Dib was getting worried. He hadn't seen Zim at skool in a while, not that that was too uncommon, it was just that their last confrontation has been a little..."Dib. Dib? Answer the question!" an angry looking physics teacher glared at Dib from the front of the room. "Dib do I have to send you down to detention, again?
"N-No! That's ok...The answer is-" but the teacher was already moving on the next problem. Sighing Dib glanced out the window. He didn't understand why they wasted their time with these classes. He could spend his time searching for what was out there, out past "The very reaches of our grasp!" he yelled aloud while clenching his fist in the air. Silence. Everyone was staring at him. The teacher didn't even look up. Dib groaned and shuffled down the hallway towards detention.
Dib slid into a chair in front of the principal's desk. "Hello worm-baby."
Dib fell out of his chair. "Z-Zim! Why are you here?"
"Well, it seems conducting your thesis on combustion on another student is not appropriate." Zim shrugged. "And you?" Dib pulled himself up.
"I was...er...daydreaming."
"Oh really? About what?"
"About, about what? Oh um..."
"Surely you weren't thinking of our little encounter?"
Dib froze.
"Honestly, I see not why you are making such a big deal of this. It's pathetic really."
Dib clenched his fists. He wanted to punch him so badly...Zim was the reason he spent countless nights lying awake trying to find new ways to stop expose him. It was because of Zim that more and more people called him insane. Because right here, right in front of everybody, was the proof Dib had been looking for.
Zim was the answer to everything. It was just out of his reach, every single time for whatever reason, Zim was able to convince everyone that he was human. Strange, but human.
It disgusted him.
"Listen Zim, that's not something you want to mess around with."
"Why not?"
"Because Zim!" Dib leaned close to his face. "What you did was not funny. People only do that when they want to get close to each other. And to do it with an alien...it's just-"
Zim leaned up and gently pressed his lips against Dibs.
Zims glinting eyes watched Dibs as they hung there, connected.
Dib blushed and pulled away, too stunned to speak. 'What...what did i just do?' he turned out the door just as the principal was walking in.
"Oh the Dib-smelly? He had to leave, he was feeling sick..."
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"So what you're saying is, you kissed him." Gaz growled.
"What? No! Well yes...I don't know, he sort of-"
"That's not the point. You guys kissed each other. Right?"
Dib sighed, "Right."
"So? What's the problem? It was just a lousy kiss..."
"But it was Zim! I just, I just can't believe we actually got that close..."
"Wait, don't tell me that was your FIRST kiss?" Gaz paused her game and looked up at Dib.
"Well, I...um..."
"Oh God, Dib!" Gaz growled. "You are the biggest idiot in the world!"
"Now now children!" In strode Dr. Membrane, carrying some sort of strange device. "Don't fight with each other."
"Dad! Dib kissed Zim!"
"No I didn't!"
They continued bickering, unaware that a pair of glowing red eyes was watching them.
"This is ingenious!" Zim yelled to his computer. "This time, this time for SURE!" He typed away at the key board. "And this, this is only the beginning! Oh, just wait, just wait!" He screamed.
"Wait for what?" asked Gir. He was playing with his stuffed moose.
"You'll see Gir, once my plan falls into place, the Dib monster will be on his knees."
"Ooooh, I see!" Gir ran off laughing and slamming the moose on his head.
Zim turned back to the monitor. An image of live feed from Dib's room revealed that he had gone to bed. 'Perfect.' thought Zim. With a few rides up the elevator, he was soon out of the house and running down the street on his pak legs.
To be continued.
