Chapter 3

Dipper woke up seeing that the sun was coming over the horizon. He checked his watch, and read 6:00 in the morning. The twins had to be at school by 7:30. He quickly went to Mabel's room and shook her awake.

Mabel woke in a startle and yelled: "No, don't take him away!" She looked at Dipper and she stared for a couple of seconds until she got up and ran for the bathroom.

Dipper, waiting for his sister's thirty minute shower went downstairs, grabbed a bowl of cereal and sat at the table.

Mr. and Mrs. Pines came downstairs and started making bacon for the twins and in the process brewed some coffee. Dipper, still looking tired and wished he could sleep for two more hours just looked up at his parents and simply said "Mornin'."

His parents said the same in the same tone and went back trying to get some energy for their day ahead.

Mabel got out of the shower leaving Dipper only a bit of warm water, which was like every other morning and got showered and dressed.

Dipper then took his backpack and took out the summer memories of Gravity Falls and stopped when he found the magnetizing gun, which Ford and him used to scale the alien spacecraft and nearly lost his great uncle, until he was turn into stone then was set free.

Dipper hid it before his parents investigated it, so he found a little space in closet which was a perfect fit and set it there.

While Dipper was doing that Mabel was also looking through her summer memories, specifically her scrapbook and saw all the "Random Dance Parties" she had with Soos, Wendy and Waddles. Most of her pictures had Waddles in them, she felt her tears coming on and decided to put the scrapbook away. She kissed Waddles who was asleep in the corner.

She got settled along with Dipper both getting out of their rooms at the same time walking down the stairwell. They grabbed a couple pieces of bacon and headed out the door. The twins walked down their street, realizing that all the houses on the street looked similar and kept that thought out.

They walked silently, unknowing what to say, they were able to talk to each other easily, but it just seemed impractical. The ride back home seemed that way as well as they saw what bad things could happen. They barely had anytime to recover from it. It was their birthday then straight to California.

They made it to the bus stop and waited for the bus.

"Hey, Dipper?" said Mabel finally.

"Yeah?"

"I know it has seemed so awkward ever since we got back from Gravity Falls. Have you felt it too?"

"Yeah, it seemed as if we have been unable to talk in a real conversation. Also with all that weirdness that we went through kinda made everything more practical and that everything seems too... too-"

"Normal."

"Yeah."

Silence again. It seemed the twins were so alive in Gravity Falls but it led them now feeling that they would never feel that love again from that town.

Finally the bus came. The twins got on and got to an open seat. The bus always picks up a couple houses before them so it wasn't to hard.

Dipper sat down first and Mabel sat down after. Dipper looked out of the window and looking at his room's window. He saw the emptiness of the room like the love of Gravity Falls gone.

Mabel was also looking at the window too at her window though she was thinking about Waddles and his impending doom of being taken to a farm in the rural areas of California.

The bus finally moves and so did their thoughts. The bus stopped at another stop and had other kids join such as one of the popular kids, Alex Richard. He was a lady magnet as well as he was rich. The only reason he was so popular was because of his wealth. Dipper and Mabel haven't been there but heard that he the new gaming consoles such as the X-Cube One and the Playnation 4. He stared at them for a second that sat a couple rows down.

After, the bus made it to school. The twins got off and stood in front of Two Peaks middle school. They walked up the steps, into the doors and went into the auditorium listening to the principal, Mr. Bailey, talking about school The twins found some open seats and sat down not really paying attention.

Mr. Bailey talked about summer, then he talked about grades and what the 6th grade should expect. Then, all of a sudden the thing that got the twins attention. "We like to show you our new officers… well not officers but agents welcome Agent Powers and Agent Trigger." said Mr. Bailey.

Dipper and Mabel look at each other in shock.