Episode 1: "Finals"
I'M BACK, man I missed this place. It's been like, what, 2 years? It's about time I got back here. I may continue to work on a revised version of "Code: Rooftop" if I get enough support for it, so PM me if you want to see that. This is just a revised version of a story I wrote and published years ago to let y'all know I'm back! Enjoy!
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*.
Odd groans as he slowly awakes from a deep slumber. He is slightly agitated as he was just abruptly taken out of an amazing dream, a world with no homework and free food.
"Ulrich, hit the alarm clock, will ya?", Odd said in a half yell, half asleep voice.
Ulrich groaned as he sat up in his bed, still in a groggy state. "Someone must not have slept well last night", Ulrich said, slowly moving his hand towards the snooze button until he heard a faint *click* and the beeping stopped, echoing one final time against the walls of their dorm room.
Odd, having finally gained the strength to force his tired eyes open, began to speak. "I actually had this amazing dream! It started in Ms. Hertz class..."
Odd was cut off by Ulrich's phone vibrating against the wood of their dresser. "Hello?" Ulrich asked as he answered the phone.
"Ulrich!", Jeremy, the person on the other line, said, "Where are you guys? Classes start in 15 minutes and we have finals today!"
'Crap', Ulrich thought, remembering that class finals were today and he completely forgot to study. "Yeah, yeah, I know Jeremie. Odd and I were just getting some last minute studying in." Ulrich lied, doing so to avoid Jeremy's normal lectures on how they needed to improve their study habits and how they were lazy when it came to their studies. Ulrich was too tired to deal with that now. He began to think about what he and Odd did last night instead of studying, play video games, listen to new music Odd had downloaded and even reminisce about the good old days fighting X.A.N.A.
"Ok, Ulrich,", Jeremy said, waking Ulrich up from his thoughts, "I guess I'll just see you in math. Don't be late, you know how mad Mrs. Meyer got last week when you and Odd came in thirty minutes late to here class and said you thought all clocks went back a half-hour that day."
"I know Jeremy, you don't have to remind me." Ulrich turned around to face Odd, only to see him having fallen back asleep. "I have to go Jeremy, Odd is yelling at me to get off the phone so we can get to class." Ulrich thought about what he had just said, and he instantly regretted it.
"Odd begging to go to class? I may not have much common sense, but I know Odd would never say that. You didn't study for the test, did you?" Jeremy said with a slightly disappointed tone.
"See ya in class Einstein!" Ulrich stated loudly as he hung up on his genius friend. Ulrich peered over to the red shining light that his alarm was emitting, only to see that he had eight minutes before class started
"Odd, get up!" Odd was unresponsive. "Odd! Odd we have finals today, get up!" Ulrich was beginning to become impatient.
"Five more minuets mom." Odd said reflexively, totally unaware what was at , having given up on talking to Odd, moved over to Odd's bed.
"This is for your own good." Ulrich uttered as he flipped the small mattress on its side causing Odd to roll into the floor with a slight *thud*.
"OWWWWW!" Odd more murmured than yelled, still not being able to get out of his tired state.
"Odd, we don't have time for this today, now put your clothes on or I'll drag you to class in your underwear." Ulrich spat at Odd, putting a true sense of seriousness in the air while also giving humor to the situation.
"Fine, fine. I'm up.", Odd said, "What are you yelling about?"
"Finals Odd, now get dressed, we have to hurry or we won't make it."
"UGGGHHH!", Odd groaned, "Just go on without me, I'll catch up to you before class starts."
"Alright, but don't fall asleep again." Ulrich said having already gotten dressed. Today he chose to wear a dark shaded green pair of cargo shorts, a black shirt with a grey jacket and black and silver tennis shoes with a strange color pattern on them. His mother had sent him those shoes a few weeks ago, and although he hated them at first, they have started to grow on him.
As Ulrich walked out of his dorm, the hallway appeared as though it was a ghost town. Ulrich knew that this was a bad sign, so he began to run down the hallway, hoping to get to class with a couple minutes to spare so he could ask Jeremy for some help. As Ulrich ran out of the building he was met with a similar scene out here as he had seen in the hallway.
'This is bad', Ulrich thought to himself, 'this is really, really bad. My dad will kill me if I fail a class because I was late for finals'. Ulrich runs even faster towards the Math Building with his new found fear and motivation.
As he reached the door to Mrs. Meyer class he sighed with relief as he walked into the classroom, only to be met with a similar sigh of relief from Jeremy who apparently had been worried about him making it on schedule.
"Ulrich,", Jeremy said in a relived voice, "you almost didn't make it."
"I realize that Jeremy. How long do we have until class starts anyway?"
"About 2 minutes.", Jeremy answered, "Where's Odd?"
"Probably asleep back in out room dreaming about food or girls or something." Ulrich answered almost sounding as though he didn't care very much. "And speaking of people missing, where's Aelita?"
Jeremy pushed his glasses up from where they had fallen over time and answered, "She has the flu. She'll retake the finals when she gets better. Although if Odd is late I doubt he will be so lucky, you have to have a pass to take the test on retest day."
"Well, let's hope he makes it here on time.", Ulrich answered, looking up at the wall clock.
Tell me what you think! I wrote this at 2 in the morning so forgive and grammar errors. Chapter 2 will be coming out shortly.