Hey. I think this is a cute chapter only cause Gir's in it XD. Happy reading.

I do not own Invader Zim.

Zim was not looking forward to his tech class. He hated how the teacher gave them assignments that were easy for him. Another reason was that Dib was in his class.

The bell rung. Zim gathered his things and left his first period class. He had been going to the Hi-Skool for about a year now and a few months. If you want to be specific, he's in grade ten. He always questioned himself why he doesn't just leave. It's not like he really needed to go, but he just felt like it. It's better than sitting at home with Gir, he would tell himself. When he walked into the tech room, he saw Dib walking over to the table that Lei was sitting at. Zim ran as fast as his feet could carry him to the seat beside Lei and sat down.

"Hello Lei-human." Zim said while gasping for air. Dib gave Zim a look of disgust while taking a seat across from Lei.

"Hi Zim." She smiled.

"So, you like tech?" Dib asked her, still glaring at Zim.

"I've been building all sorts of things since I've been little."She replied.

The bell rung for the start of class. "Okay class," their tech teacher began while shutting the door, "get into groups of three and only three." The teacher said.

"You guys want to be in a group me?" Lei asked the two boys.

"Yes!" Dib and Zim said in unison, both turning to the other, glaring.

The teacher walked around the class handing out the assignment sheets. Lei picked up the one that landed on the table.

She began reading the sheet. Zim and Dib kept glaring at each other, hatefully.

"Well, it looks like we are allowed to build anything as long as it's in these limitations." She explained. Dib and Zim scanned over the sheet, Dib pulling the sheet so he could see it better. That's another reason Zim hates tech. Lei didn't pay attention to the two enemies, she was listening to the teacher explain on.

After the teacher was done giving his speech on the assignment, Lei turned back to her partners.

"So, where will we meet to work on this?" Lei asked.

"Not my place!" the boys said again in unison.

Lei just shrugged. "I guess that leaves my place then." Lei said, catching onto the hate between the alien and human. "Also, you can't act like this while we work on the project."

Dib and Zim turned their attention to the blonde in astonishment. "But..."

"I guess I could join another group."

"Fine, we will stop." The boys agreed, crossing their figures behind their backs.

"Good." Lei said with a smile.

For the whole class, the three were trying to figure out what they could build. After a few arguments and Lei almost getting up and leaving, they all agreed on the idea of making a robot.

The bell rung to signal the end of class.

Lei was gathering her stuff up. "You guys come to my house around three." She said leaving with a wave.

As she disappeared around a corner, Dib and Zim turned to face each other.

"Back off! She's mine!" Dib said in a menacing voice.

Zim just glared at him. "Make me." He said with a smirk plastered across his face.

Dib tackled Zim to the floor and the two threw punch after punch, trying to hit the other in the face. Once they stopped, they gave each other a 'back off ' glare and went their separate ways.

After skool, Zim was thinking how he could impress Lei. He wasn't going to let Dib walk in and take her, he was sure of that. Zim stopped outside his base. I could go to her house now. She did say around three. He thought to himself. He began walked straight to Lei's. He got to the door, took a breather, and knocked. He sat there for a few moments, then the door opened. Zim looked down to see a little robot that looked slightly similar to Gir, but with bright orange eyes.

"Whoops!" the robot shrieked. It slammed the door right in Zim's face. Zim stood there astonished. He then again, gathered his thoughts and knocked again. This time, Lei answered the door.

"Oh, you're a bit early." She said. Her hair was pulled back into a long pony tail.

"You said around three I could come."

"It's two-thirty."

"It's close to three."

Lei frowned. She knew she wasn't going to win this argument, and invited Zim in.

"Who opened the door the first time?" Zim asked while looking at the interior of Lei's house.

The walls were a lime green colour, while the carpet was a purple. There was a 50 inch screen T.V in the corner and a black couch in the opposite. A half-wall separated the kitchen and the living room, while a white door said washroom and a red door said Lei's room.

"Oh, uhm..." Lei stammered, walking out of her room. "That's a robot I built when I was thirteen. You get bored when your home alone." She quickly added. She walked over to the fridge and pulled out about a dozen oranges. She squeezed them in a juice maker.

"Weird, I have a robot that just like that." He said.

He walked over to Lei, just as a little S.I.R ran through the door.

"I brought waffles for you and your friends!" The crazy S.I.R screamed, then ran and placed them on the table.

Lei was surprised by the little robot bursting through her home. She plastered a smile on her face and bent down to Gir's height and looked into his big cyan blue eyes. "Who are you?"

"I'm Gir!" he shrieks. Gir felt a gaze burning into the back of his metal head. He spun around to see a little S.I.R peering out from Lei's room, her bright orange eyes illuminating. "Who's that?" Gir said a little calmer, pointing at the door. The door slammed shut.

Lei got up and resumed her juice making. "That's Sali. She's shy." She said shoving another orange into the juice maker.

Gir, being curious, ran over to the door and knocked. The door opened a bit, showing half of an orange orb.

"Hello." Gir said, surprisingly calm. "Do you like tacos?"

Sali stood there, opened the door and looked into the cyan orbs. "What's a taco?" She said quietly.

Gir looked at her with his jaw open. "The best thing besides waffles!" he exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. Sali giggled. Gir grabbed her hand and he dragged her out the door.

"Awe, that's so sweet." Lei cooed.

Zim gathered some courage and asked "Are you Irkan?"

Lei shocked by the question, knocked a few oranges off the counter. "A what?"

"An Irkan." Zim said again. Is she deaf? He asked himself. He began walking towards her.

She laughed a little. "I have no clue what you are talking about." She picked up a glass off the counter and offered it to Zim. "Orange juice? There's no water in it. I heard you're allergic, even though that's impossible."

Zim took the glass. He looked at the ominous liquid and back at Lei, who was drinking it. He sipped it. There was a little burn that trickled down his throat, but all seemed okay.

"It's good..." He said, shocked. How the hell did she make this? He asked himself. He pondered to himself, studying the drink.

A few minutes later, someone knocked on the door and Dib walked in.

"Hey Lei...and Zim." He said dragging out the 'Zim' part. He was carrying a green binder. "I brought some plans for the robot." Dib looked over at Zim, who was now chugging the glass of orange juice. "Isn't there water in orange juice?" He asked.

"In commercial orange juice, there is but not in this home-made kind. I'm against drinking water due to the fact that people pollute it with a lot of toxins and chemicals that aren't safe. In orange's, there is not a lot of water, so, I make my own orange juice." Lei explained.

Zim, now done his drink, looked at Lei in amazement. Why didn't he think of this?

"That's cool and weird at the same time." commented Dib. He placed the binder on the table.

Lei cleaned up her juice maker and counter, placed the juice jug in the fridge and sat at the table with Dib and Zim. "So, how about we get down to work?"

"Okay." Dib and Zim said. Dib pulled out the plan, a pen and paper and the three got down to business.

Teehee. The next chapter is in Lei's POV so you will actually know her more than you have learned in this one. Please review :)