"How can she mom?" Yumi asked, "The doctors said she'll be blind for the rest of her life!"
"You have to understand one thing Yumi, even if she never sees again, she will still have so much, she still has her life"
"Yeah, mom I guess you're right" Yumi's breathing was in ragged gasps from her crying. She again wiped her tears, she knew that she wasn't going to get much sleep either, no one knew how good that place was, nor what was about to come up and turn everything they thought they knew upside down.
Jeremy sat behind Aelita, his arms around her waist and she lay back against him.
"Jeremy, I know that things will probably be very hard for me for a while, but I get the feeling that things will get better" Aelita said a smile on her face, it was like her heart knew that things were going to turn out good.
"I think so too" Jeremy replied.
He hoped that Aelita would be able to handle this, she was still getting used to the senses of touch and taste and smell. He watched as her eyes drifted closed as she fell asleep against his shoulder. If they had a heart they'd postpone her move until the next morning so they didn't have to wake her, he laid her down on the bed to sleep and she woke. She had realized he was leaving and wasn't truly ready to say good-bye to him and he wasn't ready for her to leave.
"Jeremy" she said
"Yes, Aelita?"
"Please, stay here?"
"Aelita, I can't, I have to go back to my room"
"No, Jeremy, not tonight" a voice said
Jeremy looked back to see the principal standing there.
"But sir, what do you mean?" Jeremy asked
The principal walked up to Jeremy and Aelita.
"Jeremy, this world now seems strange to her and tonight is especially difficult unable to truly understand what's going on, feeling alone and isolated…" the principal paused and looked at Jeremy and then Aelita.
"I believe it's best she stayed with someone she trust, and there is no one on this campus that she trust more than you Jeremy. I've watched you two together and so has Jim and Ms. Hertz and we've all made the same observation that there has to be a lot more than a mere friendship between you two"
Jeremy suddenly seemed to have invented a new shade of red to blush too, were they that obvious?
"I take it by that response that you like her" the principal smiled calmly "you stay here tonight, Jeremy" the principal started to leave. He stopped and looked over his shoulder at Jeremy "Oh… and Jeremy, I want you to ride with her tomorrow morning, if that's okay with you" he smiled, "I'd be much more comfortable if I knew that there was someone she knew riding with her"
"Sure, that's fine" Jeremy replied and then sat on Aelita's bed again, she was sitting up a smile on her face and even thought she couldn't see it, she knew that he was smiling too.
Odd looked at Samantha and sighed as they walked, he felt bad for everything that had happened that day, if he'd tried that area the first time around he would have saved Aelita the torture that she'd gone through losing her sight.
"Odd, is there something wrong?" Sam asked
"No Sam, I'm fine"
Samantha had just about had it with Odd's denying that there was anything wrong when she knew that there was something wrong and she was going to get to the bottom of it. She stepped in front of Odd, cutting him off.
"Listen Odd, I know there's something wrong, it's not like you to mope around for no reason" Sam said
"Yeah Sam, there is something wrong" Odd finally admitted "I feel real bad for Jeremy, his girlfriend is having to change schools"
"Oh, but that can't be the whole story, Odd, you and I both know you don't get this depressed over just that."
"True, because she's not getting transferred for just any reason, she was blinded earlier today"
"What!?!" Sam exclaimed, "Do I know her?"
"I did introduce you to Aelita, didn't I?"
"You did,"Samantha paused for a moment in confusion, then it hit herlike a ton of bricks "it was her, she was the one?"
"Yes, Sam, it was her"
"Oh my gosh, wait till I get my hands on whoever hurt her"
"Well, you're going to have to get in line on that one" Odd chuckled "Ulrich got first dibs and Yumi's gonna want to get her share of him too"
Sam laughed, that was the Odd she knew and loved, crazy as a loon and not afraid to admit it.
Ulrich looked at the ceiling of his room as he lay on his bed.
'Why did things have to go so wrong?' he thought miserably 'If we'd thought to look in that particular location, we might have been able to save her eyesight and maybe her chance at a normal life'
He rolled over to face the wall.
'We'll never know now' he thought.
Soon he was asleep, the thoughts of what to come pushed to the back of his mind.
Jeremy and Aelita lay together in bed that night, (nothing happened, she's still virgin, whole bit). Aelita for the first time since she was blinded felt truly comfortable and felt safe. She slept peacefully in his arms, comfortable in the knowledge that Jeremy's love for her had only strengthened through her vision loss.
To Be Continued…A/n: I know I said it was gonna get better, trust me it will in the next chapter or so.
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