Alright so, the names are pretty biased because they could come from a number of things. So, technically, all of your guesses would be correct. However, what I had in mind when writing their names are:

Quentin, David, Claudette, Kate, and Anna are from Dead By Daylight.

Elias is from The Ancient Magus Bride. The last name Michaelis is from Black Butler. All the other names are random, haha.

November 22nd

'Here come the relatives...'

In an instant, before I could stumble out of the line of children, kids come barreling through the doorway as soon as Mom opens it. "Ack! Agh!" I ungracefully pick up my feet while awkwardly trying to not step on little people since they're shorter than me and they're trying to crawl under my legs.

After Claudette and 'Mary? No, Mary Ann, yeah,' run by, I take a breath but not before getting swooped into a hug by some random adult I've never consciously met in my entire life.

"Oh Macie! Look how big you've grown!" 'Actually I've shrunk, but you don't need to know that, random relative!'

"Hai..." I try to squeeze out but it sounds like Stitch attempting to speak instead. I look to Mabel who stifles a giggle behind her petite hand, mouthing, 'Who?'.

Instead of silently telling me who was hugging me, she instead joins in on the squeezing while happily greeting the strong woman. "Hi, Aunt Emilia! Happy Thanksgiving!"

'Ah, Emilia then... Safe to assume she's super affectionate?' 

A standing by Mom drops her smile when she notices our socially awkward teen brother is nowhere to be found. 'Lucky him...'

"Dipper!"

Emilia finally lets both me and my sister go when Dipper replies comically, "Whaaaaat?"

"Get down here and greet everyone!"

"Whaaaaaat?"

I roll my eyes, thinking of someone from my past.

"I said-!" She sighs, going upstairs. "I'll go get Dipper, you girls go make sure everything's not getting messed up by the kids.

"Kay," Mabel agrees before I could put in my two cents. By this time, I realize only now that we were alone for the entire scream fest since our relatives already made themselves comfy in the living room.

"I don't know if I can do this, Mabes," I wipe my forehead of newly formed sweat, my hands feeling clammy and, 'Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?'

Mabel frowns. "Aw, don't worry, Mace, me and Dip Dop will help, okay? So don't hesitate to ask!"

As we enter the living room, a boy's voice whines out, "Moooom! Claudette's tryna get her grubby little hands in the cookies!" 

I raise an eyebrow for two things. 

1. Who brought cookies and who am I hugging?! 

2. By the tone of Claudette screaming and crying about not getting said cookies, I'm a little more than worried about meeting the Price family now.

"You'll get used to them..." Shooting Star informs me. She gestures to 'Dettie' as everyone calls Claudette, "Dett' is, like, the queen of drama."

"More so than you?" I snip with a giggle. She laughs back.

"But really, she can get...what's the word without being rude?"

'Selfish? A brat? A baby?'

"Spoiled..."

'Ah...great...'

"Oh joy," I roll my eyes but point to the boy who complained to his mom, Keith, Dettie's brother, "What about him?"

"He's twelve but super immature unlike yours truly!" I snort as my sister stands proudly with her hands on her hips.

"So basically we got an annoying twelve year old and a nine year old who expects to get whatever she wants?"

"Ehhh...-" 

"Yup." Dipper comes walking in, Mom passing us to go into the kitchen. He continues, "And that's not all! We also got the cliche teenage girl on her phone, Kate. The only cool cousin here," - we ignore Mabel's disapproval for such insults to our family- "is Quentin."

"Mary-Ann's sweet!" Mabel argues with a huff.

Dipper shrugs, "Yeah, but also quiet so if you wanna talk to her good luck getting her to talk back."

I take all of this in greedily, enjoying the fact that I'll have at least some knowledge before nose-diving into a place of no return that is family.

"And the parents? Emilia and David?" I ask.

Before anyone could answer, the bell rings. And before anyone could answer that, a little girl comes barreling through, almost toppling me and my siblings, all the while squealing her tiny lungs out that, 'she's got it!!!'.

I sigh, already wishing to be alone.

She stupidly opens the door and by open, I mean literally flinging it open so hard it bangs on the wall and literally closes itself again. I look to the twins and see Mabel face-palming while Dipper throws his head back with a sigh. 

'I guess this is Dettie's usual obnoxious behavior...'

"What on earth was that!?" Mom runs in, looking panicked. Without speaking, I just point to the little menace. Mom sighs knowingly- 'Man what the heck did I get myself into!?'- and escorts our cousin out of the way.

I take this as a chance to reopen the front door and smile at Bill and his arrival. "Hey! I'm so glad you guys could make it!" I greet and inspect his 'parents' faces. Their smiles seem forced. Probably when the door slammed in their faces.

That kind of thing tends to ruin first impression.

"Heya, Ring!" Bill waves and then steps inside, gravitating towards the kitchen, "Mmm, smells good!" Annnnd there he goes.

The twins welcome the adults as well and I leave them to do whatever the Pines twins do at Thanksgiving while trying to figure what I wanna do.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: Mingling! I'm not good at it!~~

Anna and Michaelis seem a little too...proper for me. Elias is most definitely British and Anna's super primped up for a family's Thanksgiving get together. Their daughter, Mary-Ann is super cute but like Dipper said, she's also super shy and didn't talk much to me, so I leave her to her own devices and go to meet Quentin.

"Hey," I greet. He looks up from a handheld tablet, his glasses slouched. "Whatcha doin'?"

"Oh," he sits up and pushes his glasses back over his eyes, "Macie! I didn't see you there! Um, I'm just reading a story on my MyPad."

I glance down to look but he blushes and brings it up to his chest. My eyebrow raises in peaked curiosity but he splutters and takes off. 'Okaaay? I'll have to ask the twins about that later...'

"Okay everyone! It's dinner time!" Dad calls from the extended dinner table. The family gathers around. The kids all sit on one end while the adults gather at the other. I have to sit by Claudette. Lucky me.

I lean over and whisper to Bill, "Where have you been? I haven't seen you since you got here!"

"I got mesmerized by food! This solid stuff is great! It never gets old! I can't believe I never gambled with this stuff my entire existence!" I roll my eyes. Typical Bill.

"MOOOM! I want a cookie!" I instinctively cover my ear quickly when Claudette screams into it.

"Not until after dinner, honey," Emilia replies warmly, like her kid didn't just make me deaf in one ear.

"No! I want it now! I want it now! I want it NOW!" She pounds her fist into the table. Mabel slams her head into the table with her ears covered while Dipper sighs and rests his cheek in his hand. Bill looks like he isn't even hearing her.

"How do you do it!?" I ask him. 

"Hm? Oh, I choose not to hear her!" is all he says before going back to serving himself copious amounts of food.

My face goes blank in a 'WTF' moment. 

When she screams again, and I literally flinch while my face contorts in pain and anger, that is when I break. "STOP!" I cry, slamming my hands down onto the table as I stand up, causing everyone to go silent, even Claudette.

"Mace!"

"Macie!"

I ignore the twins and turn to the little gremlin. "Okay? Just stop! Stop screaming in my ear. Stop screaming in general, actually, because you're not getting a cookie!"

The girl blinks, tears forming in her eyes and cries. I roll my eyes, fed up with today.

"Macie!" Mom stands up, looking annoyed. "What has gotten into you today?" The table murmurs.

"N-nothing! I-" I glance around the table, suddenly feeling naked, "-UGH!" and leave upstairs to my shared bedroom, slamming the door accidentally.

My head feels like it's literally going to explode! I have a pounding headache, my stomach is every which way between nausea and pain and I know next to nothing of my supposed family!

"Ahem..." I spin around, finding Dipper and Mabel, plus one former triangular demon now in human boy form standing behind them licking mashed potatoes off a spoon.

"Did I say that out loud?!" 

"Yeah," Mabel smiles forlornly.

"You've been uh..." Dipper gestures to my dresser. I sigh angrily. 

"Yes, Dipper, I've been taking them... What I can't get angry without pills coming up?!"

"Yes! Wait, no- I!"

His splutters crack a smile, "Pfft, never mind, idgit."

"I-idgit...?" We ignore his incoherent muttering as he tries to make sense of the word I called him.

"Mom's worried about you, saying you haven't been yourself today," my sister informs.

"Yeah? Well I've been really stressed, okay?"

"Clearly," Bill chimes in.

"Can-it, Bill!" both twins turn around and cry at the same time. I laugh as they turn back to me.

Sighing, I lay on my bed, staring at the ceiling. "Look, I love living here with you guys and all but...when I made my decision I didn't think about everything else like relatives. I just wanted to be with you guys and the rest of the cast. I'm so dumb to think everything would be like a fairy-tale."

"Well, of course not," Dipper sits beside my thigh, "We understand you probably didn't have a long time to decide." I shake my head. "So of course all this stuff would be overwhelming. But we're here for you all the way through, never forget that. Ford and Stan are a call away. Soos and Wendy, heck even Gideon, are willing to listen."

My bed suddenly dunks in itself, indicating Mabel's presence. "Dip Dop's right!" she bounces, "You can always talk to someone if you're feeling this way! It doesn't have to be us! And we'll always help you when you need it!"

"I knooooooow! You guys are literally the best siblings anyone could ask for!" I cover my eyes with an arm, just wanting to sleep.

"Come on, Mace... come eat dinner." Dipper shakes me gently. I groan and swat at his arm.

"Nooo-ack!" I choke on the air as I feel myself get airborne.

"What the?" Dipper gets up while Mabel and I look to Bill. He smirks, twirling his finger in the air. As he does, I twirl, causing me to scream.

"Ah! Stahp! Bill!" I giggle.

"No can do, Ring! I'm takin' you down to eat! I can hear your stomach." I flush, covering said body part even though I knew it wouldn't help.

Pine Tree and Shooting Star follow, pumping their fists in the air, chanting, "Aiden! Aiden!"

~~Time Skip brought to you by: I bet you can guess my favorite Thanksgiving dish!~~

When we got back down into the kitchen, I was nervous about facing everyone but Bill pushed me. Literally. Surprisingly, everyone was happy I came back and Emilia apologized for her daughter's behavior. 

Thankfully, we finished our meal without anymore incidents. After supper, us kids retired to the living room to play Necronomiconopoly. 

That was doozy of a time, if I do say so myself. Even Bill got frustrated and sighed a huge dramatic sigh of relief when his parents announced their departure.

The rest of the family left soon after, leaving me and my siblings sprawled out on the floor. Mabel's fast asleep when I ask, "Wanna go out back and watch the stars?"

I see him shrug out the corner of my eye and get up. Taking that as a yes, I follow suit. As we lie in the dew sprinkled grass, stars twinkling in the dark sky, I roll over to look at my brother.

He senses my gaze and looks at me questioningly. "Do you ever think of yourself in another world other than your own?"

One of his eyebrows rise, the corner of his lips mimicking the action. "Are you getting all existential on me, Macie?"

I snort, covering my mouth to keep the ugly sound in. "It can be a legit question!"

"Yeah! Maybe because that's exactly what happened to you!" He nudges my shoulder with a laugh. I can't help but punch him back.

"Shut up!" We fall back into a comfortable silence, closing our eyes and breathing in the rain kissed earth.

Without saying anything, I go back inside, ignoring Dipper's whispering words, and come back out with two pillows and a blanket. I lay back down, setting a pillow under his head and spreading the fuzzy comforter over our small bodies.

I hear his breathing even out after only two minutes. As I stare into the sky, I grab hold of my brother's hand and as my eyes close for the rest of the night, a shooting star passes by.

I literally just wrote 2000 words in 1 sitting but I haven't uploaded in months so I guess we're even :3

I love you guys and I'm sorry for being away for so long! I got a job. I still stream on Twitch. I got a Bearded Dragon. His name's Hiccup ;).

There probably won't be another chapter for a long time, so I'm sorry about that but this is mainly a story where I can put my ideas together for a 1-shot like chapter to go along with REBORN :)

(Ideas and motivation don't come often :( )