Flying, he was carelessly flying towards the ground or maybe he was falling. As the thought occurred to him that mother earth might indeed be "hugging" him at 32 ft./s2 he realized that he didn't care all that much, in fact he felt a contented serenity wash over his being for some reason or another that he couldn't quiet explain. His ordinarily neatly combed auburn mane was driven back as the wind barreled past him, the ground rapidly approaching. He allowed a smile to play across his lips as he closed his eyes in anticipation of the inevitable embrace he would soon share with the earth, Gaia as she was known in Greek mythology, the primordial goddess of land and mother of all gods and titans. A fun fact he couldn't help but share with no one in particular save for himself. Dipper opened his eyes expecting to see the approaching ground but somewhere along the way the scenery had changed and he now stood in an empty parking lot. It wasn't completely empty, however, as there stood Wendy under a single lit street lamp, illuminated like the heavenly angle she was. She beckoned to him and he came. Eyes wide, breath short, chest getting tighter, their lips only centimeters from one another. This was it; the moment dipper had been waiting the whole summer for, the kiss that seemed would take forever to happen was just mere seconds away. She held him close and then….
Good morning Gravity Falls! The annual Northwest founder's day parade is only two weeks away and for those of you who can't contain your excitement you'll be happy to know that today is going to be another hot one. Perfect for heading down to the local swimming pool and cooling off or catching a movie at our illustrious movie theater now selling real popcorn in three new flavors: man-nana, tire, and goat. Now here's Shady Grove by Among the Oak & Ash to help get y'all in the summertime spirit.
As toby's awkward, scratchy voice faded out and the sweet melody of the Celtic song played Dipper slowly opened his eyes and turned off the alarm trying to brush off the last bit of sleep that still clung to him. He blushed slightly, noticing certain tightness in shorts as the remnants of his dream still bounced around in his head and silently thanked god that the Gravity Falls morning radio show hadn't woken up his twin sister, still asleep across the room, as the teasing would have been both merciless and endless. He lay back down in his bed for a few minutes longer, partially wishing to get a little more sleep and partially to allow the "swelling" to go down. Once satisfied that sleep wasn't to visit him again this morning and "little Dipper" was back in his place he got up and slowly shuffled across the room gently nudging his twin till she began to stir.
"Morn' broseph" came the chipper reply to his prodding. With a much more eloquent start to her day Mabel rose and hopped off her bed. Unlike her twin brother she didn't need some radio show news report to tell her that today was going to be a great day. It was this sort of naïve optimism that carried her through life and was just one in many of her likeable qualities. The twins quickly raced down stairs, scrambling over one another to be the first to sit at the table. A triumphant "yes!" denoted Mabel as the winner whilst her defeated tween brother had to set the table for breakfast, a ritual that was unsettling in its familiarity. Just once he would like to be the one to sitting there gloating while she set the table, but alas, today just wasn't that day.
The twins' great uncle (gruncle for short) Stan shambled into the kitchen soon after Dipper had set the last plate down and began to make breakfast: several slices of toast, slightly charred bacon, and exactly one very runny egg. Truly a proverbial feast considering its frugal origins. None the less, the twins greedily ate the dry, blackened food, Mabel tossing the inedible parts to her pet pig waddles. She cheerfully thanked her gruncle for the meager meal as the siblings raced back upstairs to get ready for the day. After getting dressed it was time for Mabel and Dipper to work at their gruncle's tourist trap, the mystery shack, a place that was strangely devoid of any child labor laws and tourists came to throw copious amounts of money away on Stan's exorbitantly priced "novelties and befuddlements" as the aging entrepreneur had put it. The tourists came and went as the day wore on to both oh and ah at the oddities contained within the shack. Such strange things as the six packalope, rock that looks like a face, the ancient Aztec wheel of money (place money on it and it mysteriously disappears), and the much beloved newest addition to the shack, face that looks like a rock (horrifying yet accurate). Needless to say, the mystery shack put Ripley's to shame. Normally Dipper and Mabel would have the "privilege" of being part of the tour, namely dressed up as one of the attractions. Today was different, however, as they got to help out Soos the shack's portly, amiable janitor/repairman. This lasted for a grand total of ten minutes before the trio grew board of trying to set up the latest attraction, the invisible lava lamp of disappearing change, and decided to see which twin could bounce back the furthest after running head long into Soos' supple belly.
Soon after the third round Wendy showed up for her shift at the shack. With an apathetic sigh, the lanky redhead sat behind the cash register and prepared for another boring day of taking people's money and pretending to do it with a smile. Working at the mystery shack was more of a chore than anything else but she needed the money and, so long as she did her job, Stan let her get away with just about anything which is more than she could say for any of the other jobs around Gravity Falls. With another sigh she reached under the counter and, with some effort, found her issue of Teen Dream magazine right where she had left it the day before. Dipper's cheeks began to glow red as at the thought of the kiss he and his summer crush had shared just hours before in his dream world. Taking notice of Dipper's reddening complexion Soos could help but make an observation "Dude are getting sick or something? You almost look like this fire hydrant I saw one time. It had eyes and everything, just like you. Or maybe it was a dude in a costume, I can never tell." "No, he's just thinking of this dream he had about Wendy last night." Mabel chimed in. "wait, what? How would you even know about that?" Dipper questioned. "Well duh, twin mind link…. plus you talk in your sleep. It's so adorable." At this Mabel began poking Dipper all over. Unable to watch another day where Dipper cowered from his love like a rat cowering from a mouse trap baited with cheese, always wanting what it knew was out of reach, Soos spoke up. "Dude you should like go talk to her and stuff. You know, like a regular person or whatever. Plus, Hambone here isn't going to stop until you do." Worn down from Mabel's constant poking and with a sense that something about today just felt right Dipper finally resolved to do what he had been afraid to do all summer, ask Wendy out. "Ow, ow alright you win I'll talk to her if would just please stop that." Frustrated, Dipper marched over to the cash register, nervous because of what he was about to do and somewhat worried that his sister poking barrage had left a few bruises on his frail form (she really need to learn how to take it down a notch).
Heart beating faster and palms made of ice Dipper walked around the counter towards the Redhead. "Hey there" came his screechy, prepubescent voice. Dipper cleared his throat and tried again, this time noticeably dropping an octave. "ahem…hey there Wendy what's up?" Wendy looked up from her magazine, face noticeably brighter at the chance of any form of social activity. "Oh not much, just thought it would be fun to waste more of my life in service to your uncle. What's going on with you? Stan isn't making you and your sister do that embarrassing rain dance skit for the tourists again, is he?" Small talk, start with small talk and build to something bigger Dipper thought to himself. "Um, no Stan is having us work with Soos today, but we're just messing around…. I flew back fifteen feet after running into Soos." "Hahaha nice one dude" Wendy laughed. Dipper couldn't believe how well this was going, he had managed to make her laugh. Now all he had to do was seal the deal. "So, are you doin' anything later, y'know like after work or something? Because I thought maybe we could hang out." Dipper barely squeaked out the last part of his sentence but he was sure that Wendy had heard him. Wendy had had enough boyfriends to know what he was up to. Dipper's affection for Wendy remained a secret only in his head. Plus she was already dating someone, but there was something adorable about the whole situation that she couldn't pass up. She felt a twinge of pity but decided to throw him a bone anyways. With the slightest hint of regret in her voice she told him of her plans after work. "Y-yeah, the gang and I were planning on this overnight camping trip in the woods. I was going to meet up with them after work, but if you and your sister wanted to come along that would be cool to." It may have been an anemic yes, but all the same, it was a yes. Dipper was so happy that he nearly forgot to respond. "Um, yeah, cool so I'll see you after work then." Giddy with excitement about the possibilities the night may hold for him Dipper let his imagination run wild with fantasies about how he'd win Wendy over. Maybe he'd do it by protecting her from an angry manotaur or maybe by knocking her current boyfriend, Robbie, out with a single and incredible roundhouse kick after he had said or did something obnoxious (This was the most likely scenario as Robbie was prone to obnoxious behavior). Either way it didn't matter, he just knew that things were going to work out for him tonight, he had a feeling.