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Welcome to chapter 6, where magical things happen. Please enjoy another disturbing chapter!

I pwn nowt nuttin.

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A cool breeze brushed up against Dib's face. Every day seemed to get colder and colder. But not because the seasons changed, because Dib felt colder. He felt like he had changed. He never kept anything from his family, especially not his paranormal studies. He didn't like the feeling of keeping a secret, especially something that could really hurt him.

It didn't matter. He wasn't going to tell them. This wasn't something you could talk to your family about, especially since Dib yelled at his father. He wondered if his dad would even speak to him... Even look at him.

Dib was now on his doorstep. He held his backpack in his hand, his back was tired from carrying it. He carefully searched through the windows to see if his father or Gaz was in sight. Dr. Membrane was not there, probably in his lab. Gaz was sitting on the couch, watching TV and playing her video game. Gaz probably took the bus home, which was why she was here already. Dib sighed in relief. He was defiantly not ready to face his dad yet.

He threw his backpack over his shoulder and casually knocked on the door. It was immediately answered by a angry looking, purple haired girl. Gaz. She growled at her brother. Before Dib could say a word, Gaz grabbed Dib by his collar and violently threw him through the doorway, leaving his body sprawled on the ground. He looked up at her.

"Hey! Why did you-" Dib's sentence was cut off.

"Because you're a total idiot! What the heck did you do to dad?! He locked himself in his lab all day! He never spoke to anyone at all!" She shouted, now in ihs face. Her amber eyes peirced Dib. They always seemed to do that.

"I-I didn't d-do anything!" He quickly replied, afraid of making her angry.

"Liar! It's always you! Dad is upset, and I want to know why!"

At this point Dib was angry. He knew it was really his fault that hid dad was this way, but what Gaz said, 'it's always you', got to him. He stood up. "No, you're the liar! It's never me! Every day I have to put up with hearing you and dad's arguments! All I do is sit back and watch! What the hell could you two possibly be arguing about every day!?"

Gaz's eyes flashed open in shock. Never before had her lowly brother yelled at her before. She was surprised. And hurt. She searched herself to find something to yell back at Dib, but found nothing. She stared at her brother, dumbfounded. She turned away, staring through the screen door.

"He's ashamed of me." She said quietly. Dib's eyes widened in shock.

"W-what? Ashamed? Why?" A worried expression appeared on his face. Was his father really telling his daughter these things?

Gaz crossed her arms and slowly turned back to her brother. She didn't look at him. She hid her sad expression with an angry look. "I'm not what he wants me to be. My grades have dropped. He's constantly recieving calls from my stupid teachers because I mis behave in class. He thinks i'm wasting my talents by wanting to be a graphic designer, when I could study science like him. He wishes I would change. Are you happy now?" She glared at him.

Dib couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was this really dad she was talking about? He was never like this when they were young... How could he do this to his daughter? Yelling at her? Wanted to change her?

"It's none of your business." Gaz said. She unfolded her hands, turned around and quietly climbed upstairs to her room. Dib watched her go, not knowing what to think. This couldn't have been their father Gaz was talking about. He always used to support our dreams, Dib thought. Well, Gaz's dreams anyway. He remembered his father always told him he needed to study real science, instead of the parascience Dib was always interested in.

He was scared at the thought. Was his father angry because none of his children wanted to be a scientist like he wanted them to be? Did he hate them because they weren't like him? He needed to talk to Dr. Membrane. Now. Dib quickly ran to the hallway, angrily looking for the basement door. He opened the last door in the hallway and quietly walked down the steps to his father's lab.

Only one light was on in the basement. A blue, faint light hovered over his father's work desk. There, Dib found his father - or what seemed like his father. He quietly walked toward the shadow of the man Dib once knew. "Dad?" He said softly. the man flinched. Dib could see his father slowly turn his head towards his son, but then quickly turned back. Dib was unable to see his dad's face because of the darkness. Dib continued to approach him.

"D-dad?" He said with a stronger voice. He stopped, waiting for an answer from his father. Nothing. Dr. Membrane acted as if there was only him in the room. Dib noticed he wasn't even doing anything - just sitting there, staring into darkness. Dib looked closer at his father's desk - the only thing sitting on the desk was a lamp, and a picture of his father and Dib's mother when they were younger. Dib's heart filled with grief.

"What are you doing in here, son...?" Dr. Membrane finally said. He didn't move. Dib suddenly became scared - and guilty. He carefully took another step toward the dark figure. Dr. Membrane still didn't look at his son. "Get out." Dr. Membrane said. Dib jumped as his father spoke in such an angry voice. He looked up at his father.

"Dad... w-what... I-I need to talk to you." Dib hesitated. Never before has he been afraid to speak to his father. Not until now. Membrane still did not move.

"GET OUT."Membrane repeated loudly. Dib decided it would be best to leave. He gave his father one last look before exiting the basement quietly. He felt completely guilty. He told his father that he couldn't have understood the pain he was going through, but it turned out, his father really did understand. He did know what anxiety was. He did know what Sadness was. Sadness over the loss of a beloved.

Dib quietly shut the basement door behind him. The house was completely silent. Anxiety filled Dib's chest. He took a deep breath. He needed to talk to Gaz. He knew he had upset her. He didn't mean it. He was tired of people not understanding what he was going through... But it turned out the rest of his family knew exactly what he was going through. They just did a good job of hiding it.

Dib slowly climbed the staircase. His mind replayed the same image of his father sitting in darkness over and over. And the picture of his parents... He felt horrible.

Dib knocked on the door of Gaz's room. He didn't know what to say to her, but maybe he could comfort her in a way. He knocked again. He just wished his dad would have said something before, he should have known his family was here for him. Then again... Would Dib have comforted his father after lying to him and never paying attention to him? He didn't know. He knocked once more. Still no answer. He knocked harder. Nothing. "Gaz, you in there? It's me, Dib. I need to talk to you."

He knocked again. Still no answer. He had no choice but to go inside. "I'm coming in, ok?" He opened the door. He gasped when he saw that the room was completely destroyed. Books scattered on the ground, clothes, posters ripped off the walls, Gaz's box of pencils laying next to wall, scattered pencils surrounding it. Almost everything that once had a place was now scattered along the carpet. Dib noticed the window was open, and Gaz was nowhere to be found.

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Sorry about the short-ish chapter, the next chapter will be longer.

I'm honsetly getting tired of those 'chapter in a nutshell' things. No one really needs them.

In the next couple of chapters I'll have some POV's, then it'll go back to normal. SO STAY TUNED.