Dipper's POV: (I'm gonna do random switching.)

"Ow! Hey, stop it. MABEL! Get away from me." I yelled as something was squishing me.

"I'm down here!" She yelled back. "That's probably Waddles."

I looked up. She was right, it was Waddles, putting his snout onto my face.

"Aw, come on. Waddles, get off me." I pushed the pig right off my bed just as Mabel walked into my room.

"DIPPER! Don't hurt him! What did he ever do to you?" Mabel shouted as she ran over to Waddles, who was lying on his back.

"He got in my bed and put his nose in my face." I shouted back as I wiped the pig slime off my face.

"That's no reason to hit him. Now tell him you're sorry before I show Grunkle Stan your Internet history." Mabel said firmly as she crossed her arms.

I gulped. I didn't want ANYONE seeing that, let alone my Grunkle. "Okay." I walked up right to him and said. "I'm sorry."

"Good. Now don't do it again. Or you get the..." She reached into her pocket and pulled out her... "GRAPPLING HOOK!" She fired it and it smashed through the window. She quickly put it back in her pocket. "I gotta go hide this. See ya later, dippingsauce." As she tried to run out, she ran and smacked into the closed door.

"Mabel, you ok!?" I asked.

"I DON'T FEEL PAIN, BRO BRO." She yelled as she got back up enthusiastically. "MABEL PINES IS FOREVER THE ALPHA TWIN. ALPHA TWIN! ALPHA TWIN!" She chanted as she marched out of my room, carrying Waddles.

I groaned. Mabel sometimes can be a real pain in the ass. I mean, she's a great sister and all, but she really get on my nerves. Will she ever grow up?

I let out a sigh and tried going back to sleep, but once I'm awake I can't go back to sleep, also Grunkle Stan was yelling at Mabel for using the grappling hook on his window.

At about 10:30, I gave up and just got out of bed. I got on my usual clothes and started running, but before I could even make it out of the room, my foot stepped on something and I slipped and fell. Whatever tripped me went flying and hit me right in the nose.

"Ow!" I managed to pick myself off the floor. Then I looked at what tripped me. It was a book. No, not the one I carried around with me on my first summer here. It was blue and had a picture of Mabel on the front, dead center. Above the picture was the title: "Mabel's 1st Summer in Gravity Falls" except one of the L's were missing.

"Dammit, Mabel. Why do you leave your stuff in my room?" I said to myself. "Well, might as well take a look." I opened it up and looked at the pictures. Literally everything from that summer was there, from when the gnomes tried to kidnap Mabel, to when she won Waddles at the Mystery Shack's fair, to her first sleepover with Candy and Grenda (barf). I don't know how long I was there, but when I was finally getting to the end of the scrapbook, I saw a page that said "Warning: Do Not Continue unless you are/you've gotten permission from Mabel. This means you too, Dipper." There was no glitter, no stickers, no nothing. Wow, she must mean business. I thought. Should I look? No, Dipper, you'll break her trust. You don't want to do that. I started to close it when I thought of something.

Wait a minute. Why wouldn't she want me to see past that page? I'm her twin. We're supposed to tell each other everything. I was getting really conflicted. I had to make a decision before she realized it was missing. Well, maybe just a peek.

Mabel's POV:

After I was done bugging Dipper, I went into my room to pick out a sweater for today. It was really hard to choose, but I chose a red sweater that said in bright purple letters: "You Look Nice Today" with the dot on the "I" replaced with a heart. Now I was ready to take on the day. "C'mon Waddles. Let's go make some Mabel juice."

Waddles was jumping up and down in front of my dresser, trying to reach a bag of cookies, which I gave him as treats.

"Waddles! You gotta be a good pig before you get a treat." I said as I tried to grab him. It didn't work, as he got scared and jumped right into the dresser, knocking it over on it's side, barely missing Waddles. He was obviously okay, because he went straight for the cookies that were knocked out of the bag.

Thankfully, nothing got out of the drawers, so I put everything that was on the top of the dresser back. I looked to make sure everything was there. Waddle's treats, my brush and comb, my mirror, picture of me and Dipper. But there was one thing missing.

"Where's that scrapbook?" I looked all over my room for it, getting more and more worried. "Oh no, I've lost it." I said before remembering where I left it. I put it down in...

Dipper's Room!

"Oh no! Dipper!" I panicked as I ran up the stairs to the attic as fast as my feet would let me. No no no no no. I thought. I hope he didn't see it yet. I have to get there now!

Dipper's POV:

I sat there on my bed, frozen. I was about to do the dumbest thing of my life, but I didn't care. My curiosity was peaked. I needed to know now. I started to turn that page when...

"No!" Mabel came running through the doorway, not even bothering to knock, then she came flying at me.

I was shocked. "Mab-" Before I could finish, she tackled me. I was slammed on the hard wood floors. The scrapbook went flying out of my hands and landed on the other side of the room. We both ran to grab it, but Mabel got there first. She was panicked and furious at the same time.

"I thought my writing made it clear that NO ONE was supposed to look past that page, and I meant NO ONE." Mabel was really mad. Congrats, Dipper. I thought. You broke her trust for good.

"Mabel, I can explain." I said even though I couldn't. What was I gonna do, tell her I was looking at her stuff because we shouldn't keep secrets? It was a dead argument.

Mabel had calmed down. "Please Dipper, just tell me you won't do that again." She was nearly in tears. "I don't think you could've handled it."

I wanted to say "What do you mean, I can't handle it? What exactly can't I handle?" But not when Mabel was crying. That would have made her really upset. Instead I put my hand on her shoulder and said "Listen, Mabel, I'm sorry. I should've stopped. I guess curiosity got the best of me."

Mabel wiped away a tear. "Just don't do it again, ok? You don't have to know EVERYTHING about me, you know that right?" I nodded. "Ok, then. I forgive you."

"Awkward sibling hug?" I offered.

Mabel smiled. "Awkward sibling hug."

So then we hugged. But it wasn't the one we usually had. I mean like, yeah, we did the whole "pat, pat" thing, but somehow we didn't stop. And it wasn't awkward, it was actually kind of... nice. We were only there for about 7 seconds, but it felt like years, and for some reason I wanted to keep hugging her forever.

"Kids! My breakfast is not gonna make itself, you know. And I'm sure not going to." Grunkle Stan yelled from the kitchen. I suddenly realized where I was and broke away from Mabel. Her face was fire engine red, and I'm sure mine was about the same.

"So... I guess we should go make breakfast?" She asked quietly. Then I smiled. "Yeah, sure."

"Bet I can't beat you downstairs." She said as she sped out of my room.

"Hey! No fair, you got a head start." I laughed, running after her. I always loved racing her, even if I lost.

But while I was running, my mind was trying to process what just happened. Why did we hug like that? I thought. Mabel's been acting weird this morning. I better keep a good eye on her.

I ran straight into a wall. I groaned. I was so focused on thoughts that I wasn't watching where I was going.

"Watch where you run, Dip." Mabel teased as she beat me into the kitchen.

Mabel's Diary:

Dear Diary,

Today my nosy brother almost got into my scrapbook, but I managed to stop him by tackling him. Amazing how much stronger I am than him. ALPHA TWIN FOREVER!

Anyways, he apologized (like he always does) and we did an awkward sibling hug. But today's hug was different. It felt warm and cozy. I think that maybe, just maybe, something just clicked. I dunno.

I'll write again later.

Ok, bye!

Mabel Pines