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I DONT OWN GRAVITY FALLS
-The Plot Thickens-
Pepper POV
Going on small hikes with Dipper and Mabel these past few weeks has been so much fun. Dip kept pulling out a book every time he thought he saw something weird or new. I tried to ask him about it but he would change the subject. I have made it my mission to find out what he's hiding. Other than Dipper's strange attitude I have noticed Stan is not your average greedy, lying, cheating, old man. He has a different aura than the attitude he puts off. It's a misty grey that engulfes his head like a cloud. He's hiding something, something big but I can't put my finger on it. I don't want to meddle anymore than I should so I'll leave it alone, for now.
I was restocking the shelves when the door bell rang signaling a customer. I spun around when a came face to face with bottle blond in uggs. No no no no. I didn't know what to do. Pacifica still lives here? Does she even remember me, fuck what if- "Um s'cuse me shop girl." She called me over with an annoyed expression. I gulped and took careful steps to ensure I didn't trip. "Y-yes mam? How can I help you?" She rolled her eyes. "As you know there is a big time journalist in town and it's my family's duty to make sure we're well represented. So I came by to tell Stanford Pines to stay indoors while the rest of us civilized folks deal with the press. You think you can give him that message?" She looked up from her pink manicured nails to look at me. "Y-yes mam I'll be sure to tell him." I forced a nervous smile when she squinted at me, looking at the top of my head. "Is that a cat eared head band? What, does Mabel Pines help you get dressed? Take a tip from the one who can accessorize and ditch that thing." She looked at me with a bored expression and left.
My heart feels like it's going to rip out of my chest! "Hey Pep-" "JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST!" I covered my mouth and spun around to see Dipper with two glasses of lemonade. "Sorry if I scared you...are you okay? It looks like you've just seen a ghost. You didn't did you? I don't know what I would do if I found out this place is haunted." I laughed to relive the tension built inside me. "N-no don't apologize it was just...um...Pacifica Northwest came by a moment ago..." He tilted his head in Slight confusion. "What did little miss priss want?" I relaxed, at least I'm not the only one who's not a fan of her. "There's a reporter in town and she wants Stan to stay inside and out of sight so she and her family can hold up the reputation of the blah blah blah." Dipper rolled his eyes. "Super, we'll tell Stan after our break kay?" He said as he handed me one of the glasses of lemony goodness. It was surprisingly hot today.
We sat in the living room trying to stay cool. "Ya know you're making me sweat just looking at you. Why don't you take of that sweater?" I looked down at my dark red knit sweater and shrugged. "I'm not dying in it, plus I'm not wearing a tank top under it." Tried to explain. The thing is I just feel comfortable, I like hiding my self in layers. But I guess it was a little weird, I was wearing my red sweater, black high waisted shorts, black tights with hearts all over them, and black combat boots that stopped at my ankles. While Dipper was wearing a blue T-shirt, kaki shorts, black converse, and his hat, that he was currently fanning himself with. "Whatever you say, as long as I do t have to deal with you fainting in the shop." He let out chuckle and I lightly punched his arm. He hasn't been talking about Wendy that much lately. I asked Wendy about it and she said 'He's finally growin a pair.' I'm not sure what she means but I feel like we're getting to know each more and I really like him. Okay maybe I think it's cute the way looks when he's thinking. Or how he awkwardly tries to be swauve and cool. Or his brown eyes that I get lost in. Or maybe it's because I feel so safe near him, like nothing can hurt me when he's here. I like him...a lot...I guess.
After our break we go tell Stan about how he can't leave the house so it's a day to chill in the shack. The town is preoccupied by the press so customers are scarce and we close up for the day. I head up stairs to chat with Mabel but no one is up here. I look around their room and notice a red and gold cover sticking out from under Dipper's pillow. Jackpot. I found the book he's always hiding from me! I go to pick it up and barely touch it when my mind goes blank. I have a vision of a large blue glowing triangle surrounded by blue glowing circles and Stan is standing in front of it looking proud. The vision clears and I have the book open in my hands. It's open to a page that looks similar to a part of my vision. I try to read the fine print and scratchy handwriting when the book it taken from my hands.
Dipper POV
I saw the way Pep reacted to Pacifica and put the two together. Pacifica was obliviously the bully Wendy was talking about. Speaking Wendy I have decided, if you love something, let it go. She is a little older than me and will be going to college and I shouldn't be trying to win the heart of a girl I may or may not ever see again. I hope Pepper is okay it looked like Pacifica gave her a heart attack. I hate to see her like that, I never want to see her be afraid again. After we closed up I looked around the first floor for Pepper but couldn't find her. Maybe she was with Mabel? I wanted to talk to her about sneaking out to the lake tonight, the book had said something about a serpent monster that lies in the deeper area of the lake and I want to check it out.
I heard muttering coming from upstairs and walked quietly to the bedroom so I wouldn't interrupt Mabel and Pep's conversation. But as I got closer to the door the muttering sounded like it was coming from one person. I slowly opened the door and peeked in. Pepper was standing by my bed whispering to her self and staring blankly off into the distance. I looked at what she was holding...THE BOOK! The pages were flipping and fluttering about like some invisible wind was circling it. Pepper's eyes glowed a pale blue before the pages stopped and she seemed to come back to consciousness. She looked down at the pages in awe and confusion. What just happened? I carefully made my way over to her side and took the book form her. She looked up at me in surprise. "Uh oh gosh Dip uh I only just opened it I didn't skim it or anything, I'm sorry I just wanted to know what you kept hiding every time we go hiking." She looked really sorry and unaware that I just saw what happened. Did she know what just happened? "You could have asked, it's okay though as long you keep it a secret and tell no one kay. Mabel is the only other person who knows I have this. It's my personal journal of all things strange her in Gravity Falls. And I don't want other people to know I have this, it's special to me." She nodded quickly and stuck out her pinky. "I pink promise I won't mention it." I looked at her with an amused smile but she looked serious so I hooked my pinky with hers. I looked her in eye and whispered "Promise?" She shook our pinkies and replied "Promise." I flipped to the page about the lake monster. "Now that you know about it I guess I can share some of its secrets with you."
I explained to her some of my theories and she told me some of hers. I didn't know was into all the paranormal, like ghosts and creepy monsters like the hide-behind. It was getting late and I guess we could reschedule the monster hunt to a later date. The conversation was dying and I figured I should ask her about it. "Pep I when I came up stairs to look for you I saw you by my bed in some kind of trance, the pages of the book we blowing around, and your eyes...were glowing. Um...does that happen often?" Pepper went quiet and looked down at the floor, scared. Shit I didn't want to scare her! "I mean it wasn't weird, trust me I've seen weirder. I was just curious..." She seemed calmer and picked her head up but her eyes were still at the floor. "I've been like this since I was 13. I kinda psychic in the sense that I can read people's emotions and occasionally their minds. I...I don't want you to think I'm a monster like the ones in your book...I'm normal...just like everyone else I just have a sixth sense." I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Dude I'm far from scared of you. I'm actually impressed that psychics really exist and are not all like Lil fake Gideon and his tent of deception. So if anything I think your the coolest girl in town." Did I just say that? Fuck I think I'm turning red. "Really? You aren't afraid?" I nodded. Pepper gave me a surprise hug, I didn't realize how much shorter she was compared to me but she's at least like 5 feet tall. She was so cozy with sweater on, and her hair smelled like strawberries and vanilla. I was going to hug back when her phone started to ring. She released me rather reluctantly and looked at the time. "Shit! I'm late for dinner!" She ran to the door but stopped and spun around. "Thanks Dipper, I...I think your ...the coolest boy in town." She smiled and ran quickly home. I swear her face was as red as her sweater. I know mine was.
Pepper POV
It was the dead of night, long after I had gone to bed. I awoke frightened with wet cheeks and eyes. I was panting trying to calm my heart. I had a terrible dream about chased through the woods with Dipper and Mabel. The thing chasing us was getting closer and closer I could feel it right behind me. It starched at my back and I screamed as I tripped over a log. I feel blood soak the back of my sweater. The thing hovered over me muttering incoherent nonsense. I couldn't move I was frozen with fear. Last thing I heard before it's one eye glowed red was "FIND IT". That's when I woke up. I went to the bathroom and slosh water on my sweaty face. I have had this reoccurring dream since I touched Dippers book a one week ago. I think it's a vision or a warning of some kind, it had the same feel as the vision of Stan by the glowing triangle.
I took looked at my self in the mirror and noticed how one of my eyes seemed really irritated. I blinked and a drop of blood ran down my cheek. I panicked and flushed my face with cold water until my eye looked relatively normal again. I went back to bed and tried to forget about it. I probably just rubbed my eyes to hard. Yeah it will be fine in the morning...and it was. I shook it off and headed over to the shack for work but to my surprise there was shouting and yelling coming from inside. I opened the store door and saw the shack was a fucking mess. And who was going to have to clean it, me. I followed the sound of the yelling to the room where Stan keeps his safe. "I DESERVE THIS PLACE! HEAR ME PINES I WILL GET THAT DEED!" Gideon was battered and screaming at Stan who was holding the deed to the shack, glaring back at him. Dipper was in the middle of the two looking just as beat up as Gideon, I'm guessing they had a fight. This room was messy too, there were things all over the floor including Gideon's blue jacket. "I'll be back Pines. That's a promise!" Gideon picked up his jacket and I heard something fall from it but know one seemed to notice. He pushed me of his way before slamming the shop door.
I turned back to see Stan putting something in his breast pocket and Dipper cracking his neck. "Good morning? Uh what happened?" Dip rolled his eyes, "Gideon has been wanting control of the Mystery Shack since we were young. And he's hell bent on getting it. He broke in through the window to get the deed, but I heard something so I went to go check it out. I found him trying to crack the safe code, so I told him to scram and then he punched me in the jaw and we started to fight." I narrowed my eyes and raised a brow. "Boys...you always resort to violence." I reached for the first aid kit in the kitchen and sat Dipper down at the table. "Ow...ow ow." Dip flinched at the sting of the medicine. "Seriously how did you get cut?" I asked eyeing the marks on his arms. "He's got nails Pep! Girly pointy nails!" I patched him up and patted his hat. "Oh Dipper at least he didn't kill you~" I put away the kit and noticed it was time for my shift. "See you after work dude, don't hurt yourself!" I was Mabel and me were having a sleepover tonight.
Dipper POV
Work was ending soon an I was flipping trough the pages of book 3 looking for something about psychics. I felt my bandages, the cuts dint hurt anymore. Pepper really fixed me up good. I could feel my ears getting hot as I thought about the hug Pep gave me yesterday, damn it why does she have to be so nice and cute. I was spacing out and didn't notice Stan walking in the shop. "The hell you doing on my time? Reading? Sheesh what is this crap!" Stan was flipping through book 3. "Ah- hey give that back!" He started to chuckle. "Is this where you've been getting all you crazy conspiracy so from GEEZ ZOMBIES! HA What a laugh! I'm gonna borrow this for a bit kay?" He started to walked away. "No! Grunkle Stan come on!" He flash me a smile, "you need to get out more anyway I'll give it to you late tonight. Get you head out of this book and into the real world kid." And then he left. Awe come on what else could go wrong today...
Narrator
The kids were up stairs doing there sleepover thing and Wendy and Soos have gone home. Good now he could be alone. He quietly walked over the faulty vending machine and punched in a code. The vending machine slid to the left revealing a corridor. Stan walked in and slid the vending machine back in place. Down the secret passage he went and picked up a lantern along the hallway. He passed a room filled with dated machines and punched in a strange code into a keypad locked door. The door opened revealing a room with a door, a window, and a desk. He walked over to the desk on took out his book one sitting on his desk shelf. He opened it to the middle page. Then he took out his findings of the day. What Stan picked up after the fight with Gideon was book 2. Once he saw it fall out of Gideon's jacket he wasn't surprised, just annoyed that he didn't think to look for it on that brat. But when he saw Dipper with book 3 he felt so stupid. Of coarse the kid with the craziest imagination would have it! But it didn't matter now he opened each to the middle pages and put the books together forming a map or blueprint of some kind. In each book there was a code, he quickly punch the codes into a machine near by and to his excitement it turned on. He looked into the window to the other room. "It's working!" He swung open the door and jogged up to the machine. It was glowing blue with three circle and the triangular portal in the center. "Finally..." Stan stared proudly up at his effort. While upstairs a certain boy was growing impatient waiting for a certain book. He, his sister, and his crush would go looking for it soon, but would get a secret quite different from the one he tried to hide.
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