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For Dipper, it had, so far, been a regular Wednesday in the town of Gravity Falls, so regular that it, in fact, was not regular at all. Most people would classify a day that they get chased by a creature of unimaginable horror to be a very irregular day, yet, for the young detective of the Mystery Shack, this happened so regularly that a day without some interaction with the supernatural is a very strange day indeed. He didn't complain, it was nice to have a day or two once in a while where he didn't have Gnomes, Liliputtians, Mechanical lake monsters or other monstrosities sharing the common goal of killing the adolescent. Instead, he relaxed, in front of the TV, alongside Soos, Wendy, and his sister. Wednesday night is the regular day of the week that Mystery Shack movie night is hosted, ever since the Mystery Twins had arrived for their second summer in town, Dipper and Wendy had turned the viewings into a much less private situation, but sometimes they did like to have a movie night where there wasn't Soos loudly eating crisps or Mabel shouting at the television.
Tonight the movie being viewed was a terrible 90's ripoff called "Alligators' On a Train". So far the immense reptiles had eaten about 3 (and a half) women who all looked remarkably similar. "Cheap acting" Dipper thought. Despite the terrible special effects and easily noticeable recording apparatus, Soos was still terrified.
Dipper had had little sleep after starting his investigation into Gnomes' using Gremloblins as living tanks and riding them as if they were horses, and he slowly began drifting off into the realm of the almost-conscious-but-not-quite, before falling into the full-on-sleepyhead-mode that Mabel called it.
This young boy falling asleep at movie nights was a regular occurrence, and usually his redheaded crush would wake him up by shaking him. This time is did not work, and Wendy eventually gave up trying, although she didn't realize that Mabel knew she had her hand on Dipper's, and she frankly couldn't care less.
"She's worse than Dipper." The pint-sized prankster muttered to herself, before picking up her pet pig Waddles, and going upstairs for the night, which gave Soos the courage to sneak out and run back to his Abuelita's house, away from the spooky scary alligators. This left just Wendy and a less-than-conscious Dipper, whom the lumberjill fell asleep next to.
"Um, W-Wendy?" Dipper had woken up confused, albeit comfortable, due to the fact that he had two long arms surrounding him. Those arms belonging to his secret sweetheart. "W-why are you s-sleeping on the floor next to me?" He was especially nervous in this situation.
"Sunlight? D-Dipper?" An unusually tall teen yawned, not yet remembering movie night, "Oh yeah, Dip, you uh, fell asleep and I guess Mabel did her usual messing around after I dozed off." Wendy fibbed.
"Oh, uh, o-okay, so you can uh... Take you arms off me now...? If you want."
'Pfft, no way in hell I want to do that, guess I have to though.' Wendy thought to herself.
"Y...Yeah, sure." She released her clutch on Dipper slightly reluctantly.
"O-kaay, that was weird, and what was that about you having to do something?" Dipper had been beetroot red ever since he realized the circumstances he'd woken up in, and luckily he hadn't heard the full sentence that his secret admirer had absentmindedly thought out loud.
"What? I didn't say that nope, no way!" Wendy awkwardly blurted out, trying to hide her quickly reddening cheeks. After an awkward 'see ya' Dipper made his way up to his room, shut the door, and squealed much akin to Waddles's native language, and the pig was very confused because Dipper's ear-splitting cry translated into "The coyotes are coming for our sweetbreads".
The young man jumped onto his bed and practically tore his notepad out of his bedside drawer. He quickly began scribbling things down. He was pretty sure that she had accidentally ingested a love potion and was now infatuated with him. But he didn't want to jump to conclusions, so he not half calmly wrote down the following;
"Constant blushing? Check
Muttering under her breath? Check
Mabel giggling whenever she's around? Check"
And after reading and checking a few other boxes, he convinced himself that he was old enough for Wendy.
"B-but what if I'm wrong? Getting turned down twice is a good way to make a girl completely want nothing to do with you! A-and if she tells her friends this time, I'll be teased like hell! Robbie will probably try and fight me again and then I'm screwed for the rest of the summer! And even if she does actually like me, she'll probably just say no because she won't want things to go bad and not have us be friends anymore. Crap!" Dipper said to himself, worried, confused, and kind of scared.
Little did he know, the cause of all these emotions was standing right outside his door, on the verge of tears after realizing the problems she had caused he best friend. She muttered some obscene word under her breath and walked downstairs, and riding he bicycle back home, she knew the path well enough that she could get home safely without her tears causing problems.