Chapter four: how it went wrong
Author's note: seems like I forgot the disclaimer (again). activates his robot Railen. Doesn't. Own. Code. Lyoko. Or. Anything. About. It. Beep.
Claimer: I do own the plot of the story.
Dedicated to: Weapon, great beta-reader, thanks a lot for the effort.
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Jeremie's diary
I've talked to everyone about it. And, for this diary, I recorded it all on my cell phone. Give me a moment, I'll take it..
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So, the first one I spoke to was William.
This happened on the courtyard. Unknowingly the both of us walked alone at some point, so I asked him about it. "Heya, William, what do you think about Aelita?" I asked subtlety.
He finished eating a cookie. "Aelita? She's a nice girl. Why?"
I shook my head in disappointment. "No, no, I mean her behaviour."
He raised an eyebrow and shrugged. "Her behaviour? Something wrong with her?"
I just sighed and walked away.
Second person would be Ulrich.
This was at the soccer pitch, we just had a friendly match. The only reason I joined was to get him apart afterwards and ask him about Aelita.
"Now, what did you want to ask?" he said while taking his shoes off.
"I wanted to talk about Aelita. She's been.."
"Right, Aelita's been acting strange, huh? I know," he interrupted swiftly.
"To say the least. She's becoming a Lyoko-junky."
"Absolutely."
"Her molecular structure is getting used to the virtual dna-transfer of the scanners when.."
"Hey, no rush, Einstein. Keep in English."
"Well – let's say it's not good if it goes on like this."
"Understood. Just tell her not to go so often anymore?"
After that the conversation ended up pretty worthless, and eventually we even discussed about the soccer match.
So I moved on to Odd.
He immediately opened the door as I knocked, made a little bow and let me in. "Welcome to my humble dorm. You're just in time for the spectacle," he said to me, grinning.
I raised an eyebrow as I entered, laptop in my backpack. "Just in time for what?"
I'd rather not mention what happened there. It ended up with some bad words thrown at Kiwi, and I in need of new shoes.
"I wondered about Aelita's situation," I began, whispering for some reason.
"Ahh. You're questioning why she goes to the factory with you so often?" he countered, getting his MP3 player and turning it on.
"Well, yes. What do you think about it?" Instead of an answer, he hummed with some ridiculous song. "ODD!"
He frightened slightly as I spoke up, and lowered the volume of his MP3 player. "Cool it, Einstein. What did you say?"
"I asked what you think about how Aelita is doing?"
"What's wrong with it? Obviously she likes you, and wants to have more time with you. The factory is a perfect excuse for it, no? Lucky guy you are."
I blinked at his last statement. "What do you mean by that?"
"Never mind," was his fast response.
Anyway, so much for Odd's answer.
Yumi came next when I visited her house for the conversation.
I got surprised as it wasn't me who started talking, but the Japanese girl. "Jeremie, I'm worried about Aelita. You know, she goes so often to Lyoko – I don't trust it anymore. She's out of control."
I cleared my throat and pushed my glasses up to my face. "I was planning to discuss that. I don't trust it either – Aelita's become.. addicted to Lyoko. If you ask me, that isn't good."
"How come?"
"It's just not good for her body. But, why do you think she'd do that?"
Yumi remained quiet for a moment, looking down and stroking her hair. "If you ask me, I think she still doesn't want to leave her past. She might still love Lyoko, as it's been her home for more than ten years. Perhaps she doesn't accept the death of her father as well, or hope she'll find her mother there."
"But – that's ridiculous! She knows her father is dead. Lyoko isn't even real."
"Believe me, Jeremie. Girl stuff."
I'd rather not go in discussing about that, so shortly after I left their house.
Only one more person to talk to: Aelita herself.
One evening I simply walked inside her room. She never locked her door anyway. She was about to get to bed – lucky I didn't came a few moments earlier, she just had her nightshirt on.
"Jeremie…?" she mumbled, surprised.
"We gotta talk," I simply said and threw myself on her bed. She took a seat on the chair, blinking. "Aelita – I'll be frank. Why do you go to Lyoko so often?"
She threw me a confused look. "Often? I just go to Lyoko when I feel like it. For fun, you know? Like the others. Why?"
And that's the point were she got me down. I didn't want to hurt her feelings, so I didn't tell her about my research. The conversation ended quite badly, since the opposite happened of what I wanted to reach. She asked me if she could stay on Lyoko for one night. I eventually agreed, thinking that I could examine her further then. But deep down I knew it was only a weak excuse because I didn't want to hurt her.
So, that night, she went to sleep on Lyoko. I watched her the whole time. And the night after. And the night after…
Yes, that's how it went wrong.
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Note 2: Beta-read by: WeaponFanfic.
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Note 4: Sorry for my short chapters.. I'll try to write longer ones.