Scratch Of A Demon

~Back in Oregon~

Mabel's Pov

It had been so long since we've been here! Im already 16..wow...three whole years since we've been here...doesn't seem that long but for us that feels like forever! I smiled brightly as we pass the 'Welcome to Gravity Falls, Oregon' sign. I stare out of the window happily as we pass the old buildings and the water tower with the muffin--or explosion on it..the buildings seem so much more run down than i remember..is this how we left it? I remember we picked up the town after Weirdmageddon..maybe this town is just getting old..it is in the middle of the woods after all!

I see people i knew three years ago..they look so much older and different! The two police officers got engaged..Candy dyed a strip in her hair green and Grenda dyed a strip in her hair pink..Candy and Grenda were taller, but still my friends! Wendy cut her hair shorter..Tad strange was well..still a tad strange! Pacifica is being snotty and disrespectful again..i wonder how grunkle Stan and Ford are..

The buse finally reaches the driveway to the Mystery Shack. Dipper and i get off the bus with out bag. I am wearing a white tank top, gray shorts with my shooting star sweatshirt around my waist, i have my hair down and am wearing a black headband with a shooting star sybol on it..Dipper is wearing a red and black flannel with blue jeans..he has stubble now and has a deeper voice from puberty..

We walk down the driveway until we reach the mystery shack, we stand on the porch. I knock on the door, smiling brightly like i always am. Dipper was way more mature and grown up than me..it was obvious and im not gonna deny that.

After the 5th or 6th time i tried knocking, no one had answered yet. I looked around the shack and in the windows to see if anybody was home, i didn't see anybody..maybe they had gone out for awhile while they were waiting for us to get there i told myself reassuringly to keep my mind away from bad thoughts. Dipper and i sat on the front porch and talked and waited hours..and hours..upon hours..where were they? I was starting to get worried..

I looked around the shack again to see if their was any footprints..none..no sign of them leaving and no sign of them being home either..no lights were on in the shack..i peeked into the kitchen window and saw Grunkle Stan's coffee mug on the table, still full of coffee which i bet is cold by now..Ford's jacket was on a chair and his glasses were on the counter...

Where would grunkle Ford go without his glasses and jacket? I went back over to Dipper. I was getting worried..i had no clue where they could be..the door suddenly opened..
I turned to look at it and it was--...
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*dramatic music playing* huge cliffhanger