Warning: Cliffhanger ahead

"Here's dinner!" Mabel cried, balancing six plates in her hands and making her way out from the kitchen, Norman and Neil following behind her.

Wybie looked down at the weird looking food. "Is it editable?"

"Yep!" Mabel said, taking a bit of the food.

"She's not a bad cook," Norman commented, sitting down at the booth. "You just need to make sure she doesn't add glitter to the dish."

Coraline poked at the food with her fork and grumbled. Norman, Neil, Wybie, and her had entered the dinner only for Mabel to grab two of them to go and help make dinner. The rest of them had just sat down and waited for the food.

Deciding to discuss the elephant in the room, Coraline opened her mouth. "So does anyone have any idea what is going on here?"

Mabel paused. Taking a deep breath she asked the question, "What is today's date?"

Coraline blinked, having expected an answer rather than another question. "What?"

"What is so important about the date?" Lili snapped, having still not answered the question from before.

"It's August the 5th." Coraline said, ignoring Lili.

Lili blinked. "Are you so stupid that you can't remember what day it is?" She yelled at Coraline.

"What? I'm stupid? Take a look at you!"

"GUYS!" Norman yelled, breaking up the fight once again. Once the two stopped, he spoke again, "I remember it being January 24th. Isn't it kind of weird that none of us can agree on the date?"

The three turned to look at the others. Wybie sighed and took out the newspaper he had gotten earlier.

"A-actually t-today is July 12," he said, pointing at the date in the corner.

"So are you saying that I've forgotten more than a year of my life?!" Lili yelled.

Wybie nodded. "A-all of us have."

Everyone looked down at their food, the news sinking into everyone's mind.

It was Norman who broke the silence. "My name is Norman. I live in Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts. According to the newspaper I am 12 years old. Neil is my best friend, and I have no idea why I am in a place like Gravity Falls"

Coraline smiled, realizing what Norman was doing. "My name is Coraline Jones and I'm now 13 years old. My family and I recently … about a year ago we moved to Oregon and are living in a place called the Pink Place. The last thing I remember is Wybie here trying to run me over." She glared at Wybie.

"I'm Wybie but m-my full name is Wyborn Lovat. I-I have lived in Oregon with my Grandma my whole life. Since my G-Grandma owns the Pink Place me and Coraline are neighbors I guess. I d-do kind of remember a girl kind of like Coraline, but that's a bit fuzzy. I am also 12 years old." Wybie introduced.

"Hi! I'm Mabel, but you boys can call me the girl of your dreams! I'm now 12! My twin brother Dipper and I live in Piedmont, California."

"Are you seriously flirting right now?" Lili gawked, rolling her eyes at Mabel's grin. "Whatever. My name is Lili. I'm 11 years old, and given what's happened, I should probably tell you that I am a psychic- "

"Excuse me? What do you think you're trying to pull?" Coraline snapped. "We stranded in a ghost town with no memories and you expect us to believe in the supernatural?"

Norman looked down at the table. He had spent enough time with the two girls to see where this was heading. Well at least I'm not the only one here with powers.

"I believe her." Mabel exclaimed. "She used them when that creep was shooting at us."

"Look if you have a problem with me then I don't care. The only reason I am still here is to solve this mystery, then you and I will never see each other again." Lili said glaring at Coraline. "Now does anyone else have a problem with my powers?"

Neil, who had his hand raised to ask a question, lowered it. Brushing off the question he continued with the introductions."Um … My name is Neil. I also live in Blithe Hollow and am the same age as Norman. I do remember him. Um … I also like kittens," He said, scratching the back of his head.

"Great, so seeing that introductions are out of the way, what's the plan for the night?" Coraline asked. "The way I see it, all of us are currently in a ghost town with no memories of how we got here."

"Not to mention that that crazy man said that everyone here was kidnapped," Lili added.

"Right. So we either stay here for the night hoping that the kidnapper doesn't find us, or we find a better protected place to stay."

"What about the Mystery Shack?" Norman asked. "We know where it is, and it's not exactly within walking distance."

Coraline contemplated the thought, then spoke, "Alright, everyone good with sleeping in a tourist trap then?"

Everyone nodded, realizing that there was no better option

"Let's get going!" Mabel exclaimed.

The six of them drove down the dirt road leading to the Mystery Shack. Norman and Neil were riding in the cart with Mabel driving. Where she learned to drive, she had no idea, but seeing that she was the best one at handling the old golf cart no one questioned it too much.

Lili was next to the golf cart on her ball of psychic energy. She was better at using the ball than driving and she liked the feel of using her powers outside of camp without being too judged.

Wybie was on his mechanical bike. Coraline, who still wasn't completely convinced Wybie was guilt free, was seated behind him.

While riding underneath the starry sky, Coraline could not help but lean closer to Wybie. He smelled like freshly cut grass with a hit of motor fluid, and to Coraline this was the best smell in the world.

All too soon did the drive stop. While the others headed inside, Coraline and Wybie stayed on the bicycle.

It was Wybie's cough that broke Coraline out of her spell. Realizing what she was doing, she jumped away from him like he was on fire.

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry" Coraline said, her voice a little higher than usual.

Wybie got off this bicycle. Smiling nervously, he spoke. "It's okay, Jonesy. I'm just glad you didn't fall off while sleeping."

As Wybie walked away Coraline rubbed her cheeks trying to get rid of the blush. What is wrong with me? He could be the enemy for all I know and here I am cuddling him! Agh!

"Hey, Jonesy you coming?" Wybie stood next to the door, holding it open for her.

Coraline walked to the dark skinned boy, smiling. "You're such a dork" she replied.

But he sure is a nice guy and not bad looking either. Coraline thought, heading inside.

"Come on, Raz wake up!" Dipper tried for the thousandth time to wake the goggle-wearing boy.

"Just 5 more minutes" Raz mumbled.

"Raz if you don't wake up I'm dumping the rest of the water on your head"

That seemed to do the trick, as Raz sat up turned around and glared at Dipper. Dipper just smiled and started waking in the direction he knew town was in.

"Come on. Once we get to town we can get a big pile of pancakes at the diner."

Raz groaned, checking that he had everything, then walked off with Dipper.

"Dipper, come on, do we really have to get up this early? The sun is barely up."

"Yes, we need to get to town before any more wolves come after us."

"Or the kidnapper." Raz joked. After the wolf yesterday Raz had come to the conclusion that someone really had kidnapped them. Unfortunately this did nothing to help Dipper's fear about his older twin.

To get his mind off of Mabel, Dipper decided to ask Raz a few questions of his own.

"So Raz, do you have any siblings?"

"Nope, only child dude. What about you?"

"I have a twin sister, her name is Mabel. Where do you live?" Dipper asked before Raz could point out that his sister could have been kidnapped as well.

"Hm ... Oh, I live in the circus." Raz suddenly paused. "Do you hear that?" Raz asked, glancing around. WIth all of his attention focused on the noise, he no longer cared about hiding where he lived.

"The circus? So does that mean you ran away from home or something?"

"No, I was born there. I'm an acrobat. Seriously, do you hear that? It sounds like running water." Raz's mouth ran dry and his hand started to shake. Following Dipper, he walked through the small gap in the bushes, only to stop dead in his tracks.

In front of the two boys was a river. Now, this section of river looked only a few feet deep and the current wasn't very strong. In fact, the two boys could have jumped into the river and they would have only gotten the hem of their shirts wet.

"Looks like we are going to have to cross." Dipper stated grimly, not at all liking that he would be getting his only clothes wet.

"No!" Raz almost shouted.

Dipper, under the assumption that Raz feared very little, turned around. It was then he noticed that the tanned skinned boy was now white as a sheet and clutching the nearest tree as if something was going to grab him.

That's when it made sense to Dipper. Raz, the boy he had been traveling around with, was afraid of water.

"Hey man, it's okay, look, we just have to cross the river and we will be in town." Dipper said, trying to calm his friend down.

"N-no, I'm not going in the water, I'll just find another way around."

Dipper sighed. Finding another way could take days and there was no telling what Raz might get himself into without any help.

"Raz, it will be okay, I can help you across, nothing will happen. Look we can even see the bank" Dipper said slowly approaching Raz.

This was how the hooded figure found them. He smiled underneath the mask he was wearing.

So the little psychic brat is afraid of water huh? Well in that case… The hooded figure took his chance and pushed the two kids into the river.

Thank you for all the comments and recognition. I say an anonymous comment on Tumblr about this Fanfic and about near died. You all are wonderful.

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This fic is Beta read by Ensignily.