Welcome to Gravity Falls
It's good to have a big family, you get all kinds of people related to you and they can tell so many crazy stories, like Cousin Jesus up in Organ. Based on his crazy stories it seems like an interesting place, so of course I'm going to Gravity Falls!
Dear Journal,
It's official, Gravity Falls has the stupidest law enforcement officers anywhere in the states. Not only did I get arrested and put in a tiny little cell, but the cell door wasn't even locked! They said it was in case I need to use the little girl's room while the sheriff called the school. I was even driven to the local public high school. Well I was driving the squad car since I asked Sheriff Blubs if I could, even got to use the siren and race through the streets for a bit. Nice man, but his lights were a bit dim and his Deputy, Durland wasn't much brighter either.
Any way I drove the car to the local High school and was shown to the registration office, where I just B. the enrollment papers and given a class schedule to be on my merry way.
Did I not mention I hated high school?
Sitting in a boring lecture about atoms Maria sat near the back of the class room, watching and studying the other students. 'Nothing better to do.' She thought watching an Emo/Goth looking boy drawing a familiar looking muffin on his notebook. Then she looked over at the red head sitting in front of her wearing a green flannel shirt and a blue and white ball cap with a pine tree on it. Maria couldn't see what the girl was doing but didn't care as she looked at the rest of the class, noticing normal teenaged disinterest like texting on their phones and passing notes.
She was a bit shocked when the red head dropped a piece of paper on her desk. Looking at the girl's back Maria was hesitant before she reached out to the note, opening it.
'Welcome to The Gravity Falls Jail house.'
Was written in the girl's relaxed handwriting, and for a moment it made Maria happy before she took out her own pen and wrote a note back, sending it to the girl while the teacher wasn't looking. The red head unfolded it and made a small noise before turning around to face Maria, giving her a wink and thumbs up.
Lunch
'I can't believe it's already lunch.' Maria thought as she got in the line with the teenagers, having not been ousted as an adult yet. She acted like a teen to a point, but she was clearly smarter than the students. Having gone through the classes once before and doing independent study of her own on different subjects. She read the rest of her news paper through Algebra, having finished the work way ahead of the class, breezed through English and ironically flopped in Spanish as she didn't bother with proper Spanish that they taught in school, not when her entire family was full of Mexicans.
"Move it. Out of my way." Came a male voice as Maria glanced behind her in line to see a gang of three athletic looking boys push past some of the waiting students until they got to Maria, who didn't move from her spot as she grabbed a lunch tray only to have it taken away from her.
"Move it new kid. I'm next." Came a demand from the leader of the pack, a stereotypical blond hair and blue eyes, large muscles that could have come from using steroids, dressed in a football jersey that was glaring down at the woman who stood in his way of food. Maria was short and chubby, dressed in a black hoodie with red clouds out lined in white around them, baggy brown cargo pants and blue sneakers on her feet, her hair only pulled back in a messy pony tail and her sliver rimmed glasses slipped down her nose as she studied the boy and his pack with a frown.
"Don't you boys know anything about manners and waitin'?" she asked, slipping into her southern accent, which seemed to tick off the teens. "We don't have to wait for anything fattie. We are carrying Gravity Falls High to the championships this year."A dark skinned teen on the blond's right told her, making her chuckle. The cafeteria started to get quiet as they watched the new kid face off ageists three jocks
"What's so funny?" asked the teen on the blond's Left, a red head.
Maria just smiled as she pushed her glasses up with her palm open but her middle finger pushing the glasses up her nose. "You guys think yall gonna be great football players don't cha?" she asked and then scoffed at her. "Of course we are! We are the strongest; Gravity Falls High has to offer." They puffed out their chests with pride, missing Maria rolling her eyes
"I figure that's not much to boast about. It's a small town. Yall yanks would be road kill any further down south, must be the lack of air that makes yall so delusional." She voiced, as the whole cafeteria grew quiet.
"What? You think you can beat us fattie?" the leader asked, scowling down at Maria who looked shocked at his words. "Me? Why, no! I'm a just a delicate little Sothern bell, we just aren't made for football." She exaggerated her accent, acting like a dainty aristocrat batting her eye lashes. "For me to be able to beat yall, would mean simply that, yall ain't no good at such a rugged sport." She smirked at their confused faces before they understood what she just said.
"Hey!" They yelled and where about to gang up on her before someone came beside her.
"Hey jerks, back of the line!" The red head form before yelled at the boys who glared down at her and she glared right back at them with arms crossed. "What was that Codearoide?" the dark skinned boy asked hitting a balled fist into his open palm looking ready to fight.
"Why I do believe she said this was not the end of the line. I believe you find it if yall just mossy on over there. Your smart boys you'll find it I'm sure." Maria aggregated her accent, sweeping an open palm to the end of the long lunch line, it seemed like the high school was bigger than the whole town they had so many students. The leader opened his mouth but then turned pale along with his buddies, seeing to notice something as off as Maria smiled mockingly at them, her eyes having flashed red for a nano second before it disappeared.
"A-alright, hey we don't want any trouble okay." They said before going to the back of the line like beaten dogs, with their tails between their legs.
"That was some pretty fancy words there, Bell." The red head voiced a Maria turned to her, getting her tray and offering one to the red head, that the student behind Maria didn't mind cut in front of them.
"Thanks. The name's Maria, not Bell." The young woman told her as she grabbed a bottled water and moved down the line to get her food, it was pepperoni pizza. "Wow. You speak English!?" The red head asked, shocked with the toned down accent, grabbing a bottle herself.
"Yeah, I don't always use a thick southern accent. It get's hard for Yanks to understand what I'm sayin' and confuses the Hell out of them." Maria told her, as she picked up a large looking slice with plenty strings of cheese coming off it. "You better believe it. I don't think I've seen those guys that confused out of class before." The red head told her and got herself a less stringy slice, smiling at the girl.
"I'm Wendy by the way." The red head, Wendy introduced herself as they went through the lunch line, holding out her hand to Maria to shake which the older female shook.
"Nice to meet you, Wendy by the way." Maria grinned as Wendy chuckled at the word play. "So what brings you to Gravity Falls? The Weirdness, or the wilderness?" Wendy asked as they got dessert and moved on to pay for their food. Maria looked thoughtful for a moment before shrugging her shoulders.
"Eh, more for the wilderness then anything. I'm a city gal, used to cars, smug and profanity. It's nice to breath in fresh air for a change." Maria told her as she eyed the desserts, vanilla and chocolate cake. "Really? Have you seen anything weird things around town lately? There like a whole bunch of stuff that's freaking out the locals." Wendy asked her looking confused as the girl grabbed a vanilla slice.
"Not really, I moved in with my cousin who runs The Mystery Shack just out of town, so in kinda live with weird." Maria told her as she paid for her lunch, quickly debating on attending school for a bit longer as she paid $1.75 for her lunch.
"Wait. You're related to Soos!?" Wendy asked, shocked as she looked at Maria again, seeing some family resemblance between the two. Maria raised and eye brown at her in confusion and shock. "You know my cousin? Wait, are you the Wendy that ran the cash register at the Mystery Shack over the summer?" she asked and Wendy smiled with pride as she lead Maria to a table where her friends were already sitting.
"The one and only, Soos never said anything about you." Wendy responded looking at the girl with suspicion as Maria only shrugged her shoulders. "Eh. We are a big family; if he talked about all of us then you would have to make a deal with a demon just to get him to stop." Maria joked lightly, missing the wide eyed look on the red head as she said deal and demon.
Art Class
Maria eyed the blank white poster board she was given to decorate for the class, the teacher was very liberal with the subject they gave the class as long as they made something. There was even clay to mold, wood to carve and burn, broken tile and glass, poster boards the color of the rainbow including black and white, paint, chalk, pencils and crayons all for them to use.
"Gold." Maria muttered, not being able to think of anything besides the Gold Hoard of the Dragon Smaug form the Hobbit films. The color itself made her cringe, seeing so much yellow piled into a high mountain big enough to completely cover a dragon.
'Must have been a sharp nose dive in the price of gold in Middle Earth after Thorin's death.' Maria thought sadly as she looked at the sliver rim of her glasses, always finding the gray metal to be more beautiful than the yellow gold. Putting away the white poster board and changing it for a black one and grabbing some colored pencils before she sat back down at her table with the Emo/Goth she learned was named Robbie, the boy didn't look up from his sketchbook, drawing... Monkey D. Luffy?
Maria looked at his work, impressed with the care he was putting into drawing the Straw Hat Pirate before going back to her black canvas. Picking up a white pencil, starting up high she made faint white marks on the upper half of the poster, setting it aside as she picked up a purple colored pencil and did random looking scribbles all over it before picking up a blue one and doing the same thing with a purple one.
As she worked, her eyes started to glow a faint white as she drew on the poster board, her irises changing into symbols, a six fingered hand, a round pair of glasses, a Question mark, two hearts stitched together, a Llama, a pine tree, a shooting star, a five pointed star, an ice glacier, and lastly...
A crescent moon.
Maria blinked the moon away as she looked at her creation, gasping at the image in aw.
It was a night sky with a glowing crescent moon hanging in the sky with glowing stars that formed consolations, like the Big Dipper and even had a shooting star fly over a mirror like lake, surrounded by bare pine trees as the ground was black from ash.
"Whoa, you're pretty good." Robbie mutters across from her, setting down his drawing of skulls and tombstones to look at the haunting nightscape. Maria looked at it was a bit of surprise at what she had done as the goth/emo boy took a picture of her work.
Unknown to her, she appeared in the eye like orb of a triangle shaped stone statue again. It moved slightly before her image faded from the stone that went still. Laying somewhere in the woods of Gravity Falls... waiting... and watching...
There's chapter 2, don't worry I haven't forgotten about it yet. Hope yall enjoy it and review to tell me what you thing of it.