My name is Theresa Deafwish. Note that it's Theresa, not Teresa. Anyway, I'm new in Gravity Falls and I don't want to be.
It was a rainy day in Gravity Falls. The town hadn't had this much rain for quite some time, and the streets were barren as a moving truck and a black, small car drove into town.
A pale woman and an equally pale thirteen-year -old stepped out of the black car. The teenager wore a lavender turtleneck with black leggings. Her purple-and-orange shoes immediately became muddy as her feet sank a little into the mud that covered the ground. She had bags under her eyes and wore an orange skull-shaped barrette in her long, black hair. The woman, who had the same black hair and was wearing a white jacket, seemed undaunted by the mud and rain. Both females were carrying suitcases.
"Mom," the girl said irritably, with a voice like gravel. "Remind me again why we moved here."
"Because, Theresa," the woman replied. "This place is a paranormal gold mine. I've told you that a million times already."
Theresa sighed. Her mother's job as a paranormal investigator always got in the way of her life. We need to do that because this, you need to have this in your room because that. Theresa was becoming tenser every day.
As the two carried their suitcases to a nearby house, Theresa pondered whether anything useful would ever come out of her mom's job.
Ha! Theresa thought. That would only happen if I made some stupid book of spells or something like that. Yeah, right… Then again, it would be pretty cool if that actually worked.
"…and don't go into-"
"Your office, yeah. Blah, blah, blah," Theresa interrupted, rolling her eyes.
Ms. Deafwish glared at her daughter.
"You know, you are in need of a real attitude adjustment," Ms. Deafwish replied. She grabbed her purse off of a nearby couch and left the house.
Theresa sighed a sweet sigh of relief. Now that her mom was out shopping for food, she could totally sneak into her mother's office!
Theresa picked her book off the couch. It was black with no decals on it except for a pale pink triangle on the cover. Her mother had bought it for her about two years ago. Her mom had said that Theresa could write down whatever she wanted to tell her mom and then present the book to her when she was done working, but of course Ms. Deafwish had never had the time to actually look in the book. The book's first pages had been torn out after a week of its use, and the diary had remained untouched until now.
Theresa trudged upstairs to where her mom had marked one of the doors: "OFFICE. PLEASE KEEP OUT." Theresa smirked as she turned the doorknob and stepped into the small room.
The room was incredibly messy, with papers all over the floor and two laptops next to each other near one triangular window. A file cabinet sat in the far-left corner. Theresa could see that papers and folders had been shoved into the filing cabinet very crudely.
Theresa walked up to the filing cabinet carefuly, as if afraid it might tip over on its own. She scoffed. It's just a filing cabinet. Don't be ridiculous, she though as she opened a drawer labeled "SPELLS." She pulled out a file conveniently labeled "SPELLS THAT I HAVE HEARD TO HAVE BEEN CASTED IN GRAVITY FALLS" in tiny printing.
"Wow, really gave yourself away, Mom," Theresa sneered as she opened the file.
"Let's see, zombie attack? That would get Mom's attention. I wonder what this one is supposed to do…" Theresa muttered as she began to copy the incantations and curses with the file.