The Pines' Go To SeaWorld
Chapter 1: I Spy!... A Bathroom Break
Little Annabelle Pines tried with all her might to fit the case of water into the trunk of the family car. Even in her dark green T-Shirt, it was evident that she was sweating profusely from the effort. Pushing it was pushing the two adult suitcases, one blue the other burgundy, to the furthest left corner of the trunk and another rectangular, cardboard box labeled FRAGILE AND PRECIOUS straight back. Thankfully she was not near pinning it in and crushing it quite yet when her mother Wendy came by to assist her.
"Annabelle honey, just put that into the backseat with you." Wendy said. "There's not enough room and You're gonna squash everything else in the trunk if you keep pushing it in like that."
Annabelle shook her head in response. "Mommy, it's gonna ram into my legs the entire ride! I don't wanna deal with that for fifteen hours and I don't want sore legs for when we get to SeaWorld!"
Wendy just laughed back at her. "Don't worry honey, you got Corduroy legs! They're stronger than steel!"
She then kicked Annabelle's left leg a few times lightly. Annabelle looked back grimly, unamused clearly.
"See, your a strong one!" She then kicked her right leg a bit harder, but still playfully. Annabelle gave in and began kicking back.
"Strength is from within!" Annabelle exclaimed as both of them were now laughing. "Well use your rediscovered strength to put that case in the backseat with you please." Wendy asked.
Annabelle nodded and did just that. Wendy then got into the front passenger seat and began putting her hair into a ponytail. While her hair wasn't as long as it had been during her teenage years, it still neared her lower back and was just as wonderfully straight as it had been back then. Still she didn't appreciate it when the headrest ate at it like on other rides, so the ponytail it would be today. With the two ladies set and ready to go, the family unit was only missing one other person…
"Mommy, where's Daddy?" Annabelle asked impatiently.
"He's just grabbing another book… Or three." She smirked. "You know these long trips aren't his favorite thing in the world."
"Only when he's reading or writing they are!" Annabelle said. "I think he's only coming to SeaWorld to study the dolphins, so he needs something else to entertain him." She laughed.
"Oh just wait til you see Daddy on some of those coasters! He was such a thrill seeker back in the day with those journals and all." Wendy said excitedly. "He'll have a good time on the rides too."
"Whatever you say Mommy!" She laughed, having never taken those stories of ghosts and creepy goblins too seriously.
Another minute passed before the driver's car door opened. "Sorry to keep you all waiting." Dipper Pines said. "Off to Seaworld!"
"How many books did you grab this time Daddy?" Annabelle asked.
"Only about five or six this time." Dipper said jokingly. "Why do you ask?"
"No real reason." The girls said in unison as they began to back out of parking garage and onto the road.
Three hours had passed since the family had begun driving and up to this point it had been going smoothly. Lunch had come before they left the house, so no one had gotten hungry yet and wouldn't be for a bit. But what goes in, must come out...
"Daddy! I have to go to the bathroom!" Annabelle whined.
Wendy and Dipper looked at the road ahead of them; all of it was forestry surrounding them and the one lane, dirt road they were driving on. There was no signs pointing towards any of modern civilization's great inventions, such as a rest stop or a fast food resturant. Just nature all around.
"You're gonna have to hold it. There's nowhere to stop for miles sweetie." Dipper said.
Annabelle shrieked in response. "It's trying to escape! I need to pee!"
"What are we gonna do?" Dipper asked, slightly distressed. I'm not pulling over for her to pee in a river."
Wendy put her hand on Dipper's shoulder. "Please keep your eyes on the road. I'll do my best to keep her preoccupied." Dipper nodded back. She then turned her attention solely to Annabelle.
"Honey lets play a game. I spy something green!" Wendy said, forcing enthusiasm in hopes Annabelle would play along.
The little one took a moment to study the nature around her; several green trees and bushes, along with some differently colored shrubberies surrounded the road they were driving on. "Umm, one of those trees?" Annabelle guessed, pointing towards Wendy's side of the car. Wendy shook her head in response.
"How about that tur- Oh wait there is no turtle here!" She said, laughing at her own error. "I just really like turtles and hoped one was there! But umm, well I'm not really sure what you're thinking of Mommy?"
"Look down you goof." Wendy said. "It's on you!"
Annabelle did so, confused at first but then she realized it. "Oh! It's my shirt!" She began giggling. "I'm still not very good at this game, but maybe I'll get it one of these days. Also I still really have to go potty."
"Let's play a few more times and maybe Daddy will have found a bathroom by then." Wendy replied. "Why don't you pick the object this time?"
"Alright." Annabelle said, looking a little uncomfortable as she said it. Her eyes darted around the car for a couple of seconds before she locked in and stared at her outside object. I've found something… BLUE!" She exclaimed.
"Is it those big blue waterfalls?" Wendy asked nonchalantly. Annabelle gasped in shock. "How did you know?"
"Well I mean you did pick the largest object out there, so that's a lot of people's first guesses." Wendy explained. "You'll get a lot better the more you play it."
Annabelle nodded in agreement. "You know what those waterfalls remind me of?"
"What would that be?" Wendy asked.
"THAT I STILL HAVE TO GO TO THE POTTY!" Annabelle shrieked at the top of her lungs, producing a sharp ringing in everyone's ears right then.
"Have you seen any place to stop up ahead!?" Wendy asked. "If you say no, I may shriek too at this rate."
Dipper gulped. "W-Well there is a rest stop up ahead, but t-they closed it according to the highwa-"
"Go to it." Wendy said. "Closed or not."
"Wendy, if it's closed it's probably for good reason. Let's not venture there please…" Dipper said meekly.
"PEE! I MUST PEE!" Annabelle shrieked.
Wendy looked back at Dipper stone faced. "Do you really wanna deal with that until we find an open rest stop?" Wendy asked rhetorically.
"Ok, ok but don't blame me when this place turns out to be haunted or a sting or something." Dipper said relentingly.
Dipper then drove up the exit and approached yellow tape reading Caution: Condemned. Please Do Not Enter.
"Last chance to not put the family in danger?" Dipper said mockingly to Wendy.
"IT'S COMING OUT!" Annabelle screeched. Dipper didn't wait for Wendy's glare this time as he drove through the taped off entrance as fast as he could. Quickly, he parked the car as close as he could to the entrance.
IT didn't take anyone long to regret this decision; just from the outside it looked like a dump: Moss was growing on the side of the walls, the pavement was stained dark red (Dipper really hoped it was just stained kool aid, but knew that was probably too optimistic) and the windows looked infested with spider webs. Even the front door was missing.
"Do we really have to go in there?" Dipper complained.
Before anyone else could say a word, Annabelle was already out of the car and running inside. Wendy's stern face said it all for Dipper.
"Yeah, yeah I know." Dipper said somberly in response as he unbuckled and prepared to head inside.