Change of Identity (The Ruh-ruh-redux!)

Chapter 3 Unknown

I decided to put this all in Dipper's POV. Okay? Okay.
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I was still screaming my head off when Mabel shushed me.

"Hush, child. It's not that bad!" She tried, but I was having none of it.

"Yeah, sure. And you're not in this situation! How should you know how bad it is?" I yelled back, getting more and more annoyed.

"I don't care! I just wanna cheer you up!" Mabel yelled back.

"You two! Stop! Now!" Stan yelled at us. "It's not gonna help to yell at each other."

He was right. I angrily crossed my arms and sighed. "That stupid mushroom...there's gotta be a cure! Where's the journal?"

"Well..." Mabel sheepishly twirled a lock of her hair around a finger. "We checked, and-"

"Did you use the blacklight?" I interrupted.

"Doi! Obviously!" Mabel grinned, but her smile fell. "And...well..."

"Don't tell me." I muttered. I didn't want to hear what Mabel said next.

"There's sorta no known cute. Or whatever." She mumbled.

"Seriously?" I tried being optimistic, like Mabel. "We'll find one! We have to!"

"Even if we find one, you're stuck until we do." Stan piped up. "You realize that, right?"

Oh. I hadn't, actually.

"This is stupid." I muttered in my stupid girl voice, and brought my stupid girl knees up to my stupid girl chest and blew a lock of stupid girl hair out of my stupid girl face. This was all just stupid.

"Cheer up, silly! I can do your hair and-" Mabel started, but I cut her off.

"And that's good why, exactly?" I grumbled. The last thing I wanted was Mabel forcing me into girly stuff. That would be torture.

"Okay, okay. Fine. But cheer up! You look..." A look I couldn't identify passed over her face, which was weird. We were twins, I could usually tell her exact emotions. "Beautiful." She finished, and I found myself blushing.

"Thanks?" I wasn't sure how to take that.

C'mon Dipper.

You've battled monsters and evil triangle demons.

You can survive this.

Right?