Hey! So while all my friends are out on Halloween, I'm stuck in my boring house. I mean, yeah... I'm a little old for trick or treating, but my friends are all out doing other fun stuff! I actually am fine that I've never been 'exposed' to trick or treating but I just wanna hang w/ my friends! See, I actually have never been trick or treating in my life, it's never been my cup of tea. Halloween in general just was never my thing but this year I was like "hey, let's do something different and have some fun for once." but I'm not allowed cuz my parents don't like the holiday. I'm like "what? whatever." So now I'm super bored. K, sorry... I'm just upset a little bit.

I decided to post cuz well... got nothing better to do! So I've decided to do 'option 2' from chapter 1. Yeah, I think I'll start actually doing 'adventures' and suggestions after a little bit but I wanna build up a little background, fondation, interaction w/ characters, etc. All dat stuff. Anyways- enjoy!

She looked around at her room, it was generously large. Coal felt bad for taking the repair man's break room but she needed this. Soos, was it? He seemed nice and didn't mind coughing up the extra room to her. Although she did find it odd that these people were so willing to take her in, but she wasn't about to tell them they should question her. She, herself, was skeptical of everything but that was why she was here. To investigate the weird, unknown. Thinking of which, why had they not defend their town? She was prepared for people to riot and demand she not explore their abnormal village. She had mentioned her reason for being here to multiply people, and most just laughed and made comments about how she wouldn't find anything here. She didn't believe that. Either all these people were naive idiots or that was their way of a cover up. Things were defiantly strange here.

She shrugged it off, take one thing at a time and all of that. Coal shoved her hands in the pockets of her jean and walked back out to the gift shop part of the shack. Stan Pines was busy restocking some cheap merchandise, the boy from earlier and a girl that looked exactly like him were doing some dumb stuff in the living room, and a red head teen was sitting behind the cash register reading some magazine.

"Hey, Mr. Pines, is this that newbie you were talking about?" The red head looked up from her magazine and swung her feet off the counter that they were propped up on.

"Uh-huh." The old man nodded, not looking away from his work. The teen smirked at me,

"I'm Wendy." That's all she said before kicking her legs back up and going back to her magazine. 'Okay…' Coal thought to herself awkwardly. She turned around,

"Gah!" She let out a yelp. A few inches away from her face was a girl with a giant smile on her face.

"HI! I'm Mabel!" The girl waved a hand in front of Coal's face. "Mabel Pines!"

"Uh… Hi?" Coal took a step back, "I'm Coal." She ignored Mabel's friendly wave and stuck out her hand for a more formal interdiction. Mabel took it and shook it roughly.

"Mabel." The boy in the living room beckoned for the girl that look oddly like him.

"Not now, Dipper! I'm busy." Mabel rolled her eyes, "That's my brother, Dipper. He's annoying."

"Uh, okay?" Coal simply said.

"Mabel!" Dipper yelled.

"WHA-AT?" Mabel dramatically turned around and scuttled over to him. He whispered something in her ear, this time Coal couldn't hear. She uncomfortably waited. After a few minutes of the siblings discussing, Mabel said out loud, "Calm down, Dipper! You're such a weirdo." She put her hands on his shoulders and shoved him to the floor and Mabel laughed. You could tell these two were siblings. Mabel spun on her heels and skipped away. Dipper stood up, looking at Coal with narrow eyes, and followed his sister out of the living room and into the shop.

"Ah! Dipper! Here, finish stocking these for me." Stan yanked Dipper over to where he was a pointed to a pile of random items before walking off. Dipper sighed and started unenthusiastically placing nick-knacks on the shelf. Feel the strong vibe of presence being unwanted from the untrusting glances of Dipper, Coal shuffled towards the door. Maybe she could take a walk. She reached out her hand to reach the knob and…

"What's that?" Dipper froze and stared at her hand. Scribbled pen lines were covering her backhand.

"Huh? What?" Coal was surprised that he was actually making verbal contact with her. Dipper stepped forwards to see the squiggles better and Coal realized what he was talking about. "What? That? Nothing!" She pulled her sleeve down over her hand and opened the door but Dipper grabbed her wrist. Coal twisted out of his weak grasp and kicked him. "Sorry! Reflex!" She apologized, pulling her sleeve back down. "Honestly," She looked at her covered hand, "it's nothing."

"If it's nothing," the boy bent down to rub his ankle, "why are you so worried about keeping it a secret?"

Coal rolled her eyes, "It's just the passcode to my laptop… I recently changed it. There! Now you know." She flipped around and strode out the door.

"Gravity Falls," Dipper look out at the girl swiftly walking away, "always getting new secrets."

There it is! Chapter 2! I know it's short but I kind of just write what I feel like writing... sometimes it's long sometimes short. Alright! Happy Halloween! This is EchoWolfWinds! Tschüss!