My Friend, Playful
Chapter 1
"Kids!" Grunkle Stan called from downstairs. He had a beach towel over his shoulder and had on his trousers. Soos was nearby with his towel and trousers. "Are you ready? Come on, let's go! I want to go to the beach before it gets too crowded!"
"Coming, Grunkle Stan!" Both Dipper and Mabel shouted. They were both in their swim gear. Dipper raced down the stairs while Mabel slid down on the stair banister.
"HA!" She laughed as she landed. "I beat you!"
"Yes you did." Dipper admitted. Waddles came down the stairs, oinking. He nudged Mabel with his snout. Mabel bent down and petted her pig.
"I'll be back." She told him. "Don't worry." She then stood up. "Is Wendy here yet?"
"Not yet." Stan told her. Then the doorbell rang. "Oh, speak of the devil, here she is." He went to the door and opened it. Wendy stood on the other side.
"Hello Pines!" She greeted. "Hello Soos." They all said hello.
"Are you ready for the beach, Wendy?" Mabel asked her. Wendy nodded.
"You bet I am!" Mabel looked at her uncle.
"We'll be back in two hours, right Stan?" Stan nodded.
"'Don't worry." He assured her. "In two hours, you and your pig can have the time of your lives." Waddles flopped on his back, oinking. Mabel smiled.
"Okay, Waddles." She went to him and tickled his underside, Waddles oinked with glee. "You like that, don't you Waddles?" She then stood back up and waved to her pig.
"Okay, we're going!" She told him, waving. "Be a good pig. Love you, Waddles!" Waddles oinked a goodbye as they all left.
"RACE YOU!" Mabel shouted as they got out of the car. Dipper had put his hat in the car.
"Wait, Mabel!" Dipper called to his sister. "You need…sunscreen." He and Soos had put on sunscreen in the car.
"Don't worry, Dipper." Wendy assured him, putting on her own sunscreen "We'll get her. You go get her, she can put it on when we put out the beach towel." Dipper nodded and ran after his sister. Wendy looked at Stan.
"You should put on sunscreen, Stan." She told him.
"Don't Worry, Wendy." Stan assured her. "We'll only be out nearly two hours, I'll be fine."
"Okay, suit yourself."
"I beat you again!" Mabel said as soon as Dipper caught up with her. She looked around. There was nobody on the beach except the lifeguards. "And nearly everybody else."
"I was talking to Wendy." Dipper told her.
"Ooh, what did you tell her?"
"She said you could put on your sunscreen here."
"Well, they better come here quick so I can put it on. The sea is calling me."
"Don't you want to make sand castles first?"
"Okay. Maybe we can make it into a contest. See who can make the best sand castle. You and me against Grunkle Stan and Soos. Wendy can be the judge."
"Okay, sounds good."
When Stan, Soos, and Wendy got there, Wendy took off her coveralls, Soos and Stan took off their shirts, and they all took off their shocks and shoes. Mabel grabbed the sunscreen out of Stan's hand.
"Excuse me Grunkle Stan." She said. "Got to use this." She quickly rubbed it on everywhere she could, and then put it back in Stan's hand. She looked at the sun. "Ha! You're not getting to my skin, sun!" She looked at Stan.
"Did you put on sunscreen yet, Grunkle Stan?" Stan shook his head.
"Don't need to." He replied. "We're only going to be out here almost two hours; I'll be fine."
"Okay, whatever!"
"Okay, let's find a spot to lay out our towels." Wendy said.
"What are you talking about?" Stan asked. "The beach is empty! Besides the lifeguards, we have the whole place to ourselves; we can have all the spots if we wanted."
"Not necessary," Wendy told him. "We don't want to lay our towels too close to the sea, otherwise, we'll get wet without even swimming!"
"Well, then people will have to learn not to splash so much."
"This looks like a good spot." Dipper said when he found a spot.
"Good job, Dipper!" Wendy congratulated him. She, Soos and Stan went to the twins. She and the others laid down their towels. Mabel and Dipper did the same. Stan unfolded his lawn chair and sat it on the sand. He sat on it.
"Okay," Wendy started. She looked at the twelve year olds. "What do you want to do first?"
"SAND CASTLE CONTEST!" They shouted together.
"Okay, stop!" Wendy said, looking at her watch. Soos, Stan, Dipper and Mabel stopped their castle making. Mabel and Dipper had made an ordinary sand castle, but Stan and Soos made… a lump. Wendy looked at it.
"Uh Mr. Pines, Soos," She started. "This isn't a sand castle, it's just a lump with a hole in it."
"That's the door!" Soos explained. "So you know, the people can get in and out of." Wendy looked at Mabel and Dipper's.
"Well, unoriginal as it is, looks like Dipper and Mabel won the sand castle making contest!" The twins cheered.
"Up top!" Mabel said, exchanging a high-five with her brother.
"Ugh!" Stan complained. "Soos, I told you our castle was lame."
"Relax, Mr. Pines." Soos assured him. "We had fun; that's all that matters. You're just mad that two 12-year-olds beat you."
"They beat you too, Soos." Stan told him.
"Yeah; but I'm not complaining about it."
"RACE YOU TO THE SEA!" Mabel shouted to her brother, running to the sea.
"Oh yeah?" Dipper challenged and ran after his sister.
Mabel got in the sea first.
"Ha!" Mabel laughed at her brother. "I beat you!"
"That's because you had a head start!" Dipper reminded her.
"Yeah? But, I still won!" Dipper then splashed his sister with water, Mabel screamed.
"Oh, so you want to play that game!" She splashed her brother back. And with that, the siblings stated splashing each other with water and laughing. Stan went to the cooler, got out a Cool-A-Cola, and sat on his lawn chair he had unfolded.
"Hey!" Stan shouted, getting wet. "Watch it, can't a guy drink his soda on the beach without getting wet?"
"Sorry Grunkle Stan." Mabel apologized. "But you brought it on yourself when you decided to have a drink near the 'splash zone.'"
"I told you not to sit near the sea, Mr. Pines." Wendy told him. Stan sighed.
"Sorry, my bad." He took his lawn chair and soda and brought it up further. He unfolded his lawn chair and sat on it. He drank his Cool-A-Cola. "Kids like you got to learn not to splash so much."
"Awe, Grunkle Stan!" Mabel stated. "That's no fun!"
"Exactly!" He took out a lettuce sandwich that he took from home and began eating it.
"Come on guys!" Mabel shouted. "The water's fine!"
"I'll stay here." Stan responded. "You crazy kids have fun."
"Okay, Mr. P!" Soos spoke, running to the sea. "I'm not a kid, but I'm going to act like a crazy one!" He put his toe in and then ran back, faced the water and ran as fast as he could. "CANNONBALL!"
There was a big splash when he dived in. The water got onto Stan.
"Soos!" Stan scolded loudly at him. "I'm not even in the splash zone!" Soos laughed nervously.
"Oops; sorry Mr. Pines!" Everybody laughed, but Stan wasn't amused.
"Okay," Wendy told the kids, looking at them and Soos. "What should we do?"
"MARCO POLO!" Mabel shouted.
"Okay, who's want to be 'it' first?" Mabel shot up her hand.
"ME!"
"Okay, everybody, swim away from Mabel." They all swam away from her as Mabel started the game with her eyes closed.
"Psst, Dipper, Mabel!" Soos said to Mabel and Dipper when they were all done after a few rounds. He pointed at their uncle, who had fallen asleep, "Want to?"
"Oooh!" Mabel said, realizing right away what Soos wanted. "You bet!"
"I'm in." Wendy put in, swimming towards them.
The kids, Wendy and Soos got out of the water. They went to Stan and started putting sand on the unsuspecting Stan.
"There!" Wendy whispered to them when they were done. "All done!" Mabel let out a giggle.
"We did it!" Mabel cheered quietly. "And Stan doesn't have the faintest idea on what we've done."
"Uh-Oh!" Soos said when he saw Stan's eyelids begin to open. "He's opening his eyes." They quickly ran back to the sea. Stan opened his eyes and saw that he was buried from head to foot!
"What the-?" He looked at Soos, Wendy, Mabel and Dipper as they laughed. "Why, you pranksters!" He stood up and ran to them, but not before taking one last drink and another bite.
"I don't think you should do that Grunkle Stan." Mabel pointed out. "You just took a bite out of your sandwich."
"Yeah, Mr. Pines." Soos added. "If you've just eaten, you shouldn't swim for 45 minutes, otherwise you might get a cramp."
"That's just something we grown-ups say to the kids." Stan explained to him. "It's not true; I'll be fine." He ran in the sea "Now all of you, come here!" Wendy, Soos, and the twins swam away as Stan swam after them. He then captured Dipper and Mabel. They screamed.
"Got ya!" Suddenly, his eyes widened and he screamed as he dropped the kids in the water. "CRAMP! I GOT A CRAMP! OOH, IT HURTS!" Mabel and Dipper looked at each other, smiling. They looked back at their uncle.
"'Something we grown-ups say to the kids', huh?" Mabel asked. Soos was about to say something when Stan beat him to it.
"And not one word out of you, Soos." Soos closed his mouth. Stan walked out of the water. "That's enough for me; I'm getting too old for this anyways. You kids and Soos have fun."
"Stan!" Wendy called after him. "Before you sit down, can you toss us the beach ball?" Stan sighed, went and grabbed the beach ball they bought from home, went back and tossed it to Wendy.
"Thanks!" Wendy called back and she, Soos and the kids started playing catch with it. Stan sighed again and went back to sit in his lawn chair.
"KIDS!" Stan shouted to them a while later. "Come on, two hours are up! Mabel! If you want to be with the pig, you better hurry!" Mabel gasped.
"WADDLES; I almost forgot!" She said. She swam as fast as she could. Wendy looked at Dipper.
"Guess we're going." She told him. She had the beach ball in her hand. "Come on." She, Soos and Dipper went out of the water. They grabbed their towels to dry themselves.
"I told you to put on sunscreen." Wendy told Stan, looking at him. He had been burnt from head to toe!
"Me too." Mabel added. Stan sighed.
"Yeah, yeah!" He said. "You two told me." Soos laughed.
"That sun burnt you really good, Mr. Pines."
"Shut up, Soos."
"Yes sir." They then heard a dolphin cry.
Mabel looked at her brother.
"Did you hear that?" Mabel asked.
"Yeah, I did." Her brother answered. They heard it again.
"There it is again." She then began to ponder. "I wonder what it is."
"It sounds like a dolphin."
"Uh, guys," Wendy spoke. "You better look at this." The kids looked at where the red-head was referring to and gasped. There, in the center of the beach, was a long-nosed dolphin, and it had beached itself!