Gravity Falls- Feet Off the Ground
Chapter 1
(Dipper POV)
Dipper woke to a bang as Mabel slammed the door before racing down stairs, as she screamed "BREAKFAST!". Dipper let out a groan as he rolled his head taking a look at the clock lying next to him reading 9:34. He let out a grown thinking back to how easy it was to get up the first time he was in gravity falls, with the mystery of the journals and everything else that happened. Everything had slowed down in the two years that past. The anomalies in the area went down with the return of Uncle Ford and Stan from their sailing trip, with Ford locking himself downstairs working on another set of journals, while Stan assisted Soos with running the Mystery Shack.
"DIPPER, COME ON" Mabel yelled from the base of the stairs," WENDYS GONNA BE HERE ANY MINUTE!"
Shit, thought dipper jumping out of bed at the mention of Wendy. The one thing that hadn't changed in the years was his feelings for her. While he was broken after the bunker incident it didn't change the way he felt about her. Now being 14 and her being 17 he hoped he had a better chance with getting her to feel the same way about him. Dipper threw on his usual set of clothes but specifically took his most treasured gift with him. The hat she gave him when he left gravity falls for home in his first summer here.
Racing into the kitchen he grabbed a bowl and filled it with cereal rushing to eat as much as possible while trying to not act suspicious to Mabel. This failed immediately
"Something important Dipper," questioned Mabel. "Anything to do Wendy coming around?"
"No." quickly replied Dipper, realising that he had just made his worst mistake in replying so quickly.
"HA," Laughed Mabel "Your crush is still there after all these years."
Dipper realised that lying was not going to work in this situation. Mabel knew him too well to avoid getting out of this one.
"Ok, yes I still like her, after all these years. What else do you want me to say" Growing more impatient and annoyed as her realised that she wasn't going to stop until Wendy arrived or got bored.
"Oh just curious to when you're gonna ask her out, you know"
Dipper felt his face growing hot. "You know she doesn't feel the same way about me as I think about her."
"You don't know that. Besides I've seen her throw a few sneaky looks your way." Mabel Chuckled
"REALLY!" Dipper leaned forward excited and was about to start drilling her for more information, if Wendy didn't walk through the door that second.
"Hey dorks." Wendy said calmly as she strolled over to them leaning her weight on the side of the table. Dressed in her usual outfit with the striped green shirt, Dipper couldn't help notice that she was also wearing his hat also. "What were you talking about?"
"We were on about how much Dipper likes…"
"Likes to hang out with you guys." Dipper quickly interrupted. "That's what we were talking about. How about you?" Dipper glanced nervously between the two girls wondering if Wendy caught on to what Mabel was mentioning at.
"I'm all good." Wendy replied "I came over to see if we were still set for tonight's movie night."
"Yeah, I'm in if you're still up for it."
"Cool, I got the Shinning from the DVD store. So my place at 8:00?"
"Yeah sure. I'll be there."
"Cool. Well I better start my shift then. Stan would kill me otherwise if some tourist came in and wasn't charged a hundred-dollar entrance fee." Wendy walked over to the counter and threw her feet up.
"Soooo. Dipper got a date I see." Mabel whispered, trying to hold back a massive grin that was now plastered over her face.
"Shut up. We've done this loads of times, nothing special is going to happen between us. It's just going to be a movie night like always."
"But that doesn't mean that nothing special will happen this time. You just got to make a move. It's been two years since you met her and you're still the same nervous wreck."
"Well, I'll take your word for tonight and give it a go," said Dipper "But nothing's going to happen."
The day passed on with no problems except the mess Waddles made running through the house after rolling in mud making a massive mess, sending Stan into a rage threatening to cook him for breakfast. This only caused Mabel to retaliate with a violent outburst yelling at him for 10 minutes until Ford finally came up to calm her down.
Dipper secretly couldn't stop thinking about tonight. With Mabel telling him about Wendy, he grew more nervous waiting for the evening to come. Dipper turned up at Wendy's house at 7:58, barely able to control his own emotions as he knocked on the door.
"COME ON IN." The voice of Manly Dan could be heard from the living room where he was usually found every time he visited. Dipper made his way inside and greeted Manly Dan and the family who was sitting down in front of the TV watching Ducktective. "WENDY'S UPSTAIRS. GO ON UP." Dipper acknowledged his response by getting upstairs as fast as possible. He made the mistake last year of interrupting Dan's nightly TV watching and it was something he didn't want a repeat of. Dipper found himself knocking on Wendy's door.
"Give me a sec." Wendy said, "I'm just getting changed." Dipper stood their awkwardly on the other side trying not to let visions of Wendy in her underwear run through his head. The door opened a few seconds later and Wendy stood there in a Black tank top and baggy pair of brown shorts on.
"You just planning to stand there or are we going to get this movie night underway." Wendy said, a smile lighting obviously lighting up her face at the sight of him. Standing this close to each other could he really compare heights seeing as she was only a few centimetres taller him now. Dipper entered her room taking note of the usual mess thrown all over the place. Wendy threw herself onto the bed causing a small amount of popcorn that was prepared to be thrown about. Dipper sat next to her as the film began.
Dipper tried to concentrate on the movie, but his mind could only wander due to Mabel's advice earlier. He was so concentrated on not looking nervous he barely that noticed Wendy's silence until the end, as the credits rolled on screen, Dipper glanced over to see her apparently asleep looking graceful and elegant with her pale white skin making her freckles stand out making her look even more gorgeous. He couldn't help but reach over and brush a few strands of hair out of her face.
Dipper just stared at here sleeping body, watching as her chest rose and sank with every breath she took. Ok Dipper. Entering creepy stalker territory. He stood up pulling the bedsheet of him, walked over to the TV set and flicked it off. Dipper made his way over to the door and opened with letting light shine in. He turned around and gazed at her.
"I love you." Dipper was aware that she could not hear him, but in doing so he felt like he was lifting a weight of his chest even though she wouldn't hear it. Little did he know as he closed the door and made his way out of the house. Wendy lay upstairs awake after witnessing the entire event. A new revelation lay in her head, for her to deal with. Dipper loved her. Wendy rolled over and held herself as tears swelled to her eyes with this new information. She decided to wait till morning to see what happened. The worst thing is that she couldn't fight but feel if her feelings were mutual.
First story so some slack would be nice. I'll try to keep this updated as soon as possible as long as I am able to find the time inbetween school and rowing. Nationals is in a week so the next chapter may be delayed but I promise it will be out.