Chapter 23

Odd's POV

We got to the lunchroom. We sat next to William.

"Heeey!" I called.

"You hung up the phone?"

"Yeah, Sorry about that... Can we sit down?"

"Do you have to ask?" He commented and smiled his half-a-smile. We smiled too and sat down. A few minutes later Einstein and Princess joined us.

"Hey guys!" Aelita called and smiled, as usual. Jeremie and her sat down next to us.

"Is there a waitor or something or we need to take our food all by ourselves?" Jeremie asked.

"There is supposed to be a waitor... I think..." I claimed. We sat there for a few minutes, and a waitor came over to us.

"What would you like to have, Children?" He asked, with a grin. He looked pretty nice. We ordered our meals, and unsurprisingly, I ordered 3 meals. I actually haven't finished one of the meals- I wasn't very hungry... We charged the meal on Michael's credit card. I returned to my room with Ulrich. Fifteen minutes later the train started to move. It was pretty cool...

"OMG!" Ulrich called.

"What?"

"there's an entertainment vagon! Let's go there!"

"Cool! But what is in there?"

"As far as I know from this train magazine, there's an air hockey table, a pingpong table, Oh and a football table!"

"Okay now I get it, okay let's go. We need to call the others.

Ulrich's POV

Odd went to call the others. Yahoo, a football table! Just like in our wreck room! I'm gonna kick Odd's butt!

We met in the entertainment room 15 minutes afterwards. In the openiing there was the Football table, Air hockey table and the pingpong table.

"Wow! That's so cool!"Aelita called.

"Hey, What's in there? Odd asked and pointed on the door that ended this section. On the door was a sign says 'for 15 and up only'. "I wonder what's in there..."

"Forget about it, there's a guard next to the door. He probably checks your I.D card." Aelita said. "please don't get us or yourselves in trouble..."

"Hey, Yumi and I are 15! We can Check what's inside and tell you!" William said and pointed on him and Yumi.

"Can you do that?" Odd asked "Please Yumi, I really wanna know what's in there!"

"Fine, We'll go." Yumi said. Wlliam took her hand and pulled her towards the door. How dares he Touch her?! They gt into that room, that was really dark. If he kisses her, he's dead!

"Meanwhile, Let's play air hockey!" Aelita called. We got to the air hockey table. It was Aellita v.s Odd.

"Sorry Aelita, I'm not gonna merci you!" He called and smiled an evil, yet friendly smile.

Aelita's POV

" Sorry Aelita, I'm not gonna merci you!" Odd called and smiled towards me a poisonous smile. I smiled back. Jeremie got closer to me and whispered in my ear.

" Aelita, the secret is to guard your gate and have fast reflexes. If you keep your player guarding your gate and you'll have fast reflexes, I'm sure you can win." He wispered and winked towards mr. I smiled.

"No fair! Don't give her some scientific secrets!" Odd called.

"You can talk with Ulrich." I said.

"Okay. Mr. Football genious, do you have an idea for me?"

"Actually I do." Ulrich said. he whispered in odd's ear.

"You want spaghetti?! For breakfast?!"

"no, you dumbhead!" Ulrich called and I laughed. He whispered again.

"Ahhh okay I get it now..." Odd said.

"Ready?" Jeremie askd.

"Yes!" We both answered.

"Go!" Jeremie called. We started to play. Jeremie was right, as long as I guard my gate and focus on the disc, I'm really good at this game. It's like in Lyoko when I have to guard something. Aventually Odd won 7-6.

"Good game, Aelita!"Odd called. "You're really great! But you cannoy beat Odd The Magnifficent!" He called and smiled. Right after that, Yumi and William came back.

"That was amazing!" William called.

"What's in there?!"

"There's this huge bar with a cool barman and there's a DJ and this place is so awesome!" Yumi called.

"Wow! Cool!" Odd called "I wanna go there!" He cried.

"Sorry dude..." William said "We'd better teturn to our rooms..." We agreed and started walking away.

"Hey! You!" Someone called from behind us. We turned around and saw a teenage boy. He had brown hair, To the shoulders. He looked 17 or 18.

"Yes?" Yumi asked.

"You dropped your wallet..." He said and gave Yumi her wallet. I couldn't ignore his pure Italian accent.

"Uh... Thank you..." Yumi mumbled.

"My name is Miguel."

"I'm Yumi."

"Are you Japanese?"

"Y... Yeah..."

"And You?" He asked me.

"I am Aeita." I said and smiled.

"And I'm tired. Thanks for returning the wallet. Let's go." Ulrich said, stubbornly.

"Thanks..." Yumi mumbled and started to walk away.

"Bye!" I called. We walked away.

"Did you just hear that?" I asked.

"Hear what?" Odd asked.

"His accent!" I said "That's so cool!"

"Yeah..." Yumi mumbled.

"Can we change subject?" Ulrich asked.

"Agreed." William said.

"Agreed." Jeremie replied

"Okay..." I said. "I'm going to our room. I wanna go listen to music!"

"I wanna go draw something in my notebook." Yumi said and smiiled.

"I'm gonna talk to Sam." Odd said.

"I'll try to figure out what Xana is planning..."

"And I... I'll just go to sleep." William claimed.

"I'll find something to do meanwhile..." Ulrich said.

Chapter 24

Jeremie's POV

"Did you just saw that?" William asked, Laying on his bed.

"Saw what?" I asked while sitting next to the writing desk and tapping on my computer.

"They way they looked at that guy."

"What do you mean?"

"Jeremie are you blind?"

"What?! What happened?!"

"They stared at him like he was Adonis or something...

"You're really exadurating."

"If you say so, but I can tell that Aelita got really excited about him..." He mumbled.

"Aren't you supposed to sleep?!" I called. He giggled strangely.

"I knew you have feelings for her. So why don't you tell her how do you feel about her?"

"First of all, who said I have feelings for her, and second of all, because I don't wanna end like you- no offense."

"First of all- Einstein everybody knows that you have feelings for Aelita, and second of all, what do you mean?"

"I mean that you told Yumi how you're feeling about her, and it doesn't look like she runs after you and beg you to stay with her forever." I said.

"Huh, you just admitted that you like her."

"I'm busy now, let me concentrate please."

"Okay, and by the way, I know Yumi's not running after me, but that's only because she's afraid to choose one of us. With Aelita, I bet you're gonna get her."

"Don't say 'get her'..."

"Fine... She'll be yours."

"Don't say that either."

"Okay..." He said and closed his eyes. There was a long silence.

"But I... I tried to tell her... It didn't really work, everytime I tried, something or somebody got in our way..." I mumbled. He opened his eyed and sat up.

"Well, that's a progress. You try to talk to me, it means that you trust me." He said and smiled. "Listen, I can try to help you, I can distract Yumi, Odd and Ulrich while you..."

"No. Let me deal with it myself William."

"Okay, but take my advice- don't give up. Just sit with her and tell her how you feel. I'm sure she'll feel the same way for you." He said and layed down on his bed again. He closed his eyes. Should I listen to him?

Yumi's POV

It was already evening... I painted in my notebook for a few hours. Aelita layed on her bed with closed eyes and headsets. She's probably asleep... I wanted to go outside and do something but there's nothing to do in this train but... but that club. Maybe I could go there with William. I got up and went to Jeremie's and William's room. I knocked on the door and Jeremie opened it.

"Yumi..."

"Where's William?"

"Right there, Sleeping..." He said and pointed on the upper bed. William slept there, so calmly. So peacefully...

"Okay, I'll come back later..."

"Come back later for what?" It was William. He woke up.

"William... Sorry if I woke you up..."

"That's not your fault that your voice is like an angel's..."

"Okay, he's asleep..." I said. "Maybe I should come back later..."

"No, wait! I'm awake."

"Uh, okay... I wanted to go to that club we've been in earlier..."

"You bet I'm comin'!" He called and wore his black Jacket.

"Don't forget, dinner on 8 P.M!" Jeremie called and we got out of their appartment.

Odd's POV

"Hello?"

"Sam!"

"Odd! I was worried about you!"

"I'm good, on the train. How are you?!"

"I'm good! Jim was looking for you after he found out that the barking dog was Jeremie's robot..."

"and?"

"I told him you went on a walk..."

"Great. Thanks a lot Sam..."

"And... another thing..."

"Yeah?"

"Can you explain to me that rediculous story?"

"This is not rediculous, it's true!"

"Okay, can you explain everything slowly?"

"Okay. You know that abandoned factory next to the academy?"

"Yeah, so?"

"In this factory there's a supercomputer. In this supercomputer there's a virtual world named Lyoko."

"Okay... You do realize that this sounds crazy right?"

"Now this gets complicated: In lyoko there are towers. There are 2 types of towers- Control towers and way towers. The control towers are able to be controlled and they use as bridges from Lyoko to Earth. The way towers just help us get from sector to sector."

"Okay..."

"There are 5 sectors in Lyoko: The Desert sector, the Forest sector, the Ice sector, the Mountain sector and sector 5. That sector doesn't really have a name..."

"Actually there is, Odd. It's called 'Carthage'." Ulrich mentioned.

"Oh, right. The Carthage." Well, that explanation is really long. Anyway, a half an hour later we all went to dinner.

William's POV

Yumi and I went back from that club. It was great! And the best part was that we were all alone there. I like being alone with Yumi - When we're alone most of her attention is towards me. We sat in the dining room at 20:00. A few minutes later, Jeremie and Aelita joined us. Jeremie sat in front of me. I winked to him but it seems that he didn't understand my point.

"Hey guys!"Aelita called.

'Jeremie did you?" I asked.

"Did I what?"

"Oh gosh..."

"Ahhh... No." He said. I sighed.

"Why are you talking in codes?" Aelta asked.

"Never mind..." I mumbled. Odd & Ulrich joined us.

"I sure hope you didn't start eating without us!" Odd called.

"Relax, we waited as you can see." I said. After we finished our dinner we continued sitting and talking next to our table. When suddenly we saw Miguel again.

"Aelita! Yumi! What a coincidance to meet you two again!"

"Miguel! Hi!" Yumi called. "Hey wait a second, how do you know french?"

"I studied it. After all, this is the language of love..." He said and smiled. The girls smiled back and blushed. Why when I flirt with Yumi like that she gets angry and when a stanger flirts with her she blushes and smiles back?! Maybe that's because of his stupid accent...

"Why are you going to Paris, Miguel?" Aelita asked.

"I'm going to visit a friend of mine. And you? Why are you going to Paris, the city of love?" What's his problem with the word 'love'?!

"We live in paris."

""Really? Aelita and Yumi doesn't sound so French..."

"That's because my family is from Japan, but we moved to France when I was little." Yumi said.

"Okay, nice to meet you again Miguel but we should go now." Ulrich said.

"Agreed." Jeremie and I said at the same time.

"But... I wanna hear more about Miguel!" Odd called. He's so not helping us now... you.

"Hey, If you have to go, that's okay. I'll meet you later ladies. I'm in room 903. Feel free to come whenever you'd like, I'd be delighted to see you..." He said and walked away.

"Did you just hear that?" aelita asked.

"The elegant way he said 'delighted'? Yes I heard!" Yumi called.

"I just don't get it, I'm italian too! Why doesn't anybody get excited over me?!" Odd called.

"He's about 17, You're 14, He's tall, you're short. And his accent gives him the advantage." Ulrich mumbled, unhappy of Miguel's good qualities. For once, he gets me...

" Why should I be jealous of such a scrawny bastard?!"

"He's not scrawny, He's svelte!" The girls called. Odd hit his head on the table.

Chapter 25

Ulrich's POV

"That's it. Now I'm sure of it. The world hates me."

"Why?" Odd asked, eating a banana and looking through the pitch black window.

"First, it gives mre Yumi. I get feelings for her. And right after we almost kiss it brings me William. Now we're in a middle of a fight for Yumi. And now, it sends me this Michael guy..."

"It's Miguel..."

"Whatever! The world just wanna see me suffer!" I said and pushed my head against the pillow.

"Relax dude. I think this incident is not in order to torture you..."

"Oh yeah? then what for? To abuse me?!"

"No, it's to... test you. Maybe the world wants to show you that there are obstacles on the way, and it wants to see if you can get through them. Maybe this test needs to show you what are you ready to do for Yumi. Or how much you care for her..." He said and threw away the banana peeling.

"Wow Odd... Since when are you so... deep?"

"I..." He said and got closer to whisper in my ear. "I read the Twilight saga..."

"What?! Oh Odd..." I said, desperately.

Jeremie's POV

I couldn't fall asleep. I layed and looked at the bottom of William's bed. I was wondering to myself- is William right? Is this guy is a threat for me? Am I going to lose Aelita if I don't act?

"Jeremie..." William mumbled.

"Yeah?"

"I can feel your glance on my back! Go to sleep already!"

"I am trying but I can't fall asleep..."

"Take an anesthetic or something I'm trying to sleep in here!"

"Ha ha, very funny..." I mumbled. I closed my eyes.

William's POV

I woke up in the morning. The time was 09:15. When I got up I saw Jeremie next to his computer, surrounded by thousands of paper sheets.

"Good morning?"

"Ah, it's already morning?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I couldn't fall asleep."

"So you didn't sleep?"

"I used the late night hours to work on a project I'll launch when we get to the factory."

"Oh, Jeremie, that's not how you are supposed to spend the late night hours..."

"Then how?"

"Let's talk about it when you're 18..." I mumbled and started dressing up.

Yumi's POV

"H... Hello Miguel!" I called and smiled.

"Good morning ladies. What can I do for you?"

"Ah, Actually, we came here to ask for an eraser... Aelita forgot to pack one and now I have no way of fixing my painting..." I said.

"That's me, Clumsy as always!" Aelita called and smiled.

"No problem! Come in." He said and we got into his room.

"Nice place!" I called.

"Yeah!' Aelita agreed.

"Here's the eraser. I didn't know you paint, Yumi. Can I see some of them?"

"Sorry, it's private..."

"Okay, I get it. Then I'll see you later ladies." He said.

"Thanks..." I mumbled and we left his room.

"This is so cool!" Aelita called "I'll never get tired of his accent!"

"Yeah, he's really awesome..." I mumbled. I suddenly saw William getting closer to us.

"Aelita, I need to talk to Yumi, can we get some privacy please?"

"Umm... Sure..." Aelita said and walked away.

"Yumi what game do you think you're playing?"

"Excuse me?"

'You make me and Urich run after you like that and now you're with that Miguel guy?"

"I'm not with him!"

"I can see the way you're looking at him! And the way you mumble! Don't lie to me Yumi. I deserve the truth. You said it yourself. Do you think Ulrich and I will continue chasing you forever?"

"I don't wand anyone to chase me! I want to be able to make choises without you interrupting!" I said and passed him. He cought my arm. "Let me go William, don't make it worse."

"You are making a mistake Yumi. You are going to regret deeply for that. Please..."

"William, it's not gonna work on me. Let me go." I said and tried to take a step further but he just caught my arm even stronger "William you're hurting me."

"Yumi..." He said and looked down. He left my arm.

"Are... Are you feeling okay?"

"I need you Yumi. You get that? And I know you need me too." He mumbled, still with his head down. I got closer to him. He looked broken. Misrable. Before I could even realize, he kissed me. On the lips. I immediately got further from him.

"What are you doing?!" I screamed "You promised me! I can't believe it, you're such a jerk!" I yelled.

"Yumi!"

"Get away from me!" I yelled and ran to my cabbin.

Chapter 26

Aelita's POV

I sat in our room when Yumi got in in a rush and jumped on her bed.

"Yumi? Yumi! Are you okay?!"

"I'm fine... Leave me alone Aelita, please..."

"Okay..." I said and went outside the room. I think Yumi was crying... In the hallway passed Odd, Ulrich and William. Hey guys, does somebody know what happened to Yumi?"

"Yumi?! Is she hurt?!" Ulrich asked.

"I don't think so, but she looked like somebody just tried to rape her or something... William you were the last one who spoke to her. Do you know what happeened?"

"Last time I talked to her she was just fine. Actually she was really happy... Let me speak to her."

"No, leave her alone. She needs some time for herself. Let's go have some breakfast, we'll bring her something from the dining room." I said. We went to Jeremie's and the five of us went to the lunch room.

Yumi's POV

I don't want to see William ever again! I wish I didn't know him at all! Why did I have to get myself into such a comlicaion anyway?! Why do I deserve all this mess?! What did I do wrong?! No, I didn't do anything wrong, it's this jerk William. I heard the door opening behind me.

"Hey Yumi..." Aelita mumbled "I brought you some pancakes..."

"I'm not hungry Aelita."

"Do you want to talk?"

"No. I wanna be alone..." I said and the door opened again."

"Yumi?"

"Go away!"

"What happened? We want to help you!"

"I don't need any help! Go away Ulrich!"

"But..."

"GO AWAY!" I called. Ulrich went out of the room.

"Is it something he did?" Aelita asked.

"No. Not him."

"Then..."

"Aelita please I don't wanna talk about you."

"Okay but just so you know- we're all worried about you and we're here to support you if you need help..." Yeah right! Not all of them!

"Fine..." I mumbled. Aelita got on her bed and she was listening to music with her headsets. I couldn't stay there anymore so I went outside the room. WRONG CHOICE!

"Yumi!"

"Not talking to you!"

"What did I do wrong?!"

"I said I'm not talking to you, jerk!" I called and ran away. He was running after me.

"Yumi! Stop!"

"Get away from me! I don't wanna see you ever again!" I called and got into the bathroom. He can't get me here!

"Yumi!"

"Go away!" I called. It was quiet for a few minutes. I opened the door. There was no one in sight. I went back to my room. William was guarding the door. I hate this guy! and that kiss... It didn't even feel real to me... I have to get back to my room. And I know exactly how. I called william.

"Yumi?"

"Meet me next to that club right away." I said and hung up. He left and I ran to my room.

"Yumi?" Aelita asked.

"What?"

"What happened?"

"I said I don't wanna talk about it! Leave me alone!" I yelled at her. "I... I'm sorry Aelita..."

"That's okay... I'm the one who's sorry, I was nosy..."

"That's okay, you try to help... Listen, let's go have some lunch."

"Wanna go have some lunch with Miguel?"

"No. No boys. Just you and me."

"Okay..." She mumbled and we got out to the lunchroom.

Jeremie's POV

"She tricked me."

"You should leave her alone if she asks you, you know?"

"But she looked so broken..."

"William, let her be alone for a while. It'll get better and I'm sure she'll talk to you."

"I hope, because I have no idea what's wrong. I hope nobody harmed her... I have to know what happened!"

"William, do you want me to try talking to her?"

"Why would she listen to you if she doesn't listen to me?"

"I don't know, but it worths trying..." There was a silence for a few moments.

"Yeah, I want you to try talking to her. Thanks."

"What are friends for?" I asked and got up from the computer. I walked to the girl's room. There as no one in there. They're probably having lunch. I walked to the lunchroom and there they were. I got closer.

"Hey girls..."

"Jeremie can you please..." Aelita hinted me to leave them alone.

"No, it's okay, he can stay."

"Wow, thanks, I guess..." I said and sat down next to them. "Yumi, is something bothering you?"

"We're not talking about it Jeremie." Aelita said.

"Uh, Okay..."

"Did you figure out what the Xana attack is?" Yumi asked.

"No. Not at all. It's like he didn't do anything! Just activated a tower!"

"That's crazy!"

"Maybe he's waiting for us to get there. Maybe the attack is directly at us." Aelita said.

"I don't get it anyway. He can attack us in Italy as well! Why would he wait for us?!"

"I don't know, but Xana is sneaky. We mustn't underestimate him." Yumi mumbled and ate a piece of her pie. Odd came towards our table.

"Yumi! It's so great to finally see you!" He called.

"Odd..."

"It's okay Aelita. He can join us too." Yumi said.

"Wow, We're now getting a permission to sit with you?"

"Odd, please..." Aelita asked.

"Okay then..." Odd said and sat down next to me and in front of Yumi. "What are we talking about?"

"We just talked about the fact tat it looks like Xana isn't doing anything, and now we're looking for a new subject to talk about." I updated him.

"Okay! I have one! Guess what happened in Italy!"

"They were eaten by a lion?" Yumi asked.

"No... They got the police and it's after us!"

"What?!" The three of us called.

"Yeah! Sam was investigated but she didn't tell the policemen anything. Isn't she the coolest girlfriend ever?!"

"If the police is looking for us it might find us, and in this case we're in a deep trouble!" I called.

"Guys, in a day we'll be in Paris. Relax."

"And if they are searching us in France as well?!" Aelita called.

"Oh, that'll be bad..." Odd mumbled. Ulrich was getting closer to the table.

"Hey guys! Yumi..."

"Go away."

"What? Why?"

"Because I said so." She said.

"What did I do?!"

"Nothing, I just don't wanna see you." We all looked at Ulrich.

"Okay then... I'll go now... But if you need me, I'll be in my room."

"Bye Ulrich." Yumi said and took another spoon of her pie slice. Ulrich went away.

"I have an idea!" Odd announced. He called Sam on his phone.

"Odd?"

"Sam! Listen, if the cops are after us, they might be looking for us in France as well. If we wanna deactivate the tower, we need your help again."

"Okay. What do I do?"

"You have to tell Jim you saw us around, so they'll cancel all the searches in France. Can you do that?"

"Sure I can."

"Thanks Sam, you're a hero!" he said and hung up the phone. We all looked at him "What?"

"How did you make her believe you?" Yumi asked.

"That's easy. I told her a lot of details so she could see I'm not making up a story. And, she loves me." He said and smiled a wide smile.

Chapter 27

Ulrich's POV

I went to Jeremie's and William's dorm. Without knocking, I opened the door. William lay on his bed and read a book.

"You!" I called.

"Oh, hi Ulrich! What's up?"

"What did you do to Yumi?!"

"Why do you think I did something to her?!"

"She lets everybody sit next to her in the lunchroom table but me! She said that wasn't my fault, so it must be you! What did you do?!"

"I didn't do anything, but thanks for the information." He said and jumped from his bed. He walked out of the room.

"Where do you think you're going?!"

"To talk to Yumi."

"I wasn't done with you!"

"Well, I'm done..." He mumbled and walked away. I was after him.

William's POV

I got to the lunchroom. Everybody was there except Ulrich. I got closer.

"And the waitor says: I dont have frog legs, it's just the way I walk!" Odd called, finishing another one of his stupid jokes. Yumi noticed me and got up. She ran from the table and exited the lunchroom from its other exit. I stood next to the table. She's really weird...

"Wow, what did you do to deserve that?" Odd asked.

"How should I know?!"

"Did she discover a dark secret of yours and now she's running away? Did she discover that you're a vampire?!"

"Odd enough with that Twilight stuff..." I heard Ulrich behind me. "I knew it was because of you. What did you do to her?!" He yelled and pointed at me.

"Hey wht's wrong with you Ulrich?! I said I didn't do anything!"

"Well I don't believe you!"

"I don't care about your belief!"

"You should care because I'm gonna beat you up!" He called and ran towards me. I was in a defence position when Odd and Jeremie caught Ulrich's arms, preventing him to touch me.

"Ulrich stop that!" Jeremie called.

"Yeah, we're gonna be kicked out of the train because of you!" Odd called.

"I wanna knoow what he did to Yumi!"

"I'm outta here, I don't know what's the problem with you today. Both of you." I said and walked away.

Yumi's POV

I sat down in my room. I was drawing. Drawing myself. Behind me was Aelita in the painting. I felt like she was the only one who supported me since that kiss. Now it's a little better, when the time passed. But I still don't want to face him. He promised me he woud let my choose and he won't make me choose, but he broke his primise. I feel so betrayed... A thought passed in my head. Maybe I should date Ulrich. After what William did, I don't even want to be his friend. Yeah, maybe I should...

"Yumi?" No no no no no no! I forgot to lock the door!

"Go away! I don't wanna talk to you!"

"Don't talk. Just listen. I don't know what's wrong with you, I don't know what did I do wrong, and I absolutely have the slightest idea why would you possibly want to avoid me like that. But whatever I did, I'm sorry."

"You don't know what you did?! I'll tell you what you did! You tricked me and kissed me! That's what you did!"

"I?! Kissed you?! When?!"

"Oh I don't know, maybe yesterday?! When you were telling me how miserable your life is without me?!"

"When did I do that?"

"Stop it, will you?"

"Why would I kiss you? I do like you and I do want to kiss you but you told me that you need time to decide and I told you I accept your request, so why would I kiss you?"

"If it wasn't you, then who was it?" I asked. a seconds later I got the answer.

"A specter..." We both said. Oh no, what have I done?!

"We have to warn Jeremie, and fast." William said and I agreed. It's just like that day when Xana created a polymorphic specter to make complications in the group... I'm such an idiot. That's why I didn't feel anything in this kiss. Xana cannot develop passion. It's an emotion that is too dificult to create for a program. William took my hand and pulled me to the lunchroom. But the guys weren't there anymore. We have to warn them.

Jeremie's POV

I took the chance that William went to talk to Yumi, to finally have a talk with Aelita. She came to my room and sat in front of me, on my bed.

"So, what was the important thing you had to talk to me about?" I got nervous.

"I... I just needed to tell you something. Something really important..."

"Yeah?"

"I..." I paused for a moment. "I don't get why are you always so excited about Miguel." It did not come out right!

"What do you mean?"

"I mean... You look so interested about him..."

"Yeah, 'cause he has a cool accent..."

"Wait, what?"

"Jeremie, you didn't really think I'm into a 17- year old boy I just met, didn't you?"

"You asked him so many questions..." She smiled and giggled a little.

"Yeah, I used it as an excuse to make him talk." She said and paused. "Jeremie, I like you. You know that. Don't be silly..." She said.

"Than, I have another question..." I mumbled.

"Yeah?"

"When you say you like me, what do you mean by that?" That's better now.

"Well, when I say I like you, I mean that... since the day I met you, you supported me and helped me. You did for me the impossible, and even when I thought, we all thought, that I'm just a computer program, I felt something special for you. I felt hope whenever I heard your voice. I felt warmth when I saw your smile. You realy made me feel like an angel..." She said. We both blushed. She paused for a few moments "Jeremie, I..."

"I love you too Aelita." I said. I finally said it. She got surprised by my answer and blushed even more. I took her hand. Now that I know how she feels for me, truely, I'm less nervous. She got closer to me. our noses almost touched each other.

"Jeremie?"

"Yeah?"

"Are we going to kiss now?"

"I don't know, do you want us to kiss?"

"And you?"

"I..." I mumbled. We were silent for a moment. Afterwards we started to ger closer to each other and... We kissed. This kiss was much more diferent than all the other kisses we have ever had. It was more alive. It was more like a dream to me. It was more... More real. We separated from the kiss and looked at each other. Aelita smiled a wide smile. towards me.

"We should speak more often..." She said and we laughed.

Chapter 28

Yumi's POV

We ran to Jeremie's and William's dorm. The door was closed and Odd stood in front of it, with a wide smile.

"Odd! We figured out what the attack is!" I called.

"I have bigger news. I just caught Jeremie and Aelita kissing!" He called and his smile became wider.

"Really?! Huh, finally..." William mumbled.

"Focus guys!" I called. Ulrich came along.

"Yumi?"

"Ulrich! Einstein and Princess just smooched on his bed!" Odd called.

"Finally... It took them a pretty long time..."

"GUYS FOCUS!" I called. Jeremie and Aelita got out of the room.

"Hey, what are you all doing here?" Jeremie asked.

"There's a specter of William on the train. That's the Xanna attack! It kissed me so I'd create a big fight in the group!" I called. They all looked at me with their mouths open.

"Just like when there was a polymorphic specter in Kadic!"

"Yeah but it was different! That time Xana only kissed people! This time the specter was so... so human! Xana improved his specters! It's almost impossible to tell the difference!" I called.

"That's bad. It means Xana can fool us easily this time." Aelita said.

"And what if this specter is a polymorphic specter? It can pretend to be anyone!" Ulrich called.

"And what if one of us now is a polymorphic specter?" Jeremie asked. We all freezed.

"We have to ask each other questions. That only the real us will know the answer." Aelita added.

"Who wants to be first?" William asked.

"I do! I do! Okay, Yumi. Is Xana a good kisser?" Odd asked and smiled his wide smile. I slapped him in the head.

"Ouch!"

"You're not funny!" I called.

"Yeah, that's Yumi." Odd said. "Yumi now you ask a question."

"Okay. Jeremie. What's your sister's name?"

"Since when do I have a sister?" Jeremie asked.

"That's him. Now ask."

"Okay. William, Where did Xana keep you when you were posessed?"

"That's one of the things I don't remember. Nice try."

"Good." Jeremie said.

"Aelita." William started "What is your last name?"

"I have a few. In kadic, I'm Aelita Stones, in the Ishiyama residence I'm Aelita to my father's name I'm Aelita Hopper, but according to my mother's name I'm Aelita Schaeffer."

"It's her, no one can talk so much about a simple thing like a family name except Aelita." Odd stated.

"Now, Odd. How many girls in your class have you gone out with?" Aelita smiled.

"Not fair! It would take me ages to say their names! I dated every girl in our class except you, Aelita! But we did kiss so... is that considered?"

"You kissed Aelita? When?" William asked.

"Long story. It was kind of a prank on Nicolas and Herb..." He said.

"Don't remind me that..." Jeremie mumbled. We all laughed a little.

"That's Odd." Aelita confirmed.

"Wait wait wait... So is that considered a date?"

"No!" Aelita called.

"Okay." Odd said and winked at Jeremie. "Last but not least- Ulrich. What's the name of the person you like?" He asked and smiled his wide smile again. Ulrich also slapped him in the head. "Ouch! Why do I always get hit?!"

"Because your questions are rude!" Ulrich called.

"You're worse than the krabs..." He mumbled.

"Okay listen, we need a code word so we know who's the real Lyoko Warriors. The code Word is..." Jeremie said and we got close to him. He whispered really quietly in our ears "Infirmary" Odd bursted into laughter.

"That's great Einstein!" He called.

William's POV

"So... how was the kiss?"

"What?"

"The kiss. With Aelita."

"How do you know about that?" Jeremie asked, blushing neon red.

"Odd saw you. How was it?"

"Good..." He mumbled.

"See? I told you to trust my instincts!" I called. Yumi then came in.

"Jeremie, can I have William for a second?" She asked.

"Uh, sure. I'll go check on Aelita." He said, still blushing. He walked out of the room and closed the door behind him.

"So, what was that thing you wanted to talk to me about?" I asked.

"I just wanted to say that, I'm really sorry the way I behaved towards you. I was so thoughtless and I acted like a big loser..." She said and looked down. I put my hand on her shoulder.

"That's okay. I understand now."

"Friends?"

"Friends." I said. She hugged me really tight, and I enjoyed every second of it. "Hey, let's have an agreement."

"Which?" She asked.

"If something is troubling any of us, we talk about it. We have no secrets. It's a deal?"

"Deal." She said and smiled. I know I'm important for her. That's exactly why she was so dramatic when she was sure I kissed her. That's what matters to me. And I truelly hope I'm important enough to be with her.

Chapter 29

Jeremie's POV

William and Yumi went to that club. Yumi called it an 'apology' party. I just call it a 'slyly William gets what he wants' celebration. There was knocking on the door and Aelita got in.

"Jeremie?"

"Aelita?"

"I couldn't fall asleep... I thought about our... our kiss..." She said.

"Yeah?" I asked. Surprisingly, I was really calm.

"It was really bizarre..." Huh?

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know... I'm just... It's just that... it felt different for me..." She mumbled.

"And...?"

"And I don't know if I can handle with a relationship. We should be like Ulrich and Yumi- just friends." What?!

"But..." I cried quietly. "Wait."

"Don't try to convince me Jeremie, I aready made a decidion."

"No its not that, It's just that..." I got quiet.

"What, Jeremie?"

"What's the code word?" I asked.

"Huh?"

"What is the code word." I repeated.

"Don't you trust me enough Jeremie?" She asked with a sad face.

"Ulrich! Odd! Help!" I yelled. The fake Aelita turned into me and fell on the floor. The boys came to my dorm.

"Jeremie?" Odd asked.

"Two Jeremies." Ulrich said.

"Guys it's the specter!"

"No, I'm the real jeremie! That is the specter!"

"What's the code word?" Odd asked.

"Infirmary."

"Hey, how did Xana discover our code?! Listen to me, I'm the real Jeremie! Xana is sneaky! he probably listened to our chat earlier!"

"Okay, that didn't work..."

"Look at it! It wears my PJ! Since when am I going to sleep?!"

"Since I can't control the train! I'm nervous only when I'm able to change something!"

"He's the one." Aelita said, getting to my room. She pointed on me. "He told me earlier that when he can't control time he's not nervous. I believe this one."

"I agree." Odd said.

"Me too." Ulrich agreed. The specter turned into smoke and disappeared.

"Wow, Thanks Aelita..." I said.

Sam's POV

"Jim!" I called.

"Knight! What are you doing up so late in the woods?!" Jim yelled at me.

"I just saw Jeremie and his gang!"

"Really? Where?!"

"They told me to go here and then they sid they are pulling a prank on you and that they need water! I went to take some bottles but they disappeared! They said they'd come back on the last day of the trip!"

"Okay Samantha. Go back to your dorm. I'll handle this." He said. I went back to my room and sent Odd a message: 'problem solved. Good night Odd. I miss you.'

Odd's POV

"We're here! We're finally here!" I called when the train driver announced that in a half an hour we'll get to our destination.

"We need to pack out stuff." Ulrich announced.

"You mean you haven't done that yet?"

"Wait, you already packed your stuff?"

"Yeah. You should hurry up... Half an hour is not much time..." I mumbled. I got Sam's text last night. It's great that I have such a great girlfriend.

Half an hour later, Ulrich sat on his laguage which was totally packed up. We went to Einstein's and Romeo's room. They were ready either. A fex minutes afterwards the girls joined us. When the train got to the station, Jeremie ran towards the exit from the station and got us a taxi to the academy. We threw our stuff in our rooms and ran towards the factory.

"Hey sis!" Hiroki called from behind us. Oh no... "Aren't you supposed to be in Italy?"

"Not now, Hiroki!" Yumi called.

"Do you mind if I told the principle about this?"

"Hiroki you mustn't!"

"Than what are you doing here?!"

"Go on. I'll explain everything to him. You have to deactivate the tower." Ulrich mumbled and went to Hiroki. "Hiroki, let me explain." He started and we ran away. We got to the factory really fast.

"Jeremie, virtualise us." Aelita commaded.

"Just a second. I'm gonna activate my new plroject on which I worked on the train."

"Really? What's that?" I asked.

"You'll see when you get to Lyoko." He said. We got to the scanners. "Transfer Odd. Transfer William. Scanner Odd. Scanner William. Virtualisation.

Chapter 30

Aelita's POV

"Transfer Yumi. Taransfer Aelita. Scanner Aelita. Scanner Yumi. Virtualization." We heard Jeremie and saw the flash of white light in the scanners. I closed my eyes.

We got to Lyoko.

"Wow!" Odd was calling and jumping of joy.

"Oh my gosh!" Yumi called "Jeremie, these are beautiful!"

"You like it?" Jeremie said and I knew he was smiling.

"Look at me! I'm really cool!" William called.

"Jeremie... These new outfits are so cool!" I called and looked at my virtual body.

"And I just Love this combination of my old outfit and my Xana outfit!" William called, rally enjoying his new look.

"Guys, if you haven't noticed, I used the latest resolution. Aelita try to open your wings!" He called and I opened my wings. They ere much more beautiful with this resolution.

"Wow!" I called. "Jeremie, you are the best!"

"Thank you." He said. "But we haven't got here to talk about the outfits. Let's take care of the tower. He said. We got our vehicles and in a blink of an eye we were on our way to the tower. When we got closer to the tower, there were 5 bloks guarding it and 2 crabs.

"Xana sent us a really big welcoming commity." Yumi said.

"No problem, Yumi and I will take care of the bloks. Willaim, take care of the krabs and Aelita, be ready to sprint to the tower. Odd said and ran to the bloks. "Yumi! ground and air attack!" He called. Yumi was flying towards the bloks with her overwing. I was flying above to see if there's a place I can pass trough the monsters and get to the tower. Odd killed a blok and William destroyed a krab with his sword. Yumi was attacking a blok and destroying it. After about ten minutes they destroyed all the monsters.

"Wow!" William called. "That was too easy!"

"You're right William. That was too easy." Jeremie mumbled.

"I think it's a trap." Yumi said.

"And I think we didn't get here in order to start wondering. Let's deactivate this tower aready." William said.

"I couldn't agree less. Maybe Xana got weeker. I mean, it didn't even attack us on our way!"

"Our priority now is the tower. Go on." Jeremie said. We started to run towards the tower. There were no monsters in sight. Suddenly Odd got devirtualized by a blok.

"Run to the tower, Aelita!" William shouted. Without looking back I ran to the tower. I entered it.

"Aelita get out of the tower, quick!" Jeremie called.

"What?" I asked.

"Quick! The scyphozoa just got William and Yumi's frosen!" I got out of the tower to help my friends. Yumi was all frozen but her head, and William was caught by the scyphozoa.

"Aelita do something quick! We cannot lose William again!" Yumi yelled. The blok stood in front of me. I shot an energy field at him but I missed.

"Aelita forget about the tower. I don't care if you get devirtualised! Just save William!" Jeremie called. I ran towards the blok. He shot its fire rings. I imitated Yumi and jumped into them using my backflips that I always do in the towers. I passed the rings and jumped on the blok. I shot my energy field at the head of the Scyphozoa and it left William. Yumi was released and the jellyfish escaped. William got up.

"Thanks Princess. I owe you one." He said and smiled. Suddenly a krab shot at me, and William blocked the impact with his sword.

"I didn't think you're gonna rescue me so fast..." I mumbled and ran to the tower again. CODE: LYOKO.

Author's note- Well guys, this is my stop point. I hope you enjoyed!

And by the way- I just thought about it and if you'd like me to, I can tell you what I've planned for the story! I volunteer to write for you a little bit about what I've planned for William and the Scyphozoa and Samantha and Odd… Well anyway I'll be waiting for reviews ;D