Hello People!! This is my first fanfic, but don't take it as an excuse to go easy on me. Be as truthful as possible. Thanx!
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Chapter 1: The New Girl and Her Strangeness
The bell rang and Mz. Bitters' class went silent immediately. Mz. Bitters stood in front of the class with a small girl beside her.
"Class, we have a new student," growled Mz. Bitters. "Her name is Marie." The small girl waved. "Say what you will now; afterwards, I don't want to hear anything from you." Mz. Bitters stalked off to her desk.
Marie just stood there for a moment, staring around the room. By this time Zim had lost interest, but Dib was looking intently at the girl. She was short for her age, but didn't seem bothered by that fact at all. She had strange, bright blue eyes and blond hair tyed up in a short ponytail. She wore blue jeans, a red shirt, and black shoes. After a couple of moments of staring at the students, she looked at her feet, waved again, and whispered a "hi" and then went to her desk at the back of the class. Dib had a strange need to say hi back, but he shook the feeling away. After giving Zim a quick glare, he turned back to Mz. Bitters who had started a long-winded lecture on doom.
A couple of hours later, the bell rang again, this time for lunch. The children gratefully left the classroom. Marie was lagging behind, looking a bit excited.
"Wait until she sees what's for lunch! She won't be so eager then!!" thought Dib, who was lagging behind as well.
The two entered the cafeteria together, no words between them. Marie glanced at the lunch menu and then scanned the lunchroom, still looking excited. She eventually found what she was looking for and headed in the opposite direction of Dib's always-empty table. Hungry, but unwilling to eat mayonnaise and corn, Dib went to his table and put down his head.
"I AM NO ALIEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Dib shot up at the sound of his archenemy's familiar scream. He looked over at Zim's empty table to find it not so empty. Marie was sitting there looking up at Zim standing on the table. She looked down and said some thing incomprehensible from where Dib was sitting, but from the way people around her gasped, it must have been something bad.
"Not another freak! EVERYONE STAY AWAY FROM HER!!!!!! It's like a girl Dib!!!!!!!" some kid yelled at the top of his lungs.
Everyone simultaneously rushed away from her and started whispering. Marie got up, and, tears streaming down her face, ran out of the cafeteria. Soon after, everything turned back to normal. Dib, feeling a sudden urge he couldn't resist, rushed after Marie. By the time he got to the hall, she had already rounded a corner.
"I wonder what she said to make them all act like that?" Dib thought, running after her. She had just run out the front doors. Mustering all the strength he could, Dib put an extra spurt of speed into his run and headed after her. "Why am I even following her?" he thought as he burst outside. The brightness of the sun caught Dib off guard, so it took him a minute to adjust to the light and find Marie. Finally, he saw her.
Marie was sitting on the edge of the skool's front yard with her knees up to her chin. She was still crying, though not as hard and had found the time to pull out her Ipod and stuff the music in her ears, shutting out the rest of the world.
Dib walked slowly next to her and sat down. For a moment, it seemed as if she didn't notice him, but, turning down the music, she turned to him and said, "Come to make fun of me some more?"
Dib was taken aback by these words. They were so unexpected from a girl like her. He was halfway expecting her to cry harder and run away or something. He didn't think that she would glare at him in such intensity that he could burn with it.
His silence just made her angrier. She turned away and was about to turn her music back up when she finally heard his voice. She wasn't expecting a voice like this, with kindness and understanding woven into the words; she thought the boy would call her a freak or weirdo or something. It took her a while to actually comprehend the words he was saying. Finally, she heard him:
"I know how you feel."
"How would you know how I feel?" she retorted back, determined to seem tough even though she was still crying.
"I'm Dib"
She was about to say, "So what do I care?" but then she remembered what the boy in the cafeteria said. She looked down at her toes and turned off her Ipod. "Why do they make fun of you?" she asked. "What did that boy mean by 'a girl Dib'?"
"Well it kind of depends on what you said 'cause I at the opposite end of the cafeteria and didn't hear what made them all gasp."
"I said 'You have to be an alien. You look just like one'"
Dib just gaped at her. For so long, he's been trying to make people see that Zim was an alien and here was probably the only person in the world that thought so, too.
"You believe, too?" he gasped.
"Of course I do! Who doesn't? The only people who don't think there are things out there that are smarter than us are so paranoid that they can't see one even if they were slapped in the face by it!"
"I know, right?" Dib smiled at her.
Marie smiled back. Maybe things will go right for her at last.
So what do you think? Please review!!!! Thanx once again!!!!!!