Fake news

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Zar drops him off waves a goodbye and heads back home. Dib opens the door excitedly rushing up the stairs and over to Gaz's room.

"Gaz you won't believe it! I was able to get a picture of an alien, willingly!" he kicks the door open pulling out his phone and showing it to Gaz.

She was looking down at her game-slave "Wow so neat, but when did I say you could come into my room without knocking first." she doesn't look up for her game.

Dib forcibly shoves his phone into her face. "You didn't even look at it!"

She hears that she had died in her game which pissed her offend she kicks him in his stomach. He gasps for air and falls on her floor.

"If you're going to die, could you take it out of my room?" she looks back at her game restarting the level.

"Fine! But once dad sees this he'll have no choice to believe me! I even took a live photo so that he can't say I photoshopped this or someone is tricking me. Gaz I'm finally going to be respected by dad." he walks out the door.

All Gaz could do was shake her head knowing that she wouldn't be able to change his mind, and she even knows that their father would say it was fake somehow. That's how it's always been if dad was off of work for the next few days, Dib would call their father telling him he had concrete evidence that aliens existed, sit at the dinner table, and wait for dad to get home. It always ended in Dib slamming his door close, watching Zim's front yard.

Gaz sighed and decided to sit down at the table with Dib this time. She walked down the stairs into the kitchen and grabbed a bowl of pudding out of the fridge, sitting down at the table. This surprised Dib as he watches Gaz eat the pudding.

"Um- why are you here?" Dib asks curiously.

"What I can't eat at the dinner table? I mean why have one if we don't use it." Gaz says sarcastically.

"Well I mean no, that's ok, it's just that you normally don't come downstairs until me and dad finish talking. Also, you don't like eating Clembrane's pudding."

They stare at each other for a moment. Then Dib smiles.

"Did you come here to help me!"

"No, I came to not only eat this horrible pudding but to watch you fail once again."

"Ah I see, you just can't admit you wanna help me." he smiles smugly.

She rolls her eyes and they hear the front doer open. They watched as their Dad walked into the kitchen and watches as his face turns into shock seeing his daughter there with Dib.

"Hello children! How has both of your week been since I've been gone?" He asks happily.

"It's been better," Gaz says shaving a spoon full of pudding in her mouth.

"I thought you hated Clembrane's pudding dear, speaking of Clembrane, where is he?"

"He is out getting some groceries, don't worry I gave him a list so he won't get just pudding. Probably." Gaz answers again and now looks at Dib.

Dib looks at her then back to their dad, "Dad we have something to discuss..."

Membrane sighs pulling a chair and sitting down in it. "Let's get this over with son, I want to spend time with the two of you this time, where is said evidence that these aliens exist?"

Dib is beaming with gleam as he takes his phone out and slides the phone over to his dad.

"So if you continue to scroll to the right you'll see that I took more photos, AND, I took it live proving that I didn't photoshop, no one sent it to me to my computer, I took it on my own!"

Professor Membrane looks interested in the photos and seems to be looking for words. Dib could almost hear his father's words, 'Dib this is amazing! We should research more about outer space! This changes everything I've ever thought, thank you son for showing this to me. I now have the heart to say that you are completely right-'

"Wrong"

Dib quickly looks up at his father and looks dumbfounded at him. Gaz looked up too, although she wasn't really surprised by what he said, she stilled looked shocked.

"W-what do you mean dad? I've taken the picture, it's live, and I took more than one! How am I wrong?!"

"Dib this is all a misunderstanding, you didn't see some alien, you saw some man in a costume. I mean, I can even see the mark that separates the head from the body."

"...Dad, I went out to space, took some pictures of an alien, which mind you, you can clearly tell they are at least 7 feet tall with skinny ass legs that can't even support a human body, and you are saying it's some dude in a fucking costume?!"

"Firstly, yes. Secondly, watch your mouth young man, I am your father."

Dib looks gobsmacked at his father. Gaz looked back and forth between her father and Dib. She was expecting Dib to either argue with their dad or slam his hand on the table and storm upstairs to his room. But nothing happens for a few minutes except Gaz eating the god-awful pudding.

Professor Membrane sighs and stands up. "Well if that is all, I wish to go to sleep,  I had a long trip from the lab and here. Good night you two, have sweet dreams." he walks away.

Gaz watches as he leaves and looks over to Dib. He watches as he tries to look for words to say. Instead, tears start to form and all he could get out of his mouth to Gaz as he faces her is,

"Does dad really hate me this much...?"

Gaz got up and hugged him while patting his back, "Dib, you know dad doesn't hate you, he's just...a very stubborn man who doesn't like the be proven wrong." she pushes him so that she sees his face. "And if it makes you feel any better, I think that ego he has was finally cracking, even if it was a little, I could see him trying his hardest to try and come up with some excuse. Perhaps he might come around one day-"

"Gaz don't you see it?! He is NEVER going to change his mind about any of this! Maybe...maybe I should just give up? It might be for the best..."

"Dib I-" she sighs, "I can't say anything about how you feel, and I can't say that you shouldn't give up, but if you really want to give all this up after years of doing this then I'll support you. But maybe just one more time? Just try thinking of something that dad won't be able to deny and maybe then he'll believe you, ok?" she wipes away his tears and hugs him again.

He hugs back trying to think of anything, then something dawns on him and he pushes Gaz off of him showing a small, but happy smile.

"I think I got a plan."

(words: 1213, hahaha I'm tired rn and it's 1:15 at the time, night)

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