Made Me Realize
Chapter 3: Unfortunate
Okay...third chapter...fiuh...thank goodness it's holiday, I wouldn't have any time if it's school already :p Thanks for reviewing my last chapter! I totally appreciate it :D Please note that I will reply any review except for Guess (We can't reply to guess, sorry...:'( ) You could review for ideas too, I will appreciate any idea that you give and I will try to put it in my story. So...R&R please :D Oh, and Merry Christmas! :) :D :))
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Dipper's POV
The next day, we help Grunkle Stan to clean the store, again. Soos didn't feel good today and Wendy needs to help her family to clean up the storage room. Mabel had invited her friends for a sleepover tomorrow, which I didn't plan to do. All that I planned was Carla, Wendy's cousin, staying overnight with us. I also heard that Mabel was going to plan a party at our room. Man, she could be over doing it sometimes.
"Hey, Dippy!" Mabel's voice called out. I was reading the mysterious book, searching for more mysteries we could find and solve. Unfortunately, I didn't.
I turned to her. She was wearing a pink sweater with a picture of a rainbow on it, her favorite.
"Can you accompany me, uh, buy some things?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure", I automatically responded. I clasped my mouth. "Why did I say that?" I blamed myself.
"Thanks, Dippy!" she hugged me. I rolled my eyes. She's lucky that I "accidently" said yes.
"What are you going to buy?" I dusted off my shirt. Mabel took a paper and began jotting down notes.
"Several colors of yarns and maybe I could use some glitters", she tapped her chin with her pink, feathery pen. "Midnight blue, soft pink, dandelion yellow, oh, and rose red!"
"Oh, okay", I half-listened.
"I'm going to tell Grunkle first", she ran to the cashier desk. After telling Grunkle Stan that we'll be out for a while, we headed to the town. We went into the store and Mabel started to choose some yarns.
"Maybe I should take this one…or this one? Ooh! Maybe this one!" she picked and examined the yarns one by one with admiration. I, in the other hand, was bored. I leaned on the wall next to the door. A little girl around six years old went in with an old woman, probably her grandmother. She looked bored too. She looked at me and walked towards me.
"Hi", she said, shyly.
"Hi", I replied, smiling.
"Do you know where's the part they sell dolls and plushies?" she asked with a sweet, innocent voice.
I nodded. "I think I just passed there. Want me to take you there?"
She gave a nod and held my hand. We went to the far left corner of the store.
"Thank you!" she said gratefully. "My name is Caitlin."
"My name is Dipper", I smiled.
"Dipper Pines? The Mystery Twins?" she asked.
"Yes, how do you know?" I asked back, surprised.
"Of course I know! You guys are the ones who figured out who's the real founder of Gravity Falls!" she said excitedly.
"Oh, I thought no one cared or even knew", I scratched my head. No one really knew except for the dumb cops and Pacifica.
"We thought it was rumors, but it was revealed eventually. Gravity Falls wanted to thank you for that and give you a prize, but your great uncle said that you guys went back to Piedmont, so he got the price instead", she explained.
"What?!" I said in disbelief. "He never told us about that!" Did he forget, or he did it on purpose? Just thinking about that made me furious.
Caitlin shrugged. "Don't know, but you guys are quite famous here. I'm surprised that you don't know."
"Caitlin! What are you doing there? Come, we're going back home", the old woman called her.
"Yes Granny!" Caitlin rushed by her grandma's side. She waved a goodbye to me. I waved back.
"Hey, dipping sauce!" a voice called out. It was Mabel.
"Don't call me that!" I fumed.
"Are we going home or what?" she asked, handing her stuffs to the cashier.
"Alright, just be patient", I said, still fuming. Can't she see that I was in a conversation?
"Hey, aren't you guys Dipper and Mabel Pines?" one of the clerk asked. We both exchanged glances and nodded.
"You guys must be geniuses! How in the world did you do that?" she commented.
"Uh, do what?" Mabel asked, puzzled. The clerk frowned.
"Yeah, we're not really geniuses, but, um, yeah we just did it", I laughed nervously. Mabel was still clueless of what we were talking about.
"We've gotta go", I said, rushing out of the store.
"What are you talking about? What's with the geniuses thingy?" Mabel asked.
"We're famous here, Mabel! Famous!" I couldn't help my excitement.
"Famous? Of what?" she asked again, still have no idea what am I talking about.
"Still remember we figured out that Quentin Trembley was the true founder of Gravity Falls? We're famous because of that!" I danced a little jig.
"But no one knows, right?" she said, giving me a weird look.
"They founded out eventually", I stopped dancing. "And we're now famous!"
"Okay?" she said, still didn't get the point. I sighed. "You'll get it later."
I just realized that people in the town were staring at us as we walk. Some were pointing and whispering at us. I don't know what are they talking about, but I hope it was us. I mean the good thing about us.
"Hey Mabel", an intimidating voice called out. It was Pacifica. Behind her were her so-called friends.
"Shopping?" she sneered. She snatched Mabel's plastic bag out of her hand and peered inside.
"Ha! Balls of yarns and glitters?" she laughed, followed by her friends. "What are going to do with them? Strangle yourself with yarn and glitterise your face?"
Mabel grabbed her plastic bag back, glaring at Pacifica.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" I said with anger. Pacifica laughed at Mabel's face.
"Look who's coming to rescue you, Mabel! Your adorable, twin brother", she taunted.
Adorable? Adorable?! I really wished I could strangle her with Mabel's yarn instead! Mabel's cheeks turned red and tears filled her eyes.
"Very funny", I said sarcastically to Pacifica, who was enjoying her moment.
"Did you just say Dipper is cute?" a small voice asked. It was Caitlin, the girl that I met earlier.
"Caitlin? What are you doing here? Go home!" Pacifica ordered her. Caitlin ignored her.
"That means you like Dipper!" she said to Pacifica, who was now having burning cheeks.
"No I don't! If you ever say that again, I'll tell Uncle that you're a naughty girl!" she warned.
"Like he ever takes you seriously", she rolled her eyes. Pacifica looked very embarrassed. I was astounded.
"Fine! Do whatever you want!" Pacifica said, stomping away. Her friends walked away with her, trying to cheer her up.
"Thanks", I said to Caitlin. "You'd actually beaten Pacifica!"
"No prob. You need to be smart at taking her back. Cousins can be a pain in the neck", she grinned.
"Pacifica is your cousin?" I asked in disbelief. How can a smart, kind girl related to a heartless jerk like Pacifica?
"Yeah, we're cousins", she said, a bit embarrassed.
"So, who how old are you?" Mabel asked.
"Seven this year", she said.
I and Mabel exchanged glances, amazed.
"Do you want to come to a sleepover party with us tomorrow?" Mabel offered. I scowled at her. She glared back.
"Sorry, but I can't. Tomorrow I'm going to have a dinner with my family. We're kinda having a family reunion", she explained. I sighed with relief. Don't get me wrong, I do want her to come but it's pretty complicated to explain. First of all, we are kinda running out of room and second, all of us are roughly thirteen. She'll barely fit in.
"Oh okay", Mabel smiled sadly.
"Sorry, I really want to come. I bet it's better than that old boring dinner, but it's a family tradition. I can't break the rules", she said guiltily.
"It's alright", I said.
"I need to go now. Granny is waiting for me", she said, smiling.
"Okay, thanks Caitlin!" Mabel said, patting her head. She grinned and scurried away.
Back at the Mystery Shack, Mabel took out the things she just bought and put it in a box where she kept all knitting materials and tools. She started knitting something. Probably a sweater, since she mostly made sweaters.
"Hey, how many things did you bought? You guys really took a lot of time", Grunkle Stan asked.
"Not much, we'd just got a few problems on our way back", I told him. "Anyway, did the town give you any particular prize which was meant for us?"
"Oh, that! I forgot to tell you kids about that", Grunkle Stan smacked his forehead. "It's nothing special, really. Only this ancient artifact that I will display later on."
"May I take a look?" I asked. Grunkle handed me the triangular, stone artifact. It was about a half of a foot in length. It had a lot of ancient symbols and I noticed one of them was a hieroglyphic, an ancient Egypt symbol. Above it was a pyramid with an eye and writing: Novus Ordo Seclorum. I didn't recognize any of them except for the pyramid which was in the book.
"Could we keep it?" I asked Grunkle.
"Well, it might be a tourist attraction, but, oh well, it's yours anyway. You may keep it", Grunkle Stan said after thinking for a while.
"Thanks, Grunkle", I said while running upstairs. As soon as I got there, I took out the book and turned the pages one by one. I found the page containing the pyramid. It didn't give much information about it though. It was full of ancient symbols that, of course, I didn't understand. I might go to the library and try to decipher the codes but it will take a while.
"What are you doing?" Mabel asked me. I shocked and dropped the book. It went across the room and reached Mabel's feet.
"You startled me!"
"Sorry, but you're really funny when you're scared", she laughed, picking up the book. A piece of paper fell and fluttered to the ground.
"What's that?" I pointed. Mabel picked up the piece of paper.
"What does it says?" I asked, walking towards her to take a better look.
"'Property of'", she read and gave the piece of paper to me.
"Oh, it must have fallen off the first page", I said, turning the book to the first page. Sure enough, the page was blank, which supposed to have this piece of paper taped on it. I flipped it and there was writing behind it.
"For whoever found and read this, please note that there are still five other books out there, still waiting to be found and be CAREFUL, because you're being watched by…" I read it.
"Being watched by…?" Mabel asked.
"Don't know. Half of the paper is ripped off", I shrugged.
"Why does it have to end at the important part?!" she asked, sounding very frustrated.
"Well, at least we know we should be careful."
"Of what?! There are lots of things out to be careful of like don't get hit by a car, don't get too close to a ticking time bomb, don't fall off a cliff, come on!" Mabel got even more frustrated. I chuckled. She getting frustrated is even funnier than me getting scared.
"Five other books…" I thought.
I checked the whole entire book for the missing paper piece while Mabel continued knitting. Wasn't much luck, though. I decided to sleep and continue the search later. Tomorrow, I need to make a first good impression in front of Carla. I don't want her to think that I'm not cool or something like that. And most important of all, I can't let Wendy down. I know she's counting on me.
Mabel's POV
I lay awake that night. The meeting with Pacifica earlier that day wasn't quite what I've expected. She still hates me for some kind of reason, but what? I've been nice to her, but she didn't really care. She still hates me the same.
"Dipper, why do you think Pacifica hates me?" I asked my twin brother. I know he wasn't sleeping, probably thinking about tomorrow. He didn't want to fail Wendy.
"Maybe because she's jealous. We're famous here now, Mabel. She is famous, but she doesn't want you to be more famous than her", Dipper said, staring the ceiling.
"I want us to become friends. I'm always nice to her, but she didn't care. She hates me even more", I told him, holding my tears. "I just wish we were friends…"
"Hey, it's alright, Mabel", Dipper went on my bed and hugged me. "You don't need to be friends with her. There are still millions of people who are better than her. You could be friends with them."
"But if she hates me, so do the other girls in this town. She's like the leader of them, so if she likes someone, those girls will like him or her too. But if she doesn't…"
I can't continue my sentence. Tears pour out of my eyes.
"I don't believe that. You still have Candy and Grenda", he hushed me.
"Because they're rejected! Can't you see?!" I yelled at him. He got really startled. He never saw me so upset.
"I really need to get some sleep right now", I told him, resting my head on the pillow.
"Okay, goodnight", Dipper whispered.
"Yeah, you too", I sniffled; pulling my blanket to cover my whole body so I could cry as long as I want without anyone disturbing and asking, "Are you okay?". I've always thought that is the most stupid question in the world. Of course I'm not okay! Why are people so dense sometimes?
"Don't worry Mabel. Tomorrow is going to be your best day ever. Just wait and see…" I said to myself.
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