All eyes were on the new kid during every class, and especially now during lunch. Even Kyt's, only because he seemed so.... familiar. She narrowed her eyes as she watched him eat his waffles in a way that clearly annoyed Zim. But Gir wasn't the only thing annoying him.

   "I can't believe Zim would do this to Gir!" Dib said furiously, ripping a bite of his sandwich and chewing on it. "Why would he turn his robot dog thingy into a human? Ugh, Gaz! What'd you put in this?"

   "Arsenic."

   Before Dib could start panicking, Kyt swiveled her whole body around to face Dib. "Repeat that."

   Dib looked at her, dumbfounded. He adjusted his glasses. "Ugh, Gaz. What'd yo-"

   Kyt waved her hand, shaking her head, "About Zim and Gir. What IS Gir?"

   The boy looked at her with wide-eyes. Was...was she starting to believe him? He could only hope.

   Kyt watched him take a gander at Zim's table, at Gir; her eyes following. Why was he so.... homespun? Dib cleared his throat to catch her attention. He didn't appreciate the way she was looking at him. Before her attention was back on him, he shook his head. What was wrong with him? Sure, he liked her but that didn't mean to get possessive over her.

   It took him a second to process that she was staring at him. When he seemed to recognize her, she chuckled,"Earth to Dib! What about Gir?"

   He sat up straight in his seat, "Oh, yeah! Gir. See Gir is Zim's robot 'pet'."

   Kyt bit her lip then. Robot pet? That didn't ring a bell. The thing she had seen was green and black and had had a zipper down its tummy. Hold on a hot second, Kyt thought, quickly taking a double-take on Gir. His jacket caught her eye. "Does Zim's robot wear a little green dog-suit?"

   Dib cocked his head at her,, "Yeah, he does. All the time, unless he's in the base. Why?"

   Kyt smiled for no real reason and said, "I live right across from Zim and Gir."

   She watched the teenage boys jaw drop. From beside him Gaz grumbled an 'oh, boy.'

   Kyt lived right across from Zim? How lucky could he get? Maybe it was finally time, Fate had decided, that he would reveal Zim for the slimy, green monster he was. And then he would become famous enough to rub the fact that he had been right all those years right in everyones face! He was so overjoyed he almost wanted to dance and sing. Almost.

   "Really?!" He asked, "Could I come over? Maybe spend the night?"

   Kyt raised her eyebrows. She tried not to look awkward. Dib looked her expectantly, unaware of just how weird his question was. Kyt sighed, "I'll ask but Gaz has to come."

   Gaz grumbled, and put her head down on the table. Dib continued on, "Great. How about tomorrow?"

   Kyt took a bite of her lunch, watching Dib speak animatedly about how he's going to bust Zim directly under Zim's.... antennae. Like Gaz, Kyt tuned it out. She ate in silence, finding it interesting how Dib didn't have a sense of 'boring'. He was brilliant and animated, he was always moving. Suddenly, Kyt noted Dib's cheeks flush. She blinked, looking at him. He had stopped speaking.

   "Hmmm?"

   Dib sighed inwardly in relief. She hadn't heard what he had blabbed about. He had started speaking of how he was starting to like her. He caught Gaz smiling darkly as she now played her GS3.

   The lunch bell rang and as always, Zim was gone. Gir remained, quickly snarfling the rest of his food down. Gaz wass making her way down the hall, face in her game. Dib walked with Kyt in silence.

   Kyt was in deep thought. She glanced over to Dib, who was trying to ignore the slight pain in his side. He may have everyone else fooled that he was fine, yet Kyt couldn't shake off the feeling he wasn't okay. Her thoughts suddenly veered off to happy he'd seemed about how close she lived to Zim.

   Zim, she thought. She felt a bit bad for having called him a jackass. Not like he hadn't deserved it. He had kicked her stuff down the hall. Yet, name calling wasn't her style. She sighed, earning her a slight glance from Dib(who looked away quickly). She had to apologize to Zim.

   After school, she decided.

   The rest of the day went by quickly. Kyt watched the stormy clouds gathering outside during her last class. Whatever Ms. Bitters was saying was completely beyond her. The end of her 'Doom Lecture' didn't come soon enough. And when it did, just as the bell rang, Kyt ran out to her locker before anyone else had time to process it was time to leave. She grabbed her bag, slamming the already abused locker door shut. She would wait for Zim at the door.

   The wave of skoolkids was enormous, making Kyt push her back up against the open skool door so she didn't get swept away. Dib and Gaz passed her, unaware of her. Even Gir passed by her, but he gave her a friendly wave and smile. Many of the nearby girls glared at her. But still no Zim. Where was he?

   Kyt poked her head in the door when the onslaught of students died down. Zim was standing right there, staring out the door with a nervous look. She watched the strange green boy in silence, the shifted her gaze outside. It was raining. Suddenly, a flash of green bolted past her. That was followed by painful cries. Kyt looked out to the way Zim had run.

    He hadn't gotten too far. She saw him crumple to the ground, under the nearby oak tree. He was holding himself tightly, trembling. Smoke was rising from his body like he were being burnt. Kyt furrowed her brow in curiousity, unable to hold back the twinge of worry that passed through her. She swiftly rushed out to him. Zim heard her approach,, his head snapping up. He let out a pained laugh.

   "Of course, out of all the filthy earth-monkeys to find me.... it has to be you." He coughed, shaking more. "I suppose you're going to poke fun at me, Dib-stink's friend?"

   "Kyt." She responded, "And no..... I'm here to apologize for calling you a jackass. That was.... rude of me."

   Zim narrowed his eyes at her. She SEEMED sincere and no one had ever said, 'sorry' to him once. He mumbled, much to his own dismay, "I deserved it."

   "Are you okay?" Kyt asked, watching as a raindroplet fell from a tree leaf onto Zim and made his skin sizzle. She scrunched her nose up at the acrid smell the smoke rolling off of Zim stunk of. He yelped softly, "I am fine, hyu-man."

   The girl shook her head, sliding her jacket off and handing it to Zim. She knew he'd look ridiculous but he clearly needed it more than her. She loved the rain. He took it, reluctantly. "Zim thanks you."

   Kyt only nodded and walked off. Zim found his eyes glued to the human girl. She was so strange. She wasn't oblivious or hateful, whereas most people around here were. He slipped the jacket on, unknowing to how silly he looked. He began to walk after Kyt. He paused in his stride. He said the name outloud.

   "Kyt."

   He blinked. He liked the sound of it. He caught a glimpse of the girl cutting a corner and thought about catching up to her. He decided against it. She had probably already had enough of him.

   Zim moved quickly to get to his base, knowing the jacket wouldn't last much longer in the rain. He growled and hissed as a droplet hit his nose. As he kept walking his mind stayed on Kyt. He hated to admit he had some bizarre obsession that made him want to throw up his squeedly-spooch. He had watched her every now and then. She was such a docile creature, he had noticed. She never seemed to disobey or want to cause any trouble. And like he had witnessed earlier, she was... kind. Even to him and Dib.

   When he arrived at his base, Gir was sitting on the couch without any disguise of any sort. He was slurping away at chocolate bubblegum, a stack of waffles beside him. Zim narrowed his eyes at his clueless minion as he carefully removed Kyt's jacket from his body. He looked out at the window. It was no longer raining.

   Zim decided to dry off her jacket and take it back to her.

   As Zim stood in front of her door he looked up at her window. He felt a weird sensation in his squeedly-spooch. Like it was fluttering. He felt his heart racing. The Irken boy shook his head as if to shake the feelings off. He put the jacket on the door knob and he went running back to his base. He had the insane urge to go back to her house and climb up to her window. He hissed in utter disgust with himself.

   What was wrong with him?