What cuts the deepest
Mabel made the short walk from her locker to the Principle's office, shutting the door behind her, standing still looking over towards her Principle, waiting for what seemed like hours for the silence to be broken.
"Miss Pines... What do you think you're doing?" Principle Steen asked
"I... I..." Mabel stuttered
"Hitting another student? You realise that we have a zero tolerance to bullying and violence, correct?"
"Yes Principle Steen but Pacifica started it!" Principle Steen raised their eyebrow, waiting for Mabel to continue
"... She was being rude about me and my brother and just really bullying him..." Mabel explained, trailing off towards the end of her sentence
"And neither one of you thought to come to me or another staff member?"
"Well it had only just happened and I..."
"You thought you'd take action yourself? Mabel... Your brother is a big boy, he can take care of himself. He doesn't need you to fight his battles for him"
"I know Principle Steen but..."
Out in the hallway
Dipper was rounded on by Pacifica and her group of friends, backing him up against his locker.
"Not so big now are you?"
"Just leave me alone. I've done nothing to you"
"just leave me alone" Pacifica mocked
"You're a freak and a pervert, you are the most disgusting dispicable human being we've ever encountered" She added,
"We're not hurting anybody" Dipper mumbled, looking down at the floor. Pacifica slapped him hard across the face
"LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!" She ordered, he did as she ordered, rasing his head to stare at Pacifica eye to eye. His cheek glowing red from the hit
"You're both disgusting, and you think this is bad now? Just you wait. It's only just begining" Pacifica threatened before turning around and walking off with her group of friends following behind her
In the Principle's office
"But nothing Miss Pines... Seeing as this is your first offense and I have to admit it is very out of character of you... I'm going to let you go with just a warning this time... DO NOT let this happen again, understood?" Principle Steen warned
"Yes Principle Steen."
"You may leave." Mabel turned around and walked out of the office, spotting her brother still by their lockers.
Dipper spotted Mabel walking back towards him, turning his back on her pretending to take something out of his locker, he began to rub his face, trying to get rid of the hand print that Pacifica had left on his cheek
"Hey Dip, you okay?" She asked him, stopping by his side
"Yeah, what happened in there?" He replied, indicating the door to the Principle's office
"Oh... I just got let off with a warning"
"DO NOT let this happen again Miss Pines" Mabel immitated, puffing out her chest and cheeks in a bad impression of her Principle, Dipper burst out laughing at the sight, which started Mabel off giggling. The twins just stood there in the empty hallway doubled over with laughter.
"Come on, we'd better make a move back home" Dipper sighed, smiling and wiping his eyes, Mabel stood back up straight and nodded. They left the school and when they were totally sure they were alone, they grabbed onto each others hands and began to gently swing them as they walked. Talking, telling jokes, making each other smile and laugh during the walk home Dipper and Mabel were lost in their own little world, totally oblivious to what was going on around them. Until Mabel stopped Dipper in his tracks and leaned in to steal a quick kiss. Unaware there was somebody walking towards them.
"Mabel? Dipper? What the hell!?"
"Oh shit! Wendy" Dipper exclaimed, breaking the kiss and jumping back away from Mabel
"Dudes, what the hell is going on here?" Wendy questioned
"We were... We were just..." Mabel began to explain, trying to come up with an excuse.
"We're together okay? We're in love and we know it's wrong and we don't care. We could really do with a friend right now and god damn it we need you to be that friend!" Dipper snapped at her.
"Woah, to much information!" Wendy commented. Staring at the twins before running off past them in the direction they were coming from.