Norman stood there, staring into what Dipper and Mabel saw was thin air. Dipper and Mabel were standing behind Norman, watching Norman converse with the ghost they couldn't see. The boy, Jeremy, began to gather his books and his backpack that was scattered in front of him.
"So, you're the one they named after this subway system that was built but later turned into a middle school!?" asked Norman.
"Wait, WHAT!? Are you talking to a ghost version of Jeremy!?" yelled Dipper in excitement.
"Yes, he's right here in front of us," said Norman. "Jeremy, my name is Norman, and this is Dipper and his sister, Mabel."
"Nice to meet you and your friends," said Jeremy as he stood up and put on his backpack. He then put on his glasses.
"Nice to meet you and your friends," said Jeremy.
Norman turned his head slightly towards Dipper and Norman.
"Jeremy says it's nice to meet you both," said Norman.
"Cool!" said Mabel with a huge smile. "Jeremy, you're safe with us!"
"Jeremy, why don't you hang with us? We're sort of trying to solve a mystery about this middle school. Or, are you the one haunting the school!?" asked Norman.
Jeremy shyly let his head down. He seemed ashamed about something.
"It's not me! The kids you saw chasing after me and picking on me, they hang around the middle school," said Jeremy.
"But why would they be haunting the school!?" asked Norman.
"Good question," said Dipper. While he didn't here Jeremy speak, he at least heard Norman. Dipper took out a pen and began to take notes in his book.
"A long time ago, after I died, not long after, those same boys came up missing. My mother and father resigned as city councilmen when the police and fire department gave up the search," said Jeremy.
"Are those boys the kids of parents who were also on the city council for Gravity Falls?" asked Norman.
"Yes…they forced my parents to resign. They figured that I was haunting them. But, I wasn't! They made up a lie about me even after I died. But my parents knew I was being bullied by those same kids," said Jeremy. "The parents of those boys got jealous after the city voted to name the subway stop that's now a school after me."
Norman's hands were clenched, balled up into fists. The look on his face was of disdain and almost anger. He couldn't believe something so cruel could've happened, but he's seen and heard this story all too often.
"Out of curiosity…what's your last name!?" asked Norman.
"Falls…" said Jeremy.
"Uh…Dipper!?" asked a now surprised Norman. "Can you look up Jeremy Falls in your book!?"
"Jeremy Falls!? Could he be related to the city councilmen for district 3 for Gravity Falls…Wiley Falls!?" asked Dipper to Mabel.
"It's worth a shot…TO VICTORY!?" yelled Mabel. "To City Hall!"
"Jeremy, can you come with us. We want to help you. We want you to be at rest for good and not have to go through the bullying and torture over and over again," said Norman.
"There's nothing you can do, Norman. I'm sure of it!" said Jeremy.
"We can still try," said Norman.
"It's not in the book, but we can go to city hall. It's just down the road," said Dipper. "Then let's go, you can explain to us everything Jeremy said to you on the way there."
"OK, let's go," said Norman.
As Dipper and Mabel listened to Norman, Jeremy floated alongside of them, listening to the discussion they were having. They make it to the front of city hall and get ready to walk through the front door, when suddenly Wendy drives up in a pick-up truck and pulls over to the curb.
"Hey, guys! What's up!" yells Wendy.
"Wendy, HI!" yells Dipper as he runs back down the stairs from the city hall doors and towards Wendy.
"What are you doing here!?" asked Dipper.
"Just hanging, running errands for dad," said Wendy. "Who is the new guy?"
Wendy looked towards Norman looked towards Wendy. As Wendy smiled at Norman, Norman smiled and waved.
"Oh, that's Norman, he's just in town here on vacation. Grunkle Stan is letting his family stay with us at the Shack," says Dipper, almost nervously in front of Wendy.
"That's strange, I didn't know the Mystery Shack was a hotel too!?" said Wendy.
"I know, right!?" said Dipper as he chuckled.
As Wendy walked up the stairs towards the front door of city hall, Dipper followed behind.
"We're just doing a little research, just don't tell Grunkle Stan," said Dipper.
"You know I won't big D," said Wendy with a grin on her face.
"Yo, MABEL!" yelled Wendy as she walked up the stairs and high-fived Mabel.
"HI, I'm…I'm Norman," said Norman as he extended his arm in nervousness to shake Wendy's hand.
"Hi Norman, welcome to Gravity Falls," said Wendy. "Hope you can deal with all the weird stuff!"
"Oh, you have NO idea," said Norman. "I uh, like your hat!"
Dipper's eyes quickly averted to Norman. His facial expression was almost that of suspicion towards Norman.
"Thanks guy, I like your jacket! Red looks good on you," said Wendy.
Norman's face turned almost a complete red.
"So, uh, how about this investigation, huh!?" said Dipper. His suspicion was just about confirmed.
"Well, I better get going then. Nothing to do at city hall anyway," said Wendy. "Catch you guys later at the Shack tonight, okay!? We can watch a movie or something!"
"Bye Wendy" said Dipper and Norman at the same time.
Both boys looked at each other and began to laugh and then later grin. It was as if both knew what the other was thinking.
"Let's go in guys," said Dipper as Norman, Mabel and Jeremy walk through the doors and into city hall.
The marble floor was the first thing that caught the eye of the kids as they walked into the middle of the lobby. Above them was a dome ceiling with white words engraved above "City of Gravity Falls."
"We need to look for some pictures or some kind of information on a 'Wiley Falls,'" said Dipper.
"I can tell you that, though! Wiley Falls is my cousin. He ran for office after my parents resigned," said Jeremy towards Norman.
"Jeremy says that's his cousin," says Norman to Dipper.
"Well, let's go to the city hall's archives, or the information desk over there," said Mabel.
"Tell ya what, Mabel, why don't you go over to the information desk. Me and Norman will go to the city hall's archives and if you can't find anything at the desk just come over to the archives room," said Dipper.
"OK little brother," said Mabel with a smile on her face.
"Little brother!?" asked Norman.
"Only by a few seconds! But enough of that, I gotta ask you something," said Dipper as he, Norman and Jeremy walked over to the archives.
"Do you like Wendy!?" asked Dipper.
"What, ME, ha, no way!" said Norman.
"Really, Norman please! I saw you out there, what was that all about?" said Dipper.
"OK, fine, I do like her, she's awesome! But why!? You like her or something?" asked Norman.
"YES! How did you guess!" said Dipper.
"You couldn't be more obvious," said Norman with a smile on his face, almost chuckling.
"OK, OK, fine," said Dipper. "Look, she's taken anyway. Robbie V is going out with her."
"Whose that?" asked Norman.
"You'll meet him soon enough…maybe not if we're lucky. Look, if you like her, that's cool, I'm cool," said Dipper. "But, she might not be into long distance relationships though.
"Wanna bet!?" asked Norman. "You heard her, she said 'red looks good' on me!"
"HA, you're serious aren't you? OK, fine ghost boy, we can do this dance. By the end of the night, the one to impress Wendy the most get's wendy…with the responsibility of dealing with Robbie V of course!" said Dipper.
"Sounds like a plan then, 'little brother,'" said Norman as Dipper and Norman both shake hands on the deal.
Norman and Dipper along with Jeremy finally walk into the archive office. As they walk in, they see books and papers lined up along a large table in the middle of the room.
"It looks like someone's been in here," said Dipper. "Hey, this is luck on our side, a folder with information on Wiley Falls."
Dipper pulls up the folder and begins reading.
Inside it is a picture of Wily Falls and his voting record. Also inside is a one page biography of his life. A piece of paper slips out of the folder. The piece of paper is a newspaper clipping.
"Hey, look, something slipped out of the folder," said Norman as he picked it up. "Woah, Norman, look at this! The story about Jeremy's parents. Jeremy are these your parents!?"
Jeremy looked and nodded his head yes. Jeremy was looking at the clipping and noticed at the bottom of the article a bit of information on "haunting's" that were taking place at the school. They were describing seeing a 13-year-old kid with glasses standing around the halls at night.
"Wait a sec, Jeremy, I'm reading here they said they saw someone that's described to look like you in the haunting of the school," said Norman.
Jeremy kept his head down, his hair almost covering his face entirely.
"OK, I admit it…I haunted the subway stop, but not the school," said Jeremy. "And…I…well…sort of scared the bullies."
"Wait a sec…Jeremy…what happened," said Norman.
"Uh, Norman….I found something else. The boys, they didn't just end up 'missing' per se, but something happened in that subway stop," said Dipper. "It says the three boys were…" but Dipper stopped reading.
"You didn't!?" asked Norman to Jeremy.
"It was an accident," said Jeremy. "I didn't mean for them to…to…I…I just wanted to scare them."
Mabel opened the door to the archive room where Dipper and Norman were standing, talking to Jeremy.
"Guys, you won't believe what I just found out from the information desk. The three boys, they died after falling in front of a moving…" Mabel said as she stopped in mid-sentence. "What's wrong?"
Norman and Dipper look to Mabel with a stern look on their face and then turned to where Jeremy as standing.
"Better start talking," said Norman.