Disclaimer: for the second time, I do not own Code LYOKO or any of its characters.

Well, I got too impatient waiting for all five of the reviews I had asked for. (Thanks so much to the three of you who did review!) Just as you had requested, this chapter is a bit longer. (Sorry the first one was so short!) Well, I hope you all like this one as much as you liked the first one! Here we go!
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Chapter 2: Distractions

"Beep, beep, BEEP...." Ulrich sleepily lifted his hand above the alarm clock, and making a fist, dropped it lazily down onto the "OFF" button. He lay there peacefully for a moment, his eyes still closed.

Then suddenly a horrifying thought came to him and his eyes popped wide open as he jumped out of bed. Crud, it's Friday again, I've gotta go take the Algebra exam again today, he thought in a panicked rush.

All of them, except for Jeremy, had been cramming morning and night over the past week for their midterm exams. Today, both Ulrich and Odd had their Science and Algebra exams again. Science, again, would be easy and Algebra would, again, be hard.

Ulrich dashed around the room collecting pencils, books, and notebooks to take to the library for some extra pre-exam cramming. At the sound of his roommate hurrying around the room, Odd lifted one eyelid sleepily.

"Gosh, you think you could move around this room a little quieter and let a guy get a little sleep on Saturday morning?" Odd questioned, irritated at having been disturbed from his beauty rest.

"Odd, wake up! It's Friday; we've gotta go take the Algebra exam!" Ulrich replied, as he watched his friend sit up in bed.

"Nooooooo...." Odd trailed off. He let his body fall from its sitting position, back down into the sheets.

A knock came at the door seconds later and Ulrich opened it briskly as he walked by. "Come on in, Jeremy," he said in a hurried voice as he walked toward his dresser.

"Um, no. Guess again, Ulrich dear," came a voice from behind the door, as Sissy peeked into the room. Ulrich cringed at the sound of it. Odd bolted upright in his bed.

"Ahhh, somebody help me!" Odd yelled, his voice tinted with a hint of fakeness, "I'm awake, but the nightmare continues!" he moaned, hiding his face behind his pillow.

Sissy, who had by then fully entered the room, scoffed in the pillow's direction, quickly turning her attention toward Ulrich. She watched for a moment as he groped through his drawers in search of a cover shirt. She tapped him on the shoulder. Once he'd spun around to face her, Sissy leaned over his bed and picked up a forest green short-sleeved, button-down shirt, which she held out before him. She raised one eyebrow playfully. Ulrich, angry with himself for not remembering this chain of events from the day before, took the shirt with a dry "Thanks."

Dissatisfied with Ulrich's less than pleasant reaction to her helpfulness, she half-heartedly responded with a, "No problem," and moved on to the real reason she had come. "Ulrich dear, you look a mess," she began, "I told Daddy how bad these exams are for my fellow classmates' nerves, but he simply would not listen. Anyway, I was just sitting in my room studying for my Algebra exam when I remembered that you, too, had the same exam today, only a class later. So, then I got thinking that maybe you might like to come study with me and maybe we could help cool each other's nerves a bit.... What do you say?" she asked her hands on her knees to help level herself with Ulrich, who had sat down on his unmade bed.

During Sissy's invasion of their room, Odd had managed to slip out to Jeremy's room to change out of his pajamas. He now returned to rescue Ulrich, for the second time.

"Uh...I think I'll pass," Ulrich replied coolly to Sissy's offer as he stood up, grabbed his book bag, and left the room with Odd and Jeremy. Sissy cursed angrily in the middle of the empty room. Another attempt to win Ulrich's attention foiled again.
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Okay, I know that you're probably thinking at this point that this chapter really didn't have anything to do with the first one, but I promise it'll gain some significance in the long run!-------------- Well, I'm not asking for a set number of reviews this time, but please R&R! I really want to know what you think! Aloha for now!