"Ughhhh…" Wendy lifted her head from her magazine, only to find her 25-years-old boyfriend, Dipper Pines, yelling in frustration to a piece of paper. "Curse you, Ford! Curse you and your goddam codes!"
Currently, they were in the gift shop of the Mystery Shack, home of the elderly Pines twins, Stan and Ford, who after traveling the world for eight years, searching for treasures and anomalies (and babes), returned to Gravity Falls, the only place that ever felt like home to them.
They were supposed to help with the clients, but seeing that all of them were in a tour with Stan, they decided to occupy their minds with different activities. In Wendy's case, a magazine. In Dipper's case, a code that his Grunke Ford gave to him in the morning, challenging the young man to solve it before midnight. He wasn't doing pretty well.
"Dude, stop…" Wendy chuckled at the frustration of her boyfriend, who was at her side in the counter, banning his head softly against the plain surface with little whimpers. "You are going to break the counter" She took his face between her hands, making him to look at her. She laughed at his expression. He was frowning and with his mouth he was doing the most adorable pout ever. She knew that he was only doing that because she thought it was cute and because she was the only one who got to see him in his "immature" state. Still, she wasn't that kind of girl "What? Is my little explorer getting tired of the big bad code " She mocked him as she also made a pout with her mouth . Dipper could only roll his eyes and get away from the grasp of Wendy as she exploded with fresh laughter. "Oh, come on, Dip. You know you love me" At this statement Dipper smiled. Yeah, he loved her girlfriend and he loved the way she laughed with or at him. He simply loved the way she laughed. That being said, it was only matter of time for him to start to chuckle along with her.
"Now, what's the problem?" Wendy asked, grabbing the paper in front of Dipper. It had exactly fifteen complicated symbols at the middle of the page. She was sure the she have already seen this symbols before, but she wasn't sure where "Dude, we have already seen this before…" She didn't know how Dipper managed to move from her side to be behind her without her to notice, because suddenly she felt a warm breath a warm breath on her shoulder and a pair of strong arms around her waist. "Actually, now that you mentioned, i think you are right…" He said. Wendy could hear how he smiled while talking. " I've seen this on the journal!" He laughed and planted a kiss in her cheek, making her smile "Wendy you are awesome!" She turned to face him and planted a quick peck in his lips. "I know I'm awesome, dork. No need to remind me" He stopped to hug her "Tell, you what. I go to my room for the journal and you go the roof top. There, we can solve it together. You write, I read. Deal?" At Wendy's eyes, he looked like a puppy with a price. So there was no way he could say no. "Deal, dork. See ya there " And after one more quick peck in their lips, he was out.
Wendy hopped out of her post, and started to climb the ladder to the roof. She was greeted with the old familiar chairs that she had brought there all those many years ago. She sat in one of the chairs, and smiled at all the memories she and Dipper had built over the years in that same chairs. First, it was that time when she had showed him this place for the first time along his sister. It was then that Dipper realized his feelings for her. Then, five years after that, she and Dipper would be seated there, at the edge of the roof, talking about everything and nothing. It was then that he would asked her out on their first date. There would also be their first kiss.
She remembered that day well. They have been going on various dates, most of them have gone rather splendid. Heck, people could already said that they were girlfriend and boyfriend already but, technically, they were still "friends". They hadn't gone over that line yet. A great example of this, was the fact that they hadn't even kissed. There had been pecks on the cheeks, and for time to time someone kissed the other very close to their lips, but never a full real lip-to-lip kiss. Until one time,when Dipper had decided to invite her to the roof at night. He also brought some pillows and blankets to cover themselves. They folded the chairs and tossed them aside, instead they put one of the blankets that Dipper brought in the floor and laid there side by side, at least at first. In some point of the night, Wendy had curled up against Dipper, with her head resting in his chest and her hands in his abdomen. Dipper, of course, didn't mind any of that. He, in fact, put on his arms around her waist, and took the opportunity to play with her long auburn hair in the proces. His other arm acted as a pillow for his head. And they held only held each other like this for a few moments, feeling how the other breathed peacefully against his bodies. Until Wendy decided to brake to the silence "Dipper?" She glanced up, trying find his brown warm eyes. Which she found almost instantly, like if they have already been staring down at her. "Yes Wendy?" She really felt a little embarrassed at the moment. She wasn't used to be the girl who said cursi things and curled up against someone like some kind of cat. But, with Dipper it felt so good to be that way from time to time. At moment like this, the two of the dropped all the armours that they wore daily and allowed themselves to be vulnerable with one and other. So, she decided that only for tonight, she would play with cursi part of herself. "Close your eyes" She told him, and he did as she asked, smiling softly with anticipation of what she was going to do. "No picking" She whispered softly as she started to close the gap between them slowly. Soon, she was close enough to feel his breath against her lips. He smelled like mint. To her surprise, Dipper's suddenly opened, and seeing her lips were so close to his own, he just couldn't resist anymore. He closed the little gap between them and just like that, nothing but Wendy existed in that moment. Meanwhile, in Wendy's mind, fireworks exploded the moment their lips connected. She decided that being cursi wasn't that bad after all
At the memory, Wendy smile grew bigger. She loved this place. Their place.
"I got it!" Dipper appeared head appeared through the trapdoor. His brown messy locks jumped with his hurried step to get to the chair. In his hands rested a big old book with a golden hand in the cover. Inside the hand a black number three showed. "Okay. I also brought some paper and pen for you to write, here…" He handed them to her while he seated "Now I only have to find the right page and… AHA! Here it is the little bastard. Ready?" He stared at her with anticipation and she nodded in respond. "Bring it on, dude" "Okay, okay. Emmm first it's a "W" then I think it's an "I"...".
Together, the little couple deciphered each one of the fifteen letters. Wendy was so concentrated that she didn't try to make a sentence with the letter's until they finished. "..."E" aaaaaand that's it!" With that, Wendy stopped to write and lifted her arms in victory. To be honest, it hadn't taken so long or any effort to write the thing, but the excited voice of Dipper in her ears made everything more exciting to her as well. She turned and faced Dipper, wanting to see his expression, only to found a nervous grin in Dipper's face. He also was as red as her hair, and with an expectant look in his eyes. She stared at him confused, which only seemed make the younger men more nervous. After some more second in silence he spoke. "Errr so?" Wendy's confusion only grew. "So what? And why are you red, dude? Are you feeling sick or something?" She tried to extend a hand to touch his face but he moved out of the way and took her hand. "Wendy have you read the paper?" Wendy rolled her eyes and started to talk before her eyes actually read the code "The paper? What does the paper have anything t-" Her hands flew to her mouth as an instinct. Her eyes green eyes grew to the size of plates as she read again and again the goddamn paper. There, wrote in her troubled letter was something she would never expected. At least, not this day. She felt a hand in her leg, and turned to find that Dipper had already kneeled at her side. In his shaky hands he was barely holding a little ring, with a precious diamond on the top.
"Wendy "Berble" Corduroy. I have known you since I was twelve and you were fifteen. Now I'm twenty five and you are twenty eight. That makes thirteen years of knowing each other. We have battled monsters, demons, creatures and every weirdness that the world have throw us side by side, as a team. You have always been there for me as I always been there for you. Now, I'm asking you to honor me with the chance of be there for and with you through thick and thin as I always have and always be, only that this time I wouldn't be there as a friend, or as a boyfriend, but as a husband. So, Wendy, would you marry me?
Through all the speech, the only thing Wendy could do was watch as the tears filled her eyes. She was so shocked and speechless that even after the speech ended, she couldn't find words to say. This, of course, made that the neurotic and nervous as hell man kneeled before her a little more uneasy than he already was. "Mhm Wendy? Are you okay or do you ne- UFF!" In less than a second, a pair of strong but thin arms had already wrapped themselves around his neck, making him lost his balance and fall against the roof. A pair of lips were pressed against the clueless man, as he felt his cheeks being wet with the tears of her partner. Before he properly could kiss back, Wendy broke from it and whispered against his ear. "Of course, you dork"
At that moment, Dipper's smile couldn't grow any bigger.
HEEEEEEY! So yeah, I'm hoping that tomorrow I would be able to post the second chapter of this series of one-shots. Good night, dudes! Or good morning, dudes!
REALLY BORED GUY HERE!
Well, this is the first time I've ever participated in a Wendip week, and also the first one shot that I do, so reviews and opinions are always helpful.
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed the little chapter I made for all the Wendip lovers out there. Honestly, fluffiness it isn't my style, because i was never good with it. But i think it turned out fine. A little too much, even.