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Chapter One

Teddygozilla Part One

Two weeks later and I found myself in front of Kadic. I was incredibly nervous – what would the students say when they find out I'm blind? I mean, I'm pretty sure there's no film over my eyes since I wasn't born like that. People also tell me how pretty they were. If I were blind since birth, they wouldn't be able to see it, would they?

From what my mother told me, Kadic was an older school. The main building had three stories – four if you included the extra floor in the middle – and my room was in the middle of the girl's hall. Apparently I had the room across from the principal's daughter.

Using my walking stick, I managed to find my room. I knew it was my room by the large numbers on my door. It was good that the school agreed to supply me with Braille books in English. I wouldn't be able to read Braille in French just yet.

I unpacked my room with my mother's help. She was allowed to come on campus to help me unpack and then, when we were done, I would be on my own. I hope my poor walking stick would hold up until I could save enough allowance to buy myself a new one. Father said it was a waste of his money to buy me new ones.

When we were done we went to the front of the school. Mother hugged me tightly to her and whispered her love into my ear. Father called her from the car and she had no choice but to leave.

"Bye…" I whispered, lifting my hand up and waiting until I could no longer hear the engine fading away. I turned and made my way to the stairs, feeling around for the railing. I could hear people inside and my shyness peaked, but there was no turning back. This was my new life now. I stood at the entrance to the school, listening to a young girl talk. They were obviously shooting some sort of video. I placed my hand on the wall so I wasn't disoriented – I wanted to hear what she was talking about.

"Okay, are we rolling?" I heard the girl ask.

"Yeah, but we're upside down." Another younger girl replied. I giggled softly. She must have been holding the video camera upside down.

"Hello fellow students of Kadic Junior High! Your ace reporters, Millie and Tamiya, are here to bring you an exclusive for today's school news and its pretty big since, I'm pretty sure you already know, since tonight is the big night – the night of our annual school Prom." The first girl said. She must have been Millie since she introduced herself first.

There was a Prom tonight? Why didn't mother tell me? It didn't matter. I didn't know anyone here so there was a fat chance that anyone would ask me to the Prom anyway. Who would want to dance with a blind girl?

"Unfortunately our cameras weren't authorized to film the site where the festivities will take place, but, I can make out from where I'm speaking, the girl who might be crowned our beauty queen tonight, just as she was last year, I mean, of course, our principle's daughter, Sissi." Millie continued, hardly taking a breath.

I was surprised. How could she talk like that and not take a breath? A small smile reached my lips and I felt my way over to stand out of the way, not wanting to risk the tapping of my walking stick to interrupt their video.

"Let's see whether she'll answer a few questions." I heard Millie say. That meant that last year's beauty queen was coming this way. "Well, Sissi, how about a few words for our TV audience before the big night?" Millie asked the other girl.

Well, I assumed it was a girl since she was the former beauty queen.

"Sorry, munchkins." A quite annoying and high pitched voice said, "I only talk to real pro reporters." She said. By the sound of her voice, she was coming my way. I wanted to get away quickly – I didn't want to talk to someone like her – so I tried to make my way to the stairs so I could get to my room, but someone ran into me. I fell to the ground, hard, and my walking stick snapped under the pressure of my body falling on it. Just my luck.

"What, are you blind? I'm walking, here!" the same annoying voice said to me. I glared at where I thought the voice was coming from.

"Anyway, I have not time to waste on a couple of nerds." The annoying voice continued. I had a feeling she was talking about the two girls, Millie and Tamiya. I shifted to my knees and felt around for the two broken pieces of my walking stick, but a male voice to my left said "Here, I gotcha."

A hand reached out and took one of my hands in theirs. They helped me up and handed me the two pieces of my walking stick. I was about to thank the person who helped me, but the annoying voice – the one who supposedly belonged to Sissi – floated through the hallway again.

"But it's for the school newspaper! What about freedom of the press?" Millie said. I felt bad for her.

"Oh, Millie. Little dipsticks like you don't have freedom, understand?" Sissi said. I winced, that was mean.

"How mean." I said to myself, forgetting the boy that was standing next to me. He had moved his hand from mine to my shoulder. He chuckled and I blushed.

"You have no idea when it comes to Sissi." He said with a light tone.

"Man! And I have the room across from her." I sighed, already not looking forward to meeting her.

"Oh, then you must be the new student. What's your name?" the male asked, curiosity in his voice. I smiled, brushing some of my red hair behind my shoulder.

"Oh, I'm sorry." I said, completely forgetting to introduce myself, "I'm Lenne O'Riley."

"Heh, pretty name for a pretty girl." The boy said. I blushed as he patted my shoulder and laughed. "I'm Odd Della Robbia." He introduced himself, taking her hand and leading her forward, "And turn here." He said, leading her through some sort of door. She could still hear what Sissi was saying to poor Millie.

"Anyway, who needs your dumb reporting? What do you know?" Sissi questioned in a haughty voice. "Besides, you have a problem. You have to have a date and I can't see anyone who'll go with a jerk like you."

"Wow, she's really mean." I muttered to myself, causing two other people in the room to snort. One was another guy and the other was distinctly feminine.

"Even them. I bet that if you asked them, they'd run like scared rabbits." Two guys made some sort of disgusted noise outside of the doorway Odd and I had just walked through.

"Who needs them?" Millie asked, obviously trying not to cry, "There are lots of other boys!"

"Oh yeah?" Sissi asked, "What are you waiting for then? Try and find one." Sissi laughed. Somehow the laugh grated on my nerves.

"Someone needs to put her in her place." I said to Odd, or at least where I thought he was. It was kind of hard to talk to someone when you don't know where their faces are.

"Tough luck. Sissi never listens to anyone." The girl in the room said from somewhere above me. I reached out and felt around, eventually lightly touching a ladder.

"So you guys are decorating for some Prom?" I asked, blinking. I actually had never been to a prom before.

"Yeah. We have one every year." The other guy in the room said from beside me. I flinched, not realizing he was that close to me. "Sorry." He said, voice apologetic.

"It's ok. You just surprised me." I said, a little laughter in my voice. I felt around for a wall and then leaned against it. I listened to the three of them decorate, but then I heard footsteps from my other side. I turned my head, listening to their conversation.

"Um, Ulrich?" that must have been the other boy's name, "Will…will you be my date tonight?" Millie's voice as breaking so I imagine that she was either trying not to cry or she was actually crying. This made me dislike Sissi even more.

"Uh, well…" Ulrich stuttered as Odd snickered at his misfortune.

"I'm sorry, Millie…it wouldn't be a very good idea." Ulrich said. At least he was nice enough to let her down nicely. "I'm too old for you…and…well, y'see, I promised to go with Yumi." Yumi must have been the name of the girl who was on top of the ladder. Yumi was a pretty name – she must have been Asian…or her parents must like Asian names.

"You see?" the annoying voice of Sissi laughed, "What did I tell you? But I'm sure you'll find a boy for the sandbox dance. Meanwhile, why don't you go play with your dolls?"

That was the last straw. As I heard Millie run down the hallway, her friend behind her, I felt my way to the doorway.

"That was really rude of you. Sissi, was it? You're lucky that I don't sue you for the expense of my walking stick that you broke." I said in a hard voice. I glared at her and I was sure that my green eyes were flashing. My mother told me that happened when I was angry.

"Oh really? You broke it when your fat ass landed on it."

"It wouldn't have broke at all if you hadn't shoved past me."

"You should have seen me coming."

Was she really that stupid?

"If you hadn't noticed, I'm blind, idiot. I can't see anything at all."

Sissie humphed in annoyance.

"Not my fault that you're disabled. You're a liability to the whole school, and to me, so stay away from me." she said. How exactly was I a liability? It's not like I'm going to destroy anything…on purpose.

"I hope your happy." Yumi said from behind me.

"Leave Lenne alone." Odd said from behind me as well. He placed his hand on my shoulder again and I smiled – perhaps he'll be a friend?

Sissie scoffed and walked away with her two little cronies. Odd turned me so that I was facing the three of them.

"We didn't get to introduce ourselves earlier." The other male, Ulrich, said. "I'm Ulrich Stern and this is Yumi Ishiyama." Ulrich introduced. I held out my hand with a smile, waiting for him to take it. I couldn't exactly see where his hand was, could I? He took it and we shook hands.

"Nice to meet you guys. I'm Lenne O'Riley."

"Did you just move here?" I heard Yumi ask.

"My parents moved here because of my dad's job. I'm just along for the ride, but it's not too bad here." I admitted with another smile, but it quickly turned into a frown, "but I'm not sure how well I'll be able to get around. Sissi broke my walking stick, after all."

Odd tightened his grip on my shoulder.

"Don't worry about that. We'll help you out, won't we?" he said to the other two. They were silent for a few moments. I hoped I hadn't offended them or, like Sissi said, had become a liability.

"Yeah, we'll help you out." Yumi confirmed, "Everyone needs friends, right?" she said. I smiled and nodded.

"Thanks. You don't know how much that means to me." I quietly said.

"Don't mention it. Like I said before, we gotcha." Odd said. Yeah, I can totally see myself becoming friends with them all.

3rd PERSON POV

Across the building, in his room, a blond boy by the name of Jeremy Belpois was typing away on his computer.

"Aelita? This is Jeremy. Do you read me?" he questioned. The computer program he was working on was actually a way to communicate with a virtual person, a girl by the name of Aelita.

"Aelita?" he questioned again, wondering if the girl could hear him. She was concentrating on something, but then her face appeared on the screen of Jeremy's computer. Aelita was pretty – she had short pink hair and wore a unique outfit of pink and white clothing.

"Hi, how are you?" she asked the blond boy wearing the glasses.

"I'm fine. How about you?" Jeremy questioned, holding the headset's microphone to his mouth so that she could hear him better.

"Ok. I didn't see anything unusual around the towers." She said, "It all seems quiet. Well, for the moment."

"You know…I'm making progress with my research so you…you can come and live with us." His comment made Aelita very happy.

"The key to materialization?" she questioned with a smile. "You've found it at last?"

"Uh, no, not yet, but I'm working on it." Jeremy confessed as he rubbed the back of his head, "It's just a matter of time. Then, XANA won't be able to harm you…or us."

"That's great. Thanks." She said in relief.

Across the campus, Millie sat huddled with a stuffed bear. She was still crying from what Sissi said earlier.

"Don't cry, Millie." Her best friend said, comforting her, "We'll go to the Prom. You'll see. As for the news, Jim said it was okay. We have until nine o'clock."

"You better face facts, Tamiya, they don't care about us or the newscast." Millie said, wiping at her eyes and sniffing. "I hate them – all of them! I hate every single one of them! I hate everybody in the world!" she said, but neither she nor Tamiya noticed that a strange symbol appear on their computer screen.

"You don't know what you're saying." Tamiya said as she tried to sooth her friend's feelings. "You just –"

"Oh stop it!" Millie interrupted Tamiya. "I'm sick of you, too, so just leave me alone!" she cried as she ran from the room, her teddy bear still in her grasp.

"Hey…" Tamiya said, appearing in the doorway, "It's true…Ulrich could have been a little nicer.

LENNE'S POV

I was sitting on the stage while Yumi, Ulrich, and Odd continued to decorate the stage. I really wanted to know what they looked like, but I was afraid to ask. It might have seen weird to them.

Since I've only been blind part of my life, I remember colors and shapes. If they described themselves to me, I can get a general gist of what they looked like. Odd must have seen the contemplative look on my face because he came to sit beside me.

"What's on your mind, Lenne?" he asked me. His voice actually sounded genially curious. I blushed, surprised that he asked. Back at my old school, everyone treated me like I had a disease since I was blind.

"Oh, um…I just wanted to ask you guys what you looked like…since I can't see and all." I quietly said, a little embarrassed. Odd chuckled and nudged me in the side.

"Well, all you had to do was ask. Who do you want to start with?" he asked me. I looked to where I thought he was and cocked my head to the side with a small smile.

"You mean you'd describe them, and you, to me?" I asked.

"Yeah, sure. It's not hard." He said.

"How about Yumi?"

"Sure. She's Japanese – her parents moved here with her from Japan. She wears a black sweater and even darker jeans with black boots…I know, that's a lot of black. She has medium length black hair and pale skin with dark eyes." Odd said. It wasn't the greatest description, but I could recognize her voice if I needed to. I had gotten really good at that over the past couple of years.

"Ulrich?"

"Okay, Ulrich has brown hair. Right now he's wearing light green pants, a light yellow shirt and a tanish-brown shirt over it. He wears normal sneakers, I guess."

"Okay, and you?"

"Me?"

"Well, yeah. Of course I want to know what you look like, Odd." I said. What, did he not want to describe himself to me?

"Well…ok. I have blond hair with a small diamond of purple in the middle. I wear it spiked up with gel." He started slowly. Perhaps he never had to describe his looks to someone before? "I like purple more than most guys. I wear purple pants, a light purple shirt, and a darker purple long sleeved shirt over that. I wear yellow shoes, too."

Wow, he was right. He does like purple.

"Nothing's wrong with wearing purple." I said with a smile, but then Yumi's voice caught my attention.

"Don't look so gloomy, Ulrich." She said, watching whatever Ulrich was doing. Well, I assume she was watching because I didn't hear her working on anything. "Is it because of Millie?" she questioned. "You could have said yes. You know me…and Prom."

Odd got up to help them finish up whatever they were doing and started to fool around with the microphone. I could hear the screeching of it.

"Even if I were your date?" he questioned. I felt sad that he asked that, but I had known him for only a couple of hours. What did I know?

"Sissi really did come on strong. If meanness is a quality of a beauty queen, she'll win for sure." I had to laugh at that. Suddenly, the footsteps of someone new appeared. I tilted my head so I would be able to listen better.

"That's true, but try to get Miss World to see that." The new boy said. He must have noticed me then because he came over to introduce himself. "You must be the new student. I'm Jeremy Belpois."

I smiled. He was polite.

"I'm Lenne O'Riley. It's nice to meet you."

"Likewise." He replied before returning to Ulrich.

"Miss World, huh? Miss In-Her-Own-World is more like it." Odd said. Everyone, including me, laughed at his joke. I was really starting to like it here more and more.

3rd PERSON POV

Outside, Millie finally found a place where she could be alone with just her teddy bear for comfort.

"At least you don't care how old I am…" Millie said with a small smile. "We understand each other. We aren't like those older kids who always want to run things. They think just because we're young that we don't count at all." She said with a sigh, "If, for once, we were older…a lot older than them…they wouldn't laugh at us, would they?"

"Millie?" Tamiya said, knocking on the glass, "Are you in there?" she questioned, "Are you finished sulking? Hurry, we have work to do."

"Okay, okay, I'm coming!" Millie said, placing the stuffed bear on the floor of the building. "You stay right there. I'll be back for you." She said.

"We have a report to finish on the Prom, remember?" Tamiya said, reminding Millie of the work they have to finish. The two of them left, but back inside the building a giant shadow of strange ooze fell on top of the bear.

Back inside the school, Sissi went to her room, taking out her key and turning to the two boys who were following her around.

"I hope you're not going to follow me all day." She said, glaring at them. "As far as I know you're not beauticians, so stop sticking to me like glue. I don't need you, understand, so scat." She said, shooing them away with a motion of her hand.

"Sissi…we thought…" one of the boys said, but she poked her head out of her room again.

"Take this advice: don't think. It doesn't suit you." She then slammed the door in the two boys' faces. She flipped her hair over her shoulder and sat on her bed. She took off her shoes and skirt before she started to talk to herself.

"A bunch of babies at our Prom. You've gotta be kidding." She said before turning on her music. "And that other freak who had the nerve to invite Ulrich." She said. She paused "And that blind girl. Who does she think she is coming to my school. She's a freak and freaks don't belong here."

She stalked to her closet and opened the door, looking through her clothes.

"I can't believe it." She said, "If anyone's going out with Ulrich, it absolutely has to be me." she said as she threw clothes on the floor. "I am the star, the diva of the school."

She then sat down at her vanity and bean to beautify herself. Once she managed to put on a face mask and two cucumbers on her eyes, the possessed bear made noise by accident.

"Who is it? Who's there?" she took off her cucumbers and started to scream once her shelf full of beauty products fell before her.

Grabbing a robe, Sissi fled from the room and whatever caused the shelf to fall.