Dib's Experiment -Zadr-

Art Competition

She rose the whiteboard marker and truned to face the board. She waited a second before putting the mark under Zim's name.

"Zim is the winner!" She announced turning back around. "No! Zim cheated somehow!" Mia yelled angrily and stood up pointing at Zim. "Save your woes of streak loss, human! It is the era of Zim!" Zim said raising his fist up victory.

"Yeah Mia, you can't brag about beinf the camp anymore!" A student said followed by other students cheering. Mia crossed her arms and sat back down with a humpf in defeat.

Students then came up to get their art peices back. As for Zim he not only got his art back but the light blue parcel prize.
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Zim's drawing was of a child around 7-9 holding a toy with a red, silky bow tied around it's torso. The kid was wearing a cyan colored, oversized shirt that basically covered his entire body except his feet, which had little white socks with red tips covering the toes and the ball of the foot. He had short, brown hair that was messy as if  he had just woken up along with emerald green eyes. He had innocence and pure joy on his face, his eyes shown from the reflection of the lit fireplace next to him. He was sitting in a dark room that resembled a living room with the only light source being the fire near him. The room had no other people in it besides the child and the atmosphere outside the light was cold and unwelcoming. The area around the fireplace having a warm glow of yellows, reds, oranges, and the colors of the items in the light. While the other parts of the room were shades of dark purples, blues, and the colors of the items in the dark.

The paper he had to go along said

Name - Zim

Adjectives - Sad, Roomy, Happy

Description - The light area in the picture is the happy part because of the warm fire and the joy from the child receiving the toy for the winter holiday. Roomy and sad I mixed together in the darker areas. The room is big for presumably a large gathering for the holiday but nobody was there along with the child being alone on a holiday ment to be surrounded by others. But it is still happy because dicpite the child being alone, the joy of receiving the present and the naivety of the human keep the child enthralled and not noticing the area around them.
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Zim and Dib were walking home together once more, Zim bragged about how he was more superior than Mia and about how he won.

"And thats how I single-handedly invented an energy-absorbing goo glob of destruction." Zim said as they came up to his property.

"Hey Zim, congrats on winning by the way." Dib saud as they walked to the door. Over the past few days the guard gnomes haven't attacked Dib. Je was about to turn around but Zim stopped him by saying, "Also uh-" Din turned to face Zim.

"Your drawing. . . it wasn't as good as mine, obviously, but it was. . . more skillful than most." Zim said before closing the door.

Dib smiled as he walked home, blowing into his hands and sticking them in his pockets. 'I've never seen him complement something other than himself or his leaders before.'

A slight blush spread across his face, he didn't know why Zim's compliment made him so smiley and warm. He had done a bit of research about these new feelings and it led him to the idea of love. Dib had had these types of feelings before he started this experiment but not this intsense.

'I not getting attached to Zim. It's fake. This entire relationship between us is fake. This is just to earn his trust and then capture him. Nothing more, nothing less. He's getting pretty comfortable around me, I should start taking my plan into action soon.'Dib thought tryinf to push out the warm feeling.

'I won't fall in love with Zim. He's an alien, it's wrong, I need to stay professional.' Dib internally scolded himself as he entered his house and plopped on the couch.

"What's up?" Gaz asked noticing the stressed expresion on her brothers face and sat next to him with a soda. "Nothing's up." Dib said swinging his head back to lean off the back off the couch slightly.

"You look terrible, clearly something's on your mind." She said handing Dib a pop can.

Dib took the can and opened it. 'Should I tell Gaz about my dilemma?' He thought as he too a sip. He decided against it and made an excuse, "Today was just really stressful, from the recent incident and whatnot."

Gas nodded, "Reasonable." "I don't have homework, do you wanna play a videogame or something?" Dib suggested.

"Sure, I've got nothing better to do." Gaz replied getting up to turn on the T.V and tossed Dib a controller.

Dib hoped that hanging out with Gaz would help get Zim out of his head, but it didn't work. Throughout the game he kept seeing Zim's smilr, his playful teasing when they would hang out, and the compliment he had recently received.
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Later that night. . .

'Nothing's working Zim won't get out of my head! I'll just have to be cautious about what I let happen between us so he won't prevoke this stupid crush any further.' He said truning over to face the wall and slept. It was painfully slow but it happened eventually.
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2247 words. Sorry this took so long to get out! I didn't have a a lot of motivation for this chapter for some reason. I'll try and get the next put sooner.

And happy April 4th
                    4/20/2020

Stay Weird Beautiful People! ❤