"Hi guys!" Keef yelled, quickly running down the stairs with his mom following close behind. Dib awkwardly stood up and greeted Keef with a fake smile, Zim followed doing the same. "I'm so glad you two came! Now let me show you the room you'll stay in for the time you're here. You two will have to share a room because we only have one guest bedroom, sorry." Keef explained as his mom went around him and into the kitchen.
"I have share a room with this stupid-" Zim yelled but was cut off when Dib put his hand over his mouth. Dib shooshed Zim and he rolled his eyes. Zim batted the human's hand away and sighed. They both followed Keef back upstairs to see the room.
"I know it's not the best but it will do right? If not, I could give you my room and I could sleep in here." Keef offered but Dib shook his head.
"It's fine. We'll manage, but do you have an air mattress or something? There's only one bed." Dib asked, he really didn't want to end up sleeping with Zim. Does Zim even sleep? Anyway, it'd be really awkward.
"Yeah, we do, but you have to blow it up yourself. We couldn't find an air pump, so, sorry guys." Keef shrugged and walked off, supposedly going to get the air mattress. Zim and Dib looked around to see what was there. There was just a dresser, bed, and a nightstand. The room had orange-ish brown walls and dark green floors, wow, whoever designed this room had no sense of style.
"Well, what do we do now Dib-stink?" Zim asked, sighing whilst climbing up on the bed to get comfortable. Dib shrugged and sat down next to him.
"First of all, we have to deside who gets the bed and who gets the mattress." Dib replied, smirking at Zim. The alien just scowled in return.
"Of course the amazing Zim gets the great, amazing, comfy bed." Zim looked at Dib with great confidence.
"No you don't." Dib shoved Zim off the bed swiftly.
"HEY!!! I HATE YOU SO MUCH! With your stupid HEAD. STUPID HEAD. WHY DO I STILL-"
"What is all this yelling about?" The two jump at Jackie's sudden appearance. "Both of you, come here." Her voice turned sweetly-sour as Dib gulped, slowly heading toward her with Zim. She then suddenly turned deathly serious. "Do you two wanna know something? Keef has been planning for you to come over ever sense last Christmas. He has been so happy for the whole year, knowing it'll be the best Christmas ever. If you two start fighting, Keef will be really sad. I don't want my baby sad, you hear me? You came here, that's step one. Step two is acting like you wanna be here. You better not mess this up or you will pay for it. I will make sure of it." Her serious expression turned back into a bright smile as she walked out of the room, leaving the pair terrified.
"That human scares me.." Zim said quietly with his eyes wide.
"For once, I agree. She scares me too Zim. Try our best not to fight?" Dib held his hand out to Zim. Zim took his hand.
"Deal. Not because I like you, just because Keef's female parental unit terrifies me."
"Understandable." Dib walked back to the bed and flopped down on it face first. Zim sighed and sat down on top of the dresser.
"Hey guys! I got the mattress! Sorry it took so long, it was stuck in the box. Well, I'm going to go help my mom cook dinner. See ya later!" Keef put the mattress on the floor beside the bed and ran off downstairs. Zim jumped off the dresser to go inspect it.
"Zim, we don't have to blow it up right now." Dib said, turning his head to see Zim. "We can do it after we eat. Besides, are you even going to eat? I mean, if it's meat then you definetly can't eat."
"I'll figure something out. I'll just look in their fridge for anything edible to me. Also-" A tentacle-like tube came out of Zim's pak and hooked onto the place where you blow up the mattress, inflating it in less than five seconds. "I don't have to wait, I do what Zim wants, when Zim wants." Zim smirked at Dib and Dib frowned.
"Showoff." Dib said, facing back down towards the bed lazily. Zim fell down onto the mattress, putting his hands behind his head and smiled.
"You know what? This thing feels like my thinking mat in my room of Zim Geniuses. It's nice so I'll stay here." Zim stated happily while Dib took his heavy coat off and throwing it in the floor.
Time Skip of Doom~
"Come eat kiddos!!" Keef's mom shouted from downstairs. Zim and Dib hopped up and ran to the kitchen, almost tripping over their own feet. Thirty minutes of nothing is boring so they were happy to be doing anything. They sat down at the table with Keef, waiting for the food. "Here ya go!" Jackie place down a plate of pot roast, potatoes, and green beans in front of Dib and Keef. She then placed a plate of waffles covered in many different flavors of fun dip. Zim's eyes lit up as he drooled over the food.
"Y-you... How did you know??" Zim asked, picking up a fork that was placed beside the plate.
"I asked Gir what you could eat because I know you don't like meat and I asked my mom if you could have waffles and something sweet instead of pork roast." Keef explained. "Dib, do you like the food?"
"It's pretty good for being pig.. are you sure that's what it is?" Dib replied, suprised. He'd never liked pig that much, in fact he had a slight fear of them so he didn't like eating them.
"Trust me, it is! Me and my mom have perfected cooking it so that I could be sure you like it." Keef smiled and his mom nodded as she sat down with her own plate.
"Zim, are you sure that is healthy for you to eat? That may be why your skin is green, not enough meat and veggies." Jackie said, concerned.
"Nonsense." Zim replied happily, his mouth full of waffle. Dib laughed a little at the alien.
-After Zim eating all of Keef's fun dip-
"Zim, Dib! Do you want to go outside and play? I have a trampoline!" Keef ran towards the door leading to the backyard then stopping and waited for Zim and Dib to follow. Dib looked at Zim, who was smiling widely, and shrugged. Zim ran over to Keef and Dib soon followed behind. Once they got outside, Zim gaspedat the huge trampoline. It was at least fifteen foot in diameter.
"Cool huh? I got it for my twelth birthday!" Keef said excitedly like usual. Zim jumped up on top of the trampoline and smirked, fists in the air.
"I am ruler of the trampoline-thing!!! Muhahaha!!!" Zim laughed triumphantly. Dib laughed lightly and shook his head. Keef jumped up on the trampoline as well, motioning for Dib to join in on the fun.
"Come on Dib, joins us!" Keef shouted.
"Yes Dib-smell, be my worst enemy, we will fight for top position!" Zim held out his hand to Dib but he just blushed and stared. Zim got down and poked Dib's face, concerned. "What's wrong human? Are you sick? You face is pink."
"Yeah, I'm fine. You worried or something? Heheh"
"No, I-" Before Zim could say anything else, Dib picked him up off the ground and threw him back onto the trampoline. Zim looked back at Dib, smirking. "You can't defeat Zim that easily."
"Come on guys, get along!" Keef told the two as Dib crawled up on the trampoline. Keef jumped and landed a backflip, Zim tried to imitate the flip but failed, falling on his face. Zim laughed, the first time Dib had heard Zim actually laugh, not evilly, not sarcasticly, but genuinely. Dib was shocked, he caught himself staring and looked away. 'That's adorable...wait. No..Dib No.' Dib thought, contradicting himself. He then joyfully laughed with Zim throughout the day, ignoring the cold air outside.
Well, until Zim threw Dib into a pile of snow.
"Zim, what the heck?!? It's freezing cold! Why!" Dib yelled, running inside to put his big coat on. Jackie just stared.
"Is Zim trying to start a fight?"
"No, he's just rough. I don't think he knows how to play around, he doesn't have many friends so-"
"Didn't you bring anything like a change of clothes with you? Zim had a backpack so he probably has something." Jackie interupted. Dib then realized he had left them in the bag with the presents. He quickly ran and grabbed them.
"I did, I just forgot I'd put them in with the presents. I'm going to go put my stuff upstairs now." Dib said, rushing to his room. He put his stuff on the bed and opened his laptop on the bed. "Well, I see nobody loves me. Zero notifications. Man do I feel special. Does my dad even know he can text me through my computer now? I swear I told him, though he may not have listened." Dib shrugged an turned around to go back outside. He jumped when he saw Zim behind him.
"So, did you break anything? And do you know where Gir is? I know he came with us here." Zim questioned.
"No, I think I'm fine, my arm just hurts a little. I did see him fly upstairs when we got here. Who knows where he's at or what he's doing right now." Dib replied.
"Well, I kinda hope he left and went back home. Don't want him puking up food all over the place, that's for home." Zim laughed guiltly."So... whatcha wanna do up here?" Dib raised an eyebrow.
"Zim? What did you do?"
"Oh nothing! Don't worry about it! You know what, we should just camp out in here for a while, like, for the rest of the week.."
"Confess."
"Fine! I just yelled at that Jackie human and she isnt feeling the happiest. I think she's pretty angry.." Zim confessed. Dib looked down and shook his head.
"Zim, why would you do that? I swear she's a phsychopath. She's going to kill us or something if we mess something up."
"Wrong. Phsychopaths don't have emotion. She clearly has extreme anger issues and cares waaaaay too much about Keef. She also has no clue what 'joking around' is." Zim sat down on the bed, angerly crossing his arms. Dib just nodded his head.
"Maybe I can convince her that you didn't mean any of it so that she won't be mad forever. I don't like when she glares. She's worse than Gaz." Dib explained, getting up and walking down the stairs to settle the brawl. Zim sat there, bored. He decided that he would look around on Dib's computer. He went to files to see what he has. There were more than 20,000 things on that thing. Zim clicked the search bar and searched himself up. There were 6,835 results.
"WOW. I AM SO AMAZING TO THE DIB AND HE WON'T ADMIT IT. What if I clicked on one... maybe a picture I guess." Zim clicked on a .png file and his face turned teal. "This is wrong on so many levels of wrongness... DIB!!!!!" Zim heard loud footsteps quickly coming up the stairs.
"What Zim?" Dib stopped in his tracks when Zim pointed to the computer screen that showed a naked drawing of Zim himself. He blushed like mad as he ran to grab his pc. "That's nothing! D-don't look at my stuff!"
"It's not 'nothing' Dib. Why would you draw that?" Zim was not disgusted, just confused.
"I curious to find out what..what you look like? I don't know how to say that.." Dib was completely flustered at this point.
"That's still wrong Dib-human. Also, are you sure your not sick? Your face is red again and I think I'm getting your disease..." Zim was still blushing and was playing dumb. He knew what it meant but it was awkward for him. It was embarrassing thinking that Dib thought of Zim naked. Also a bit creepy.
"Zim. Don't ever mention this again..." Dib demanded shyly, sliding his computer under the bed.
"Can I look at your other pictures?"
"No!"
"Why not? I've already seen one! Its not like it can get any worste. Can it..? I was just searching up my name." Zim contradicted. Dib groaned in annoyance as he reached back under the bed and grabbed the laptop, handing it to Zim. "Password?"
"Mothman413"
"Mothman??? What's that?" Zim asked curiously, typing the password.
"It's a codename." Dib shrugged.
"Hmm... Interesting. Ooh! I like that picture! Zim looks amazing." Zim smirked but then looked at Dib. " Just how obsessed are you with Zim?"
"I'm not that obsessed.."
"Really? Then how come you have 6,835 things with my name on your computer?"
"Research."
"And the pictures of me eating pixi stixs?"
"Just remembering what you eat."
"And the anime drawings..?"
"Um.. drawing practice?" Dib was feeling really awkward now. This is why he doesn't let anyone use his computer.
"Yeah right." Zim rolled his eyes and smiled. "Zim is amazing so there is no doubting your obsession."
"Hi Dib, hello Zim. We baked you something for desert!" Zim and Dib jumped at Keef's voice. They hadn't even heard him coming up the stairs.
"Okay, we'll be right down." Dib picked Zim up from off the bed and followed Keef into the kitchen.
-After a couple of large plates of brownies-
Zim followed Dib upstairs happily full of delicious brownies. Dib was a bit agrivated by the fact that Zim thinks he is his slave and making him do everything for him but happy nonetheless that the thing with Zim and Keef's mom was settled. When the duo entered the room, Dib set Zim's blankets on the air matress and spread them out. He had at least ten of them.
"There Zim, fix them however you want them. I'm not doing anything else but sleep." Dib rolled down the covers to the bed, turned the light out, and got in bed. Zim crawled onto the mattress. He couldn't sleep, he was still afraid of nightmares, so he decided to have a good laugh instead. As soon as he heard Dib starting to snore, he grabbed the laptop and looked through the pictures that Dib took of himself with 'paranormal evidence' for the rest of the night.