I'm back!! Sorry it's taking me so long to update. I'm having a lot of trouble with school and with my house almost burning down, and me getting grounded from my phone for a day in a half. But it's fine, I'm here. I woke up at 3:14am and I was just in the mood to write. Not going to publish it till night though. Let's get on with the story. I hope you enjoy.

Dipper

   Stan, Ford, Wendy, Mabel, and I had taken Stans car to get home, everyone else had said good bye to us or told us that they would come by later.

  "So, how was your, trip sailing around the world" Mabel asked, wanting to hear every single detail.

   "Amazing kid, I got to kick all kinds of evil mutant ass" Stan said, never taking his eyes off the road.

   "Grunkle Stan!" Mabel exclaimed.

  "What?!" Grunkle Stan asked.

  "That is a bad word! You shouldn't cuss in front of your niece and nephew!" She told him.

   Excuse me.

   "Hey! This is how I see it, your over the age of 16, your old enough to hear me cuss" Stan explained.

   "Besides Mabel, your cussing is much worse than that" I told her. I didn't even try to hide the cockines in my voice.

  "Mabel Alexia Pines! Your not allowed to cuss" Stan said.

   "Excuse me, what about you saying I'm old enough?" She asked.

   "I said you were old enough to hear it not say it" Stan said, laughing a bit.

   Mabel laughed also.

  "I could be Dipper, he refuses to cuss, says it's bad for your mind" Mabel told him, I blushed.

   "Technically it is" Grunkle Ford said, looking back at us.

  "Even though it does relieve stress, it is proven that these cuss words and horrible things are all going into the new to rap music and it's bad for kids, making them revolt against authority when it's unneeded" Grunkle Ford explained.

  (Note: I am not sure if this is an actual scientific fact, so please don't take it seriously, could be true, could be false)

   "Poindexter, could you quit being smart for one minute, your ruining the mood" Stan said, at the same time Mabel and I have each other weird looks, then laughed.

   "We're here" Stan said after we were done laughing, pulling up to the shack.

    Looks the same as it did when we left... I love it.

    Everyone hopped out of the car, Mabel and I raced to the door.

   As we got to the door, it opened up, reviling a very happy Soos. Mabel and I stopped in our tracks.

   It was obviously Soos, it's just... He looked... Different.

   He lost some weight.... A lot of weight. His hair was long, his skin was tan. And he looked like he had been exercising. Basically, he looked like a hunk.

  "Soos?" Mabel and I said at the same time, sounding baffled.

  "Hey dudes!" Yeah, thats Soos.

  Mabel and I stood for a second, shocked, that we jumped. Pulling him into a hug.

  "Soos! We missed you" Mabel shouted.

  "I missed you too dudes! Hey, you two dudes look... Different" he said, pulling back from the hug.

  "Okay, okay. Enough talking, Letts get them inside so they can get settled so you can give them their surprise. And so I can put this stuff down. What do you have in here kid!?" Grunkle Stan said.

  "Don't look at me, those are Mabel's bags" I said, before walking g inside, Wendy and Ford followed.

  I stopped once I was inside, and took a good look around, while Wendy took one of me bags in my room and Ford stood beside me.

  Never changed I though, satisfied.

   I felt a hand come down on my shoulder.

  "Come with me, I have something to show you" Ford said, before walking through the shack.

   I looked at him confused, but followed.

  We went through the shack until we stopped in front of the machine that led to Ford's underground lab.

   Ford typed in the password then stepped back, letting the machine move out of the way then walked in.

   I followed.

   We walked down the stairs and then into Ford's lab. Ford walked over to his working desk and pulled something out on a drawer, turning to face me. It was a small box.

  "... What is this?" I asked.

  "Open it" he said, handing the box to me.

   I took the box, still completely confused, before setting it on an lab table.

  I opened the box quickly, wanting to know what it is.

   I pulled back the lid and saw... A book.

  It was t just any book, it was an old, brown looking book, with a cut our of a golden six fingered hand, with the number 3 on it.

  My eyes widened. I looked up at Ford.

   "How?" I asked, shocked.

   "Apparently, before I came back from being stuck in between dimensions, Stanley made a copy of book 3 before giving it back to you" Ford explained.

  (NOTE:

I feel like I am about one of the only people who remembered that in one of the episodes, it quickly showed Stan making a copy of the third journal before giving it back to Dipper. I'm sorry, I couldn't help but pint that out)

   "Really!! That's amazing!!" I exclaimed, grabbing the journal and hugging it to my chest.

  "Thank you!!" I said, hugging Fand saw... A book.

It was t just any book, it was an old, brown looking book, with a cut our of a golden six fingered hand, with the number 3 on it.

My eyes widened. I looked up at Ford.

"How?" I asked, shocked.

"Apparently, before I came back from being stuck in between dimensions, Stanley made a copy of book 3 before giving it back to you" Ford explained.

(NOTE:

I feel like I am about one of the only people who remembered that in one of the episodes, it quickly showed Stan making a copy of the third journal before giving it back to Dipper. I'm sorry, I couldn't help but pint that out)

"Really!! That's amazing!!" I exclaimed, grabbing the journal and hugging it to my chest.

"Thank you!!" I said, hugging Ford.

"Haha, don't mention it. I also got you a journal of your own, to record stuff in. It's in your room" Ford said.

I jumped back.

"Really!!" I practically shouted. He nodded.

I immediately ran back up the stairs and up to my room.

I bursted through the door only to see Wendy putting Mabel's stuff down.

She jumped.

"Oh! Dipper! You scared me!! You seem excited" she said. I nodded really fast.

"Yep! Grunkle Ford just gave me the best gift ever" I said, looking around the room.

I spotted a blue journal on my bed with a PineTree on it and a number one.

I let out a manly squeal before grabbing it, and hugging it just like I did journal 3.

(Yes, manly, because men let out manly squeals)

"Wow, you sound like Mabel" Wendy said, laughing a little.

I immediately stopped what I was doing, and cleared my throat.

"Soooo... What have you been doing these past years?" I asked, trying to be less awkward.

"Haha, oh you know, vandalising buildings, hanging out in the cemetery, trying to get into college, when were you going to tell me that you're gay" Wendy said, trying to sound calm at the end of her sentence, but failed.

My eyes widened.

"Wh- I- ho- how did you-" I was so shocked by that comment I could hardly speak.

"Oh please, I know a gay person when I see one. No matter how hard they are to spot" Wendy said.

"I- I just- I- I..." I trailed off, trying to figure out what to say.

"Wow!! Dude!! Why are you crying?! You don't need to cry!! Its okay!!" Wendy exclaimed, coming over to me, putting her hands on my shoulders.

I'm crying?

I reached up to touch my cheek, which actually was wet from my tears.

I'm... Crying.

Just then I realized what I was crying about, and the realization made me cry harder.

I wrapped my arms around Wendy, hugging her, crying into her chest. She hugged back immidietly.

"Why are you crying Dipper? It's okay! I'm not mad or disgusted, if that's what your thinking. I was only teasing" she said.

I cried harder.

"I- it's no- not that" I chocked out.

"Then what is it?" Wendy asked. Her voice sounded like a mother trying to sooth her child at this point.

"It's just... Whe- when some of-f my friends foun- nd out I liked guys, they-they told me I was dis-disgusting and should burn in hell!" I yelled that last part, crying harder.

I couldn't help it. When Wendy asked me that, it reminded me of them.

I cried about it a lot back then, then meaning in 10th grade. They bullied me and picked on me about it. One time they even had a guy pretend to like me just to break my heart later.

That's when Carly, Tobias, River, and Carol noticed and stood up for me, thats when we became friends, and a band.

They also taught me how to defend and stand up for myself. As soon as I stood up to the idiots torched me, which involved throwing some fist too, they finnaly left me alone. They just gave me dirty looks in the halls.

"Oh my gosh! Dipper, I'm so sorry!" Wendy said.

I pulled away from her, and wiped away my tears.

"It's okay, it's not your fault. I don't know why I got so upset" I said, even though I really do know the reason why.

".... Is it because your afraid your Grunkles will disown you?" Wendy asked. My eyes widened

"I- how- okay, you need to stop knowing things!!" I shouted. She laughed.

"Sorry if I'm smart... You know, it's okay to be scared, that's apart of life. And if they disown you screw them, you can live with me and we can talk about our ex's and how much the suck" Wendy teased. We bursted out laughing.

"Well, I gotta go help Soos with the surprise" she says before speeding to the door.

"What's the surprise?" I asked, hoping she would tell me.

"You'll just have to wait and see" she practically sang.

"Why don't you get some sleep while you wait, you cried a lot" she said before leaving.

"... She's right" I said to myself, before putting the two journals on the stand in between Mabel and my bed.

I crawled under my sheets and closed my eyes, letting myself fall into a