Just a little thing I came up with in my spare time. Not really great.

Dib crossed off the 23rd of June on his calendar. Only two days left until the one important day in his life... his birthday. He wasn't that excited, however. His family always forgot his birthday. Dib began to wonder if it was on purpose.

**flasback**

Dib went into Professor Membrane's lab in the basement.

"Dad, tomorrow's the 25th of June! You know what that means!" The ten-year-old yelled excitedly.

The professor thought for a moment. "No, I don't believe I do," he said, then went back to his work.

Dib frowned. "My birthday? We used to celebrate it all the time when Mom was around."

Membrane turned to his son. "Oh son, birthdays are just a desperate attempt to get people to buy presents for other people. Your mother was just as insane as you are."

Dib walked away, sad.

**flashback ends**

Since his mother died, the only birthday they ever celebrated was Gaz's. And Dib was sick of it.

Next Day:

Dib was walking down the street when he spotted Zim nearby scanning a dog. Zim turned and noticed Dib looking miserable.

"What's the matter, Dib-Human?" he said mockingly.

"Nothing you'd care about, Zim," Dib said in a hurt voice, "So just leave me alone." He turned to leave, but Zim wasn't going to give up just like that. He deployed his spider legs and jumped on the boy.

"Argh! Get off me, Zim!" Dib yelled in frustration as he struggled.

"Not until you tell me what your problem is, Dib Worm!" Zim shouted.

"I don't have to tell you anything! It's a personal human thing!" He kicked the green space boy off him.

Zim stood up. "Is it puberty?"

"What?" Dib was confused.

"I looked up your filthy human hormones on the in-ter-net. Is it that?"

"Why are you bringing that up!?" Dib yelled, then looking around. "And in a public street!"

"Just tell me."

"No."

"Tell meeee."

"NO!"

"Worm-Monkey!"

"What?" Dib got confused for a second, then snapped out of it. "You know what Zim? Just stay away from me! Tomorrow is a very important day for me and I'm NOT going to have you mess it up!" He stormed off with Zim standing there.

In case you're wondering, I used the 23rd of June at the start of the story because it's the date of my own birthday. Review and Dib will cheer up.