Chapter 12 A Night of Movies

"I can't believe it. It took me so much planning and time to actually get into Zim's house and Alex got in because of a storm?" Dib demanded. He had been ranting like that for at least thirty minutes. Sally didn't really mind, she liked listening to him talk even if he was ranting about the same thing for a long time.

"You do realize that ranting won't change anything. So Zim doesn't see Alex as a threat and therefore did not need too much convincing to allow her to stay. Like Alex said it was all Gir who got that set up." Sally commented.

"But why?" Dib asked.

"Because they like each other and refuse to admit it so he's giving them a push. Or at least that's what I think." Sally explained.

"You really think so? But doesn't Alex have a date with a classmate tomorrow?" Dib asked skeptically.

"Well yeah but that doesn't mean she likes the guy she's going on a date with, she could just be going to get to know him outside of school." Sally pointed.

"I guess so." He said with a shrug.

"There is no way this storm is passing tonight, she'll be there all night and it seems that you're stuck here for the night as well." Sally commented looking out the window.

"Guess so." He answered. He got up and went to the phone to let his dad know that he won't be home for the night because of the storm and informed him that he was at a friend's house nearby. His dad seemed excited that he was at a friend's house instead of at home working on something obscure in his room. Although that wasn't really any better than how Professor Membrane was either. Except he was rarely home at all and his kids never saw him much in person.

"Want to watch TV?" She asked when he came back to the living room.

"Sure, Mysterious Mysteries should be on in a little bit." He suggested.

"Oh cool." She said and turned on the TV and put it on the channel right before the show started.

After the opening the host came up and started talking about the episode.

"On today's episode we will be looking into Demons." He said.

"This should be interesting." Sally muttered, already know everything about demons considering where she was from.

The show continued and most of what they found was a load of horseshit in Sally's opinion, except for the last point. How all demons were evil and there was no person of demon blood that was good. Anyone who had demon blood was evil. That part just depressed her immensely.

"That was actually a very interesting episode." Dib commented.

"Non of it was true. All they did was throw together the most absurd theories about demons and put them into an episode." Sally said.

"Okay so maybe they theories they had weren't very realistic but I do agree that anyone of demon blood is evil. I mean when has anyone ever heard of a good demon or half? No one so there has to be truth to that theory." He said. That made Sally more depressed.

No, never telling him, never ever. She thought. All day she had been thinking about that. If they did become closer weather or not she would tell him. This made it plain to her that she should never tell him and make sure that he never found out.

Sally got up and went over to the kitchen and put some popcorn kernels into a pot to make popcorn. Din started watching the next episode of the show that was on and Sally heard them talking about witches.

Of course my luck had to be this bad that they talk about both mysteries of both sides of my family when Dib is here on that show. She thought sourly. She wouldn't have minded watching the show with him, but it seemed to her that fate just hated her and had to show those specific episodes today. Of all the nights they could have shown them it had to be the night that Dib was there.

She finished the popcorn and brought it to the living room with drinks and plopped back on the futon as the episode ended.

She checked the time. It was around midnight but she still wasn't really tired. Maybe she was just a little bit nervous around Dib or something.

"Want to watch a movie?" She asked.

"Sure, what movies do you have?" He asked. She got up and pulled out the only four movies they had that they were renting.

"We've already watched these two and they both sucked." She said.

"Yeah I don't like those either, but that one is a good movie." He said indicating the last movie. She put the movie in and sat back down.

It was definitely a comedy and the two made fun of it the entire time. Sally didn't think that it was necessarily a good movie, but it was a good movie to make fun of, although that was how most comedies were anyways.

After the movie they sat and talked while the credits rolled and for another thirty minutes or so. They didn't really talk about anything specific, just random things, various interests they had that they haven't learned about each other yet.

At about two in the morning they put another movie in. Around the middle of the movie they both started to become sleepier as the movie went on. Sally was the first to fall asleep and ended up falling asleep on Dib's shoulder. Dib himself was too sleepy to really notice and his head rested on hers when he fell asleep.

Sally didn't need a lot of sleep just as she didn't need a lot of food but she hadn't slept in two days so she needed it and for once in Sally's life she had good dreams. Before she and Alex had come to this dimension, when she did sleep, she had nightmares, especially at home. After they ended up here all of her dreams were weird and hard to explain but she liked that they at least were not nightmares. This time, however they were neither horrible nor unexplainable. She could make sense of the dream and she liked it too.

Sally woke up to hearing Alex's alarm in her room. The first thing she noticed when she woke up was that she was on the futon, temporarily forgetting that she had fallen asleep there. The second thing she noticed was that she was not laying exactly on the futon but on someone's chest and their arm wrapped around her and the memories of the night before flooded back. She looked up at Dib, who was still asleep, and her face turned red.

She tried to sit up slowly so he wouldn't wake up and notice but Dib seemed be a light sleeper sometimes and woke up. It took him a second to really wake up but when he did his face turned red as well.

"Um…good morning." Sally said trying to hide her blush.

"Eh, morning." He said.

"Um we should get ready for school." She said hopping up quickly and making a beeline for Alex's room to turn her alarm off and then went to her own room to change.

"Um I should get home so I'll see you at school." Dib called through the door.

"Okay see you in a little while." Sally replied and heard the door open and close. She finished getting ready and noticed a notebook on the coffee table and briefly flipped through it to make sure it wasn't Alex's.

It was obviously Dib's so she put it in her bag with her books and made to grab Alex's school stuff right as she walked through the door looking as if she were confused and had done something she hadn't.

"What happened?" Sally asked, knowing something did.

"Me and Zim kissed!" She said through a squeak.

"What?" Sally nearly shouted.

"Don't make me say it again." Alex said.

"How? What happened?" Sally asked.

"I don't know we were sitting on the couch just talking and we just kissed." She said quickly.

"What happened after?" Sally asked.

"Well after, I don't know thirty seconds or something we both pulled away and looked at each other as it processed and then we kissed again but it wasn't as long and we quickly pulled away from each other and just sat in silence for a really long time until Gir put a movie in and then we both ended up falling sleep on the couch and I woke up leaning against him and moved away before he woke up." She said quickly.

"Zim sleeps?" Sally asked.

"Yeah I didn't think so either cause you never know him sleeping, he's up a lot at night with his plans according to Gir. Gir said he's rarely seen him sleep either." Alex said.

"Wow. That is. I cannot even think of what to say about that." Sally said.

"So I'm guessing Dib ended up staying the night?" Alex asked, wanting to change the subject.

She had no idea how she felt about the night before and early morning and even if she did completely understand it, she wasn't sure that she was ready to face it. She had never been involved in romantic affairs with anyone in any way besides accepting to go on a date that day but she didn't even like Ted, she was attracted to him and just wanted to get to know him outside of school to see if she did like him or not, but when it came to serious things like sharing a kiss she didn't understand it well.

"Oh, um yeah he did." Sally said and a blush crossed her face.

"What happened?" Alex asked.

"Well we fell asleep on the futon at about three in the morning and I woke up on his chest and his arm was wrapped around me. I tried to get up without waking him up but he woke up and neither of is knew what to do." Sally explained.

"Oh man. Looks like today is going to be another awkward day." Alex said.