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Chapter Three – Shadows are Painful

The next morning Odd and Ulrich snuck into Jeremies room, Odd pulled back his covers to find... absolutely nothing? "What the...? Where's Jeremie?" Ulrich turned around to Odd, "Don't look at me dude, the last time I saw him was when... he walked... Aelita... home..." His words came to a halt as they raced towards the door...

Lying at the entrance to the school was a beaten-up Jeremie, "Oh my..." Ulrich and Odd just stared, Jeremie had a swollen-up bruise above his right eye and had a cut running from the very bottom of his other eye down his cheek. His arm was twisted weirdly and one of his trouser legs had been completely ripped off, his clothes were wet, muddy and torn and he had three huge claw marks down his back...

Ulrich slowly kneeled down beside Jeremie and spun around sharply, "ODD GET AN AMBULANCE HURRY!" Odd fumbled his hands to grab his phone, "Ambulance please! We're at Kadic college, my friend has been beaten up pretty badly! PLEASE HURRY!" Yumi and Aelita walked over to the three, "Hey guys, what's with all the shout-" Yumi cut herself off when she saw Jeremie, Aelita screamed in horror and knelt down behind him.

"JEREMIE!" She began to cry as the Ambulance came and put him on a stretcher and lifted him into the Ambulance, Aelita jumped in first and the others got in afterwards.

At the hospital Jeremie was rushed into the hospital, a doctor checked him over and he was put on a hospital bed in a lone room, the doctor came out and said they could enter, Aelita rushed in again before the others, she sat down on a seat beside his bed.

She stared at him with tears in her eyes, "Oh Jeremie, what happened to you?" She cried on his bedsheet. Yumi checked her watch about an hour later and saw it was getting on 10:30am. "Guys I gotta go, schools up." Odd and Ulrich left too. Leaving Aelita with Jeremie.

Jeremie began to open his eyes to see Aelita next to him, "Aelita...?" "Jeremie?" She lifted her head for a little while to see if he was awake, "Jeremie!" She buried her head in his covers to cry again for a few minutes, he stroked her hair to comfort her, "Aelita, I'm ok." He said slowly, "Jeremie, what happened?" "I...I..." He stopped and took a deep breath, "This is how it happened..."

"I was going back to school after walking you home. All of a sudden a shadow leapt forth and began to attack me." "But Jeremie, I thought shadows had no physical form, how could it do this to you?" "I don't know Aelita but after it hit me above the eye everything went black and I woke up here."

Aelita began to cry again, "Princess what's wrong?" "I just hate seeing you like this, all beat up and everything. Who could be so merciless to do this to you? Who could be so relentless to inflict so much pain to you?" Jeremie closed his eyes and breathed deeply again. "Ah, here you are." Said a doctor walking into Jeremie's room.

"You have many major wounds and seem to have a broken arm. You also have lost a lot of blood. Fortunately you will survive." "You sure?" Aelita asked the doctor, "I'm sure." He said shortly before walking out of the room.

"Aelita you'd better get to school. You don't want to be late." "But Jeremie, what if you get worse? What if you..." She paused as a single tear dropped from her eye. "Princess I'll be fine... I promise." He leaned towards her, seeing what he was trying to do she leaned in towards him so he wouldn't have to sit up and kissed him for a couple of seconds, "Ok Jeremie, I'll head for school, but if anything happens I'm coming straight here." She got up and headed for school.

When she approached the gates she noticed she'd forgot her bag. It had been left out and it had started to rain. He backpack was muddy and wet.

She stepped into her current class and took her seat, the teacher called her over and spoke to her privately, "Yumi informed the principal about Jeremie, he told all the staff so if at any time you need to leave the lesson you may."

Aelita nodded to the teacher and took her seat. The bell rung a couple of minutes later, "Ok! Lunch time everybody!" Aelita slowly got up and walked to the door, I hope he's alright...

She shortly met up with Odd, Ulrich and Yumi, they took their seats by a window and they all began to eat lunch. Some things never change, Odd ate too much again and rushed to the bathroom. "Hey, what happened to the other loser?" Sissy asked harshly. "In his room playing with his little games I suppose." She walked off, Aelita felt an emotion she had never known she'd feel; anger...

Yumi hugged her for support, "Aelita are you ok?" "Yeah, I'm fine..." She said quietly. In reality she was depressed beyond all means. Jeremie was in the hospital, Her bag was all dirty, and Sissy was really starting to get her ticked.

Then what she feared would happen, happened. Yumi's phone rang, "Something bad happened to Jeremie. We have to get to the hospital now!"

OOOOOO! What happened to Jeremie? I'm evil, Cliff hangers are really my style! Please R&R!