Gravity Falls: Mabel Reads Twilight - Chapter 1

Dipper was absently flipping through the mysterious book he carried everywhere with him; while eating, while taking a walk, he even went to sleep with it! He halted his thumb to look at the picture of the gnome staring at him with it's hollow eyes, thinking back to the memory of a bunch of gnomes who wanted to marry his jumpy sister. Together, they got away from them and didn't dare to come back again. Ahh, the memories.

This happened 4 weeks ago. And still wasn't out of his mind.

Why did he care? Everytime Mabel had a new boyfriend he felt a small flame of fury inside him. However, it was very small, and maybe couldn't be considered fury. Maybe it was more like wanting to protect his twin sister and he had made sure that if anyone ever lay their hands on her, they wouldn't walk home without a swollen lip.

That was just the active spirit of the classic overprotective sibling he was.

They had went to bed, and Dipper had more than known that Mabel would been reading a magazine of a bunch of hunks or something, while giggling excitedly and going red as a tomato, which would follow with him rolling his eyes. However, this night was different.

She wasn't reading anything of the such. Instead, there was a thick book in her hands, and her expression was that of something else. No blushing, no giggling; just someone who looked entirely engrossed by the book whom couldn't take their eyes of it. The more Dipper watched her through the corner of his eye, trying to hide his spying by burying himself in his book, the more his curiosity grew rapidly.

Then he finally asked, almost exploding by wonder.

"Mabel, what exactly are you reading?" His question came out hoarsely, but he didn't mind.
Mabel didn't reply, nor did she move a muscle, except for when she was turning over the next leaf. Dipper had to repeat her name a bunch of times, louder each time, until she finally caught on.
She turned around and smiled with the braces on her teeth, the bubbly characteristic within her scintillating like the sun on a sunny day.

"Oh, Dipper, did you say something?" She said, bouncing back and forth slightly on her bed.

"I was just wondering what you were reading?" Dipper asked again, slightly taken aback by her reaction, not least the complete turn of the heel expression she gave out.

His twin sister turned over the book, so the back of it was facing her, giving out a dreamy smile. Uh oh. Dipper knew what that smile meant; and he was pretty sure where this was going.

"This? Oh, nothing special." She replied, a faint blush spreading across he cheeks, hugging the book tightly with her sweater sleeves, "It's just a book called 'Twilight'." She ended, finally giggling for the first time this night.

She passed him the book, but as Dipper wasn't prepared for it, it landed straight on his stomach, and gave out a "huff", before quickly recovering and looked at the cover.

"'Twilight: New Moon'?" He said with a voice, and if your listened carefully, it was with disgust. "It's the sequel!" Mabel quickly added, her excitement evident and she pointed at it while lightly bouncing on her bed.

Dipper stated spontaneously. "Oh no, is this part of the series where a corny vampire befriends a plain, boring girl, they fall in love for no stabile reason, and then a lot of silly things happens from that point on, and then they-" Mabel interrupted him, by throwing her pillow in her face with a look of annoyance, earning an "ow!" from her twin.

"Why are you being such a spoiler? I haven't read 'Eclipse' yet!" Easing her anger a little, she was transformed into a girl with a smug look on her face, slyly staring at her sibling. "Have you read the books?" She questioned, tipping her chin with an index finger.

"Oh, no!" Dipper yelled, shaking his head desperately. Who was he kidding? Well, sort of. He hadn't actually read the real thing, just looking up some reviews on the books on the internet, spoiling the events in the series for all he cared.

No, he didn't judge the books like that; he had actually read the first few chapters on the first book, before he wanted to quit immediately. Those books made him feel sick, and he had barely read anything! The writing was plain, repetitive and horrible it made him almost barf. The story had no real plot point or any voltage whatsoever.

Mind you, he had to read something like "Harry Potter" to calm down, because he thought it was pretty terrifying that people were actually confirming that Stephanie Meyer was the new J.K. Rowling. Yet his own twin sister, the closest possible sibling by blood, liked her books??
The brother of the two cleared his throat. "Hrmm. No. No." Unconsciously opening the book without looking in it, still staring at Mabel.

"I've only read the reviews, and I read a few chapters of the first book...maybe...but I thought it was painful, boring and nothing exciting! Yet you still like them?" Dipper said in disrespect; he knew Mabel was boy crazy, but this, this is crossing the line. He knew Mabel was too smart to read garbage like that.

"You wouldn't understand, Doctor Seuss." Mabel growled in his direction, "It's a girl thing. I know the writing is terrible but I actually like it. You know that I've always wanted to date a vampire? Well, in these books I can fantasize about it. Bella is so plain, that I can put myself in her place. I know, it's stupid, but I enjoy that. Very much." Mabel gave off a tooth-wide grin once again towards Dipper.

Dipper sighed; he wasn't a fan of the books, however, if she liked reading it, so be it. Further add, she had already admitted that the writing wasn't top notch.
"Fine." Dipper shrugged, "If you like it so much, then...I won't stop you. Each to their own." He smiled at her, which she returned, as he passed the book back to her, catching is professionally in her hands.

Mabel kept on smiling, "You know, it's not so bad having a dorky brother."
"The same goes to having a dorky sister."
"Girls mature faster, so I can't be."
"To me you are."
"Whatever."

She faced off, planning an evil plan in her head, to Dipper's oblivion. He raised an eyebrow as he stared at her sister's back, wondering what she was doing. Then faster than he was prepared to, he felt something fluffy hit his face hard. Mabel laughed hard, putting her hands on her stomach.
She had thrown a pillow at him. Dipper smiled evilly after recovering from the hit, "You want to fight? How about..." He jumped off his bed, and smashed the pillow in her face, "THIS!" While he heard the energic laughter behind the pillow, he ran over to the helpless sister, and began to straddle her. She removed the pillow to glare playfully at him.

"I hate you." She smiled.
"Likewise."

She took the same pillow she had removed and shoved it in his face. Then the fight went on. And on, with lots of laughter, chasing and pillow hitting. And never stopped until Grunkle Stan came up, finding them wrestling on the floor, and yelling at them to keep quiet, otherwise they wouldn't earn their monthly allowance.