Cursed (a gravity falls fanfiction!)

CHAPTER 1: Never walk alone, never talk to strangers.

In this timeline, it has been years since the incident. The characters are already in college.

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10 minutes left...

only ten more to endure...

The ticking of the clock was all I could hear. My thoughts filled with anticipation. Can't wait for that longhand to strike 12. 

Can't wait to go home.

Leaning myself lazily against the counter, hands supporting my chin while my other hand tapping impatiently. My eyes followed every movement of the ticking clock. 

In just a couple of minutes, my shift will be over then I can finally go home. A place where I'll be safe from here. I'm not typically the type of person to go outside more often. But since I need to make a living in order to save myself from starvation, I have to leave my comfort zone and head outside to work my butt off.

Sigh, how did my life turned so miserable?

Those were the words that kept playing in my head. I always asked myself how did all of these happen. Once upon a time, I was a very jolly child. My happiness shined upon the rest. But now? well, I don't even.

Things were different back then as a kid. You're with your family, you're happy. 

However

As a 19-year-old, I had to live on my own. In a remote place from my hometown where there are neither relatives nor friends nearby to say hello and no one to live with, completely on my own. Well, if you consider my succulent plants for company.

It was a tough decision to make, but eventually, with my sheer determination and a lot of convincing to my parents, I got what I asked for – finally becoming independent and free. Like a butterfly unrestrained by its cocoon that it decided to escape its tethers, happily roaming and soaring around.

But that was when I still believed in the goodness of the world and the capability of achieving my dreams – when I still believed in myself. As time passed by, I learned a few things that made me who I am today. A kind of girl who was happy, enthusiastic and sweet about everything is now just a somewhat sad girl who became the total opposite of who she was not long ago.

Bitter.

The innocent little me was so excited about being in the outside world where I can just do whatever I want, be free to go wherever I want and decide whenever I want without the approval of my parents. And because of that, God heard my prayers and I immediately regretted all of it.

What was I thinking when I thought that the world could be such a wonderful place when it's obviously not?

This world is not what it seems, it's even more than that.

With its hidden secrets and undiscovered places, what more is out there? A twisted place covered by its deceitful decorations? A refuge for the monsters in hell to hide from the guardians above and just loiter around the place, messing other human's lives? Heck, even hell is just burning beneath us. I might be a bit exaggerating but it's all facts and truth. Hear it from the experienced ones: this thing we call life is not all rainbows and puppies and other cutie-smoochie stuff. Dreams die, hope withers, nothing is forever. Trusting someone is now a gamble. You can't even tell whether it's genuine or plastic. Traitors, backstabbing-jerks, cheaters, manipulators – you name it! And those are just a trailer for what reality is, folks.

 Now, where was I again? oh yeah.

5 minutes left...

"Hey Joy!"