Invader Julie Chapter 8

Julie opened her eyes slightly. The alarm clock was beeping. She looked back at it and reached over slowly, pushing the button, the beeping halting. She brought her arm back and put it back where it was: wrapped around Dib. Dib was still asleep, and had his arms wrapped slightly around her as well. She yawned and nuzzled back into his chest, sighing. Dib lightly clenched the back of her shurt, mumbling something lowly. Julie opened her eyes slightly again and looked up at him from where she was nuzzled. "Dib?"
He mumbled again. "..not yet dad, just a few more minutes..."
Julie smiled,running her claws up his back slowly. "Diiib.."
He yawned, then nuzzled her cheek slightly, groaning. Julie smiled and nuzzled back, then lightly kissed his cheek. "Hey...you, wake up.."
He yawned again then opened his eyes a bit. "Hurr...?"
Julie nuzzled into his neck slightly. "It's morning.."
He opened his eyes a little more, focusing his eyes a little to see the clock. He glanced down at Julie a bit, then sat up slowly. "Come on, we have to get ready..." Julie sat up slowly as well. Dib rubbed his eyes, stretching. "Would you..get my glasses?" Julie looked behind her at the nightstand and grabbed Dib's glasses. She looked at them, then Dib and grinned, sticking the tip of her tongue out as she put Dib's glasses on herself.
Dib grinned too. "Goofy Irken.." Julie giggled slightly, taking the glasses off and put them on Dib. Dib blinked, then smiled, putting his hand on her head as he ruffled her hair. She giggled again, putting her hands on his head and messed up his hair as well. Dib laughed, poking her stomach, grinning a bit. Julie laughed slightly too, one of her antenna sticking out from where Dib had messed up her hair. Dib blinked again and grabbed her antenna, pulling it down over her face. "One of your antenna came out."
Julie looked up at it, blinked and reached up, putting it back under her hair. "Thanks.."
Dib smiled. "Yea..alright, come on. We're running behind."
Julie nodded and hopped off the bed, Dib following slowly as he stretched. Julie looked back at him, then went over to her bag and sat, digging through it for her clothes while Dib went over to the closet. Dib opened the closet and looked back at Julie. She was pulling out a pair of pants.
"Eh..I'll...go in the closet and change so you can change out here..just call me when you're done, alright?"
She looked back at him. "Okay.."
Dib looked back into the closet and went in, shutting the door.
Julie turned back around, taking her shirt off and grabbed her undershirt, putting it on quickly. She finished getting dressed and took her hairbrush out of her bag and started brushing her hair. "Alright Dib.."
He opened the closet, stepping out, fully dressed. Julie glanced back at him slightly, smiling. Dib smiled too, then went over, kneeling down as he opened his bookbag. Julie put her brush into her bag, then folded her clothes and put them into her bag and shut it.
Dib stood, looking at her. "Ready?"
Julie stood up slowly as well. "Yea.."
"Alright. I need to eat breakfast..you can too, if you want." Dib opened the door and went down the hall to the stairs, following closely was Julie. Gaz was already in there, eating cereal. Dib went over to the fridge and opened it, then scowled slightly.. "Gaz, you ate all the cereal.."
She didn't answer, just continued eating. Julie walked over to the fridge, standing next to Dib. Dib found an apple and took it out, then looked at Julie. "You want an apple?"
Julie blinked, looking at the round red fruit. "Sure.."
Dib got out another apple and handed it to her, then shut the door. "We can walk to school and eat at the same time.." He turned to Gaz. "Hey Gaz, tell Dad me and Julie have already left for school." Gaz ignored him. Sighing, he looked at Julie. "Come on." They went back to the stairs, up, and into his room. Dib picked up his bookbag and Julie picked up her own bag. They went back downstairs and out the door. Dib took a bite of his apple, looking ahead as they walked side by side on the sidewalk. Julie looked at him, then her apple, moving it around in her hands. Dib took another bite, then looked at Julie. She finally lifted the apple and took a bite.
Dib swallowed. "Like it?"
Julie looked at him, nodded and swallowed. "Yea..it's okay, better than the sandwich.."
Dib smiled, looking at his bitten apple. "Yeh, I like apples.." Julie smiled too, taking another bite. Dib took another bite as well, looking forward again. They continued walking and eating until they finally reached the school. Dib threw his apple core into a trash can. Julie blinked and did the same, looking back at Dib. Then she looked around at all the other kids as she followed Dib in the hallway to Miss Bitters' class.
Dib walked in and went over to his seat, putting her bookbag down. Julie stood in the doorway and watched him, then looked at her seat and sat down, putting her bag down. She sighed, looking up at Dib. He was all the way across the room. She looked around the room now, looking at the other students.
Dib glanced at her, then to his desk, just staring.
The Irken blinked and sighed, slipping down in her seat slightly.
The boy next to her looked at her. "Uh..hi, I'm Brian.."
Julie looked at the green-haired boy and smiled. "Hi..I'm Julie."
Brian smiled slightly. "Nice to meet you. New here? Got any friends yet?"
Julie nodded slowly. "Yea, I'm from...England, yea. England." She smiled shakily. "And uh...yea, I have..one friend..Dib."
He blinked. "Dib? That crazy kid over there?" He pointed back at Dib with his thumb.
"Eh." Julie looked away a bit. "Yea, Dib. And he's not crazy."
"Sure he is, he believes in aliens and bigfoot. Only crazies believe in stuff like that."
The Irken growled slightly, offended by his comment about aliens. "No, he's not..how do you know if aliens aren't real?"
Brian blinked again, then looked forward. "Because they just aren't."
"Have you ever tried to find out if they are?" She crossed her arms.
"No. 'Cause they don't exist. And yes, Dib's just crazy."
"....whatever."
Brian glanced back at her. She was slightly glaring off, looking forward. He sighed. "I didn't mean to make you angry, I was just stating the truth."
Julie growled again. "That's -not- the truth. Dib is not crazy. You probably don't even know him very well."
"Uh..no..."
Julie glared at him slightly. "Then don't judge someone before you get to know them. Dib is very kind and smart, but you wouldn't know that because you judge him on what he believes in, something that may be very true, something that could one day destroy this planet. Who will you call for then? You little friends? When it happens, you'll finally realize that Dib was right, and you were wrong."
Brian sat there, staring blankly. "..o-.......okay.." He picked up his pencil and began to doodle.
Julie increased her glare and snorted slightly, looking forward again. Stupid human..knows nothing about Dib, and still judges him..he'll see one day, he'll s-
"Quiet!!" Julie jumped as Miss Bitters' voice stopped her thoughts. "Today's horrible lecture is about hurricanes and other horrible disasters! Who can tell me what a hurricane is?"
Julie looked around. Dib already had his hand up. He was the only one.
Miss Bitters glared slightly. "Yes, Dib?"
He put his hand down. "A hurricane is a tropical storm that forms in the ocean with wind speeds over seventy-four miles per hour."
Julie smiled as Miss Bitters scowled. "Correct."
Dib glanced at Julie as well, smiling. The Irken half-closed her eyes and looked back at Miss Bitters as she started teaching about hurricanes. Dib looked back at Miss Bitters as well, sighing.

~One Hour Later~

Julie was leaned over on her desk, propped up on her elbow. Dib had slumped down in his seat, Miss Bitters still talking about hurricanes. Julie boredly yawned. Dib glanced at her, then the clock. One minute to lunch. Brian had gotten bored with doodling and was now asleep..or looked like it.
The Irken closed her eyes a little more. She had gotten used to her lenses, they didn't hurt anymore. Her thoughts drifted to her SIR. She hadn't seen her in a while.
Where has she been..? The bell rang, causing Julie to jerk awake, her reveries rudely interrupted. Dib glanced at her as she jumped and snickered, standing.
Miss Bitters growled, angry that she had to stop her teaching. "When you get back, your horrible lesson will be on tornadoes." She stood and stiffly pointed to the door. "Now, GO!"
Julie stood up and watched for a second, the other students going out the door. She blinked and walked out as well, looking at the students.
Brian stopped by her. "Wanna sit with me and my friends at lunch?"
"Uh.." Julie looked back at the door. Dib hadn't come out yet. "I don't know.."
Brian blinked. "Who else are you going to sit with?"
Julie looked back at him, a slight scowl on her face. "Dib."
"Eh..alright, if you wanna sit with us, you can." He walked off and Dib came up to her. He had waited for Brian to leave.
"Uhm.." He looked down slightly. "So, you sitting with Brian?.."
Julie closed her eyes slightly, feeling bad a bit. "No..I can't just leave you alone.."
Dib looked up at her, a small smile on his face. "Thanks...it's nice to have someone here at school that likes me.."
Julie smiled as well. "Same here."
Dib smiled a little more and reached over slowly, taking her hand. The infatuated Irken squeezed his hand slightly, Dib half-closing his eyes. "Come on. Let's go eat lunch." He began walking to the lunchroom as Julie walked closely beside him. They walked into the lunchroom and looked around. Dib glanced at the lunchline, then to Julie. "You planning on eating?"
She looked back at him, then to the lunchline herself. "Eh..prolly not, I'll eat a little..but I don't want to get a whole tray, that would just be wasting food."
"I'll let you have some of mine, if you want.." Julie looked back at him, smiling. "Okay.."
Dib smiled as well. "Alright. Let's get in line." Dib started walking to the line and Julie followed, looking around at the other students as they sat down to eat. Dib got in line and let go of her hand. Julie looked at her hand, then him questioningly.
He looked at her too, then motioned to the trays. "I can't carry my food and hold your hand at the same time."
"Oh.." Julie nodded, smiling a bit.
Dib smiled the same amount and picked up his tray. Julie watched as he got food dumped on his plate. Corn, peas, mashed potatoes and steak with gravy. Dib made a disgusted face at the peas and went over to the drink canister, getting a Poop Cola. He looked back at Julie, then motioned to the canister. "They've got Mountain Pop, if you want one."
She smiled and went over, getting a can of the lemon-lime soda. Dib headed over to a table and sat, Julie taking a seat next to him. Gaz was on Dib's right side, playing her Game Slave.
Dib set his Poop Cola on the table and popped it open. "Hey Gaz..how's your day so far?"
"Fine." She showed really no emotion except the absorbancy in her game. Dib sighed and picked up his fork. Julie was just sitting quietly, staring at her soda.
Dib glanced at her. "Wanna try some corn?"
She looked at him, then his plate. "What's corn?"
Dib looked at his plate, then pointed to the yellow vegetable.
Julie blinked. "Sure.." Dib dug his fork into the corn and lifted it, then held the fork out to her. Julie took the fork slowly and looked at the corn. "Corn..." She closed her left eye slightly and put the fork in her mouth then took it out, chewing the corn slowly.
Dib blinked. "You like it?"
She handed him the fork and shook her head slowly. "No, not really..."
Dib smiled. "The mashed potatoes now?"
She nodded. "Mashed..po-...tatoes?"
Dib nodded. "Yup." He got some a bit on his fork and handed it back to her.
She ate that as well and put the fork on his plate. "Eh...no.."
"Alright..you probably won't like the peas, I don't like them..here, try some steak." He picked up the fork and cut off a piece of the steak, jabbed it with the fork, and held it out.
Julie took the fork and looked at it. "Steak?" He nodded. She blinked and put the fork in her mouth and closed her left eye a little more as she took the fork out. Dib took his fork back and poked the steak.
Julie coughed slightly. "Eh.."
Dib looked at her. "You alright?"
She nodded slowly. "Y-yea..I don't like the steak, but that stuff on it is good."
Dib smiled. "The gravy. You can have it if you want, I'll eat the steak."
Julie smiled as well. "If you don't want it.."
He shook his head and scooted his tray over to her, handing her the fork again. She took the fork and looked at the steak, then started scraping the gravy off.
Dib smiled, looking back at Gaz, then around the lunchroom. Him, Julie, and Gaz were the only ones at their table. He sighed, looking at Julie. She had already eaten three-fourths of the gravy. Dib grabbed his Poop Cola and took a sip.
Julie set the fork down, all the gravy gone. "Whew.."
Dib looked at her, then the plate. "Done?"
She looked at him and nodded. "Yep." Now she smiled. "Thanks."
Dib smiled too, sliding his tray back over in front of him, picking up the fork. "Was it good?"
The satiated Irken nodded again, crossing her arms over her stomach as she leaned back in the chair. "Yea..not the food I'm used to, but it's good."
Dib snickered and got some mashed potatoes, eating them as he stared at his steak. Julie closed her eyes, yawning slightly. Dib glanced at her, swallowing. "You tired?"
She opened her right eye, looking at him. "Yea, just a little.."
Dib grinned, then looked back at his food. "Goofy Irken.." He said lowly, so no one else would hear.
She smiled, nudging him slightly with her elbow and closed her eye back, speaking lowly as well. "Goofy human."
Dib smiled, then leaned back in his seat, poking his steak. He blinked, then cut off a piece and ate it. Julie opened her eyes and picked up her soda, taking a sip. Dib glanced at her, then took another bite of his steak. Julie set the drink down and slumped down in her seat slightly, looking around the lunchroom.
Brian was sitting the the Letter M and Rob, laughing. Rob was laughing as well, and Letter M was talking, so he must have been telling jokes. Julie blinked and looked at Dib, then Brian again.
Dib finished his steak, since it wasn't that big anyway, and pushed his plate away slightly. Julie looked at his plate, then him. He looked at her too and smiled, then grabbed his cola, drinking the rest, then stood up. "Well, I'm done..after I dump my tray, you wanna..walk a bit? We have some time before lunch is over."
Julie stood up slowly, smiling. "Sure."
Dib nodded. "Be right back.." He went over to the trash cans, dumping his tray, then put it up. Julie yawned again, then glanced at Gaz. She was still playing her Game Slave. Dib walked back up to Julie. "You ready?"
She looked back at Dib and nodded slowly. "Yea.."
Dib smiled and motioned to the door, heading towards it.
Julie followed closely, feeling some stares from some people, because she was with Dib. She glanced at Brian slightly to see him looking at her as well. She looked away, feeling a slight glare but she ignored it, going out the door with Dib.
He shut the door then sighed. "I hate doing that..they always stare at me.."
Julie looked down slightly. "It's alright..they stared at me too...just ignore them."
"Yea..maybe they'll forget I even exist.." He sighed, taking Julie's hand. "C'mon.." He began walking, Julie by his side. She was silent, just staring ahead. Dib was looking around at all the classes. Julie glanced at a kid they were passing. The boy glared, and Julie retured the glare, growling very lowly. Dib looked at her slightly, to see who she was growling at. They passed the kid and Julie sighed, looking ahead again. Dib got a worried look. "You okay?"
She glanced at him slightly. "Yea..why?"
"You were just quiet.."
"Oh..." She looked forward again, closing her eyes slightly. Dib closed his eyes a little more and sighed, looking forward himself, tightening his grip on her hand slightly. Julie glanced at him, smiled a little and leaned over on him somewhat. Dib leaned back, to equal it out, he was quiet now. Julie laid her head on his shoulder, closing her eyes almost completely. Dib smiled slightly, letting go of her hand and wrapped his arm around her, pulling her a little closer. Julie closed her eyes all the way. She would purr if it wouldn't be giving her away. Dib closed his eyes a slight bit more, yawning a little.
They had circles around and were now heading back to the classroom. Julie was quiet, walking slowly. Sara walked in front of them, entering the class. Dib glared slightly some since Sara had, then sighed as he looked at Julie. She still had her eyes closed.
He smiled, going into the class and to Julie's desk. "Alright Julie.." She opened her eyes very slightly. "..we're at your desk.." She glanced down at the desk, then back up at him, smiled, letting go of him slightly. Dib let go of her to let her sit, but Julie ended up falling over on her desk, sliding down on the floor. "Julie?!" He kneeled down beside her, trying to help her up. Julie weakly moaned, grabbing onto Dib's arm. "Are you okay?"
She nodded slowly, crawling into her seat.
Dib sighed, worried. "You sure..?"
"Y-yea.." She closed her eyes slowly, slipping down in the seat slightly.
"Al-..aright, I've got to go sit down, you sure you're going to be okay?"
Julie nodded slowly again. "I'll b-be..fin-ne..."
He sighed. "Okay, if you say so..." He walked over to his desk and sat down.
Julie slid down more, moaning again. Her stomach was hurting badly. Dib glanced over, then sighed, facing the front again.
Miss Bitters shut the door and floated over to her desk. "Alright, quiet!! It's time to begin class again. Now. Continuing on the hideousness of natural disasters..tornadoes are next!" She rambled on while Julie was slowly getting weaker. The steak was the problem -- it was causing her to gradually lose conciousness..somehow. Dib glanced up from his notes at Julie, watching. Julie twitched slightly. He looked back down, closing his eyes a bit.
Brian glanced at her as well, blinking. "Julie?" He whispered, so he wouldn't get in trouble. She opened her left eye very slightly, looking at him slightly. "Are you okay?" Julie didn't respond, just closed her eye back, very lowly groaning. Dib looked back over, then glared at Brian slightly. He was getting jealous, how cute. Brian blinked, then reached over to Julie and poked her. She twitched slightly again then slid down even further, falling to the floor under her desk. Brian looked up at Miss Bitters, then Julie again. "Julie?.."
Dib had frozen slightly when Julie fell and just watched her. She wasn't moving.
Miss Bitters glared at her. "Julie?!" No answer. Miss Bitters scowled. "Someone wake her up!"
Brian looked up at the teacher then got up, kneeling down beside Julie, shaking her slightly. "Julie..?" Still no answer. Dib leaned forward slightly, trying to see her.
Miss Bitters glared. "Someone help her get to the nurse." Dib shot his hand up, Brian right after. "Dib! You go."
Dib jumped up and quickly went over to her, kneeling down. Brian glared slightly, standing up. Dib returned the glare. "Leave Julie alone.." He spoke lowly as he pulled Julie out from under her desk and slowly lifted her up.
Brian growled slightly as he stood up, speaking lowly as well. "Freak.." He went back to his seat, sitting. Dib glared a bit more and drug Julie to the door, opened it and walked out. He shut the door with his feet after Julie was out of the way and sighed, looking down at her.
"What on earth happened to her? I can't take her to the nurse, they'll find out she's not human...augh.." He looked up and down the hallway, then started dragging her again. "What am I going to do..?" Julie wasn't very heavy, so he could easily move her. Dib looked down at her again, then behind hem, to watch where he was going. He then spotted a janitor's closet. "I'll stay here with her until she wakes up.." He slowly went over to the closet, opened the door and went in, shutting and locking the door behind him. He propped Julie up against the wall, her head drooped down slightly. He sighed and say beside her, looking down a bit. He glanced up at her slightly and then leaned over on her a bit as he took her hand slowly, holding it lightly.
Julie twitched slightly, opening her eyes very slowly, stopping half-way.
Dib looked at her from where he was leaned against her. "Julie?"
She glanced up at him, then closed her eyes, moaning lowly. "W-what...happened?"
Dib sat up, smiling. "You're awake..you okay?"
"I don't know.."
Dib glanced down at her hand that he was holding, then back up at her. "You..passed out or something.."
She opened her eyes slightly, looking up at him. "I d-did..?" She then looked around, realizing they weren't in the classroom. "Where are we?"
"We're in a closet..Miss Bitters told me to take you to the nurse and I volunteered..but I couldn't take you to her because they'd find out you aren't human.."
Julie smiled, closing her eyes back. He didn't betray her, a sure sign that he liked her..even the tiniest bit. "..t-thank you.."
Dib smiled too, then leaned back agaisnt her. "You're welcome.."
"So..no one knows where we are?"
Dib shook his head. "Nope..and the door's locked, so we won't get any visitors..unless a janitor decides to stop by." Julei nodded slowly and nuzzled his arm a bit. Dib smiled a little more and nuzzled her back. "So what happened?"
"I really don't know..I think it was something that I ate.."
Dib sighed. "Then I guess we need to watch what you eat here, so this won't happen again.."
She nodded slowly again then yawned.
Dib opened one eye slightly, then closed it back. "Tired?"
"Yea..I'm not used to all this talking and school stuff.."
Dib smiled. "Yea, we could just..stay here, I'm sure nobody would notice that we're gone.."
Julie lowly purred, nuzzling his cheek. "Alright..I wouldn't mind.."
Dib opened his eyes a little at her purr, smiled, and closed them back as he nuzzled her cheek in return. Julie smiled, squeezed his hand a bit and lightly kissed him. Dib blushed very slightly and returned the kiss, sighing happily. Julie scooted closer to him, leaning onto him and nuzzled his neck, still purring. Dib wrapped an arm around her, pulling her even closer as he let her nuzzle. Her purring was making him sleepy. Julei grinned slightly and lightly kissed his neck. "Hee.."
Dib opened his eyes slightly, looking at her. "Hm?"
"Nuffin.."
He smiled, closing his eyes back. "Alright, if you say so.."
"...muffin." She kissed his neck again, purring.
"Muffin? Nuu..don't eat me.."
Julie blinked, looking up at him. "That's an earth food..?"
"Yea.."
"Muffin..hee..." She nuzzled into him again, purring, beginning to lightly rub his neck. Dib leaned his head back, his eyes closed. "Ooh..yea, right there.."
Julie smiled, nuzzling his cheek as she continued rubbing his neck. "That feel good..?"
"Yeeaa.." He slipped down a bit, drowsy.
Julie was tired herself, purring herself to sleep, so they continued to cuddle until they eventually fell asleep.
To Be Continued...