Yes! I am making it through! I know, last chapter was short and you're thinking 'weak!' But, my children, you won't be disappointed. I'm trying to make up for loss of work. I am dedicated to anything with 'IZ', so don't you worry your pretty little heads about it. Zora's mine. Period.
All the rooms have been assigned and so where the 'sleeping buddies'. Gaz would be sleeping in Zora's old bedroom with Gir to keep her company. Dib would be staying in the old abandoned room, where the portrait used to linger about. Finally, Zora and Zim 'claimed' the master bedroom, although they didn't have much of a choice to begin with.
"Stupid Dib. Making decisions without as much as my consent.", mumbled Gaz as she munched on more of Bloaty's pizza, all while flipping the channels on the plasma TV in Zora's old room. 'And to top it off, I'm stuck with this guy.' She looked over at Gir, who was dancing around in a cute fashion, then started act like a wood pecker, and tried to 'peck' on one of the drawers of the dresser.
"Hey! Gir! You shouldn't be doing that!" She reached for the robot, but slipped in the process of capturing him. They bashed into the drawer, knocking something open. It was a secret compartment under the drawer, and something light fell out of it.
Gaz rubbed her head in pain. "Ouch. That hurt. I wonder how Zim puts up with someone like you?"
She scowled at Gir, who grabbed the item that fell out of the compartment. "Ooooh! Looky! This fell out of that secret door thingy!"
The SIR unit handed over the item to Gaz. It was a diary. It was Zora's diary. Her name was printed in crayon on the cover, with cute little hearts and skulls on it. 'Well, we do share similar qualities, it seems.', Gaz thought to herself as she looked around to see how to open it. A lock was on the side of the diary. 'Hmm, there must be a key somewhere in this room.'
"Hey, Gir!", she said.
Gir got up and looked at her. "Yes, scary gothy girl?" His baby blue eyes beamed in eagerness.
"I need your help, Gir. Can you help me find a key for this in this room?" She showed him the diary, displaying the lock on it.
"Hey! I think I saw something like a key-thingy when I was in the other room!"
Gaz simply looked at him. In the other room? 'Why would Zora place the key of her diary in the abandoned room?'
"Gir, could you go get that key for me?" Gir got up and saluted in a playful manner. "Okie-dokie!"
He shot out of the room like a bullet, bursting the door wide open.
Dib turned in fright. 'Damn, that stupid robot!' He was still working on inspecting the wall and floor where the portrait was.
"Shit Gir! You scared me! What are doing here? This place is off-limits until I cleared things out."
Gir wandered over to the dresser. "Gazzy told me she needed a key-thingy. So I'm here to get it!"
Dib raised a brow, slightly curious as to what Gir was talking about.
"A key? Like that one right there?" He pointed to a small silver key with a heart at the bottom end of it, sitting next to a pile of books.
"Oh yeah! There it is! Okies! Bye!" Gir grabbed the key and zoomed back out of the room, closing it loudly behind him.
'What a crazy robot. I wonder how Zim puts up with him?', he thought to himself as got back to work on the wall and floor.
Gir ran back into the room, handing over Gaz the key to the diary.
"Here it is! That bobble head guy told me where it was!" He shrieked with joy as saw a monkey on the screen on the TV. "Monkey!" He jumped on the bed, while Gaz sat on the floor, checking to see if the key fits in the lock. It did.
She twisted the key carefully, successfully unlocking it. Placing the key in her dress pocket, she opened the diary to the first page and read aloud.
"August 3, 1998. Dear diary, it's been three months since we moved into this house. I am getting really worried about what my mom and dad are saying about these 'demons' are. I never saw anyone since we moved in here. Is it something only they can see?"
Gaz flipped on a couple pages ahead, stopping on one entry that interested her more. It was set on the date she and Zora first met.
"July 28, 1999. Dear diary, I have told you about my new friend, Gaz. She beat up these bullies that were picking on me at school the other day. She broke one of their noses, and the other one went to the hospital. Everyone thinks she is so mean, but she's really nice to me. We both like the same stuff. But anyways diary, I invited her to my house today. Mommy said it was alright. Mommy really likes her too, but her brother is weird. I think his name is Dib. We hung out today, and we noticed something weird. We heard voices upstairs in the room across from mine. I know it wasn't mommy or daddy cause both went out today. We got scared. I told mommy later about it, and she looked worried. She went into the room with a big book and then I heard screaming. Mommy came out about an hour later, but she was hiding her hands. I saw something on her hands though... it looked like blood."
Gaz froze and remembered that day. The day she first came into the house with Zora. They were playing downstairs with some plastic piggies, when all of a sudden, they heard voices coming from upstairs, like some people whispering.
She remembered trying to go upstairs, while holding Zora's hand, trying to be brave, and when she tried opening the door, the talking stopped. The door never opened. They ran back downstairs, holding hands and ran into Zora's mother. They were both terrified. That was the first time Gaz was ever scared of anything in her life.
Gaz snapped out of her trip to 'memory lane' as she heard Gir shriek with glee as he saw a mother pig with her piglets on the TV.
"Awww! So cute! Momma piggy and baby piggies!"
Gaz closed the diary, locking it shut again. She looked over to the bedroom across from where she was.
Little did she remember about ever meeting Zora's father, but after reading the diary, her memory of Zora's mother came back to her faster than ever.
It was indeed as her best friend described her. She was very beautiful and very attractive. However, her name still escapes her.
She mindlessly slipped her hand on the side of the diary and felt something poking her. It was a small slip of paper. Gaz pulled it out to verify it. No, it wasn't a slip of paper, it was a picture.
It was a little faded, but what she saw had finally brought the woman's name back to her.
"Zelda."
The picture revealed to be a younger, ten year old Gaz standing next to a ten year old Zora, and Zora's mom, Zelda, was standing behind the two smiling with them. The date was signed on the back of the photo. 'Jul. 31, 1999.'
She placed the photo in her pocket, now stumped about everything. 'What does all of this mean? How is it that I suddenly remember Zelda out of the blue? And most importantly... Did Gir just eat all my pizza?'
She looked at the empty pizza box, watching Gir munch on the last slice of ham and cheese pizza.
Gir burped really loud and looked over at a ticked off Gaz. He giggled nervously, "There's still the bread-sticks." He smiled a wide smile as she shook her head. 'Hence, how does Zim put up with him?',she thought before grabbing a bread-stick and chewed it away.