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Chapter 4: Similarities
"Well, today is a nice day."
"More like a boring day"
"Don't say that, Lizzie. Fairies are fun!"
Three siblings were walking peacefully in the forest. One of them, was a calm blond boy, behind him was a girl with brown curly hair and six fingered hands, and by her side was walking a cheerful girl with straight brown hair.
"Our little apple is right" Alex tried to cheer his nerd sister a little, "Besides, maybe we can walk into one of the creatures that were in those papers."
"I doubt that." Lizzie sighed. "Most of those creatures are not freely walking in the forest in the middle of the day."
"Right, but we cannot explore this place at night." Her brother pointed. "So, let's enjoy what we have, okay Sherlock?"
Lizzie rolled her eyes, but smiled anyway at her brother's nickname for her. "Are you going to keep calling me Sherlock?"
"Yep." The boy turned around to smile at his sibling. "You are so curious that you remind me of a magnifying glass, but that is way too long to be a good nickname, so I'll just call you Sherlock"
"Well, thanks" Lizzie chuckled at her brother's weird creativity..
"Ugh, I'm tired." Lily groaned. "Why don't we go back? We already saw a few fairies"
"Lily! Come on!"
"But I'm hungry!"
"Apple, you are always hungry" Alex said rolling his eyes. "But I packed some fruit in my backpack, so we will eat in a bit. Come on, we're close to where the fairies live."
Lily stopped complaining and twenty minutes later the three siblings were standing in front of a big tree full of fairies of all colors."
"Cool!" Lily sat in front of the tree, watching in awe the image in front of her.
"They are beautiful." Lizzie smiled and took a seat at her twin's side
"Not so boring now, huh?" the boy sat behind both girls and began to open his backpack. "Let's eat something now."
The three of them began to eat while watching the fairies, who sometimes came closer to them and danced for them.
"They seem so happy." Lily laughed at a fairy who began to make silly faces to her. "I wish I could be one of them."
Alex blinked at the girl's comment. "If you say that again, I'll be concerned about your mental health."
Lily just rolled her eyes at her brother. "I say that because of how fun their life seem to be, don't worry silly."
The three of them stayed silent for a moment before Lily remembered something important.
"Oh my God! Alex!" the girl gasped, alarming the blond teen.
"What, what's the matter?" the boy face was full of concern.
"Your birthday is this Monday!" Alex sighed with relief.
"Don't scare me like that." The boy then put a hand on his chin. "But you are right, my birthday is this Monday, I almost forgot."
"Yeah, and I need to bake you a cake and I haven't bought the ingredients for it!" the girl left out a groan full of frustration before looking at her twin with determination in her eyes. "Lizzie! You will help me!"
"What? But I'm terrible at baking." The girl was right, let's just say that, since the last time she tried to help her sister in the kitchen, the family had to buy a fire extinguisher and place it near the kitchen.
"I know that, but you can accompany me tomorrow to buy the ingredients." The cheerful girl said.
Lizzie accepted and the three siblings soon finished their little meal.
"Well, it's time to go back." Alex said, standing up and stretching his body a little.
They went back to the sack, however, Lizzie seemed a little bit down on the way home.
"Don't be sad, Sherlock." The boy put a comforting hand on the girl's small shoulder.
"I wanted to have more interesting things to discover" the six fingered girl sighed "I don't understand, what can be so dangerous?"
"I don't know, Sherlock." The boy said, watching his shy sister while also making sure that the little apple was behind them. God, being the older sibling was hard "But we still can see some cool things together, maybe tomorrow we can explore a little deeper in the forest and look for some eyebats, what do you say?"
"You mean it?" the girl's eyes shined with hope, making her older brother smile.
"Deal?" the boy offered a handshake.
"Deal." Lizzie accepted it.
"You're back!" Pacifica smiled at her son and at her daughters "I have great news, your cousins will arrive tonight."
The pair of twins screamed with excitement.
"Let's make tents in the attic!" Lily exclaimed "We will have a big pajama party this weekend!"
Both girls ran at full velocity to the attic, followed by their brother, who had a grin on his face.
"JANE! JAMES!"
An older pair of twins was received in the Mystery Shack with the hug of two young girls.
"We missed you too." Jane laughed while trying to free herself from the hug Lizzie was giving her.
"Man, you two have changed a lot." James did the same thing with Lily.
Both 14 year olds had black hair, however, their faces reminded people a lot of how Mabel and Dipper looked when they were young. Jane was a serious girl with a love for mystery while James was more cheerful and seemed interesting in games, arts and cooking like his cousin Lily.
"It's good to see you guys." Alex hugged both of the twins.
"Well, we were going to come until next week but we convinced our parents to arrive earlier so we could celebrate your birthday." Jane said, smiling at the boy.
"That was easy, you already know that mom loves parties."
In that moment, Mabel entered with a big smile to the Shack with her hands full of party supplies packed in boxes, making Dipper, who just entered the room, laugh.
"You never change, Mabel." The boy smiled with tenderness at his sister.
Mabel left the boxes on the floor and opened her arms. "Awkward sibling hug?"
Dipper opened his arms too "Awkward sibling hug."
The twins hugged each other for a few seconds before doing their famous pats on each other's back.
"Wow, you really prepared everything for a pajama party."
The moment James and Jane entered the attic, they were greeted by lots of pillows and bed sheets placed on the floor. The two beds have disappeared (that meant Dipper had to take them out of the room due his daughters' request)
"We tried to make tents, but…" Lizzie blushed a little.
"My little sister is a little clumsy with decorating." Lily said while giving a friendly punch at her twin on the shoulder.
"That's okay." Jane quickly grabbed a pillow and placed herself on the floor. "This is perfect."
"Don't fall asleep yet." Alex kicked her gently on her foot "We will have dinner soon."
"But I'm too tired." The girl groaned.
"Come on, Jane." Lizzie went to the closet and took out some folders. "I want to show you what I discovered yesterday."
Jane sat on her spot and looked with interest the papers her cousin had organized in folders.
"Huh, this seems interesting." The girl's eyes shined "Are all these creatures from Gravity Falls?"
"Yep" Lily answered this time while giving one folder to James. "Awesome, right?"
"Yeah!" Jane smiled mischievously "Alex, this might help us to know where the gnomes hide."
The blond boy smiled like his cousin "Want a little revenge?"
"You bet" Jane laughed "Tomorrow you will help me with this."
"Deal."
"What?" Lizzie smiled disappeared from her face "But Alex…. You promised me we would look for the eyebats tomorrow."
Alex blinked while remembering that "Yeah… Well…" the boy laughed nervously "I said maybe when I told you that, besides…" the boy rubbed the back of his neck, trying too think in something to say. "We haven't seen Jane for a while, don't you wanna hang out with us tomorrow and fight with some gnomes?"
"Come on, Lizzie." Jane smiled gently at her "Let's hang out the three of us."
The girl didn't look too enthusiastic by the idea, but she accepted anyway.
"Moon, can you pass me the sauce, please?"
Jane raised an eyebrow to her cousin "Moon?"
"Alex has this weird habit of giving everyone a nickname." Lily said before star eating her chicken.
"Huh." Ford blinked at this. "That's new." He said, making Alex shrug.
"It's fun." The blond teen took a bite of his food after saying this.
"What's my nickname?" James asked, curious.
"Sunshine." Alex answered immediately, making the boy groan.
"That sounds like a girl's nickname." He said, frowning.
"It fits you." Alex shrugged again.
"So… do you have a nickname for us too?" Ford asked while pointing to him and his twin. Stan raised an eyebrow at his brother.
"Sure I do." Alex answered, smiling. "But you are my great grunkles, if that's even a thing. I can't call you by them."
"Ford, what are you up to?"
Stanford Pines stopped his night reading to look at his brother, who had a serious look "What are you talking about?"
"You were watching with suspicion at Alex at dinner." Stanley said while pointing at his brother. "Why?"
Stanford sighed before answering "I'm just paranoid, that's all Stanley."
Stan sighed before talking again. "You still believe the thing you told me when the girls were born?"
Ford didn't answer.
"He is just a kid. A regular kid who doesn't know what kind of deal a weird demon can make."
"I know he's just a kid." Stanford closed his book. "But that doesn't mean it can't be a possibility."
"You said he was gone." Stan's voice was trembling "Just because a kid has similarities with him, you are doubting if he's really gone?"
"Stanley, you said Bill said something intelligible before he was erased." Ford rubbed his eyes with tiredness. "That could change everything."
"And if something changes, it has nothing to do with that boy, so stop being so paranoid."
After those words, Stan left the room, leaving Ford alone with his thoughts.