Hello everyone! I'm back with another one of my genius Code Lyoko stories :p haha, you may be familiar with my "What Have You Done" story, if not that's cool! You should still go check it out though ;) haha, shameless self-promotion! Anywhoooo, let's get started, I hope you all enjoy!

One More Night

Chapter 1: Kadic

"What do you mean we're moving to Kadic?! We've been living in St. Petersburg for over 10 years. You just want to uproot me and shove me into a different culture?!" I suppose I should start off with my name. I'm Aurora Dimonov, half Russian and half French. We lived in Kadic for the first seven years of my life, and then my parents decided it would be best for us to move to Russia because most of our family was there.

"Well not only do we want to engulf you in one of the most beautiful cultures known to man, but we also want you to have time to get to know your husband-to-be a little better." My mother told me with eyes that almost seemed as if they were asking for forgiveness.

"Husband-to -be? What do you mean?" I directed the question towards my father, who of course, as usual, had absolutely no emotion in his face.

"You're to be married to Ulrich Stern of course. Why else would we have made sure you stayed close to him?" My father answered with basically no emotion in his eyes.

"I wouldn't really call messaging on Facebook 'staying close'." I replied slowly, bowing my head in anger. My father's had a drinking problem ever since I can remember. I believe it had something to do with my mother cheating on him, but you would think he could have gotten over it by now, but what do I know? It really makes me question why they're making me enter an arranged marriage while they were one, and they obviously just weren't happy at all.

"Well, you really have no choice in the matter. It's already been arranged, he doesn't know yet but you can tell him when you see him tomorrow." My father walked out of the room as the movers were moving things out, it seemed as though my whole life had been a lie. Is this why they had me? So they could have someone to auction off? I went to my room and packed.

The next morning Aurora was in their new house in Kadic, they had taken a midnight flight to France which she slept on. Oddly, most of their stuff was already there when they arrived, how it arrived before them, she had no idea. Her car was delivered in the morning, just in time for her to go to school. They had gotten her a red Volkswagen Touareg (which is basically an SUV) for her birthday, but she figured it was just persuasion to go through with this whole marriage deal. She left her house and found her way to the school, it was much bigger than she had imagined. Much to her surprise, she easily found parking as there were practically no cars. She walked up the sidewalk and saw the welcoming sign that read "Kadic Boarding School." That would explain why there were no cars. She was increasingly getting more and more nervous about having to confront Ulrich about this whole arranged marriage deal. She was wearing a black and blue pleated mini-skirt with a dark blue long-sleeve v-neck sweater and she was wearing some black booties with some skin tone leggings. She decided to leave her blonde hair with black streaks down and straight for the first day, no need to be too fancy. She lined her icy blue eyes with black liner on her top lid and some dark brown eye shadow on the outer corner of her eyelid. She found her way to the admissions and entered. A thin woman with curly hair and a very sweet face was sitting at the desk and looked up to her when she entered with a smile.

"Hi, I'm-" Aurora started, but was quickly interrupted.

"Yes! You must be Aurora Dimonov! We've been expecting you." The woman smiled reaching below her into a file cabinet and grabbing a big packet of information for her. "Oh yes! I always forget, my name is Mrs. Meyer, if you have any questions at any time please feel free to ask me. If you could step back a bit, we need to get a picture for your ID." Aurora obliged and stepped back to the white paper behind her and smiled for the camera. Her ID was quickly printed out and handed to her with the packet that contained her schedule, a map to the school, details, extracurricular activities, a map of the dorms, and etc. "And here is your dorm key, you're one of the lucky ones. You're parents are paying for you to have a room to yourself!"

"No no no, you must be mistaken; I live with my parents off campus." Aurora shook her head and attempted to hand the key back to Mrs. Meyer.

"I would ask them about that then, because it's right here in these papers." The woman showed her the documentation and sure enough her parents had signed it. Electronically, of course, but nevertheless they had signed it. "Your room number is in the folder, but like I said, if you need anything feel free to ask." Aurora nodded and sighed, walking out of the building. It took her some time to find her first class which was Anatomy with Mrs. Hertz. She figured out that all the buildings were organized by subject which would make things easier for her later on. She took a deep breath and took a step inside the classroom. The teacher who was writing on her blackboard turned to face her and closed the dry erase marker walking to her. Some of the students looked up at Aurora, and some could really care less.

"Ahhh you must be the new transfer student, Aurora Dimonov." She heard a deep gasp and a pen drop and she turned her head in that direction, it was indeed Ulrich. He had changed so much in the past few years; not that she expected him to stay the same at all. They locked eyes, kind of nervously and the group of friends surrounding him was looking back and forth from him to her. Aurora lightly shook her head and turned her attention back to Mrs. Hertz, to whom she nodded. "Well why don't you introduce yourself?"

"Uhhh, I'm Aurora, I'm from St. Petersburg… if you're wondering why my French is so good, I lived here about ten years ago." 'Why am I so nervous? Stage fright is not my thing…' "I'm a gymnast and a dancer, I like to create music and paint. If you have anything else you want to know, just ask." Aurora smiled lightly and laughed nervously. Mrs. Hertz directed her to sit next to a boy with blonde spiky hair with purple dyed in the middle. She was sitting right in front of Ulrich. The teacher continued her lesson, and the class just seemed to drag on forever when suddenly the bell rang almost out of nowhere which made her jump, she wasn't expecting it. She gathered her things quickly, hurrying out of the room feeling Ulrich's eyes on her the whole time. Aurora didn't know where her next class was, she just wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. Although, trying to get away from someone who plays soccer everyday isn't the easiest thing.

"Aurora wait up!" She heard him calling from behind her and she decided to slow down. Ulrich caught up to her putting his hand on her shoulder making her instantly turn around.

Odd stretched in his seat, hearing the bell ring which woke him from his nap. He was surprised Mrs. Hertz didn't yell at him, but hey who was he to complain? He was a little curious to learn more about this Russian transfer student, although the tension he felt between his best friend and this new girl made him wonder if something had been going on. He may be dense but he wasn't a complete moron. He watched her storm out, oh what nice legs she had! He turned to look at his friend who was also watching her leave.

"What's up between you two?" Odd asked standing up with his friend.

"Yeah, the way you reacted when Hertz said her name was a little… odd." Jeremy ran his fingers over his chin.

"Our families are old friends; I was just surprised she didn't tell me she was coming back in town." Ulrich said quietly, thinking.

"Well if there is anything going on, Yumi is going to freak!" Odd grinned, nudging Ulrich friend in the shoulder. "I mean, I could always take her off your back if you want."

"Yeah, I'm sure Sam would love that." Ulrich began to walk out shaking his head at Odd.

"Hey! What she doesn't know won't hurt her!" Odd yelled after him as Ulrich walked out of the door, ignoring Odd.

'Why would she just show up all of a sudden? Why was she acting so weird? Aurora, where did you go?' He thought to himself looking around, and then he spotted his blonde friend making a hurried attempt to escape, but it was easy for him to catch up.

"What is going on?" Aurora looked up to Ulrich in the eyes, trying to find the words to answer his question.

"I… I need to talk to you about something." She looked around nervously then back up at him, when they both heard someone from behind them.

"Ulrich! There you are! The others said you stormed off I was trying to find you." A beautiful asian girl with short black hair walked up to them. Aurora smiled at her, feeling even more awkward.

"Oh hey Yumi, this is my friend Aurora. She just transferred back here after being away for about ten years." The two hugged, and Yumi kissed him on the cheek.

"It's nice to meet you." Yumi stuck her hand out and Aurora shook it in return.

"This is my girlfriend Yumi, and my best friend." Ulrich smiled, Aurora could tell that he was happy.

'Oh my… this is going to be so much harder than I thought.'

So there's the first chapter! I know this is really short, but I this is just a preview basically. I really hope you all like it, I kind of got this idea while watching the Proposal the other night, which has absolutely nothing to do with my idea. I'm weird, I know. Make sure to go check out What Have You Done, if you haven't already, which has a sequel and I'm still working on the Epilogue. But let me know what you think please, feedback is much appreciated!