Chapter 2: A Visitor

DIPPER POV

I entered the guest room. It basically was a copy of our room, as it was right across the hall. There was a double wide bed, a desk, an oil lamp, a couple of shelves, and tons of cobwebs. I sighed and pulled out the mop. It was stained brown from the time Soos and I had mopped the floor with teriyaki sauce. It had smelled good, but over the course of the next week, my bug bites spelled out longer words then beware (Stan said it was 'Bewarb'). I shivered at the thought. The malaria hadn't been too bad.

I went back to the task at hand. The walls were brown, so I could almost never find the mop head when it fell off. All the cobwebs were almost gone when Mabel burst in.

"Dipper…..person….paper….ran…..forest." she panted.

"So you ran in the woods with a person who gave you a piece of paper," I guessed.

"No!" she said, shocked at the suggestion. "I was sweeping the porch and I saw someone, taller than Grunkle Stan, with a young girl. When they saw me, they ran into the woods. The person dropped this." She showed me the paper.

"2471B?"

"Yep."

"I wonder what it means." I turned back to the cobwebs and vanquished them to dust. Mabel had brought a blanket on her way and we made the bed.

"I wonder why Gruncle Stan had us clean this if he has no guests except us," said Mabel, echoing my thoughts.

"He's a strange man," I said. "We should go down to the store. I heard Gruncle Stan needs some certain kids to do some marketing." We trudged downstairs.

MABEL'S POV

When we entered the store, the tourists were in the process of wasting their money. The number kept running through my head.

'2471B….2471B…' I was snapped out of my thoughts as a deep voice sad "Excuse me." I looked up and gasped. It was the mysterious man. A hooded black cloak coved his eyes, revealing some 5-o'clock shadow.

"How much is this burned toast?" he asked.

"It's not burned toast, it's a fossil!" I explained to him. He roared with laughter. The other tourists were starting to file out of the store. Now the only people in the room were Gruncle Stan, Dipper, me, the mystery man, and his young accomplice. He started walking towards the door. Stan held out his sack of mystery (you put your money in, it magically disappears.). The man was about to put a dollar in, when he snatched it back. Stan looked at him in confusion.

"Don't be so surprised, Stan." Stan was stunned that the man knew his name. Seeing his shocked face, the man laughed again.

"You haven't recognized me yet?" He chuckled as a look of realization spread across Stan's face. The man threw his hood back. Stan gasped.

"You," Stan whispered hoarsely.

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She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen….

"You're just like Stan"….

"Kids, this is a childhood friend"…..

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