It was that time of the year, the end of summer and time to go back "home" even though both Dipper and Mabel considered Gravity Falls their home.

"Kids you're going to be late for the bus if you don't hurry," Grunkle Stan yelled.

"Come on bro bro!" Mabel told Dipper.

"Yeah, I'll be there in a minute," Dipper replied.

Mabel grabbed her bag and went down to say bye to her grunkles.

"I thought Shooting Star would never leave," Bill said appearing out of nowhere.

Bill was a human now with a very formal look, he wore a yellow vest with a brick pattern at the bottom, black pants, black dress shoes so clean you could see yourself in them; he had a black eye patch over one eye and the other eye was bright blue, tan skin, half of his hair was yellow the other half black.

He looked like he was going to a wedding or funeral Dipper wasn't sure which one it was, he ask Bill why he dressed so formal but never really got an answer.

"Bill I told you I'm leaving today. I don't want people finding out you're back . . . definitely not Ford and Stan they would kill you and then me."

"Now they can't kill me pinetree, I just wanted to see you before you go back home."

Dipper rolled his eyes, Bill and he had gotten close, over the last two summers. This summer they started dating, Bill was actually a nice guy once you get past the weirdness.

Dipper still didn't tell anyone yet, not even Mabel. He hated lying to her, but he wasn't sure how she would react.

After saying their goodbyes, Dipper and Mabel got on the bus to go home. They didn't really talk, Dipper just looked through one of the journals like he did a million times. Mabel was on her phone texting her friends telling them she missed them already.

Once they were "home" Dipper and Mabel tell their parents about the summer, leaving out the near-death experiences and the overall unnatural things that had happened in Gravity Falls. They talked for an hour and then went to unpack, and their parents made dinner.

They had school tomorrow, it was their last year of high school and they couldn't be happier.

"Dinner is ready!" their dad yelled.

"Okay," both Dipper and Mabel reply and going down to the kitchen to eat.

After dinner Dipper decided to go to bed early because of school, he said goodnight to his family then got into bed.

* Next Day *

Dipper wakes to the beeping of is alarm, he quickly got dressed and went down to get some breakfast.

"Good morning honey," his mom says with a cheerful smile.

"Morning," he replied not really awake. He was a little sad about having to leave Bill for the school year.

He wasn't used to sleeping alone. With everything that happened in Gravity Falls over the years, he got a lot of vivid nightmares.

Mabel was finally ready after having to change her outfit five different times and then having to add more glitter.

They lived in the suburbs and could walk to school easily.

"You okay you seem down, is it because we had to leave Gravity Falls?" Mabel asks.

"Yeah I guess, it's always hard leaving."

"Don't worry bro bro we will be back in no time," Mabel says with a very energetic voice.

Seriously it's 07:00 how does she have that much energy already, Dipper thought.

When they got to school they went their separate ways. Mabel went to meet her friends, they had a club at school, about obsessing over fictional characters pretty much.

Dipper was going to his first class AP science, he was the last one to the class and there was only one seat left. He could only see the back of the person, he nearly dropped his books at what or who he saw.

"Hey, Pinetree!"

It was the one and only Bill Cipher.

"What the Hell are you doing here?"

"Well I wanted to see my Pinetree, do you really think I could go a year without seeing you again?"

Still shocked Dipper sat down next to the dream demon. It was kinda nice having Bill in his class, but also distracting.

* Timeskip to Lunch *

Dipper was looking for a table, he picked the one in the corner where no one was sitting, perfect he thought.

Mabel sat with her friends, laughing about something, the one girl nearly fell off her seat from laughing so hard.

Mabel looked around for Dipper to make sure he came to lunch and didn't just go to the library to read. She found him in the corner alone reading, she sighed well at least he made it here she thought. She felt bad for time sitting alone, she was about to go join him when a guy went over and sat down he had yellow and black hair which looked a bit odd, he looked somehow dressed up even though everyone had matching uniforms.

Mabel was surprised to see Dipper had put his book down at talk to him, she was happy to see he was socializing for once.

After school, Mabel and Dipper walked home together. Talking about their first day back at school.

"So I saw you talking to someone at lunch who is he?" Mabel asks.

"Um h-he's is in a few of my classes," Dipper says a little nervous not wanting to tell Mabel it was Bill and he was back and not only that he was dating him.

When they got home they went to their rooms to get their homework done or at least Dipper did, Mabel went to her room to watch anime.

When Dipper opened his door he nearly screamed, Bill was sitting on his bed.

"Really why do you always have to scare me like that."

"Well Pinetree, you are jumpy so it's not hard to do," Bill replied getting up to kiss Dipper.

Dipper shut the door and then dropped his bag. Bill pushed Dipper up against the door kissing him passionately for a minute then pulling away for air.

"I have waited all day to do that," Bill whispers into Dippers ear sending a chill down his spine.

* Timeskip to Night Time *

Dipper had said goodnight to his family and went to his room, getting undressed leaving on nothing but his boxers on for bed. As he got into bed he feels an arm pull him close. Dipper drifted off to sleep in no time, with the warmth and comfort of Bill he felt safe for some reason.