Journal chapter 5

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Word-normal

Word-3/book talking

Word-singing

Warnings for 3's language and temper, mention of drugs i.e. Smile Dip

Inconvincing

And so the top movie of the summer is Sunset 5: Sunrises part 2…

It was a boring day at the Mystery Shack, Mabel was spinning on a globe, Dipper was reading 3, and Wendy was reading one of the magazines 3 gossiped with. Dipper was reading one of 3's entries and out of the blue asked, "Mabel, do you believe in ghosts?"

"I believe you're a big dork! Ha ha ha!" 3, broke away from its chat with the magazine to scold Mabel, he was just asking a question, no need to be rude to your brother.

Dipper got revenge by placing a pencil on the spinning globe to force Mabel to fall off as Stan walked in. That was petty, hilarious, but petty.

"Soos! Wendy!" Soos came running in to ask what he needed.

"I'm heading' out. You two are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?" Glad I don't work here or have hands.

"Yes, sir!" Soos said saluting.

"Absolutely not!" she said also saluting. I second that motion.

Stan chuckled and left, and then Wendy called the twins and 3 over and pulled away a beat up curtain

"Hey guys! What's this? A secret ladder to the roof?" Then it's no longer a secret now, huh missy.

"Uh, I don't think Mr. Pines would like that." Aw, what he doesn't know won't hurt us. Wendy then began to repeat 'Huh' over again to freak-out Soos and lead the twins up to the roof.

"Can we actually go up there?"

"Sure we can! Roof time! Roof time!"

Dipper and Mabel climbed up the ladder to follow Wendy saying it also, "Roof time! Roof time!" Roof time! Roof time!

They scrambled up to a hidden platform that was decked out with a lawn chair, a bucket of pinecones and a box of ice. How hasn't that melted yet and what's with the pinecones? "Alright, check it out!"

"Did you put all this stuff up here?" Dipper asked looking around.

"I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, every day." She said causally as she picked up a pinecone. How are you not fired yet? She throws it hits at the totem pole that had a target on it. "Yes!"

"Cool, me first!" The twins shouted and started throwing cones until Dipper accidently hits a car. Ooh, 50 points!

"Jackpot! Hi five ... Don't leave me hanging. Dipper looks at Wendy with a faraway look and smile then high-fives her. Looks like someone has a crush. 3 said in a sing-song voice.

Suddenly a van pulls up and calls out for Wendy after being assured that the twins won't tattle on her, she slid down 2 trees and hoped in the van and they drove off.

"Later Wendy! Heh heh heh! Good times!" Dipper said waving wildly and stuttering with a flush. Dipper and Wendy sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Mabel had the same idea and began to tease Dipper also.

"Yeah, right! I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her!" Don't jinx yourself, little man. That night he did just that.

"Uh-oh." Told you, Tiger

The next morning started with a dance part both Wendy and Mabel decided to do. Dipper was writing 'I am pretending to write something down.' While watching them, careful, approaching stalker territory Dipper, 3 thought annoyed.

"Dipper!"

"Uh what, yes?"

"Aren't ya gonna get in on this?" Wendy asked, indicating a still dancing Mabel

"I don't really dance." Two left feet?

"Ya, you do! Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and make him do..." she whispered something in Wendy's ear. 3 thought it heard the Hammy Desk?

"Now is not the time to talk about the Lamby Dance." He muttered angrily with a flush. Lamby Dance? Sounds like something out of those pre-k shows.

"Lamb costume? Are there little ears and a tail or...?" Wendy asked curiously. Did you wear a fleece to?

"Well uh, uh..."

"Dipper would prance around and sing about grazing…" Mabel was interrupted from her embarrassing story by the cuckoo clock. Great timing clock, 3 was relieved, it only wanted to tease him, not humiliate him.

"Oh, look at that! Quitting time! The gang's waiting for me."

"Wait! Why don't I-or we come with you?" Want to spend time with Weeen-Deee.

"Ooh… I don't know. My friends are pretty intense. How old did you guys say you are?" I think I'm 33.

"We're thirteen! So, technically a teen." Dipper fibbed a little

"All right. I like your moxy, kid! Let me get my stuff."

"Since when are we thirteen? Is this a leap year?" Well, you're 12 and a few quarters, so if you round that out, you guys are 13.

"Come on, Mabel. This is our chance to hang out with, you know, the cool kids. And Wendy and whatever."

"I knew it! You love her!" She dances around Dipper as she points at him and sings, "Love love love love love!" Oh, lay off him, he doesn't tease you when you have a crush, 3 thought, getting tired of teasing Dipper about Wendy. It made 3 feel, odd.

"Oh hey, what's that?" He points in a random direction and flips her hair over her face. So devious.

I hope Dipper doesn't grow up to be like this, 3 thought as they went outside to see 2 teens hold a large one upside down where a Goth kid was throwing candy at the teen with a girl with dyed hair who was glued to her phone. Wendy beat the Goth kid with her own candy as Dipper, 3, and Mabel walked over with her.

"Wendy!" They all yelled.

"Hey guys! These are my pals from work, Mabel, and Dipper." Wendy said introducing the twins. What am I, a candy wrapper?

"I chewed my gum so it looks like a brain! BLAH!" Mabel said ruining her first impression towards the teens. Way to go; now they think we're idiots.

"She's not much for first impressions. Unlike this guy! ...this guy..." Sigh, I'm 3, a book that contains secrets about the town you've never known about.

The Goth kid started, "So are you, like, babysitting, or"

"Come on, Robbie! Guys, this is Lee and Nate." The teens punched each other as they laughed. Why do humans hurt each other? Is pain that hilarious?

"Tambry." She mumbled something, eyes still glued to her phone. Nice to meet you too.

"Thompson, who once ate a run over waffle for 50 cents." Umm, okay.

"Don't tell them that!"

"And Robbie. You can probably figure him out." A Goth kid who thinks he suffered so much and will play his way through life by playing guitar. Standard rebel.

"Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower." You have an obsession with muffins.

"Oh, you mean the big muffin!" Exactly!

"Um, it's a giant explosion." Robbie said put off.

"Hehe! Kind of does look like a muffin!" One of the teens laughed as the other joins in. Robbie just glared at Dipper for ruining introduction.

"Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!" Wendy said as everyone got into the car.

"Sorry kid, I'll ride shotgun alright?" Robbie said to Dipper with a sneer. What an ass.

"Okay just, before we go, my mom said you guys aren't allowed to punch the roof anymore, so..." The teens did the opposite and chanted, "Thompson! Thompson! Thompson!" Do you think if I said that homework was lame and that guitars wore in, would they do the opposite?

Mabel crossed out some rude graffiti and replaces it with something polite, "Ha! This is gonna blow someone's mind!" You know Mabel, I think you're right.

"Mabel, please!"

"What, am I embarrassing you in front of your new GIRLFRI"

Dipper slapped a hand over her mouth and then she licked it.

"There it is fellas! The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn!" Why was it condemned in the first place?

"Ha! Cool!"

"Why'd they shut it down, was it like a health code violation, or"

"TRY MURDER!" That's…sad and a little scary.

"Yeah, some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since!" the teen said in relish. Pain must be entertaining, why else would humans love it so much.

"This town has such a colorful history!" Mabel said happily. Try the color red, sweetie.

"Are you guys serious?" Dipper said nervously, I'm starting to think was a bad idea 3 and Dipper thought.

"Yeah! We're all gonna die! Chill out man! It's not as bad as it looks!" Wendy said as she climbed over the fence.

"Come on, Dipper!" You can do it.

"Okay, okay! Just gotta get a foothold..."

"Dude, your sister did it!" Robbie said pointing at Mabel running in a circle.

One of teens got tired of waiting and threw Dipper over, "Hey, you know what. Just...There you go." Dipper landed painfully on the ground. Are you hurt!? Damn that stupid prick! He could've killed you!

"Ha! S-sorry dude!"

"Good job throwing the kid off the fence, genius!"

"Your mom's a genius..." That was a compliment you moron.

Wendy looks in the window of the store, "Wow! This place is amazing!" It looks dusty…

Robbie pulled on the door, but it seemed rusted shut, he called out "I think it's, it's stuck!"

"Let me take a crack at it!" Dipper said trying to look good. Not unless you have some spare oil on your person.

Robbie scoffed, "Oh yeah. I can't get in, but I'm sure Junior here is gonna break it down like Hercules!" No need to be rude.

"Come on, leave him alone. He's just a little kid." Wendy said, annoyed.

Dipper then narrowed his eyes; he walked over to the store side, scrambled up the dumpster and on to the roof. He walked towards the vents and began to punch the opening. Don't push yourself, Dipper, that guy isn't worth breaking your fingers for.

"Go Dipper! Punch that metal thing!" Mabel cheered from the ground as Dipper finally punched out the vent and crawled inside. He kicked out the vent inside and landed on the floor. Wow, it's creepier and dustier inside then out, 3 thought as Dipper walked to the door. Suddenly, 3 felt a malevolent chill down its awareness; it 'looked' around but couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Nether less 3 kept itself on alert.

Dipper opened the door and everyone walked in.

"Good call inviting this little maniac!" He IS a maniac, who else would follow a book into the unknown.

"Your new name is Dr. Fun Times!" Dr. Fun Times? DFT for short?

"Nice work!" Wendy complemented.

"Do you guys really think it's haunted?" Well there are living wax statues, murderous psychics, and gnomes; it wouldn't be hard to believe that life after death exists. Besides, I think there's an entry about ghosts somewhere.

"Na! Thompson are you kidding me?" 3 suddenly notice the sign turned by itself from "Get lost! We're closed". To "Yes, we're open."

Oh boy.

"Whoa man, it's even creepier than I imagined!"

Mabel confirmed it by licking the dust off her finger, "Yep. It's dust." What did you expect? Grey colored sugar?

"Hey dude, where do you think they keep the dead bodies?" No genius, they're probably cremated or six feet under.

"Shut up, man!" Sound advice, you should follow it.

Wendy found the light switches, "Guys, check it out! You think these still works?" The lights flicker on to show a colorful store instead of the dreary, creepy place from when they first entered.

"Jackpot!" Mabel shouted.

"So, what are we going to do now?" Dipper asked curiously.

"Anything we want."

It soon dissolved into a food fight with expired food, cat food, Mentos soda and a team vs team match. Soon Mabel discovered something called "Smile Dip" that was covered in tape reading 'do not sell'.

"Oh my Gosh! Smile Dip! I thought this stuff was banned in America!" It must've been here right before the ban and the owners died before they could get rid of it.

"Maybe they had a good reason." Dipper said before he got hit by a balloon full of food and ran off.

Mabel then decided to eat the entire package.

"Hey come here we got it ready!"

"Whatever it is I'll do it!"

"Thompson! Dipper, this night is like, legendary."

"Really?"

Wendy nodded and gestured around the store, "Just look around. The guys are bonding." Lee, Nate, and Robbie were stuffing ice into Thompson's pants. Why the only mature one around here is Dipper, and he's 12.

"I've never even seen Tambry look up from her phone this long." She only glances up for 2.4928402475389 nanoseconds

"And your sister seems to be going nuts with that Smile Dip." 3 'looked' over and was a little concerned; she looked sick and a little high.

"Ugh, maybe I've had too much. What do you think?" Mabel asked no one, he eyes then dilated and began to munch something in front of her. No wonder it was banned, it's like powdered LCD.

"You know Dipper, I wasn't sure if you could hang with our crew at first, but you're surprisingly mature for your age." Yeah, he's more mature then about 95% of this town, that's for sure.

"Yes, yes I am."

"Hey guys! We need more ice!" Why? Didn't have enough to give your friend frostbite on an embarrassing area?

"I'm on it!" He jumps off the shelf and walks over to an ice freezer. He takes a bag of ice, but looks up to see a floating brain with two eyes glaring at him. #$%! WHAT THE FRICK IS THAT THING!? "Aah!" He slams the door shut and opens it slowly but the Cooler Monster is not there. Did you see that thing!? It was creepy and I don't know how to describe it!

"What was that? I thought I heard some lady screaming back here."

"You freaking out, kid?" I know I am!

"Uh, no. I'm cool. Everything's cool." Yeah, so is your blood!

"Then what's all this about?" Robbie, being the ever jerk pointed to the spilled ice.

"That's uh, um uh...hey look! Dancy Pants Revolution! The game that tricks people into exercising!" Where?

The teens were distracted and went off to check it out; he nervously looked back than walked away. Did we imagine it?

The machine called out, "Dance! Hurry up!"

"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!" The teens chanted Thompson on.

"Wow. He's really terrible at this." Yeah, old man McGucket dances better.

"Heh heh, yeah. That's, that's great." He glances over to the glass door and sees the reflections of Wendy, Robbie, Tambry, Thompson and himself. Their skin, however, is replaced by bones. That doesn't seem friendly!? Dipper rubs his eyes and everything is back to normal,

"I'll be right back." He ran off to use a telephone and called Stan, "Come on, Grunkle Stan, pick up! Ugh, what is he doing!?" Maybe watching a chick flick involving a duchess, 3 joked tensely. Dipper then gave up to walked over to Mabel who was in front of the Smile Dip stand. Is that stuff addicting?

"Mabel, I need your advice. We're hanging out in a haunted convenience store, I can't get a hold of Grunkle Stan, and if I say anything about it to any of these guys they'll just think I'm a scared little kid or something!" Just say you're bored and let's do a freaky ritual to summon a demon in the woods.

Mabel makes a gurgling sound with Smile Dip all over her face, clothes, and her eyes are small and green.

"Mabel?" Oh no! I think she's OD!

Dipper shook her and asks, "Mabel! How many of these did you eat!?"

"Beleven…Teen..." Maybe she means 11-to-15 packets.

"Oh man. Oh man, oh man, oh man."

"Whoa guys, you might wanna see this!" Robbie called out. Everyone but Mabel walked over to see those white silhouettes the police use to show where dead bodies were. Wow, are all cops incompetent in this town?

"Then the rumors are true!" Lee gaped as Dipper gulped.

"Dude, I dare you to lie down in it." Have some respect for the dead!

"Good idea! Go lie down in it!"

"I'm a dead body, look!" He walks on the markings.

"Wait! Maybe let's not do that."

"This guy's scared!" No, he at least respects the dead.

"All I'm saying is, why tempt the fates? I mean…What if this place really is... haunted?" I think it is.

"Boo! Ah c'mon!" The teens complained

"Yeah, take it down a notch, Captain Buzzkill!" Robbie said. What happened to DFT?

"I thought I was Dr. Fun Times." I know right!

"Well, you're acting like Captain Buzzkill! Right?"

"Yeah, little bit." Wendy grumbled. You traitor! Fine go get yourselves killed by ghosts, then we'll see who's a buzz kill!

Tambry finally said something, "Status update: trapped in store with insane 9-year old." Status update: trapped with disrespectful punks who are going to be slaughtered by ghosts. Booya!

Dipper huffed and lay down on the tape. Bad move!

"I'm not a 9-year-old! I'm 13! Technically a teen!"

The tape markings light up and the lights go out. Tambry looks up and dissolves. What the!?

Dipper picks up her phone, reading from it: Status update: AAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH! How did she type that so fast?

Tambry suddenly appears on security camera screen, everyone starts screaming

"Tambry! Tambry!"

"Can you hear us!?" Dipper called.

"What are we supposed to do!?"

"I don't know man! I don't know!" I think Father wrote something about ghosts!

"Let's just go already!" Robbie called, and leave your friend behind? What a great friend, 3 thought angrily.

"Thompson!" Wendy calls to the teen still playing.

"Wait! I've almost got the high score!" He then dissolves into the game. Was it worth it?

The game called, "It's time to shake what your mama gave you!"

"No! So many arrows!" That looks painful.

"You're a dance machine!"

"No! You're a dance machine!" He screamed crying.

"Thompson!" Wendy cried out.

"Forget them! Let's go!" Robbie said heading for the door, it closed in his face. Wendy tried to open it but found that it was locked.

"OUTTA MY WAY!" Robbie throws the cash register at the doors, but it dissolves and green light flies at Robbie. Serves you right for abandoning your friends!

Dipper pulls out 3 and 3 guides him to the ghost entry, "Wait! Whatever's doing this has to have some kind of reason! Maybe if we can figure out what it is, they'll let us out of here!"

""Uh-uh they'll let us out of here!" Yeah, that makes a lot of sense!" I don't see you coming up with any ideas o' Mighty Smart One!

"I don't know guys; maybe he's got a point!" Wendy said.

"Yeah right, I'm sure the ghost just wants to talk about his feelings!" He dissolved onto a cereal box where the Toucan tries to stab him with a spoon.

"Lee! Okay, okay… I'm with you kid! 100%, man!" Finally, some sense.

Mabel then flies up from behind the counter, possessed by something.

Mabel, in a deep voice said, "Welcome."

The remaining people and book screams.

Dipper, Nate, Robbie, and Wendy

"They got Mabel!"

"Welcome to your graves, young trespassers." The ghost laughs.

"We're super sorry for hanging out in your store!" Wendy said as Robbie nodded mutely.

"Yeah! Can we just go now and leave forever?" Dipper asked

"Well... okay. You're free to go. But before you leave, hot dogs are now half off. I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!" He? Said opening the door as Robbie and Nate ran for the door.

"Just kidding about the hot dog sale!"

"Just let us out of here already!"

"I don't like your tone!" The ghost said angry as Nate dissolves.

"No! I'M A HOT DOG!"

"It begins. Welcome to your home for all eternity!"

"Dipper, what do we do?!" Wendy asked frantic. Duck!

"DUCK!" Dipper screamed as a shelf came flying towards them.

"Look! In there!"

Dipper and Wendy ran towards the ice machine and panted.

"What do they want from us?!"

"Revenge, I guess?"

"What did we do wrong?" Other than trashing the place and messing with the death tape?

"Okay, let's try to figure out the pattern here. Why was each person taken: Tambry was texting, Thompson was playing a video game, Lee was being sarcastic, and it doesn't make any sense!"

"Yeah! I mean, those are all just normal teenage things." That's it!

"Wendy, say that last part again."

"Normal teenage things?"

"Of course! Stay here until I get back!" Where are we going?

"Dude, what are you doing?!"

Dipper walked up to the ghost who was in the center of a small whirlwind, "Hey ghost!"

The ghost twists Mabel's head around to face Dipper, and then turns the rest of her body towards him. That's just wrong on sooo many level's.

"I've got something to tell you! I'm not a teenager!"

Suddenly, everything floating in midair drops and an elderly couple comes out of nowhere with the man holding Mabel by her hair. "Hohoho! Well why didn't you say so?"

Mabel suddenly regains consciousness and rubs her head. Why did the old guy possess Mabel not the woman?

"How old did you say you were?"

"I'm twelve, technically not a teen." Dipper said reluctantly.

"When we were alive, teenagers were a scourge on our store!" Seeing what these guys did here, I can see that.

The old man continued, "Always sassafrassing with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants! So we decided to up and ban them! But they retaliated with this new-fangled rap music."

The old woman continued, "The lyrics, they were so, hateful!"

"It was so shocking; we were stricken down with double heart attacks!" Oh…well…I guess that's better way to go then some of the usual scenario's that could befall other shop worker's, I think.

She continued on brightly, "That's why we hate teenagers so much! Don't we, honey?" They then began to cuddle together, that's sweet in a squeamish way.

"But they're my friends, isn't there anything I can do to, help them?"

"There is one thing. Do you know any funny little dances?" Why? They must be missing their grandkids, if they had any, 3 reasoned.

"Uh... is there anything else I can do?"

He lights himself on fire and screams, "NOOOO!" Talk about pushy.

Dipper yelled, and then reluctantly admitted, "OKAY OKAY OKAY! Um... Well, I do know...the Lamby Lamby Dance. Bu-but I can't really do it, without a lamb costume!" Good thinking, what are the odds they have a lamb costume in your size.

Pa then snaps his fingers and Dipper is in a lamb costume. Well damn.

Dipper sighed defeated, "Oh, well... there it is.

Wellll...

Who wants a Lamby lamby lamby? I do! I do!

So go up and greet your Mammy mammy mammy!

Hi there! Hi there! So march march march around the daisies...

Don't don't don't you forget about the babies!" He finished with a wink. I feel embarrassed for you

"That was so fine, girly dancing boy! You're friends are free."

Dipper got his clothes back and the ghosts vanished and he said, "Well I don't think you have to worry about us coming back, so... "

"Ughh... I'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again." Mabel groaned out, holding her stomach.

"Hey!" Dipper picks up a package of Smile Dip, "There's still some left!" Whatever you do don't eat it!

She shot up and slapped it out of his hand, "EVIL!"

"What-what happened after everything went crazy?" One of the teens seated on the floor asked Wendy who replied, "You are never going to believe it! The ghosts appeared and Dipper had to..." If you tell them about the dance I'll personally nominate you to be the new gnome queen! 3 yelled protectively. Dipper saved your asses by sacrificing his dignity; you had better not throw him under the bus!

Wendy notices Dipper looking here pleadingly. "Uh, I mean, Dipper just grabbed a bat, and just started beating ghosts down, left and right, and the ghost got all scared, and just ran away like a couple of little girls, it was insane!"

"Alright! Dr. Fun Times!" So he's DFT again, God make up your minds.

Wendy turns to Dipper and zips lips who repeated the action. Good.

Everyone but Wendy, Dipper, and 3 was sleeping in the van as they talked outside, "Well, I'm probably scarred for life." Hey, I, Mabel and Dipper seen more wild stuff then 2 anti-teen ghosts, and we seem just fine.

"Yeah, that was pretty crazy." Not as crazy as Gideon.

"I think I'll go stare at a wall for a while and RETHINK EVERYTHING. Hey, next time we hang out; let's stay at the Mystery Shack. Okay?" Yeah, we have been attracting a lot of supernatural things lately; maybe it's for the best that we stay close to home for now.

"Next time? Yah! Let's hang out at the Shack! Next time..."

"OHHHHH..." Mabel groaned then sees the thing she wrote earlier and moaned, "What kind of sick joke is this?" Yours.

But there is one thing I want to know, 3 thought as they drove away.

Where was Robbie between the hotdog Nate and when everything got back to normal?