Chapter Fourteen: Vengeance Tastes like Cookies
3:30 PM Winnie's Locker
Winnie and Dib headed to her locker, which unfortunately was in the most crowed hall. Winnie was in a particularly foul mood after the incident at lunch. She kept muttering to herself all day about making Zim pay. This kind of reminded Dib of his sister's unusual appetite for revenge, yet Winnie's dark threats failed in comparison to Gaz's. With his friends leading the way in the over crowed space, Dib didn't have to navigate as much seeing as how Winnie would just shove people out of her way like they were leaves on the wind.
"Maybe you should ask to have you locker move into my hall! It's more- Spacious!" Dib yelled over the noisy hallway of students.
"I really should, shouldn't I!" Winnie acknowledged his comment's lightly with a nod of her head. Roughly, Winnie pushed Zita out of the way of her own locker. Zita began to complain when another girl quietly whisper in her ear. The light purple haired girl huffed for a moment before letting Winnie have her way and move to the other end of the hall.
Winnie glared after the popular girls. She traced her hand over odd scratch marks on her locker door. She quickly twisted in the code to her locker and opened it. There sitting on her history book was something that hadn't been there before. It was a pink bag tied up with red ribbon.
"Wow! It looks like you've got a secret admirer!" Dib said. His face paled. Wait! She has a secret admirer? Without even knowing who- Dib suddenly felt very jealous of this other boy.
(We interrupt this story for a quick announcement: Let's make it clear that Dib doesn't like Winnie in any other way, but friendship! That is all! :We now return you to the plot!)
Winnie was his only friend in the whole world. If she ever found a boyfriend, well then, Dib could just kiss the rest of his social life good bye!
Winnie examined the mysterious bag she had just discovered. Dib looked at her expecting her to open it right away like most girls would do when they found out they had a secret crush. Rather, Winnie seemed hesitant to open it at first, but she pulled off the cheap ribbon and looked inside.
Suddenly, a huge burst of laughter erupted from the other side of the hall. Dib was confused and quickly looked inside the bag. There were dozens of animal crackers with the heads bitten off. On the inside Dib gave a sigh of relieve. He knew it was selfish especially since his friend had just been the victim of a prank. He was just glad that it wasn't really a romantic venture.
"Hey weirdo! I thought you didn't like eating animals!" Zita cheered shrilly. The entire hall erupted into laughter again. Winnie scowled and crushed the bag of animal crackers in her one hand. Dib grabbed her stuff out of her locker as fast as he could. He dragged his friend away from the overcrowded hall. The laughter echoed after the two of them as they headed to the back. He quickly pulled her out the backdoor and into the chilled, fresh air. She still clutched the crumpled bag of cookies.
"I hate humans…" she hissed clutching the crushed bag in her small fist.
"Hey! Win! Don't listen to those jerks!" Dib tried to comfort the girl. "There just laughing because they're stupid."
"Hm… Yes." She muttered and tossed the cookies to the side. Dib picked it up and tossed it in the trash can for her.
"So do you want to hang-"
"Out?" finished the girl. "I'm afraid I can't today. I have things to do, but how about this weekend we pay Zim a little visit- If you know what I mean."
Pay a visit to Zim?
Pay a visit to Zim! The light didn't just click on, it exploded with joy!
"Pay a visit to Zim! You mean it Winnie! Oh wow! No one's ever willingly gone with me to Zim's before! I mean not that I've really asked anyone besides Gaz and maybe a few oth-"
Winnie slapped her hand over his mouth.
"I got it! But yah! Let's do that this weekend okay? I owe him for the dead cow."
"Yah! I'll bring all my good equipment! We'll need it!" Dib hugged Winnie before running off. "I'll see you tomorrow! And this Saturday of course!"
Winnie chuckled darkly.
"Just wait Zim… I'll get even for this!" she quietly pulled out her cell phone to make a call.
Author's Note: Thanks for reading guys! You're all so awesome! Funny story about this chapter- Originally there was going to be a dance (You know the obligatory dance chapter that adds nothing to character development!), but I cut it out. It would make a better one shot off to the side. This chapter wasn't even supposed to happen for two more chapters, but I decided- "moar plot nao!" so to speak. Mid terms are here so I thought I'd update before Hell breaks loose. As always let me know what I can do to improve! You're suggestions are very appreciated!