Howdy ho, pardners!

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Jesse Sparks shot up straight in bed. Her curly black hair was a mess, and she was drenched in sweat. She looked at her clock, it read 3:30 A.M.

"Well, it's time to get ready for skool." She thought, standing up and streching. The night stars were slowly starting to dissappear. She peeled off her night clothes and went to take a shower. As she was in there, she started to watch her nightmare like a movie.

It was cold, dark, and no one was there to help her. She was at the lake, wading as she felt the water start to swirl around her. Something started to pull her under, and she wasn't able to utter a scream.

Not that she would have wanted to.

It continued to pull her under, it was already at her neck.

As the water slowly came up to her mouth, she uttered a few words.

"I'm sorry, Zim, I love you..."

As she dried off, she searched her mind. Who the heck was Zim? She walked in her closet and grabbed an old, tattered, pair of jeans and an old blue shirt. She got dressed, and grabbed her purple amulet, and put it around her neck.

It was the only reminder of her real parents. She straightened her hair and got her stuff ready for skool. As she walked into the kitchen, her adopted mother Andrea was already making breakfast.

"Hi Andrea." She said, sitting down and setting her back pack next to her.

"Jesse, will you be a dear and set the table?" Andrea asked, not bothering to look up from the purple pancakes. Jesse started to set the table when she remembered something important. She did a face palm.

"I CANNOT believe I FORGOT my THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY!" She giggled at her stupidity. "Well, it's the only day of the year they actually care for me, usually I'm making my own breakfast." She finished the table and sat back down as Andrea finished the breakfast. Andrea's real son Matthew ran down the stairs and sat in the seat across from her. He was seventeen, and it was his first day of Senior year. It was Jesse's first day of seventh grade, yet she was a lot smarter than Matthew, so she was going to be taking the eighth grade classes. She rolled her eyes at Matthew's appearance.

"Dude, do you ever wear a shirt?" She asked him.

"Shut up dweeb." He said, running his hand through his black spiked hair. "I don't have to wear a shirt around the house."

"Loser." She said, playing with her fork.

"I'm the loser? I'm the one with friends, NERD!" He told her.

"MATTHEW!" Her adopted father, Cameron, yelled, walking in. "If you can't be nice to your sister leave! And didn't I tell you not to walk around like that anymore?" Jesse smiled. Cameron had been the only nice person in the house. He only had time to be with them on Sunday's, this was the one day of every year he stayed at home. He loved her, unlike Andrea and Matthew. Cameron kissed Jesse on the forehead, told her happy birthday, and then they ate breakfast. As soon as Jesse was done, she grabbed her bag and ran on to skool, not wanting to be late on her first day at a new skool.

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"Class," Her new teacher, Mrs. Bitters, sneered. "I would like to introduce the newest failure to the Skool body, Jesse Sparks. Jesse, if you have anything to say, say it now because after this moment I don't wanna hear another peep from you!" Jesse studdered.

"Uh, Uh Hi!" She said quickly, just wanting to sit down. Mrs. Bitters sighed.

"Jesse, you may sit right there, next to Zim, the green kid." Jesse quickly sat down and Mrs. Bitters set a large text book on her desk, and then started lecturing about the fate of the earth. A note hit her notebook. It was from Zim.

Hello, human worm baby. She picked her pencil up and wrote back.

Erm...hi.

Wazzup?

Being bored lol. Wazzup wit u?

SAME!

Wow. That is awsome.

Another note landed on her desk.

Hi. I'm Dib. I'm the kid in the black trench coat.

Hi there!

You know that kid Zim? He's an alien.

The bell rang, signaling their three hour day was over. Jesse walked to their last period, lunch. She saw Dib and another kid with purple hair sitting at one table, and she saw Zim sitting at a table all by himself. She brought her lunch, so she didn't have to go in the line, so she went over and sat next to him. She pulled an apple out of her lunch box.

"Apple?" She offered, seeing he wasn't about to eat anything on his tray. He smiled and gladly took it.

"Thanks." He said.

"Soo...that Dib kid...does he really believe your an alien?" She asked him as he bit into the apple.

"Yeah...the Dib thing is always saying I'm up to something...I'm not." She heard the 'anymore' he whispered after that.

"What do you mean, 'anymore'?" She asked him.

"Long story. We only have five minutes left of skool, I wouldn't be able to tell it all."

"Then, do you wanna hang out after skool?" She asked him. He looked a bit surprised.

"S-sure!" He said as the bell rang. They walked to Zim's house, and he led her to his couch.

"Jesse, there's something about you that I just cannot put my finger on. Would I be able to scan your necklace?" Jesse looked down at her necklace, and then back up at Zim.

"What do you mean?" She asked him. he put his hand out, and she sighed. She took it off and handed it over.

"Just...just be careful with it. That's all I have to remember my real parents by." He took it and went down a little toilet in his kitchen.

"Wow...um that was a wierd thought..." She thought to herself as she waited for Zim. A little green dog ran up to her with a rubber pig.

"PIGGY LIKES YOU!" He screamed, and then ran off.

"Random...wait a minute did that dog just talk?" She shrugged as Zim came up. He handed her amulet back to her.

"So you were adopted, huh?" He asked her.

"Um, yeah." She said, putting the amulet back on.

"Did your adoptive parents know anything about your real parents?"

"Nerp. Apparently I was just left on the doorstep. That's all they know." She told him.

"Ah, so you are who I think you are." He said, smiling.

"Wait what?"

"I think you better follow me." He told her, taking her by the hand and leading her to the...

Toilet?

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