Chapter 2

Dipper unsure what to say, he opened his hands out to her and hugged her. She cried in his arms.

"Hello? HELLO!? Dipper where did you go?" said Pacifica from across the hall. Unsure to get up or stay he just sort of stood up.

"I'll be right back," said Dipper a little worried for her sister. He ran to his room explained everything to Pacifica and ended the call.

When he came back out the door his dad was waiting for him. Dipper looked at him like he didn't know him after three months of going to Gravity Falls and learned about growing up, and almost going to be Ford's apprentice.

"Hey D-man," his father said trying to be "hip and cool".

"Uh… Hey dad, I was just-" said Dipper before he was cut-off

"You had a Zkype call with a girl. I'm surprised that three months of leaving the city and you got a girlfriend. When I was your age I didn't even think about getting one, but you Dip you made me proud." Dipper's father was always a geek. He always got good grades, even straight A's from time to time. Dipper always looked up to him though he knew that he would never be as good as him. Though now he had met Ford who blew him away with his accomplishments. Dipper always felt a little difference between him and his dad and after meeting Ford he knew why.

"Thanks, I just want to check on Mabel," said Dipper.

"No problem, also love your new hat. Anyway I got to get back to making dinner," said Mr. Pines as he walked toward the staircase that connected the living room to the upstairs.

Dipper quickly went back to Mabel's room and found she was in "Sweater Town" as she called it and was rocking herself back and forth. Dipper came over and sat down next to her. He was unsure what to say though knew he had to be there. He started getting sweaty with all his fears.

"Mabel…," Dipper paused then coughed "I know nothing was it was going to be like when we got home, plus we still have Meow Wow with us." Meow Wow was a cat that Mabel got when she was young. She adored her so much, until she met Waddles.

"You don't understand Dipper, I always wanted a pig though was never able to and knew that Mom and Dad would never would agree, though I thought that they would be forced to let me keep it, but you know how well that turned out."

"Well… you know… um," Dipper said unknowing what to say

"Dinner is ready," yelled Mr. Pines.

Dipper and Mabel stared at each other and soon they got to the stairwell to get to the dining room.

When they got down they found that it was Taco Night and quickly went to their seats. As they sat down their parents put on Mexican music. Their parents wore sombreros and shook maracas while they tried to sing the lyrics of the song. This was a tradition the Pines had on every Taco Night.

After the parents embarrassing singing and dancing concluded they sat down and had their tacos.

"So," said Mrs. Pines as she was putting on sour cream on her taco, "I got some letters from you Mabel, and I got to ask, what did you mean that Great Uncle Ford came out of a portal?".

Dipper quickly looked at Mabel with a "why did you do that?" face.

Mabel, taking time to reply, said: "Oh, I meant that… um… that Great Uncle Stanley came up to stay with us for our last month and I accidentally said Ford because it's so hard to tell them apart and they both have Stan in their name. Stanley and Stanford, come on name them different like… Marcus and Garfield." When Mabel was done explaining her story she smiled a braces full smile.

All Mrs. Pines could do was just smile back and went back to enjoying her taco.

Dipper and Mabel just stared at each other in relief.

"So Dipper, you've been silent," says Mrs. Pines "Did you do anything fun while you were there?"

Dipper taking even more time to talk finally said: "I… uh got a girlfriend, and her name is Pacifica Northwest."

"Oh, well that's nice, I wondered who you were talking to on that Zkype call," said Mrs. Pines. "So did you have any bonding time with Great Uncle Ford, I knew you could relate to him because of his love for science."

"Yeah, he told me that he had seven PhDs, and he is also a fan of Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons, and after we-" he paused, the next thing he was going to do say when he had to fight Probabilitor the Annoying by playing as game pieces played by Stan and Mabel. He couldn't possibly talk to them about that.

"Yes?" said Mrs. Pines breaking the silence.

"And after we made Mabel and Stanley play and we totally owned them," Dipper lied.

"That's sounds fun."

"Yeah me and Stan totally got owned, and I'm sure that I will never face Dipper again."

Dinner went on with the twins answering their parents questions. One question asked about how did they get the Mystery Shack back. Dipper explained that their deed was stolen and they were able to get it back and the criminal was sent to jail.

Dipper then remembered Gideon. Gideon being a childhood sweetheart but inside was a monster able to get what he wants and the first time he was unable to get what he wanted was having Mabel like her. Too bad he was unable to survive Weirdmageddon and his father and mother could live in peace though his act of bravery set the town straight.

After dinner they washed their dishes and went upstairs to get to sleep.

"Remember kids, you got to wake up bright and early for your first day of 8th grade," said Mrs. Pines.