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Being Human	By : RotSeele Category: +G through L > Invader Zim > AU/AR-Alternate Universe-Alternate Reality Views: 2485 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Being Human
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 18-Eighteen
- 19-Nineteen
- 20-Twenty
- 21-Twenty One
- 22-Twenty-Two
- 23-Twenty-Three
- 24-Twenty-Four
- 25-Twenty-Five
- 26-Twenty-Six
- 27-Twenty-Seven
- 28-Twenty-Eight
- 29-Twenty-Nine (Epilogue)
- 5
- 6
- 7
Six - Dib POV
I suddenly got the feeling I was being watched. It's a very annoying feeling, especially because I'd had that feeling far too much and far too often over the course of my lifetime. The hairs on the back of your neck prickle, you might even get a little shiver and get goosebumps, or your body may involuntarily tense. Since most of these happened to me, I knew I was being watched, and I hated it. I raised my head and looked around the dining hall. And that was when I saw him, a short, skinny kid with a sickly complexion, black hair styled in a messy tail, and reddish eyes. He froze the moment he realized I was staring at him, then hunched his shoulders and quickly averted his gaze as he sat down with his companion. I frowned, feeling as though I knew that guy, but couldn't quite place him in my memory.
"Dib? You okay?" Lyse's voice finally broke through the "I'm in my own world" haze.
"Huh?" I responded. "Oh, yeah."
Lyse frowned a little. "You sure? 'Cause for a second there, you had this look on your face…"
I smiled, but it felt grim. "I'm good. Just people staring."
"Welcome to humanity." Seerah said before Lyse could say anything. "Everyone stares at everybody. And if it's funny, it ends up on YouTube."
I snickered. "YouTube, huh?"
"Well, it starts there and then could end up on the news or any show that bases its contents on clips scoured from the sweaty, stinky, nether regions of the internet."
I shook my head, grinning. Seerah shrugged and poked at her jello with her fork. "Besides," she continued, "there's staring and there's staring. People are bound to stare, especially in new environments. It's nerves, fear, the urge to want to get to know faces. But if someone is staring then you, sir, might become the center of a stalking problem and therefore need to take the stare-er behind a building, beat the shit out of him, and dump him in a dumpster."
"Does that apply for girls, too?" Lyse asked far too innocently to be innocent.
Seerah snorted. "Brother of mine, if a girl is staring at you it means one of two things: you either look like a creeper, or you're going to get laid."
I raised an eyebrow at her. "Does that apply to boys?" I asked.
She blinked at me, smiled, and reached over to pat my hand. "Dibby, a man's morning begins with the question "Am I gonna score today?" and his night ends with either a chick, a dude, or his hand."
I shook my head and tried not to snicker, despite the fact it probably would've come out as a pained whimper. Seerah probably would've taken it as an invitation of some kind. I craned my head back so I could look at the kid who'd been staring at me. His gaze was now focused on the food in front of him, and he probably would've been convicted of homicide by fork if salads could be murdered. His companion was just grinning, and I thought I could see a faint tinge of pink on otherwise sickly pale skin.
"Love at first sight?" Lyse whispered. I looked at him with a raised brow. He smiled. "You're staring at that guy pretty hard."
I shook my head. "He was staring at me. I thought I'd return the favor." Though, something about that guy was bothering me. I couldn't place my finger on it, so I didn't say anything about it to my friends. Something about that pale kid was familiar, somehow, and I didn't like that. The whole point of my coming to this school was to get away from the familiar, to get away from Zim, my father, and my sister. I didn't want anything to do with my old life during this time. Then I wondered if I was feeling the pangs of paranoid familiarity because that kid had decided to look at me first in his scan of the room, and I happened to notice him looking at me. Maybe he was insecure and I just happened to make him more so because I'd stared right back at him. After all, not all of the country was like the people of my town, who were blissfully oblivious to the obvious and never noticed a damned thing, even when a giant flying pig was racing through the city sky.
I finally sighed quietly and started to rise.
"Dib? Where are you going?" Seerah asked.
I smiled at her and Lyse and nodded at the pale kid and his friend. "I thought I'd go over and say hi." I replied.
Seerah propped her chin on her fist and gave me a thumbs up. Lyse just shook his head. "Don't go traumatizing the local wildlife." he said.
"I'm not going to terrorize the wildlife." I replied cheerfully as I started toward the pale boy and his companion.
Upon approaching, I became aware of the pale kid's companion watching me from behind the dark rimmed glasses he wore. I was startled to realize that he looked almost like me, except he had darker skin and eyes and his hair curled instead of laying flat. He noticed my approach and sat back in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Yo." he said in a tenor voice. His companion's shoulders tensed.
"Yo." I replied amicably, moving to stand beside the pale kid. "Noticed you guys were looking at me."
A grin graced the lips of my almost-doppelganger. "Well, it just so happens that you and your friends were in our line of sight. Can't blame a guy for scoping out possible booty and competition, right, Zeke?"
The pale kid's shoulders tensed even more. "Yeah." He finally said, somewhat strained. "Sure."
I managed to hide my frown as I looked at the pale kid, Zeke. He glanced up at me through black bangs and I thought I saw his eyes narrow a bit as he studied my face. "Something wrong?" I asked.
He jerked and shook his head. "No, nothing." He replied lowly.
He was pointedly trying not to look at me. I wondered why. So I knelt down between him and his friend, braced my arms on the table, and left him no place to turn where he couldn't look at me without seeming extremely rude. I offered my hand to my look-alike. "I'm Dib."
"Desmond." replied my double, shaking my hand. "And my rather silent friend there is Zeke."
I looked over at Zeke and found myself staring into rust-colored eyes. He gave me an uneasy smile. I smiled back
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