Dipper blushed as the girl looked over him, now that she was up close he could see what she was wearing, she had on a sweater, Dipper could tell it was homemade, because he along with his mom sometimes would knit, though he didn't care for it much.
Mabel looked over the boy standing in front of her, he was cute, a little scrawny, but she liked that, and she was going to be living with him, she smiled a and thought, 'this is gonna be a fun summer after all.
Well the first chapter of my new story is done, oh and also this is my first alternate universe story so hurrah for that I guess, well anyways, you guys have been great to me and I wish I could update more for you guys, but I don't have internet at my house for now, and my mom is divorcing my step-dad, so there's that, but I'll update whenever I can.
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