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Chapter 3: A Flashback
Shyla walked into her room, which she shared a girl named Valerie. 'I hate every bit of him, but I can't do anything right now. I can't risk getting any one else killed. Not anymore.'
She walked to her duvet, where she looked in the mirror. 'If he loves my blue hair, then I no longer do!' She took a small bag from under her bed with the words Walgreen's on it. 'It's time for a change anyways'.
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Odd was turned around talking with Jeremy and Odd in their math class when Shyla came in with blue jeans, and a pink and black shirt.
Everyone stood still, mouths opened. Her hair was no longer blue, but black making her look like a completely different person, especially with the drastic change of clothes too! Not only that but she no longer wore the facial piercings! She was pretty before but now it was like looking at a Goddess.
She headed toward the empty seat next to Odd.
"Wow what did you do to yourself?" asked Odd mesmerized by the beauty before him.
"Nothing. I just thought it was time for a nice change."
"Well what a wonderful change it was," said Odd back, blushing at his daring comment.
As the class went by Odd and Shyla kept exchanging looks with each other, each time blushing. Odd had liked her since she first got there two weeks before, and he felt that she felt the same way about him.
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"So your aunt and uncle decided that you should stay in the school all the time. Why would they all of the sudden not want you around?" asked Odd surprised that Shyla was staying in school grounds at all times.
"I'm kind of a trouble maker. I used to get in a lot of trouble in all my other schools. I don't think anyone would want someone like me around, especially if they are not their real kids"
"What do you mean? I know you don't live with your mom and dad, but I figured they must have been traveling. I mean you did that a lot when you were with them."
"Well they aren't. And we certainly did travel around."
"Where are they then? If it's ok with me asking, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"They died in a car accident 4 months ago," Shyla answered while looking up at the sky.
"Oh, I'm sorry," said Odd looking at her sadly and ashamed for asking her to begin with.
"It's ok, you didn't kill them did you?" she said with a sad smile as she looked at him in the eyes.
"What of course NOT!!" Odd said defensively.
"I was just kidding, calm down. You don't have to apologize unless you did. Now come on lets not talk about that now. Lets finish our snacks before breaks over," she said wiping her eyes of tears that had not being shed yet.
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"Did you have fun talking to your girlfriend Odd?" asked Yumi smiling at her friend.
Odd smiled back and said, "she's not my girlfriend! And I did have fun."
"But it looks like you have some competition," commented Jeremy.
"Yeah, Suichi seems to have his eyes on her too," said Yumi in agreement with Jeremy.
Odd remembered the day before and how he had noticed him trying to kiss her and what seem to him as smelling her hair. His friends kept talking and he decided to put that aside.
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"Why would you do that to you hair?"
"You ruined the old color for me," answered Shyla flatly.
"You do it to hurt me. I also have feelings you know."
"I forget, just 5 months ago you were still but a program who knew not of what feelings were."
"And just 5 months ago you were a desperate girl who wanted to get rich! I can't believe someone as gorgeous as you would be so computer smart!" said Suichi into Shyla's face with his stupid cocky grin.
"I can't believe I ever believed you! You said you would make my parents and me rich, but none of it happened!"
"It was your own stupidity for listening in the first place! I never forced you! You did it on your own free will!"
"I didn't know what I got myself into! You made me come here with no family left! To take dead bodies away from orphanages and sneaking around at night like some criminal!"
"Oh don't forget the stealing and the lying!"
"I can't believe I virtualized him for you. You shouldn't have lied to me like you did XANA; maybe I wouldn't be so bitter if you hadn't done all you did… especially in such short time."
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Flashback
Shyla had being sneaking around computer system codes when she had discovered a world named Lyoko. It looked a lot like a game to her. She went in and messed around with it, and then she found a XANA character who wrote her things.
Eventually he convinced her that he could make her rich and give her anything else that she should want. She hadn't known any better and agreed to help him get out of the game. There was a materialization program some kid had invented, but that was in France. She needed to head there and get it. Her parents thought she was going on a trip to visit her only aunt who lived there.
When she finally arrived in France, he had given her the next set of instructions. She needed to get a near to death body for him to get into. Someone no one would miss. She had been hesitant, but he had assured her that nothing would happen to the person she brought. She didn't know what he planned to do with the body, so she went to an orphanage where many of the children where sick with some virus that was deadly. She stole the body of a boy, who in the records showed, had been found in the streets. No name, no family, nothing had been found on him.
XANA told her to bring the boy to some abandoned factory immediately. The elevator there led her to a computer room with the biggest computer she had ever seen. She didn't even have to search for Lyoko for hours like she usually did, instead she had to type in the codes for her to be able to talk to XANA. He told her to head into the elevator and go to the last floor with the body. Three scanners were opened and she put the body into one. She headed back up to the computer room; it had taken her awhile to figure out the system but had done it. After she had virtualized the body XANA told her to stay there while he worked on his plan. Once he had taken over the body he told her there was a materialization disk in the computer. The kid was planning on using it the next day to transport some girl out of Lyoko too. XANA told her to use it to get him out.
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"Like I said it was you stupidity that led you to do it all!"
"Well I'm young I make mistakes."
"You are fifteen, that's not so young, if you get my meaning," he said winking.
Shyla got up angry, about to leave Suichi behind to eat his lunch alone, but he knew her to well and got up in time to hold her back.
"And stay away from that Odd kid," he whispered in her ear. "I wouldn't want to hurt him". He let her go off storming mad.
As she was heading for her room, she noticed Odd standing in front of her door. "What's up Odd?" she said putting on the mask of happiness again.
"I wanted to talk to you."
"About what? Is there something wrong?"
"No, I mean about you and me."
"what about is?"
"Well I hope you like me like I like you. Um… I would really like to be your boyfriend… and um…"
"Oh Odd I'm sorry but I…" she found it difficult to lie to him about her feelings for him. " I don't feel like that for you. I'm sorry I led you to think other wise. I would like to get to know you more as one of my friends, some one I can tell my secrets too". It broke her heart to see him so upset, but she didn't want him hurt or dead.
"Oh… I'm sorry too. I just made a total fool of myself."
"No Odd it was good for you to talk about how you felt. It's what I need to do. Come in with me," she invited him with her hand into her room.
She told him to sit on her bed as she took out a picture from under her pillow. She stood still for a moment looking at it, her eyes watering. Shyla handed the picture to Odd. It was a blonde hair woman hugging a brown haired man, both young.
"My mother and father. Look I'll tell you what happened with them. I need to tell somebody, and you seem trust worthy," she said as she looked at her opened palms.
A/N: Ok this was kinda bad, I know don't tell me, but I'm just not so great with flashbacks!! And I was trying hard not to make it disgusting! But please review me… And thank you all for the nice reviews so far. OH by the way how did it make you feel that he has been materialized for 5 months now, when they've just gotten there 2 weeks ago?