Parapluie

"And now if you turn to page 421," Mr. Chezie announced to the class, which was looking short. Short two people, two very important people. But those very important people were not there, and so their acknowledgement in the classroom is unimportant. Instead, those very important people weren't in Nevada, or California, or even Idaho! They were in a place, that some may know as… The Twilight Zone.

Perhaps not exactly the sci-fi show that people who don't have lives have grown to love, but the two important girls, now they have genders, were located in a world very few could admit they had been to. A world that surpassed the glass of a box, and very literally. A world where you needed to slip past the hard barrier between you and the pixels of a television, and check yourself into the world that is different then your own – the world, of the television…

Darlene sighed, sitting on a bench near her friend. "There's nothing to do, I'm bored."

"Yeah, I am too…" Her friend, Lorelei, replied, pulling her magically appearing bookbag to her side. "Any suggestions?"

"Nope." Darlene sighed once again, having done this already once before. Lorelei pulled out a notebook, opening it to a random page. "Well, we could… Torment Zim," You see, they were in the world of Invader Zim, "Annoy Dib, hurt people, scream randomly, dance in an intersection like the PCD, talk about random subjects that involve Jhonen, watch the new years eve party with My Chemical Romance," Lorelei paused once again to make a small, involuntary squealy noise, "Or…"

"Or?" Darlene asked, obviously uninterested by the already exhausted topics of choice, "Anything new?"

"We could…" Lorelei turned the page, examined it, then turned to the back of the booklet, "Chop off Dib's scythe…"

Darlene's face turned into a mischievous grin as she took the book from her friend, "Is that seriously in here?" She asked, reading the page. It was seriously in there.

"That'd be awesome!" She said, jumping up from the bench in triumph, now having something to do.

"We need scissors, and it has to be night time…" Lorelei pointed out, being the one to plan, and not be spontaneous at all. She pointed to the horizon, however, indicating that it would soon be about time for Mysterious Mysteries to come on. "He'll be in bed soon, we can do it then."

"Sounds good, but then we'll have to wait…" Darlene didn't seem to happy with the idea of waiting, though Lorelei shrugged it off by standing up and fumbling through her bookbag, muttering something along the lines of 'I know I keep something sharp in here somewhere…'

Darlene, meanwhile, had started waking toward Dib's house, Lorelei in tow – still trying to find a sharp object in her bookbag. "So how long do you think it takes for him to get to bed?" Darlene asked, curious.

"And you shouldn't know," Lorelei snickered briefly, only silencing after Darlene shot her a death glare. Darlene had started up an unusual liking for Dib, and Lorelei, being herself, wouldn't act hurt about it. So instead she made jokes. "Honestly, I don't know myself." She added shortly afterwards, looking at the houses down the block.

Eventually they found Dib's, and walked straight in – not bothering to knock, or ring a doorbell, but instead they just barged in defiantly. Darlene was very proud of this. Dib was seated on the couch, watching TV – Mysterious Mysteries to be exact.

"Oh hey!" He greeted happily, smiling, "You're just in time for Mysterious Mysteries, this one is about Bigfoot and…" He was cut off by Darlene, who just sat by him abruptly, Lorelei seating herself on Darlene's other side.

Mysterious Mysteries went by for a while, before Lorelei placed her bookbag on the couch, getting up and walking toward the kitchen. "Got any food?" She yelled out, not bothering to turn around. "I'm hungry."

"Me too," Darlene realized after Lorelei had pointed out, finally coming to terms with the fact that she hadn't eaten in a while. "Got anything vegan? I need to lose some more weight."

"Um, no…" Dib said briefly, too involved with his show to care about much else. "We have waffles…"

"Waffles!" Darlene called in a Gir-like tone, busying herself with finding the waffles. Lorelei would have offered to help, but she had an utter disdain for the evil, stuffing-filled waffles ever since… But that wasn't important. Instead she looked around the kitchen, pulling open drawers in search for scissors. "There aren't any heeere," She whined impatiently, walking across the kitchen to the other set of drawers, with a slight wiggle in her hips as she walked.

"Aha!" She called shortly after Darlene finished her waffles, pulling out a pair of scissors. "Bingo."

Dib walked in, yawning. "Oh, you're still here?" He asked, having only now begun to realize there was a world outside of Mysterious Mysteries, now that the show had ended. "You'll probably want to leave soon, I'm gonna be going to bed… Unless you want to stay?" He asked, rubbing his eyes from under his glasses.

"Staying would be nice," Lorelei grinned, elbowing Darlene. She sent another glare at Lorelei, punching her in the shoulder. Lorelei recoiled, rubbing her shoulder. "We'd love to."

"Okay, blankets and stuff are over there, sleep wherever you like." He muttered and headed upstairs. "Whereeever you like…" Lorelei echoed, but ran before Darlene could punch her again.

They went to the closet and grabbed up some pillows and blankets, laying them out near the couch. Though they both decided not to sleep on the couch, just 'cause.

Soon the lights went out, and all noise from upstairs seemed to quiet down. Gaz was apparently not there, or something, because they hadn't seen her the whole time. Or maybe she was just waiting in the corner to strike at some unsuspecting kid…

"You think he's asleep yet?" Darlene asked, looking at Lorelei.

"I dunno. It's a shame that Alex couldn't come… Too bad she has the stomach flu."

Darlene nodded in agreement and got up from her spot on the floor, creeping up the stairs. Lorelei pulled out the pair of scissors and followed her up. They stopped outside of Dib's door, listening in carefully. They heard no ticking of keyboard buttons, no clicking of mice, and no moving or shuffling of any kind. Instead there was just the low, droning snore. "Hehe, he snores."

Darlene and Lorelei crept in quietly, Lorelei with scissors in hand. She liked Dib, yes, but that liking for him had diminished slowly after Darlene had decided she was going to like Dib too. So now they were all stuck in this crazy love-triangle-with-two-lines-hanging-off-of-it thing. When Lorelei was just looming over his bed, she took out the scissors and grabbed his hair carefully, taking the scissors and…

Snip!

She dropped the now cut hair and snickered, Darlene having to shut her up in fear of waking Dib. Quickly did they scurry down those stairs, replacing the scissors and diving into their makeshift beds, all in a fit of laughter.

"It's going to be very interesting when he wakes up in the morning."

"Oh how interesting it will be…"

A/N: Lorelei and Darlene are Greenjellohead's characters, not mine. IZ is Jhonen's, yay.