Chapter 4! This one just kind of shows you how Zim thinks of Lei or "hints" it. Anyways I'm not going to spoil it!
I don't own IZ!
I didn't know where she was heading, I had needed to get away from Gir due to the fact he was making waffles. Those evil satanic waffles!
"So, what's up?" Lei asked catching me off guard.
I thought for a second. "Uhm, well, nothing really."
We went back into silence.
I had never been for a walk around before; I was always battling the Dib-stink or planning on destroying this pitiful ball of rock. I looked around at the blooming flower things and those long stick things that the humans call trees. It was, I guess, relaxing. I looked at Lei from the corners of my eyes. She was smiling, I think. She always seemed happy, but why?
Lei had must have felt me staring at her. She turned her head and looked at me. "Why are you looking at me like that?" She said a bit weirded out.
My face went warm, and I muttered "Sorry."
She gave me a weird look, and we kept walking. I felt so stupid! When I was around her, I got this weird feeling that I couldn't explain and I've only had known her for a day!
It took us about an hour to get to where she was going. We had come to a small park with a hill in the middle. I stopped and looked around, but we were the only ones at the puny park.
Lei ran up the hill to a pink tree. I followed her. She stood there staring at it.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" She said in a dreamy voice. I nodded.
She walked up to it and began smelling the flowers on the tree's branches. "I don't remember what they're called, but I have always thought they were pretty." She looked at me and smiled. I smiled back.
A swift wind had blown through the park, making her hair fall in her face. I sat down on the ground while she picked up some fallen flowers.
I was watching her pick up the flowers and place them in a pile. The sweet aroma of the tree was so soothing it had put me to sleep.
*Zim's Dream*
I was standing in line waiting to get into the Irken Academy. It was my first day of training and I was nervous.
When you were a smeet, you were taken right away from the hatchery and brought to the Irken Academy for eleven years of training, so you could become an invader. It took around five hours of waiting in line to actually get in. You were given a name and information programmed into your P.A.K. If you weren't born from the hatchery, you would be a citizen of Irk and it would take you around twenty years to become an invader.
I stood in line, glancing at the other smeets in front of me. I couldn't help but think if I would even be accepted, but then again, I was made to be an invader. It was in my veins.
"And that is the Irken Academy where smeets go to become invaders, sweetie." Said a voice. I turned around to see Tallest Yellow and his daughter. He must have been giving her a grand tour of Irk. She had yellow eyes and lightning bolt antenna. I heard some smeets talking about Tallest Yellow in line earlier, and how he made his daughter so she would rein after him.
I watched them from my spot in line. The little princess, that's what people called her, saw me looking at her. I quickly turned my head. I heard footsteps that ran up to my side.
"Hi." She squeaked. I looked at her. Her uniform was yellow and she had a big smile on her face. I smiled back. "What's your name?" the princess asked.
"I don't have one yet." I said.
She stood back and studied me. "I think your name should be...Ven." She said. Her father had come up behind her.
"Who is this, princess?" he asked looking at me. She turned to her father.
She had a big smile on her face. "His name is Ven." She turned and hugged me. "He's my friend."
All the smeets in the line turned to me to see the princess hugging me. She pulled back and smiled.
Tallest Yellow had a frown on his face. "He can't have a name yet. The control brain gives it to him."
She looked devastated. "But, his name suits him." She pouted at her father. "Can't you do that thing you did with me?"
"Sweetie, that's different than this. He's going to be an invader. I bet the one he gets will suit him just as well as yours." He gave the sweet smeet a smile.
She crossed her arms and pouted. "Fine, but when I'm Tallest, I'm going to make names for all the invaders."
The Tallest chuckled. "Whatever you say, sweetheart."
The princess looked back at me and gave me another quick hug then walked off with her father.
The scene dissolved, and I woke up looking at the sky.
I propped myself up on my elbows to see my body encircled in the flowers from the tree. Lei was laying beside me staring at the clouds. I laid back down and looked at the sky and thought about the dream.
That dream wasn't a dream, more like a memory, a memory of the lost princess and my only friend.
I never thought about memories from Irk. There weren't that many, the only things that I could remember involved being with the princess. She disappeared about a month or two after that moment in line. Red and Purple had killed Yellow and all the yellow eyed irkens the day after she went missing. It was devastating. I still miss the my friend, my the princess.
Lei rolled over on her side and looked at me. "What are you thinking about?"
I rolled on my side to face her. "Memories." I didn't want to go in depth with this conversation but her eyes...eyes...eyes...
Their faces grew closer and closer until...
"Zim?" she said backing up, shocked. "You were about to..."
I got up quickly. "Sorry. I didn't mean to. I mean I didn't, but I didn't mean to try." I began fiddling with my hands and staring at the grass.
She smirked and laid back down. "No problem. Just don't do it again."
"Okay." I said still looking at the grass. I eventually laid back down beside her and we both talked about clouds.
About two hours later, we left the park and went back to our homes.
She waved from across the cul de sac and then went inside her house and shut the door. I opened my door and went in.
"Master!" Gir yelled from somewhere. Him and another little S.I.R bot ran out from a room. "I made waffles for you." He handed me a plate with burnt waffles on it.
I looked at the waffles then at the orange eyed robot. "Who are you?" I placed the plate on the table.
"Sali. I live across the street." She pointed to Lei's house. She smiled, just like Lei.
"She's my best friend." Gir said surprisingly calm while hugging Sali. Sali hugged him back.
I stood there watching the S.I.R's hug, then I got an idea. "Sali, do you know stuff about Lei?"
She stopped hugging Gir and looked at Zim. Her eyes turned a deep crimson. "That information is confidential."
"I just want to get to know her..."
"NO!" She yelled and ran out the door. Gir's eyes began to tear up.
"I never said goodbye." Gir cried and ran into a random room.
I stood there. Lei was hiding something and I was going to find out, even if I had to invade her space and killed me. I will find out.
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