Lost Without You (Pinescone)

Chapter Five

Wirt's POV:

When we walked back to the shack hand in hand Mabel yelled "Smile!"

"Huh?" I questioned.

Dipper hugged me and stuck out his tongue.

Click!

"Awe you guys are too cute!" Mabel squealed.

"So are you guys dating now?" Asked Greg.

"I uh... Yes, yes we are." I smiled at Dipper reassuringly, who beamed back at me.

"The ship has sailed!" Mabel yelled loud enough to cause some birds to fly away.

"Yeah! Let's celebrate!" Greg chirped.

"Ooh celebratory waffles." Mabel mentioned.

"Um, about that...." Dipper told Mabel everything that had happened at the supermarket.

"That sounds horrible.... At least it finally brought you two together." Mabel said.

"Hey, Mabel can we play water balloon laser tag?" Greg asked.

"Ooh yeah! Do you guys want to play? You two could be Team Dirt and Greg and I could be Team Awesome."

Dipper looked at me and I nodded in agreement. "Alright, sounds fun!" He said.

"Okay! There's only three rules: No going inside the Mystery Shack, Only stay in the legal land that Grunkle Stan owns, last but not least stay together!" Mabel explained.

Just like that we split off. We got 30 seconds to run as fast as we can. We ran hand in hand.

"Woah!" We both slipped on a line of water balloons.

Suddenly Greg and Mabel jumped out from behind a tree and began to shoot us with laser guns. "Ha got you!" Greg exclaimed.

"You fell right into our trap!" Mabel boasted. ".... Aren't you guys going to get up?"

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Dipper and I were walking in the woods. It was dark and gloomy, the overall feeling felt.. hopeless. It took me a moment to realize where I was. Paralyzed by fear I stopped in my tracks.

"Wirt? What's wrong?"

"I-I-I uh..."

Dipper put his hands on my shoulders and gave me a light shake. "Wirt?!" He sounded really worried.

"Wirt?" Said a familiar voice behind us, I turned around only to see Lorna. "You've come back?!" She asked.

Dipper squeezed my hand. "Who is she? What does she mean?" He whispered.

"Uh, yeah hi Lorna." I said.

"You should come eat dinner with us. Ever since you cured my illness, I've been eating real food!" Lorna said excitedly.

"Dinnertime already? ....... Wow I didn't realize how dark it had gotten." Dipper whispered in my ear.

"Sure, what are you making?" I asked as I followed Lorna to her cottage, pulling Dipper along.

"Turtle soup and rye bread. Its all fresh too, Auntie Whispers and I cook everyday."

Dipper's POV:

Wirt was acting strange and he wasn't answering me. All of a sudden he seemed terrified. He was dragging me to this strange pilgrim looking girls house to eat dinner. Apparently he's been here before, and knows her and her aunt. He also 'cured' her, whatever that means.

"Who is your friend?" The girl asked pointing towards me.

"I am his boyfriend, Dipper." I piped up.

"Oh, I'm Lorna. How'd you two meet?" She asked, sounding a little disappointed. "Wait, here we are!" Lorna ran up ahead and knocked on the door. "Auntie Whispers, I'm back! Guess who is also back.... Wirt! I brought him and his friend over for dinner."

A large manly lady opened the door. "Oh, what a nice surprise." She said.

"Come on in!" Lorna said holding the door open.

After we ate 'turtle soup', which was very salty, Lorna invited us to stay the night. Wirt declined saying we needed to get home.

"Its pretty dark out there." She pointed out.

"Exactly, we need to hurry." Wirt countered. Why was he so eager to go home?

"Okay well be careful." She took his hands in hers.

"I will, er- we will." He tried pulling away.

She kissed him on the cheek. "Thanks again, Wirt."

"Alright, we'll be going!" I butted in, grabbing Wirt's hand. "Thanks for dinner Lola."

"Lorna." She corrected.

"Yeah, yeah, thanks." I rushed out the door.

"Dipper, what was that about?"

"What was that about?! Are you seriously asking me that? What was that about?!"

"She is just an old acquaintance. It was just a little peck on the cheek it didn't mean anything, c-calm down please."

"Oh, so when you first kissed my cheek after the supermarket incident, it didn't mean anything?" I wanted to cry. I was just so frustrated and hurt.

"No! No, no..."

"And how do you know her? What did she mean by you curing her? Why was she old timey? I want answers, Wirt!" I demanded.

"Dipper, I don't know how to explain it.. I'll tell you everything later."

"Why not now?!"

"Because I'm scared, Dipper, it is like the twilight zone out here!" He broke.

".... I'm sorry.. I'm just confused and it feels like you weren't answering me and-" Wirt pulled me into a hug. I looked up to his wistful face and into his worried eyes and kissed him fully on the lips.