Waterlogged

I'm posting this from my iPod, so if Ifind that the spacing is messed up, I'm gonna have to recall the danged thing and try again later.

It was another typical day in the Mystery Shack. Gruntled Stan was conning some sucker tourist, Mabel was obsessing over her "dream boy" of the week, and Dipper was sent out to do some meaningless chore.

Today's chore was to put up poster ads on the trees by the Lake. Stan stated that tourists loved to go to the lake, so putting up advertisements here was a good idea. As if. Stan just wanted Dipper to go do more manual labor.

Grumbling, he started to put up the signs when he heard someone call out.

"Hey! You there!"

He looked around for a moment. He didn't see anyone out here at this point in the morning. "Must've lost more sleep than I thought," he mumbled. Soon the voice called again, only louder.

"HEYYYY! Are you DEAF? Kid with the blue vest! Can ya help me out over here?"

Dipper turned to look again. This time, he saw a young girl standing in the water just by the shore, in up a bit past her ankles. Weird. He hadn't seen her a moment ago. Leaving the posters and stapler by a tree, he walked over to the girl.

At a closer look, the girl appeared to be about Dipper's age, if not a bit younger. She had sea green-tinted blond hair that was put into two long pigtails. Her bright green eyes glared up at him.

"Great, it only took, what, twelve tries to get your attention? Whatever. I need your help." She gestured to her feet. Which couldn't be seen under the murky water. "I...uh...got my feet stuck in the mud, and I can't get them out. Can you pull me out?"

Dipper just stared for a moment, then shrugged again. "Okay, fine."

Placing his noodle arms under the girl's arms, he yanked her up as hard as he could. Immediately, the girl was pulled out of the lake with little resistance. The momentum that Dipper had used to pull was too much, and he fell backwards, causing the blond girl to land on top of him.

She automatically rolled off of him before the awkward could really set in. "Yeesh, didja really think I was that heavy? That I needed that much of a pull? Eh, whatever." Her eyes glistened for a moment with an odd expression that Dipper couldn't read. She looked around at her surroundings and mumbled something under her breath before shouting "See ya!" as she ran off.

Dipper just stared off in the direction that the direction that the weird girl ran. Walking back to the posters, he hoped that he hadn't just done something utterly idiotic