This is not how I imagined my life in Gravity Falls. I want to be going on adventures, solving mysteries! Laughing and being utterly disturbed!
but instead, I'm stuck at a twelve year old girl's slumber party. My stomach still hurts from that pizza I ate, the one that I didn't see was topped with glitter. I rub the horrid, sticky makeup off of my face.
I wish I was outside with Dipper, sleeping on the cold, hard ground, probably being slowly eaten by mosquitoes and rabbid wolves. Sounds like first class right about now.
instead, I just had to be born the opposite sex, so societal law dictates that when invited to a sleepover, I go and suffer at a sleepover. Stupid all X chromosomes.
"Okay, so who do you have a crush on, Grenda?" Mabel asks her friend.
"okay, don't freak out, but I have a crush on..." The girls wait in anticipation. I role my eyes.
"I have a crush on... Adrian Barnes!" The girls gasp. Even my sister, though she doesn't even know who the hell he's supposed to be.
"the pizza delivery boy? He's so cute!" Candy says, and they all break out into high pitched girlish screams. Except for Grenda, who lets out more of a roar.
"Who do you have a crush on, Terry?" Mabel asks my sister. I groan.
My sister looks delighted that she asked. "Well, my first love was when I was five years old..."
i sit up. "please just skip your entire history of your oh so complex love life and tell her your fucking crush!" I say, agitated.
"well then, miss grumpy wumps, who's your crush, then?" Terry asks with a grin.
I stutter. "Well, uh... I, I mean..." I really don't want to tell them, especially since they're the characters of Gravity falls.
"uh, um, I'm sure you wouldn't want to know..." I begin to sweat cartoonishly large water droplets.
"aw, come on, Ellie!" Terry begs. "Tell us, tell us, tell us!" The whole room begins to chant "tell us! Tell us!"
the pressure is too much for me. "Fine, I'll tell you! Just, please don't laugh, or be horribly disturbed."
"oh, come on. How could we be horribly disturbed by your love life?" Mabel asks. "Now, spill it, sister!"
they all are silent, awaiting my secret. I wonder if I should just bolt out of the room and into the woods where they'll never find me. At the same time I think that this is the stupidest thing ever. They are waiting for my reply like its the countdown of Apollo 11.
I gulp. "Well, he's well dressed..." They nodd for me to go on. "Confident, and has a good sense of humor..."
"Oooooh, sounds classy!" They all say in unison. If that wasn't creepy, it was going to get way creepier...
"he is older, and kind of weird, but really..." I blush as I say the word. "Hot. I mean, he looks kind of dorky when you first see him, but then..."
"Oh, I can't take it anymore! Who is this mystery man my sister is crushing on?!" Terry squeals.
"well, he is a mystery, but I wouldn't say he's really a man."
" oh, man, boy, whatever." Mabel says.
"well, he's not really either." I say. At this they all look confused.
"his name is..." They all hold their breath.
I bite the bullet. "Bill. Cipher."
their smiles all disappear from their faces. They turn pale. Except for Mabel, who is now a dark shade of green.
"I told you you wouldn't want to know.
after the whole crush talk, the party is now pretty much over. God, I haven't been this embarrassed since my friends got together one time and somehow the talk turned to ghosts and demons. I pretty much scarred all of them for life. Me and Bill Cipher have more in common than is accepted by the sane mind. Maybe my sister isn't so crazy in comparison to me after all.
everyone in the room is silent. We have all crawled into our sleeping bags, but none of us are sleeping. I imagine everyone is feeling a bit sick, and won't be able to fall asleep for a while now.
its just getting too awkward for me. I pick up my stuff and head outside. Dipper is sitting beneath a tree, reading a book under a book light.
"hey," I say. He looks up. "Oh hey! So how'd you escape from their glittery clutches?" He asks.
I chuckle. "Well, I may or may not have scarred them for life. By the way, I think your sister may be avoiding me for a while."
"oh, yeah? What'd you say?" Dipper asks.
I had hoped he wouldn't ask that question. "Uh, that uh... Cheese, is actually bacteria infested curdled milk!" I say with a sheepish grin.
Dipper laughs. "Well, that sure is some tasty bacteria!" He says, popping a cheese flavored snack food into his mouth.
I don't think I should tell him the truth. I need at least one of the mystery twins to like me, if we are going to defeat the evil, and incredibly hot triangular demon.
we talk and laugh all night, chasing off wolves and seeing what that dark object hidden in the tree is. It turns out to be a bees nest.
after we dress our wounds, we head back outsid and look up at the night sky. Dipper speaks.
"do you ever wonder if there's just some secret, some mystery that you don't even know your looking for, even though the answer is right under your nose?" I shrug. I don't entirely know what he means.
"I know it kind of sounds crazy, but I feel like there's just something big that's about to happen, like something that will change all of our lives! And I feel, like it's going to happen soon."
my mind flashes back to previous episodes of the series. Quotes flow through my mind. "Stacking meat for the apocalypse, doodle do..." "Bury your gold!" Reality is an illusion the universe is a hologram buy gold bye!" "Maybe you could help me with something I've been working on" "a day will come in the future when everything you care about will change!" I've got big plans coming, and I don't need you getting in my way!" "Big things are coming! You can't stop me!" "The Apacolypse! The end times!" "I don't care if it's dangerous, I don't care how long it takes. Nothing's gonna stop me, and no ones gonna get in my way!" "It looks like they were preparing for some kind of disaster" "not what he seems. Not what he seems. Not what he seems."
Images flash through my mind of Stan and the portal, and the tapestry at northwest manor. I remember the poem that haunts my every thought. "No puppet strings can hold me down. So patiently I watch this town. The abnormal soon will be the norm. Enjoy the calm, before. The. Storm."
Enjoy, kid. Follow your dreams. they'll soon become nightmares.
sombody whispers in my ear. I shudder. I know what's coming. I don't know exactly how it will happen, or when, But I know about the Apacolypse. I know about the portal. I don't know why Bill brought me here, but I know I'm part of his plan. A single thread in the intricate web he weaves. He has plans for me. And know that they are gonna be big.
the wind rustling through the pine needles seem to whisper "enjoy the calm, enjoy the calm..."
My eyelids droop heavily. I finally give into the unrelenting power of sleep. But true sleep, in a time like this, is only a dream.
Enjoy the calm before th storm