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The 1000th
By Netbug009
"You're crazy."
That line was starting to get old. He had heard it directed at him 997 times.
Yes, he kept track. He kept a notebook by his bed with the tally. He'd add any new instances of the phrase at the end of each day, like he was doing now.
"You're crazy." On the bus. Melvin.
998.
"You're crazy." Lunch. Zita.
999
"You're crazy." The end of the skool day. Zim.
1000
Zim. Of course. It just had to be Zim. He was always the source of the worst things in Dib's life. That too, was getting old.
But he didn't just keep the notebook to sit and feel sorry for himself. No, he kept it because it gave him 1000 reasons to keep fighting. 1000 reasons to want to prove he was right someday. And each night, all 1000 reasons stared at him in the form of 1000 lines in that notebook. They taunted him. They said he couldn't do it. Yet, they were what kept the hope alive.
He needed that hope, because it was something 1000 times harder to keep now than when he started.
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