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Prompt: Wrapping

Wrapping War

Wrapping was not Dipper's strength. His packages always ended bulky with too much tape. Mabel's on the other hand, were not just perfect—they were enhanced with curled ribbons, glittery snowman and bunches of holly. Sitting next to her in their attic abode, Dipper stared down at the present he was wrapping, grimacing slightly at the uneven corners.

"How do you do that?" he asked his sister.

"A lot of practice," said Mabel cheerfully, expertly folding the edges of bright red paper around a set of knitted sweaters. She neatly secured them in place with clear tape and grabbed red and green ribbon, using scissors to curl them.

She finished two presents in the time Dipper did one, despite the extras she added for decoration. Glancing at the few items he still needed to wrap, he said, "Wrap mine for me."

"No."

Though this was the answer he had been expecting, he still scowled. "I don't care if you wrap them for me."

"I care," insisted Mabel. "Part of the holiday joy is wrapping presents for people. Besides, the presents are from the both of us. It's more special if we both do it."

"Fine. You wrap, I'll add the nametag."

Snipping a large square of reindeer paper, she handed it to Dipper. "Come on. You're going a good job. Try adding some glitter. It's not hard."

Dipper made a face but accepted the small bottle of silver glitter. He tried to wrap the underwear he had gotten Stan, but did not use enough paper and had to use scraps to stitch up the gaps. He pulled on the stopper of the tube of glitter with a little too much force and it went flying, spraying his sister with silver sparkles.

Blinking a few specks out of her eyes, Mabel squinted at him. "I'm always happy to be covered in glitter, but I have feeling you did that on purpose."

"I didn't, but now that you bring it up…" Dipper grabbed some tape and brandished it threateningly. "If you don't wrap my presents then you're going have a really hard time getting this out of your hair."

Eyes narrowing, Mabel grabbed a roll of wrapping paper. "I don't think you want to get into a war with the master of Christmas with Christmas supplies as weapons."

Very quickly the wrapping was forgotten as the two raced about the room, trying to cover each other with holiday paper, tape, glitter, tinsel and nametags. Mabel tackled Dipper to the ground with a laugh, dumping a vial of red glitter into his hair.

"Ha!"

Dipper rolled out from under her and grabbed a piece of Santa Claus wrapping paper, slamming it over her head and causing her to yelp. "Ha!"

"Runts! I don't know what you're doin' in there, but it doesn't sound like wrapping presents!"

Stan's voice and a heavy hammering on the door caused the twins to jump to their feet. "We just took a break!" called Mabel.

"Hmm. Dinner's gonna be ready soon, and that room better be the way it was before you kids started wrapping."

Dipper's hair was covered in red glitter, tape stuck to his face and a nametag slapped to his forehead. Mabel had a square piece of paper hanging around her neck like a necklace, silver glitter dusting her face, tinsel stuck to her clothes and chunks of tape in her hair. The floor was covered in ripped colourful pieces of paper, mounds of sparkles, shreds of tinsel and crumpled up nametags.

"Definitely," said Dipper, trying not to laugh. "This room is the cleanest it's ever been."

"I highly doubt that," drawled Stan. "See you in fifteen, squirts."

His footsteps retreated downstairs and Mabel burst into giggles. "This is a terrible waste of Christmas resources."

"Yeah, especially considering you still won't do the work for me." Dipper shook out his hair, watching red flakes fall to the ground. "We're going to need a broom. And maybe an industrial-sized pressure washer."

"But first we better finish our wrapping." Mabel linked arms with Dipper and added, "I won't do it for you, but I'll help."

"That's a lot better than me doing by myself," joked Dipper.

"…I got glitter in my eye."

"Me too. It stings like crazy. I don't know how you use this stuff on a daily basis."