"I-I'm sorry for accusing you of trying to kill me.. I mean.. I'm sorry for.. Assuming you wanted to.." Licorice let her head down, waiting for a response.
"Yeah yeah, its fine I guess, just don't do it again." Zim walked off to go upstairs, probably to put his disguise on. To Licorice's ears, it seemed as if he was faking his uninterested voice. She thought about it for a moment, while trying to find a jacket, then came to a conclusion.
"Zim is Zim, He's no different. I must just be imagining things."
Licorice stood, leaned up against the door to the way out, waiting for Zim. While Gir ran around acting crazy with his...rubber pig.
"Gir, how much sugar do you eat?" Licorice questioned, actually laughing at the crazy little robot.
"..I DUUNNOOO!" Apparently Gir had no idea was sugar was. One thing's for sure, he definitely ate alot of it, even if he didn't know what it was.
Licorice continued to wait, sighing.
"..I don't know why I picked out this outfit... I hate it.." She whispered to herself, she hated everything she wore, though. She was wearing a short, green, ruffled skirt with a black jacket that had a cat face on it, almost like hello kitty, and of course, the common black sneakers.
Finally, Zim came out of the.. floor. Licorice turned around and walked out the door, him following.
"So.. do you want me to take a different way so you won't be seen walking with a.. human.." Licorice asked, she had her hands clasped together in front of her, looking straight ahead.
"I don't care; no one notices now anyway, they're too stupid to realize it." Licorice thought about that for a moment, then giggled.
"What's so funny!" Zim asked defensively, making Licorice laugh harder.
"It's not you, well, it's the way you say it, it's funny. Not in a bad way or anything." Licorice smiled at him. Zim just looked away, growling a little bit.
When they arrived at the school, they both received odd looks from everyone in the immediate vicinity.
"Hey, look, Licorice is walking with that weird kid, Zim!" Some kid pointed out and they all started laughing.
"What's the matter, Licorice, don't have any friends to walk with? I'll walk with you" Some creepy-looking kid walked up and locked his arm around Licorice's, pulling her away. Licorice snapped her arm back and glared at him.
"Stay away from me, you freak of nature." Licorice growled, which Zim was surprised by. The kid ran off, and all the other kids still laughed as Licorice walked into the doors of the school, ignoring all. Zim followed her, but with a distance so it didn't seem like he was trying to catch up. Licorice found her "locker" if it could be called that, she leaned up against it and sighed. Since Zim's "locker" was right next to hers, he had no choice but to stand near her, again.
"I'm sorry." Licorice whispered, staring at him. Zim hadn't been looking until he turned his head to look at her. Guilt was imminent in her eyes.
"You should be sorry... For I am ZIIIM!" Zim threw his hands in the air, seeming to go into his own world again. Licorice had her head down, her face mostly covered with her hair, but she still smiled. Almost like a "That-was-kind-of-cute" smile. Both her smile and his little world of his own quickly faded when Dib walked up, Licorice lifted her head to look at him, only to see him staring at her, only for him to quickly look away, that is.
"How are you now, Licorice?" He asked quite simply.
"Good, I guess. Just mad at all these retards here..." Licorice crossed her arms, sighing.
"Why, what happened?"
"Ask Zim if you really want to know" Dib looked over to him, waiting for a response.
"The typical thing filthy little humans would do. Laughed at Licorice for walking with me, then tried to snatch her away." He seemed awfully mad over such a little thing, adding obvious sting to the word "snatch"
"Why do you seem to care so much about her?" Dib acted like he cared that Zim cared so much, if that were to make sense. Licorice widened her eyes, surprised by his question, yet, inside she kind of wanted to know. She looked over at Zim, who seemed to be taken by surprise of that question.
"That is none of your business, Dib-human!" Zim snapped back at him, somewhat overreacting. Licorice sighed, closing her eyes. She was thinking to herself "Please don't fight, I don't want to hear it.."
Zim's POV-
I looked over at Licorice, who had her eyes closed, sighing. Dammit, what the hell is wrong with these FILTHY humans? Disgusting creatures. And that DIB-HUMAN, being nosy and...ugly. I keep realizing I'm staring at Licorice, dammit! Why do I? She's just another disgusting HUMAN. Yet... I feel something I can't describe when I look at her, and hear her, It's a weird feeling I haven't had before, It's like...I hate it, yet somehow I like it too. What AM I thinking? She's HUMAN! I wanted to mentally strangle myself.
-END OF POV-
Dib glared at Zim, then looking over at Licorice, eyes still closed. He smiled at her, and walked off, moments later the bell ringing. Licorice jumped a little by the sudden noise, snapping her eyes open, then letting out a breath of relief, walking off to the classroom.
"Why are you so jumpy, Lici-human?" Zim questioned her, she looked ahead, walking in the classroom and sitting down, Zim sitting in his spot next to her. And both paid no attention to Dib who sat next to the opposite side of Licorice.
"No reason.. I was just... zoned out." Licorice whispered, before going silent to listen to the unimportant rambling that the teacher did.
It wasn't more then 30 minutes later, Licorice had her head laid down on her crossed arms that were setting upon the desk, peacefully asleep, with her black hair somewhat across her face. Zim stared at her with a somewhat amused look on his face.
"LICORICE!" The teacher yelled. Licorice jumped, her eyes in a fog, trying to adjust them. She flattened her silky black cat ears and answered quietly.
"Yes.. I'm sorry, I didn't sleep much lately." Licorice adjusted herself back in the quite uncomfortable chair, sitting up straight.
"I don't care if you got 15 seconds of sleep, you are not to sleep in class." The teacher hissed, making Licorice flinch a little.
"She's scary as hell..." Licorice whispered oh-so quietly to herself, apparently Zim can hear better then she thought, he nodded along. Dib stared over at the two in almost what seemed to be disgust.
Finally, after 3 hours went by, the lunch bell went off. Licorice had luckily stayed awake, since her keen cat ears heard the occasional yelling of a word, or Zim's fits.. or Dib's fits, or some kid being weird.
Licorice was last to walk out, as she wasn't that interested in trying to cram through a door of idiotic people. Upon entering the lunch room, she almost gagged. The smell was horrible to her, and yet everyone seemed fine with it. Except for Zim, of course. He felt the same way about it. Being that she was not at all going to even try to eat the disgusting food that they offered, she found a completely empty seat, and sat cross-legged, simply thinking. Of course, everyone stared at her oddly for not eating, even though it was none of their business. Apparently, Zim scanned every table, and nowhere he could sit except for the one Licorice was at, either that or with Dib, the choice was obvious, sort of. Zim walked over to the table and sat across from Licorice, observing his disgusting food, not looking up at Licorice. Licorice looked over at him, and giggled quietly, then looked at the food, and almost gagged again.
"What?" Zim simply said to her.
"Eh.. that.. food.. or whatever that is, it's disgusting looking.. and smelling..." she covered her mouth and nose with the sleeve of her jacket. Zim actually laughed, sort of.
"W-whats so funny?" Licorice stared intensely at him, though she thought it was nice that he laughed somewhat normally for once.
"Just you" Zim laughed more, and Licorice looked away. Keeping the sleeve over her face, she slightly blushed.
"D-dammit! why am I blushing? I should be mad that he's laughing AT me..." She whispered to herself, gritting her teeth in attempts to make her blushing stop. She got up to walk away, unfortunately today was not a good day for her, she caught her toe on the edge of a metal pipe that held up the table, making her land on her side. Everyone looked at her oddly, then started laughing. She shut her eyes and gritted her teeth harder to avoid having a anger outburst, which unfortunaly, didn't work.
"I hate you ALL! What the hell is wrong with you! People make mistakes you know, no one is perfect! and besides, you friggin' idiots that have no idea even.. what you're eating! I don't even think you ARE humans!" She yelled at the highest volume she could go, being that she doesn't yell often, it was really loud. She got up and ran out of the cafeteria. Running down the school hall, she no longer cared what kind of miserable trouble she'd get in, she really didn't care about anything at all during that moment. She ran up to the doors and tried to push them open, but they were locked shut. She growled and kicked the door hard; ignoring that it's a metal door and she probably just broke her foot in the process. She let herself fall up against the door, sighing. Her keen cat ears went straight up, listening to quiet footsteps that came up behind her, she didn't turn around, she didn't care who it was, or what it was, she just listened.
"Are you... okay, Lici-human?" Licorice knew right away who this was, she curled her fists, clenching her teeth together, she turned around with flame in her eyes.
"Do you THINK I'm okay? Do I LOOK okay? NO! I'm tired of this! I don't want to be here anymore! "She gave the most intense stare at Zim ever, he didn't move, he stared back.
"Why?" That one simple question made Licorice want to kill someone. She growled and repeatedly kicked the wall to the side of her, now not facing him.
"WHY? I just told you! This whole WORLD is disgusting! It's sick! And I hate to be among such idiots! I don't know WHY you would want to even take this planet! It's definitely not going to be worth all the effort you take in the end" She stood there, facing the wall, with her hands in fists, she breathed heavily from kicking the wall so many times, and she didn't place pressure on her foot at all, it was probably shattered by now, she still managed to ignore it, the anger she had gave her some adrenaline.
"So, you are going to try to leave here forever?" Zim stared at her even though she wasn't facing him, His question was blank, he had no emotion in it whatsoever. She turned her head, her eyes sparkling with minimal tears, staring into his eyes.
"YES!" She yelled, not caring that someone will probably come to find her since she's not in class. Her voice had venom imminent in it. He stared for a moment; she stared back with her intensified stare.
"Gir won't want you to go."
"GIR has you.. h-"
"I don't want you to go either." Licorice quieted, her eyes got bigger, had she just heard what she thought she heard? Surely this is a dream, or a nightmare, sort of a combination.
So there's chapter 6! I was going to end it on this chapter, but I got a sudden burst of ideas. Slowly you're seeing Licorice's emotions more, she's still shy, but her emotions develop, you can see how she is. Her anger, her sadness, etc. I hope it was okay! Chapter 7 is soon! Please review! ^^ ~Nya!