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September 10th 2012

"You sure you know what you're doing?" I ask my brother with amusement.

Without taking his eyes off my laptop, Dipper replies sternly, "Yes."

"Ooookaaaayy~" I sing-song and step out of my room.

Right now Dipper is playing some more Undertale on my laptop. Mabel's downstairs working on her scrapbook and I'm just wandering around, bored. 'I guess I can go on my computer...'

I stop on the stairs and spin to make my way back up, when a voice stops me. "Macie, Dipper, can you come here for a minute?" 'It's dad!'

Before I can even move, I hear the click of my laptop lid closing and the shutting of a door. Dipper runs past me, but not with fear or anything, but with excitement and giddiness.

Blinking, I go into the kitchen where our parents are standing against the counter, the twins are in their seats as well. All eyes are on me as I walk in and take my seat, which I do not like at all.

"Kids," Mom starts, putting her hands together, "we just got your school schedules!" As if on cue, which it probably was, Dad pulls a few pages of paper out from behind him.

"Yes, I knew it! What do I got?!" Dipper reaches desperately for his schedule. I look on with utter confusion, while Mabel seems neutral.

Smiling, Dad hands us each our schedules. Before I scan it, I ask, "What grade are we going in again?" Mabel covers her lips as she horribly stifles a snort. The adults in front of us look at me in confusion.

"Uh- Macie! Hah, so funny!" Dipper starts laughing horribly awkwardly, patting my shoulder. Seeing my genuine gaze, I think he realized that I'm not kidding about my question. "She's- she's joking, obviously!" He smiles to our parents, then emphasizes, "She knows we're going into the eighth grade, right, Macie?" 

"R-right, sorry, I was trying to make a joke..." I put my head down, but raise it when Mom and Dad start chuckling.

"Mace, you're such a kidder." Mom shakes her head. I fake a grin.

"Anyway, those are your schedules for this year. If you want to change some classes you'd have to talk to the principal. Or we do...?" Mom looks to Dad.

"Yeah, just tell us and we'll get it situated for you three," he says, crossing his arms with a smile.

"Thanks Dad! Let's go, guys!" Mabel quickly drags me and Dipper away.

After we get upstairs, into my room, and Mabel shuts the door, we sit on the floor in a circle and lay our papers down. "Macie, how long were you in school?" Dipper asks.

I scoff, "Wait, you think I'm graduated? I said I was sixteen, not eighteen! I was in tenth grade, thank you very much."

"Right. Sorry." An awkward silence ensues until the boy coughs into his fist. "Anyway, I've always had mostly advanced classes, so I don't know if I'll be in the same class as you two."

"Wait, what? No, I don't want to go at all if I'm not in the same classes!" I exclaim in genuine fear. "I was home schooled since fifth grade. I can't just go back to middle school!" 

"Mace, calm down! You'll be in some classes with me, I know it!" Mabel tries at reassuring me. 'It's not helping as much as I wish it would!'

"Yeah, Macie, let's see here." Dipper picks up my piece of paper, his eyes going back and forth while reading. Then, grabbing Mabel's page, he compares. "Okay, says here you guys have all of the same classes!" I release a humongous sigh of relief, falling back onto the carpeted floor.

"Yaaaay! What classes do we have?" Mabel asks the question I was thinking.

"Uh..." I sit back up. "Art, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, P.E," Dipper lists them all off.

"Do you have any with us?" I ask.

"Yeah, I got P.E and Language Arts plus lunch, but everyone has that together... Oh, yes!" Dipper suddenly bursts with extra excitement. 

I lean over to peer at his paper with a huff, "What?"

"I got in the advanced courses! Advanced Math and Science!" No one says anything. "Oh come on, guys! This is a big deal! Mabel, you know how hard I worked last year to get into them!"

"He's right." Mabel jabs a thumb to him, but looking at me. "He did work really hard. But hey, at least we got in the same classes!"

"Yeah..." Something catches my eye. "Wait a minute..." I pick up Mabel's schedule. "Dude! This says Mabel has Health Science, not Science!" I throw the page down in defeat.

Looking like he got caught, which he most definitely did, Dipper avoids eye contact and rubs the nape of his neck. "Uhhhh...Sorry?"

"Sorry? So you knew?" He nods. "Unbelievable. Why would you make me think we got all the same classes?" Mabel nods, glaring at our brother with me.

"I just- I didn't want you to get upset!" he defends quickly.

"Well, too late! I'm already upset! Wanna tell me why you didn't want to tell me?"

"Well- it's...if you knew you would have switched classes! And I didn't want that to happen, because in Health Science, Aliya's in that class!" 

Mabel gasps dramatically.

"Wait, what!?" I shake my head with anger and confusion.

"Well, ever since first grade, Aliya's practically been your enemy," Mabel says. "She was super nice with me and everything but whenever I wanted to do something with you, she'd get super mean! So I cut her off and now she hates you even more."

"Aliya? Okay, this sounds exactly like my old life." 'A girl named Aliya hated me in first grade because I hung out with MY best friend all the time when she wanted to.'

"Really? Like the name and everything?!" Dipper asks incredulously.

"Yup. The name. The grade. The reason. UGH! Why me!?" I fall back again. Mabel crawls over and pats my stomach reassuringly. "Thanks for trying to protect me, Dipper..."

"Well of course! I hate her, too!" Clenching his fist, Dipper looks to be thinking of something...devious? *Shivers*

"Ugh, so that means I'm gonna have to be in the same class!" Flopping onto the floor right next to me, Mabel groans.

"Unfortunately. But don't worry, we'll deal with her. We've always dealt with her. Together." I sit up, Mabel does as well, grinning, and we all fist bump together.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: "Ready to head into the unknown?" 

"Nope. Let's do it"~~

"Do we have tooooooooo?" Mabel whines from the house all the way to the store. 'Girl got lungs of steel!'

"Mabel! It's important to get the right supplies for the new school year. Macie, help me out, yeah?" I sit on the right side of the car, staring out the window, that is until my name was said, so I look to the boy in the middle seat. 

Glancing at the driver, our dad, I cover my mouth and speak in a hushed tone, "My dad was a teacher, so we had an enormous surplus of school supplies, so I never really had to do any shopping. Not to mention I was home schooled since fifth grade!"

"Well...that wasn't the help I was expecting..." Mabel blows a raspberry into the male's face, who then splutters and hastily wipes his features with his bare arm, "Agh, Mabel! Stop!"

"Haha," I return to staring out the window.

We pull up to Workplace Warehouse. 'Office...Depot...?' Getting out of the car, I fix my shirt and sling my bag on my shoulder. "Alright, kids," Dad speaks once we enter the building. "Go gather all the necessary supplies you need this year. I'm gonna go get what I need." Nodding, we head off the other direction together.

"Think the'll have any puffy stickers I can trade around for this time around?!" Mabel gushes all about her sticker collection.

"They didn't last year, they won't this year." Dipper's smirk falls instantly when Mabel jumps in the air, puts her hand on her cheek and yells.

"OMG PUFFY STICKERS!!" running over and grabbing a bunch of packages. The male triplet throw his arms up, scoffing.

"I don't believe it..." 

I chuckle and smack him. "Oh believe it, bro." 

"Guys, guys! Look at all these puffy stickers!" Our over-hyper sister ecstatically shoves plastic packages of adhesive abominations into both of our faces.

"Mabel!" Dipper shoves them away, then turns to me. "Macie, you know what you gotta get, right?" I shake my head no and he sighs, "Here," Dipper hands me a paper, "this has a list of everything you need. Go with Mabel to make sure she gets them, too."

"Kay." I grab Mabel's hand and drag her away.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: If you were a school supply what would you be? I'd be paper because people just use me and throw me away :D~~

I had to go back to the front of the store to grab a basket to carry all of these supplies and by the time we're done, it's overflowing with stickers! Not to mention the smelly markers, cutesy erasers; basically school stuff that you don't necessarily need.

"Mabel, little help..!" I struggle to keep the basket in my arms. 'Why is this so heavy!?'

"Oooh!" I peer behind me and see my sister gushing about something else.

"MABEL!" She startles, forms an 'O' shape with her lips and then smiles, skipping up to me and lifting the basket. I thought she was gonna take the entire thing but all she did was elevate it into my arms better and then leave me again. "Seriously!?"

'I pity Dipper if this is what he had to go through...'

"Hey, you done?" A new voice joins.

"Oh thank goodness!" I breathe, throwing the basket to the ground. Dipper winces from the loud effect. "Please, please stop her!" I beg. He looks behind me and chuckles.

"Alright, alright... Dad's up front, take what you got up there and he'll finish checking out."

"Oh?" I tilt my head, bending down and opting to pick up this stupid thing again, myself. "You're already done?"

"Yeah. Dad, too. Just waiting on you both." After that, Dipper leaves me to my struggles. And boy did I struggle! Half way to the registers, I realize I could just drag the darn basket!

After doing so, Dad grabs the handle and picks it up with ease. 'The chicken is NOT amused...'

"Daaaaaaaaaaad!" Mabel comes running up and into the large man's legs, startling us both.

"Mabel! Quiet, this is a store!" he scolds, patting her head as she looks up to him. Dipper walks up behind me, a scowl on his face as he avoids eye contact.

"Dad, Dipper won't let me add anymore stuff to the basket!" I see Dipper roll his eyes at Mabel's whines.

Sighing, Dad looks to Dipper, who then gives a strict shake of the head, so he says, "Honey, you've already got so much." She starts tearing up. 

"Boi..." I mumble under my breath.

"Tell you what, if you run out of everything, I'll get you more, kay?" he compromises with the little bugger I call a triplet.

"Okay, thanks Dad!" Giggling because she won, Mabel shoots off with the keys, presumably to the car.

"That girl..." Dad sighs, shaking his head and going to pay. "You two, go with her would ya?" Nodding, Dipper and I take off together.

"Welp, that was a waste of my day." I lean back into the leather car seat after we get in.

"What? Nuh uh! It was awesome!" Mabel retorts with stars in her eyes.

"Waste of my day, Mabel. Not a waste of your day." I roll my eyes.

"It's okay, we won't have to do this again!" Dipper successfully cheers me up a bit. Well he did, until he opened his mouth again, "Well at least not until next year..." I slam a fist on his thigh roughly. "Ow!" he whines, rubbing his bruised leg.

"Ready, kids?" We instantly freeze in place when Dad opens his door and gets in. 'Aye, aye, Captain!' (Sorry, couldn't be helped.)

"Yup!" Mabel smiles and says.

"Sorta..." Dipper wheezes in pain. In the rear-view mirror, Dad quirks an eyebrow back at us.

"Ignore him..." I wave him off and he shrugs, starting the car.

~~Time Skip~~

~~Diary Entry~~

9-10-12

Today we got our school schedule. I learned that I have an enemy by the same name from when I was in first grade... Great. I'm really not looking forward to going to public school...or school in general. I'm gonna have to redo the 8th grade! We also went school shopping in this world's equivalence to Office Depot. Mabel was a handful to deal with, though. Oh well. When you're a triplet with these twins, you're in for a ride!

Macie Pines~~

I have been so FREAKING busy lately it's not funny ;;

But I don't have a schedule for this story so updates will be whenever.

Does anybody get the 'The chicken is NOT amused.' reference?

Not much going on here, so shorter chapter. It took a while to make it at least 2000 words DX

Oh I love all of your suggestions! But a lot of them are scheduled for later in the season, like the Halloween one. You guys got anything that could be in the next couple weeks before school starts or anything? THANKS!