A/N: somewhat Reverse Falls AU. Inspired by a prompt on Tumblr by katlunawhisper!
Dipper Gleeful's life sucked.
The boy lived with his stupid parents in a stupid house in stupid Gravity Falls, Oregon, and in case you couldn't tell, he hated it. School life was boring, but at least he had things to occupy his time then. His dad, Bud Gleeful, yelled at him more over good grades and late work during the school year, and to get his lazy butt outside and make some friends during breaks and summer. His only friend was Mabel Northwest, the local rich girl. She was the only one who could sympathize about mean dads. But because of her parents' standards, he didn't get to visit often.
During the school year it was the same boring routine. Get up, go to school, ignore the kids who teased him for his birth mark, talk to Mabel at lunch and recess, sit through classes, come home, do homework, try to block out Bud's constant nagging, read, go to bed. Then summer went more like get up, read, get chased out of bed by Bud to go outside, read outside, go back in, eat, read some more, go to bed, and occasionally meet with Mabel.
When his twelfth summer rolled around, he figured it would be just another one of those years. The same old cycle. The same boring routine. His mother vacuums not-stop, his dad sells cars and yells at him, he sometimes visits Mabel, he almost always reads.
That is, until a certain pair of Pines kids arrived in town…
A/N: sorry this is short, it's purely for introduction. The next will be longer. Swear on my lucky Shooting Stars.