A/n:One blackballoon here!... Again. Well, here's the next chapter. Red won't be making an appearance until chapter 6. I can't stand fanfics that have them meet right away, they bug me. So rate, please no flames, the usual. Hope you enjoy chapter 2.

Disclaimer Thingy: I don't own any of the characters from IZ, I do own Kalli.

Chapter 2

Pawn Shops

Kalli had found a cheap house to rent but she still didn't have enough money. She left 348 of her rupees on the bed and ran out of her room. After much thought and arguing with herself, she decided to sell her grandmother's jewelry. She walked into a musty old pawn shop to sell her valuables to the shady owner. After giving her a good sum of money for the expensive trinkets, he offered to convert her Rupees into Dollars. After Kalli reluctantly handed over her money, a boy with a rather large head walked into the store.

"Here ya go. $150 For 25,000 Rupees..." The owner said.

Kalli knew that couldn't be correct, but accepted the money anyway. She didn't feel like making a scene today.

"Wait, that can't be right!" A voice yelled at the owner. Kalli looked up to see the large headed boy looking at the owner.

"25,000 Rupees should convert to about $250, give or take a few bucks." Kalli looked at the owner who was now sweating.

"Look Dib get out of here! I'm tryin' to run a business!" The owner yelled. Kalli suddenly remembered something. Her penpal's name was Dib! Kalli looked at the boy, then glared at the owner.

"Give me my money!" If looks could kill, the owner wouldn't even have time to get the rest of Kalli's cash. Kalli accepted it and turned to Dib.

"Thanks, I would've been conned without you." She gave him a small smile

"Ah, it was nothing, I used to have a penpal in Sri Lanka. It sparked my interest in it, so I took a break from my paranormal studies to study Sri Lanka and India." Kalli raised her eyebrow when he talked about his paranormal studies.

"This penpal." Kalli had a sly look on her face, "Was her name Kalli by any chance?" Did looked like he had seen bigfoot in his garage... again.

"Well, yeah. But how did you know that my penpal was a girl?... And how did you know her name?" Dib questioned.

"I'm Kalli. I'm from Sri Lanka and my parents kicked me out, so I'm moving here." Kalli looked at Dib, who was still dumbstruck, waiting to see his reaction.

"Yo... You're Kalli? But, how... Why... When?" Kalli chuckled a little at Dib's loss for words.

"I don't like to talk about it..." Kalli looked at the ground for a moment, "So, how have you been?" Kalli looked back up at Dib. His face lit up at the sound of someone asking about him.

"Well now that you mention it." little did Kalli know that she had gotten herself into the hell that was one of Dib's Zim rants. About an hour later, Kalli told Dib that she had to go.

"Where?" Dib questioned. Kalli looked thoughtful for a moment.

"I'm not sure..." Kalli kept thinking, she really had nowhere to go.

"Well, you can sleep on my couch. I mean, you'll be out by tomorrow, right?" Kalli smiled. There really was a silver lining to every cloud.

A/n: Ok, hope you liked that little turn of events. I won't usually be this fast with the chapters, I'll probably only put up one a week after this one. Till the next chapter, b-bye!