🌸 Invader Zim 𝔁 Reader Oneshots 🌸

Soulmates

(This oneshot was requested by ArtificialFear)

Walking over to my school desk, I plopped my bag down beside me as I pulled out my chair, sitting down as I looked up in front of me. This morning felt like any other normal morning; the clouds were covering the sun, children were running a muck down the hallways, and everyone in my classroom acting like wild maniacs. That was until our classroom door started to open, and immediately everyone rushed back into their seats, desperate to avoid getting into any trouble from our teacher, Ms Bitters. As I examined the figure walking into our room, I noticed right away that it wasn't our usual darkly-dressed teacher, but rather someone I'd never seen before. A tall, lean man with pastey skin and brown hair that reached his shoulders. He wore glasses on his face, as well as a retro flannel shirt and daggy blue trousers. Let me guess, its the substitute...

'Good morning everyone!' He spoke out loud with a positive demeanor, 'Unfortunately, Ms Bitters has a scheduled appointment today so I'll be taking over as your substitute!'

Yep...

After a few minutes of the new teacher introducing himself, it didn't take long for all the other kids to start acting batship crazy again. I mean, who takes a substitute teacher seriously anyway? But in our defense, he was pretty chill with us just taking this lesson as a bit of a bludge, so I guess he didn't really care about teaching us proper things. As the lesson grew longer, I remained seated in my desk as I soon started talking to Dib, who was seated right in front of me. We were in the middle of a light-hearted discussion when Dib pointed a finger out to his right.

'Hey look, Zim's staring at you again...' He stated. Turning my head to the side, I noticed Zim was in fact looking over at us, or mostly me, staring blankly at me as though he were lost in thought. Now, Zim and I have become really good friends, and yes I know all about him being an alien and all that, but these past few days have been a bit weird. He's been... looking over at me a lot, the same way he is doing now. Just gazing at me as though he were in some sort of daze. If he were human, I would just consider him to have a crush and just shrug it off, but he's not human, so the fact that he's been doing this has raised my curiosity. I mean, I wouldn't exactly think he has a crush, aliens don't feel that way... right?

As his gaze on me dragged on for a long period of time, I decided to get up out of my seat and walk over to the other side of the room to where he was. As I approached the front of his desk, his eyes were still glued to the direction they were before, almost as if his head was stuck and now he was just looking out the window. In an attempt to subtly grab his attention, I let out a small little cough from my throat with an "Ahem" sound along with it. In a sudden reaction, Zim's head turned quicker than a boomerang as his eyes shot open, connecting them with mine as he tried to ignore what he was just doing.

'What do you want?' He asked in a rather harsh tone.

'Just wanted to know what you were thinking about.' I responded, bending my body down as I rested my elbows on his desk. 'You've seemed very distracted lately. Is there something you want to talk about?'

'N...No!' He stuttered, pulling himself away from my presence to try and avoid the dimmest little blush he had on his face. 'I was just ... coming up with a new plan!'

'Mhmm, sure...' My voice mumbled as I raised myself back up again. 'Well if there is anything you want to say, you can always talk to me. You know that, right?' I asked, gleaming into those glowing contacts of his.

'Of course I do!' His voice beamed, acting as though I had just assaulted him as he brought his body back to where it was before. Even though we were friends, and we were two totally different species, I couldn't help but feel like we had a special connection, a weird kind of bond that feels like it would be an insult if we were to call it a simple friendship. Sometimes it feels like its something more... but that could just be me.