In The Woods

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   Bill hastily grabbed his things and bolted off the bus, eager to finally have room to move his legs. He'd been forced to sit still for hours! His twin, Will, anxiously yelled, "H-Hey, wait for me!," after him as he, too, quickly gathered his luggage. They both jumped off of the bus and onto the gravel path, the sun feeling incredibly good on their skin. Bill comically took a deep breath of air and loudly exhaled. He then dropped all his belongings to throw his hands up in the air and yell, "Gravity Falls!"

   Before Will has time to process his actions, Bill was racing off into the woods. "B—! BILL!," he screamed angrily at the blond. Bill cackled and jogged back over to his brother. "Chillax, it was a joke! You didn't actually think I'd leave you here to carry all that stuff, did ya?," he asked, grinning, as he bent over to pick up all his things he dropped.

   Will glared angrily down at him, face red. "You— You've done it before!," he responded. Bill rolled his eyes, standing up straight, and sighed. As he walked away, he shot back, "It was a rhetorical question, dumbass. Calm your tits." Will almost screamed in rage.

   The two made their way through the forest, not exactly certain of which way they should be heading. Bill, of course, was in the lead, as Will was more of a follower due to his lack of confidence, but that probably wasn't the best idea. Will was smarter, he could probably tell where they were supposed to go way better than Bill. Not that Bill wasn't smart. Both were crazy intelligent. It's just... Will was far more equipped with common sense than him.

   Soon, the two twins spotted a lightly weathered roof and felt excitement bubble up in their chests. After a few of the trees had cleared they knew they had found the right place. A giant, looming sign on the side of the house read "MYSTERY SHACK". They eagerly ran up onto the porch.

   Will was the one to knock on the door, as he had less stuff to carry than Bill. After hearing a few cuss words and the squeaking of furniture being moved around, the kids were greeted with the sight of a giant old man with yellowing teeth grinning down at them.

   "Kids!," the man yelled, throwing up his hands. Will gave the cane he was holding an inquisitive look. Was that... an eight ball at the end?

   Meanwhile, Bill's eyes lit up. Ah, yes, now this is the type of person he wanted to be hanging with this summer. He mimicked the old guy, throwing his hands up in the air as well. "Us!"

   Stan laughed and pointed at him. "I like this one!," he remarked. He then turned around, clearing his throat, and led them inside. "Welcome, welcome! Come on in!"

   Bill was giddy and practically hopping as he followed right behind Stan. Will, however, retained a confused and unamused expression as he remained behind Bill. He wasn't very excited to have two Bill's badgering him for 3 months. Hopefully this old dude won't have the energy to tease him like Bill does.

   "So you're Grunkle Stan, right?," Bill asked excitedly. Stan nudged him in the chest with his cane. "The one and only!," he proclaimed.

   Bill continued to grin as he chattered on with Stan about how cool this summer was bound to be. In the meantime, Will took the opportunity to wander off and check things out. One thing that immediately caught his eye was an average-sized fish tank, holding... and axolotl? How did...? Whatever. Bill however, was gushing over how awesome the T-Rex skull was. Will was... also confused about how this odd man got his hands on that. The axolotl wasn't too hard to get, it was just not as easy as you'd think to take care of, but the T-Rex skull was just impossible to believe. It had to be fake, right? Will was fairly certain museums would be hounding Stan for the damn thing.

   The rest of the tour went rather quickly. Stan showed them their rooms so they could actually set their stuff down for a moment, and then went back to showing them various places in the shack. The bathrooms, the kitchen, the museum, the gift shop. After all that, he simply told the twins to have fun unpacking and vanished without a trace. Will was extremely confused as to where he went, while Bill only focused on racing Will up the stairs to the attic. The black-haired twin sighed and agreed, only on the conditions that there was no price for winning or punishment for loosing.

   Bill stick his tongue out at Will, glaring. "You're no fun, Will." But he agreed, and up the stairs they ran, Bill very much winning. Will was admittedly a little out of shape. He was lazier than Bill and would rather stay inside than run laps around the house for fun. Which was, by the way, what Bill did all the time that probably led him to being so fast. Anything that wasn't doing nothing kept Bill entertained, and Bill hated being bored, so... he was just always doing stuff. And now it was paying off.

   Fortunately, Will saw it coming and got off scot-free, as they had agreed. He did, however, get called chubby, but he knew he was fine. Bill was just extremely active. He felt no shame for himself loosing.

   'Damn,' Will though to himself, 'Why does Bill have to be such a bully?' He did love Bill, and he knew Bill loved him back (even through all the teasing Bill treats him incredibly kindly at times), but come on! It was just constant name calling and insults being shot his way. What was his twin's issue?

    Maybe it was all for no reason at all. Maybe he just wasn't meant to know.