Gravity Falls: The Pines Meeting

Chapter 7

Saturday, December 15th, 2012

A week had gone by since the Pines twins and Wendy went back in time to learn how the twins' parents had met. Since their return, they'd all been keeping to themselves as none of them knew what to do about their "situations". This created a wave of awkwardness that hit the Pines house like a massive title wave. A wave that the Pines parents were also hit by. The two of them could clearly see that Dipper and Wendy were constantly avoiding each other most of the time while being silent and awkward whenever hanging around. Mabel, on the other hand, was doing pretty much the same thing but with her parents instead. The worst part of it was that neither parent knew what was happening and none of the teens would say anything about it. Both parents eventually decided to just wait for the teens to open up when they were ready and hope when they did that everything would mend the rift.

Mabel was the first to take the first step when she started calling people for help. First, she called her great uncles and asked them for advice. Unfortunately, neither of them were into the idea of getting in the middle of peoples love, (and sex), lives. So she tried her BFFs, Candy and Grenda, through Skype. Fortunately, they had some advice.

"Just do what I did when I caught my parents trying to have another one but wouldn't tell me about it. Charge straight into the room like a mad bull and refuse to leave till they told you the truth," Grenda advised.

"And if that doesn't work I recently found this new truth serum recipe online that can be made using common household ingredients," Candy also suggested.

"Why's the truth serum thing plan B?" Mabel asked.

"Because the serum's only been around for a week and it's already been made illegal in five continents, and there's probably a good reason for it," Candy explained.

"Makes sense."

Later that day

Yep, as it has been for the last week, whenever Dipper and Wendy hung around in a room together, pretty awkward. Including right now as the two of them, along with Sheryl, sat in the kitchen reading either a magazine or a book while Sherman chopped some carrots in utter silence. That is till Mabel charged into the room, shouting, "MOM! DAD!"

This drew everyone else's attention away from what they were doing as they watched Mabel jump onto the chair right beside her mother, and starting yelling at her.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT YOU AND DAD MET AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY IN HIGH SCHOOL?! OR THAT YOU HAD SEX DURING IT?!"

Neither Sheryl nor Sherman knew what to say. They'd been dodging this issue for some time now, and suddenly Mabel finds out on her own. Worst of all, she found out about the intimate moment between them, and that was just nearly the tip of the iceberg. Not knowing what to say, they turned towards Dipper with questioning looks on their faces, hoping that he knew how his twin found out about this. Fortunately, Dipper understood what his parents were non verbally asking him for and responded to their question, though he did so in an awkward tone that he'd been using for the last week.

"Yeah um… how do I put this gently? We sort of… Mabel ran into a time travelling friend of ours from Gravity Falls named Blendin Blandin. F.Y.I. our meeting and becoming friends with him are two long stories that would probably take us off track, so do me a favour and just take my word for it since you know we've done crazier stuff than in the past. Anywho, Blendin took us back to the party fourteen years ago where we learned how you two met. A party which we knew about thanks to Grandpa who told vaguely Mabel about your first encounter."

The Pines parents were utterly flabbergasted. The idea that their kids knew someone from the future was shocking enough without the thought of them going back in time. However, as Dipper had told them, their kids had done all kinds of bizarre things during their summer in Gravity Falls so it wasn't too shocking. It also made how that discovered what they did about their first encounter plausible. Though they knew that they had to tell the rest of the story their twins now. If they didn't, then they'd most likely find out on their own, and that would make things worse between them all.

Sheryl was the first to speak up, "Sigh, look kids there something we need to tell you."

Sherman then followed suit, "We were waiting to tell you this when you were older. Though given the recent circumstances, and because your great uncle Stan told us how he gave you both the talk when you stayed with him last summer; this won't be so difficult telling you now."

"F.Y.I. after Carpet Diem, in this storyline, Grunkle Stan found out about the twins switching bodies so he decided to give the actual Dipper the talk. It wasn't a pleasant talk for Dipper."

"Okay," Dipper said. He sort of, but not one hundred percent understood where this was leading to.

"So the thing is," Sheryl began. "When your father and I uh... 'did it' I uh… ended up… shall we say… becoming pregnant with you two."

"WHAT?!" Came a shout from both the twins.

"Wow, that's… that's just uh… wow," was all Wendy could say.

After everyone finished reacting to this, Sherman continued, "After the party, we started dating and about two months later your mother discovered that she was pregnant. We were both as equally shocked as you are right now, just as our parents were. Luckily for us, my parents supported me and your mother through this because they aren't fricking jackasses like my grandparents who abandon their own son just because he made one mistake without so much as a second chance to make amends."

"Wait, wait, wait," Dipper interrupted. "Are you saying that I and Mabel were nothing but a couple of mistakes?!"

"Of course not," Sheryl replied defensively. "You two were gifts. Wonderful gifts that I'd been dreaming of having for years. Heck when I discovered my pregnancy and all the shock faded away, I jumped for joy, squealing at the top of my lungs. True we were a bit nervous but excited at the same time. Besides, it's not like it was going to affect our futures too much. I mean your father had already been applying to a bunch of these new online colleges. Plus as you already know, my father, your grandpappy, was, is still the dean of California State Community College. This gave us the assistance we needed to get our degrees and jobs while simultaneously raising two beautiful twins."

"There were some stressful times throughout the whole thing," Sherman brought up, "but at the same time, our love grew stronger as the months flew by. When I proposed to your mother I did it out of love and not because I'd knocked her up."

"Wait a minute," Dipper spoke up in a puzzled voice. "I've seen pictures of your wedding. How come mom didn't appear pregnant in any of them?"

Both Sherman and Sheryl blushed as the latter responded to their son. "Well, the thing is that our wedding happened when you two were one year old. We decided to hold off on marriage till after I gave birth because by the time your father proposed I was seven months along and this way we could focus on school as well as preparing for you two."

"Also we didn't plan on telling you two about all this till you were sixteen, maybe seventeen," Sherman added in. "It's just we didn't, (as your mother expressed earlier), want you to feel like your conceivement was an accident, or a disgrace to the family, or both, or worse. It was for this reason that we kept all photos during our wedding with you two in them hidden till the truth had been revealed. I hope the two of you may understand why we've always kept how we met a secret."

"I'm okay with that," Dipper said before going into an explanation. "I knew there was a reason why you wouldn't tell us. Besides many members of our family have done stupider things that resulted in even worse consequences than what you two caused."

"Dipper's right," Mabel said in agreement. "Truthfully all I wanted was to know how you met. And from what I saw at the party, I definitely know that mom was a master flirter. Speaking of, I need to ask you for some advice on flirting."

"Save that for another time dear," Sherman instructed. "Preferably when Dipper and I aren't in the room."

"Yeah I'm with dad on that," agreed Dipper.

"Besides," Sherman continued, "all this talk about that party is refreshing some old memories I haven't thought about it forever. Among those memories include one of me having a conversation with a short man that greatly resembled Dipper."

"You know I too remember meeting someone at the party who resembled Dipper," Sheryl said as she too started remembering. "I also recall meeting two girls who resembled Mabel and Wendy. The three of them each introduced themselves with the exact same first names as you three," points to Dipper, Mabel and Wendy as she says this. "I also recall having a conversation with this Wendy, where she admitted to having almost kissed that Dipper."

"I heard a similar thing from the man who resembled Dipper, who almost kissed a girl who I thought looked a lot like Wendy," Sherman said.

"On top of that, I remember my buddy Steve telling me a few days after the party how he caught sight of the two going into a closet," realization suddenly coming to Sherman's voice as he understood what had happened that night, " while making out."

Shock swept everyone up as Mabel and her parents' attention fell towards Dipper and Wendy as they now understood why the two of them had been acting so weird this last week.

There was only word at the moment that both Dipper and Wendy could say in response to this, "Oh crap!"

Dun, Dun, Dun!

To be continued...

Hey, I hope you all have been enjoying The Pines Meeting. Though sadly I'm taking a break from this story. The reason for this being that in one of the next few chapters I'm planning will be a multiple part sort and are going to be based around the holidays. Now given the time before Christmas is less than two weeks, (and because I may be a bit busy with relatives close to this time), there won't be enough time to write them before then. Plus I've been writing about Gravity Falls for most of the year now, I need a break from it and focus on some other work. Speaking of other work, I'll soon be returning to working on Atomic Puppet: New Adventures Volume 2, which will be undergoing some changes. I apologize for this and I hope you all understand and will not remove this story from favourites or stop following it because of this pause.

I promise you that I will continue on with this story starting in October and will work towards publishing some holiday chapters in December.

Thank you all and Happy Holidays : )