A/N: Mabel's heart breaks every time she goes to see Mermando. Dipper/Mermando and Mabel/Mermando.
Submission for:
Electron Carpet Shuffle Challenge: Forbidden Romance
Disclaimer: I do not own Gravity Falls.
It was past midnight, the moon hidden behind the large clouds that floated above the lake. Everything was still except for the slight movement of the water caused by the fish swimming beneath its surface.
"Hello?" someone asked as they stepped towards the shore and walked along the short pier. "Mermando?"
The person waited for a moment before the water's surface was broken by a tanned young man. Small droplets of water clung to his skin, his long brown hair flowing around him, as he swam closer to the pier. "Dipper, you came," the young man said, a smile gracing his lips.
The teen on the pier returned the smile and crouched down towards the tanned man. "Of course I did," he said. "I missed you."
The tanned man leaned out of the water, the dim light glinting off the scales which rose above its dark surface and extended below, to grab the teen's face, pulling him in for a sweet kiss.
They both knew what they were doing was wrong, forbidden on so many levels. They aren't supposed to be meeting at all. The tanned merman was married to the Queen of the Manatees and Dipper had just begun dating Pacifica, but he couldn't help it. After that first accidental kiss last summer, he had fallen for the teen hook, line and sinker.
When they released, the tanned man jumped out of the water to sit beside the teen on the pier, placing their hands together. Dipper looked down and then into the merman's smiling face before looking away. He should be happy, right? Here was someone who loved him beyond all measure, someone who came out to see him on this cloudy night as they talked about everything.
But Dipper was not happy, because Dipper was not Dipper. Dipper was at home sleeping in Mabel's bed while she had taken his body out for this secret meeting. It was really her the tanned boy was meeting up with after midnight by the lake since the beginning of summer, it was really her he was sending those romantic bottle messages, and it was her heart that broke every time she had to remind herself that Mermando loved Dipper and not her.
