So I noticed that out of 20 people that read the first chapter only 4 went on to the 2nd. Is this story really that bad? I'm sorry... I won't stop writing it because I need to know what happens next. Thats the thing about my stories. I don't know what's going to happen untill I get there. Even if no one else cares what happens I still get excited to see more.

Am I a weird author?


"Did he really?" Kam laughed, "Well that's my cousin for yah. Always with his head stuck in something paranormal."

On the way to the teacher's office Zim had told her many of the truthful things Dib had said but which everyone else thought was completely crazy, thus making Dib look crazy.

This is fun Zim thought to himself. Tak was the only one before that had ever appreciated humiliating Dib in the same way. Tak had gone back to the empire several years ago in order to fight her own banishment ruling.

Later in class the annoying-overly-happy-education-human introduced Kam to the class. "Well Okie Dokie. Now where should we have you sit?" The smile on that humans face made Zim shiver as it always reminded him of the Keef boy he had foolishly used as a friendship unit back when he was an invader.

Zim reached over and shoved the girl next to him out of her seat. "Excuse me teacher this seat is open." Sitting next to that other human had been a daily annoyance anyway. Kam smiled at him and went to sit down.

"Okie Dokie. Sounds great! Now today's class we will be talking about the wonderful world of…" Zim didn't bother listening to the rest of the class. Attending school was merely a way to pass the time. He learned nothing from this pitiful planet's educational system that those 10 years in the depths of Irk had not already taught him. He stared out the window like usual but found himself occasionally glancing over to the Kam human's seat. She appeared as bored as he felt. Perhaps they could come up with a way to explode the annoying education human together. Zim decided he would propose the idea during skool foodening time.

The bell took forever to ring but when it did and they all had proceeded to the lunching Zim sat down at his usual table, he had given up trying to ingest the cafeteria goo and had built a nutrition harvesting dome in his base, which he used to pack food he could actually eat without becoming sick. Shortly after he sat down, Dib, Gaz and Kam joined him at the table.

"Well Dib I see you survived the bird." Zim mocked.

"Yeah, no thanks to you. So anyway, Kam and I were talking about a science experiment and we were wondering if you wanted to help us out." Dib began picking at the grey slime on his tray.

"Dib tells me you're good with mechanics," Her smile was cool like the white dwarf that Irk orbited, "I was reading an article about hardening laser plasma in order to build materials that, once cooled, would become harder than diamond and denser than iron and I was thinking…"

Such a fascinating human. The concept she spoke of was a basic model of construction on Irk. Very simple but it required complex machinery, which was unlikely that a human would ever understand, much less be able to construct it with materials available on this planet.

"…anyway, my uncle said we could use his lab as long as Dib doesn't go paranormal on us. I thought we could work on it after school. Want to join us?" Zim had to force himself out of his own thoughts. He found it curious that he kept looking at her. Normally he didn't care to stare at a human for any other reason than to decide how best to make them less annoying.

Dib elbowed Zim when he didn't respond.

"Uh… What?" Zim asked, bringing his attention back to the words being said.

"She said we're going to my dad's lab after school. You should come with."

"You want ZIM's Help?" Zim yelled louder than necessary. Dib and Kam exchanged a look and shrugged. Lowering his arms Zim also shrugged, "yeah ok sure."

"You gonna come to, Gaz?" Kam asked.

Gaz looked up from her Game Slave 5, "And spend the afternoon with these two? Not a chance. Besides I have a date."

Zim wondered what brain-melted monstrosity would ever want to spend time with the scary-purple-demon-earthling, but decided he didn't really care. The four of them finished their lunches and suffered through the day's remaining classes.