It wasn't the barely risen sun that disturbed dipper, eyes scanning the horizon under the brush of a moist towel. No, it was the darkening clouds which chose to obscure it further. The twins' walk – short as it may have been – the idea of a second cold shower really didn't appeal to him.
"Disco girl." He muttered thoughtlessly, picking up the thinning red shirt and pulling it onto partially dry skin.
"Huh" Dipper questioned, walking out of his and Mabel's room after yanking Wendy's hat and jacket from the bedside table and floor respectively. "Mabel? Mabel?" He called, pulling a jacket on while he searched for his recently missing sister. She wasn't downstairs, his search told him, though a wet print on the carpet sitting in front of the TV betrayed her presence. He was in the process of dashing upstairs for a double check, aggravated search mode engaged, when the sound of someone tapping on glass pulled him to a stop him. With as much disdain as he could muster, Dipper twisted his body to the sound.
There stood his sister with a broad smile, waving and jumping like an exited schoolgirl when Dipper's eyes found her. With an annoyed skyward glance he left his twisted stance for the door, watching his sister through the corner of his eye, her leaving the window for the door, and her greeting when the door soundlessly opened.
"Are we good to go?" Mabel asked through the bounce of haphazardly attached key chains.
"Yeah, sure." Dipper replied with annoyance and exhaustion badly hidden in his voice. His eyes drifted skyward with his steps onto the porch, pulling the door closed and seeing the worsened sky. "Let's just try to get there before the rain starts up."
"Well then come on!" She called, grabbing her brother's arm mid sprint and doing her best to drag him onto the sidewalk.
"W-w-wait! STOP!" Dipper called in the moments before he stumbled off of the patio step. There below his face met the concrete with a sound sickeningly close to if Dipper's sneakers had done the same. It was at that moment that every bouncing, clattering keychain lost it's attunement to Mabel.
"oh my gosh I'm so sorry." Mabel half screamed, dropping to one knee to try and help her brother. "Are you okay?"
"No, Mabel. I'm not." Dipper replied through a grunt, an uncontrolled edge pervading his voice. He reached up to grasp Mabel's outstretched hand and, none to gently, push himself up. There she kneel with a perfect view of the skinned cheek, bloody nose, and partially missing eyebrow that she herself had caused.
"I-I-I'm..." she stuttered out in sight of her actions consequence. She stumbled backwards at Dippers movements upwards, standing up and playing with her hands for something-anything to do.
"bBefore the rain starts." He said through buried anger, standing and swiftly walking for the main sidewalk. "Come on-"
There fell a raindrop, glistening like a tear upon his scraped cheek. With quickly fading disdain Dipper looked skyward, flopped his arms, and cried, "Really? REALLY!?" With what could have been exhaustion, Dipper stomped past his sister and back towards the door.
"Where are you-" Mabel started, taking short steps towards her brother.
"Back inside. I'm not dealing with rain right." He answered, his boy frozen with head turned to look at her. There dripped a furious red fluid from his cheek and nose, down onto the quickly moistening sidewalk where it splashed and spread.
"But...you're bleeding!" Mabel replied, walking quickly to put her hand on her brother's shoulder. "Is there-"
Dipper spun his head, took one the farthest hand from Mabel, and drug it up his face and carrying his blood with it. Up into his hair it went, pulling heir up into a greaser's fantasy and pushing Wendy's hat off of his head. In Mabel's moment of shock, Dipper took to the door passed through with a softened SLAM.
There lay the legacy of crushes past on the ground, plucked up by an almost shellshocked girl down familiar sidewalks and unfamiliar, unrefreshing rain.
I really don't know what to say. It's been what - three months and this is the note I come come back on?
Feel free to scream your questions, comments, concerns, and world crushing grievances at me.