"This is the room you'll be staying in!" Jim said. He opened the door for me and stepped aside to allow me to go in first.

I walked inside to see that the room was already occupied by two beds and a computer by the window. That computer look nice. Whoever I shared a room with must have rich parents if they could get a computer THAT nice. It must have all the latest hardware.

"What was the name of the person I am sharing a room with?" I asked.

"Jeremy Belpois, he's a good kid… but if you ask me, the people he hangs around are going to get in trouble someday." Jim shook his head, as if he could see the future, and the future was him chasing Jeremy and his friends down for the rest of eternity. "Anyways, just keep yourself out of trouble, don't go into the girls dormitories which is downstairs from the boys dormitories which is the floor you are on right now."

I set down the bags that I had in my hands on the ground next to the unmade bed. The room felt kinda cramped with furniture, like this Jeremy guy only expected himself in this dorm for the whole year.

"Yea, just follow the rules. If you have any questions, Jeremy has been instructed to answer them as well as show you around campus and where you're classes are located. So just remember, follow rules, stay in the boys dorms and ask Jeremy if you have any questions. Got it?" Jim sounded like he was a drill sergeant, but without the confidence of one.

"Yes sir." I had already started unpacking my bag, putting my laptop on my bed and looking around for where the wall outlet was. I had already used up all the battery to the thing on the flight over here.

Jim smiled, "Nice manners kid. Keep it up and you'll definitely fit in just nicely around here." He turned around and started walking out, but as he was opening the door to exit it looked as if something else popped into his head. "Oh, I almost forgot. You couldn't have come on a better day. Today, we're taking a field trip. Just thought I'd let you know." With that, I heard the door close and I was alone.

I felt alone too. I didn't know anyone at the school.

I notice that there were two closets in the room. I check them both to find out the empty one meant for me, and I started hanging all my clothes. My phone buzzes somewhere in the middle of all this, and the shirt I was hanging up falls to the ground as I wrestle my phone out of my pocket.

It was my dad. 'You doing okay?'

'Yea, just unpacking' I texted back. I threw my phone on my bed next to my laptop and finished hanging all my clothes.

I look back at my phone on my bed. It wasn't closed so I could read the text that was on the screen.

'If you need to talk about it… I'm here for you.' Of course he'd send that. After everything that's happened.

I hear some talking right outside the door. "You sure you tried everything," A high pitched but obviously a guy's voiced said.

"Yes Odd, now can you please shut up about it. He's probably already here." A lower pitched guy's voice said.

"Alright, I'm going to see if Ulrich's awake. I'd hate for him to be late for another class. I'll leave you two alone."

The door opened and a blonde but somewhat scrawny nerd walked in. He had a blue shirt and glasses. He also didn't look very happy. "Hey." Was all he said.

"Hey… uhh. So my name is Thomas. I think you are my roommate..."

"We are." He said it almost before I was even done with my own thought. "We are in the same class, so today just follow me and you should get a sense of where everything is at." He said this in a as a matter of fact voice. I assumed that this was how he always talked.

"Just today huh?" I jump into my bed and pick up my phone and read any text messages that I've missed. I hadn't missed any yet.

"Yes. Just today." Jeremy checks his really expensive computer real quick and then goes towards the door. "You ready to go to breakfast?"

I send a text to my dad. 'I'll call tonight. I'm going to breakfast now.' and I turn to Jeremy "Yea let's go." I blindly say.

We walk out of the room, Jeremy goes first and I lag behind. I close the door at the same time as the one next to us opens. A scrawny short guy with hair of that of an anime character with purple and pink clothing like a model walks out. "Hey Einstein!" It was the same high pitched voice I heard earlier. I think Jeremy called him Odd earlier… was that a nickname for how he dressed, or his hairstyle? They walk in sync in front of me.

I hear Odd say to Jeremy "You think it was a smart idea to let him follow us all day… what if you know what happens?"

"It is if we don't talk about it!" Jeremy smacks Odd lightly on the shoulder.

"Okay, okay. Sorry." Odd looks at me over his shoulder. He slows down to walk with me and let Jeremy lead the way.

"So what brings you to our crummy old school? You're old one blow up or something?"

I was caught off guard with the question. "Ah, nothing really. My parents just moved was all" I lied. The truth was, I transferred for a couple of reasons. My parents had divorced ten years ago, and I lived with my mom in Ireland for the school year, and my dad had moved to a job in France. My mom had died about a month ago. The school I was going to just had too many memories, so I moved in with my dad.

My dad works as a translator and moves pretty often to fit his needs, so instead of making me move schools everytime he moved, he signed me up for this boarding school. But the events were still pretty recent in my mind and I didn't really feel like opening my feelings up to complete strangers I had just met.

"Cool." Odd seems to take that as an answer pretty quickly. It seems as if he just asked to start a conversation. Jeremy didn't really care, and he seemed more angry about me being here to even care why I was here. "I hope you like it here anyways. I'm a real class clown as well, you'll see."

We had made it to some history class eventually. Breakfast was a bore. Just got my food and sat by myself. I still hear him and Odd talk, apparently Jeremy was planning on skipping Gym today.

I don't mind history class, it was like reading a book to me, except you couldn't always predict the ending. Even so, I still was only half taking notes on the lecture and half doodling. The whole class can here Odd whispering something. Including the teacher.

"Odd? Are you listening to me Odd?" The teacher said, interrupting his own lecture.

Odd just sat there with a silly grin. Sheepish like he just got caught with his hand in a cookie jar. I guess in a sense he did.

The bell rang and Odd quickly got up and made his way over to me. "Hey, I need your help real quick." I didn't even have to give a yes or no before he drug me away towards the door. He pushed me to the side a bit and put his index finger in the 'Shh' Position.

We waited until these two people, arms linked, came through the door. One was a girl, black long hair, a pink shirt a size too small for her figure. Another was a fit guy, one that looked like he knows a thing or two about sports. He had on a green color scheme to his clothes and had messy brown hair.

Odd quickly locked arms with the girl and said "We have some important things to talk about Sissy. Come on! Hurry up!" Odd drug her away from the guy and waved me over. I complied.

"I don't have time for this," Sissy started, or that's what I thought her name was from what Odd had called her.

"Yes, but it's really important! You'll see" Odd looked around as if looking for inspiration for what to talk about. "Uh, Thomas and I were wondering where your nose job was done at. A friend of his was…"

"What!" Sissy face turned a shade more red. Truth be told so was mine… but I wanted to go with it.

"Yea! Odd and I were just talking about it. I have a friend who was looking for a place and I was hoping you could lead me in the right direction." I could feel a smirk on my face. It felt good to kinda smile again.

Sissy rage was that of a bus going from 0 to 120, towards a petrochemical plant "I don't have a nose job! So you can tell your friend that-"

"Are you sure?" Odd put his finger on his chin, as though he were mocking a wondering look. Then he pointed at Sissy's nose "Because I swear I see that nose on every model who got a nose job."

"The answer is no! For the last time I did not have a nose job! So stop asking, huh?" Sissy probably couldn't get any more red at this point.

"Cut it out Odd. Leave her alone, will ya?" It was the guy she was with earlier. I never caught his name, but he was walking towards us, and away from Jeremy Belpois. Were they talking? Was Sissy that guy's girlfriend? If so, was he mad at us? Everyone around watched as the guy wrapped his arm around Sissy and started walking off.

Sissy looked over her shoulder and gave a triumphant smirk and look forward again with her nose high up in the air.

Jeremy Belpois came up behind us and put his hand on Odd's shoulder. "It's nothing. I'll explain." He glared at me as if to say 'Just not around Thomas.'

I was behind Odd in a line to get on the bus for a field trip. He was examining the bus. "Hey Thomas, how much you want to bet that this bus won't even reach the end of the block." I examined the bus. It didn't look like it was too old, in fact it look fairly new to me.

"Take a look Odd. Not bad. This bus is the latest in modern technology. It's electricity driven so it's non polluting but it's powerful too." Jim was by the bus door just in front of Odd, escorting people inside the bus.

"Electric and powerful too huh?" Odd stop in his tracks and turned towards me "I bet that this create can go as fast a snail, isn't that right Thomas."

This is the second time Odd has wrapped me up in one of his jokes. "I'll take your bet Odd. I bet that this thing does go past the first block… but just barely." I smiled again. It still felt really nice to do that.

Odd walks up into the bus, but before I go Jim stops me. "Listen kid. Pick your side wisely. Odd and them seem to get in trouble more often than it's worth. Just remember that." I nod, and with that he let's me on the bus.

I find a seat behind Odd and he turns around and asks me "So what did meat-head Jim want with you?"

"Nothing really." I say.

Jim yells something up front but I don't really hear him. The bus starts moving but really slow. I look out my window and see biker's passing us. I look forward and see Odd and Sissy's boyfriend whispering something to each other. Wait? Weren't they mad at each other earlier? Odd pulls out his cell phone and starts talking on it. I don't really pay attention to what he's saying.

I just pull my own cellphone out and see if I've missed any text messages from my dad. None. I start looking through pictures on my phone. Memories. I don't notice when the empty seat next to Odd gets filled by Sissy's boyfriend.

The bus suddenly picks up speed and I drop my cellphone. It hits the ground and slides underneath my seat and I assume it'll slide till it hits the back of the bus. But I don't care about that right now because I feel the same force pushing me against my seat. I see Odd and Sissy's boyfriend get up. I get up with them and head towards the front.

"Hey, you're not allowed to get up!" Jim yells from behind us. But we just keep moving forward.

We get to the front and Sissy's boyfriend asks "What's going on with this bus?"

"God kid, I wish I knew. All I know is that it's outta control." The bus drive just stares frantically at all the controls of the bus which constantly stream with electricity.

Jim comes forward and forces Odd and Ulrich to sit back down but I insisted on staying up front. "I know how hardware works… I may be able to find the problem." I say to Jim.

He looks at me wondering for a bit, but the bus takes a turn and he is more focused on the wheel of the bus than me.

I start working on removing the panel that hides all the electrical components of the bus. I just start identifying parts when all the sudden the door next to me is opened. I look up to see that Odd is getting ready to jump.

I always figured that Odd was this happy go lucky guy, never one that would consider suicide by jumping out of a speeding broken bus. I get up and try to grab him right as he jumps. But all it does is take both of us out of the bus.

I am still trying to hold on to Odd. We are in the air for no more than a split second. But it'd be the most graceful time I'll have for now because all I feel is pain in my wrist when we both hit the ground with Odd on top of me

Odd gets up without a problem, but I feel pain across my whole body, the worst being my wrist.

"What's the big idea, huh?" Odd was yelling at me.

I groan as I get up, but I couldn't use my wrist. The arm that wasn't hurt just wrapped itself around the arm that did, as tightly as it could. "Sorry, but I was trying to save your life!" I didn't mean to yell.

Odd shakes his head, in a way of understanding. "Alright." Odd starts to run off without me.

"Wait!" Odd stops. "You're not just going to leave me here are you? I think my wrist is broken." Odd continues running… but as if he didn't know what to do. I follow him, I'm not as fast because of my wrist, but he doesn't stop me and he isn't trying to outrun me.

Odd helps me through the sewers and to this factory and down the elevator. It took us a while and we are both out of breath. I want to ask him what we are doing here and why hadn't he help me to a hospital, but I got the feel that he knew what he was doing and decided to keep quite… like I had been doing.

We were inside an elevator that was going down. It stop and the big metal door of the elevator started to slowly open. "Here's your stop." Odd bowed down like a guard respectfully showing a prince to his carriage. I step through the door alone.

"Wow…" This room was full to the brim with a computer. Parts and pieces were everywhere, sticking out of the walls as wires. Some parts I could Identify, others I recognized, but only seen in theoretical papers. Some parts weren't recognizable at all.

I hear the door closing and I look behind me to see that Odd had left me in this room. Then I look at the big monitor in the middle of the room, the one where all the wires connected to. I see Jeremy.

"Ah, hello there Thomas." Jeremy said, still focused on typing whatever he was typing on his keyboard. "The bus is turning left now." He obviously wasn't just talking to me though.

I examine the hologram in the center of the room. All I recognize here is a computer part or two, the rest is just science fiction… or at least that's what I once thought. I stare at it for a while to figure out what the hologram was representing.

"Hide Aleita! And don't move until Odd is there with you! Understand?" Jeremy was now frantically typing on his keyboard and said "Transfer Odd. Scanner Odd. Virtualization!" And that's when I decide to look over Jeremy's shoulder to see what was on his screen.

"What's going on here?" I asked, almost knowing full well that I was never going to get an answer out of Jeremy.

I hear the elevator door open behind me. I look, and I see a face that I don't recognize. She looked Japanese, black hair, a black color scheme of clothes with a shirt that didn't quite cover her stomach.

"Who are you?" The girl in the elevator asks.

I walk towards her, as she walks towards the computer. We meet halfway. "I'm Thomas." My wrist hurts or I would have offered to shake her hand.

All she does is just grunts like she's been inconvenienced. Jeremy is yelling things at his computer and this girl who hasn't introduced herself yet just walks past me.

I get the feeling that I am not welcomed here. I walk over to the computer and see a map of the city with a very fast moving dot. Both the girl and Jeremy are sweating and are visually nervous. But it seems the slower that dot moved, the less nervous they got. When the dot stopped completely they breathed a sigh of relief.

"That was a close one," Jeremy leaned back in his chair in an almost triumphant fashion.

"What just happened?" I asked hoping for an answer this time.

"We just saved the day." Jeremy does more typing on his computer. "You guys ready for a return to the past? I know I could use a second chance with Mr. Delmas and my roommate issues."

I was kinda hurt by the comment but I wouldn't have time to react because all I see is Jeremy press a button on his keyboard and a flash of white light appear. With that, my memories had been erased and time itself had turned back.

I was walking down the hallways with Kadic Academy for the first time with Jim. We came to a stop at the doors. "This is the room you'll be staying in!" Jim opened the doors and stepped aside to let me in first.

The room I enter has two beds, one on either side, with closets at the end of each bed. That was it. I set the bags I had been carrying down on what I assumed would be my bed.

"What was the name of the person I'm sharing a room with?" I asked.

Jim shifted uneasy as if to tell me he didn't like my roommate. "Odd Della Robbia… If you ask me-"

"Hey! What's up Jim?" Said a high pitched but obviously a guy's voice from behind Jim. Jim turns around and I get a better look at him. Purple color scheme, wild hair that stick straight up in the air. Yep, the name Odd sure does fit him.

Jim stance changed from that of confidence to that of being annoyed by company and said, "Odd's going to show you around today. If you have any questions about the rules, just ask him. If you need further clarification, or if Odd can't remember the rules, you can ask Jeremy Belpois next door, or one of the teachers." Jim walked out and closed the door behind him.

It was just Odd and myself. "My name's Thomas." I held out my hand to be shaken. He shakes it.

"Don't listen to old meat-head Jim, I know the rules… how else am I supposed to break them?" Odd smiled and shook my hand.

His smile was infectious, and caused me to smile. It felt good to smile. I hadn't smiled in a long time.

Well hello there reader. I am writing this to you, FROM THE FUTURE! That's right. I finished this particular chapter a while ago and since then I've written two other chapters and started on a forth. With that said, I'm only going to release a chapter when I'm two chapters ahead or more, that way I can make any big changes that I need to if I get a suddenly big idea... but you guys don't care about that do you.

I feel like from now on I'm going to use the AN section to reply to any reviews I get. I don't expect much because I'm not sure how lively the CL community is anymore, but I always wanted to write this story and now I'm doing it. I'm more writing this for fun, because I enjoy it, so expect more of this story weather I get 1 view on this story or 10000.