Hey guys! This is chapter 2! Also, I GOT A REVIEW SO EXCITED! Thanks for the great review! Prepare for a lot of flashbacks! Back to the story!
The bus stopped and the doors swung open. She remembered this bus stop. When she and Dipper and been shrunken, Gideon had been sitting here and getting ready to take over the Mystery Shack.
"What kind of cute thing are you up to, you little cutie face?" Lazy Susan asked.
"I'm gonna annihilate my arch-nemisis's entire family!" Lil Gideon exclaimed.
"Oh. Okay. Yay."
They had a fight. Why had she made fun of him for being short?
There in front of Mabel, was her waiting Grunkle Stan.
"Hey kiddo." Stan said, giving her a noogie.
She forced a laugh and gently pushed him away. She hadn't done any fun or carefree things since Dipper was taken. Grunkle Stan got Mabel's suitcase and got into the car.
On the way to the shack, Mabel looked around and recognized all the old sightings. There was the library.
"Today's the big day Mabel."
Dipper.
"BIG DAY!"
"Soos finally fixed the laptop. With this, we can lern the identity of the author and unlocking the greatest secrets of Gravity Falls. Are you ready?"
"Oh, I'm ready baby." She took out a book. "Mama."
He turned the laptop on.
"This is it."
It went to the welcome screen.
"Yes!" They did their little handshake. "Blip. Blap. Bloop ba dee bloop. Twins."
Then the password screen.
"Ugh. A password!"
"Don't you worry bro. With your brains and my LASER FOCUS, there is literally nothing that could stop us...Did you hear that?"
She had ditched him. She ditched him when he needed her.
There was the diner, the cemetery, the mall, and the lake.
Finally, they arrived at the shack. It looked the same, but a bit different...
She stepped outside, and saw tables and balloons.
"Surprise!"
There she saw many familiar faces. Soos, Wendy and her friends, Candy, Grenda, Pacifica, Grunkle Ford, Waddles and Gompers, and even Old Man McGucket. They all ran up to her at once, giving her big hugs.
"Welcome back!" "We missed you dude!" "ATTACK HER WITH LOVE!"
But the whole time she looked around at the party, she was reminded of Dipper.
It was Soos's birthday.
"More exclamation points! More I say!" she yelled.
"Wow, you guys thought of everything!" said Grenda.
"Grenda, twins are born birthday experts." Mabel said.
"We've spent every birthday together so we know how to make them perfect." Dipper said.
Their birthday was on the last day of summer. Their birthday last year hadn't been perfect, not even close. It was the day Bill had taken Dipper. She wondered what her birthday this year would be like without him...then she pushed the thought away. She would get him back, somehow.
But the thought of a party without her brother still made her upset. She wondered what this party would be like if he was here. Laughing, catching up with old friends, and when the cake was out, she would sneak up behind him and push his face in the cake...
But he wasn't here. She gently pushed away her friends.
"Sorry, I have to put my things away." she murmured.
There was silence, then whispering as she trudged upstairs and too the door. But as soon as she threw it open, she knew she had made a big mistake coming up here.
Her brother's things were still there. It was like Dipper's ghost town.
There was his board for his mysteries, his blankets, the dinosaur tooth...and his hat.
She remembered it had fallen off when Bill had taken Dipper. It still laid on the ground, and it hadn't moved. She picked it up, and looked at the pine tree on the front. Her eyes filled with tears. She wiped them off and put the hat on. She would wear it for him. She would wear it for him until he could wear it himself.
Suddenly, she noticed something under his blankets. She picked it up. Journal three.
"Whatcha reading there? Some nerd thing?"
"Ahhh!" Dipper screamed, "Uh,uh. It's nothing."
"Uh,uh. It's nothing!" Mabel mimicked, laughing. "Areyou really not gonna show me?"
Gomoers was chewing on the book, "Let's go somewhere private."
She put the book next to her on her bed. She got out a notepad and pen and began to think. She was going to get her brother back, but to do that, she would need a plan.