This is the longest chapter yet, hope that isn't too big of a problem. Thanks for the reviews by the way :3 you all are so sweet
7:00am
I was one of those people who absolutely hated the sound of an alarm. I made the best fist I could and pounded on the snooze button. Personally, I think schools should start at 10:30 in the morning. I stayed up a little too late last night thinking about how I was soaring over the sky with an alien the previous evening…
I eventually rolled out of bed and got myself ready for 'skool'. I wasn't too nervous, considering I knew at least Dib, sort of his sister Gaz, and of course, Zim. I knew I wouldn't have to sit alone on the first day of school like most new kids, so hopefully I'll blend in better if I'm sitting with Zim or something. I took a second to rethink that… sitting with Zim, the green kid who yells a lot. Sure, I'll totally blend in… not.
It was a really cold September morning, so I put on my jeans and stuffed the pant legs into my black boots. Zim and I might match a little, but I had a big puffy jacket on and he seems to wear his alien uniform no matter what the weather is like. I hopped in my ghetto station wagon my parents thought was a 'practical first car', but I just called it the 'shit wagon'.
The skool parking lot was fairly empty yet since I was pretty early. I made an effort to get to school before everyone else to find my classes so I don't have to awkwardly ask unwilling students where room '501' is, and so on. My first impression of the school was okay, it didn't appear to be any less disgusting than my last public school. The faculty and staff however…
"Most of your units didn't transfer from your previous school, so it looks like you'll have to repeat some courses here, Ms… uhhh. Jenna Hope is it?" this greasy woman with about 5 hairy moles said from behind the skool's office desk.
"Honestly, there's nothing you can do to work with my old high school? I don't want to repeat classes I have already taken!" I'm not usually so rude, but I raised my voice because even though I'm sure this woman could've done more to fix my class schedule, she just didn't.
"Sorry honey, here's your schedule," said greasy-mole lady. She sounded like a smoker.
I scowled at her and took the paper she handed me. I had an American history class, algebra, astronomy 101, health, English 100, and gym. I was in advanced English at my old school, now I have to repeat the easiest levels. Not to mention I already took a health class. I walked out of the office, slamming the door behind me.
By now, the halls were crowded with people. Of course they all stared at me. I awkwardly smiled and waved. I turned to head for my first class, rolling my eyes. I wasted my entire time arguing about my schedule with greasy-mole lady in the office that I hadn't found my classes yet. Before I could ask someone where I could find my history class, I heard someone call "Jenna!" I didn't care who it was, as long as it was a familiar face.
"Dib," I sighed with relief, "Thank god, a person I recognize."
He walked over to me, smiling. His black hair was still sticking out in every direction. "How's your arm?" he asked? I forgot he hadn't seen me since the day he stitched me up.
"Doing great actually! I can handle a bit of pain, so it's not a problem." I had my right hand over my left arm while I spoke. My arm actually did hurt a lot, but I didn't want to be pitied today.
"Hopefully some karma comes back to that lizard who did this to you," Dib smirked a bit, as if it would give him joy to cause pain to Zim for accidently hurting me.
I pretended to ignore that last comment, even though I fully heard it. "Do you know where American history is? Ms. Bitters is my teacher."
"Hey! That's with me!" He smiled, "Here, I'll walk with you," and we started off down the hallway.
We came to a dingy looking door with Ms. Bitter's name on it. "Don't worry," he said, "She hates everyone, especially me" and rolled his eyes.
Dib went and sat down in the corner by the window. I was unsure of where I should sit, so I sat next to him. I smiled nervously at him. I felt everyone staring at me. I saw a girl with spikey purple hair glaring in my direction. "Ignore her," Dib assured. I was so glad he was in the class with me. I looked around for Zim, but I don't think he had this class.
Ms. Bitters rose up from her desk in front of the class. She was a tall, frail looking woman. I was intimidated by her grimacing face. She looked old enough to have been dead for quite some time.
"Class," she began. Her voice was course, like that of an old, hostile woman, "We have a new student. Please welcome the newest, hopeless appendage of the student body." I sank down into my seat, what a welcome. "Her name is Jenna, and she will be trying to graduate and amount to something, but like the rest of you, she probably won't. Jenna, stand up."
I glanced over and Dib who shrugged at me. I hated this class now. I stood up, gave a fake smile and waved, and immediately sat down again.
"Mmyeah, Ms. Bitters, she's weird." Said the purple headed girl staring at me with evil eyes not even 30 seconds ago.
"Excellent Zeeta," praised Ms. Bitters, "Anyways, children, read over the syllabus if you want to have any hopes of passing this class." Okay, Ms. Bitters hates everyone except Zeeta. I looked over to where Zeeta was and she was sticking her tongue out at me. Yep, can't wait for this school year.
I managed to get through the class with Zeeta throwing 3 wadded up pieces of paper at my head. When the bell rang, I walked out of class Dib by my side, and asked "Is she like that to everyone?" referring to Zeeta.
"No, not really," Dib replied honestly, "But she's probably jealous because you are way prettier than she is. Everyone thought of her as the 'queen-bee' around here and she probably thinks you're going to steal her title. Stupid girl stuff."
"I don't want to steal anyone's 'title', I just want to get through the year," I said, "I don't understand why she has to be so mean."
"Well, not everyone can be as pretty or as nice as you Jenna," Dib said, giving me a gawky smile. I did find Dib to be really cute, but I hope he wasn't flirting with me.
I gave a tiny laugh and said, "Okay well, I'm headed to algebra now!" I waved and went off to look for my class, leaving Dib standing there. I felt bad, but I wasn't a fan of where that conversation could have gone.
There was only a 5 minute break in between my first and second class, so I didn't have a chance to find Zim. I really wanted to see him though. I was looking forward to the morning 'breakfast' break after the first two morning classes. It was only a 15 minute break, but it was enough to make me happy again if I got to be with Zim.
Math class went smoothly, I only had 2 papers thrown at me that class period. Zeeta didn't throw them, but I assumed they were her friends since it was a group of girls mocking me. I felt the urge to throw stuff back at them, but I didn't want them to spread any more rumors than they probably already were about me.
The bell rang, and I ran out as fast as I could to the center of the skool where I noticed most people gathering. I could see kids whispering to each other while staring at me. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I didn't care. I just kept my eyes peeled for… Zim! I spotted him looking around too, hopefully for me. He was back in his 'human' disguise, looking undeniably attractive in his jet black hair and bright blue eyes. I smiled and ran over to him. When he saw me and no longer looked confused, but extremely happy. He dropped his books on the ground to pick me up and hug me. The crappiness of my morning melted away because it felt so nice to be in his arms. He put me down, and flashed that perfect smile at me. "Hello, my love-pig!" he said, "Zim has been looking for you!"
"Trust me, I've wanted to see you all morning," I assured him, "so far, it hasn't been all that great."
"Ehhh, well…" he said, picking up his books. I think he wanted to comfort me, but didn't know how so he changed the subject. "What classes do you have next?"
"Astronomy, then health." I said handing him my schedule. He ripped it out of my hand and eagerly compared it to his.
"We have these classes together!" Zim shouted happily. "Come my lady, Zim shall walk with you to class." He held out his arm so I was able to link mine around his. As we headed to class, I noticed everyone was staring at us. Not just any kind of stare, but everyone stood frozen where they were, looking straight at us, wide eyed.
"Zim, I whispered, "everyone is watching us,"
"Wha? Oh, yea they do that. But I pay no attention! Zim just got used to it." He honestly didn't give a shit what people thought about him. I admired that. If Zim doesn't care what people think, why should I? I smiled, put my arm around Zim's, and we walked straight to astronomy 101 together.
Most of the seats were taken when we got to class. Unfortunately, there were no seats available that were right next to each other. I shrugged at Zim, and accepted the fact we couldn't sit next to each other. I headed towards an open seat and sat down. I bent down to pull out some paper and pencils out of my bag when I heard a loud crash and a yelp from next to me. I sat up looking confused and found Zim sitting next to me, smiling nonchalantly. I looked down to see the kid who was in the seat next to me on the ground, gathering up his stuff. He pitifully got up and moved to a different seat.
"Did you just…" I started to say when Zim butted in,
"Oh, no no, I um, asked him to move." He put his hands on the desk in front of him and started twiddling his fingers.
"So you didn't just throw that kid on the ground and take his seat?"
"I, well—" but the bell rang and cut him off, "Oh class is starting! Jenna, shh!"
I felt bad for the kid Zim shoved out of the way, but it was nice to be able to sit next to him.
"Welcome class, you can call me Mr. Burns," said our teacher, "I'm going to hand you your first assignment." The class groaned in unison. "Relax, it's just to color the planets. Easy first day assignment." He began to pass out the pictures down the rows of desks. "You may color alone, or with a partner, I don't care."
"Jenna!" Zim whispered aggressively that it made me jump a bit, "Will you be my partner is coloring in the sheet of paper?"
I nodded, and pulled out my pencils. "I'll draw the left side, you can take the right side."
"It shall be the best coloring… EVER!" he shouted.
"Zim! No shouting," said the teacher.
"Yes, Commander Burns." Zim saluted the teacher and then proceeded to grab some of my colored pencils. He started to carefully fill in Jupiter.
I was about to color in Mercury when another wad of paper was thrown at my head. Zim noticed and stopped coloring. He snarled and snatched up the paper wad in his hand and turned around to yell, "WHO THREW THIS DISGUARDED PAPER WASTE AT MY LOVE-PIG'S HEAD?"
I noticed the teacher look up again. I also turned around to see Zeeta, laughing in the back of the class.
"Love-pig?" Zeeta asked, almost a little shocked. "You guys are together?"
"So what if we are?" I glared back at her. She only returned the evil stare. She was so focused on me she didn't even notice Zim approach her. He was right in front of her desk when he shouted, "Filthy meat beast, Zeeta!" and through the paper ball at her with force. He broke out into that 'alien cackle' as I called it, "You invoke the wrath of Zim?" Zeeta only scowled back at him.
"Zim!" said Mr. Burns, "I've told you for 3 years, no yelling in my class." He almost sounded a little annoyed.
"Yes-sir!" Zim said. Zim walked back to our table and sat down. "Ooo nice job coloring in that one!" he said excitedly, as if nothing just happened. I think he is crazy. A sweet kind of crazy that defends me, though.
We handed in our colored picture of the planets when the bell rang, and headed for health class. We faced the same seat problem as we did in astronomy. I picked a seat next to an occupied desk a student was already sitting in. Zim was about to yank on the kid's shirt to pull him up and throw him like he did the last kid, but I shoved my arm out in front to stop him. I kindly asked the kid to move so Zim and I could sit together. He stared up at us like we were insane, and looked happy to move.
We sat through a boring intro to the class speech from a teacher who looked like a gypsy. She rambled on about how people are unaware of how unhealthy they are leading their lives, blah, blah, blah. I got bored and wrote Zim a paper note that said, 'Your house after skool?' He nodded and smiled. I wrote 'you are sexy ;)' on the same note and handed it back to him. He gave me a devilish grin and began to write back. He pushed the finished note towards me, 'you are hotter than the sun that burns in the center of your galaxy :D' I laughed and tucked the note away. He had a way with words that made me just want to rip his clothes off.
Finally, lunch time. I walked with Zim after class to his locker because he said he needed to get his food. I guess he brings a packed lunch. "You really don't want to eat the cafeteria food," he said. He opened his locker to pull out a paper bag. I laughed while I read what was written on the bag, 'Master, I luv you.' Some letters were backwards. "Yes, Gir always makes my lunch and packs it for me… and writes these notes…" He rolled his eyes and began to close his locker door. I stopped him when I noticed a picture on his locker door.
"You put the picture I drew of you in your locker?" I beamed at him.
"Yes, well, you made Zim look pretty good as his alien self." He smiled, and closed the locker door.
"Maybe because you do look good as your alien self," I said wrapping my arm around his waist. He wrapped an arm around me too and nuzzled the top of my head. He could be so cute sometimes.
We walked in the cafeteria joined at the hip as we were. Zim didn't seem to notice how many people were watching us, but I did. We sat down at an empty table together, sitting side by side. Zim pulled out his lunch bag and uncovered the waffles Gir stuffed inside.
"Do you not have a lunch?" Zim asked me.
"No, I didn't bring one," I answered as my stomach growled. "I was going to get the cafeteria food, but since you warned me not to…" Zim handed me a waffle from the pile he had. I hesitated to take one.
"They don't have dirt in them," he guaranteed. I smiled and took the waffle from his hand.
"Why waffles? Is that all you eat?" I asked.
"Waffles are one of the only human foods that don't sicken me," he said.
Makes sense… I guess? I didn't even get a change to take a bite out of the waffle when it was snatched from my hand. I was so hungry… Who would do that…
"Careful Jenna! It might be poisoned!" Dib shouted.
"Get out of here Dib-filth!" Zim roared, grabbing the waffle out of Dib's hand. Zim handed it back to me. I shoved it in my mouth before anyone could take it away again.
"Why are you hanging out with this monster, Jenna?" Dib asked. My mouth was too full of waffle to answer, so Zim took the liberty of answering for me.
"Since you're so interested Dib-monkey, I'll have you know Jenna and I exchanged feelings for each other. She's MINE!" He was a little aggressive, but I liked it.
"Jenna, you… like this guy? Zim?" Dib stared at me, his eyes were sad.
"Um," was all I could spit out.
"Stop wasting your time human! She chose me!" Zim yelled. The two boys stared malevolently at each other before Dib grunted and pushed Zim on the shoulder as he walked away.
"Stupid earth weasel," Zim muttered as he sat back down at the table with me. "How's your waffle? I told Gir not to put any dirt or soap in them. I hope he listened."
"Are you and Dib going to fight like this constantly?" I asked.
"Oh. Ya. Most likely." He said taking a bite of food. "Mmm, Gir put corn in these."
At least I was done with my waffle so I didn't feel the urge to grimace at the fact I ate a waffle with corn in it. I put my head down on the table. People staring at me, girls (Zeeta) throwing smashed up paper balls at my head, Dib and Zim already arguing over me… This day wasn't going too well. At least it was halfway over. I spent the rest of lunch sitting with Zim, and avoiding the constant stares from everyone. At least no one threw anymore paper at my head during lunch.
Zim and I didn't have the next two classes together, so I suffered through English and gym without him. My English teacher, Mrs. Wolfe, made me stand up in front of the class and share with everyone where I came from, what my interests are, etc. It sucked. Next was gym, and thank goodness Gaz was in the class. She was glued to her game slave, and only raised her hand when the teacher was taking roll. She seemed to recognize me because when the gym teacher told us to gather round, Gaz came over to stand by me. She didn't look up, but I knew she remembered me.
The bell rang, skool was over, thank god. I could go to Zim's house as we planned while passing notes! I did recall he didn't have a bathroom in his house, so I stopped by the school restrooms before I went off to find him. No one was in the bathroom but me. I closed my stall door, and heard someone else come in, but not enter a stall. I didn't think anything of it until I came out of my stall. Of course, there was Zeeta. Super. I ignored her and began to wash my hands.
"At first I just didn't like you," she said, "but then when I saw you with Zim, I really started to hate you."
I continued to disregard her presence as I walked over to get a towel to dry my hands. I tried to leave when she blocked the door.
"Okay, so what? You hate Zim, so you hate me? That's fine," I said, and tried to pass her, but she still stood in my way.
"Not exactly." She growled. "I've secretly liked Zim for the past 8 years, and now that someone stands in my way, I will not let it go un-noticed. So either you stop hanging around him, or I'll make your life in this skool here a living hell. This is my skool, I'm the girl everyone admires, so you should now know not to stand in my way," she attempted to give me a threatening smile, but she wasn't scaring me.
I laughed and said, "It's your own fault you didn't try and date him when he was still single." She scowled at me again, so I physically shoved her out of my way so I could leave the bathroom. She yelled something at me as I left but I didn't care to listen. Somehow, I did feel threatened though, I just wouldn't let her know it, or see it.
I ran to the parking lot and shoved all my books in the back seat of the shit wagon. I just wanted to get out of this hell-hole of a skool and get to Zim's house.
"Wait!" I recognized Zim's voice right away. It was a sigh of relief. "I figured since we were going to my house anyway that you could drive me there?"
"Yeahsurewhatever," I said, and threw my arms around him. "I hate kids in this school already,"
Zim patted me on the head. "So do I! Then let's get out of here."
"Where's your car?" I asked before I got in.
"Well it's not like I can use the voot-cruiser, so I walk" Zim replied.
Duh, Jenna. That should've been obvious.
We got into my car and sped out of the parking lot. I saw Zeeta stare daggers at me as we drove away, and stuck my tongue out at her. She was probably judging my shit wagon as we drove off.
"What was that for?" Zim asked.
"I'll explain later," I was in no mood to talk about Zeeta's evilness. I had other plans to make myself feel better after this long, horrible day…
I parked outside of Zim's house, and rushed up to the door. I wanted to hurry up and get inside. He looked at me strangely as he opened the door. He put his stuff down on the dirty floor and stretched. "Whew! A successful skool day by ZIM!"
I slid off my boots, ripped off my jacket and my shirt, so I was only wearing my bra and pants.
Zim straightened himself out after he stretched, and looked over at me, puzzled, "Um," he said.
I put my hand on his chest and pushed him over in the direction of the couch until he was right in front of it. I then shoved him into a seated position. I pulled up on his shirt, completely removing it, even his black invader gloves came off. I stood back and admired his abs. He was thin, but his muscles were defined in his lean frame. I then climbed up onto the couch, straddling him, and wrapped my arms around the back of his neck. "I've had a really crappy day," I said, "and you're going to make it better."
He flashed me that evil grin, "As you command," he said, and grabbed my waste to pick me up and flip me over onto my back so that now he was on top of me. I pulled his face to mine with my hands, and kissed him as passionately as I could. This is exactly what I needed to release the tension I built up from this day. I moved my hands up to Zim's hair, and pulled it off. I felt around for an antenna, and grabbed ahold of it. He pulled his face a few inches from mine to say, "You do remember what happens when you do that?"
"Yes, I remember," I said looking into his eyes as I stroked the antenna a little harder. He grinned and began to kiss and touch me all over. I giggled as he played with me, but he came back up to my face to pick up where we left off. We rolled around the couch as things got more physical. Where ever this was going, I wasn't going to stop it.
Well 4,000 words later... that was long! I had a lot of back stories to set up so the chapter kinda grew... anyway! Please review if you have the time/energy :3 It's much appreciated!
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