Summer with the Pine Twins: Summer's Coming to an End

Roadside Attraction: Part 6

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

"Listen carefully, this sky tram has an emergency drop switch. Below is Oregon's largest Paul Bunion statue and Old Reliable goes off in five...Four...Three...Two...Now!" She counts down, putting her hand on the lever and we all shout out protests. "Candy wait don't pull that lever!" "Kid are you crazy?!" We start falling when we start shooting off direction, soon landing but continued to move as the sky tram rolled down the mountain and fly off into the air once again before finally coming to a stop.

With a few pushes we manage to break down the door and we all stumble out of the tram car and I pull Candy in for a noogie asking "Kid that was genius, how'd you know that would work?!" "Useless travel pamphlets," That's when we hear Darlene call out to me and she puts her human face back on, she was trapped under the lumberjack's foot. "I don't know what came over me. You'll let me out right?" "What?! After all that?! Seriously do I look like an amnesiac?" I ask her angrily and she giggles. "You're so funny, have you ever considered becoming a comedian," I give her a smile as I state "You know I actually have. Comedy is too subtle these days. My style involves oversized props. Here let me get you out-"

The kids hold me back as Darlene pulls on her spider face. "Oh yeah, right." "You win this round Stan but mark my words as long as there's men like you out there with their dumb one-liners and pick-up moves I'll never run out of prey," She says, spitting acid at us. "Get in the car!" I shout as we pack into the RV and take off.

Dipper's p.o.v.

The sun set as we continued down the road back to Gravity Falls and I let out a sigh, happy to know I hadn't lost (y/n) from a misunderstanding as I wipe the rest of the emails and phone numbers off of my arms. "Alright kid I gotta admit something, I'm no expert on women, truth is I've been divorced once and slapped more times than I can remember. Confidence can buy you a lot but at the end of the day pick-up artists tend to get our heads bitten off. When it comes to women I'm a failure," Grunkle Stan admits to me and I reassure him. "Hey, I'm not so good with women either. You know even if your tips were bad I actually learned to be more confident, I guess I just need to learn to use that power for good."

I look at the back of the RV to see Candy staring out the window, I still needed to apologize to her for leading her on. So after drawing for a few minutes I approach her and hand her another pamphlet that read 'A loser's attempt at an apology. "Hey, I found a pamphlet I don't think you've read yet," She reads it before telling me "It's ok Dipper, the open road makes people do crazy things. Plus after seeing you flee the spider like a baby I kinda lost interest."

I feel the blow to my pride and wince out "Yep, yep, I deserve that," I then go sit next to (y/n) who promptly cuddles up next to me and I kiss her forehead whispering "I love you." "Love you too," She responds before slowly going to sleep. After about an hour we finally see the sign welcoming us back to Gravity Falls and we cheer. "I still feel a little bad about wrecking those tourist traps," I admit and Stan shrugs it off. "Ah come on, everyone loves my pranks and the best part is I never have to face any consequ- SWEET LORD!" The RV comes to a stop as we see the Mystery Shack had been pranked to high heavens. Spray paint was, yarn, logs, corn, and things turned upside down were everywhere. "Oh come on! I don't understand, I completely don't deserve this," Grunkle Stan complains as (y/n) asks "Are we gonna have to help clean this up." "Nah, I'm sure Soos will take care of it. Where is Soos anyway?"

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