It was going to be a pretty normal night for Mabel Pines. She was going to get home from a friend's house around five o' clock, ran inside, and blabbered to her parents about what she had done at her friend's sleepover and how much fun she had. While Mabel was a bit of a chatterbox, her parents were always happy to listen to her, as Dipper was usually reserved and kept to himself.

Her mother had mentioned maybe having tacos that night, so Mabel had that to look forward to. Overall, things were very bright for Mabel Pines.

That was until she walked into the front door of her house and found, instead of her parents, her brother Dipper Pines, frantically dialing numbers with a phone and covered in his own sweat, with the most panicked expression on a person's face Mabel had ever seen in her life.

"Dipper?" Mabel asked. "What's going on? Where are Mom and Dad?"

"I don't know!" Dipper shouted, which made Mabel jump back a little bit. It was silent for a few seconds. "I'm sorry for shouting, but I'm seriously freaking out right now, Mabel. Mom and Dad have been gone since this morning and I can't get ahold of either of them. I think we should call the police."

"Why didn't you call me sooner?!"

"Mabel, you're the one that got your phone taken away because you were up all night on it! And I didn't even know the name of the friend whose house you were staying at, let alone a phone number. No one in this house ever tells me anything!"

Dipper began frantically dialing numbers again. Just as he was, Mabel began to notice something below his waist.

His legs were beginning to fade away.

"Uh, Dipper?" Mabel questioned. "Look down..."

Dipper curiously obeyed Mabel, and let out a blood-curdling scream as he did so. He dropped the phone and immediately began panicking as he started to disappear up to his waist. Mabel looked down at herself and saw the same occurrence was beginning in her.

"Is this...the end?"

Mabel gasped.

She grabbed ahold of her bed, beginning to realize that it had just been a dream. However, only the last part had been; everything about their parents going missing had been true.

And it was always going to be true. There was no escape.

Flooded back with memories that overwhelmed her, Mabel began loudly sobbing into her pillow, unable to control herself. Her sobs managed to awake her brother Dipper, who was sleeping in the bed next to her.

"Mabel?" Dipper questioned, hopping out his bed and going towards Mabel. "Did you...have another dream?"

Mabel simply nodded, unable to form any words in between her sobs. Dipper simply patted her back as she continued to weep.

"It's going to be alright, Mabel." Dipper said soothingly to her. This was the eleventh time since the incident two weeks ago that she'd had a bad dream. Dipper had only had a bad dream on the first night, but he knew that Mabel was much more sensitive then him.

He just hoped she'd be able to get a good night's sleep tomorrow night, before school started.

After a while, Mabel went off into a dreamless sleep and Dipper did the same. They were awoken from their slumber at 8am with the order to get dressed and finish up their packing, as their flight was in two hours.

Dipper was glad he'd finally be able to get out of the "temporary home" that he and his sister had been in for the past two weeks. Most of the kids there were jerks, and the workers were no help. However, he was slightly scared of where he was going next.

After the disappearance of their parents, the police finally decided that the best place for them to go would be with their closest relative in terms of distance - Stanford Pines, who lived in Gravity Falls, Oregon. They would also be attending Gravity Falls High for their freshman year.

Dipper couldn't believe his bad luck. He had just started to get involved in a few social circles in his own town, and now he was being jerked back to Gravity Falls, where he'd have to start fresh at one of the worst possible times: his first year of high school.

He was also terrified because of something horribly stupid he had done before leaving Gravity Falls after a long summer full of weird conspiracy theories, crushes, and supernatural beasts.

Dipper could barely stand remembering his twelve-year-old stupidity. He had been major crushing on a girl who worked at his uncle's tourist trap - Wendy. As such, he decided, right before he left Gravity Falls, that he was going to kiss her, right before the plane took off to send them back home.

After he did it, Wendy hadn't had a chance to say anything before he took off again. Dipper slightly regretted his actions sitting on that plane, but he figured he'd never be seeing her again.

Oh, how karma had a way of messing things up for him.

After a boring plane ride which was thankfully fairly short due to the beauty of air travel, Dipper and Mabel were finally at Gravity Falls Airport. Holding his suitcase, Dipper felt major anxiety standing and waiting for faces he hadn't seen for a long time.

Mabel, on the other hand, was majorly excited, and couldn't stop jittering as she looked around in all directions, waiting to spot her old friends and grunkle so she could hug them all. That was just like Mabel; no matter how old she got, Dipper figured, she was always going to be able to look on the bright side of things.

As soon as Dipper saw the three familiar figures begin to approach them, his throat tightened. Luckily, his sister made the first move, running up to all of them and bear-hugging them.

"Grunkle Stan! Soos! Wendy!" Mabel shouted excitedly. "It's so great to see you all again!"

"Nice to see you too, dude." Soos responded to Mabel.

"Yeah, cool to see ya, Mabel." Wendy said.

Dipper began to slowly walk up to them, feeling a bit awkward after Mabel's grand entrance simply waving to them. "Hey guys."

"Hey, Dipper!" Soos said, looking at him with a tad bit of shock. "Wow, you're almost as tall as me now! Still not very muscular, though."

Soos chuckled as Dipper's face was a bit red.

"Oh...hey, Dipper." Wendy said to Dipper, with a hint of unsureness in her voice. "How...how are things?"

"Things...are okay, I guess." Dipper replied. He thought maybe Wendy had forgotten all about the kiss. He thought wrong.

"Well, enough standing around chit-chatting here." Grunkle Stan said. "We gotta get back to the Shack and get you kids unpacked."

The rest of the night went on fairly normal; well, except for Dipper and Wendy's attempts to both dodge each other as much as they could. Mabel was excited to see Waddles was still alive, then slightly upset when she found out that Stan had been trying to get rid of the pig for a long time, but nobody seemed to want it.

That night's sleep was good for both Dipper and Mabel. Mabel didn't have a nightmare and Dipper wasn't awoken by the sobs of Mabel after having a nightmare. They both slept comfortably on their old beds they had previously slept in a few summers ago.

Perhaps Dipper slept a bit too comfortably, as he could only be awoken by the sound of Soos almost yelling to get him up.

"Dipper!"

"Wha?" Dipper mumbled, jerking his head up.

"Dude, the bus is about to leave." Soos said. "We've been trying to get you up for over an hour."

"WHAT?! Oh, no, no, no!"

Dipper frantically ran to the bathroom, stuck some toothpaste in his mouth, swished it around, and spit it out. He then grabbed his shoes and began running towards the front door.

It was too late. By the time Dipper was outside, the bus driver seemingly had given up and was already down the street.

"It's alright, dude, I can take you." Soos told Dipper. "Stan's let me borrow the car for the past couple of months or so."

Couple months? Man, Stan was stingy.

"So, uh, dude..." Soos started, trying to make small talk with Dipper in the car. "What was up with kissing Wendy before you left Gravity Falls?"

Dipper's face turned crimson red at the reminding of what had happened by Soos. "I don't want to talk about it. I was twelve and stupid."

"Yeah, well; Wendy had something to say to you before you left, but you just sort of ran off."

"Huh? What was she going to say?"

"Well, um, I'm not sure if I should tell you." Soos said, beginning to trail off awkwardly. "You know, she's leaving for college in just a couple of days."

Dipper sighed. Part of him was saying to try and push Soos further to figure out what Wendy had said, but he decided against it, at least for now. "Well, I guess I don't have to be awkward around her for too much longer. Still, I guess I blew it, huh?"

"Yep. No worries, dude, there are plenty of ladies around Gravity Falls. So, you excited for your first day of high school?"

"Yeah, I am." Dipper replied. "A bit nervous though. Especially for Mabel; she's so innocent and optimistic all the time. I'm not sure if she's cut out for high school, from the stories I've heard about it. This is the same girl that thought the song Baby Got Back was about an actual baby until sixth grade."

Soos let out a chuckle. "I'm sure she'll be fine. And you'll be fine, too."

Finally, the car stopped in the parking lot of the high school.

"Well, you've got two minutes before the tardy bell rings, I think." Soos stated. "Better hurry."

"What?! Two minutes? How am I supposed to..." Dipper started, before sighing. "Bye, Soos!"

Dipper ran out of the car before Soos could say goodbye back to him, grabbing his bag and running towards the front entrance of the school. As such started the beginning of a new chronicle in his life, one of which would reveal things about him he never thought were possible.

A/N: I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of Gravity High! These first few chapters will be a bit introductory, but I promise in a couple of chapters things will start to move along. Starting with a certain strange teacher...

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