"Who were you talking to?" Mabel asked Bella. She paused a moment before answering, Bella was very sceptical about who she could trust so she didn't bother trusting anyone. "Just some gnome that scared me, I think I scared him off though." She finally answered. "Wait did we ever introduce ourselves?" Dipper asked. Mabel and Bella shook their heads no. "Sorry about that, my name's Dipper and this is Mabel." He said. "I haven't seen you around before, Where you from?" Mabel asked. Bella thought about what to say until finally she decided to go with the truth, sort of. "I never really had a mom and my dad left me not to long ago." Mabel and Dipper looked at her with surprised and sympathy. "I'm so sorry." Dipper said. "Why don't you stay with us at the mystery shack?" He offered. Bella smiled and told them to lead the way. When they got there Bella paused before walking in. The spot she paused at was the exact spot the protective boarder against Bill was. "Is something wrong" Dipper asked suspiciously. "No, nothing's wrong." She answered. Dipper was still a little sceptical but decided to ignore it as she stepped over the boarder. They walked in and before they could say anything Ford took Dipper aside and began blabbering on about a whole bunch of stuff Dipper wasn't listening to. "Anyways why did you run out? Did you see anything?" Dipper looked at his uncle and made sure to pay extra close attention to his uncle's eyes. When he knew they weren't Bill's he decided to tell him what he saw. "Your pupils were just like Bill's." Ford paused for a moment. He looked at Dipper and shook his head. "There's no way that's possible. It has to have someone else."
"How many creatures do you know of that can do that?" Dipper asked knowing what the answer was.
"no one can get in my head it's impossible"
"Maybe Bill's stronger than you think." Dipper said leaving his uncle speechless. After a bit they heard the sound of a few soda cans opening and headed towards the sound. When they got there they saw everyone else enjoying themselves. "Thanks Mr. Pines for letting me stay here." Bella said. "Hey how bout you call me Stan." He said. Dipper had grabbed himself a drink and went to join everyone else while Ford stayed where he was. Bella leaned over and whispered to Dipper, "who's that?" She asked pointing to Ford. "That's my uncle Ford." He answered. "Is he always like that?"she asked. Dipper paused before answering, he didn't want to scare her with Bill's threat especially after everything she went through when she lost her dad. "He gets that way when his research is confusing him." Dipper said. "What's he researching?" She asked. "The strange things about this town."Dipper told her. She suddenly seemed incredibly interested. "Can you show me some of it?" She asked. He smiled and took her upstairs and showed her the third journal Ford let him borrow for the summer. She flipped through the pages until she saw the page with Bill on it. When she looked at the page her smile disappeared. She stared at the page and at all the odd codes that she could read easily. "You seem to be really interested in that page." Dipper observed. She closed the book and handed it to Dipper. She walked back down the stairs heading towards the room everyone else was at. Dipper stayed there wondering why she had such a weird reaction to that page, but then again she's been in Gravity falls alone for a little while it would be surprising if Bill hadn't tried to make a deal.
"Hey is something wrong?" Mabel asked when she saw Bella walk down the stairs. Bella smiled trying to hide any stressful looks on her face and shook her head no. "Ok then, I'm going to meet Candy and Grenda at the mall do you want to come with?" Mabel asked. "No thank you." Bella said and continued to walk down the stairs. Bella had gotten herself another drink when Ford showed up.