Parenthood [INVADER ZIM]

Chapter 9

[M/N] hummed as he enter the Membrane household with three white bags filled with this Chinese food he has heard about. He could eat it and Zim too, there were plenty of Carbs and the sweet and sour chicken was edible for the both of them. Sweet too, much to his joy.

He was so happy with the food that he decided to share with Mateo, Gaz and Dib. A treat for the family but when he entered the living room of the home, the atmosphere was tense and grim. Of course, the house was usually grim but there was some sort of noise going on or Dib ranting to Gaz about what he saw or what he did. There was no noise of Gaz and her game, no noise of the tv playing that tv show Dib adored. With his antenna, he can hear the faint hammer sound that was coming from the basement but it sounded hard. Like someone was taking their frustration out by using the tool, clanking was hard and loud.

[M/N] frowns before slowly placing the white bags on the small living room décor table. He didn't understand but he knew something was wrong, everyone in the house felt so blue and depressed. The Irken began walking up the stairs and stops at Gaz's door, signs and pictures were on the door with tape. Sighing, he slowly opens the door and peeked in to see Gaz on her bed, her squinted eyes focused on the purple game system. She was pressing buttons aggressively and growling under her breath, [M/N] could feel how tense she was. He knew she was an aggressive she was with her games but this was next level, the poor game looked to probably break in her grasp. " Gaz?"

" WHAT!" She practically hissed, one eye open and closed quickly as it open. " Oh, so you finally came, everything went to shit thirty minutes ago, I was hoping you would be here to stop it but everything already settled it down." She huffed as she kept moving her thumbs on the control sticks. " You can probably go home too, Dad is actually home this time around."

" I actually brought some Chinese food with me this time, I wanted to have dinner with you two. But no, my interest lies with what has happened before I came." [M/N] said as he looked at Gaz then away, " Was it a bad fight?" He cursed the Chinese place for making him late, because of them, he was late to stop the fight between the family members. Now, he had to two probably upset male Membranes and assure Gaz that everything will be fine after he would leave.

" Pretty intense." Gaz said as she paused her game and closed the top of it, her attention focused on the sitter for once. " It was actually building up since this morning, Dad was egging on Dib to start looking at stupid papers for colleges, ones solely based around sciences and math. Dib refused, I mean, He could've taken the paper and lied about looking at them but no." Gaz scoffed as she crossed her arms and looked at the wall, glaring at it. " Dib said he wasn't going to even think about them at all, he wants to go to some school in New York since it's the close to Ohio, they have a major for paranormal studies there. That, heh, that made Dad mad. He began getting angry, arguing with Dib that there was no future for him if he keeps it up with this Par-garbage."