For hours on end, the whole group were pretty much doing whatever the heck that they wanted to do in a store. They ate what they wanted, played chicken fighting with balloons filled with smoothies and all kinds of dares. Even Mira was enjoying herself as they played games with one another. Mabel had ran around the corner along with Mira; though it wasn't long till they both stopped in their tracks, when they came across a certain kind of candy that had a "DO NOT SELL" tape around it.
Mabel let out a squee, "Omigosh! Omigosh! It's Smile Dip!" She exclaimed, taking a packet from the shelf, "I thought these were banned in America."
"I'm pretty sure they had a good reason for it." Mira said, looking at the Smile Dip with concern.
"Hey Mira!" She heard Andrew call out, "You want some ice cream?"
"Oh! Ice cream!" Mira said with excitement before running in the direction where Andrew had called out. Mabel dipped a stick into the smile dip, but instead she poured the whole thing into her mouth. Dipper, Wendy, Andrew and Mira sat on top of the shelf, eating a popsicle of neapolitan ice cream.
"Hey come here, we got it ready!" They heard Nate say to Thompson.
"Whatever it is I'll do it!" Thompson said, running over to them.
Wendy and Andrew laughed at this, "Thompson!" They both cheered.
Wendy then said to Dipper, "Dipper, this night has been legendary."
"Really?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah, just look around." Andrew said, "The guys are bounding." Andrew pointed over to Nate, Lee, and Robbie who was pouring a bunch of ice cubes into Thompson's pants; they all laughed. "I've never even seen Tambry to look up from her phone this long." Wendy added as she pointed over to Tambry, currently texting, but occasionally, she looked from her phone every now and then.
"Not mention shooting star over there is going nuts over that Smile Dip." Andrew said gesturing over to Mabel. She sat underneath the candy of Smile Dip, looking very sickly; She was stained with Smile Dip as well. "Ugh…" She groaned, "I think I've had too much… What do you think?"
The giant dog that stood beside Mabel only barked in reply as he had a giant smile on his face. Another dog jumped to her side. "Would you like to eat my candy paw?" He asked. "Of course you little angel…" Mabel said holding out the giant dog. The giant dog handed her his paw, and she started to chew on it.
Though in reality Mabel was actually chewing on air, which left Mira and Dipper concerned. Wendy had gotten their attention, "You know something Dipper, I wasn't sure if you could hang out with our crew at first, but you're surprisingly mature for your age."
"Yes, yes I am." Dipper said. He tried to put the ice cream in his mouth, but kept on missing; Mira couldn't help but stifle a laugh as she saw Dipper do this. Lee had completely emptied out the bag of ice; he shook the bag just a bit.
"Hey, we need more ice!" Lee said to the gang.
"I'm on it!" Dipper said throwing his ice cream to the side.
"I'll go with you!" Mira said tossing the ice cream to the side as well.
They both jumped off of the shelf, and ran to the back of the store. As they walked, Mira had said to Dipper, "You know something, I wasn't sure about tonight, but… I'm honestly having a great time."
"See? Isn't it nice to break out of your shell?" Dipper said.
"I could say the same for you, Mr. Mature." Mira said giving Dipper a friendly punch on the arm. Dipper couldn't help but laugh as he gave a playful punch back at her.
"Hey there's the ice!" Mira said spotting the cooler.
They approached the cooler and opened the door; Dipper took a pack of ice. "Alrighty, let's get this back to-Mira?" When Dipper turned to Mira, he saw that her eyes were widened with horror, and she looked a bit pale. Dipper noticed that she was trembling; she had tried to say something, but couldn't find the words to speak.
"What's wrong?" He asked with concern, "Are you okay?"
Mira pointed back to the cooler, instead of using her words; Dipper turned to see what had gotten Mira, so spooked, and that's when he saw it. Inside the cooler there was a creature of unknown origin that was in a shape of a brain, and had sharp teeth, eyeballs floating let out a roar at the two children. Dipper let out a scream, and quickly went to shut the door dropping the bag of ice in the process.
"Wha-Wha-What was that?" Mira had stammered.
Dipper couldn't find the words to reply, instead he went to open the cooler door again; Mira had held onto his arm this time as he did. When he did open it, they both saw that there was nothing there. "What?" He said, "Where did it go?"
Just than, they heard Lee, and they both couldn't help but jump.
"What's going on here?" He asked, "I thought I heard some lady screaming back here."
"You two freaking out?" Nate asked them.
Mira unfortunately couldn't reply since she was still in shock about the monster she had just seen. Dipper quickly answered before it had gotten too awkward stepping in front of Mira as he did, "Uh, no, we're not freaking out! Everything's cool!"
"Than what's all this about?" Robbie asked, pointing to the bag of ice on the floor.
"Oh that?" He said, rubbing the back of his head nervously, "That's um… Well… Hey, look over there!"
Dipper had pointed over to a dance arcade machine, that was flashing lights and playing loud rave music. "It's Dancy Pants Revolution!" He said, "The game that tricks people into exercising!" The group of teens, had run over to the arcade machine with excitement.
Dipper laughed nervously, "Ye-yeah, let's all go play that."
He turned to his sister who was in a fetal position, still in shock. He kneeled down beside her, "Mira, come on, snap out of it." He said snapping his fingers in front of her, but then lightly slapping her cheek, "Mira, Mira? Is anyone in there?" After snapping his fingers for about the fourth time, Mira had snapped back into reality.
"Are you okay?" Dipper asked, "You with me?"
Mira still couldn't find the words to reply, all she did was nod.
"Look, whatever it is we saw in there, it's gone now. Let's try to enjoy the rest of the evening, okay?" Dipper said.
Mira nodded her head again, and Dipper helped her off of the floor. They went to where Dancy Pants Revolution game was, though Dipper turned back to the cooler, still wondering exactly what they both saw. About 30 minutes had passed, the whole group was watching Thompson playing Dancy Pants Revolution; though he kept on missing as he jumped around.
"Dance! Hurry!" The game had said.
"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!" Nate and Lee cheered.
"Wow." Wendy said, "He's really terrible at this."
"No kidding." Andrew said, "It's still fun to watch though."
Dipper laughed nervously again, "Th-that's great." He heard Mira let out a horrified gasp, that was muffled since she put her hands over her mouth. "Dipper…" She whispered with her voice trembling, "Look!" Dipper looked to the window and his eyes widened in horror. In the window he saw that everyone's reflection was different. Their skin was replaced with nothing but bones, even his and Mira's reflection.
Dipper's eyes rubbed in disbelief, and looked to the reflection of the window again. When he did however, he saw that everything was just normal.
"Hey, you two alright?" Wendy asked the two kids, when she saw the both of them were looking pale.
"Um…" Dipper said, before taking Mira's arm, "We'll be right back!"
With that, he and Mira ran to the nearest phone in the store. After placing a quarter into the phone, he put in the number, and waited for someone to pick up; Though the line was left ringing.
"He's not picking up." Dipper said to Mira, "What in the world is he doing?"
"Try cousin Sky!" Mira suggested.
"Oh right, good call." He said. He hung up the phone and put in another quarter and put in Skyla's number. He heard the line ringing for awhile until-
"Hello, you've reached Skyla's voicemail. I can't come to the phone right now since I'm busy with work. Leave a message and I'll get back to you later. Probably, maybe."
Seeing as how that Skyla's phone went straight to voicemail, they immediately went to go and find Mabel. Luckily they found her still by the Smile Dip.
"Mabel, we need your advice!" Mira said, "We are currently hanging out in the convenience store that is really haunted, we can't get a hold of Grunkle Stan or cousin Sky for that matter."
"And if one of us says anything to these guys they'll just say that I'm a scared little kid or something!" Dipper added.
"How is that a problem?!" Mira said to Dipper a bit irritated.
"It's a major problem!" Dipper had retorted.
They heard Mabel let out a groan; When they looked at Mabel's face they saw her pupils were dilated.
"Mabel?" Mira said, waving her hand in front of her face.
"Are you okay?" Dipper asked.
They jumped when Mabel had jumped to her feet and shouted suddenly, "THE FUTURE IS IN THE PAST! ONWARD AOSHIMA!" She fell over, but Dipper caught her before she could hit the ground.
"Mabel snap out of it!" Mira said slapping her face.
"How many of these things did you eat anyway!?" Dipper exclaimed.
"Beleven… Teen…" Mabel groaned, still in her hallucination.
"Uh-oh, this is really bad…" Mira said panicking.
"Oh man. Oh man, oh man, oh man." Dipper said, panicking as well, "Okay, maybe, things won't be so bad. As long as we don't aggravate the ghosts, we'll be fine!" They soon heard Robbie call out to the others, "Whoa, guys, you might wanna see this."
Dipper and Mira went to join the other group; when they did, they saw on the floor that there was tape markings of two bodies, most likely the bodies of the owners of the small store. The whole group gasped at this.
"The rumors were true!" Lee said.
Both Dipper and Mira couldn't help but gulp at this.
"Dude, I dare you to lie down in it." Robbie said to Nate and Lee.
"Good idea." Lee said, before nudging Nate's elbow, "Go lie down in it!"
Nate chuckled, "Look at me, I'm a dead body!" As Nate went to go lie down in the tape markings, Mira tugged on Dipper's vest. "Dipper we can't let them do this!"
Dipper stammered, "But, Mira we-"
"Is being apart of the cool kids, and being close to Wendy really more important than our lives?!" Mira said to her brother, "If we let them do this then who knows what will happen!"
Dipper thought about this; but knew that Mira was right. Their lives were more important than this.
"WAIT!" Dipper exclaimed, causing the teens to look over in his direction, "Maybe… We shouldn't do that."
"This guy is scared!" Lee said to his friends.
"I'm not scared." Dipper immediately denied, "All I'm saying is… What if this place… Is actually haunted?"
All the teens excluding Andrew and Wendy started to boo at him. "Yeah, take it down a notch Dr. Buzzkill!" Robbie said.
"I thought I was Dr. Funtimes."
"Well, you're acting like Dr. Buzzkill! Am I right?"
The teens nodded, even Andrew though it was hesitantly. Wendy had rubbed her arm, "Yeah… A little bit…"
Dipper felt a little at the fact that Wendy would say something like that. Tambry had typed on her phone, "Status update. Trapped in a store with insane 9-year old."
Dipper flinched at this, "I am not a 9-year old!" He exclaimed, going over to the taped body marks.
"DIPPER! NO!" Mira yelled.
Dipper didn't listen to her however and he laid back in it, "I'm 13! Technically a teen!"
Just than, the tape markings had begun to light up, bright; than the lights had gone out. Than, Tambry had suddenly vanished; her cellphone fell to the ground. "TAMBRY!?" Andrew exclaimed.
Mira picked up her cellphone and read the text, "Status update. AGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH?"
They looked up and saw that Tambry was in the security footage. She ran to the TV, and knocked on the glass as she screamed. Everyone else in the group had screamed as well.