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Chapter 2: Summer begins

"Alex, I'm bored."

"That makes two of us."

"Three, actually."

It was a normal day in California, the summer vacations were starting. However, three siblings were just sitting in the couch of their living room, not knowing what to do.

"Summer is supposed to be fun." Lily said while combing her straight brown hair.

"Do you think we'll go to Gravity Falls this year?" Lizzie asked, reading her new mystery book. The girl and her twin were just slightly different in appearance. Lizzie had brown curly hair and she needed to use glasses, not to mention, she had six fingers in each hand.

"I think so." Alex answered with a shrug. He was now a thirteen year old boy. He didn't look like his ten year old sisters at all. He had golden hair that matched his golden eyes. If it wasn't for the mark in his forehead, he would think he was adopted.

"I want to go." Lily commented with a smile. "The town is fun, and I want to see our great grunkles!"

"I'm with you there." Lizzie smiled at her twin. "They are always happy to see us."

"You are right." Alex agreed, however, he had a small frown on his face "But I don't like the fact that they don't let us go to the forest."

The three siblings heard the front door open and their parents voice.

"We're here!"

"We bought pizza!"

That last statement from their mother made the three kids jump from their seat

"Pizza!" Lily arrived to the small kitchen table and sat down. Alex rolled his eyes at this and, with a playful smile, he carried the girl and put her on the floor, earning a offended look from her.

"We have to set the table." He reminded the girl.

After a few minutes, the family was eating dinner happily, and soon, an announcement was made.

"We will go to Gravity Falls this year." Dipper said with a smile, making the girls scream with excitement while Alex only smiled.

"Awesome! It's a pity we couldn't go last year." Lizzie sighed while she remembered her last summer.

"That chicken pox was horrible." Lily shivered at the memory, but quickly changed her expression. "Will we camp in the forest like the last time?"

"Sure." Pacifica answered, smiling. "But we won't go to deep in the forest."

"Come on!" Lizzie frowned at this. "I want to explore the forest."

"I agree with Lizzie." Alex hugged his sister by the shoulders. "Gravity Falls is full of super weird things and we barely see any of it."

"We can explore it together in a few years." Dipper said with a small frown on his face. "But I really don't like the idea of you going into the forest alone. Jane was captured by the gnomes the last time we visited the shack."

"Well yeah, but James and I rescued her." Alex ate a small slice of pizza before talking again. "Besides, that was two years ago. Lily and Lizzie haven't really seen the whole forest."

"He is right." Lily crossed her arms, looking with a frown on her face at her parents. "We are now ten, the same age Alex had when James, Jane and him went to the forest for the first time. We can explore the forest now."

"They were accompanied by me and your aunt Mabel." Dipper said, adding information to the girl's statement. "And I understand why you want to go to the forest so badly, I was just as curious as you when I was younger. If you really want to explore the place by yourselves, you will have to follow my instructions, are we clear?"

Dipper took the girls' screams as a yes and then, the twins went closer to their parents and hugged them.

"Thanks dad!" Lily exclaimed, while her father returned the hug his joyful daughter was giving to him.

"We will behave." Lizzie was hugging her mother. "I promise."

"But I don't."

"Lily!"

"Come on, sis." The girl broke the hug and was watching her serious twin with a smile. "Summer is meant to be fun!"

Lizzie rolled her eyes but returned the smile her twin was giving her.

Alex only watched all this from his seat.

"Is something wrong, Alex?"

The 13 year old boy turned to his side to see his father watching him with curiosity

The family had finished their dinner. Lily and Lizzie were now in their room while Alex washed the dishes

"Not really." He answered, his attention returning to the glass he was washing while Dipper frowned at him.

"Not really, huh?" Dipper grabbed a plate the boy just washed and began to dry it. "You are usually pretty joyful around your sisters, but you seemed a bit down at dinner."

Alex mentally cursed the advice his aunt gave to his father about reading emotions.

"I'm fine, I'm just thinking about Gravity Falls, that's all."

"Oh, right." Dipper sighed. "You don't really like the place, do you?"

Alex didn't know what to answer.

If someone asked him about his feelings for Gravity Falls, he would say that he loved the town. Stan and Ford lived there and always had a smile for him, the town people were pretty funny and the creatures that lived in the forest were fantastic.

However, he felt a little... odd in Gravity Falls.

It was as if he knew the town better than anyone else, and whenever he was in there, he felt like he wasn't... really him.

He felt incomplete.

But what was missing?

"I love Gravity Falls." The boy said to his father. "But I always feel a little... weird in the town, I don't know why."

Dipper only raised an eyebrow at hearing this, but quickly smiled at his son. "Maybe you are just not used to all the weird things that live in there."

Alex returned the smile his father was giving him.

"Yeah, it's probably that."

"We are here!" Lily exclaimed.

The family spent two days packing all the stuff they would need for a summer in Gravity Falls. Now, they have finally arrived to their beloved Mystery Shack.

Lily and Lizzie quickly got out of the car and went running to the shack's door, where Stan and Ford were waiting for them.

"Wow, kid, careful." Stan smiled at Lily, who was hugging him with all her force. "I'm in my eighties, my back hurts more than ever."

Alex smiled when he saw his little sisters hugging the two old men.

"Alex, you have changed." Ford smiled at the young boy.

"Yeah, you are taller, do you still have your cracking puberty voice?"

"My voice didn't crack!" Alex rolled his eyes at Stan's comment, but hugged the two men anyway before smiling and saying. "I missed you."

"Missed you too, kiddo." Stan smiled at the three siblings. "Well, let's enter. You kids can go to the attic and unpack while we greet your parents."

Lily and Lizzie entered the shack with their big pink and purple backpacks, Alex followed them happily with his yellow backpack.

Dipper and Pacifica happily walked towards the two men and then Dipper hugged the two of them while his wife only smiled at them.

"Is Mabel coming this year?" Dipper asked.

"She is, but she will arrive in a few days. She will be with us one full week before visiting her husband's family." Ford answered.

"I wanted her to stay longer, but it is fair." Stan commented while entering the shack, followed by the rest. "They always come here for the summer and Christmas."

Meanwhile, in the attic, two girls were decorating their side of the room while Alex began to organize his clothes..

"I thought our grunkles would give you your own room." Lizzie commented with a small frown.

Alex acted like he was hurt with her comment. "You don't want me to be with you two?" the boy put a hand on his chest and dramatically laid down on his bed, making the two girls laugh.

"It's not that, silly." Lily smiled at his brother before laying down at his side. "But we thought you would want more privacy now that we are growing up and all that stuff."

"Hey, I like being with you two." Alex reached his hand to Lizzie so that she could lay with them. The girl understood and soon, the three of them were peacefully staring at the ceiling. Alex, being in middle of the small group, began to gently stroke the girls' hair. "Besides, there aren't a lot of rooms in the shack, so you will have to deal with me this summer."

"That's not a problem." Lily closed his eyes at her brother's touch, enjoying the peaceful moment.

The three of them stayed like that for a little while, before realizing that their stuff were barely organized in the room.

"Let's unpack tomorrow." Lizzie said with a groan when she felt her brother leaving her side.

"My responsible sister wants to procrastinate." Alex raised an eyebrow to the girl with glasses and laughed when she looked at him with an offended look. "We will have all the summer to be together. Let's unpack before our parents call us for dinner."

The seven family members were enjoying a delicious meal. The three siblings were talking about their school year.

"I joined the art's club" Lily said proudly. "It's really fun!"

"You are very similar to Mabel when she was young" Ford commented with a smile.

"Meanwhile, my little nerd sister it's the best girl in her class." Alex said, outing his arm around Lizzie, who blushed a little.

"It's not a big deal…"

"Not a big deal?" Lily rolled her eyes at her sister's shy attitude. "My sister is super smart and she has the highest grades in the school. She is the next Albert Einstein!"

Lizzie's blush make all the adults in the room chuckle.

"What about you, Alex?" Stan turned his attention to the boy. "What have you been up to?"

"Not much." The boy answered. "But I've been thinking about taking karate classes."

"You never mentioned that." Dipper raised an eyebrow at this "Why do you want to learn karate?"

"It seems interesting." The boy answered before looking at Lizzie for a few seconds.

The little girl was beautiful, smart and kind. She was a little shy, but when she was with her family, the girl was almost as joyful as her twin. However, her six fingers were a curse to her.

Just a few weeks ago, Alex saw how some kids at her school were bothering her in a small corner at the school. They were calling her freak, monster, ugly…

The small girl didn't know how to get out of the situation, and she could only cry that moment. Luckily for her, Alex saw this and quickly gave the kids a lesson before hugging the girl and taking her home.

None of the siblings have mentioned the incident to their parents.

"Oh, and Alex needs to use glasses." Alex was a little thankful for Lily's comment.

"My right eye is a little useless." The boy said. "I have myopia in that eye but my left eye is perfectly fine, it's a little weird."

"Nothing in our family is normal." Stan commented with a shrug while Ford only saw at the boy with a curious look on his face.

"It's like I don't belong here"

It was now 1:00 am and the 13 year old boy was staring at the ceiling, not feeling tired at all.

Lizzie and Lily were sharing a bed in their side of the attic. Lily was hugging a little teddy bear while Lizzie had in her arms her mystery book. The little girl had fallen asleep while reading it.

"They are really different from each other." Alex thought with a smile "But they are always together."

In that moment, Lizzie accidentally dropped the book, and Alex could see one of her hands.

One of her six fingered hands.

The boy closed his eyes, trying to ignore the guilty feeling he had whenever he saw his little sister's extra fingers in Gravity Falls.

He felt like he needed to say something.

"But what? And why?"

He felt great in the afternoon, he felt great at dinner. He enjoyed his time with his family and felt at peace.

However, when it was time to sleep, the boy was left alone with his thoughts.

Sure, he enjoyed spending time with his family but…

"It's like I don't deserve it."

Alex closed his eyes, ignoring the guilty feeling he had for no reason.