Chapter 1
Candy looked out the window of the cabin as she dropped her bags next to the door. It had started snowing hard, she could hear the wind starting to howl. She could smell the wood smoke from Dipper and Pacifica's cabin next door. 'That didn't take him long,' she thought as she looked at her fireplace, 'wish I knew how to do that'.
"Oh well," she said aloud, "as long as the power doesn't go out I'll be fine."
She heard a rapid knocking at the door. I wonder who that could be she thought, already having a pretty sure guess. She turned and opened it to an either really cold or really excited Mabel, she wasn't sure. Before Candy, could invite her in she whirled in faster than the winds blowing outside the door.
"Holy heck, it's cold out there." she said while trying to get the shivers out of her system.
"Yeah," Candy said, not really knowing what else to say, "I'd start a fire, but I don't know how. Do you?"
"No, but the boys should be here soon," she replied, "once they get settled down, I'll go over there and ask for some help."
"Oh ok," Candy said happily, then what Mabel said dawned on her, "What do you mean the boys? Isn't Dipper already here?"
"Yeah," Mabel said looking up from her bags, "but Jason and Derek should be here in about fifteen, twenty minutes. Besides, if I were to ask someone to start a fire it wouldn't be Dipper."
Candy's heart skipped a beat, maybe five, when she mentioned Jason. Jason was one of their friends that had moved to Gravity Falls at the beginning of their junior year. Back then he was really shy and really didn't have any self confidence. Since then though, he'd only come out of his shell. Apparently he really got social after he got back from basic training, but she hadn't seen him since before he left. Since she went to school about a week before he got back. She also just happened to have a small almost obsessive crush on him.
"Candy?" Mabel asked, she snapped her fingers, "Hey, you still in there?"
Candy blinked. "Yeah, yeah," she said snapping out of it, "I didn't know that they were coming this week. When did this happen?"
"Oh, well," Mabel started slowly, "Pacifica invited Derek for me, and Jason hasn't hung out with us for a long time so he got added to the guest list. I thought you would've gotten over him by now. Y'know going to college and getting a look at the selection."
"What are you saying?" Candy said as she narrowed her eyes, "Are you saying that he's not good enough?"
"No, he's a good guy," she tried to recover, "I just thought with the availability, you would've gotten over him."
Candy looked down and put her hands up to cover her face. "I thought I had." she admitted, " Then you said his name, and my heart just about stopped. I haven't even seen him since graduation."
"Well me neither, but I heard he got hot." she said with a fake growl, "If you don't try something, then I might just."
"Hey, that's not cool," Candy said, "I liked him first, and what do you mean 'he got hot'?"
"From what I head, that's exactly what happened," she explained, "Since he's only in the national guard, he still work on his family's farm full time until he can go to college next semester. Apparently he spends a lot of his time outside of work going to the gym, and got his back tatted and got half sleeves. Plus he's really come out of his shell apparently."
Candy's mouth watered at the picture she made in her mind. Before he left he was chubby, and never wore anything besides extra large clothes trying to hide himself. Except for the summer when he'd wear oversized short sleeved shirts at the least. Of course Candy always liked him for himself. Whenever you got to know him and got past the awkwardness, he was a sweet guy who actually had goals in life. Hopefully he'd stayed a good person.
'When did you say they were supposed to be here?" Candy asked as she stood up.
"Whoa there girl," Mabel said as she pushed Candy back into the chair she was sitting. "They'll be here soon, and they'll have to get all their stuff put up." She looked at Candy's bags, as well as her own. "Like we need to do. C'mon lets get everything put up. Then we can go man hunting."
Candy raised her hand to try and dispute what Mabel said but really couldn't argue with her on this subject. Even if she did, they'd probably end up doing what Mabel wanted anyway. She loved her, but Mabel tended to steam roll her way around with what her friends wanted to do.
They grabbed their bags and went to go unpack, as they walked down the hallway, they began to notice that there were only two doors. They looked at each other and checked them out. The door on the left was the bedroom, the only one apparently because the other door led to the bathroom. Mabel called Pacifica to figure out what was going on. Apparently all of the cabins in the cul de sac that they had all rented for the week were only one bedroom.
"I told you guys this when we made the reservations, and you both said it was fine." Pacifica said over the phone.
"Yeah," Mabel started, "that was the boys were invited-"
"Which was your idea, by the way" she snapped.
"Yeah," Mabel said losing the wind in her sails, "but-"
"Listen, there's nothing I can do," Pacifica said, "The boys paid their share and said they're fine with sharing a cabin. So unless you want to get another cabin, then there's nothing really to be done."
"That's fine Pacifica," Candy said as she hung up Mabel's phone.
"Hey!" Mabel exclaimed.
"Look," she started, "if you're not ok with sharing a bed with me, I'll just sleep on the couch."
"No, it's no problem," she reassured, "besides, best case scenario, I won't be sleeping in our bed."
"Oooh, but that's none of my business," Candy said waving her hands, "why don't we go hang out with the love birds for a little bit, y'know while we wait."
"Yeah that sounds fun." Mabel said, then smiled as a thought came to her head, "maybe we'll even be 'cock blocking' them."
Candy giggled at the thought as she opened the front door, and watched Mabel stop laughing as her gaze fixated on the opening. Candy squinted in confusion, then she turned to see a man about to knock on the door. She didn't really recognize him, so she just guessed it was one of the lodge staff checking in.
"Oh, we're fine," she started, "we don't need-"
"Hey Candy," he said as she watched his breath roll out in a mist as he spoke.
She swallowed as she recognized the voice, she pushed a strand of hair behind her ear quickly. "Hi Jason."
