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Code Lyoko

Twinkle

I slowly glided my fingertips across the piano keys in front of me. The melody was one I could play from memory. A song I'd heard my Daddy play to me many times when I was growing up. A smile gently drifted to my face, as I thought of how long ago that truly was. Of how many things had happened since then. Things that were both good and bad, but I knew the bad could never outweigh the wonderful things now in my life.

On a clear night like tonight you could see that every inch of the sky was dotted with stars. They had first captured me when I was a little girl watching them from Daddy's lap. Back then I didn't understand when he said that there were even more brilliant things in the world to discover. After I was first materialized I didn't remember those words, but all the same I found them to be true. The earth was filled with thousand upon thousand of amazing things to see.

The lesson Daddy had tried to explain to me though, wasn't so much about liking flowers over stars or anything else. It was a lesson I had to live before I'd understand. Seeing the world back then with Jeremie as my guide had taught me the meaning of my father's words. Slowly I faded out the melody before turning to notice behind me. A tiny laugh caught in my throat as I saw Jeremie fast asleep on the sofa.

Slowly I slid off the piano stool and quietly tiptoed over to him. Carefully I reached to slip off Jeremie's glasses before he crushed them into the sofa. Gently I took a seat next to him as I slowly wrapped a blanket around the two of us. As my sleepy eyes gazed out the window up into the night sky I understood. Daddy had been right... Nothing else ever made could twinkle quite like the human heart.

The thing Jeremie had always known...the thing he had always seen... Was that even during all the years I had spent locked in what could have been a digital prison, my heart had always been...and would always be...truly human. There were days back then that I even doubted that... Leaning my head gently over onto his shoulder I let my eyes fall shut. But in-spite of everything...he never saw me as anything less...

So even with an army of stars to compare them too, I was convinced, that I'd never see anything quite as resplendent, as the two shy blue orbs that sat just behind his glass frames...

FIN

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