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Chapter Eight – White is Black

The following day the gang visited Jeremie once again, "Hi you guys! I have some good news, tomorrow morning I will be returning to Kadic!" "That's great Jeremie!" Odd grinned, Aelita hugged Jeremie without thinking and he returned the hug, they let go when they remembered the others were behind them, "A couple of lovebirds eh?" They both blushed bright red, "Now they're a couple of cherries!" Yumi joked as she, Ulrich and Odd broke into laughter.

"Hey you should've seen what she did to Sissy." Odd said between giggles, "She left a bruise right here..." Odd pointed to his right cheek, "She deserved it though, Sissy was insulting all of us. She got what she deserved though..." The other two laughed, Aelita frowned, "Its not like I wanted to hit her though. I had this horrible feeling inside that drove me to hit her." Jeremie smiled, "It's called anger Aelita, it's a common emotion to have but usually you need to try to keep cool."

The following day they returned to school, Jeremie said he wanted to meet Yami to thank him for backing up Aelita, but they didn't see him until lunch time...

"Hey are you Yami?" Jeremie asked, his arm still in a sling, "Yeah, can I help you?" "I just wanted to thank you for helping my friend out yesterday." "Who?" "Aelita? You remember her right?" "Oh yeah, the girl who punched Sissy so hard she flew a meter! I remember her." "Well thank you." "Ah it was nothing, just doing you a favor again." "Well thanks Yami, I'll be see you later." He began to walk away and then stopped. "Wait a sec, what do you mean... again?" "Nothing." Jeremie shrugged and walked off.

Jeremie caught up to the others, "Hey look! This new girl, Awai is really getting a lot of attention." Awai was surrounded by lots of boys, Yumi smiled, "She won't have a hard time finding a date for the dance." "She's really stealing my spotlight." A voice came from behind them, Ulrich nodded, "Yeah she- WHA...?" Sissy was standing behind him, "Before you say anything no I am not here to bug you, I just think there is something weird about that girl..." Aelita glanced towards her friendly and she backed down in fear. "I wonder what's up with her?" Aelita said confused, "She's scared of you!" Odd began to laugh, he'd never seen Sissy so afraid of one of his friends before.

Jeremie turned to Aelita, "Hey um... Aelita?" "Yes Jeremie?" "Speaking of the dance it will be coming up soon and I was wondering if you'd-" "like to go with you? I'd be happy to." Jeremie smiled, Aelita loved seeing him smile, it was so warm and comforting.

The following day Odd actually got up early, he had heard something coming from the dorm next door and shivered in fear, "Who... Who's there?" He got up slowly and poked Ulrich until he was awake, "Ulrich! Ulrich! There's someone just outside and they're making weird noises." "Go back to sleep Odd, it's probably just Sissy trying to freak you out and I must say that she's doing a good job." At this Odd straightened out and crept to the door, Sissy can't scare me! He thought.

He peeked outside and there was what appeared to be a rag floating in mid-air spray painting on the wall. A strange sight unless you saw that it had written: THE PRINCIPAL SUCKS BY ODD.

Odd poked Ulrich until he was awake, "What now Odd?" "Nothing except that there's a rag floating outside spray painting." "Oh great..."

Ulrich and Odd burst through the door, the rag gave a slow roar and began to float away, "AFTER IT!" They ran full pelt towards it and tackled it like a bunch of rugby players. "GOT YOU!" The rag slithered out from under them and disappeared round the corner. By the time the duo had got up it was too late and had vanished.

"Oh he got away!" Odd said sadly, "Now look at all this spray-paint. We got to clear it up before someone finds out and thinks we did it."

Odd ran into the kitchen downstairs, grabbed a bucket of water and two sponges and started cleaning.

When about half of it was off Jim came around the corner and saw the two. "What'd you think you're doing?" "Cleaning off someone's graffiti. Someone tried to frame me but we decided to clean it off." Odd said cleaning off the last bit of his name, "Wait! How do I know it's not your work?" "Because if it was I wouldn't be cleaning it off right now?" "Well... um... yeah I suppose..." "Thank you." Odd said cleaning off the last bit.

At lunchtime the two told the rest of the gang about the floating rag. "Hang on... that sounds a lot like the shadow that attacked me..." "Doubt it. A rag could only do that if it used fabric strengthener." Odd said and began to laugh at his own joke. Jeremie turned to Aelita, "Hey um, I can't wait until the dance on Friday. I was thinking afterwards we could." "Go out somewhere?" Jeremie smiled, he was a bit tired of Aelita finishing his sentences but at the same time he thought it really sweet that she knew him that well.

"Would you want to?" "Sure." Aelita grinned; Jeremie is definitely back to his old self...

Well I'll skip two days forwards to the dance for the next chapter. Please R&R! It's all that keeps my Fanfic alive!