Yello' guys! Yeah, sorry to keep you waiting. Busy as usual. Wow, I'm such a busy person! Anyway, enjoy Chapter 3!
Review replies;
StkAmbln : Yeah, I know. It's not that scary. Oh well. Yup, Pacifica's on the Pines side! I mean like, why not? Relating everything to candy is her thing! Thanks a lot for the review! =)
ButteredPopcorn: Yes you are! You're really nice! You just didn't know that! Thank you so much for the review.
Purpleclouds0987: Hey, it's you! Man, you even stutter during typing? Thanks for the review though!
The school bell rung the last time, signalling the students that class is over. Students now began filling in their lockers, placing their stuff back inside. Mabel sighed deeply after she stuffed her things inside and closed her locker door depressingly. She held the straps of her backpack and walked drearily towards the hallway.
She went out from the school building and spotted her twin brother waiting for her near a tall shady tree. She smiled once she sees him but was still saddened of what happened earlier. She recalled back those words that seemed to disturb her most of the time. After school, I want you to do the dare that we told you to do yesterday. Mabel shivered. She didn't want to do it, but she only do it for her brother who had endured even more pain than she is. So there's no turning back. Mabel huffed out a breath before she stopped. Will Heather mind if I told her that I will do the dare after me and Dipper got home?
Maybe she will.
Mabel glanced around, searching for any signs of Heather and her gang. It took for a few minutes but she finally found her near the school building, laughing merrily at their jokes. Mabel gulped hard, she began gripping the straps of the backpack tightly and slowly walked towards Heather and the gang. Once she was nearly close to them, the gang stopped laughing and began whispering to each other. Heather stood up and crossed her arms. "So, ready for it, dork?"
"Well, actually no, Heather. I need to go home early. Maybe I'll do the dare once I finished showering and all those stuff." Mabel explained, sounded very scared. Heather nodded before she flicked her gaze towards the gang, giving hand gestures to them about the situation. The gang simply nodded and Heather turned back to Mabel. "Sure. We accept." Mabel nodded in gratitude to them. "Thank you, Heather." She quickly turned her heel and walked away. She suddenly stopped when Heather called out to her, giving chills running up her spine. "If you didn't come for the dare, we'll bring pain to your brother and to you."
Mabel gulped at that moment, but she continued walking towards her brother who was waiting patiently for her.
The twins began walking all the way and finally arrived to the Mystery Shack. They seemed confused as to why Stan didn't pick them up. When they reached there, they glimpsed cars that has blue and red lights onto it. Police cars.
"What are they doing here?" Dipper exclaimed, sounded shaken and worried. Mabel didn't seem to have the answer to respond. "Let's check it out. TO THE MYSTERY SHACK!"
The twins ran as fast as they could. They spotted Stan, Wendy and Soos outside the shack and they seemed unhappy. Dipper and Mabel began to run faster. When they got close, Dipper shouted to the police officers. "Hey! What the heck are you doing here?"
Sheriff Blubs turned to face Dipper. "Woah, kid. No need to interrupt here. We have business to take care of."
"Woooooh!" Deputy Durland whistled, ringing a bell.
"W-What business?" Dipper inquired. Mabel's gaze locked on Stan. "Grunkle Stan, what the hey-hey is happening?"
Stan seemed speechless. Mabel wasn't sure he was able to speak. Soos looked surprised at the twins' condition. "Woah, dudes. What happen to you?" Wendy frowned confusedly. "You looked like you've got hit by a bus." She remarked.
"I've got no time to answer that! Just tell me what's wrong!" Dipper shouted. Mabel was sure that he was getting suspicious of the police officers. Just then, a female officer who has short brown hair and hazel eyes eventually came over to the twins. "Listen here, kids. This may sound important but your great uncle hadn't close down the shack so we're going to close it this instant."
Mabel gasped. "No! You can't do that! But just give us, a little more time."
Dipper nodded eagerly. "Yeah! Please?"
The female officer placed a finger on her chin in thought. "I don't know about this. But.. umm… well what if I give you three days to try to settle this?"
"Yes! Three days! Just give three days!" Dipper and Mabel pleaded in unison. Stan, Soos and Wendy stared at the twins but they just agreed. The female officer put her hands on her hips. "Alright then. Three days that is. Come on, officers." She called, walking towards her car.
"Oh darn." Deputy Durland complained.
The officers went inside their cars and eventually drove off into town. Mabel watched them ago when she suddenly realized something. "Oh great! I'm gonna be late for that dare!" She hopped onto her bike and dropped her backpack on the ground. Wendy tried to halt her. "Wait! Dare – what?"
"Mabel, I'm coming with you!" Dipper said, following her. Mabel looked at him over her shoulder. "No! You just stay home, Dip! I want to do this alone!"
Dipper stopped. "But – "
"ALONE!"
She then disappeared into town and Dipper, Wendy, Soos and Stan just stared at where she had left. Meanwhile, Mabel pedalled with speed, hoping she didn't arrive there late. Or not, she would get beaten up. In about thirty minutes later, she arrived to Lazy Susan's house and saw Heather and the gang waiting impatiently behind the fence. She parked her bike next to the fence and normally walked towards the gang, her stomach clenched with nerves. She didn't know that she's ready to do this.
Heather finally noticed her and she grinned with delight. "Finally you came! I thought you won't come so we could break your bones!" She threatened. Mabel cringed. Was she only scaring her?
Brianna had a big rock with a sharp pointy end and she passed it to Mabel. "Now, throw it to the window there." She pointed a window near to tall weeds. Heather and the gang then creep up to the fence to watch. Mabel nodded with a nervous smile to prove them that she's not afraid and that she only did this for her brother. She locked her gaze towards the window that Brianna pointed and she gulped. Okay, I can do this. This is for Dipper! As she motivated herself, her thoughts raced wildly as the cats Lazy Susan owned (she owned cats, right?) gazed at her.
"I-I can't!" She breathed. Then she heard again the mocking hissing from beyond the fence. If she didn't throw the rock, there's no way Heather and the others would stop teasing, bullying, and mistreating her and her brother.
She took a deep breath, trying to calm the frozen beating of her heart. The cats stared at her innocently which made her hard to throw the rock but she forced herself to do it. To do it for her and Dipper. Indeed there's no turning back.
She swallowed hard. She brought her arm right back and threw. But she deliberately aimed low, meaning to miss the windows. The heavy chunk of rock crashed through tall weeds under the windows. There was a dull, sickening thud and a horrible yowl of pain as the rock hit something hidden in the weeds.
Mabel stumbled forwards, her stomach tightening into a ball of dreadful shock.
She saw a small cat lying against the wall in a strange, unnatural position with its head horribly twisted. The rock was close by. There was blood matted in the cat's fur. Mabel felt sick and dizzy. She was afraid to get caught about this. She went inside the front garden and walked towards the injured cat. The narrow chest was rising and falling rapidly and more blood was now bubbling from the nose and mouth.
"C-Cat…?" Mabel whispered, her voice hoarse, her throat tight and burning. "I didn't mean it…" A painful sob cut up through her throat like a sharp stone. Her eyes blurred with tears.
The injured cat's breathing became erratic. Mabel knew it was dying. She knelt there, shivering and sickened, utterly horrified by what she had done. Then the twisted little head turned and the eyes opened and the dying animal looked up at her.
Mabel screamed.
She scrambled to her feet and ran helter-shelter back down the path. As she fought her way out through the broken gate, she heard of all the wailing and meowing of dozens of angry cats behind her. Mabel was terrified. She screamed and ran past Heather and the gang who was staring at her, wide-eyed as Mabel ran away from the house into town.
Back at the shack, Dipper was waiting on the porch as he rested his chin on his palm. Sunset was coming and the sun casted shades of crimson and indigo. Subsequently he heard a loud scream that caught his attention. Dipper looked up and noticed his sister Mabel running towards the shack and flailing arms and she came here… without her bicycle.
Dipper stood up. "Mabel? Where's your-"
Mabel didn't stop screaming and she completely ignored him. She ran past him and went inside the shack. Wendy and Soos were chatting in the gift shop and they both stopped talking when Mabel appeared and ran upstairs. The two stared at her in confusion. They flinched when they heard a door being shut. Dipper appeared after that, out of breath. Wendy took her attention to him. "Dude, what's up with your sister?"
"Yeah, dudes. She screams like she sees… something." Soos added. Dipper sighed. "She must be in the attic right?" He huffed out a breath and went upstairs, oblivious that Wendy and Soos was following him when a phone rung in the gift shop.
Dipper went inside his and his sister's shared bedroom and saw Mabel sitting on her bed against the wall and she had pulled up her sweater to cover her whole face. Dipper leaned closer. "Mabel?" He echoed. Mabel silently mutters, "Mabel's not here. She's in Sweatertown."
That seemed to put a smile on Dipper's face. "Are you gonna get out of Sweatertown?"
Mabel sadly disagrees with a whimper. Dipper sighed and looked at his sister closely. "Come on, Mabel. Tell me what happened."
"I don't wanna tell-"
"But Mabel, you –" Dipper's sentence was cut off when Soos and Wendy approached them. Soos narrowed his eyes. "Dudes, we need to do something about the shack." Wendy nodded in agreement. "Yeah, the cops called after we tried to follow you upstairs. They said that if didn't do something about the shack, we'll lose it forever."
Dipper bit his lip. "But how? The Mystery Shack was losing its customers. We need to find a way to attract them with stuff they like."
Wendy leaned closer. "Okay, what kind of stuff that most people love to go? What stuff that adored or attracted them?" Soos scratched the back of his head. "Well, my cousin Reggie said that music was mostly everyone's thing. They enjoyed listening to music."
Something then sparked inside Mabel's mind. She looked up from her sweater and Dipper, Wendy and Soos flicked their gazes at her. "Wait," she said. "I have an idea."
Yea, so that's Chapter 3. So sorry for the late update. I didn't really have much time. Sorry it make you waiting. Well, you know what the next chapter is all about, eh? I'll see you guys sooner! You're da best!
Please review/favorite/follow!