[🔶] Gravity Falls: Rewritten!

Chapter 32: Homesick

The house was quiet as Dipper and Mabel returned, their parents both out for work. They headed straight to their room, with Waddles trotting faithfully behind.

Mabel wasted no time flopping onto her side of the room, her bed practically calling her name. She pulled out her phone, scrolling happily as Waddles settled beside her, snorting contentedly. Convincing their parents to let him stay hadn't been easy. But after receiving a very "colorful" phone call from Stan—

"Listen here, Henry! I lived with that pig all summer! He might be a pain in the butt, but he's your daughter's pride and joy!"

Their parents had reluctantly agreed, trusting Mabel to care for him. Ever since, Waddles had made himself at home.

"Mabel, you're really glued to that phone, huh?" Dipper teased, setting up his spot at the study table. He pulled out his trigonometry homework, pens, and some scratch paper.

She chuckled, unfazed. "Oh, come on, Dipper. I haven't touched my phone since this morning! I'm practically a model student."

He rolled his eyes and focused on the problem in front of him, pencil scratching across the paper. The room settled into a calm quiet until Mabel spoke up again.

"You know, Pacifica got her Biology test back," she began enthusiastically. "And she had the highest score!"

"Congrats," he mumbled without looking up.

"Yeah! Last week, she didn't even pass, but thanks to Y/n, those scores shot wayyy up!"

Dipper's pencil stopped moving, his eyes glued to the stack of unsent letters on his desk. They just sat there, full of thoughts he couldn't quite find the right words for.

Mabel kept chatting about Pacifica's big win in biology, but Dipper barely heard her. His mind was somewhere else—back to the summer that flipped their lives upside down.

He almost died. His sister almost died.

And Y/n...

His chest tightened just thinking about it. She'd nearly vanished completely, wiped out like she never existed. Weirdmageddon left scars that wouldn't fade anytime soon, but watching Y/n fight Bill Cipher until she broke apart herself? That memory was burned into his brain forever.

Even now, months later, Bill haunted his dreams, twisting them into a mess of chaos and unease. The triangle demon might be gone for good, but echoes of his taunting laugh still clung to Dipper's thoughts.

He'd much rather talk to Y/n about all of it in person than write it in some letter. Stuff like that felt too big to cram onto a page.

But what would he even say if she were here?

"Hey, remember when you almost disappeared forever? Cool, huh?"

Yeah. Right.

The strangest part about this situation was that they didn't even have a name for whatever this thing was between them. Are they a couple? Best friends?

He shook his head, trying to snap himself out of it.

Mabel kicked his chair gently. "Earth to Dipper! Thinking about Y/n again?" she teased, grinning wide.

"What? No!" His face turned hot as he hurried to shove the letters under his notebook. "I was just... doing math."

She giggled knowingly. "Sure you were."

He sighed, sinking into his chair. Math was easier than figuring out what to do with all these feelings.

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