Hey gang, here's Chapter 2 of The Utopians. While I was writing this, I was thinking of changing the rating of this to an M. Not because I plan this to be ridiculously violent, sexual or riddled with shock value and typos, but mostly due to swearing and some themes here and there. Let me know whether this is an M story or not. So, in order to stop padding this part out, here's chapter 2:
While the cart was driving down the road leading into town, Dipper thought back to when Wendy yelled at him. She said something about her brothers being away in Washington and moved on. He was compelled to ask her why they were there to begin with.
"Wendy?" "What's up?" she replied neutrally, voice back to normal.
"I just have to ask. Why are your brothers in Washington?"
She hesitated for a moment before answering his question.
"My dad thought that we wasn't spending enough time with me so he sent them to our uncle Ian's house for the rest of the summer."
"Can you try calling them?" Mabel asked. Wendy then pulled out her cell phone, dialed her oldest sibling's number and was met with the fact that there was no Wi-Fi.
"Can't get a signal." She simply said as she slumped back in her seat.
"Well, we're here." Dipper said as he parked in front of the town hall, pulled the keys out of the ignition and got out, Mabel and Wendy following behind him. For a town in which the local government and all other services vanished, it was oddly peaceful, with kids sitting around and talking, with music in the background.
"Weird." Mabel simply stated.
"Yeah, you'd think there'd be a lot more, well, chaos." Dipper replied. It was at this point that a familiar Goth walked up to the trio with something to say.
"Hey babe." Robbie smugly said.
"What do you want?" Wendy replied with a derisive tone.
"I just thought that since our parents are gone, that we should shack up for the night." He said slimily and with a hint of desperation.
"No." she flatly said, feeling slightly humiliated for him, Dipper and Mabel and herself. "I'm staying with Dipper and Mabel, and I'm not gonna date you again."
"Pfft, really?" Robbie said before bursting into laughter. "You're gonna stay with that loser and sweater weirdo behind you instead of me?"
"Yeah, Robbie, I am. And I'm not gonna stay with you, and you're just gonna have to suck it up." She said confidently.
"You'll be sorry staying with the fucking incest twins." Robbie said before walking away grumbling to himself.
"Come on guys, let's go get some stuff." Wendy said before turning to see Dipper's hurt face. Immediately, she was concerned.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Wendy said.
"It's just that, back home, I just get made fun of a lot like 'You screw your sister last night' or 'What's with the birthmark, freak?' I thought coming here would be a new start, but, I guess its just turning into the same crap again."
"Listen. Dip, this isn't gonna be like that. What happened with Robbie was just a one-off thing. We'll just try to avoid him. He can only bother us for so long. You're not a loser, you're a champion."
And with that, Dipper felt confident enough to try and adapt to this change in society.
"Yeah. Come on guys, let's go to the store."
The trio resumed walking to the retail store to get a sleeping bag and new clothes for Wendy. While Mabel and Wendy were looking for clothes, Dipper went looking for sleeping bags. When he found one that would fit her, he took it off the rack only for another one to pop up in its place. Confused, he took this sleeping bag off the rack, only for yet another sleeping bag popping up in it's place. Almost on cue, Mabel and Wendy came up to him with similar experiences.
"Are you noticing the copies of stuff popping back up on the shelf?" he said.
"That's what we wanted to tell you about broseph! It's so weird!" The energetic sibling replied.
"Wait, so if everything in this store can just make copies of itself, does it mean every store in town can do that?" Wendy questioned.
"Well, let's just put this stuff back in the Shack and see for ourselves." Dipper said as they got the rest of the clothes she needed and went back to the Shack.