Summary: An Invader Zim one-shot. Dib stays up, hoping his father will come home like he promised. In another time, a boy named Mem does the same thing.
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6:45 PM.
The five-year-old boy stared at the clock on the wall, scratching his fork thoughtlessly against his plate, his feet kicking air about a half-foot above the floor.
6:45 PM. That meant he was forty-five minutes late already, and that there were only forty-five more minutes left for him to get home.
He scowled at the clock. Then he jumped as he heard the front door open, his eyes gong wide.
"Dad?!" He jumped