He has returned (Gravity Falls fanfiction)

chapter fourteen

The day, surprisingly, went without further incidents. The bed was now in the attic with Mabels and Dippers. They had complained but both knew there was no other choice. And when Ford told Dipper that Bill will be tied to the bed with with one hand, his arguing kind of stopped. Mabel still did not like it. She wanted to have her sleepovers with Candy and Grenda and not have Bill there. She was afraid that either he would be a bitch to her friends or one of them would fall in love with the demon, just because he was a boy in the room that's wasn't Dipper. Dipper was fine with Bill being there as long as he couldn't get up and maybe, if Dipper was feeling brave enough, he would put a sock in the demons mouth so he would shut up. Those would be long nights otherwise.

Time was running fast and it would soon be seven o'clock. Mabel and Dipper were ready to go and stumbled excitedly down the stairs. They went into the shop again which was closed already. Bill and Melody were still sorting stuff, no customers were around anymore and Bill looked so... calm and normal. The two turned around.

„Ah, there you are, sweeties", Melody came up to them and ran one hand through Mabels hair like she had done with Bill before. Dipper was wearing his old hat again, so Melody couldnt do the same with him. He had Wendys bomber hat under his right arm.

„Yeah, we were just about to go. With Wendy. And uhh others. So, we have no time!", Dipper rushed and pulled Mabel towards the door. He was doing everything to avoid having to take Bill with them. He just wanted to have a nice time with Wendy, without a demon trying to interrupt and destroy probably everything. He had done that plenty of times last summer and Dipper was sick of it.

„Wait!", Melody called after them. Dipper sighted and turned around.

„Why don't you take Bill with you? He also needs friends and he is really charming. It would not only make him happy, but me too!", Melody claimed. Mabel and Dipper looked at each other. Not seeing another choice, they agreed. Bill smiled at them sweetly. Dipper was sure that was only because Melody was in the room. Smiling didn't suit him at all. Especially this one looked fake.

Melody came outside with them where a small black car sped into the driveway. It squeeckingly came to a halt in the dried mud. The door opened and out came Wendy.

„What do you mean you have a car? Why did you not tell me?!", Mabel jumped from excitement and runned towards her to hug her. Wendy hugged her back, her red hair falling over Mabels head.

„I wanted to surprise ya'll. And technically its not my car yet, I have to pay it off at my dads. But I can have it already. Great timing too because Thompsons van broke down last month and he is still trying to fix it himself. You know he has as much clue about how a car works as I do with baking. And I can't bake shiiiit."

The twins have experienced that first hand when Mabel has had the idea of them all baking together in the Mystery Shack and Wendy nearly blew up the microwave. They never baked again but Mabel still wants to teach Wendy a bit about baking over the summer. And in her opinion, the "microwave incident" that was kind of Dippers fault too. After all, he was always the one exploding hot dogs in the microwave with Soos. She hated it when they did that but it made Dipper happy so she never said something against that.

"Where are the others?", Dipper asked after he had looked behind Wendy and didnt see anyone coming out of her car and also nobody in her car.

"The group is going through a tough time right now, you know? Ever since Tambry went to the anti-digital camp for the summer, Robby and her have broken up by the way and Thompsons van not working, it has never really been the same. It's kinda sad but whatever. At least you are here now!", she answered.

Dipper was very disappointed about these news. Last summer he had learned to like the whole group and had really missed all of them. It stung that they were now seperated. And why had Wendy not told him anything about this in her letters? She had only talked about High school and how horrible that was but never about the others so Dipper had just assumed that everything was fine. The summer was getting worse and worse. At least Wendy genuinly seemed happy to see them again. Mabel also looked disappointed about it and next to her Bill was still smirking so much his gums showed.

Wendy ordered them all into the car. Mabel sat in the front seat, Dipper behind Wendy and Bill next to him. Just as Mabel was about to close the door, she heard a squeeking. It was Waddles running out of the Shack towards the car. She opened the car door widely again and Waddles came jumping on her lap, looking at her happily. It was clear that he wanted to come with them and none of Dipper, Mabel or Wendy could refuse anything to his cute little face and they all 'awwed' in union. Bill did not like the pig and he had the impression that the feeling was mutual. Mabel had not seen Waddles the whole day which was led back to him constantly watching Bill while he had been working in the shop (Mabel did not know that of course, she had been upstairs decorating her side of the room). Mabel finally closed the door with a crash that shook the whole car and they sped off.

I promise something more interesting will happen soon 😭😭