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Ch. 3—A little too late

"So Aelita," Jeremy began. "How do you like Earth?"

"Its amazing! Feeling the warmth all over my body feels so wonderful. And the colors of the sunset, oh, I love it!"

"Yeah that's true. I guess having lived here my whole life (no duh) has made me a little less appreciative."

"Hey Jeremy?"

"Yeah Aelita??"

"Can you define 'love' for me?"

Jeremy blushed. He had a feeling he knew where this was going.

"Uh, well, its...actually quite complicating. Love, starts out as friendship. As things happen in life, things happen to the level at which you see your friends. First, there's the point where you help each other out in times of need. That's considered 'friendship'. Then comes a time when the 'friendship' withstands a lot of troubled times and hardships. At the end of this stage, friends hold stronger bonds. Finally, the true feelings felt for one-another might be realized, or maybe even confused. In a struggle to keep emotions to oneself, one might end up spilling the beans, and then its either, 'hey I love you too', or 'hey you're crazy.'"

Aelita giggled.

Jeremy looked at her with a smile. "Now if it was two friends with the same gender..."

At Odd's and Ulrich's
Ulrich: "Care to explain why you've been on the computer a lot lately?"

Yumi: "Yeah, whats the deal?"

Odd: "Uh, well I...I don't need to explain everything, okay?"

Yumi: "Geez Odd. If that's how you really feel about it, we'll just leave you alone then."

Odd: "No...wait I –

Jeremy ran into the room. Jeremy: "Guys, Xana's launched another attack! We should get to the factory immediately!"

Ulrich: "Wait, where's Aelita?"

Jeremy: "She had to use the bathroom. Come on, lets go!"

Yumi: "Jeremy are you sure there's an attack? There hasn't been anything unusual happening around here yet. And Aelita's here with us! She isn't in Lyoko where she could tell us there are pulsations!"

Jeremy: "That's why we need to go to the factory right now, so Aelita can tell us if there is an attack!"

Odd: "Jeremy's right. Lets just go."

Jeremy: "Good. Yumi, you wait here for Aelita, we'll head on first."

Yumi: "Right."

Meanwhile in the girl's bathroom
Aelita had just finished using the restrooms. She went to the sink to turn it on. Instead of water, out came a grayish-black smoke.

"Wh-what? What's this?!"

The black smoke now surrounded Aelita, and before Aelita could retreat and run, the smoke had already dissolved into her skin.

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