Disclaimer: Non, je ne Zim Invader propres.
A/N: Ssssttthhhhhh... Ooohhh. Yeah, sorry about the late update... But... Yeah, I have no excuse. It's just that lately I've gotten obsessed with South Park and I find it hard to write this. Don't get me wrong, I still love Invader Zim, but now I love South Park too. If you read some of my last chapters you'll notice some hints of South Park. Not a lot of them, but like... Two. And I think you'll notice some more in this one. I can't exactly remember what I put, but I did make a new character. But this is not turning into a crossover! So yeah...
ANYWAYSSS... THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS! I CAN'T EXPLAIN MY THANKFULNESS WELL ENOUGH ON THE INTERFOOT (What my grandma calls the internet... she's so funny. You should come over to her house with me sometime and she'll make tacos for us.) SO I DECIDED TO WRITE THIS IN CAPS! IT CAUGHT YOUR ATTENTION, NO?
WHEN YOU READ THIS DO YOU THINK I'M YELLING?
"Fuck Math! Fuck it! Why do I need to know any of that shit anyways?" Rose's loud comment carried through out the large cafeteria.
"I don't know Rose, but I suggest you tone it down before we have to go to the principal's office! You don't wanna run into Mrs. Newman again do you?" I snapped at her as we continued down the cafeteria line.
"Don't worry Rose, Math will get easier as the year goes on. Mr. Gilson is always mean to all the new kids. Don't know why though." Dib told Rose as a lunch lady slopped mashed potatoes onto his tray along with a mighty helping of gravy.
"Well I still hate it... with the very soul of my being." Rose stated, frowning.
I put some Jell-O on my tray and picked it up. "Well, whatever... Where are we gonna sit?" Rose and Dib picked up their trays and faced the rows and rows of long tables.
"I see an empty table in the back." Dib stated and headed toward a long gray table.
"I hate math..." Rose verbalized, making her statement more clear by slamming her tray down on the table sending food every which way and sat down angrily.
"We know Rose." I said, wiping some of the stray peach juice off of my face and I took a seat next to her.
"Yeah, well," Rose said taking a huge bite out of her chicken leg, "I don't know what that teacher... hey, this is really good chicken... has against me... but if he ever calls me a retard again..." she looked over to me at the mention of the 'R' word. I didn't react to her when she said it, it's different that way. "Imma send you on 'im." I grinned.
Dib looked up confused. "Why Maxi?"
"Oh Dib," Rose frowned and leaned across the table to rub his arm. "You have so much to learn." I chuckled and picked up my chicken leg. We never had this kind of chicken at our old school... Wonder why they have it here. This place seems pretty dank and like they wouldn't be able to afford this good of food. I thought and brought the chicken to my mouth. I was about to bite down when I felt a coldness come from behind me and run up my spine into my neck. I shivered, dropping the chicken, and rubbed my arms trying to warm myself up. It didn't help, because after my futile attempt at warmth, I swear to God it got colder and I discerned an aura hatred and extreme sadness wash over me. I looked at Rose again, wondering if she was experiencing this too. She was white as a sheet. I'm sure I was too. I bowed my head and put my fist to my mouth. I'm gonna be sick... I thought. The room started to spin, then I saw, through a haze, Dib look up casually and say: "Hey Gaz."
The room suddenly snapped back. Rose and I whipped our heads around I saw the cause of my sickness. Gaz was standing there with her squinted eyes glued to the screen of some portable game-thingy. I looked her up and down, like I do with everyone I meet. She had grown, along with everyone else, and was probably about five feet tall. Her purple hair was shorter, just above her jaw, and somewhat spiked. Her were pinned back revealing her thin eyebrows. She was wearing dark purple jeans that clad to her thin legs with a black, long sleeve shirt with purple stripes down the arms and the same skull necklace she wore throughout the series was draped around her neck. And she did, indeed, add an aura of hatred and sadness.
"Dib." she walked around to the other side of the table and sat down next to him.
"Your not gonna eat today?" Dib asked shoving a spoonful of mashed potatoes into his mouth.
"Do I have food with me?" Gaz looked up and widened one eye a little. Dib frowned. "So, who are your friends?" She asked referring to Rose and I.
"This is Rose," he pointed to her, "and this is Maxi." he pointed to me. "They're new."
"I guessed that," she snapped, "or else they wouldn't be sitting with you. They obviously haven't seen how much of a freak you are yet." her eyebrows moved up and down with her insult. I laughed.
"No," Dib protested back, "they know I study the paranormal. And they know I know Zim's an alien, and they don't think I'm crazy!" Gaz looked at us a raised an eyebrow, we nodded, and she went back to playing her game.
I sighed and went back to my chicken, taking huge bites out of it. Wonder what Jim's doing now. I thought of my small black dog, Wonder what Kat's doing now... I wonder what... My eyes widened for s second before I squeezed them shut tight. I wonder what they did with mom's body, I felt my face get hot, I wonder where they crashed... I dropped my chicken, balled up my fists and set them in my lap... What if they crashed in water? Would they even find her body? Tears welled up in my eyes and I felt a hand on my back.
"Maxi," Rose's voice was sympathetic, "is something wrong."
Still looking at my lap, I nodded and stood up. "Come." I told Rose and I turned around and started walking toward the large double doors of the cafeteria. I pushed through them and out into a deserted hallway with Rose on my heels.
"Dude, what's up Maxi?" she asked, trying to see my face through my bangs.
I looked up, tears streaming down my face, emerald eyes green than ever before. Rose's eyes widened and she took a step forward. "Maxi! What's wrong?"
I shook my head and leaned against the nearest wall before sliding down it. "My m-mom..." I stuttered pathetically, "I fo-for-forgot to tell-l yoooouhhhuuhhuuu..." I wailed.
Rose sat down and put an arm around me. I sat there with Rose's arm rested on my shoulders and cried silently for a couple minutes. I sniffled and looked at Rose. She was looking down at the ground, pink hair hanging in her face. "She died." I stated bluntly. Rose snapped her head up and looked at me, eyes as wide as dinner plates. "Mom and Steve were in a plane crash... there were no survivors." I looked off to the right and I felt my bottom lip tremble. I closed my eyes and started to cry again.
"When?" Rose asked.
I looked up and thought. "Yesterday...?" It was more of a question than a statement. "That's why we're here." I said.
"Why we're here? What?" Rose asked and I started to explain the whole thing. Madam Lee, the pink potion she gave me, the phone call, running away, tripping on the root, drinking the potion, waking up in a forest, discovering I was in an alternate universe, walking through the city and then her showing up.
By the time I was done Roses eyes were even wider than dinner plates and all she said was: "How the hell did you forget to tell me that?"
I laughed. "I have short term memory loss." Rose laughed back and then stopped we sat in silence again.
Rose shook her head. "Your mom..."
"I know..." I closed my eyes again. "Let's not talk about it. I don't want to be in a bad mood." I stood up.
"Well, you might not talk about it, but it sure is hard as hell not to think about it. Will you be okay?"
"I'll be fine." I stated. "And we both have science next don't we?"
Rose pulled her schedule out of her back pocket and looked at it. "Yeah" she confirmed with a smile.
"Then you can keep an eye on me." I lightly punched her.
"Will do." And we walked back into the cafeteria smiling.
When we reached the table Dib looked up at us and frowned. "What was up?"
"Nothing you'd be interested in." Rose stated.
"You never know." Dib said shrugging and he dropped it. Then he stood up and picked up his tray. "The bells gonna ring soon. We should probably get ahead of the rush."
"Good idea." and we headed to our lockers, got our books, then Dib showed us to the science room, which also turned out to be my homeroom.
All three of us marched into the room and I, once again, had to shield my eyes from the horrific explosion of light. Rose and Dib responded the same way. A few kids were sitting in the desks around the room studying and Rose and I headed to over to Mrs. Soto grinned at us from behind her desk.
"Hello once again Maxi. And... I do not know your name, chica."
Rose grinned widely. "I'm Rose." And she stuck out her tan hand for a hand shake. Mrs. Soto, however, had something in mind. Her hand met Rose's in a loud slap and Rose recoiled instantly, bringing her hand to her chest, holding it.
"Oh." A pained expression crossed Mrs. Soto's face and she sat back down. After a few moments of awkward silence, Mrs. Soto spoke up agian. "Well then, I guess the first order of business is to find out where you'll sit." She took out a sheet of paper that, I'm guessing, had the seating chart on it. "Rose... You'll sit by... Zim." I snorted, she smiled, and Mrs. Soto just looked at us. "Maxi," I looked her in the eye. "You'll sit in front of Rose by Kenny." I tilted my head to the side. I wonder what this 'Kenny' character looks like. I thought Mrs. Soto showed us where the seats were. Then she shooed us off and we took our seats.
Kids were still slowly walking into the classroom. I kept an eye out for Zim, and for this mysterion Kenny (A/N: Sorry, I couldn't help myself.). I turned around and looked at Rose, she was chewing on her upper lip. She looked back at me and used her freakish physic powers to read my mind.
"I wonder what Kenny's gonna look like." She stated.
"Yeah, I know."
"Wonder what Zim's gonna say to me, or us. Do you think he'll even say anything at all?"
I smiled. "He talked to me this morning. He seemed nice enough, if your worried that he'll be all mean and jack."
"Well of course he talked to you. You seem all 'down to Earth' and shit." Rose grinned back at me and I cocked an eyebrow. Then someone sat down next to me.
He was about average height and somewhat tan. His unkempt hair was blonde. He must of felt my gaze because he stopped what he was doing and looked at me.
"Hi." He said flashing a wide smile at me, ocean blue eyes glowing. I felt my eyes widen and my mouth hang open slightly. HOLY FUCK! I thought. He's gorgeous! "I'm Kenny." He sat down.
I gathered myself and put on that cool, sly, so called (by Rose) 'down to Earth' look on my face. I smiled. "I'm Maxi." And then I felt the always over-bearing sun being blocked out from behind me. I turned around and found Zim looming over me. He looked me dead in the eye. It was entrancing.
"Hi..." I said.
A confused look extended over Zim's face. "Ehh..." And he ran/walked to his seat. I tilted my head to the side and turned back to Kenny who was watching Zim. He looked back at me, and the bell rang.
"All right class," Mrs. Soto yelled, strutting to the front of the room. "Today we are going to start a project." Moans and groans escaped the mouths of students who basically slammed their heads on their desks in frustration, Kenny being one of them. "BUT!" Mrs. Soto shouted over the noise. Kids looked up, hope shining in their eyes. "You can work in groups." Girls whipped their heads around and went to sit with their friends, boys got up and high-fived. I looked at Kenny, who was still frowning.
"People haven't learned yet..." He said.
"Learned what?" I asked/
"Mrs. Soto never lets us pick our partners. These people," He waved his hand across all of the other kids, "obviously don't know that."
I chuckled and then Mrs. Soto began to speak again.
"Yeah, no need to get excited, children. I will be picking the groups. Not you." She smiled as the girls reluctantly went back to their seats and the boys sank back into their seats. "You will be working in groups of four." She walked over to our side of the room and started to go down two rows and picking the groups. "Jeff, Mike, Shelly, and Dave will be one group. Kenny, Maxi... Oh Maxi!" She shouted suddenly and shuffled over to me. She grabbed Rose's and my arms and hoisted us up so that we were standing on both sides of her. "Everybody, these are our new students: Maxi and Rose." People waved and smiled at us. We waved back. "All right, you two can sit down." Mrs. Soto let go of our arms and we sat down. "Back to business. Kenny, Maxi, Rose, and Zim, you will be an other group." Kenny turned to smile at me. This boy seems way too perfect. I thought to myself as I smiled back. I wonder what his imperfection is... I turned back so I was facing the front of the room. What are my imperfections? My anger, that's defiantly one. I have horrible taste in music. I smiled inwardly and slouched in my chair. Mrs. Soto was handing out rubrics for our project. I get okay grades. I guess. B's are good, right? Yeah, they are. I looked back at Kenny he was staring off into space. My looks? I guess my teeth are kind of fucked up. I'm short and I'm not as skinny as some girls. I frowned, weight is an stupid way to judge people. All in all I have a good personality, right? I reached up to grab some papers that were being handed back to me. I mean, I get tend to get jealous easily. I can be pessimist at times. I looked at Kenny again. He had an odd far off look in his eyes.
"All right class," Mrs. Soto went up the the front of the room, "We are starting a new unit about the chemicals in our brains," she wave her hands around her head causing students to laugh. "that cause our emotions." The class oh'ed and aw'ed. It was a fairly interesting subject. "I now be assigning each group an emotion or two. Jeff, your group will have happiness. Kevin, your group will have anger. Barbra, your group has fear. And Maxi," I looked up "your group will have love and lust." I grinned as I got jealous looks from girls and boys. This is gonna be fun. I thought and turned to Rose. She was grinning madly. We high-fived and I turned back to the front of the room as Mrs. Soto explained what we'd be doing. It was mostly just researching what chemicals caused our emotions and how most people would react. She was still explaining what we were to do when note landed on my desk. I looked in the direction it came from. Kenny. He was smirking at me in a way that might be considered creepy and I wondered if I should read it. Curiosity took over and I snatched the note up in my hands and ripped it open. Glad I got to be in a group with you. I think we'll have some fun with this projected. Winkey-face. I thought to myself and cocked an eyebrow. I looked at Kenny, his creepy grin still stained his face. I turned to Rose. She was looking at Kenny funny, I couldn't really tell what was running through her mind but I don't think it was bad, but then again I don't think it was necessarily good either. Then I looked at Zim who was looking at me. I hadn't really given him much thought this period, but he had the oddest look in his eyes, odder than Rose's and not as creepy as Kenny's... but what was it... My mind began turning gears as we locked eyes. Is that... Is that... Oh God... That is... That's... Lust.
Oh yess... That's is indeed lust bitches. But anyways... There you have it! I know it was kind of a sucky chapter but I needed to post something! And, yes! SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER! FUCK YEEEAAHH! Which means I probably update more often. And like I said before, I've got a new obsession that goes by the name of South Park... So I might write a fiction about it... Not sure yet, but keep an eye out!
