Chapter 2: Enduring Pain
Hi everyone! Yup, I'm baaaaack! Sorry for the late update. Been busy and all! I've only returned from my friends' outing and there's another outing they organize in three days' time. Maybe they wanted to strengthen our friendship and all. Well here's the second chapter but FYI, this chapter has minor gore and it's intense.
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Morning finally rises and the sun was slowly rising from the horizon, giving the sky a color of dawn. Dipper was sleeping peacefully when the sunlight that was pouring from the window suddenly caught his eyes. The twelve year old leisurely got up and began rubbing his eyes. He looked around his and his twin sister's shared bedroom before glancing at the table clock that showed 6 am.
Man, we're going to be late for school! He thought. He jumped off from his bed and roughly woke his sister up. "Mabel, wake up! We'll be late for school!" He exclaimed, shaking Mabel's body. Mabel was lazy to wake up. "I'm not gonna wake up. Forever." She wittered quietly. Dipper placed his hands on his hips. "Fine! Don't let me do this to you!" He grabbed Mabel's shoulders and threw her onto the floor, wishing she would wake up. Well, she did.
"Ow!" She winced. Her duvet had sprawled all over her but it doesn't cover her whole face. She looked up and glowered at her twin brother. "What 'chu do that for?" She protested. Dipper shrugged it off. "Sorry. Couldn't help it. Come on, Mabel. We'll be going to be late for school." He told her before he grabbed his towel, his normal attire and ran towards the bathroom. Mabel clapped over one eye in annoyance. She crossed her arms. "Fine." She muttered nonchalantly.
After they finished preparing, the twins went downstairs and into the gift shop. They spotted Wendy and Soos chatting towards each other behind the counter and also saw Stan waiting for them outside in his El Diablo. Before they leave, they said goodbyes to Wendy and Soos. Mabel waved to them. "See you guys soon!"
"Will do, dudes!" Soos replied, giving the twins a thumbs-up. Wendy nodded proudly. "And don't worry about the gift shop! It'll be fine!" She reassured them. Dipper grinned before hopping into the car. "We won't!"
Mabel raised her voice. "And try your best to attract more customers!"
"Kids, c'mon! We don't have much time." Stan said at the front seat. The twins nodded and hopped inside the car and Stan finally drove off into town. They passed many shops and houses and each of them didn't even say a word in the car. Stan was quietly depressed to say anything. An hour later, they made it to the Gravity Falls Elementary School and Dipper and Mabel gazed at the twenty-feet building with its old cream-colored walls and shiny windows.
Stan turned his head towards the back seat. "Okay, kids. Be careful. We don't want any of you to get hurt. What will you parents think?"
"But Grunkle Stan, we've been to this for like, what, a week! It's not bad at all." Mabel expound, trying to reassure her great uncle. Dipper cracked a nervous smile. "Y-yeah."
"Okay. But stay safe, will ya?" Stan asked, his apprehension obvious. Dipper nodded slowly. "Sure, Grunkle Stan." He then exited the car, leaving the car door opened for Mabel. Before she leave, she quickly placed a sticker on Stan's black suit. Its outer color is gold with yellow words that read, 'DON'T CHA WORRY'. Mabel did a salute and finally exited the car. Stan smiled at that moment. He then drove off to the shack.
Dipper and Mabel were walking on the white pavement that ended to the stairs that led up into the school building. Mabel wore a fuchsia-pink sweater with sparkling glitter glistened around it. This might be her favorite sweater of all. Dipper looked at his twin sister. "So, what do you have for first period?"
"Well," Mabel curled her lip. She pulled out her class schedule from her backpack and gazed at it. "I have art class. What 'bout you?" She asked Dipper in return. He muttered under his breath which Mabel could hear. "History."
Mabel sighed. "Why should be separated? Anyway, you like history and that's a good thing while I like art and that's a good thing too! I think I want to show Miss Kenton about my knitting skills! She might be super-impressed!" Dipper glanced at her and frowned. "Wait, you didn't show Miss Kenton your knitting skills yet?"
"Well the first time, she ordered us to paint the fruits in a basket in front of the art room so yeah. I didn't have the chance." She explained. "By the way, I need some of my stuff from the locker."
Dipper held the straps of his backpack. "And I need to get to History class early. I'll see you around lunch break, okay Mabel?" Mabel gave her brother a thumbs-up. "Yokay!"
She ran up the stairs and went inside the building. The green lockers were set in orderly rows against the old cream-colored walls in a stunning white hallway. Mabel searched for her locker in a few minutes and lastly she found it. Opening the locker door, she grabbed all her art tools and tucked them in her backpack. In the corner of her eye, she saw a young girl standing in front of her locker five metres away from her. The young girl has shoulder-length chocolate-brown hair and she wore a black wrinkled T-shirt and red-and-yellow stripped leggings and black shoes (a strong resemblance to Ruby Gloom). Mabel knew this person before, and she never talked to her.
"That's Rosie Redwood." A voice echoed behind Mabel. Mabel spun around and glimpsed a girl with short auburn hair, a striking similarity of Wendy, and she wore a blue dress with black leggings. The girl continued to speak, "She's so mysterious. She never talked to anyone and we always seen her eating alone in the cafeteria. And never spoken to anybody."
"I know her," Mabel clarified, looking at the auburn-haired girl. "But I've barely see her talking to someone." The auburn-haired girl nodded. "Everyone knows that. And I even heard rumors that said she has no family and she lived alone in an abandoned house."
Mabel widened her eyes. "Oh my candy! Really? What poor thing."
Subsequently, the school bell rings, signalling to every students that the first period had started. "Oh dang!" Mabel denounced. "I'm gonna be late for art class!" The auburn-haired girl hunched her shoulders. "And I'm going to be late for Chemistry class." She said before leaving. Mabel halted her. "Hey! Thanks for talking to me. We could be friends!"
The auburn-haired girl didn't glanced back at Mabel. She rudely mutters, "I am not your friend." And then left.
Mabel stood still at the moment, saddened by the girl's insolent reply. She hung her head low, shutting her locker door, and walked off to the Art Room. She kept her head low all the way to the Art Room, but she brightened herself once she arrived there. Time to show my knitting skills to Miss Kenton! Whoop! Whoop!
1 hour later…
Art class had ended and Mabel happily skipped outside the room. "Miss Kenton was impressed! Yes! Just what I'm waiting for! Can't wait to tell Dippingsauce how it did go! Wippee!" She skipped all the way towards her locker to stuff back her art tools inside. This is cordially the best day of ma life! She thought inwardly. When she closed her locker door with a big smile, she felt a horrible pain at her back as she collapsed onto the floor. She turned around and her hopes faded when she glimpsed Heather Hanson and the gang staring down at her with evil smiles.
"Look! It's cowardy-girl!" Brianna provoked. Mabel bit her lip nervously. Heather and her gang are such spoiled brats. They may look pretty, but their stubborn and arrogant behaviour exasperated the other students. They are known as the Queens of Cool Kids. They dressed like one, talked like one and even acted like one. They are also guys whom Dipper went with them before and they are also known as the Kings of Cool Kids. They bullied and mistreated other kids, and it irritated Mabel.
"And look, it's one of her ugliest sweaters!" Chloe badgered, taking off the sparkly sweater that Mabel was wearing. "H-hey!" She protested as she tried to make a grab for it. Stephanie giggled smugly. "You're too tiny to reach for it!"
The gang laughed hoarsely and Chloe suddenly ripped apart Mabel's sweater. "NO!" Mabel objected, looking at her destroyed sweater in horror. Chloe giggled vainly. "Oops. Sorry!" She apologized sarcastically. The gang high-fived each other and left Mabel and her destroyed sweater alone in the hallway.
Mabel took her ripped sweater and looked at the half and the other half. "No…" She whimpered, tears welling up in her eyes as she clutched her sweater tightly. She had a pink T-shirt on including her skirt but her sweater was so precious to her. She never leave anywhere without her sweater. Her sweater was her talent, her skill and her life. Why should this happen?
"Mabel, you're okay?" A soft voice momentarily spoke to her. Mabel felt someone grabbing her hand and pulled her up. When the blurriness of the tears in Mabel's eyes finally faded, she saw a blonde-haired girl wearing an expensive clothing with two other girls behind her. This blonde had threatened her life before, but after some event, the two were cool now. Mabel stuttered. "P-Pacifica?"
"Yea, Mabel. Are you okay?" Pacifica asked. Her two friends began patting and rubbing Mabel's back reassuringly. Mabel managed to crack a smile and she wiped her eyes. "I'm fine. Just crying over my destroyed sweater."
Pacifica held a glare. "Those kids need to be learn a lesson! I'll give them a pack of a punch or tease them in an ill-mannered way!" She threatened. Mabel smiled. "That's v-very nice of you, Pacifica. But I can handle it on my own." She assured her. Pacifica seemed uncertain. "No, you suffered enough, Mabel. I'm not letting anyone hurting you ever again. I saw you being forced to throw stones at Lazy Susan's window and teased you because you refused. So I don't want something like that to start recurring."
"No, I'm serious, Pacifica. It's okay." Mabel told her when they suddenly heard a chorus of words outside the school building. One of Pacifica's friends spoke, "Wait, did you guys hear that?"
The chorus gotten louder and the four of them started to get curious by the chant. Pacifica turned to Mabel and her friends. "Let's have a look!"
The four ran as fast as they could. They went outside and the chorus was coming from the school field. Pacifica led the group towards the school field and the chorus was getting louder when they were approaching. Finally they arrived to the school field and a bunch of students were gathering around some fight. Mabel can assumed because the students were chorusing, "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Mabel, Pacifica and the others ran to the school field and joined the gathering. Mabel pushed the students aside until she came to the front with Pacifica and her friends just behind her.
Mabel gasped.
Her twin brother and some guy she assumed was Jake were in a fight. And her brother was in a horrible situation. The other students kept chorusing the exact word and Mabel was horrified at what she saw.
"Come on, dork. Come fight with me!" Jake pestered with an evil smile plastered on his face. Dipper was slowly backing away and his shoulders and arms were beaten outright. "C'mon, man. I don't want to fight with you." He said. Jake laughed. "Hah! Just because you have noodle arms!" He suddenly punched on Dipper's injured shoulder twice, causing his orange-red shirt to tear. Mabel breathed hardly until she could no longer breathe. She noticed his hat had fallen on the mud.
"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" The chorus of the students encouraged Jake to kill Dipper this instant. The bully kicked right at Dipper's thigh, causing him to fall on his knees and punched Dipper's face continuously. Blood was bubbling on his nose and spilled from his mouth. Jake kicked hard on the gut, sending him toppling backwards. Jake then stood over him, clenching his knuckles, preparing for the final blow. Dipper slowly closed his eyes, ready for the painful blow and meet his end.
Jake shoved his fist forward but was only stopped when Mabel suddenly appeared in front of him, defending her twin. "No. STOP!" She shouted and her voice echoed in the sky. The whole battle stopped, and the students stopped their chorus but only muttered some words in silence. Mabel was breathing rapidly and her brother was lying behind her, inefficient to move. Jake stopped his attack and stood still.
Afterwards, Heather and the gang momentarily appeared. "Hey, move aside, scaredy-cat!" Heather shouted forcefully. Mabel shook her head fiercely. "NO! Enough is enough!" She urged pleadingly, hoping they would stop ordering. Tears resurfaced in her eyes. She tried to hold them, but they had split down her cheeks.
"Why can't you guys stop this madness? It's not peaceful! Why are you guys enjoying this fight? Would you like it if it was your sibling who get beaten up? We have to learn to love each other and be polite to each other!" Mabel pleaded.
Heather crossed her arms over her chest. "Fine then. If you don't want your brother to get beat up, you must follow what we'd said."
"Anything!" Mabel whimpered. Heather's gang grinned maliciously and Heather cracked her knuckles. "Okay then. After school, I want you to do the dare that we told you to do yesterday."
Mabel's heart stopped. No, this can't be true. She thought in horror. What should she do? She didn't want to break Lazy Susan's windows. It was all wrong! But if she refused to do it, Dipper will suffered even more than what she endured now! She didn't want her brother to be in more harm. He's her twin, for goodness's sake! So she bound to make an exception. "I-I agree." She gulped.
"Excellent!" Heather exclaimed with a malevolent grin. "See you after school." She clapped her hands and all the students retreated to class. Pacifica's friends had left but Pacifica didn't want to leave Mabel alone but Heather and the gang had forced her to. Now the whole students had left Mabel and Dipper alone in the school field.
Mabel knelt beside Dipper with tears spilling down her cheeks. "Dipper, are you okay? Thanks candy you're alive. I couldn't bear to see you like this."
"M-Mabel, don't do i-it. It's okay. I can handle this." Dipper reassured to her. Mabel shook her head. "No. I'm willing to do it. It's for your own good."
"But Mabel-"
"Stop! Please. That's enough of you being in this situation. You've been beaten on the shoulder yesterday, so I won't allow you to go through that again. I can't tolerate that." Mabel weeped as she clutched Dipper's head that was smeared with blood. Tears pricked Dipper's eyes. He placed a hand on her shoulder and frowned once he seen her ripped sweater hanging on her shoulder. "What happen to your sweater?"
Mabel curled her lip. "Oh, Chloe destroyed it." She told him, more tears resurfacing in her eyes. Dipper felt sympathy towards her and he slowly wiped away her tears. The sky suddenly darkened and rain had fell. Thunder started rumbling in the sky. So the twins were left alone in the field, in the rain, in the loneliness, in the darkness….. almost like forever.
OhmyGod why should I do something like this? I'm not a person who does that. Anyway, should I rated this T? Because this is pretty scary. So this is chapter 2. In the next chapter, we will witness Mabel throwing pebbles to Lazy Susan's windows! Will she do stuff like that? Also who's this mysterious Rosie Redwood? We'll found out in the later chapters. So I will see you guys later!
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