Wow… Sorry for the insanely short chapter, guys. I also didn't really get a chance to proof this, so if there's a bunch of she did she did she did sentences in here, I'm truly sorry… I guess the only thing that can be said is that… well, I've been working on a major comic project for the past few months (excuse for why I did update) and I got a new computer (excuse for why it took me so long to format everything). Since it's tax season, my mom's taken the laptop that I do all my work on hostage (is currently thanking God for the USB storage port…) I haven't seen it for about a month, which means all of the stories I've been working on have been put on hold, too… It's given me some time to sort out my thoughts and give me a better idea of what I want to write, I'll grant it that, but I still miss having it around… In the midst of all the hassle, however, I've lost one of my fanfics I was working on (and I was on page fifty, almost done, too). I talked about it with a friend, and he said he'd incorporate some of my ideas that were deleted into a fic he's writing, so it's all good.

Wow. I'm rambling again… I thought I'd grown out of this by now… Silly me… On with the story!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Zim. I do own all of my original characters, though, including Ros (duh).

Ros lied on the ground. She didn't bother to check if the room was two stories high or not, and the fall hurt. The snow hurt worse. She felt for something dry, but couldn't. She decided to grab a metal trashcan lid and hold it on top of her to stop the snow from hitting the upper half of her body. The snow was at least a foot and an half deep. She trucked through it until she got so tired she wanted to collapse. A sound rang her antenna. She perked her head out of the snow and saw a group of humans yelling front of a store. The storekeeper was in front trying to calm them down.

"What on Irk is going on?" she asked herself. She couldn't get a good view from where she was, so she ran into an ally next to the store employing caution so they wouldn't see her. After peeking from around the corner, she saw a sign hanging from the overhang. "Toy Joy," it said happily.

"Toys?" Ros asked aloud. She looked at all the commotion going on.

"Okay, we're going to open the doors in three minutes! Remember, those of you with the special coupons may enter before the others!" the storekeeper shouted to the mob. The people with these special slips of paper walked to the start of the line.

"What kind of toy store is this?" Ros really wanted to get a glimpse, but as long as she was an alien, that wasn't going to happen. She looked behind her and saw some strange people without homes or much clothes sitting in the back of the ally waving happily. She smiled wryly and ran off. "I should have left later in the day!" she whined, then began to wonder whether the Invader that the evil Dib human was talking about was really on this strange planet. She guessed it had to be. There was no other way he could have found out. He also said that he was schooling with him. All she had to do was find a school. She stopped in the middle of the street. It seemed like none of the humans around noticed she was there. She put the trash can lid on the ground and looked around. The adults were trudging along on their way to work and didn't even notice her. The little kids definitely saw her, but when they told the adults, they didn't seem to believe them. "How naive are these humans?" She lost interest in her question by the sound of a loud bell ringing in the distance.

She rushed down the icy sidewalks. The streets were now empty, but just to be safe, she kept her trashcan lid in tote. While running, she tripped on a crack and slid down the frozen walkway. She could hear some humans talking and looked up. There was a chain link fence next to a huge… thing. The surface was hard and rough. It started out in one huge piece and as it went up it split into different sections. A small plaque stood next to it. It read 'Patterson Commemorative Tree.' Therefore, the thing had to be a tree. She gripped it tightly and climbed up it. From a reasonably safe branch, she could see a view of what appeared to be a courtyard. It was littered with humans. Young ones, about the age of the Dib human. Most of them were standing still. Some were throwing an oval shaped ball. She looked down at the humans that she heard talking before.

"I can hardly wait until the day is over!" she sighed.

"These finals are going to slaughter my GPA," a guy said nervously.

"At least we get the second half of the day off! Then after that it's nothing but winter break to spend together!" the girl reassured, pressing her lips onto the guy's cheek. Ros studied the action like a hawk. Why did she do that? They started to walk toward a door directly across the yard. Everyone started to pack into the large building. Two other kids were running around. Ros didn't spend much attention on them, but more on how humans were tolerate to the snow. She suddenly heard a screech of pain. A kid was standing over another who was apparently shoved in the ground. After focusing on them for a few seconds, she realized that the human standing was the Dib.

"Get up, Zim!" he shouted.

"Zim?" she asked herself. The human-dressed Irken feebly stood up, shaking from the pain of the snow. Dib pushed him down again.

"Get up!" he repeated. Zim struggled to get up again. Ros couldn't believe what was going on. After all, she heard of how dangerous and suicidal he was, and now a stupid human was pushing him around. He stood up again. Suddenly, the support under Ros caved in and the snow collapsed around her as she plummeted to the ground. Both of the boys looked at the freshly fallen snow.

"You! Kids! Get back inside!" a hall monitor shouted. Dib rolled his eyes and marched in. Zim looked at the pile a little longer. It started to move a little bit. Zim's eyes widened. Ros grumbled as she got out of the snow. The snow stung and some got in her eye. Once her focus returned, she looked up and saw Zim glaring over her. She quivered and started using the snow as a shield.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

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