Teenage Gravity Falls

Chapter 4

by: truefaller

Dipper sits down on a log. The log is as empty as he feels. He starts sobbing. Dipper is devastated. His summer goal is ruined. He will never get another chance with Wendy and he knows it. After everything he has been through, he thought that this would be the summer that he would get the girl of his dreams. The summer he had always dreamed of. He was wrong. Someone places a soft hand with a delicate touch on his shoulder.

"Hey, Dipper, are you okay?" says a soft voice. Dipper turns red. "Great, now some random person saw him crying. Can this day get any worse?" Dipper thinks. He turns around.

"Pacifica? What are you doing here?" Dipper asks, his eyes shimmering with tears. She seems more attractive than he had remembered. She is wearing a light purple form-fitting dress, black pumps, black hoop earrings, and her hair down. He can't help but stare. He then notices that her mascara is running and her eyes are red and puffy from crying. Dipper sighs.

"Not really," Dipper answers,"Are you okay? It looks like you have been crying." Dipper says. He is stunned that she seems nice. Pacifica sits down on the log next to him.

"I will tell you why I'm crying, if you tell me why you are crying." She says.

"Deal. But you have to promise you won't tell anyone." He says.

"Deal." She says. " You start." Dipper manages a small smile.

"" All of a sudden, everything that had been shut up inside of him for the past three years exploded out of him. Three years ago, when I was twelve, I had a huge crush on Wendy Corduroy. She ended up finding out, because, well, it's a long story. But anyway, she said I was too young for her. I just knew in my heart that when I was older, I might have a chance with her. She might have thought I was over her, but boy was she wrong. I waited three long years, planning how to ask her out down to the very last detail. I loved her so much. I thought this summer would finally be the summer that she would be my girlfriend. I was wrong. I never would have guessed that she would date Robbie. She broke my heart, Pacifica." Dipper said. He tries to wipe away his tears, but they spill out anyway. "Why am I telling Pacifica all this anyway? What does she care? She will probably just make fun of me for it later. A deal is a deal, though, and I can't just walk away. She does seem upset. Maybe she really has changed." Dipper thinks.

"Why are you upset?" Dipper asks.

Pacifica sighs. "I would never tell anyone this. Why am I telling Dipper? He hates me. He thinks I am just a spoiled rich girl. It's too late to back out now, though. I don't want to look like any more of an idiot than I already do. I guess I can trust him. He wouldn't make fun of me or tell anyone. And if he does, I'll sue him." She thinks.

It all started three years ago at that party when you helped me kill that ghost. When you told me that I don't have to be like my parents, that I could write my own destiny, that gave me hope. Nobody else believed in me. If not for you, I would still be that mean, rich girl. I try to be nicer now. I really do. But I am so lonely, Dipper. I know my family looks perfect, it's not. My life is falling apart. I have nobody. Nobody, Dipper. My so-called friends think I'm an idiot. Nobody my age will even talk to me, because I used to be so mean to them. I tried apologizing, but they thought it was some kind of joke. But I'm the real joke. My parents think I am not worthy to be a Northwest. A few hours ago, I was looking for a purse I lost. I thought it might be in my mom's closet, so I went in there to look for it. I guess they didn't see me in there because they started talking. I overheard everything. They hate me Dipper. I am an embarrassment to them. If they didn't care so much about what the media says about them, they would have disowned me that night I opened the party gates." She said, tears brimming in her eyes. They slowly roll down her cheeks as she shuts her eyes and puts her head in her arms. Dipper felt awful. All of a sudden his trouble with Wendy didn't seem that important. She wasn't even mad at him, and here he was crying in the forest like a big baby. Dipper doesn't know what to say. No words can fix this type of hurt. Dipper does the only thing he can think of that might make her feel better, if only for a moment.

He hugs her. He wraps his arms around her petite frame. She looks up at him, then rests her head on his shoulder. She cries, deep shuddering sobs shake her body. She lets out what she has been holding in for so many years. "Finally." She thinks to herself. "Someone cares."

Dipper wraps his arms around Pacifica's waist and pulls her tighter, trying to mend her broken heart. She grips Dippers shoulders as she cries into his shirt. Dipper doesn't mind. He lifts up her chin and looks her in the eyes.

"Pacifica, you are not an embarrassment. You are not hated. You are not mean. You are not obsolete. You are not a joke, Pacifica. You are special. If nobody else sees that than it is their loss. If nobody else loves you, know that I always will. I will take care of you, Pacifica. You are not alone," says Dipper. Pacifica looks at him with her big, blue eyes, shimmering with hope.

"Promise?" she asks.

"Promise," he says.