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Chapter 2
Fitting In
When I arrived in the real world with my new found comrades, only one word could describe how I was feeling. Jealous. I turned around in another circle and eyed every piece of electronic equipment in the room.
"Holy crap!" I said for the thirteenth time, "Is that a V.10?" I walked over to the computer that the kid named Jeremie worked at.
"Yup, it's a V.10 alright," Jeremie stated, obviously proud.
"May I…?" I asked and did my best to put on an innocent face.
"Uh, sure, just don't break it." Jeremie answered.
I sat down at the supercomputer and logged into the network. I typed in my login, which was Dido, and typed in my much-too-long password, lyokowarrior193092759274999284565548572650362659863. (Don't even ask me how I've memorized that or how I can type it in less than 30 seconds.) I quickly searched the system, looking at all the towers and monsters on Lyoko. The graphics from this supercomputer were much, much better than the ones I had on my V.3 at home. The V.10 was also much, much faster. My hands moved swiftly over the keys as I checked over the whole network, scanning for any other viruses or any glitches in the system. I had been working on trying to find if it was possible to hack Lyoko for 5 years now. So far, I hadn't had much luck.
I could feel the eyes of my new comrades staring at me. I spun around in the chair and gave them a glace, "What? Can't a girl check for an activated tower on a crazed super computer that wants to take over the world in peace?"
Jeremie looked at the screen wide-eyed, "H-how did you do that?" he asked in complete awe.
"Do what? I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary." I answered, totally confused as to why he was so interested in a simple virus scan.
"I've never seen anything on Lyoko as high tech as that," he said, still amazed.
"…Seriously?" I asked in disbelief, "I do this daily. The search isn't the hard part, the hard part is actually cracking the virus and glitches."
"Ok, its official, we need to go talk and share everything we know about Lyoko." Ulrich chimed in.
"Ok," I agreed, "and, judging by the equipment you have here, you could probably teach me some stuff too."
"Great lets go," Yumi said as she pressed a button, opening an elevator.
"You mind if we get something to eat first? I'm starved," I thought I heard an echo to my voice but then I realized what it really was.
I looked over at Odd. We had said the same thing at the exact same time. Creepy…
"Jinx, you owe me a coke!" I heard the echo again.
"No way!" we added together.
"Great, just what this group needs, another Odd…" Ulrich sighed.
"Hey!" me and Odd spoke in unison and immediately broke out in laughter.
"Now that was just creepy!" I laughed, and thankfully, there was no echo this time.
"You can say that again!" Odd added with a laugh.
We all crammed into the elevator and chatted as it slowly rose to the main level.
I followed the group through a series of obstacles to get back to their main entrance, which was like a sewer.
I walked with them until we came to a room that was packed with kids waiting in line for food. I examined the other kids closely and how they reacted to my sudden appearance in the building. None of them really noticed.
"Hey, Odd!" a kid called and slapped him a high five as he ran by. Odd returned the greeting in a similar manner.
I observed as we made our way to the front of the line. Different people talked to the group as I eavesdropped.
"Hey, Yumi, catch you in Math," a boy who looked like an upperclassman shot Yumi a glance.
"Ulrich, you gonna enter the skate competition?"
"Aelita, are you going to sign up for art next semester?"
"Della Robbia, I think I heard Jim was looking for you. He thinks you're the one that put his clipboard in jelly."
"Yumi, did you get the homework in English? I don't get it at all."
"Hey Ulrich," a few girls giggled, "See you in P.E." one blushed.
"Odd, I think Jim is looking for you. Something about his clipboard in jelly?" another person asked and Odd simply responded, "Yeah, I know. But thanks for the heads up."
"Jeremie, do you mind helping me study for my Physics test?" a girl asked and Jeremie nodded.
To me, it seemed like they were decently popular people who ruled this school. I didn't know I was going to be running with the popular crowd, I hope they don't expect me to be popular. I've never been a fan of the whole every-person-in-the-school-wants-to-be-your-best-friend thing. I was still kinda happy that I still went unnoticed. But my happy unnoticed streak didn't last too long.
After I got my food, I was making my way through the crowded lunchroom to the table on the other side where the rest of my group was sitting.
"Hey, new girl," a deep voice caught my attention.
I looked over to see a boy with long, dark brown hair that covered one eye. He had beautiful, light blue eyes that could melt your soul.
"Who? You mean me?" I asked, not giving away that I even gave his appearance another glance.
"Of course, haven't seen a new face as pretty as yours in a while," he said back.
"Uh… thanks." I answered, not appreciating the fact that he judged me by my appearance.
"You need a place to sit? I got a place open at my table." He continued. Obviously, he couldn't tell that I just wanted him to leave me alone so I could go talk about Lyoko with my friends.
"Uh, no thanks, I'm good." I answered with a smile, "I already told someone I'd sit with them. Sorry." I added when I saw his eyebrows pull together. Something told me this guy wasn't used to rejection.
"Well, I'm Zak, by the way. Maybe we have some classes together or something. And maybe we could hang out sometime," he said and I forced myself to nod in agreement. He gracefully turned to go back to his table.
"Yeah, and maybe I'll just go throw myself in front of a truck," I mumbled once he was out of hearing range.
I placed my tray next to Odd's. Something inside me told me that Odd and I were going to be friends. You know, we had the chemistry and stuff.
"So, I see you've met Zak." Yumi laughed.
"Yeah, who is that guy?" I wrinkled my nose.
"He is the school player." Ulrich blurted and Yumi elbowed him in the side, "Ow! What? It's true."
"He hits on all the hot girls," Odd explained.
"Oh," I smirked at him, "So, you're calling me hot?"
"What? That's not what I meant!" he said, starting to turn red.
"But that's what you said," I countered.
"Well…" Odd tried to think of something.
"Face it man," Ulrich began.
"She trapped you in your own words," Yumi finished.
"Well, Zak is gonna get a rude awakening to reality when he gets rejected by the new girl," Jeremie added, "I don't think he's ever been turned down. Aelita even went out with him."
I stared at Aelita and I couldn't believe it. She was so quite and nice and innocent looking. I couldn't wrap my mind around the fact that she actually said yes to that bozo.
"I didn't know he wanted to go on a date!" Aelita began blushing, "I thought he really wanted me to help him with his biology homework. I never would have said yes if I knew he wanted to be my boyfriend," Aelita explained.
"Yeah, but you still went out with him," Jeremie tried to keep the teasing playfulness in his voice, but I didn't need to be superman to realize that he had a major crush on Aelita.
"Yumi, did you go out with him too?" I asked.
Yumi laughed, "No way! I lied and told him I had a boyfriend," She smiled, proud of her cleverness.
"Nice." I laughed and we bumped fists.
Something was telling me that I would fit in here just fine.
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