Beauty [8]
SoRrY fOr ThE WaiT
As the twins slowly begin to realise their feelings for each other, it only creates more havoc and turmoil. The attempts of trying to keep it a secret make them question if it’s even worth it in the end.
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‘Plus it’s a shortcut back home, wanna give it a try?’
A short glance from Mabel and a smile on her face told Dipper the answer. They took the steep hill down and ventured along the winding roads of the valley. Their conversation became rather minimal, shortened to a quick ‘oh my god’ or ‘jesus christ’ from Mabel occasionally. He enjoyed showing her the simple spots of rivers and ponds teaming with wildlife.
A spot for the ducks to quack and birds to tweet, it all felt familiar. But she couldn’t put her finger on it. The evergreen trees dotted around the patches of grass like polka-dots were screaming its name at her. Though she still remained in a constant state of thought. Dipper noticed this and took a stab at it, ‘what’s wrong?’ she looked up at him in one jerked motion. ‘Well, I was wondering, doesn’t this place seem familiar?’ Dipper took a guess at what she was trying to rattle her brain about. ‘You mean Gravity Falls?’ as the words exited his mouth her face smile began to stretch across her cheeks.
‘That’s it! It was Gravity Falls!’ Her eyes followed the curve of the hills, the several houses placed at the bottom, middle and top each had their own unique view. She wondered, imagination unfettered, could they perhaps live out here? Alone among the wildlife, free of any jobs or mundane life in the cities. All the gas and fumes would surely get to their heads. Not to mention a headache most of the neighbours would be. A life among mother nature where the only thing that mattered was their own happiness and each other. Perhaps, once in a while they could take a visit to the stream to collect some water. The travel would be long, but the journey to witness the makeup of nature would be incredible.
‘Hey, speaking of Gravity Falls it’s almost time for summer break isn’t it?’
Dipper said excitedly, Mabel turned towards him, his eyebrow raised as an offer. They were both thinking the same thing. Even if their lives weren’t as busy eight years ago, they could afford to make time. The past was calling for them, howling back to the future. They wanted to respond.
With an agreement of visiting the past between them, Dipper wanted the icing on the cake. He silently reached out for Mabel’s hand in a gestured motion. As his fingernails scraped against her skin she was caught off guard and jerked her hand back.
‘Hey what’s the matter?’ Dipper questioned rather worried, everything was going so well up until that sudden moment of suspicious shock.
She seemed to show a paranoid look before whispering to Dipper, ‘look, I want to as well but someone from college might see us. I don’t want this to end so quickly.’
He stopped for a moment, puzzled in his tracks. Mabel ceased and turned around to look at him, their eyes were connected but Dipper wasn’t intentionally looking at her. He scrambled his brain for an answer, there definitely wouldn’t be anyone out here. No one he knows had found this pathway but him. Sure maybe someone from his class might see him but they probably wouldn’t know him personally. They might not be able to tell a sister apart from a girlfriend.
Mabel gave a heavy sigh as he stood silently, a surging tornado of ideas to help his heart flutter once more.
The poor thing, I hate to be like this with him. But I don’t want to get into trouble. I want this to last. I want it to go on every day. It’ll only stop for a while if anyone gets cautious about us. Yeah, I think if we lay down those kinds of plans before they happen, then we’re sure to be safe. In the meantime, I’ll think of a way to make it up to him.
She pulled herself away from the chambers of daydreams and called to Dipper, who immediately woke up from his thoughtful slumber.
‘Look, I’ll make it up to you some other time but right now we gotta be cautious, okay?’ she hoped asking nicely would persuade him to think about the seriousness of it all. As she watched it seemed to melt into his head like a block of butter. It came upon him in a sudden flash, everything that could happen. Everything that could happen if he didn’t take Mabel’s warning seriously. He heaved an incredibly long sigh, it rang of annoyance but also compliance.
‘Alright alright, I’ll uh, I’ll leave it for now.’ he said hesitantly.
She didn’t think it would annoy him this much, maybe it came back to that sentiment again. Perhaps she just wasn’t all that committed. When you love someone you try to please them as much as you can, right? Why wasn’t she doing her job? Love isn’t a one-way street. It takes two to tango as they say. It could be that way, or Dipper just might be o-
‘Mabel? What are you doing?’ Dipper questioned her rather again. It seemed that she had kicked him out of his thoughtful slumber to only take up shop.
He noticed her eyes began to focus, large black pupils spreading out and taking up all the room.
For a moment he saw something in the distance. A ray of colour, orange and yellow combined. They began to swarm together in a whirlwind amid the clouds. A grey would have surely thrown them off balance but it seemed to lighten the effect. A spread of this light affected everything around it, blasting it with waves of abrupt and glistening colours. It erupted among the trees and wildlife, creating a rainbow effect of beauty spreading across a blanket of swarming pessimistic green and honeybee yellow.
It brought an unfamiliar sense of prosperity to him as if he had to accept such a gift no other man would see. A rare sight and something that was rather abnormal for him. He didn’t understand how gazing at colours would bring this absorption of them into his sight. Nevertheless, his mind continued to run on a blank tape. Till the next time, the taped ‘consciousness’ would be played.














