New story time! No insanity in any of the characters in this one. Sorry!
It was the sort of day everyone dreamt about. Rainy. The skoolchildren reveled in the wet and cool of the water while the Irken Zim stood in the cover of the overhang, waiting for the rain to stop. The new girl stopped when she felt rain on her shoulders. She ran back under the cover and took out her umbrella. She had a bit of trouble with it, but that was to be expected. After all, she was blind.
"Do you need help with that?" A voice behind her asked. She whipped her head around, trying to find the source of the sound.
"Oh, yeah, I guess I could," Mia smiled. "You're the foreign kid, right? You sound like him." Mia knew who people were by the way their voices sounded. Sometimes, she swore she could see just a faint outline of them. Images her mind makes to fit the sound. This kid was weird. When he spoke, he sounded like he was from far away.
"Yes, I am ZIM!" Like that. "I'll help you," he said, and Mia gave him the umbrella so he could open it. It sounded like he was struggling, but eventually, he opened it.
"Thank you," she thanked him. She started to walk home, but stopped again. "Why are you still here? Is your ride late or something?"
Mia thought she could see him tense up. "Um, Zim has just forgotten his umbrella and, uh, I do not like rain," he hastily explained.
She smiled again, the half-smile that only she could smile. "Would you like me to walk you home? You just have to stay close to me, I can't walk that well in new places," she offered, and Zim gratefully accepted her invitation. She linked her arm around the alien's and they walked home.
Before they could reach his house, however, something knocked the two over.
"Ow!" Mia exclaimed. "What just hit us, Zim? I can't see it." Dib stood above her and helped her up. "What just happened? Where's Zim?" She knew the person who helped her up was not the alien who had offered to walk her home because the hand that grasped hers had four digits, not three.
"AGH! IT BURNS!" She heard her companion scream out.
"What are you doing to him?" Mia asked in worry.
The human scratched his head and said, "Sorry, Mia, I didn't know you were walking with the alien."
"Alien? What alien? You just attacked a blind little girl and the guy who was walking with her!" the blind girl yelled, anger building up in her. Her pale, nearly white pupils became warmer as she became less and less controlled. She stopped advancing to the voice of the person who attacked her and breathed in and out. Breathe, she thought. She picked up the Irken and ran, putting them both under the cover of her tattered umbrella. As she left, Dib couldn't help but think that she was so confident in her movements. So graceful. So beautiful.