I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW! I'M A HORRIBLE PERSON! I havn't been updating my story I'm SOOOOOOO sorry! But my little bro broke my laptop, but we fixed it, and my story's all good now. But PLEASE enjoy this chapter!
There's surprises, smiles from unlikely people, and even action! Plus, there MIGHT be some flirting... =O
Sorry, this chapter sucks! But the rest get better as we aproach the comming Doom!
-Aktress (AKA Invader Akt)
CHAPTER 6- Savior
Before I knew it, the late bell rang, signaling the begining of class. I opened my eyes, and magicly, the whole class was in the room. I must've serriously zoned out not to notice everyone coming inside. Everyone was here, the mud-kids, the Pink Clique, everyone else, and Dib and Zim.
"Today we will be having a pop-quiz as I told you yesterday. So take out your pencils and pick up a test from the chalkboard. Now go, before I unleash the snakes on you like last time," Ms. Bitters threatend, making everyone jump up and fight for test papers. I was confused, but didn't want to see what she meant by 'Unleashing the snakes", so I got up and grabbed a test that had fallen behind the chaos by the blackboard and took my seat again, looking at the questions.
QUESTION 1: What is Zita's favorite band as of yesterday?
I was baffled. Who was Zita and how should I know what band she loves? I scribbled down The Beetles, because it was the first band that came to mind, and who didn't love the Beetles after all? After that insane question, I plowed through the rest of the imposible questions. How was I supposed to know what The letter 'M''s favorite color was (And what kind of a name was THAT?)? And was it my fault I had know idea who had the biggest fear of pigs?
Finally, on question 7, I knew the answer.
QUESTION 7: What makes Dib the craziest person in the class?
Although I didn't find Dib crazy, though he was very persistent, I knew it was his obsession of expossing Zim as an Irken. But I wrote down 'Exposing Zim as an alien, which he most definitly is not.' So I wouldn't demand attention to Zim any more than he already had by saying he was Irken specificly. But when I hit question 13, I almost lost it.
QUESTION 13: Who is the biggest loser: Zim or Dib?
I furriously scribbled 'Neither! They are both really nice people!' and fumed for a mintue, then contiued. On question 18, I started to blush furriously. Why would my class know this question? And what was the right answer anyways?
QUESTION 18- Girls: Who does Rosella have a crush on? Boys: Do you have a crush on Rosella? Rosella: Just write DOOM or something, I really don't care.
I wrote Doom and blushed even more, feeling lots of eyes boring into my head, like if you looked hard enough, the anwser was written in Sharpie.
After that torture of a test, I placed it upside down and stared at the clock, willing it to ring for , tic, tic, it never seemed to move fast enough. Finnally, it rang, and I stood up, grabbing Joy.
"Bring your tests up to my desk and put them in a pile. If you get enough of them wrong, or your anwers are too stupid, I'll call your parents and tell them to love you less," Ms. Bitters said and sat at her desk, hissing at anyone who got close to her. I walked up to Dib.
"Here, I got it," I said, grabbing his test. I wanted to be on his good side. He smiled back.
"Thanks," He said and headed out the door. I walked up to Ms. Bitters desk and placed the papers on top of the stack. Then I walked out of the classroom, heading towards the cafeteria. When I got to the cafeteria, I tried to decide who to sit with, Dib or Zim? After some inner-debating, I decided that it would be best to sit with Dib and Gaz. I didn't want Dib to think I'd choose Zim over him two days in a row.
I sat down at the table, where Gaz was sitting. I looked around for Dib. He was in the lunch line, waiting his turn to get the discusting 'food'. I peeked over Gaz's shoulder to see what game she was playing. It was the same Vampire/Pig game.
"Why do you always play the same game?" I asked her. "I mean, I've never heard of a Game Slave system, but serriously, are'nt there any other games you could play?"
Gaz kept shooting pigs. "The only other games are stupid. Like dressing up dogs and all that crap. Only Jessicas play THAT crap." I looked at her, confused.
"Jessicas?" I asked. Gaz pointed to the Pink-Clique I'd bombed and quickly reatched her thumb to the GS. I nodded, even though she probably couldn't see me.
"Oh, okay. I hit them with a rock today.." I said absent-mindedly. Gaz paused her game and looked up at me, with both her eyes opened in surprise.
"You did WHAT?" She asked in a surprised, but full of awe, voice. I shrugged.
"I was up in a tree with Zim, and they started teasing me, singing the K-I-S-S song. So I asked Zim for a rock, and I threw it at the blonde's stomach. Simple as that," I said, feeling proud of myself again. Gaz's eyes stayed open.
"Are you KIDDING me! That- that's one of the best things anyone's ever done! Ever!" I was shocked! Gaz was actually commenting on how awesome I was being. SHE WAS BEING NICE! And then the unthinkable happened.
She smiled.
I am dead serroius. Gaz SMILED! Aperently I wasn't the only one amazed, because some poor soul walked by and saw her. Then they ran away, screaming, "GAZ IS SMILING! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!"
I stared at Gaz. She stopped smiling after a minute. "What? Yeah, I'm not COMPLETELY soul-less. I can smile, I just choose not to."
"Oh, er, so what's so important about them? I just call them the Pink Clique, because that's all they seem to wear. Gaz smirked, not a complete smile, but it still made my stomach flip.
"The Pink Clique? That's funny. Anyways, their leader is head blonde, Jessica," I looked over. It was the girl that had started teasing me. Her hair was as blond as mine, and had huge bangs. I was starting to think I should go back to the wig store and get another color wig. "She's always being mean to people, not as mean as me, but in a stupid-blonde way."
"Oh," I said, watching as Jessica reached her foot out and tripped some kid with orange clown hair and some freaky shirt with a rainbow on it, and then laugh with her friends.
"The rest of her 'friends'," Gaz continued, making air-quotes around friends. "Are pretty much just sucking up to her. They just want the fame she has. There's Aki, she's the one with brown hair, and Olivia, she's the other blonde. Last, there's Penny, she's got the black spiky hair. They're all a bunch of idiots," Gaz said. I continued looking at them.
They were all wearing bright shades of pink, and giggling about something, then Olivia caught me looking (She was the screamer who tried to warn Jessica this morning) and the whole clique looked at me with hate.
I turned, blushing back to my table, where Gaz had resumed playing her game. "I guess we'll have to go beat up the Game Slave System workers until they make more games, huh?" I asked.
Gaz grunted in agreement and kept playing. Dib walked over to the table. "So what's up with you, Gaz? I heard someone screaming about you smiling?" He sounded amazed. When Gaz just grunted and turned around, he looked at me.
"Rose. What did you do, and who got sent to the hospital?" I smiled.
"I didn't hurt anyone, well, not really, anyways. This moring, Jessica was teasing me about- er, something.." I said, not wanting to tell Dib what she was teasing about. "Anyways, so I got really annoyed and threw a rock into her stomach. Serves her right," I said, telling my story. Dib looked over to Jessica and turned back to me with a worried look.
"You REALLY did that? And your not terrified? You know, Jessica has imensful power, though not as much as Gaz," I looked at Gaz, who just gave a thumbs up quickly. " She can get bullies to do anything she wants for them."
I felt a little weird, but I wasn't scared,or nervous. "So? She's just a-" But I stopped myself just in time. I was about to say human, but then I realised that would be the worst mistake I could make right now. "-a..., er a... a blonde," I covered, smiling nervously. Dib looked at me weird.
"But, Rose? Your blonde too..." Dib said, making a good point. I face-palmed myself inside my head.
"Er, I mean natural blonde, because I... dyed my hair blonde. Yeah, and I'm changing it to a different color tonight." I said a little too quickly. Guess I WAS going wig shopping again. Yippie.
Dib still looked at my oddly, but let me go with a shrug. "So where's your food?" He asked. I looked at him blankly. Ugh! I can be SO stupid sometimes.
"Erm, I left it at home..." I said. It actually wasn't a lie. I DID leave it at home, but on purpose. I wasn't hungry.
"Oh," He said, and spun his spoon around in his 'food', which happened to look edible. It looked like mashed potatos and peas, but nothing else. I never did like peas, but I knew they'd find some way to ruin the potatos.
"You want any?" He offered. I shook my head.
"I think I'll keep my stomach inside me today," I said, smiling at him half-heartedly. I couldn't help thinking how unfair it was of me to keep all my secrets from him. Zim basicly knew everything about me, and Dib was kept out in the cold.
Soon, the lunch bell rang and I stood up, sighing. Dib tossed his uneaten 'food' in the trash can. "Well, at least the robots didn't attack me today," Dib said and shrugged. I smiled at him for looking on the bright side.
"See you after skool, Gaz," I said to the addicted girl. She waved without looking up and walked off to her classroom. I followed her, going to my classroom instead.
The skool day seemed to pass by very, very slowly. It seemed like Ms. Bitters was teaching us something about how all hope was lost, and we were doomed and would die a horrible and painful death. Everyone looked bored, and I spotted Zim snoring on his desk. I kicked his leg to wake him up. Dib laughed at that, thinking I did it just because.
Finally, after the endless torture. The bell rang. I breathed a sigh of relief and grabbed Joy and my pencil, tucking it behind my ear (The pencil, not Joy) and walked out of the classroom. I was about to go outside to meet Dib, but I REALLY had to use the bathroom, no matter how discusting the toilets were. So I skipped over to the bathroom and used it really quick (I tried my best to not touch anything) and walked back out.
The halls were empty now, and it was dark. It would be scary to me, if I didn't have Joy, and if I wasn't raised to be tough as nails. I walked to the skool doors and just as I was about to open them, something with a ton a force pulled me back.
"Eek!" I let out a little squeel of surprise. I thought maybe it was Dib or Zim, but when I looked up, it was someone I hadn't talked to before. He was really fat and tall, and had a football jersey on that read "Smacky" on the front. He stared at me.
"Um, I'm going to leave, okay?" I said, scrambling up and starting to run for the doors. But he grabbed my shirt and pulled me back.
"You Rosella?" He asked like he didn't know how to speak correct English.
"Yes, now if you don't mind.." I said, elbowing him in the stomach so he let go of me with and "Oof!" I started to run, and then I heard someone scream, "GET HER ALREADY!"
I had heard that voice before, venomous as a viper, and so teasingly...
"Jessica," I hissed under my breath and tried to reach for the door. But looks like the big doofus caught me again. I struggled to get loose, but I couldn't. I saw Jessica apear with her little friends. And they didn't look happy to see me.
"You. You threw the rock at me today, didn't you?" She asked in a nasely voice. I crossed my arms.
"So what if I did? You deserved it!" I retorted back. All her friends gasped. She looked REALLY pissed now.
"No! Listen, new girl. Rule number three at this skool: If I don't get my way, no one gets their way. Rule number two: Never, and I mean NEVER, talk back to me! and rule number one: I don't play to get even, I play to WIN!" She said and snapped her fingers. "Torque! Give her an arm bruise."
The big jock, Torque, I guess, suddenly raised his hand in the air. But before it slammed down on my arm, I caught it and twisted his hand. "OUCH!" He yelped and put his hand under his armpit. He suddenly had fire in his eyes. But I was pretty sure that my eyes were blazing even hotter than his.
"Come and get me, you big baby!" I yelled to him. He snorted and charged like a crazed bull and I moved out of the way, just in time for him to slam his head into the wall. I smiled as he fell to the ground, holding his head and repeating "OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWWWWWWWW!"
"Dammit, Torque!" Jessica yelled. "Your such a little baby! Olivia, Penny, Aki, go get her!"
The Pink-Clique minus Jessica started to run up to me, with death in their eyes. Okay, I'm exadgerating. They had hatred, not death. But same thing, right? Anyways, I just stood there, with a disbelieving expression on my face.
"You've GOT to be joking," I said. I sighed and set Joy down on the ground gently, then proceded to trip Aki, who landed on Olivia. They went down easy. But Penny was smarter. She jumped up off of the pile of pink and landed on me, making me fall to the ground. On top of me, she began to punch my face, but I flipped her over, off of me, and kicked her, hurting her.
Penny jumped up, holding her side where I'd kicked her, and started to charge at me, but unlike Torque, she caught me. But this just wasn't her day. Because I spun her around and kicked her stomach so she fell on top of the rest of the clique. I smirked as they groaned.
"What do you think of me now, Jessica?" I said, turning around, but I couldn't find Jessica anywhere. I smiled, thinking that she just ran away, scared, probably crapping her pants, I turned around to get Joy. And that's when I screamed.
"JOY!" Joy was no where in site. I panicked. My little dog, my stuffed animal. The only thing from my parents I had, and she was gone. This was worse than losing and iPod, or a cell phone. This was just as bad as losing my parents all over again. And I couldn't help it. I began to cry.
I just sat down and cried, eventually making my way to the feelt position. Nothing mattered anymore. Everyone could go blow themselves up for all I cared. I felt a small pat on my back.
"Go away, let me die," I said, not looking up. The poking grew harder and more jabbing. I felt anger in myself growing. I whipped up. "DAMMIT WHAT DO YOU WANT?" I yelled. And then I opened my eyes.
"Rose, I- um, maybe this isn't a good time, but er, I found this for you," Zim was in front of me, with only one contact in. His left eye was ruby-red. And he was holding Joy. I gasped and stole Joy from him the minute I saw her.
"You found Joy! Oh, Zim thank you SO MUCH! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" I said, jumping up and hugging him. "Oh, thank you so much!" I began to cry.
"Rosella, why-? Why are your eyes leaking? Are they broken?" Zim asked when he saw me. I laughed, choaking through my tears.
"No, Zim. I'm crying. Because I'm so happy. How did you manage to find her?" I asked.
"Jessica, the blonde girl back there had it. I knew it was your little toy, so I fought her for it," I opened my mouth wide.
"You- you FOUGHT her for it?" I asked, amazed he would do that for me. He shrugged. "Is that how you lost your contact lense?" He felt his eye.
"Oh crap! I lost it! Well, I guess I'll have the computer make another one for me," He mumbled and took a pair of sunglasses out of his PAK, putting them over his eyes. But they slipped off, considering he had no nose or ears. "You got any tape or something?" I shook my head, but looked around for something, then I remembered.
"Oh!" I exclaimed, reaching into my pocket. I pulled out a stick of blueberry gum and handed to Zim. "Here, chew it for a minute, and then take it out. Break it in half and put them on either side of your head, then put the glasses on, it should stick," I said, proud of myself for thinking of that. He looked skeptical.
"Will it burn?" He asked. I shook my head.
"It shouldn't," I said, hoping I was right. He unwrapped it and put it in his mouth, carefully chewing. It didn't seem to burn him, and he did as I told him. To mine and his luck, it stayed on. I smiled.
"Good, now my GENIUS cover cannot be blown by some FILTHY contact lense missing! HA!" He said and pumped his fists in the air. I giggled.
"Thanks, Zim. For everything," I said. "Your my savior for today," And with that, I kissed his cheek. Not for too long, just a little peck. I couldn't believe what I was doing! I blushed uncontrolably and ran outside the skool, leaving the pile of pink and Zim inside.
I tried to slow my heart down. I couldn't believe I'd just KISSED Zim! Even if it WAS just on the cheek. I could feel my cheeks burning bright crimson. Once I had composed myself, I looked to the flagpole, to see if Dib was still there. He wasn't. My heart sank. Then I saw him walking down the sidewalk, almost out of site. My heart rose again and I ran to him, yelling "DIB! DIB! DIB, WAIT!" Eventually, I caught up to him. He looked mad. REALLY mad. I bit my lip.
"Dib, I'm sorry. But- let's just say I had to deal with the Pink-Clique," I said, holding my finger. I think I bent it in my battle with Penny. "But I'm alright now." I hugged Joy even closer to me. Dib still looked really pissed.
"I guess I have a lot to explain," I sighed, diving into my story.
OMIGOSH! Rose and Zim? Could this be a good couple, or FAIL with a capital F? And how will Dib react to the story she tells? I guess you'll have to wait!
Sorry, again for not updating! I'm only twelve! Haha, so is anyone going to see Eclipse? I'm going on Saturday, YAY! LOL, remember to Reveiw! Prize for reveiwing is fireworks for July 4'th! Plz and Thx!
-Aktress (AKA Invader Akt)