Hey guys! Sorry for the delay! I've had this done for a while but never got around to posting it! This was kinda rushed at the time so I recently went over it to changed/edit some things! Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Arrival.
Jeremie's hand slammed down on the alarm clock, causing the loud ringing to cease. He glanced at the clock, Saturday, 7AM. He swung his legs over the side of his bed and stretched out his back before yawning. Standing up and rubbing his eyes, he made his way over to his wardrobe to grab some clothes but was interrupted by the sound of his phone ringing, he answered with a lazy voice.
"Hello?" Jeremie asked down the phone, sitting on the side of his bed, using his free hand to rub his eyes, hoping to wake himself up faster.
"Good morning Jeremie! It's me!" a voice sounded through the speaker, Jeremie slightly smiled, recognising the voice as his moms instantly.
"Hey mom, how are things? Is something the matter?" he asked, his follow-up question to fast for his mom to even answer the first question he asked.
"No, nothing is up exactly, I just need you to do me a favour!" she replied, Jeremie slightly tilted his head and began wondering what she could need from him.
"Yeah? What's the favour?" Jeremie responded, standing up and walking to his desk and hitting the power button for his computer.
"Your cousin Kale is arriving at Kadic today, I know you haven't seen each other, let alone talked in over 10 years but do you think you could show him around and get him up to speed for this year? I know you're already a month in and it's a lot to ask but it's really important he feels at home there!" his mom explained, this caught Jeremie off guard completely.
"Kale? He's coming here?" Jeremie asked, bewildered by the sudden notion of his cousin's arrival.
"Yes and he…" his mom droned on as Jeremie zoned out.
He hadn't seen his cousin in so long and now he's just showing up, causing Jeremie's mind to run rampant with all sorts of ideas about the sudden news.
"Can you do this for me Jeremie?" his mom asked one last time, Jeremie let out a deep sigh and replied.
"Yeah, I've got it, where am I meeting him?" he asked, reaching into his wardrobe for his clothes.
His mom gave directions on meeting up with him in the town square and the time he'd be arriving at, after he wrote it down, they said their goodbyes and Jeremie hung up the phone and stood looking at his desk.
"I wonder what he even looks like now, I was 7 the last time I seen him…" he thought, tearing his eyes away from his desk and pulling his clothes on, "He was 8 then, that'd make him 18 now."
Jeremie sat down at his desk and cracked his fingers, jumpstarting his hands into typing, he had a few hours so he could get some work done in the meantime.
Before he completely settled into his work, his eyes moved to the left of his desk, his eyes catching the shape of a picture frame, reaching for it, he pulled it closer and looked at the image and smiled, it was a picture of the old gang, his eyes moved through everyone, even William was there. His eyes lingered on Aelita and he felt a wave of sadness washing over him, he quickly put the picture down and looked at his computer, taking a deep breath, he launched the file labelled "Aelita_ "
Ulrich and Odd's room was peaceful as the two teens lay deep in slumber until a loud knock startled both of them awake, Odd taken the scare the worse, falling out of bed onto the floor.
"Who is it?" Odd asked, rubbing his lower back and sitting on the side of his bed.
"Jeremie." A voice responded, Ulrich glanced at Odd who nodded at the door, signalling Ulrich to open the door for Jeremie.
"Hey Jer, what brings you here this early in the morning?" Odd asked, laying on his back, not really wanting to be awake at the moment.
"Odd, it's past 12, its afternoon at best!" Jeremie said, rubbing the bridge of his nose, earning a laugh from Ulrich, Odd just rolled his eyes, "Anyway, I was wondering if you're busy today, I have to go into town to meet my cousin, he'll be attending Kadic for the year and I need to show him around," Jeremie explained, leaning on the door frame, "I'd normally go myself but the thing is, I haven't seen him in over 10 years, so it might be awkward…" he trailed off.
"Say no more, I'm free today anyway, Odd?" Ulrich smiled, standing up and stretching his back out. Odd looked at this phone and shrugged.
"I've work at 5 but I should be able to go, yeah." Odd said, walking over to his dresser and began picking up clothes.
"Okay, great!" Jeremie said, turning to leave, "be at my dorm in half an hour or so!" he said, waving as he left.
After the door closed, Ulrich began to get dressed, he then turned to face Odd.
"What do you reckon he'll be like?" Ulrich asked, tilting his head. Odd tapped his finger on his chin and shrugged.
"I'm assuming just like Jeremie!" Odd sniggered, Ulrich let out a small laugh and turned to look in the mirror to get ready to leave.
The time came as Ulrich and Odd arrived at Jeremie's dorm and were pleasantly surprised to see Yumi walk around from the corner, both Ulrich and Odd waved at her as she neared.
"Oh hey guys, Jeremie ask you two to come as well?" Yumi asked, smiling as she brushed a strand of her hair out of her face.
"Yup! Can't say I'm not curious about his family!" Odd smiled, he stole a glance at Ulrich who was staring at Yumi with his mouth slightly open. He elbowed him in the side and Ulrich returned to his senses.
"I'm sorry, what? I was lost in thought!" Ulrich said as he rubbed the back of his head, grinning as his cheeks turned a light red. Yumi giggled as Odd rolled his eyes.
"I could only wonder what about!" Yumi teased, leaning into Ulrich before flicking him on the forehead and turning to knock on Jeremie's door. Ulrich grinned while Odd let out a noise on the line of "Bleurgh".
Jeremie opened the door and stepped out, finishing pulling on his coat.
"Ready to go?" he asked, smiling broadly at his oldest friends, they all nodded and started on their way.
As they walked, Ulrich couldn't help glance at Yumi every now and again, she was even more beautiful than she used to be, even though Ulrich couldn't believe that was possible. Their awkward romance friendship had evolved over the years to flirting ranging anywhere between childish and intense, much to the dismay of Odd and Jeremie, who had to witness the mushy love-ness.
As they walked, Odd fell behind the group and beckoned Ulrich to fall back as well. When Ulrich slowed down, Odd smirked at him.
"So, when are you going to ask her out?" he teased, reaching into his pockets, looking for his cigarettes. Ulrich rolled his eyes but smiled anyway.
"I don't know Odd, but I'm going to do it soon!" Ulrich replied with a smile, Odd gave him a thumbs up as his ability to speak was hindered by the cigarette in his mouth, he was currently patting himself down, looking for a lighter, Ulrich rolled his eyes and fished his out of his pockets.
"You better, you've been saying this for four years almost!" Odd said, finally able to speak, he pressed the cigarette to his lips and gently inhaled, his mind wandering off Ulrich's love life and onto his own, he absent mindedly offered his smoke to Ulrich, who took it, inhaled and handed it back, letting the smoke out slowly into the cold air.
"What do you reckon Aelita would think of how we turned out?" Ulrich asked, glancing at Yumi and Jeremie in front of them, "I mean, the new habits, new life's, we have jobs and almost finished highschool, do you reckon she's aged like us or is still stuck the way she wa-" Ulrich stopped mid-sentence as he noticed the sad look dawning on Odd's face.
"It's alright, and I don't know, she aged from when she first went in, so I'd assume she still would?" Odd said, his mind figuring out if it was possible, he then wondering what she'd look like older, he shrugged the thought out of his head, not wanting to be put into a mad mood and continued smoking.
They finally arrived at the meeting place, the local town's town square and found a bench nearby and sat down, talking between themselves.
"So what does your cousin look like Jeremie?" Odd asked, leaning back on the bench but looking at all the people in the town square.
"I honestly don't know, he has dark coloured hair is all I remember, he'll probably have bags with him so it won't be too hard to spot him!" Jeremie said, glancing around one more time.
A few more minutes passed until Yumi sat forward and glanced at a teen, standing still outside a café in the square, he did have dark hair and two bags.
"Is that him Jeremie?" Yumi said, pointing to the figure, Jeremie glanced over and stood up.
"It might be, I'm not 100% sure so I don't know how to appro-" Jeremie started but was cut off by Yumi shoving him towards him.
"That has to be him, go over there!" she laughed, Jeremie rolled his eyes and took a deep breath and approached the teen. Taking one last deep breath, he walked up to him.
"Kale?"
"Jeremie."
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