Dipper's Name

"What is your first name?" Wendy asked.

Dipper winced. He knew someone would ask eventually, but he'd hoped he could just blow them off. Unfortunately he couldn't just blow Wendy off. "It's embarrassing is what it is."

"Your parents named you Embarrassing?" Soos asked.

"What? No," Dipper said shaking his head. "You know how parents of twins give them connected names?"

"Like Sandy and Andy?" Wendy guessed.

"Gabel?" Soos offered.

"I don't think people use that as a first name," Dipper said. "Anyway-"

"Abel," Wendy interrupted. "Able and Mabel fits."

"Close but no cigar," Dipper said. "They don't rhyme, they're just connected. When they saw my forehead they recalled a passage from the bible…"

"The mark of Cain upon his brow," Soos said quietly.

"Cain and Mabel," Dipper said with a sigh.

"No way!" Wendy exclaimed.

"I always pictured Mabel as the evil twin," Soos said.

"Nope, he's the evil one," Mabel interjected with a grin.

"It's a cool name," Wendy told him.

"Adults always assume it's a nickname I earned by being a little monster," Dipper said shaking his head. "And I'd get called Candy or Sugar by the guys, so naturally I'd get in a lot of fights, which the adults would assume I started because I was 'raising Cain'."

"Tough break, dude," Wendy said.

"Seriously, I always thought you were the evil twin," Soos told Mabel.

"Nope, Dipper just pretends to be good, he's evil to the core!" Mabel assured him.

"Yes, I'm hardcore evil," Dipper deadpanned.

"I'm pretty sure Waddles is eviler than you," Wendy told him.

"Waddles is too cute to be evil!" Mabel exclaimed holding her pet pig up for inspection.

"Lamb costume," Wendy said flatly. "It was so cute I almost went diabetic and he did it to save me and the guys since he'd already gotten the ghosts to leave you two alone."

Dipper pulled his cap down to cover his face, his ears bright red.

"I'm not becoming the evil twin," Mabel said. "I've seen the Disney movies, it'd ruin my cuteness."

"Samson and Delilah would have been cooler names," Soos said.

"I think I'd have to be a southern belle to carry that off," Mabel said.

"Samson is a cool name," Dipper admitted.

"You can be Delilah, I'll be Samson, I have the hair for it," Mabel told him.

"Not happening," Dipper said.

"Romeo and Juliet," Mabel said. "I always wanted to play Juliet."

"Romeo as a name would get me in even more fights than Cain," Dipper said.

"Dude, that rhymed!" Soos said.

"I feel a dance number coming on!" Mabel exclaimed.

"Nope, no musicals here," Dipper said shaking his head. "We are not going to suddenly burst into song."

"Spoil sport," Mabel said pouting.

"I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying I have never seen it happen," he disagreed.

"It would if you'd just go with it!" Mabel exclaimed.

"She wants spontaneous song and dance numbers and yet I'm the evil one," Dipper groaned.

In the back of journal three a section of blank page blackened, as words were burned into the page. "To Summon Sweet…"

Typing by: Bankrupt Samurai