Life in high school is supposed to be tough. You have to deal with classes,
homework, social life, your future, bullies, romance, etc. Life at boarding
school is extra tough because not only do you have all of the above going
on but you also have to add living with your classmates for a whole year,
year after year. That would be tough on anybody, boy or girl.
Now it also is very common for high school students to hold down part time
jobs on top of their other responsibilities. The most common places to find
high school students working are pizzerias, fast food joints, connivance
stores, movie rental stores, etc. That can almost double the stress of your
life. Work sucks most of the time.
Then there is the life of one Jeremie Belpois, a young boarding school
student who goes to school in the suburbs of Paris, France. Jeremy is a
model student. Excellent grades, a good relationship with most of the staff
and students and an all around focused individual. He even has a job on
top of all that. Though his job requires him to work in the basement of a
factory located on an island on the Seine. He actually shares his job with
his friends Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, William and his best friend Aelita. The odd
part about his job though is one, he does not get paid for it, two he and his
friends have to keep their jobs a secret, and three the factory that they work
in has been abandoned for decades. Their job is to fight and protect the
world against an evil sentient computer program known as XANA. XANA
lives inside a virtual world called Lyoko, created by Aelita's father. XANA's
goal is to fully escape from Lyoko into the real world and cause havoc and
destruction and eventual inhalation of the entire world. Jeremy and his
crew have been able to fight off Xana for the past two year's since Jeremy
first stumbled upon the powerful supercomputer that power's Lyon. He is
overworked with the hours upon hours of programing that he puts into
Lyoko to find a way to defeat XANA and find Aelita's father, who many
years ago sacrificed himself inside Lyoko to stop XANA, which also ended
up trapping his daughter inside the world until Jeremy freed her.
One could understand that massive amounts of stress and anxiety can
cause a persons sleep. Jeremy has been plagued by nightmares for so
long now he could not even remember when they first started. Although
they were never the exact same, the layout of the each dream is very
similar. They all usually involved XANA, one of his friends, Aelita usually,
Lyoko or school and lots of death and blood. All in all, terrible horrible shitty
nightmares, and they were happening every night.
While Jeremy was suffering from his nightmare's, his greatest friend Aelita
was suffering from her own nightmares, except her's were in the real world,
watching her soul mate suffer everyday, over her and what her family has
caused. He was always sleeping in class, and looking like death was
always about to take him away. He was more of a shell everyday instead of
his normal self. She would spend countless hours with him in his room and
in the lab working on the Lyoko programing and he would constantly fall
asleep on the keyboard and she would have to wake him up or just drag
him out of the chair so he could sleep until he would wake up sweating and
scared from the nightmares. He even sometimes talked in his sleep and
sometimes Aelita would sit next to him and listen. He would say her name
a lot, which always made her feel good and go slightly red.
Tonight they were down in the lab, working away, like they had been every
night, except it was 30 degree's outside and snowing, due to it being mid
December. All of Paris was lit up with beautiful christmas decorations. It
was Aelita's shift to be working on the latest defense program. She
glanced over about 10 feet to her right where Jeremy was laying down, with
his eyes closed but she was not sure if he was really sleeping or not. She
knew he would like to lay there for hours until her could fall sleep.
"I can program and control an entire virtual world, yet I cannot figure out
how to make one boy feel better" thought Aelita as she typed away on the
keyboard.
Jeremy was tossing and turning and there were groans and moans coming
from him. His eyes remained closed so Aelita was 95 percent sure he was
asleep so he must be having another nightmare. "Damnit" thought Aelita
as she got up out of the chair and walked over to Jeremy and knelt down
beside him. Before she woke him up Aelita just stared and admired and
thought about the boy she has been crushing on since the moment they
met. It has been a year and a half since Jeremy first discovered the
supercomputer and he has been in her head every day since. This boy
risked everything, including his life, to save her from Lyoko and he has
hardly left her side since she was materialized only a few months ago.
"Hey Jeremy wake up, wake up!" said Aelita as she shook Jeremy.
The blonde haired boy suddenly sat up, his face lightly coated with sweat.
"Hey its ok. It was just another nightmare" said Aelita as she rubbed his
back.
Jeremy looked around and made sure he was safe, especially with Aelita
being there.
"Maybe I should go see a doctor" said Jeremy.
"It might help you" responded Aelita.
Jeremy stood up and stretched out his back and arms. He then looked
down at his watch.
"Oh shit its almost midnight. Come on lets get back to the dorms" said
Jeremy.
"Good idea sleepyhead" giggled Aelita.
Jeremy walked over to the monitors and shut everything down. Then he
and Aelita grabbed their coats, gloves and scarves and made their way to
the top of the factory.
The cold winter breeze struck the two teenagers instantly when they
stepped out of the factory into the cold evening. The snow in the wind
swirled around them as they walked across the bridge above the cold
waters of the Seine. As they approached the manhole cover Aelita paused.
"Hey lets take the above ground route. Its such a pretty night out" said
Aelita.
"Its also a pretty cold night out" responded Jeremy.
"Oh come on don't be a baby" teased Aelita.
"Haha ok as you wish Princess" said Jeremy.
The two continued to walk down the snowy, street lit path. The scene
around them truly looked like a postcard. There was literally no one else
out on the streets this late at night. The snow was not ruined by hundreds
of footprints so it looked extra beautiful.
"Winter really is a pretty season" said Aelita.
"It really is nice at times like this. This kind of snowfall is peaceful"
responded Jeremy.
"I wonder why no one else is out right now?" said Aelita.
"Well one it's really late at night and two its a school night" responded
Jeremy.
Aelita reached over and wrapped her arm around Jeremy's arm.
"Im glad I have a such a great guy to walk with me" said Aelita.
Aelita being so close made Jeremy blush incredibly.
"This is the best Christmas ever!" said Jeremy softly.
"Why is that?" asked Aelita.
"Because this is your first Christmas here with me" said Jeremy as he
looked down at the pink angel next to him.
Aelita suddenly wrapped her arms around Jeremy and pulled him into a big
bear hug that stopped both of them in their tracks. After several seconds
Jeremy tried to move but her could not.
"Wait can we just stay like this for a minute, please?" said Aelita, she
looked up at him as she said this.
"Of course we can" said Jeremy, warmly as he wrapped his arms tightly
around his best friend, burying his face in her pink hair.
The two stood there, deeply embraced in each other as the snow fell gently
all around them. Jeremy very gently swayed back and forth with Aelita in
his arms, trying his best to embrace how special of a moment this is, being
so close to the girl of his dreams, the girl that saves him in his dreams.
"I love you Jeremy" said Aelita softly.
…
There was a pause as Jeremy's brain absorbed what it had just heard. At
first he was sure it was something he had heard in his head but then a few
seconds later..
"I really do love you" said Aelita.
The words made Jeremy almost as stiff as a statue. He thought hearing
those words come from Aeltia was something that only happened in his
dreams, and right now he was really sure he was still asleep when he felt a
gentle tap on his face.
"Hey did you hear me Mr. Statue?" said Aelita.
Jeremy, without saying a word, broke from his statue trance and looked
down at Aeltia, who's eyes looked more beautiful then he had ever seen
them before. Without hesitation Jeremy leaned down and planted his lips
firmly against her's. He truly had no control over his body, he was just
letting instinct take over. Aelita was shocked at his gesture for a second but
then she too let instinct take over and she wrapped her arms around
Jeremy's neck and deepened the kiss. The scene looked like an actual
fairy tale as two young people discover their love in the middle of a
beautiful snowy night. They stayed with their lips locked for several long
minutes until Jeremy finally broke the embrace.
"I love you. I love you so fucking much Aelita" said Jeremy.
Tears started to stroll down Aelita's cheeks, which made Jeremy very
confused.
"Why are you crying?" asked Jeremy.
Aelita first responded by kissing him again.
"Because I have waited for months to hear you tell me that" responded
Aelita.
The two teen's looked at each other and both could feel that there was
something special happening. This brought the happiest smiles to their
faces.
Aelita embraced him again in a giant bear hug and buried her face into his
chest. Jeremy again wrapped his arms around her tightly, absorbing all the
love that was pouring out of her body.
"So does this mean we are a couple now?" asked Aelita, her voice muffled
by her face buried in Jeremy's jacket.
"I think so. I have never had a girlfriend before" said Jeremy.
"This is the best day ever" said Aelita.
"I agree" responded Jeremy.
The two embraced in another kiss, not wanting it to ever end.
"Maybe we should keep going back to Kadic, so we don't freeze" said
Jeremy.
"Probably for the best" responded Aelita in a playful tone.
The two love birds finally continued on their walk back to Kadic, lightly
coated in snow from standing still for so long. Aelita's arm continued to
stay wrapped around Jeremy's arm, her head resting on her shoulder.
These two had known each other for so long now and this walk back now felt
like it was almost the first time they were spending time with each other.
After almost a half hour Aelita and Jeremy finally reached the dorms. They
knew they needed to be extra careful in sneaking thru the hallways. They
took off their boots and careful crept thru the dimly lit hallways and
stairwells. They almost got caught by Jim at one point, but using some
swift, Breakfast Club style maneuvers the two teens finally found
themselves safely inside Aelitia's room.
"Wow that was a close one" said Jeremy, still trying to catch his breath.
"Ya that was awesome. I almost thought we were done for" said Aelita as
she removed her coat, scarf, hat and mittens. She then walked over to
Jeremy and embraced him in another deep kiss. Jeremy embraced her
back and savored every moment of it. After about a minute Jeremy broke
apart.
"I think its time I head back to my room Princess" said Jeremy as he started
to move towards the door, only the be stopped by Aelita holding him back.
"Wait, don't go. Jim is still out patrolling the hallways. I don't want you to
get caught" said Aelita.
"But I need to get back to my room" said Jeremy.
"Or…you could stay the night here with me" said Aelita.
Suddenly Jeremy's face went as red as a cherry and a few drops of sweat
dropped from his forehead.
"Uhhh…ok" responded Jeremy, with a nervous voice.
Aelita giggled when she saw how red Jeremy's face got.
"Hehe your so cute" she said.
Jeremy took off his coat and hat and gloves as Aelita went over and took off
her clothes and put on her giant night shirt and climbed into her bed,
making sure there was room for Jeremy, who was standing nervously next
to the bed, looking down at Aelita.
"Come on Jeremy" said Aelita.
"I know it just…I have dreamt of this moment so many times and I still cant
believe its reality now" said Jeremy, his face still very red.
Aelita suddenly sat up, grabbed Jeremy's arms and pulled him down on top
of her, wrapping her arms around him as she embraced him in another
kiss. Jeremy snuggled close to her and kissed her back, enjoying the
overwhelming feeling of being so close to the girl he loved.
Jeremy grabbed the blanket at the foot of the bed and pulled it over the two
of them. Aelita rested her head on Jeremy's chest as he held her close,
gently stroking her pink hair, feeling the warmth of her body mix with his.
"I love you so much Aelita" said Jeremy.
"I love you too Jeremy. Promise you will never let go" said Aelita, with her
eyes closed, using Jeremy's chest as a pillow.
Jeremy leaned down and kissed her on top of her head.
"I promise Princess, I promise" responded Jeremy.
Aelita snuggled as close to Jeremy as she could, knowing that this is one of
the greatest moments of her life, her first time sleeping with the boy she
loves.
The two love birds eventually fell asleep and from that day on all of
Jeremy's nightmares went away.
AUTHORS NOTE - I hope you all enjoyed this story. My first winter
not on the east coast so I am missing snow.