Chapter Eight: Fear
Dedicated to Sparky, cause I miss her so...

Traveling alone in space reminded Tak of the old days...when the world really made sense, in a deranged sort of way. It was just Tak and Mimi against the world. She was lucky she'd left her ship on that trade planet with Mimi locked inside. The little Sir Unit was still pretty dinged up after the first encounter with Zim long ago, but she'd repaired it enough that it could follow basic commands. Though sometimes...like now...the Sir was too overloaded and turned into something like Gir. On the other side of the ship Mimi was banging her head on the wall and singing some Earth song. How she learned the song, Tak had no idea.

But the rambling nonsense made Tak miss Skoodge even more. He was on one of the Meekrob's prison planets. The planet was heavily guarded and filled to the brim with deadly traps, but too bad for the Meekrob that Tak was a master at traps and devices. The atmosphere around the planet was literally a minefield of cloaked meteors loaded with bombs and explosives. Rather than think about Skoodge and her desperate desire to be with him again, she concentrated on her mission, one that wouldn't be as easy as her past ventures. She flipped on the bomb sensor in her ship and waited for signs of the meteor field as she neared the outer levels of the planet. A screen with a radar came up and revealed several blinking dots; Active bombs. But she noticed something she hadn't anticipated, the live bombs hidden in cloaked meteors were moving through space nonsensically.

It was difficult to navigate through the field with Mimi rambling off the wall things at high speed and full volume. "Mimi! SHUT the HELL up!" She yelled over the robot. A metallic clank was the only thing heard as Mimi fell from her perch to the floor. Well, she was on the floor and immobile now, but at least she was quiet. Tak resumed her work but found it was immensely meticulous to look off the scanner and steer. The act was draining all of her energy. So, time for the secret device she hid in the back of the ship. She kept it hidden from Zim and Dib simply because her pride made her think they would handle it wrong and break it.

It was a top secret device from Irk, there was only one as of now, although she didn't know if they'd made another one since she had left. Many years ago while on planet Dirt, she'd gotten it from an Irken named Darth. The machine was called BINED, which stood for Bio-Interfacial-Neurological-Enhancement-Device. It let the user see as the ship and interface with the computer's CPU. It was quite the ingenious little machine. With a grin, Tak slide it on, having already synchronized with the device years ago, and began to navigate much more smoothly. It had been designed for blind Irkens, specifically a blind Invader named Darth. Thinking of him made Tak wonder if he was still mad at her for steali- 'borrowing' the BINED and trapping him on Dirt. He couldn't be too bad off, he could still get off the planet, right? Who knew.

There was a lurch in the ship and Tak cursed the fact that she hadn't remembered Darth's advice about the blind spot in the back. A meteor bomb crashed into the back and exploded, successfully ruining her ship. She wasn't going to give up now though. Yelling and cursing all the while, Tak shot out randomly, lasers and cannons and anything else her ship could throw, just hoping it would clear a path through the bombs so her ship wouldn't get even more exploded. The ship was getting closer and closer to the planet, successfully not exploding again in the minefield. Now she was close enough to the planet's surface to crash on it. Fire charred the sides as she went spiraling through the atmosphere way too fast. She screamed and tried to regain control. Mimi suddenly leaped up and grabbed onto Tak's antennae and began yelling in fear of crashing.

Thankfully, most of the planet was made of sand and desert, rather than oceans and mountains, so she could aim for a softer looking portion of the desert. The ship shook harshly as it burrowed deep into sand. Growling in frustration that she had no ejection sequences, Tak grabbed Mimi hastily and opened the hatch, jumping out and trying to roll on the rough surface. They bounced and rubbed against the angry and hot desert floor, finally stopping far away from where they landed. If it weren't for the heat radiating from the cracked dirt under her, Tak probably wouldn't have gotten up. When she did, she wished she hadn't. Their ship was completely ruined. Half of the BINED was crushed and ruined only feet away from her, having been torn from the ship in the landing. So much for the back being the safest spot... She winced when part of the paneling suddenly cracked and fell off.

Before they could set off to find the prison on the planet, they heard a noise...like sizzling. Heat bristled Tak's antennae accompanied by stinging pain. Plasma energy. "Mimi!" Tak yelled, pulling her own guns from her pak as she spun to shoot at whoever had the gall to attack an Irken soldier.

"Meekrob soldiers!" Mimi reported, "Five of them!" Judging by where the shot had come from, Tak shot off several rounds of lasers in that direction. One Meekrob fell to the ground, dead. Tak grinned, she'd upgraded all of her guns to include the certain energy that could kill a Meekrob. It was much better than any Irken tech, or Vortain.

Watching the horizon, she waited for the rest to show themselves. "Where are they, Mimi?"

"Fifty yards north," Mimi reported, also watching the horizon.

"Do they know we're here?" Tak asked, turning to the Sir.

"Most likely not," Mimi answered.

"South, then," Tak said, marching in the opposite direction, away from the Meekrob corpse.

"How do we plan on finding the entrance to the prison?" Mimi asked, gazing up at Tak. "My sensors aren't able to find anything on the surface..."

"We'll just have to play this ear, as the humans say," Tak answered, honestly not knowing what they would do now. All she did know was that she had a lover to save, and that kept her marching in a straight line to the south.

...

It was said that on desert planets, a simple flower can inspire hope in lost souls. On this particular planet, they did give hope, but they also happened to contain a vast amount of liquid in their stems, allowing poor dying creatures a fresh relief of juice and a hint of a future ahead of them.

A quiet little lizard made its slow way across the sand, constantly struggling not to sink to the depths of the sand. It was slowed by fatigue, heat, and hunger. Ahead of it...no...it had to be a mirage. But...it wasn't! A flower! Dear lord, thank the heavens. The little lizard hurried its pace ten-fold to make it to that dear life force nearby.

In its haste to reach the finish line marked at the white flower in that hot desert, the little lizard hadn't heard the coming footsteps dragging through sand. It was almost there, it could see the white petals, tinted pink at the very edges, and they looked...dare he think it...moist! It raised its head to lick the wetness from that glorious icon, but...all he tasted was sand, and a hint of death... Opening its eyes once more, it no longer saw the flower, but a giant boot!

...

"You stepped on something," Mimi pointed out, looking down at Tak's boot.

"Huh?" Tak looked down as well and saw a petal sticking out from under her foot. Next to her she noticed a lizard. It was skinny and small, but didn't look poisonous. "Hey, Mimi. Look, a snack," Tak said slowly.

The words sunk in as Mimi noticed the lizard, and her eyes lite up red, thinking of how much she loved to cook exotic foods. The lizard looked up at them, not looking too happy. It looked up at them and saw that Tak was a 'flesh and blood' person.

The lizard opened it's jaws wide. And we're talking wide. It's jaw literally cracked back and up with a sickening sound in order to widen. It seemed to grow in size, the scales separating to reveal more scales, and soon it was already half Tak's size. Then there were the razor sharp teeth, rows upon rows of them, never ending through the whole throat. Tak's antennae went completely limp and fell behind her. "We...we should...run..." She said quietly. She looked to where Mimi had been and then behind her, where Mimi was already far away, having thought of the running thing sooner.

Without hesitation she ran away from the perilous lizard, which had become slightly bigger than Tak now, and able to swallow her whole if it wanted too. If whole meant with pieces torn off as it barreled down a throat lined with rows of daggers that could stab through your neck and keep going. Needless to say, both Tak and Mimi ran far, far away from the lizard, who was still too exhausted to move very fast, and avoided any flowers or lizards they came across.

Soon enough, after much running around the desert planet and attempts at navigation that failed, Tak started to wonder if they would be able to find this glorified entrance to the prison. "We'll never find Skoodge at this rate!" Tak yelled in frustration, throwing her hands up. She kicked a rock that rolled down a small slope and into some animals hole-in-the-ground home. "Hey...I just had an idea..."

"Yes, Master?" Mimi asked, peering up at Tak in curiosity. Tak crouched next to Mimi with excitement in her eyes.

"Is it possible to burrow into the ground here?"

"...Yes," Mimi answered, looking at and analyzing the ground.

"What if..." Tak got a very excited look about her suddenly, "What if the Meekrob have their prison in the planet?"

"But...it would still have to have a surface entrance..." Mimi said, unable to see why such an entrance could be found in a scan.

"This is the Meekrob here," Tak answered, "I've heard they can phase through things, what if they phase through the entire crust of this planet to get to the prison?"

"It's possible..." Mimi admitted. "How would they get prisoners in?"

"This is maximum security here...so they probably have some special entrance. We don't know what Meekrob technology is like...maybe they have transporters...like on that Earth show Star Trek..." Tak whispered, feeling much like she was gossiping.

"Maybe..." Mimi said.

"I think we should try to find the entrance underground...it's gotta be somewhere..." Tak said.

"It's worth a shot..." Mimi said, putting her hands together as sparks shot out of them, flying everywhere. A charge went across the air as Mimi's hands, put together, formed into a giant drill. Finding a decent soft spot to start, Mimi began to burrow into the ground, making a hole.

With nothing else to do, Tak simply kept watch nearby for more Meekrob soldiers.

-Two Irken Hours Later-

Working hard as only a Sir Unit could, Mimi was already halfway through the crust. And beside the gaping hole in the ground, lazing off as only an Irken or middle class American could, Tak slumped against some rocks and stared at the sky, daydreaming about Skoodge. She gave up long ago on trying to spot anything on the horizon...there was just nothing out here.

-Five More Irken Hours Later-

At the very edge of the hole, Tak peered in, squinting and trying to see the bottom. "Mimi, report!"

"There is only a very thin later of crust left...then I think we will see the gap that lies in between the exterior crust and the roofing of the prison," Mimi explained, though she knew Tak didn't care as long as success was close by.

"Good," Tak said quietly and looked up at the sky again. Her thoughts traveled far and wide in a few good seconds, but all thought was lost when she felt a few small rocks shift under her boot and she realized she was much too close to the edge of the giant hole. She felt something behind her, pressure pushing on her. As she slipped on the rubble and fell before she could catch herself, she saw a giant lizard watching her descend.

As Tak came tumbling down the rabbit hole her pak legs plunged out and grabbed at the sides of the hole, but the sleek metal only slid on the rocky surfacing. All she managed was slowing down her fall. She landed flat on her back on the brown dirt, cracks beginning to spread below her leading up the sides of the pit. Tak sent a hateful glare at Mimi. But Mimi's thoughts weren't on Tak's hate, but on the surface they were currently on...those cracks were pretty huge.

Tak cursed their once she noticed the cracked ebbing out from under her. Without a further thought, the entire flooring they were on caved in and they fell, quite loudly and heavily, onto a large metal roofing whose surface was strangely warm.

"Well...we're in," Tak pointed out uselessly. She pulled herself up from the ground and looked around at the expanse of metallic roofing. Tak thought about the thick looking surface they'd landed on and the darkness of underground. "It's too thick to burrow through, so...we find the actual entrance now," Tak decided, waiting on Mimi to scan the metal surface and point them in the right direction before marching off diligently.

It was dark and cold there under the surface of the planet, just above some structure. They were there to find an entrance, one that would lead to Skoodge. The entrance was a key to chaos, once they found it, it would still be hell to get in and get the goods. She would have been afraid...she should have been. But she knew what the risk was and, frankly, she didn't care. After all, this wasn't a rescue mission, or reconnaissance or anything of the like. The mission and objective was simple, with one single thing in mind.

One more time...she just had to see him one more time...

It didn't matter...she was slowly fading into darkness, as she was sure Skoodge was as well. Just to see him, even if she was killed. She only had to make it to that moment, then she could die happily. Of course, she didn't tell any of this to Mimi, who would only protest and make a fuss. No, this was her burden alone to carry.

"Master, up ahead!" Mimi yelled. It was a Meekrob guard, and he was walking...in circles... No, he was walking around the entrance hatch he was guarding. "We must handle the situation with care and delicacy."

"Nope." Tak took a small sharp stick from her pak and flung it at the guard, catching him in the back of the neck. "This is more fun...and quicker." As the guard squirmed, trying to get the foreign object out, Tak and Mimi ran by and jumped through the hatch. "Yoink!" and stole the guards gun on the way by. "Hehe."

"Is that wise?" Mimi asked, glancing at the gun as they ran along the hallway.

"I dunno," Tak admitted, not even looking at it. The hallway inside the compound was better lit than its roof. They could see the dull white walls and yellowed floors. The lights weren't actually that great, but it was better than the roof, which was near pitch darkness. Now...to find Skoodge...in this giant prison...that takes up the entire inside of a planet...yeah... "Um...how do we find Skoodge...?"

Mimi stopped dead in her tracks and glared at Tak, who'd stopped just down the hall. "We...We've come all this way...and you don't know...where he is...?" Mimi asked.

"Um..." There wasn't really any way to explain this one. So Tak stalled and looked around. Without warning she kicked Mimi in the head, deactivating her. With a sinister grin Tak picked Mimi up and started to run down the hall. Now to find Skoodgey.

Oh dear Irk...this place was HUGE! None of the hallways made sense, some sloped down and some upwards, they went diagonal and vertical! Meekrob...they had the ability to fly...so why make hallways for people who can't? And none of the walls or floors were marked in any way. Great...no way to remember where she'd been either. After nearly falling into a vertical hallway, Tak came upon a large, red, curved wall.

Out of curiosity, she stepped closer to it. It was...shiny. It wasn't a wall at all! She put her gloved hand on it and felt the smooth texture...so warm. The red changed and swirled in different shades...light was coming from this substance as well. Tak must have gone down a lot of downward paths, because this was the center of the planet...with only a thick sheet of specially made glass protecting them from the molten core filled with churning lava. She gazed up at it, transfixed...it was so beautiful.

A sound down the hall from her made her start and look around in a paranoid fashion. It was just some little kid...he was kinda cute too. "Hey, little kid...do you know where Irken prisoners are kept?" Tak asked as she crouched next to him. He looked up at her with those huge kid eyes and...and...opened his mouth...that was filled with huge razor sharp teeth... Tak gasped and nearly fell over in her rush to stand back up. She backed away slowly as the kid's mouth kept getting bigger...The kid's legs kept getting longer and longer as he stood over Tak. That was it...the point at which Tak knew this couldn't be good, so she ran like hell down the passage and bolted down the nearest hallway, taking random turns and twists to lose the boy.

Finally she reached what looked like a drinking fountain just sitting in the middle of an intersection, she looked back and didn't see or hear any sign of the Meekrob kid following her. "Thank Irk..." Tak sighed, turning back to the fountain. She had guessed wrong...it was actually a bird bath... "The hell is that doing here?"

"What doing where?" Mimi asked from under her arm. The Sir was finally back to lucidity. Tak merely pointed to the strange object, letting Mimi hop out of her grasp and stand before the bath. "...That's odd..."

"Yeah..." Tak agreed. They passed by it without another thought, and kept going down the hall.

Somewhere...near...yes! Tak was near...! Somehow...he didn't know how he knew...but he knew...Tak was close by, he could feel it through his whole core, reverberating and echoing like a far away heartbeat. It was comforting...but worrisome as well...what if she'd been caught as well. What if she was to suffer the same fate as he? No, he told himself, Tak's smarter than that...she's...better than that...

He lost control of his thoughts once more as that same drip dripping brought him back to remembering his reality. The acidic water slowly fell on him, one drop...then another...another...another...another. It was enough to make someone go mad, even without the incredible burning feeling. After awhile he grew numb to it, but every so often...when he remembered, the pain would be unbearable. If only it weren't so damn dark...he couldn't see anything, from the place he was kept to the tormentors that came by. How long had it been...hours...days...months...minutes...seconds... Time lost its meaning when blurred with pain and hollow darkness. This was a place of and for death...it was hell. It was made for death and death was coming...just a matter of time...which had no meaning...so death was here. Living and breathing in the same breaths as him, in his breath. In the stale air...his blood...in the pain. In his need and want...Skoodge was dead. But...he was still thinking...so death wasn't here yet. Maybe... If he could just see his beloved one more time...maybe the pain would disappear. And be replaced with sweet, indifferent demise. Oh, how blessed that would be...to die. For the world to be lifted from him and all thoughts erased from his mind. All except for one thought...

Tak.

...

The labyrinth of halls never seemed to end...never came to a point that Tak could figure out where they were in the huge sphere. There were never any guards...and she hadn't seen anymore of the strange children. How could such a huge place go unprotected like this? It seemed to be a perfect target. Invaders only needed to drill a hole through the crust and find the hatch entrance. There had only been one guard there...it was such a strange place... She'd stopped running far back, it was unreasonable, there was no way she'd be able to navigate while running around like crazy.

Maybe there weren't any guards because there was no need for them. That thought had her pausing. No one knew how hollow the place was because no one ever made it to the surface. This was quite the feat...making it even so far as the center of the planet. Looking up and around, Tak couldn't spy any cameras. But then...they never had gained Meekrob technology, their cameras could be undetectable. There truly was no telling if someone could see her or not. "Mimi," Tak said, turning to the small robot, "Scan the area for bugs, or any other tech."

"Yes, my master," Mimi responded and stood very still, doing a scan. It only took a moment. "There are no guards in the perimeter, or any sign of life... The planet is run entirely by machines and computers..."

"By computers...?" Tak asked, a chill going down her pak.

"Y-yes...they're...they're watching us," Mimi whispered, looking around at the walls. "The computers are programmed very cruelly...I believe the AI's are...playing with us." That would explain why they were getting nowhere. But...playing with them? That implied that they would finish them off later. "They've been moving walls around to keep us going in circles..."

"Then that means...we definitely won't make it out of here alive..." Tak whispered, saying aloud what she'd known from the start. Mimi nodded her confirmation. "But we can try..." Tak said, coming up with an idea, spotting a very well hidden control panel on the wall. Mimi followed Tak's gaze and took the lead.

The panel opened instantly at Mimi's touch, maybe knowing what Mimi was going to try, and thinking Mimi couldn't possibly do any damage. The panel consisted of a keyboard and several screens with all sorts of cord inputs. Furiously Mimi typed in codes, then pulled different cords from her head and plugged them into the computer. "I'm in the CPU..." Mimi reported. Tak watched with a mix of curiosity and worry. She was definitely willing to die for this mission but Mimi? Well, Mimi was her Sir and would follow her into oblivion...so she guessed it didn't matter. And, Mimi would be okay...surely Meekrob technology wasn't so bad that it could harm the little Sir, right?

Sparks began to fly little by little from the cords attached to Mimi's head and her eyes began to twitch a bit. "Infiltrating the system..." Mimi muttered. Sparks skyrocketed from Mimi's head as all the lights flickered off. Tak hurried to bring a torch from her pak, and saw Mimi laying on the ground, cords still attached but no light in her eyes.

"Oh...Mimi..." Tak whispered, leaning close to Mimi. "I'm so sorry..." She petted Mimi and tried to turn her back on, but nothing worked, the little Sir had been too overloaded. But thankfully it wasn't in vain, for the computer systems had been fried too. They wouldn't be for long though, Tak knew they would somehow be repaired. She unplugged Mimi and sat her up against the wall. "You're a good Sir Unit, Mimi...bye..." She kissed Mimi on the head and ran for it down the hall.

With the power out, the walls couldn't move anymore, so Tak was able to find somewhat of a map on one wall. Made for workers who rarely visited the machine operated space. She was close...so close. The prison holdings were near, and Tak could tell which one Skoodge would be in.

Now that she knew where she was going, she pelted down the hall in a rush, trying to get near enough before the CPU flipped back on and started getting her lost again. This was her one last chance. Mimi was dead now...she accepted it. If she screwed this up, Skoodge was gone forever, Tak would be lost until the CPU decided to finally kill her, and Mimi would have died for no reason. She couldn't let that happen, not while she could prevent it. The same thoughts circulated in her mind, like a hamster on a wheel and fueled her with the energy to run fast enough for long enough.

Lights began flickering to life all around her, but with relief she recognized the hallway she was in. So close...so close. Just a little more to go, it wouldn't take long, almost there. That was when the system must have realized where Tak was and what she was doing. No more toying around now.

Acid, fire, burning. But that wouldn't stop her. Nope. No matter how much water that damn CPU pumped into the sprinklers above her, she couldn't be stopped. Not when she was so close. She grit her teeth and kept running, beginning to stumble now in the puddles below her. Dear Irk, it burned...it sizzled and fried, small smoke streams started to rise from her now cracked skin. If this was the planets only defense, it was weak. That's what Tak told herself. This was nothing...it couldn't stop her. The fact that she'd slowed down now didn't occur to her. She could see the door, it was right there. Why wasn't she there yet...? Limping and panting she stumbled over to it as best as she could, still believing, in her single-track determined mind, that she was running as hard as hell.

She pushed open the door...

Hot, pain, the sound of crackling and burning. Was that here or somewhere else? What was making that sound...was that pain...? Where was it coming from? The pain receded and Skoodge realized he was the one in pain...that the sounds were coming from him...they were the sounds of pain. The sounds of cold, heartless metal being heated to glow blindingly white...and pierced into his flesh. More pain... But was it really pain? It was really the sound of death...coming so much closer...just edging, inch by inch, so slowly. It was calling for him, and he wanted so badly to answer that call...to fall into the dark abyss of oblivion forever, so long as it would end this pain. But...

...there was one thing left...he couldn't leave...not yet...

"Skoodge?" Tak called, a faint, pain-filled smile lightened on her face. The room smelled of pain and blood, sweat and torture. But that didn't matter so much...not now.

He was missing an eye...either that or it was swollen shut, in Tak's condition she couldn't quite tell. He was horizontal and there was metal nearby...but she ignored that...it didn't matter. What mattered was the tear-filled face staring at her with happiness and pain so clearly etched in his features.

In her happiness at finally reaching him, she didn't realize that she'd stopped walking. Even so, she took a small step forward, nearly falling. Water puddled at her feet, flowing in from the downpour in the hallway. It slid under her boots and made standing harder than it had to be. Droplets of the poison found their way through the gaping doorway and onto Tak's back and neck, making her wince in pain. She took another step, a bigger one, and actually did fall.

It couldn't be...he stared and watched as she simply stood there, he was right. She did come. Tak did come. And she was here! She was right here! When she fell, Skoodge did his best to move, he was on the floor, so he crawled, making his way slowly. The machines did nothing, they knew what was coming, as did he. The machines and cameras just watched and waited.

Though the fall had hurt, the water hurt more. Tak pushed herself up slightly and dragged her hurting and tired body forward, forcing it to work. In her work, she saw that Skoodge was coming too. So great, so great to just see him again...to see that face smiling at her...letting her know she'd done good. She stretched out towards Skoodge, her hand falling next to his face in her vision, letting her imagine that she was touching his face. Her body stopped moving, refusing to work. The poison started setting in and went even deeper than skin...deeper than blood. Her mission was done...she smiled and closed her eyes...simply feeling the moment.

Skoodge kept trying, but she was just so far away, and she'd stopped going. He struggled and pulled, but it was tough. He stopped and reached out his hand towards her outstretched one, just barely touching her fingertips with his. The calling was so loud now, so deafening. Earth-shatteringly deep calls resounding in his mind, so loud that he didn't notice the sound of Tak's breathing stop. Soon enough his own breathing stopped. He no longer focused on the calling of death, but on the feeling of Tak's fingers under his...just knowing she was nearby...it made the feeling of dying less painful. A light smile found its way to his face as pain set in and his mind quit working.

The sound of sprinklers in the hallway stopped and soon enough the only sound was that of the CPU's running.

Darkness...it was growing...spreading... Somewhere within that darkness however...was a light. Some source of hope in the distance. A small promise of life. Some sound far away...but what the hell was it... Too tired to decide now. Focus more on the light...the good feeling that felt more solid now...more real. Some sense of reality among the dark confusing things. Hold on to that...the solidity...the confirmation of something beyond despair and pity.

Warm...that's what this was. Suddenly in comparison everything else felt so cold...so abandoned of life...empty. Good thing the warmth was slowly spreading... Teasing and pulling at the painful dark-covered cold. There was that sound again...what was it anyway...? Still too tired...not enough energy to decide...sleep...sleep was good again...it felt so good. So welcoming...warm and...fuzzy feeling. Like a small nearby light that assured darkness would not reign. That was good...felt good...so very good.

A/N

You all can proceed to kill me dead now.

...okay, still alive. Um...I had this planned for quite a while actually. Very sorry...I almost cried writing this. Even though it's the destruction of two beloved characters, I hope their death can be seen as somewhat beautiful. I do. But I'm a dark, cynical, death-loving person... Anyone remember the DBZ episode in season one, Trouble in Arlia, yeah my fav episode, but yeah, kinda the inspiration for the end of this chapter. I gave a little hope at the end though, so it's not quite so bad! Not hope for Tak or Skoodge...but...yeah. I think I'll miss them...but it had to be done...

Original concepts mostly credit to NikkiNaive (spelled right?). Thanks a lot to ngrey651 for letting me use his BINED and Invader Darth. uh...heh heh, sorry about it going explodey and all. I blame Mimi on that one.

Uhm. Yeah. Soooo. Yeah. I miss Sparky...a lot. Life just isn't the same without her eating lunch across from me and complaining about everything in her cynical, yet uncaring way...damn age difference. Is probably why this chapter is kinda dark. I dunno. I've had so many energy drinks today...I can't tell anymore. I'm going to bed before I die. At least it's friday...sleeping in...hell yeah. My head hurts...so much homework...so many drunken football players on my floor...loud...blech... (died)