I 'll Be Fine Without Me

"Are you sure you 'll be fine without me?" Mabel asked, twiddling her thumbs nervously as she sat on her bed in the room she shared with her brother in the Mystery Shack. Mabel was getting ready to leave to go hang out with Candy and Grenda, but felt a bit odd leaving a sick Dipper all by himself with nothing to do. Dipper gave her a small nod, but coughed. "I 'll be fine, alright? If I need anything I 'll ask Soos, okay?" Dipper smiled, his voice cracked awkwardly even more than usual because he was congested. Mabel tried her best to return the smile. She grabbed her pink backpack, and before putting it on she shoved a nearby glittery notebook into her backpack. "If I see anything weird, I 'll record t for you, okay?" Mabel decided, …show more content…

Well Dipper hasn 't actually been very vocal about it as usual, as he had been sick for the past four days, and they 've only been back in Gravity Falls for two weeks. Dipper had claimed he had 'just allergies ', but Mabel felt that hard to believe, she was certain there was something very wrong with him, the two usually got their allergies at the same time. But ultimately, Mabel trusted her brother 's intuition but still felt unsure about it being 'just allergies '. She was probably just being paranoid, one might say she was acting like a Dipper. Mabel tossed those thoughts aside and continued to make her way to Greasy 's Diner to meet up with her friends, and she felt her phone buzz in her skirt pocket. She brought it out, and noticed she received a text from Grenda. She opened up the message, and read: HEY GURL WHERE ARE YOU ME N CANDY R WAITING FOR U AT GREASY 'S! ;( Mabel found herself grinning as she read the text, and began to type her response as she walked. Don 't worry I 'm almost there I was just making sure dipdop was okay ;) c u there! She clicked send, and by the time she finished doing that she was outside of Greasy 's Diner. She could see Grenda and Candy chatting at a booth from outside, and walked into Greasy 's and over to her friends ' booth. "Hey girls!" Mabel genuinely smiled, happy to see her friends after not seeing them ever since the end of last summer, aside from occasional photos they would send each other via instant