Chapter 1:
The clouds tumbled over the tiny town of Gravity Falls. Fog rolled in on the misty forests and rain cleansed the roadways. It was fall again and Mabel missed the Mystery Shack. She read in a newspaper that the Mystery Shack was now owned by some business guy. Each word of the article tore her up bit by bit and she threw the paper in the fireplace. Mabel stared out of the dirty little window in her room and sighed. She wanted to open the window but all of the windows couldn't open ever since her and a few other kids tried to escape the orphanage. The two girls got away but Mabel was caught in the window and ever since, the Headmistress changed all the windows.
She watched people on the streets rush away with soaked clothes and deep frowns. She watched children play in the puddles and wished she could join them. She stared at the tiny drops flowing down the window and disappear. A tiny black bird flew to her windowsill cleaning its tiny soaked feathers.
"Well hello there, my little feathery friend." She said while smiling brightly. "What are you doing out here in the rain? Go on, go, fly to your little nest, get dry." She watched the bird fly off into the rain. Oh, how much Mabel wished she could fly away, take Dipper with her and fly away. Be free in the sky, make her own home and start a new life. Every night she wished on a shooting star that something would change.
Something shined in the corner of her eye outside the window. She looked over to see a man drenched from the rain. He looked a couple years older than her. He wore a dark trench coat with a top hat and he held an odd cane with a triangle on it. The cane gave Mabel a weird feeling but she continued to stare at him. Mabel couldn't see his full face because his blond wet hair was covering the side of his face. The man still wasn't looking at Mabel but his mouth slowly turned into a smile that almost resembled a Cheshire cat. Mabel saw how the man didn't notice her at all. She began getting nervous when he started grinning at nothing. The man's body didn't move but he slowly turned his head to look up at Mabel in the window, still smiling creepily as if he knew all along she was staring. His eye that was showing was glowing yellow and he slowly started walking closer and closer to her window.
Mabel gasped as fierce shivers went down her spine. The man was still walking slowly to her, staring into her soul while grinning. Mabel immediately backed away from the window and sat on her bed.
"Who was that guy? Why was he so creepy and staring at me like he was planning something? Oh, and more importantly, why the hell were his eyes shining yellow?! Last time I checked that is not a natural eye color. I really wish it was, because I would look totally awesome with yellow eyes. What am I talking about? Mabel focus, let's just see if he is still there." Mabel argued with herself in her head as she crouched down on the floor. She slowly lifted her head and looked down on the street.
"Oh thank goodness he's gone." She thought to herself. Mabel sighed of relief when suddenly her door opened. She yelped as she turned around swiftly, still on the floor, only to see that it was Dipper.
"Dipper, you scared the crap out of me! Don't just enter a lady's room without knocking! I could have been…I-I-I could have been plucking my armpit hair for all you know!" Mabel yelled at him, but Dipper just laughed.
"I seriously doubt you pluck your armpit hair, sis, and if you do, well then, I really didn't need and want to know that. Also, are you ok? You looked like you were going to have a heart attack when I walked in." Dipper asked as he helped Mabel on her feet.
"Oh, yeah, I'm fine. I thought I saw a spider and I was slowly seeing if it was still there." Mabel lied, sheepishly while looking at the ground. Dipper squinted in suspicion but shrugged it off and smile.
"Well I came in here because the Headmistress told me to tell you that dinner is done and to head downstairs"
"Oh, ok well tell her I'll be down in a few minutes" Mabel told him, he nodded and walked out of the room. Mabel got off the bed and looked out the window again. The man was still gone.
"Still gone, good. Weirdo." And with that Mabel put on her shoes and headed out of her room for dinner.