"Good Morning!" That's all I heard before someone jumped to my belly. Then after that was pain. I couldn't even react... I opened my eyes to see my room's ceiling, I just lay there- waiting for the pain to disappear... "Uh... Are you awake yet?" A familiar face goes in front of my face. Mabel.
"Ugh... Hello...?" What's Mabel doing here.. "Good morning?"
"Good morning!"
"Sorry Will.. I told her not to do it." I look towards Dipper who was standing a foot beside my bed.
"Dipper..?" Oh, right they had to stay at my place because Gideon took the Shack. I closed my eyes for a second and scratched my head trying to get rid of my headache. "Why'd you have to wake me up..? I was just sleeping in bliss. Also, how did you guys even get inside my room?"
"It's time to for breakfast silly! I help made pancakes!"
"Also your mom gave us a spare key to your room." He says holding up a key.
I facepalm, "Why would she do that..."
"She told us to wake you up, surprise?" She says giggling.
"My back hurts from the surprise." I look at Mabel- she was still on top of me. This looks really awkward. "Also.. you can get down now."
She goes red a bit, "O-Oh right, sorry!"
I help her get off me. After that, I sat on my bed and stretched while yawning at the same time. "What time is it anyway?"
Dipper looks at his watch, "It's around eight-thirty."
"Woah.. It's that early?" I tried laying back in bed again.
Mabel stops me and tries to drag me, "Come on! It's time for breakfast! and we have to figure out how to stop Gideon."
"How do you even have so much energy right now?" She seems rather too energetic at this time of day...
"I drank some Mabel juice! I made it myself, do you want some?" she says as her eyes light up.
I look towards Dipper- he was shaking his head.
"I-I'd rather not.. I'll have coffee instead." I said getting up from my bed. She frowns at my response.
We left the room and started heading down. Sure enough, I smell pancakes. My mouth was watering at this point, "Mhmm..."
We entered the room which was across from the stairs. The kitchen was at the side of the room and beside it was the dining room. The kitchen was a normal kitchen- you know.. normal kitchen stuff. The dining room had a table in the middle with six chairs.
Stan was in one of the chairs, staring at the food. My uncle was not in the room surprisingly. My mother was in the kitchen doing dishes. "Good morning mom," I greet her.
She looks over to me, "Oh! Good morning, did you sleep well?" She says turning back to what she was doing.
"I was..." I looked at Mabel, "Before I had a rough wake-up call..." She looks at me and giggles.
I look at my mom- and she was laughing... "I was busy cooking so I gave them the key." I groan in response. "Anyways take a seat and eat before the food gets cold."
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William
"We're in," Dipper says as we enter the area. The Mystery Shack was surrounded by metal fences, so we had to sneak in. Apparently, Gideon was going to announce something to the town- a lot of people came so we snuck in.
"These are some nice disguises," I say wiggling my fake mustache with my hand. After we had breakfast we met up with Soos and he brought some disguises. We all had black matching jackets and black hats. The more I look at them- the more I notice how conspicuous we seem.
"Just gonna say it, I don't know what we're doing here, but I'm loving these fake mustaches," Mabel says touching her fake mustaches. The pines had matching black jackets and hats- though Mabel was wearing a mustache.
Soos had the same matching outfit- but his jacket was unbuttoned. "If anyone asks, I'm not Soos." he says pointing at his hat which spelt- 'not soos'.
I chuckle a bit at our outfit, "I'd say we're ready."
"Ladies and gentlemen!" We look over to the stage to see Gideon arriving with a cart with a cloth covering something, "Today I am delighted to announce my plans for the former Mystery Shack. I give you... Gideonland!" he takes off the cloth to reveal a model version of the Shack which was replaced with an amusement park.
"What?!" We all said at the same time.
"We're gonna turn this dirty ol' shack into three square miles of Gideon-tertainment." His dad arrives and was holding something which was also covered. "And introducin' our new mascot, Lil' Gideon Jr.!" he takes off the cloth and to reveal Waddles- he was dressed in some kind
"Waddles! You monster!" She walks towards the stage.
I tried to stop her, "Wait!"
Stan follows after her, "All right, that's it!" He says as he takes off the disguise. Dipper follows after them and they all take off their disguises and climbs up the stage.
"Listen up, people. Gideon's a fraud! This kid broke in and stole my property!"
Mabel points at the police officers, "Arrest him, officers!"
"Such accusations! Mr. Pines, I recall you gave the property to me. Look, here's the deed right here!" He takes out the deed that he stole.
"Well, that's all the proof I need to see." One of the officers 'Blubs' says.
"Why is there only two policeman I've seen so far in this town..?" I whisper to myself.
Gideon snaps his fingers and two buff men takes the pines, "Now get off my property, old man!" he says as he puts one of those 'Gideon pins' onto Stan's shirt. It had his face- creepy... They take the pines out. Soos and I follow them. "Don't come back!"
"Are you guys okay?" I say as the gate closes after we left.
"Ugh... Yeah." Stan looks back at the Shack and tries to shout, "I'll show you who's the old man! Agh!" He holds his ears in pain. "Ow! My hearing aid!"
"Don't worry, guys. We'll get the shack back somehow." Dipper says trying to reassure us.
"We better." A familiar voice says. We look over to see Wendy dragging a bike over to us.
"Wendy!" The twins and I say at the same time.
"If I can't work at the Shack, my dad's gonna force me to move upstate to work at my cousin's logging camp."
"What? You're leaving town? But we need you here!"
Soos speaks up, "Yeah especially Dipper because of his giant crush on—" Dipper glares at him and he notices, "you... calyptus trees! Ha! The kid loves eucalyptus trees!" He laughs nervously.
"Isn't there any other jobs closer here?" I ask.
She looks at me, "Nope. I checked already."
"Should we go home-..." Before I could ask them a sound comes from the bushes.
Robbie comes out of the bush with a boombox, "Take me back, Wendy! My arms are too skinny to keep holding this boombox forever!"
She glares at him, "I was never here..." She rides her bike away and Robbie chases after her.
I wave at her, "See you, Wendy!" I look at the pines, "So.. Should we just go home?"
They all sigh and started heading home.
...
Soos went home to his house and the pines and I went to my house. I greeted my mother and uncle. Stan went to the phone and started to call someone. The twins and I went to the living room and sat on the couch.
I showed them my console which I play at. We've been playing for a few hours. Right now they're playing a game- which you're mining stuff to craft with then you're crafting stuff to mine with. It seems really popular nowadays. It was multiplayer so they were playing- I was too lazy to play so I just watched them.
"Hey..." Stan enters the room and we look at him. "Kids, we've got to talk. Look I've been thinking and... I can't take care of you anymore. I don't have a house or a job. The plan is, you're goin' home. Your bus leaves tomorrow, here are your tickets."
Dipper stands up, "But Grunkle Stan, you can't give up!"
"Yeah! We just have to take over the Shack and take the deed like he did!"
"Look, I lost, okay? The best thing is for you to be with your parents. Sorry kids, Gideon won. Summer's over." He puts the bus tickets down and leaves the room.
I sigh, "So... What do we do now? I'd really hate to say goodbye to you guys."
Dipper also sighs, "We just have to do it ourselves. If Stan won't get our home back from Gideon, then we'll have to do it ourselves."
"Gideon may have the upper hand-..." Mabel reaches for her sweater pockets- wait.. does sweater even have pockets? "but we have something he doesn't."
"The journal!"
"A grappling hoo-" She stops herself and looks at Dipper, "Oh. The Journal... Journal!"
"What can we even do with the Journal?"
He looks over at the journals, "Maybe we can look for some magical stuff? or ask for some help?" He stops at a page, "Gnomes?" he looks at us.
I shrug, "I don't- Is that even a good idea? Didn't they like try to kill you last time?" I sat down on the couch again, this is giving me serious headaches. "Should we just do this tomorrow?"
They sat at the couch, "True, let's plan this out tomorrow."
Mabel takes one of the controllers, "Let's play!"
"Okay!" He says taking one of the controllers.
I closed some of the lights and I laid back on the couch listening to them playing. I was somehow becoming more sleepy and my vising becoming blurry.
A voice rang in my head 'Just sleep already kid..!' I sat up a bit and looked around the room my eyes were still blurry but enough to see my surroundings. There was no one. Just Dipper and Mabel playing. I paid no attention to it, I was probably just going insane.
I was still paying attention to the twins a bit, until a few minutes later I close my eyes and started to doze off. Before I could fully sleep- I felt some weight on my right shoulder. I look over to see.. Mabel- and on her right was Dipper hugging a pillow on the side of the couch, he was sleeping. I look at Mabel she really fell asleep.. She's smiling a bit- maybe she's having some nice dreams? She seems so peaceful...
With my remaining energy, I turned off the tv and console and dropped the remote.
I started to fall asleep again... Then Mabel started to move- I got off-balanced a bit because of her sudden weight and fell on the couch with me looking at the ceiling. She also fell on top of me with her head on my chest. The same position as this morning... This is really awkward.. I put my hand on her shoulders, "Gotta... Move her.." I whisper to myself. I tried- I really tried to move her but I didn't have any remaining strength, so my body became heavier and I fell asleep.
After this week...
All I need is a rest..
From..
Everything...
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To Be Continued
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Chapter End