Things were starting to get slightly odd. Not that Wirt bothered that much, but having Dipper entering, leaving, remaining silent in the apartment for hours without saying a thing, was at least disturbing.

Before the other boy getting absurdly paranoid about what happened on that summer, and what was the truth behind his nightmares, they used to have silly conversations, or talk about how insecure they were about specific things on them, perhaps even things they hated on others.

After everything, the conversations became, when they did happen, all connected to mystery, past, nightmares, and pretty much any creepy thing that Dipper believed could possibly explain something. Not that Wirt liked his friend any less, but he could say he liked the interactions better when they were, well, normal.

"Uh... Dipper, are you there?" Wirt asked, leaning against the wall. He waited for a few seconds, and when he was close enough to believe no one was there, until he heard somebody clearly tripping over whatever was on the floor. "Great, just great. You're ignoring me now?"

"No, I... I'm not ignoring you, I swear. I just need to think about this"

"Yes, I know. That's what you've been doing for the past two weeks. It's actually all you've been doing"

"Do you want me to apologize?"

"You've got to be joking," Wirt mumbled to himself, "I don't want you to apologize, what the hell do you think I am?"

"Then what exactly do you want?"

"Can you stop being so paranoid about it? Maybe take a break?"

"Do you understand what's going on here? I am so close to finding some actual answer, and"

"You said that one week ago!" Wirt interrupted without even caring anymore. As a matter of fact, he couldn't quite remember why he was even caring at first place. If his weird neighbor wanted to go crazy because of his paranoid imagination, Wirt had nothing to do with it, and he surely shouldn't be the one to tell the other "take a break", yet, he somehow did care.

"I think I should go to Gravity Falls," he slowly said, "Maybe that will help"

"Maybe it won't"

"Yeah, you don't know about it. Look, you had your weird nightmares, too, didn't you?"

"Everyone did"

"But those were different, and I don't get how you can just sit down and live without knowing the meaning behind it"

"You're going insane," Wirt sighed. "So, you're going to Gravity Falls? To find the meaning behind your weird dreams? What if you find something you want to forget about?"

"What?"

"What if your mind erased it, or is showing whatever it is by nightmares, because you wanted to forget it?"

"Why would I want to forget any of that? That's not who I am"

"How do you know? Maybe it was so terrible you wanted to forget. Maybe you made yourself forget. What do you do if that's the truth? If you discover you didn't want yourself to remember what happened that summer, and erased it from your mind?" 

"Then explain the nightmares," Dipper replied, in a tone of voice that was meant to be agressive, though it sounded as if he was interested on that option, as being something he hadn't consider. He truly was. 

"Maybe it is impossible for a human's mind to fully erase a memory. Even if you burry it down deep in your brain, it still there, right? You'd remember one day. Maybe the way of remembering your brain found, and the most convincing one was the nightmares. Maybe a part of you is trying to push that memory back" 

"So... Like if a part of me didn't want to forget?" 

"Exactly," Wirt kept on talking, not even realizing he was putting himself too deep into that mess. 

"But, if I did choose to forget, then why would a part of me refuse to?" 

"Maybe there's something we're missing... There has to be something we're missing here, right? I mean, we're making your theory that it was all real basically the truth in this matter, and if we consider that, then we're missing something" 

"Keep on talking, I think I have an idea" 

"You do?" 

"I hope I'm wrong" 

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I think I'm going somewhere with this fanfic. I just changed the plans to the end, and this might be longer than my fanfics usually are. Do you guys have any theory yet? Is anyone even reading this? *laughs nervously* seriously, give me some feedback!