Motherstien
Don't be afraid to turn around
Chapter 2: Just Fantastic
"Three weeks! Three!" Odd yelled to Ulrich. Their class ended early and they were walking to their dorm.
"What nonsense are you yelling about this time?" Ulrich asked curiously. They approached the stairway to the second floor of their dorm.
"Have you been eaten away by an invisible force that doesn't allow you to get information that was given in the past few days?" Odd asked.
"Uh?"
"Or maybe you have been consumed with thoughts of Yumi." Odd shrugged. "Dude, there's more to life than Yumi you know."
Ulrich started to blush not knowing what he said after the word Yumi. Today, Ulrich decided to ask her out tonight. I wonder where we should go. She's not really the formal type, maybe we should go to a movie or the arcade, Ulrich completely forgot what Odd was talking about. They reachedtheir dorm room and Ulrich got out his key and unlocked the door. He through his book bag on his bed and sat down. Maybe we would finally—
"Hello! Earth to Ulrich! Get rid of that creepy grin on your face!" Odd waved his hands all over his face. "Can I continue to what I was talking about before?"
"Okay, what is this big thing happening in three weeks?" Ulrich asked.
"Summer vacation is in three weeks, stupid! What have you been doing in the past few days?" Odd spotted kiwi sleeping in the corner of his room.
"That's just fantastic," Ulrich said sarcastically. Summer vacation meant going home to his strict father and not seeing Yumi for three months. "I totally forgot."
"Why do you hate summer vacation so much?" Odd asked.
"'cause… you know…" Ulrich started to blush again.
Odd then realized what he was trying to say. "It's Yumi, isn't it?"
"Oh, how'd you guess?"
"Do you live far from the school?"
"I live two days away, yes," Ulrich said like it was obvious.
"Well, that's what you get for going to a boarding school that has kids from all over the world."
"Shut up Odd!" Ulrich then remembered something. "You know, Odd, we still have to do end of the year exams in one week! One!" Ulrich mocked.
Odd face fell, "Oh, right."
"Any way, I have to head to the library to study for the exams, I don't want my dad to see another horrible grade." Ulrich stood up, grabbed his bag, and opened the door. Before he left the room he said, "One week!"
Odd took his pillow and threw in at him. "Just, fantastic."
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Aelita stared at the clock that read 15:42. Detention ended at 16:00. Just 18 more minutes, Aelita thought. She has been in detention since morning and she couldn't wait to get out. Surprisingly, she was the only one in the room.
The detention supervisor was the Italian teacher. He was behind his desk grading papers. That's Yumi's and William's teacher right? Aelita thought.
He then stood up and said, "I'm will be right back, don't move." He grabbed a few pieces of paper and left the room. Aelita immediately stood up and ran up the teacher's desk to get her phone that was confiscated. She unlocked it and noticed she had four texts from Jeremy.
"Fantastic." She opened up her messages.
R u mad at me Aelita? It was my fault that u got detention, sorry.
Please forgive me!
Answer me!
Oh, I forgot. No phones in detention.
For a genius, you can be pretty dumb sometimes. Aelita giggled. She looked at the clock again; it is 15:45. She put her phone back on the desk but then suddenly, her phone vibrated. What now? Aelita thought. She picked up her phone again and opened her new message.
From: Unknown
Message: the code is ur tru calling
The code is your true calling? Aelita thought. She heard the door knob shake and she quickly ran back to her desk. The door opened but no one came in. Aelita stud up from her desk and walked outside to see if anybody was there, but she sees no one. That's weird, She thought as she closed the door. She turned around and a mysterious women next to the window leaning against the wall. She wore leather gloves and oversized sun glasses. She also had black skinny jeans on and black knee high boots. Her hair was long and tied into a pony tail. "Um, excuse me?" Aelita began. The women turned her head and faced her. "Who are you?"
She did not answer; instead she walked up to the door, pulled of the door knob, and dropped it in the trash. Aelita gasped. "Um, I think that is very unnecessary," Aelita tried to hide her fear. Aelita then walked back away from her until she hit the wall across from the window. This is bad…. She thought. The woman stepped closer. Aelita started to breath heavily with fear.
Suddenly knocking came from the door. "Aelita what happened to the door?" Someone yelled from outside. Damn! It's the teacher! More knocking came from the door. "Open the door!" He said angrily. Aelita opened her mouth to speak but the women put her hand around Aelita's mouth before she could. "Shhhhhhh..." She whispered.
"Hey, Aelita, your detention time just tripled! Open the door!" The teacher yelled. The knocking turned into banging. "Ugh, I'm getting the principle!"
The women immediately grabbed Aelita's arms and pinned it against the wall with great force. "Ugh, get off!" Aelita struggled trying to break free. She kicked her in the knee causing the women to let her free. Aelita pushed as hard as she could. The women fell back knocking some desks over. Aelita noticed her over-sized sun glasses fell off. "Who are you anyway?" Aelita asked, feeling proud she knocked her over. The women stood up and Aelita saw a weird symbol in her right eye. Aelita gasped; she saw the symbol before. "Please don't hurt… or kill me," She said softly noticing she didn't win so easily. The women raised her hand and an electric orb appeared in her hand.
Aelita then heard the banging again. "Ms. Stones! What is going on in there?" Aelita heard Mr. Delmas yelled from outside. The women started to choke her with her electric-orb-free hand. Aelita tried to scream but she had no air. Aelita grabbed her hang and tried to let her go of her. The women then lifted Aelita of the ground. She then felt immense pain. She struck her with electricity and then pushed her down. Aelita fell backwards. The women then opened the window and jumped out. The door then suddenly busted open.
"Aelita you're in big—" Mr. Delmas stopped talking and notice Aelita lying on the floor unconscious.
Ring! Went the bell.
-Meanwhile-
Ring! The bell rang and Yumi woke up from her day dream.
"For homework, take notes on section 5 in your text book." The teacher said. Yumi sighed and put her text book in her book bag. She put her remaining items in her bag and she left the room. She then remembered in was the last period of the day.
She remembered that she had to go to the library.
She remembered that she had to talk to William.
"Ugh," Yumi said. She turned right and took the longest route to the library. She wanted to get there as slowly as possible. She walked slowly and opened her bag to read something on the way. At that moment, she heard someone calling for her. "Yumi!"
She turned around and saw William waving like crazy at her behind a group of students. Way to try to avoid the situation she thought. "Just fantastic," She said to herself. "Hey William!" She yelled back to William hiding her annoyance. William walked through a few students to get to her.
"Where are you going? The library is this way." William pointed to the other direction.
"Oh, right." Yumi said. William took her hand and started to walk in the direction of the library. Great, Yumi thought.
"So, how was your last class?" William asked her. Yumi thought back to the day dream she had. She was bored and started thinking about Ulrich.
"It was… boring," Yumi said. "How about you?"
"Same," William answered. Yumi smiled as they turned the corner. She then realized that William was going to hold her hand, tightly. Yumi quickly stanched her hand away. "Is something wrong?" William looked confused.
"Oh, I'm fine! I just had to… scratch my shoulder!" Yumi blurted. She started to scratch her shoulder. "I think I'm getting some sort of rash of something—" Yumi immediately stopped talking. What am I doing? She thought. Why am I so nervous?
"Okay then," William said still confused. They approached the library and went to the bench right next to the window.
"So what do you want to talk about?" Yumi asked. She sat down on the bench. Please don't say 'us'! Please, please, please, please, please! Yumi thought.
"Well about that," He became nervous. "I needed to talk about our relationship."
"What about it?" Great, Yumi thought.
"Well, some days you don't mind being around me and on others, you can't stand to be around me. What's up with that?" William asked.
That's true, Yumi thought. William then said, "I mean, do we have something going on?"
"I don't know, do we?" She said. Wait, what am I doing? Yumi thought. Why did I say that? I like Ulrich! Do I want to have a relationship with him?
"I think we have something going on."
"Of course we do, we're good friends!" Yumi giggled trying to change his point.
"No, it's more than that," William said, not thinking of that as a joke. Yumi stopped laughing. "Ever since I met you, I had a massive crush on you." Yumi then remembered the time they worked together on the project in the woods. She remembered talking about how love makes him crazy. Yumi had a teeny, tiny crush on him too. Well, she doesn't really have one anymore. Probably.
"Oh, really?" Yumi said softly. William then started to move crosser to her on the bench. He's getting close! Yumi thought. Why am I not pushing him away?
"I, I really like you," William told her nervously. He then leaned closer to her.
"Oh, okay," Yumi said surprised. She started to blush.
"I just wanted to tell you before the end of the school year. Time is running out."
Yeah, no joke, Yumi thought.
"Right now I-I just want to kiss you." William move even closer to when their lips were only two inches away. Yumi then looked up and saw William chocolate-brown eyes close. Yumi opened her mouth to talk but before she could, his lips were on hers.
How could I allow this to happen! Oh! Curse the love gods or something! Yumi then realized she was running out of breath. Wait! What am I doing?
"Yumi!" Someone called. Yumi quickly pushed William away and turned her head to see who called her.
It was Ulrich.
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Jeremy sat done on his chair next to the computer desk, well, doing nothing. He just finished Mrs. Hertz homework assignment and He had nothing to do. Before, he would spend his time making programs and trying to find a way to defeat X.A.N.A. Now that X.A.N.A. is gone, he had nothing big to worry about.
"I wish I had something to do," Jeremy said to himself. "What did I do before X.A.N.A?" He sighed. "Maybe I should hang out with Aelita, since we have more time to spend together." I hope she's still not mad at me, He thought. He took his cell phone out of his pocket to call her. He looked at the time. She should be out of detention now.
He dialed her number and waited for her to answer. It went straight to voicemail. I guess she is ignoring me. Suddenly a knock came from the door.
"Belpois!" Someone called. It sounded like Jim.
"Come in!" Jeremy yelled back. Jim entered the room. "Oh hi Jim, what do you want?" Jeremy asked.
"You need to come with me," He said seriously.
-End Scene-
