I walk into the front door, and the giftshop is flooded with tourists. I narrowly dive and duck out of the way of people.

Well, there's going to be a lot for me to clean up.

I walk up to Stan. "Where's Mabel and Dippin' Dots?" I ask him. Without looking up from his money counting, he says, "Attic."

I bound up the stairs and am greeted with a retched smell. I plug my nose, and open the door.

"Dipper! Did you forget to wash your clothes again?!" I ask, my voice sounding like alvin the chipmunk.

I walk in, but nothing looks weird or different. "What is that smell?!" I demand. Mabel gags. "Ask." She gasps for clean air. "Ask Dipper!" She runs out of the room.

I stare at my little brother. "What'd you do?" He grins sheepishly. "Erm...I was working on a spell?" He asks unsurely.

I facepalm. "Dipper!" I shriek. "Give me that journal!" I snatch the book out of his hands.

It takes me several minutes to find a reverse spell.

Only, they don't look like any words to me. Obsbopb pjbii pmbii. What kinda spell is that? Then, right before my eyes, the spell changes from coded to English.

Reverse smell spell. What the...? Dipper's voice breaks through my thoughts. "Are you going to read it?"

"Uh... Yeah." I gulp. "Reverse smell spell!" I chant. Is that it? Just, reverse smell spell?!

My mouth feels...like I was mumbling constanants.

A bright glow illuminates the room, and the smell ceases.

"How'd you read that?!" Dipper demands. I cock my head. "What? You can't see it? It's in English, right there." I point to the Journal.

He laughs. "Spring, it's NOT in english! Not even close!" He opens it, and it's coded again. I rub my eyes. What...?

"How'd you pronounce it, too?" He asked. I facepalm. "Dipper! I. was. speaking. English." Wasn't I?

"No! You weren't. you were just mumbling...sounds! Kinda like in Harry Potter. He speaks parsaltongue. But with you, its...wow..."

Dipper stands in aw. "I think you might be destined for spells, Spring." He states.

Magic. Dipper thinks i'd be good at magic. "Well, maybe. If you say so."

Dipper's face lights up. "Let's go to the library! They must have at least one spell book!" He pulls on my arm.

"COME ON! WE NEED SPELL BOOKS!" He yells.

Sheesh. Looks like i'm going to become a wizard.

Dipper and I walk into the library, and Dipper drags me to the back shelf.

While he's looking through spell books, I see my all time favorite book. I grin, showing off my shiny teeth.

Must...resist...urge...to...geek...out...

ARGH! Stupid books. Always pulling me towards them with their gravitational pull! My parents should've named me Geekella!

I run over and pick the book up. "Labyrinth! Labyrinth! Labyrinth!" I chant.

It's about a girl named Sarah, who wishes the goblins would come take her baby brother, Toby, away.

The Goblin King shows up (who's fallen in love with the girl), and long story short...She has to find her way through a Labyrinth and get to the center in 13 hours, or else Toby will become a goblin. (They made the book based off of the movie!)

I walk back over to Dipper, clutching the book to my chest. I have the nerdiest grin plastered across my face.

Like, someone streched my smile as far as it could go, so it stuck that way.

"Haha! Found one!" Giggles erupt from Dipper. He looks at the book I have, and rolls his eyes. "Not that book again!"

I clutch it protectively. "What's that supposed to mean?!" I demand. Dipper walks over to a table, and I sit next to him. "You've already read it 6 times! Give it a break, Spring!"

I gasp, and pet the spine of the book. "He didn't mean it, Jareth. No he didn't."

Dipper rolls his eyes. "Anyways..." He opens the book. "This is a book on spells and potions. Can you read these?"

wind

light

disarm

levitate

summon

teleport

freeze

and a bunch of others.

"Yeah, I can read them." I look at the page again.

Coded again! ARGH!

I shrug. "Okay, so? I can read a few spells. I can't use magic to use the spells." Dipper clicks teeth.

"You need a wand!" He grins. I facepalm. This is what I get for letting my little brother teach me magic. "You just had to go there, didn't you?"

He grins. "Yes. But i'm serious. Unless you're like, a natural wizard or something, you'd need a wand." I roll my eyes. "And where would we get one? Diagon Ally?"

"Stay here. I'm checking this out." He walks off with the book. I chuckle. Figures. Dipper Pines, my little brother, is going to be my magic teacher.

I lean back, against my chair, and open my book. Yes, i'm going to buy it.

Sarah ran across a bridge, wearing a white dress. "Give me the child. With the hardships un-numbered, I have fought my way here, to the Goblin City. Give me the child you have stole-Somone leans against me.

"Excuse me?!" I whip around. "Oh-Bill!" I shriek.

He presses a finger to my lips. "Shh! You're brother might hear." He takes my arm, and leads me to the other side of the library behind a bookshelf.

His stormy eyes peer down at me. "So, why are you here?" I ask. "Because you're here." He says simply, and places a hand on my shoulder.

The gesture sends a shiver down my spine. "But, why?" I repeat.

"I came to warn you about something!" He says. My heart leaps. "What?"

"The apocolypse." He whispers. I freeze. "apocolypse?!" I ask, mouth hanging agape.

He nods. "Yeah, and...there's a very small chance of survival." He blurts. Why don't someone deal with it then?

Bill seems to of read my mind. "I'm part of a group, and we...stop... the monsters out to kill. You can say, we're the protectors of Gravity Falls."

This is a lot to process. I rub my temple, to ward off any oncoming headaches.

"Group. Who's in this group?" I ask. Bill's eyebrow raises. "Can't you guess?"

No. They couldn't possibly... "Wendy and her friends?" he nods. "Yep. And a few others. But we're the main fighters. Since we're younger, we're faster and-" "So, why are you telling me this?" I ask. Why?

He rolls his eyes. "I did say I was warning you. Didn't I?"

I sigh inwardly. This is my chance to make me feel good about myself.

I shake my head. "No, you aren't just warning me. You're recruiting me. Because you can use my amazing assistance!" I flip my hair over my shoulder, but some of it gets in my mouth.

"Bleh, bleh, bleh." I spit it out, only to have it stick again. "bleh, bleh, hair in my mouth. Bleh!"

Bill crosses his arms and shakes his head. "I don't think so, hon-" hon? "I mean, you look like you're something out of a fairytale!" He pinches a few strands of my hair between his fingers and twirls it.

In-sul-ting! "The wicked witch?" I retort.

He rolls his eyes. "Please! The princess."

The Princess-wait, did he just compliment me?

"Bill, i'm sure I want to do this. I want to protect people. Even if I died. I'd know I was trying to protect the ones I love. My little brother and sister get WAY to close to the supernatural." I say, trying to convince him.

He bites his lip. "Okay, fine! But first I'll have to train you. Two things you have to promise. First, these people will be like you're second family. So, treat them well. and second, we always keep our promises. Promise me those two things!"

I nod. Sounds good enough to me. "Promise."

"Give me your number." I rattle off my cell. "Now you-" I pull out my cell. "712-432-5364." He says. I save it into my phone, and put his name under 'Bill (aka, boy who has no idea you like him, so he must be delirious or something)'

True story.

"Spring!" Dipper's voice breaks through.

I spin around. "Sorry, have to go." I run off. But Bill grabs my arm. "Wait!" He says.

I try jerking my arm away. "Bill! I have to go!" He hesitantly let's go of my arm.

"Tell me where you live. I'll be there at 11:45 tonight. Be ready."

Wait-at night?!

I rub the back of my neck. Well, i've got to make some sacrifices it I want to do this.

"The Mystery Shack."

His mouth drops. "YOU'RE A PINES?!" I shrug. "Yeah. So?"

"Look, I gotta go-" He runs off.

I let go of the breath I hadn't realized I was holding. Looks like he won't be here tonight.

I look for Dipper, and find him at the table we were sitting at earlier.

Dipper gets up and glares at me. "Where were you? I was looking for you!" He says, as if I was his 5 year old sister.

"Looking through books." I say sheepishly. Not exactly a lie. I was glancing at book titles on my way back here.

"Well anyway, I bought this one." He holds up a book on different languages and what they mean and how to speak them (plus spells and potions). The book itself is bigger than the dictionary!

I stare at the thing. It must've taken CENTURIES to even WRITE it! "How am I supposed to read this-" I look disgustingly at the book. "In a month?!"

Dipper glares at me. "We'll be studying one language per week. Now, the weird language you speak-it must be in here! It has every single language. I'm kinda partial to Latin."

I roll my eyes. "Whatever. Let's go home and study." No, I wanna go home to make sure I look perfect for Bill.

I think I just landed myself a date. Killing monsters with the teenagers of Gravity Falls...

Success! You'll be in for a surprise on chapter 3! *coughfightingandkissingcough*

Bye! I got a certain chapter 3 to be writing!