After spending the summer with their Grunkle Stan in Gravity Falls, Dipper and Mabel Pines return to their home in Piedmont, California. Things return to normal for Mabel, but not so much for Dipper. After all, your mother getting drunk and abusing you isn't exactly normal. Something changed with their mother, Lucy, over the summer, and Mabel doesn't know a thing about it. (Trigger Warning: This story is an abuse story, so don't read if that triggers you. Besides that its got lots of angst and fluff.) [Disclaimer: This is a Gravity Falls fanfiction. I do not own Gravity Falls. I also do not own the art I used to make the book cover.]

Who would have ever thought that the once brave and adventurous Dipper Pines would be broken and sobbing on the ground screaming for mercy to a force that only exists in his mind? Who would have known that a simple memorable summer in a strange town named Gravity Falls would leave mental scars on a twelve year old? Who would have known that three years later those scars still remain? And who would have thought that a girl with light hair and blue eyes would be such a big part in Dippers story? TW: this contains suicide, suicidal thoughts, panic and ptsd attacks. AUTHORS NOTE: WARNING, I DID WRITE THIS WHEN I WAS 15, SO PLEASE BE WARNED THIS DOESNT MAKE MUCH SENSE AT TIMES AND I DIDNT DO MUCH RESEARCH AT ALL SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. IF YOUR LOOKING FOR AN AGNST FIC, THIS IS A GOOD ONE BUT LIKE I SAID, IT DOESNT MAKE MUCH SENSE AND WAS WRITTEN JUST FOR THE SAKE OF TOURTUREING DIPPER.