Hello everyone! I'm here with a Gravity Falls story in mind. This will be a bit different since I'm combining a few tropes then and there but I'll do my best to deliver an interesting story for you to enjoy!
-Piedmont California, 3:30 p.m.-
The sun was shining brightly over the large and peaceful neighborhood on this Friday afternoon in Piedmont California, with numerous children and teenagers storming out the door of their respective schools once that fateful school bell rang for the last time. Some went back home to rest and relax, while others decided to go somewhere else to have fun after having to endure a long and hard week at school.
A young girl named Mabel Pines, no more than sixteen years of age, with long chestnut brown hair that reaches her hips, pale skin, brown eyes and round blushing cheeks. She used to have silver colored braces, but had them removed a year ago, revealing her perfect smile that she now wore proudly, wearing a purple sweater, a white undershirt, a medium length pleated purple skirt, a pink headband, black shoes and white socks with pink and red hearts imprinted on them. She was carrying a rainbow colored backpack that was decorated with random stickers.
Next to her was her twin brother, Dipper Pines, who was the same age as her, having curly but messy brown hair that was covered with a blue and white hat, with blue brim and blue pine tree on the front, brown eyes and pale skin like his sister, wearing a navy blue hooded vest, a reddish orange T-shirt, grey shorts, plain white socks with a red stripe and black shoes. He is carrying a backpack like Mabel but his was green and more plain looking.
"Woo!" School is finally over!" Mabel Pines shouted in relief, as they walked out of Millennium High School campus. "Now come on, bro bro!"
A groan can be heard from an annoyed Dipper. "I'm coming, geez! What's the rush, Mabel? It's not like you have something planned today."
Mabel turned her head with a smile on her face. "Oh hush, Dipper! I have a lot of things at home that demands my attention."
Dipper rolled his eyes, before he followed his twin sister. The Pine twins had a good day at school, but both of them were admittedly tired and wanted to get home and relax. Luckily, they don't live that far from their high school, so just after several minutes of walking a few blocks around their neighborhood, they arrived home.
"Mom! Dad! We're home!" Mabel shouted out loud as they entered the house.
"We're in the kitchen kids!" Mrs. Pines yelled back.
The Pine twins made their way towards the kitchen and upon entering it saw their parents with Mrs. Pines making food while Mr. Pines was sitting on the dining table reading the local newspaper.
"Hey, you two," Mrs. Pines greeted with a smile. "How was school?"
Mabel was the first to respond. "School was fine, as usual!"
"That's good to hear.," Mrs. Pines smiled. She had brown hair like her children, her long hairstyle similar to her daughter and have the same brown eyes and pale skin as her children, as well as wearing a yellow and white apron over her pearl white dress.
"How was your day, dad?" Dipper asked, taking off his green backpack and set it near his seat.
"My day was great, lad," Mr. Pines spoke with some enthusiasm in his tone, his eyes still glued on the newspaper. Unlike the majority of the his family Mr. Pines is arguably the only one who doesn't have brown hair. Instead, he had short jet black hair and sea green eyes. He was wearing a black khakis pants, a white cotton long sleeve shirt, black socks, black shoes and a black leather belt.
"I hope you kids are getting ready for tomorrow," Mrs. Pines spoke with much enthusiasm, causing Mabel to respond with her bright smile.
"Of course, mom!" Mabel answered her mom with great anticipation and for good reason, the whole family were planning to go a weekend camping trip and everyone were very excited to go. Plus, it would be a nice few days off from work for Mr. and Mrs. Pines.
"It would be nice to have some day off from work." Mr. Pines spoke with a sigh of relief as he continued to read his newspaper.
After Mabel and Dipper discussed with their parents about the upcoming trip, both of the twins went to their rooms, with the former relaxing on her bed, while the latter began to pack as over the past couple of days, Dipper was occupied with school and books, among other things. Despite this, however, he was very excited for their big family weekend trip as it would get him away from the overwhelming schoolwork that would play heavily on his spring midterms; being the intellect out of the two, he has his head in the books as he don't want to mess up when it comes to his academics. Being away from home would do good for him and get him the break he sorely needed.
Meanwhile, in Mabel's room, the optimistic teenager was laying on his pink colored bed, reading some of her boys magazines and checking out the swarming images of good looking young boys from many shows, movies and boy bands like Edward Cullen and Jacob Black from the Twilight series and Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson and formal Zayn Malik from the pop boy band One Direction. Mabel still haven't found much luck in finding the perfect boyfriend since starting high school; some of the boys were either too mean, too arrogant or too violent. Despite the setback, she still keep her head up, hoping to find her dream boyfriend. Going away on the upcoming family trip would get her mind off of boys and would give her something fun to do with her loving family.
The afternoon went by fairly quickly and pretty soon, it was now the evening. The Pines family were in their respective rooms until they were called by Mrs. Pines from the kitchen as it was supper time for them.
"Dipper! Mabel! Dinner is ready!"
The twins immediately jumped on their feet and rushed down the stairs, quickly arriving at the kitchen, with their mother setting up the table with plates and utensils. The only one who wasn't at the table is Mr. Pines. as he was in the living room.
"Dear!" Mrs. Pines called for her husband, "Dinner is ready!"
"Okay, I'll be there in a sec!" Mr. Pines shouted back, closing his newspaper and got on his feet. As he walked towards the kitchen, he heard a sudden knock on the door, much to his confusion. Mr. Pines as he didn't expect any known guests coming here.
'Now who could that be?' Mr. Pines thought, as he walk towards the door wanted to see who it was at the door.
The moment Mr. Pines opened the door, he was met with multiple bright flashlights beaming on him, as well as multiple black limousines parked on the curb in front of the Pines family's house, but most of all, stationed behind the numerous limousines were a few black cars that Mr. Pines could mistaken as police cars, even though none of them have any blue and red siren lights on top.
As Mr. Pines were processing with his thoughts on what was going on, he noticed six figures coming up towards the young father; five of the figures were adults: three women and two men, wearing black suits that gave them the appearance of being from the police station or even the C.I.A. Mr. Pines was shocked and confused, wondering what he or any of his family did to get onto the C.I.A.'s radar. But before he can gathered his mind to prepare the endless amount of questions the agents would obviously bombarded him, Mr. Pines got a glimpse of the sixth figure, expecting to be another agent.
To his great surprise, however, the sixth figure wasn't an agent, let alone an adult. It was a male teenager who looked around his children's age, with blonde, ripe wheat hair, which slightly shifted to the right, blue eyes and a light skin tone that match the color of his hair. His attire consists of a blue shirt, black pants with white boots wearing yellow feather earrings.
It was one thing to see police agents, even the C.I.A., coming to his house, but seeing them accompanying a child was another story. A lot of questions began surfacing on the young father's mind: what does the C.I.A. want? Why did they come here? More importantly, why was there a child among them?
As the figures were coming closer to Mr. Pines, he adjust his stance and his composure, intending on having all the answers by the end of tonight. "Um…may I help you guys?"
"Are you Mr. Pines, sir?" One of the two female agents asked in a stern voice.
"Uh, yes!" Mr. Pines replied in a haste tone, but remained quite nervous.
"Subject confirmed," The second female agent spoke alerting the rest of the officers. "Sir, we need to have a talk with you and your family."
But before the conversation can resume Mrs. Pines came out of the doorway rather fuming on who was at the door keeping her husband waiting holding the meatloaf she made. "Okay, what is going on here?!"
Mrs. Pines rudeness earned the stares from everyone except her husband. as he was shaking his head. Mrs. Pines realized whose was at the door and began to laugh nervously.
"Uh…meatloaf anyone?"
"…And that's the whole the story Mr. and Mrs. Pines."
Mr. and Mrs. Pines were currently in the living room, sitting on the couch, listening to the long and complicated story that the agents informed them, with Dipper and Mabel in the kitchen, secretly watching their parents and the agents talking important business from the corner.
"What do you think the C. I. A would want with our parents?" Mabel asked eyeing on the agents.
"I'm not sure myself Mabel." Dipper admitted as he over served the living room with caution. "Something's off Mabel..."
"What is it?" Mabel asked.
"If the agents are really from the Central Intelligence Agency how come I see their coats don't have C. I. A logo on their back?" Dipper points out, possibly smelling foul play in the works.
"Maybe they are in short supply?" Mabel suggested. Dipper only rolled his eyes in response to Mabel's laughable answer before returning his glance to the living room again.
"But still I wonder why these people come here of all places? It's not like our parents done nothing this bad that would grab their attention." Dipper muttered suspiciously.
"I know this is completely sudden for you both, Mr. and Mrs. Pines, but this is very important that this child needs a place and this particular area is one the recommended place to stay and hide until things get under control. Now whether you two can accept or decline, we will understand your decision," One of the male agent explained, who had black eyes, brown hair and dark skin tone.
Both the Pines parents look at each other before retreating to their thoughts about the situation that was explained to them. A few moments have passed until Mr. Pines begin to speak with a stern expression on his face.
"Well, as much how serious the situation, is we're gonna have t-"
"Accept!" Mrs. Pines shouted with much enthusiasm and joy, much to her husband's dismay.
"Honey!" Mr. Pines was not pleased with his wife cutting him off like this. "We dunno who this kid is!"
"Oh come dear," Mrs. Pines insisted, "This poor child is crying for help and need a place to stay." Mrs. Pines was very interested in taking care of another child as her own and after hearing the teenager story, she wanted to take her in. However, it was clear that the only thing that's stopping her is her husband.
"Hon…" Mr. Pines begin to adjust his glasses. "I know you mean well, but we can't possibly take this child unless we learn more!"
"Oh hush you!" Mrs. Pines harshly ordered her husband with her wit and quirkiness before she went up to the teenager and patted the young child. "Don't you worry bout a thing sweetie everything will be okay."
The teenager boy blushed at the parental affection he was receiving from Mrs. Pines and only nodded his head and forming a very shy smile. Mr. Pines looked at his wife consoling the young child. After seeing how determined his wife wanting for the lone teenager to stay Mr. Pines let out a defeated sigh.
"Alright! The boy can stay here," Mr. Pines ultimately gave in.
Mrs. Pines gasped and lit up in happiness by her husband approval. "Yes!"
The agent's demeanor changed into a very relaxed tone. A female agent with blonde hair, blue eyes and light skin tone spoke, "Excellent, Mr Pines. We will get the proper paperwork for you."
A handful of agents got the proper paperwork presented for Mr and Mrs. Pines. Both parents took their time carefully reading them, all of which it included the young teenager's information, among others. After several minutes of scrolling down every single page, Mr. and Mrs. Pines signed the paperwork and gave them back to the agents.
"Wonderful! With that out of the way, we'll take our leave," The male agent spoke, as he wrap up this unexpected meeting before reach for his pocket. "Almost forgot! Here's our card! Call us just in case an emergency."
"We will," Mrs. Pines said as she followed the agents out the door.
"Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Pines for accepting this difficult task. Hope you guys have a good night," With that, all the agents exited the house, got in their cars and drove off, leaving the Pines family alone with the young boy who was looking down, clearly feeling very nervous about his new living conditions. Mrs. Pines gave the teenager her sympathy; she could tell that he felt like a burden to her and the rest of her family and she knew only one way to show him otherwise.
"Hi there, you must be very stressed due to your current situation and I completely understand. But you are now safe here so you can rest easy."
"T-thank you, ma'am." The blonde haired boy turned pink at Mrs. Pines kindness.
Mrs. Pines patted the blonde hair boy's shoulder. "Come on, I made some meatloaf and you must be starving!"
The young teenager nodded while chuckling. "Yeah, I am a bit hungry, ma'am and I would love to have some meatloaf."
Mr and Mrs. Pines escorted the blonde haired boy to the kitchen where Mabel and Dipper are sitting across each other. Mr Pines sat on his seat while Mrs. Pines making the plates for her family and her honorary guest. Mr. Pines were keeping to himself, Dipper and Mabel were starting the blonde haired teenager with the latter having a flirtatious look that clearly reads, "Hello there handsome" much to the blonde teenager's discomfort.
"Uh…hello there…" The blonde teenager nervously greeted her.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Mabel squealed. "Hi there! I'm Mabel! And this is my twin brother Dipper Pines!"
Dipper just waved at the teenager with indifference, never saying a word, prompting the brunette to elbow her brother.
"OW!" Dipper winced from the pain, before facing the new kid. "Hi, my name's Dipper."
"Hello there Dipper. Hello there Mabel." The blonde teenager bowed his head in humility and politeness. "My name is Joshua. I-I hope we can get along."
"Nonsense! We're a very awesome family!" Mabel proudly boasted. "And you don't seemed to be a terrible person up glance."
Joshua's face turned pink from Mabel's compliment. "T-thank you Mabel. I'll try not to cause much trouble."
Just then, Joshua felt a hand touching on his right shoulder causing him to turn his head to see who hand's was resting on his shoulder. It was Mrs. Pines severing him dinner equipped with a smile on her face that is as Joshua can describe "warm as a quilt." He look back down facing his dinner, eyeing on the meatloaf with dirty rice and corn on the side on his plate; the aroma made his mouth began to water a bit.
"You don't need to worry about anything, sweetheart," Mrs. Pines addressed to Joshua in a motherly fashion. "Make yourself at home and if you need anything any of us know, okay?"
"Okay," Joshua nodded his head as he looked at the whole Pines family; Mabel gave him a wink, Dipper were shrugging his shoulder with indifference while Mr. Pines let out a sigh clearly displeased with the situation forcing to take care of a random child out of the blue.
"This may be the most longest and difficult period of my life," Joshua thought as he quietly ate his dinner with the Pines family.
For the most part, the Pines family and Joshua ate dinner with minimal talking, with Mrs. Pines and Mabel doing most of the talking, with the former trying to get her husband and son to talk, in order to get to know their new guest, while the latter asked simple questions and such. Joshua managed to be fairly honest and answer most of them, but there were other questions that he couldn't answer, mainly because of how personal they were, a fact that Mabel understood, much to the guest's relief.
The Pines Family resumed what they were previously doing after dinner with the exception of Mrs. Pines as she is currently showing Joshua around the house for a bit telling where the bathroom is and where each of her family's rooms are before arriving at the guest room.
"Here's the guest room, Joshua," Mrs. Pines said, opening the door. "This is where you would be staying."
"Thank you Mrs. Pines." Was all Joshua said before entering his new room. The room is medium sized with the bedroom walls painted representing the autumn with such colors as pumpkin, tangerine and flame orange. One the left side is a queen size bed well made with layers of clean white sheets, light brown blankets, a red, black and beige color stripe comforter and two large pillows tucked in red pillow covers resting on top. Across the bed is a dark chestnut brown colored dresser with a 32 inch television made from Samsung and a Direct T. V. cable box with a white colored remote sitting on top. On the right side there is a closet with mirrors on the slide doors and a bathroom. There were also a small one on the left side next to the queen sized bed.
"Whoa! This room is rather nice," Joshua complimented. "Thank you for letting me stay here, Mrs. Pines."
"Oh, it's no trouble at all," Mrs. Pines let out a light chuckle. "Anyway, I'll leave you alone. If you need anything you can ask me, my husband or the twins."
Joshua nodded and with that, Mrs. Pines left, but not before bidding the blonde boy goodnight. Joshua scrolled towards the bed and sat down to unpack his things with his clothes being the first to work on and load inside the dresser followed by his bathroom utensils like his toothbrush, comb, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash, soap, q tips and finally his personal stuff from his pocket like his wallet, cell phone, lip chap and his red colored New Nintendo 3DS and set them on a black colored nightstand that is on right side of the bed.
After settling in his new room Joshua closed the bedroom door and got undressed into his boxers and black t-shirt, then put on a pair of shorts that were blue with two green stripes on each side before climbing onto the queen bed and got under the covers.
Joshua then let out a sigh before drifting off to sleep.
"This is my new life here…."
Morning came in the peaceful neighborhood and it was Saturday, which means that every kid and teenager didn't have to worry to getting up for school and most of them sleep through the morning.
Not every teenager follow his common choice, however. An already awaken Dipper Pines made his way downstairs with breakfast in his mind. He was wearing an orange t-shirt and light blue shorts. When Dipper got downstairs, his nose instantly caught the sweet aroma of breakfast coming from the kitchen and decided to head towards the kitchen. Upon his arrival, he saw his mother at the stove making pancakes, sausages, eggs and much to his surprise, Joshua sitting at the table, playing on his phone while waiting for breakfast to be ready.
Mrs. Pines was humming in tune and turned around, instantly saw her beloved son awake. "Oh, good morning, sweetie!"
"Morning mom," The younger twin let out a yawn while rubbing his eyes before facing his new guest Joshua. "Morning Joshua."
"Oh, good morning, Dipper," Joshua greeted, as he put his phone down. "How are you this morning?"
"I'm…fine, for a lack of a better word." Dipper reluctantly replied as he took a seat.
"Since Mabel isn't with you now, I'm guessing that she's still sleeping," Mrs. Pines pointed out.
Dipper nodded his head. "You know Mabel, mom. Once she goes to sleep, it's nearly impossible to wake her up."
Mrs. Pines laughed. "So true."
"So mom, I got my stuff prepared for the camping trip," Dipper said with excitement. His enthusiasm quickly died down upon seeing his mother's smile turning into a disappointing frown.
"Oh Dipper, I'm afraid we have to cancel the camping trip."
"WHAT?!" Dipper was not pleased to hear such a news, before glaring at Joshua and faced his mother. "Is it because Joshua is here?!"
"Dipper!" Mrs. Pines sternly shouted, causing her son to almost jump out of his chair in fear and begin to sweat nervously. "No, It is not solely because our new guest is staying, it's because your father had to work today and unfortunately so do I."
Dipper looked down. "Wait, I thought you two have the weekend off."
Mrs. Pines walked towards the dining table, holding two plates filled with hot food. "I thought so too, but your dad got an urgent call from his boss and he left an hour ago for work. As for me, one of my co-workers got injured on the job and needed me as a substitute to fill in."
"I see," Dipper let out a guilty sigh for jumping to conclusions like that. "I'm sorry mom for acting the way I did."
"It's okay Dipper. I know how you two was really looking forward for this family trip and both your dad and myself were greatly disappointed that sudden problems from work had gotten in the way." Mrs. Pines explained.
"Um excuse me, Mrs. Pines?" Joshua spoke up. "I want to apologize if I'm the cause for ruining your family plans."
"Don't be," Mrs. Pines kindly reassured Joshua. "This has nothing to do with you sweetie. Say, since my husband and I have to work today why don't you guys go outside and so that our little guest can see around the neighborhood. It would also be a nice for you guys to get some fresh air."
"I would like that." Dipper said with a surprise amount of approval. Joshua himself let out a soft smile.
"I wouldn't mind getting out of the house and explore around."
Mrs. Pines cheerfully clapped her hands. "Excellent! I'll leave you kids some money before I head out in a few."
"Wait, you're not gonna join us for breakfast Mrs. Pines?" Joshua asked.
"Sadly I can't," Mrs. Pines replied with disappointment. "I have to go work right now before they open. I'll see you kids later and, Dipper, I put Mabel's breakfast in the microwave, so when she comes down, please inform her."
"You got it mom," Dipper reassured his mom.
Mrs. Pines exited the kitchen and went to the living room, grabbing her purse, cell phone and brown leather jacket, left a nice amount of money for the kids to spend on later in the living room table, bid Joshua and Dipper goodbye and left the house leaving the two boys by themselves in the kitchen quietly eating.
"So Joshua," Dipper began to speak as he began feel very awkward as the overwhelming silence filling the kitchen. "How are you this morning? Did you sleep well?"
"I'm good so far, despite being a bit overwhelmed," Joshua admitted. "And I slept well in fact."
"That's good to know," Dipper bashfully rubbed the back of his head.
Just then, the boys heard footsteps coming from the stairs, causing Dipper and Joshua to turn around to see who it was; It is Mabel fully awake dressed in her Pajamas which consisted of a long grape purple nightdress. Her hair was a bit messy which give the impression she just got out of bed.
"Hey, bro bro!" Mabel greeted before facing Joshua with a seductive smile. "Good morning there handsome."
Joshua bashfully turned his head quickly hiding his with a pink blush creeping across his face. "Good morning, Mabel."
"Mabel, please do us a favor and try not to hit on Joshua," Dipper ordered.
Mabel annoyingly rolled her eyes before facing Joshua again clearly with every intent to ignore her little twin brother, much to her sibling's dismay. "How do you sleep last night?"
"Believe it or not, I slept like a rock," Joshua humorously teased, trying alleviate the awkwardness.
"That's good to know." Mabel giggled before she noticed something. "Wait a minute, where's mom and dad?"
Dipper explained what has transpired earlier and broke the news and broke the news of their camping trip being cancelled. Joshua saw Mabel's facial expressions going from shock, disappointment and frustration but it luckily it didn't last long as Mabel grew very pumped with the idea of showing her new guest around town.
"Of course we can show Joshua around the neighborhood!" Mabel clapped her hands. "Just let me eat my breakfast first and then we can head out."
"Sounds good," Dipper said.
Dipper, Mabel and Joshua walked around the area of their hometown. Dipper wore his usual outfit, while Joshua and Mabel wore different outfits; the former wore blue jeans, a simple blue and white short sleeve shirt over a bleach white t-shirt and blue shoes to complete his matching outfit, with the latter wore a teal green skirt, a pink sweater with a small light brown striped kitten playing a purple ball of yarn and black Mary Jane shoes.
The kids were now at the outskirts of downtown where the city shopping area is located. "You two live in a nice area," Joshua commented.
"Thank you," Mabel smiled as butterflies begin to form in her stomach. "Say why don't stop a few places now that our mom left us some money to spend on. What do you say?"
"Sounds great." Joshua answered.
"So where do you like to go?" Dipper suddenly asked as he has been quiet since the majority of of the trip.
"Anywhere is fine, really," Joshua casually replied.
With that, the Pine Twins start their day of showing their new friend around downtown. Originally, Dipper planned to go to only a few places to visit, but Mabel, wanting to cover every corner of the tour and to satisfy her new guest, ultimately ended up visiting nearly every place that was opened, much to the dismay of Dipper, as well as Joshua, but decided to keep his feelings of frustration and thoughts to himself.
It was now late in the afternoon and the kids were at the front of IHOP sitting on a blue bench as the boys were both tired and request Mabel a well needed break.
"Ugh! Finally!" Joshua let out a relieving sigh. "My feet are killing me from that walking!"
"Please, you have it bad Joshua?" Dipper questioned. "My feet felt like pure jelly about two hours ago! Yet by a miracle my feet at still surprisingly intact. And on top of that, I've dealt with this for years no thanks to Mabel here."
Joshua's eyes widened as he made a cringed expression. "Whoa, I'm sorry you had to deal with that."
"It's alright man, not your fault," Dipper huffed, as he leaned his whole body back on the bench. "I'm just glad that we can finally rest because honestly anymore walking and my feet would have become jelly."
"I honestly can't blame ya," Joshua chuckled.
Dipper let out a small smile before awkwardly looking down but strangely felt a bit good for some reason. "So Joshua, can you tell us why are you staying with us?"
Dipper and Mabel quickly saw Joshua's facial expression darkened with great sadness completely covering his face. "It's rather-"
Joshua quickly shook his head. "I'm sorry you two, but it's classified, so I can't say."
"Dipper!" Mabel hit her brother in the back of his head, very livid. "Why do you have ask an obvious sensitive question?! You clearly dampened Joshua's happy mood and ruined the whole day!"
"Geez Mabel I'm so-" Dipper paused a bit to recount his older sister's words. "Wait, how do you know asking personal questions is forbidden? Don't tell me…you already asked a similar question to Joshua didn't you?"
"Pfft! As if Dipper," Mabel said with passive indifference. "Mom came to my room last night before I went to bed and informed me about not asking questions that brings up anything about his personal life including why he's staying with us."
"What?" Dipper shook his head in slight shock. "How come I wasn't informed?"
"Because you were knocked out cold by the time mom want to tell you." Mabel replied.
Dipper only gave Mabel a sour look before rolling his eyes. "Fine."
Mabel only gave her brother a glare before facing Joshua. "I'm sorry for my brother he can be a dummy head at times."
"Hey!" Dipper yelled in protest, which Mabel completely ignored her brother pleas.
"Hey it's okay," Joshua said looking away. "Look, let's change the subject by getting something to eat and then head home okay?"
"Sounds good to me!" Mabel squealed in excitement and grabbed Joshua's hand.
The blonde hair teenager turned pale. "Wait Mabel I still want to re-"
It was too late and Joshua was dragged away, leaving an irritated Dipper alone as he got up on his sore feet. "Oh boy…"
The trio walked around the shopping area for about a half hour, as they couldn't condone where to eat. Mabel wanted to eat at Five Guys Burgers and Fries since she's up for burgers, while Dipper wanted to eat Chipotle Mexican Grill due to him having the mood for tacos and burritos. For Joshua however, he was mostly indifferent on what he want a taste for since he isn't the type of person to be picky about food. So Joshua had to be the lucky person to get a front row seat seeing the Pine Twins arguing with each other. After only seeing a minute or two of them yelling and screaming Joshua came up a quick suggestion of setting their little dispute; Rock, Paper, Scissors. Both Dipper and Mabel agreed and after 3 matches later Mabel came out as the victor much to annoyance of Dipper but he ultimately admit defeat and Mabel lead the two boys to Five Guys.
The trio ordered their food and sat in the back left of the fast food restaurant. "Ah, hello cheeseburger meet my mouth."
Mabel took a huge bite of her cheeseburger before begin munching her fires in a rather loud fashion causing unwanted glares from several people, much to Joshua's shock and Dipper's chagrin.
"I see that you're very hungry Mabel." Joshua spoke as he took a bit on his hotdog.
Mabel nodded her head. "Yep! Five Guys is one of my favorite burger joints I try to go as much as possible."
"I see," Joshua took another bite on his hotdog.
Mabel and Dipper looked at each other. It was quite evident that Joshua had been very quiet for the past hours and only speak when being spoken to. The twins dismissed the boy's quietness to the situation he was in, despite how very little they truly know Joshua and his reason why he is staying with them. For Dipper, not knowing your guest very much let alone any reasons as to why they're staying with them makes it difficult for him not to feel a little paranoid about it despite his parents, namely his mother, to treat Joshua with hospitality. Mabel however, was only more captivated of Joshua's strong but silent persona and it made her want to know more about hist past, even thought it would clearly go against her promise with her mom. Both twins hope they will get their chance to know more about Joshua sooner or later.
After eating their food, the trio begin heading back home despite it is still mid afternoon but with all the walking that Mabel made the boys do, all of them ultimately call it a day. Even Mabel herself that although wanting to continue their tour around town, she couldn't deny the fact that all three of them were completely bushed and it is best to return home and rest.
"So sorry that we had to head back home early Joshua." Mabel apologized.
"Oh, it's quite alright Mabel," Joshua said. "We can go somewhere fun tomorrow if you like."
"R-really?" Mabel asked, sounding very excited.
"Sure, I don't mind getting out again. Staying at home have it's perks but I favored being outside." Joshua replied.
"Ah you're more of an outdoor type of person," Mabel points out.
Joshua let out a slight chuckle. "More or less, Mabel."
Dipper looked at the two socializing with each other, leaving him out alone with the cold shoulder. Despite being very cautious about Joshua, given how his "flashy" arrival came with tons of agents, he couldn't help but to be a bit sad of being left out. Maybe he should stop being paranoid and start coming out of his shell a bit. Whether he wants to befriend Joshua or not Dipper will have to make a decision sooner or later.
The trio finally arrived home. Mabel unlocked the door with her house key and opened it. "Mom! Dad! We're home!"
The kids expected to hear Mr and Mrs Pines voice to let them know their home as well but there was no response.
"Mom?! Dad?! Are you home?" Dipper shouted as they entered the living room. Again no response.
"Looks like your parents are still at work," Joshua spoke.
"It sure seems that way," Mabel confirmed as she scratched her head before smiling. "So who wants to join me in the living room and watch TV?"
"Thanks, but no thanks Mabel, I'll pass." Dipper declined as he sluggishly made his way to his room.
Mabel frowned at her brother's answer before facing Joshua. "Joshua do you want to join me in the living room?"
"Sorry Mabel, I'm gonna have to decline as well," Joshua replied as he too made his way to the guest room.
Mabel was left alone in dismay and disappointed by both boys unwilling to join with her watching TV. "Damnit! I was hoping for Dipper and Joshua to join with me so both of them can try to make progress and become friends."
Mabel scratched her chin before a light bulb appear on top on her head. "Aha! I got it! I know the perfect way to get Dipper and Joshua to warm up to each other. I, Mabel Pines, will make this plan work!"
Mabel then glanced at her unicorn themed watch on her right wrist that reads it is four thirty causing the optimistic girl to gasped and grabbed the remote.
"...Right after I watch Twilight New Moon on demand!" Mabel instantly sat down and turned the channel, eager to watch her recent favorite movie series.
Soon, It was evening at the Pines home and Mr. and Mrs. Pines were still at work, leaving the trio to have the entire household to themselves. Dipper came out of his room, as it was becoming dark and he was getting hungry, but since his mother wasn't here to make supper, he will have to improvise and find dinner on his own.
As he arrived at the stairs he his eye caught a familiar face. "Joshua?"
Joshua put his phone away and saw Dipper. "Dipper, how are you this evening?"
"Okay, as usual," Dipper cautionary replied, clearly put off by Joshua's mellow attitude, but decided to suppress his judgement, as he walked downstairs with Joshua following him.
Upon arriving downstairs, both boys noticed a long purple bed sheet covering the entire doorway that leads to the living room and music can be heard as well. Filled with curiosity, Dipper and Joshua went to the living room. Upon pushing the purple sheet aside, they were greeted with many colorful lights completely filling the room from a large spinning disco ball hanging on the ceiling. A bowl filled with tortilla chips and candy alongside 2 liters of Pitt Cola and red disposable cups sitting on the coffee table. The television was on, showing the news and next to it was what appears to be a big black radio and cd boombox.
Both boys were flabbergasted by the change of display of the living room.
"What the hell is this?" Dipper asked.
"Well, I was going to ask you if you and your sister planned this but given that sudden remark you made it seems this is all on your own sister's doing," Joshua spoke as scratched at left his right cheek with his right index finger.
"Speaking of which, where is Mabel anyway?" Dipper turn his head to look for his twin sister.
Out of nowhere both boys heard a familiar voice. "Hello boys!"
Dipper and Joshua turned around and load and behold there is Mabel standing near the back door as she came from the backyard. "Welcome! It's time to get this started!"
Joshua gave Mabel a rather slight confused look. "Uh… Mabel? Is all this you're doing?"
"Yep!" Mabel nodded her head with her bright smile filling the room.
"Mind telling us what all this for and why?" It was Dipper's turn to ask his sister's motives.
"This…" Mabel started happily. "Is a little party I set up for all three of us can have a good time!"
"What?!" Dipper and Joshua shouted in shock and both wanted to protest, but Mabel wouldn't have any of it and grabbed their hands, dragging them to the couch before throwing them.
"Oof! Mabel, what gives?" A very peeved Joshua demanded answers from the optimistic girl for throwing him like a shuriken. A very annoyed Dipper gave his sister a similar look and wanted the same as well.
Mabel let out a sigh before speaking. "Look, I'm rather fed up of you two alienating yourself and not being friends," A smile crept up on Mabel's face, "So I decided to step in and improvise for you boys to finally bond!"
"By throwing a party for us?" Dipper asked.
"Yep!" Mabel shouted confidently. "Let's get this party started!"
Both boys looked at each other before staring back at Mabel as she started up the boombox.
"You have got to be kidding me." Dipper muttered with displeasure.
"What's wrong Dipper?" Joshua asked. "You sound like it's the end of the world."
Dipper rolled his eyes. "Haha, very funny." He then have Joshua a serious look. "But seriously, you have no idea how my sister can be when throwing parties."
Joshua blinked a bit before shaking his head and waving a dismissive hand. "Oh it can't be that bad."
Dipper gave the blonde haired teenager an eerie look before sighing. "Trust me, you'll soon see why."
Just then, music began to play and it was song that is from the boy band "One Direction" much of Dipper's dismay and let out a disapproval groan while Joshua didn't react at all. Mabel walked towards to the boys carrying board games.
"Let's start off this awesome night with some awesome music and playing some awesome board games." Mabel said with so much optimism in her tone.
For the next hour, Mabel, Dipper and Joshua were in the living room watching tv, socializing, playing board games all while listening to loud music filling the room. Despite a strong start that Mabel arranged, it became quite evident to the brunette that the party was becoming lackluster, with Dipper expressing his annoyance several times already clearly having a "Ugh I want this party to end" kind of attitude. Mabel managed to figure out and conclude that the board game's fun factor worn out its welcome quickly and it also didn't help that Mabel would always come out victorious in every board game they played with. Plus, repetition of the music constantly playing songs from other boy bands such "Sev'ral Timez" and "The Backstreet Boys" was starting to become ear grading for Dipper, but Joshua strangely remained mostly calm and composed through everything. It was clear that Mabel need to pull out the big guns or all of her efforts will end up being all for naught.
Just then, an idea came to her. "I got just the thing to shake things up!"
Mabel walked to the boombox and got out a cassette tape from her skirt pocket, inserted inside the boombox and pressed the play button.
"There we go!" Mabel skipped back towards the coffee table where the boys are sitting. "Let's relax and watch some television."
"Finally, no more worrying about losing another game," Dipper let out a sigh of relief, before his heart race and begin to sweat as the song called "Disco Girl" begin to play. He cursed himself knowing this song is obvious his secretly favorite and guilty pleasure song and didn't want Joshua to see his secret affinity of this song to come out in full display.
While Dipper was suppressing the urge of singing out his favorite song, Mabel was engaging a conversation with Joshua on the couch, sipping on some Pitt Cola.
"So Joshua," Mabel started. "How are you feeling? Liking the party so far?"
"It's okay," Joshua replied with indifference filling his tone. "A bit bland but tolerable."
Mabel frowned at first for calling her party bland, but instantly turn her frown upside down at the end that the party was at least bearable to him. This gave the optimistic girl some satisfaction that her efforts was making progress. Slow? Sure. Painfully? Very much so, but somehow through these two setbacks she's making progress. That alone gave Mabel a smile on her face.
"Okay, I know it would be rude of me to ask, but who in the hell would listen to this kind of crap?" Joshua suddenly asked.
Before Mabel could respond they heard Dipper singing the lyrics to the song and moving his hips dancing as he let the music flow guide his body and Joshua and Mabel stood there watching Dipper for a few moments. Each person in the living reacted this embarrassing moment. Dipper let out a girly "Eep!" and stopped dancing immediately, Mabel smiled brightly and laughed her socks off while Joshua stared at Dipper before he shook his head.
"It looks like that awkward moment answered my own question." "Joshua smug a bit. "Never thought you were into pop songs Dipper."
"Shut it, Joshua!" Dipper angrily snapped with his face now completely flustered. He then faced his twin sister. "Mabel, why did you have to play that song?!"
"Because you like it!" Mabel simply replied.
Dipper only rolled his eyes and quickly ran out the living room completely fuming from embarrassing himself like that. "I'll be in my room!"
Mabel followed her twin brother. "Oh come on, Dipper! Don't be like that!"
With the pine twins gone Joshua is alone in the living room with nothing but the music playing and the television running, now showing reruns of Donut Showdown on the cooking channel. Knowing that Mabel played a part of revealing Dipper's secret out in front of him, Joshua sat back on the couch and watch T.V. since there was nothing better to do.
"Well that was…interesting to see," Joshua teased completely relaxed himself on his seat.
After fifteen minutes have passed, Mabel Pines returned to the living room with a disappointing frown on her face. Upon seeing Joshua she half heartedly greeted him. "Hey Joshua, looks like Dipper is calling it a night early."
"It's no surprise that your brother is calling it quits since you did embarrass him in front of me," Joshua kept his mellow and stoic attitude.
"But all I wanted is you and Dipper to bond and I got out my boombox to play some songs that you two might have in common on liking," Mabel explained before sadly looking down. "But it seems that I only made things worse."
"Not necessarily so," Joshua disagree. This caused Mabel look up at Joshua in confusion.
"W-what do you mean?"
"While you efforts did ended up less than stellar on the surface, I did learn one of Dipper's interests," Joshua replied, "Learning one interests, no matter how embarrassing some can be, is a starting point to get some common grounds between whether is between two people or a group of people. In fact, because of me discovering your brother's interests in pop songs, I'm rather interested in knowing more about Dipper. So, don't deemed your efforts as a failure but rather a success albeit a small one at that but a success nonetheless. Also, none of this wouldn't happened had it not been for you setting this party for all of us. And I have you to thank for that."
Joshua's words made Mabel blinked a bit and her face to become flustered from such a honest and sweet compliment. Overwhelmed with much joy and comfort, Mabel let out a squeal causing Joshua to jump in slight surprise before finding himself being hugged by the optimistic teenager much to his shock.
"Thank you for cheering me up," Mabel thanked him, "Your real sweet."
Joshua's face turned pink from Mabel's compliment. "Y-your welcome."
After a few moments of hugging Mabel and Joshua separate themselves and decided to clean up the living room and returning the living room in its normal shelf. Mabel took care of the disco ball and her red boombox while Joshua took care of plates, cups and the leftover soda. It only took about few minutes of cleaning for them to be done. Mabel and Joshua meet up in the living room to scan the whole area one last time to see if there anything they miss.
"Looks like everything's clean and good to go," Joshua said.
"Yep!" Mabel cheered with approval before facing the blonde teenager. "Thank you for helping me clean up."
"You're quite welcome Mabel." Joshua nodded his head.
Mabel smiled brightly as she took a look at her watch and let out a gasp.
"Oh my, it almost ten o'clock."
Joshua took a look the clock that is on display on the direct t.v. cable box. "That it is. I'm gonna turn in for the rest of the night.
Mabel nodded as she let out a yawn. "Yeah okay, I'm going to do the same as well."
Mable and Joshua bid each other goodnight and both of them retreated to their respective rooms for the night. As Joshua made his way back to the guest room he thought about the whole day and concluded that today wasn't so bad as he initially thought it would be. He was welcomed by Mrs. Pines and became good friends with Mabel, although friendship with Dipper is as of now still almost nonexistent he had made small progress hoping he can get Mr. Pines to like him in due time.
Letting out a sigh, Joshua arrived at the guest room and closed the door turning for the night.
Mabel was currently laying on her bed wearing her purple night dress while simultaneously watching TV and writing in her pink colored diary.
Dear Diary,
Today has been a rather crazy day. Despite our family planned trip ended up being cancelled due to our parents having to work at the last minute, Dipper and I showed Joshua around town and it was fun. Well, for me that is. Dipper was annoyed being outside, most likely still sulking from his disappointment of the cancelled trip and as for Joshua he mostly kept to himself and didn't talk very much. While I did managed to become friends with him, Dipper didn't even bother trying to be friends. So with this mind I threw a party when we got home earlier in the afternoon in attempt for Dipper and Joshua to find anything they have in common. I even played my brother's favorite song but it ended up Dipper leaving the party. My efforts ended up been for nothing and almost wanted to cry but Joshua comforted me and made me realized that had I not throw that party, Joshua would have never find anything that Dipper liked and things would have continued to be awkward between them. Now that he knows one of my brother's interests Joshua have a starting point to make progress with Dipper and he thanked me for it. Those words…. excuse me here I'm like crying right now thinking about it….
Those words that Joshua spoke instantly washed all of my sadness away and I gave Joshua a big warming hug. As I was crushing him in my bearhug, I discovered something about him that despite being stoic and mellow most of the time he has a sweet side to him leaving me to realized that there is more to Joshua then he's portray himself to be. Hopefully Dipper and I will find out more about him and by then my brother will open up to Joshua and become friends.
Suddenly Mable's thoughts were interrupted by her bedroom door being opened. The brunette stopped on what she is doing and turned her head to see who it was. It is her mother who came back from work an hour ago.
"Hey sweetie. Listen, I got complaints from our neighbors of loud music coming from our house," Mrs. Pines said. "Was that only of you or Dipper's doing?"
Mabel bashfully scratched the back of her head. "Heh, sorry mom I threw a party earlier."
Mrs. Pines blinked a bit before shaking her head. "A party? What for?"
"It was for me, Dipper and Joshua to have fun and see if those two have anything in common, since both of them never try to become friends," Mabel explained.
"So that's why…" Mrs. Pines sighed. "I can imagined Dipper would have a hard time befriending a person who showed up at our house surrounded with a number of agents. Anyone would feel that way frankly."
"Anyway, I'm sorry if my actions got you in trouble," Mabel apologize.
"It's alright sweetie. Try to be careful with the volume next time okay?" Mrs. Pines asked.
"Alright mom!" Mabel nodded.
"Good, goodnight Mabel."
"Good night Mom."
Mrs. Pines closed the door leaving the brunette alone for the night. Mabel herself wrapped up writing her diary before closing it, setting it on her night stand, shutting off her lamp and TV and headed on into bed.
And that is it for Chapter One. Leave a review, comment or PM me if you have any questions. Now normally I would end it here but since I want to give readers an idea of how my OC'S sounds when they speak, I'll named the characters who I can imagined being portrayed as. I wont do this for ever chapter though; just only chapters that new characters are introduced.
For Joshua, I can see him being voiced from Yuri Lowenthal. He's famous for a lot of voice acting in, anime, tv and video games. But for me personally he's particularly known for voicing Sasuke Uchiha from the Naruto Franchise and Yosuke Hanamura from the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 series.
See you in the next chapter! Ciao!