Chapter 2: Pacifica

The next day, Dipper woke up, got dressed and went straight outside to check the letter box, cause he wanted to see if the comic book he ordered had arrived. But there was not a comic book, there was only a letter addressed to him. It was a golden letter with his name written in black ink. So he grabbed the letter and went back upstairs, he sat on his bed, open the letter carefully and started reading it.

"Dear Dipper Pines,

It is really hard for me to write this for two reasons:

First off, I typically don't write a lot.

And secondly, I'm writing to you of all people, but I request your presents at the Northwest Manor, I would like to apologise for my behaviour towards you yesterday. If you don't want to come over, I understand.

Sincerely, Pacifica Northwest.

P.S. Bring something to disguise you as a girl or there's no way you'll be able to see me."

After he finished reading, he slowly put the letter down, he wondered to himself if it's a good idea to meet up with her at her summer home. 'Should I go? On one hand it's Pacifica, Bitch of Gravity Falls. But on the other hand, she's making the effort to apologise, the last time she was anything other than annoying to me was at the Northwest Manor after stopping the Lumberjack.' Dipper had made his decision, he jumped up, grabbed a bag, put in one of Mabel's skirts, lipstick, wig and hair extensions. Then he made his way downstairs, ready to leave, but he was stopped by Soos and Mabel before getting out the door.

"Dude come check this out, me and Mabel found some sciencey thing and we don't know what it is, so can you come have a look? I'm sure you can identify it, Mabel and I have just been poking it and giving cool names. The best suggestion so far is DJ McNutty.

"Yeah Dipper, we need your help. Please. Do it for DJ McNutterson." Added Mabel.

"Ohhhh I like that one dude." Soos replied.

"Sorry guys, not today. I got something quite important to do. Maybe later." Dipper said while leaving the shack. Soos looked over at Mabel with a perplexed look on his face.

"Hey Mabel, why didn't Dipper come to check the sciencey thing out, I thought he liked those kinds of things? How can you resist DJ McNutterson?" He asked.

"I don't know, but let's go find out." Said Mabel.

"So we are gonna be like spies? I want a code name, I'm gonna be called Cool Dude." Soos said as he crossed his arms trying to make a serious face.

"And I'll be called Fabulous Sweater, but let's start following him before he gets away." Said Mabel getting into the cart.

"Good idea Fabulous Sweater." Said Soos while driving the cart. As Dipper walked around town with the letter in his hand, he ran into a familiar face.

"Hey Dipper, its me Old man McGucket." He hadn't changed much, he still had the same dirty look.

"Hey McGucket, how've you been?"

"Pretty good, me and my raccoon wife are thinking of having kids." The second Dipper heard the words 'raccoon wife' followed by 'kids' he covered up his ears, turned away and said:

"Well it was nice talking to you, but I don't want my childhood destroyed."

"Ow, but we want you to be the Godfather if anything were to happen to us, wont you please help out Dipper?" McGucket said with sad puppy dog eyes.

"Maybe another time, I have something important to do right now." He replied.

"Ok then, bye Dipper. I'm sure you'd take great care of my raccoon babies!" Dipper quickly turned around and powerwalked away as fast as he could. After escaping McGucket, he made his way to the Northwest mansion. Once he arrived at the beautiful house, he went into a bush and changed into the clothing he borrowed from Mabel. Once done, he came out of the bush all dolled up. Dipper was no stranger to putting on makeup, with all the theatre he does and the amount of times he has helped Mabel, he has become quite a pro at putting on makeup, yet he wouldn't go around parading that fact, he didn't want others to think he was interested in guys. He went up the main gate, took a deep breath and pressed on the buzzer. Just moments later, a man replied saying:

"This is the Northwest mansion, you're talking to Hank the butler. Who might you be?" Dipper cleared his throat and said in a girly voice:

"Hello, I'm Diana. I'm one of Pacifica's friends."

"Ok, I'll call Pacifica down, but please come in." He replied. At that moment the gates opened, Dipper walked up to the Door and opened it. In the distance, Mabel and Soos were watching him, trying to see what him was up to. Dipper entered the house and saw was massive it was, it hadn't changed for the last time he was there. The floors were made from the finest oak wood, there were beautiful paintings everywhere, a few potted plants and a gigantic staircase that split into two different stairs at the middle. He looked over at the stairs and he saw Pacifica walking down them, she was wearing a blue dress with her hair in a bun.

"Look madame, your friend Diana has arrived." Said Hank with a smile. Pacifica look at "Diana" puzzled, but Dipper winks at her and she understands straight away.

"Oh Diana, I'm glad you could make it." Said Pacifica while hugging Dipper. Dipper had a radiant smile on his face. After the hug, Preston came out of the bureau and saw Diana, he went downstairs to greet the guest.

"So you're one of my Pacifica's friends?" He asked. Dipper started to hesitate, but he took a deep breath, calmed himself and answer the question.

"Yes sir, I'm friends with your daughter."

"Well I welcome you to our little summer house. I hope it's to your liking, if you have any problems or questions, just call for Hank, he will take care of your every need." Dipper was about to say something, but Pacifica cut him off by asking:

"So Father, may my friend and I go upstairs?"

"Of course, but remember you have horse riding practice in 15 minutes."

"Yes father." The two teens headed upstairs towards Pacifica's room. Once they got in the room, Pacifica locked the door behind her, closed the curtains, then went to lay down on her bed.

"It's all good, I don't think my dad, nor Hank suspect anything. I'm glad you came." Said Pacifica.

"No prob, but why did you ask me here? Wouldn't be easier to meet up in town?" Asked Dipper as he took his hat out of the bag and plopped it on his head.

"Well, I'm not allowed to see you, nor talk to you. So I asked you to dress up. By the way, I never knew you were so good at drag, you are a natural." She added with a chuckle.

"Yeah yeah, well get a good look, this is the last time you'll see me like this." He expressed a little angrily

"Anyway, why aren't you allowed to see me?"

"Because they see you as a lower-class citizen and because of the party incident 5 years ago, he still thinks everyone hates us because of you."

"What! Seriously? That's fucking stupid. The bad reputation of your family name comes from the way your family has acted, not an outside force. Plus, lower-class citizen? Are those who aren't seen as wealthy just damn peasants? Wait a sec, is that why you're were acting mean back when we were in town?" Said Dipper.

"Yeah It was, in case someone overheard us talking. Anyway, I have something to talk about with you." Said Pacifica. He walked over to her, sat next to her and said with a smile.

"What's on your mind?" But before Pacifica could say anything, someone knocked on the door. It was Hank.

"Mistress Pacifica, it's 3pm. You've got horse riding. And it's time for your friend to leave the mansion, it's your father's request. I'm sorry but you know how strict his orders can be." Dipper quickly adjusted his skirt and hid his hat behind him, putting it on Pacifica's bed. Pacifica calmly opened the door and smiled at Hank.

"Yes Hank, I'm going now. Come on Diana." The two left the room and made their way to the front door. Just before leaving, Dipper turned to Hank and politely said:

"Goodbye Sir, you can tell Mr Northwest I had a great time." Hank was a little shocked, no one has called him 'sir' for the past 8 years working for the Northwest's. But it did put a smile on his face.

"I'm glad that you did Diana. Please come back whenever you like." He replied.

"Well, I better be going. Bye Pacifica." Pacifica replied with a hand wave. Once Dipper got out of the mansion, he went back to his changing bush and changed back as quickly as possible. He removed the last of the lipstick and started heading into town. But on his way back, Mabel and Soos came out of the bushes with the kart. They parked in front of Dipper to stop him in his tracks.

"Mason Pines, why were you at the Northwest's!?" Yelled Mabel.

"Yeah dude, what were you doing over there? Have you become their butler or something?" Soos asked.

"What no, of course not! If you must know, I had to talk to Pacifica." Replied Dipper.

"Why the hell didn't you tell me?" She asked.

"Cause I know that you would've tried to stop me." He replied.

"Of course, I would have stopped you, Pacifica's my rival, I don't want you anywhere near her."

"You can't tell me what to do, and just because she's your rival, it doesn't mean I can't be her friend! Are you really so stubborn that you wouldn't even let me hang out with her?" Said Dipper, his face was red with rage. Mabel went silent, her eyes were filled up with tears, Soos wrapped his arms around her, turned to Dipper and said:

"That's not cool dude, you shouldn't make your sister cry." But Mabel turn to Dipper and calmly said:

"Your right, she can still be your friend. I'm sorry Dipper." Tears started running down her face. Dipper went up to her, gave her a hug and said.

"You don't need to apologize Mabel." She wiped the tears off her face and thanked Dipper.

"So Dipper, where are you going now? You want to come with me and Soos?" Asked Mabel.

"I'm going to the bookshop, i want to see if they got any new science fiction books."

"Ok, I guess we'll see you back that the shack later. DJ McNutterson the 3rd will be waiting too." Dipper chuckled and the two went off on their separate ways. Later that day, at the local library. Dipper was looking through the Sci Fi section and he finds a book, but not just any book, the last book of the series that he's reading called Lord Forix's cosmological quest and it was the last one on the shelf.

"I found it, its been 3000 years!" He went to grab it, but someone else grabbed the book at the same time.

"Oops sorry, you can have it." Said Dipper handing the book over to him.

"That is nice of you, thank you." Replied the boy. Dipper looked at the boy, he was dressed in a tailored suit, white shirt, red tie and a handkerchief. The boy looked off, he looked like he was hiding something from the world and carefully chose which words to let out of his mouth. Dipper also noticed the accent, the boy wasn't from around here, that he was certain of. Dipper put it behind him and asked:

"So, what's your name?"

"I am Ernest. What about your name?"

"I'm Dipper." Suddenly Ernest scratched his head. 'Dipper, where have I heard that name before? Wasn't she talking about him yesterday?' He then shocks his head in disbelief and looked back over at the young American.

"So how long have you been in Gravity Falls?" Asked Dipper.

"This is my second day here, we're not going to be here long." He replied.

"We?" Dipper asked. He was very perplexed due to seeing the new boy in the library alone, he didn't expect him to use the pronoun we.

"My friend and I. She's gone to meet with a friend that she met the other day right now." And just then Dipper remembered that he was going to meet up with Victoria today. So he jumped up and said:

"Sorry Ernest, i have to go. I'll talk to you tomorrow." Said Dipper while running out the door.

"Bye Dipper." 'Hmm Dipper, I swear I've heard that name before.' Thought Ernest. Dipper ran through the town trying to get to the bench in time. Luckily, he knew a short cut, so he got there quick enough. And he saw Victoria sitting there on the bench reading the same book as yesterday. she was wearing a red top and black skirt, her hair was let down and a black headband was holding it all back. Dipper walked up to her and said:

"Hey Victoria." She looked up from her book, shut it and replied:

"Hey Dipper, come sit." Dipper sat next to her and smiled.

"So, how've you been?"

"Good actually, I went to see the Gravity Falls waterfall. It was beautiful. How about you?"

"I'm good, but I didn't do much today. So, what are you doing tomorrow?"

"Well, I'm going to see this place called The Mystery Shack." Said Victoria while fixing her hair.

"Really? That's awesome, I'm actually staying there this summer, my Grunkle Stan runs it, and since we are staying with him, we are there almost 24/7."

"So you can give me and my friend a private tour? And what's a grunkle?" Asked Victoria with a smile.

"Yeah of course and a grunkle is a mix of the words great and uncle." She giggled and said:

"I've never heard that word. We don't really learn the fused words at my school. " Victoria looked at her watch, it was 3:45pm.

"I'm really sorry Dipper, but I promised my parents I'd be back at the Inn at 4pm and I have to get home in time."

"No worries, I'll see you tomorrow." Replied Dipper.

"Bye Dipper."

"See ya Victoria." As Dipper made his way home, he heard a noise from behind him. Dipper turned around and tried to find where the noise was coming from. From the bush next to him, something jumped out. More like someone, it was Mabel once again.

"Seriously, you got to stop doing that, you're getting on my nerves." Said Dipper.

"I know, but who was the guy you were talking back at the bookstore? He was so hot and dreamy." Mabel said happily. Dipper thought back and remembered the name of the boy.

"His name is Ernest." He said. Mabel jumped up with glee, clapping her hands, there was so much joy on Mabel's face.

"I love that name!" She exclaimed. Dipper rolled his eyes and said:

"So you found your new crush of the week."

"No way, I'm going to love him forever."

"But Mabel his just going to be in Gravity Falls for about a week." Mabel flicked her hair back and said:

"Don't worry, in four days, he'll be mine." Dipper started thinking about Ernest, he realized something was off about him. 'I don't know how, and I don't know why, but something about him rubs me the wrong way.' Dipper turned to his sister and smiled.

"Well we need to get home first."

"Your right." Replied Mabel. And the two twins started racing each other back to The Mystery Shack.

End of chapter 2: Pacifica