Rotten Head In The Morning

Chapter 10

The morning sun rose. Light shown from Zim's living room window; it's rays raining down on the female teen that was still sleeping soundly on the couch. It was not long before the teen stirred and brought an arm up over her face to block the annoying rays of light from her closed eyes. Seeing as this was doing no good, she groaned in frustration while rubbing the sleep from her heavy eyelids. Finally, her bright orbs flutter open. Slowly, she sits up and arches her back while stretching out her arms, satisfied to hear her stiff joints pop.

"Mmm..that always feels good.." she moaned to her inner thoughts. She soon releases another groan from her flexing larynx and reached up to rub her temples after suddenly being hit with a mass headache. "Fucking hangovers…" she grumbled before deciding to finally stand up. The dryness in her mouth called for a huge glass of water; fortunately, she brought some water bottles from home. She knew very well Zim had no form of H2O in his home what-so-ever. But when Gaz looked to where her duffle bag was suppose to be, she remembered something. "Fuck….that damn robot has my duffle.." she sighed.

Seeing as there was no other option, Gaz made her way to the robot's room to see if the little S.I.R unit had taken the bag in with him. Before the female earth teen could even come close to knocking at the robotic sidekick's door, a loud scream caused her to jump and turn towards the alien's room. Without thinking, she slams the door open, only to see the Irken teen tossing around, screaming, while holding onto his cranium.

"Zim?! What's wrong?!"

It was then the alien sat up and gave the female earth teen a hateful glare. "You! I knew it! You did poison Zim! My head is throbbing and my squeedily spooch is on fire because of your filthy alcohol! Filthy human Gaz-baby!" He soon groaned after the outburst and fell back into his bed. Gaz then winced when she saw Zim flip over to the side of the bed and released last night's contents.

Releasing a sigh from her lungs, and ignoring her own agonizing headache, she slowly makes her way towards the alien. She sits upon his make-shift bed and leans over to beginning rubbing his back. "We all have our first.." she chuckled inwardly. Her rubbing arm is soon shoved off as the green skinned teen sits back up, wiping his mouth with his gloved hands.

"Damn you and your earth poisons!" he hissed.

She rolls her eyes. "For god sakes Zim, don't be so paranoid…you're just going through a hangover.." she tried to assure. The alien teen hissed once more, soon bringing a hand to his mouth when he felt more bile threatening to belch from his throat.

"Y-you liar!" he coughed.

Again, she sighed and stood up. The dizziness returned to her brain, which caused her to fall back on the bed with a groan.

Zim seeing this, lifted a brow in confusion, his anger slowly turning to concern. "Gaz-human?"

The human chuckled softly while rubbing her temples. "See? We humans get effected too…only I know how to keep my liquor in my stomach.." she joked while lifting her head up to gaze at the alien teen. Zim still had a confused expression upon his face as he stared back. Staring back at those big ruby hued orbs soon brought a tint flush upon the female human's cheeks. Quickly, she looked away and carefully stood up.

"Look, I'll get you something for your head…ok? They'll help your hangover.."

"NO!" The alien interrupted, almost flinging himself from the bed. "No! You won't make Zim take anymore of your filthy earth poisons!" he screamed.

Gaz turned back to face the paranoid space boy. "Zim…it's not poison, it's medicine, it should help.."

"YOU LIE! You filthy human worm-babies are nothing but liars! You're all the same! Always shunning Zim, humiliating Zim, hurting Zim! YOU'RE ALL THE SAME!" He blew out.

To say the alien's sudden outburst did not scare her would be an understatement. Gaz stared silently at the now panting male teen, watching as his three digit hands clenching the sheets of his bed.

"Zim…" she whispered under her breath. A feeling of guilt began to slowly spread throughout her subconscious mind, for in a way, his words were true. Throughout the years of her secretly watching the alien teen from afar, she had noticed all the things he's been through, the good and the bad. How even in high skool, the other students from their old skool would still pick on him because of his skin, his odd behavior, or because he was always alone. Back then, it irritated her, but now….now that she was older, and more neurotic, she felt angry. But in truth, she was angrier with herself. Finally, the female teen found herself yanked out of her thoughts when she heard the other teen's voice.

"Get out!" yelled the alien male.

Silently, she stares at him.

"I said GET OUT!" he screamed again, this time slamming a closed fist onto his bed. Zim's violent gesture caused the female human teen to flinch back.

It was then she huffed, "fine! Screw you Zim!" With that, she turned away and left the alien's room.

A strange aching pain pierced Gaz's heart as she stomped through the hall and made her way to the front door. Her hands were balled into fists, she could feel her head beginning to ach worse than before, but stubbornly, she ignored it. Her teeth clenched together when she felt tears threatening to seep through her eyes.

"Why that HELL am I…" her inner thoughts were soon interrupted when a high pitched voice called out to her from behind.

"Hey scary lady! You forgetting this!"

Releasing an annoyed growl from her vocals, the female teen turned, only to feel something solid collide with her face, hard. Within seconds, she saw stars, soon to be followed by darkness and a series of uncontrollable laughter.

Ouch! Poor Gaz. 6^ ^;

Hey ya'll, srry this took a while. Classes this year were very gut-wrenching. XP

Anyway, now that semester is ending, I'm hoping to get my time back and

go back to writing my stories. And I mean ALL my stories. w

So, happy holidays viewers, and thanks for all the support. Love you all! X3

Again, sorry for the long wait.