Aelita Schaeffer was sitting on a bench, lounging around, waiting for her friends to come back from summer break to start their year off as juniors. Aelita had just traveled back from Norway to get settled back into the dorms at Kadic. Kadic had taken a major boost in renovations, they had called to ask what you're specific dorm room would look like, and that's why Aelita had to come back earlier than her twin, Leah. She had met her biological parents, hell, that's the reason why she was in Norway. After she had been materialized from Lyoko, she was led to believe that her and her twin were the children of Franz Hopper, but Jeremy researched and found the pair's biological parents. They were Alek Schaeffer and Rose Dia. Rose was from America, Maryland to be exact, and Alek was born in Norway, and still lived there, but now with his wife.

Aelita was pulled out of her thoughts as she saw a familiar blonde boy with glasses approaching her. Jeremy Belpois…..The one who materialized her….The one who found her parents. She had fallen for Jeremy Belpois the minute he had turned on that supercomputer. She walked towards him and extended her arms towards him. A smile graced his lips as the two embraced. Ironic how the two smartest people at Kadic Academy were so oblivious to each other's feelings. As he released her from his grasp, she smiled.

"I missed you." He pulled her in for another hug.

"Me too, Aelita." He said, placing his arms around her back.

"Jeremy, I have some strange news to tell you…" He nodded, a gesture for her to continue. "For the past week, I've only had to deactivate two towers. Very weird, huh?" Jeremy pushed his glasses up onto his nose.

"Extremely. What confuses me is that whenever X.A.N.A. was attacking whenever he could last year."(I know they shut off the supercomputer years ago, but I love the idea of a virtual world!) Aelita nodded in understanding, then turned her name as she had heard her name called.

~1st person P.O.V. AELITA~

"Aelita!" A voice called. I turned around, anticipating which one of my friends it would be. Ah, how wonderful! It was Yumi, she had come back from Japan a couple of days ago and told me something great. Well, two things actually… Whatever, it's still good news! First of all, Yumi was staying at the dorms for her last two years of high school. With Leah and myself too! I remember Mr. Delmas had called us in when I was designing our new room and he had mentioned that Yumi would be rooming with myself and my twin. Second of all, she and Ulrich are finally going out. Now, Leah doesn't know either of these things, because we wanted to surprise her with the good news. I think Leah might have a heart attack when Yumi's going to tell her that the two of them are going out. She opened up her arms, and I gave a warm welcome back hug.

"So how was Japan, Yumi?" She smiled, and tugged up on her tight grey skinny jeans.

"It was alright, but I wished I was with my friends."

"Yumi!" A scratchy high pitched voice called out.

"Ugh, Hiroki, what do you want?!" Yumi asked as she gritted her teeth in annoyance at her little brother. I decided to have Hiroki to leave before a fight were to happen between older and younger sibling.

"Hiroki, I would love to have a chat with you, but I was hoping that I could catch up with my friends in private. You don't mind, do you?"

He shook his head, and walked away. I grinned in triumph as Yumi let out a sigh as she said, "Damn, Aelita, you're so lucky that you have a sister, especially a twin. Leah's probably much less annoying than my little brother Hiroki."

I laughed as an arm was slung around me, and I instantly recognized it.

"Leah!" I shouted as I turned around to glomp my sister.

"How was Norway, sissie?" She turned around to pick up her fallen suitcase.

"Meh. It would have been more fun with you guys, but oh well. At least I got to see mom and dad." I elbowed her.

"Heard from Odd?" She blushed.

"For your information, I have. That way people aren't always all over us. What about Jeremy?" She whispered. It was my turn to blush.

"I'll tell you when we get to the dorm." She nodded, and we each leaned on either one of Yumi's shoulders.

"What about Ulrich?" I asked as Leah wiggled her eyebrows. She playfully shoved us away and said,

"For your information, we are now officially dating."

| Yumi P.O.V. |

I'm so happy for you!" Leah shrieked and hugged me.

"Hey, wait, what about our classes?" I asked.

"We're waiting for everyone to get here. Four down, two to go!" I turned as I heard my name spoken. Ah, it was Ulrich. I smiled gently and opened my arms. He had placed his arms on my waist, while I awkwardly placed my arms on his shoulders. See, since we were friends for so long, it was kind of awkward to hug romantically. It was silent, so Aelita helped to start up some conversation.

"So, Ulrich how was Germany?" He smiled.

"It was alright. Though I did miss my friends. It feels pretty damn good to be back." We all shared smiles as we waited for our final friend, evening us out to six.

"Oh dearest friends! Oh, my dearest friends!" A voice called. Leah slipped away from her sister and dashed off to welcome back her three year long crush, Odd Della Robbia. He grasped her close as she slammed into his body.

"Sorry if I hurt you..." She mumbled as her mouth was covered by his shirt.

*Leah P.O.V.*

"Huh? Oh, it's alright. I've gained some strength since eighth grade, Leah. Hey, I have a question…" He trailed off.

"What is it, Mr. Della Robbia? Tell me!" All of my friends knew that I was extremely impatient and never really liked surprises.

"I'll tell you later. Let's just go and get our schedules, yeah?" I grimaced and agreed reluctantly.

"Fine. But you have to promise to tell me later." I held out my pinky as he locked his larger pinky finger around mine.

"It's a promise." I walked over to grab my suitcase that I had left by my friends.

"Let's go, 'kay?" The gang nodded in agreement and we walked off, suitcases in hand.

"We've sure changed our looks over the years, huh?" Yumi asked.

"Yes we have.." I looked around as I took in our new clothes. Aelita had changed to a pair of skinny dark blue jeans, and magenta shirt that had the words 'The Art Of Beauty' spread out over an over sized t-shirt that came down to her mid thigh with a pair of worn peach and bubblegum pink converse shoes that came to her ankle.

Yumi wore a dark red elbow length sweater, a pair of grey skinny jeans, with a pair of red three inch heels. She wore a silver necklace with an emerald in the center, presumably from Ulrich.

The guys had stayed very close to their original outfits. Jeremy wore a turquoise turtle neck sweater with knee length khakis. He had on a pair of turquoise high tops.

Ulrich wore some khaki shorts, about knee length, with a pale green undershirt with a button up army green jacket.

Odd still wore his purple hoodie, but had on a pair of dark blue skinny jeans. He got a haircut, so his hair didn't give him, like, two feet. He wore purple high top shoes.

Me, I looked different every couple months. Right now, my hair was neon yellow. I usually wore some colored skinny jeans with a tight t-shirt with a ton of elastic bracelets. I always wear my knee high scuffed combat boots, but with a two inch wedge to give me a height boost. I was actually somewhat tan, but I had freckles splattered all over my cheeks.

"You okay? You were slowing down for a minute, Leah." Odd said. He was the only guy friend who could pick up whenever something was up. Not that Jeremy and Ulrich couldn't, it was just that they didn't always pick up on it.

"Yeah, doofus. I'm fine, don't worry about it. Just thinking about how we've changed."

"Fine, but you better feel better, because we're going out to dinner! Paid by Ulrich's rich ass parents!"

I laughed as we walked into Principal Delmas's office.

"Pleasure to see you students again. Now, I have all your classes on your schedule, along with a dorm rule sheet. Please at least skim it."

We all waved goodbye to Mr. Delmas. He was the principal that all the students liked. "I'm assuming that the staff thinks that we're getting it on since we're close to get graduating, and that's why we have a rule sheet", I remarked.

We all walked off to the girls dormitory, to move all our clothes into our specially tailored rooms. The academy has a ton of money, so they were able to renovate the room, specifically to the students in it.

We all stopped as we approached our room. It was huge! I would have thought that this was a normal house… I was pulled out of my amazement at our new room for the next two years as Ulrich and Yumi shared a small kiss. Jeremy and Aelita shared an amorous hug, while Odd and I just kind of stood there.

We shared a look, and he leaned in to kiss me. His lips were soft and velvety, and they lingered upon my own lips for a few seconds before he pulled away. "I'll talk to you about it later."

We said those same words simultaneously, and we let out a laugh.

"We've decided that we would meet up at Flat Top for dinner. Yumi said it was a great restaurant that she went to a while ago", Ulrich said, as we all nodded in agreement.

"See you later babe!" Yumi called, and Ulrich raised his hand as a goodbye to his girlfriend.

"Time for a session of Q and A. Big time!"

I shouted as I ushered the two into the room. "I have news, I'll be staying in the dorm for the rest of high school!" Yumi said enthusiastically.

"Yay!" I shouted as I glomped her onto a third bed, orientally styled.