The man nodded. "Ahh I see. And what will you guys be doing this fine night?"
"Oh we're going to a haunted house." Dipper said smiling.
The man frowned and looked away towards the ground. Noticing this, Mabel turned her head back at him. "Are you okay?"
The man shook his head taking his cap off brushing the top of his hair with his hand. "If I were you guys, I'll be staying away from that haunted house. There's nothing there, but trouble." He sighed placing his cap back on. "Take my warning and don't go there. They don't take kindly to trespassers." The man turned, flipped the sign to close, and entered the convenience store locking it behind him.
Mabel stared at the place the man had just stood at and turned back towards Dipper who also looked confused. Just as she was about to talk to Dipper about what the man said, a loud roar from an engine could be heard from the distance. Mabel turned to see a van coming towards them with it's headlights glowing dimly. It stopped near them and the front door opened with Robbie coming out of it waving at the kids. "Hey Kids!"
"Hi G!" Dipper said smiling as he waved at Robbie.
As Dipper waved at him, the other doors opened with more teens walking out. Three of them were male while the other two were female. The all stood in front of Mabel and Dipper looking down at them. Mabel couldn't help but shake in fright. Even though they were teens, they still intimidated her.
Robbie walked over to the twins and introduced them to the teens. "Guys, this is Mabel and Dipper, my boss's great niece and nephew."
He then pointed to one of the males who wore an orange shirt with a design of a hand giving a thumbs up on it. "Mabel kid and Dipkid, this guy is Lee." Robbie then pointed to the next male teen standing next to Lee who was wearing a black shirt with a skull on it and a hat. "Next to him is Nate." Next to Nate, a chubby boy wearing a light green shirt smiled nervously. Robbie pointed at him. "And that guy right there is Thompson."
One of the girls standing next to the boys crossed her arms and in a rude tone, said, "and what about us Robbie?"
Robbie smiled not even taking notice of the girl's rude tone and pointed towards her and the other girl standing next her who was too busy texting on her phone to even notice. "Oh and that's Wendy and Tambry." He turned back towards the twins placing his right hand on his waist. "And that's all of us. So are you ready to go?"
Mabel looked back at the convenience store now remembering what the man had told her and Dipper. Even though it was obvious he was against them going, she couldn't help but wanting to dismiss it. If she acted frightened in front of Robbie's friends, it would cause them to treat her like a kid. And she had already told Robbie she and Dipper were twins. What would he think of her if he knew she lied to him.
Making up her mind, Mabel turned back at the teens and Robbie and nodded. "Yes, we're ready."
Robbie smiled and he walked back to the van with the other teens. Robbie and Thompson went to the front of the van and entered the driver's and passenger's side doors while the others went to the back entering it. Feeling shy, Mabel awkwardly entered the van with Dipper to the back seat of the van. She sat down with Dipper who was taking in his surroundings excitedly.
Thompson put on his seat belt and entered his key to his ignition causing it to start and make it roar to life. He turned back looking nervous. "Uh just to let you guys know, my Mom doesn't want you guys to punch her van's roof anymore."
All the teens stared at Thompson for a few seconds before balling their hands into fists and punching the van's roof. "Thompson! Thompson! Thompson!" They all began to say in cheers although Mabel could pick out that Wendy was saying it in a dead tone.
Thompson sighed and placed his hands on the wheel and backed out of The 2 Dawn's parking lot. He turned the van and pressed his foot on the gas peddle making it move towards the forest. As the van moved bumping over peddles over the road, Mabel took out the third journal and a black sharpie. She opened the journal to a page about ghosts and began reading it with no idea that she was beginning to chew on the cap of her sharpie.
"Whatcha doing Mabster?"
Mabel looked up to see Dipper who was leaning close to her looking at the page of the information about ghosts. She placed her sharpie down on the journal frowning. "Just looking at some things," she said looking away at the window. She wanted to be prepared. Rumor or not, if the house really was haunted, she had to have the mindset that she couldn't be afraid. After all, she couldn't let Robbie see her acting like a kid. She had to act like a teen.
