The twins were drifting apart. Dipper was working more with Soos outside and Mabel was working primarily inside with Wendy and others. Soos and Wendy were only there during the day, and Stan was too caught up in making money and doing nothing in particular to notice. Though the siblings seemed to be drifting apart physically, mentally they were more curious than ever about one another. "I wonder how Mabel enjoys being better than me..." Dipper mentally pouted. He watched through the window as Mabel did chores around the Shack. Soos had been out that day, so Dipper was left to do things on his own. There wasn't much to do outside, but Dipper stayed out there most of the day, just to stay away from Mabel. He still believed she was trying to out- do him, for some personal gain. On the other end of the spectrum, Mabel was enjoying herself. She had caught up the chores at the Shack and had some spare time. She decided to go help her brother, who she was unaware of the subject of his hatred. He saw her coming, and quickly hid behind a trash can. "What would she want?!" Dipper asked himself. "Dip?" Mabel called out, she swore she saw him a second ago. "What?! What do you want?" Dipper snapped, jumping up from his hiding place. Mabel froze, she wasn't expecting this. "I was, just, wondering... if I could help you with some stuff out here?" Mabel said nervously, she wasn't sure why her brother had snapped at her this way. "Seems like you have plenty to do inside," Dipper snarled, he was in a sort of trance, overtaken by emotions. At this moment Mabel's thoughts snapped together. She remembered thinking of the possibility of him thinking she was trying to be better than him. "Dipper, do you think i'm trying to be better than you? Because i'm not, i'm just tired of being called silly and immature, i'm trying to be more responsible." Mabel perked up, making herself look taller. Dipper's thoughts then snapped. He understood, he suddenly felt very stupid for thinking what he did. Dipper didn't know what to say, he and Mabel just stood and stared. Mabel remembered when Dipper had killed the town murderer just some weeks ago, she thought maybe he was coping with that. She couldn't believe he had done such a thing, her own brother killing someone to save her? Dipper was the opposite, he had forgotten about the murderer incident. He had known of this killer being in the woods, but never thought he would cross paths with it. At the time he had sharp feelings of emotion, he wouldn't have this killer touching his sister, so he did what he felt was right. After all, Dipper was only doing to the killer as the killer had done to many others. Over the next few weeks he had believed Mabel was trying to be better than him for some imminent personal gain, he didn't know why he had thought this though. The twins were having a lot of thoughts. The weren't aware of where they were, or that they were staring at each other. It was a curious happening, these two knew a lot about each other, but were having false accusations as to why the other was doing what they were. "Hey! What are you two doing?" This caused a great jump amongst the twins, their Gruncle Stan interrupting their stare. "You've got work to do, come in here," Stan yelled from several meters away. The twins dropped everything, no more thoughts. They forgot and forgave each other, and went inside to do whatever it was they were needed.