Class started again, but once again that was not what Dib was paying attention to. He opened the old book and read the next entry.
Today I sent Rain to spy on Amalthia and her so called friends, for the whole day. Then he reported back to me.
"I went to talk with Amalthia and she was more than happy to let me join the fun. I had walked with her to her other friends' house. Those kids were really weird one had candy apple red hair and wore this striped jump suit and a sweat band. Can you believe it, a sweat band!"
"… how terrible?" I tried.
"I know right!" He said, I don't really see what's wrong with wearing a sweat band, but there you have it. "The other one had periwinkle hair and was wearing like this navy dress and fish net sleeves. She wasn't nearly as lively either, kind of boring actually. So anyway I was walking with the three girls and then Axis showed up. He seemed to really like the red head girl.
He was like 'So what are your names?' to the girls and then the girl in navy was like.
'Hello my name is Tane.'
Then the other girl was like 'I am Del!' Then Axis was all 'I never met a girl like you before.' And he had this grin on his face and he continued, 'You're short and really loud… mostly short.' So Del was really mad then ranting and raving about how she wasn't short and was at a perfectly normal height and he said 'Whatever Shorty', Which made her even madder."
"Rain," I interrupted, "This is all really riveting, but did you find anything really bizarre about Amalthia?"
"…uhh she's nice?" Rain offered. I sighed. There was only so much I could expect out of a third party individual. I didn't have anything really good on the other people who I knew nothing about. "I'm sorry." Rain apologized. I was kind of taken aback, no one has ever said sorry to me unless it was used to describe me. I guess that's what happens when people actually care about your goals.
"It's O.K." I said, "You're not obsessive compulsive like I am. That's to be expected. Don't take it so hard on yourself." I had at least succeeded in cheering up Rain, unfortunately that didn't help my problem. I haven't gotten any more information than from the first day I met Amalthia. It really aggravates me that I know all of these little things about her and they don't help me one bit! I haven't even found out why the afternoon class wears different symbols. I hope I get better information tomorrow.
Dib closed the book when he heard his name called. "Yes Miss Bitters?" Dib asked nervously.
"It's time for you to go home. So leeeeeeeeave." She hissed. Dib nodded vigorously and left as soon as he put his stuff in his bag. He hopped outside in a better mood than he had been in a few months. The sky was gray and dreary letting small little drops fall; it wasn't until the lighting rung through the clouds that he noticed he wasn't alone. As the light flashed a small whimper was heard by the front doors of the school. Zim was huddled against the door, his eyes squeezed tight.
"Zim?" Dib asked, the question making Zim jump three feet in the air.
"I wasn't scared!" Zim shrieked angrily.
"I didn't say you were scared." Dib said mildly surprised. Zim relaxed notably.
"Well that's good, because I'm not." Zim shuffled back against the wall. "So you can just leave because Zim is finer than any muffin you have ever poked." Dib shrugged, and walked home leaving his jacket by the door. All because he had this annoying desire to be noble. He entered his room and snuggled up to the warm covers and opened the book as his conscious stopped nagging him about Zim.
I looked up at the front of the class as the teacher seemed to jump back and forth with joy about the new students. She let them in and they each introduced themselves.
"Hello my name is Tane, ignore me and we'll get along just fine." Said the taller girl.
"Hi! I am Del! …now what?" she asked the teacher.
"Well why don't you just take you seats?" Del lifted her chair.
"Where do I take it?" It seemed like the teacher was thinking the same thing that I was, there was another two freaks to join the party.
"Drop the chair and sit down in it." The teacher said bitterly, despite her obvious anger, Axis cheered.
"Shorty! Over here! Look at my amazingness!"
"How dare you call me short! My name's not Shorty."
"O.K. not Shorty." The teacher glared at Axis.
"If you're all through I would like to start class." I sighed: we had more freaks in class now. What struck me the most odd about the new afternoon students was the arm bands they were wearing. These ones were hot pink with weird black symbols on them.
"Those are the girls from yesterday," Rain whispered, "I bet they'll sign up for the Paranormal Club."
"Yeah probably." I replied. He had a point . If I was ever going to see into the Paranormal Club and their activities, my best bet would be to get one of them hooked up with a bug or spy camera.
Dib had dozed while reading, the book now hung limp in his hand.