A/N: when you see ":" (without the quotation marks) that means that that's someone's dream
Chapter 4: Back at the Dorm
Odd was laying in his bed, asleep. He was dreaming about Aelita. "Ahh..." he sighed in his sleep. "Aelita...Aelita..." In his dream he'd entered Lyoko and was running to Aelita. But something kept blocking his path. He couldn't quite distinquish it yet, but it was something about the size as him. Even so, it was very defensive and obviously did not want him to get through.
: He ran and ran, finally reaching Aelita. "Odd!" she cried out, sounding very terrified of whatever was keeping him from her.
"Aelita!" he yelled. "What's keeping me from you?"
"It's...it's..." she started.
"It's me," the thing finished. The thing stepped out of the shadows. It was Jeremie! Odd's mouth dropped open. "Aelita is my love, and you cannot have her! Just try to get to her!" Jeremie drew out a sword.
"Aelita!" he screamed.
"Odd!" she screamed in reply. "Look out!" Jeremie through his sword at Odd, piercing through his virtual self. Odd keeled over and knelt on the desert sand of Lyoko. He thought he heard Aelita crying.
"I love you, Aelita," he breathed, before he died. Aelita's cries still echoed... :
"Odd, wake up!" Ulrich shook Odd's shoulders. He'd returned from Yumi's house just then to hear Odd screaming Aelita's name. Odd jerked awake at Ulrich yelling in his ear.
"Aelita..." he sighed to himself, then blushed. "I mean, what are you doing waking me up in the middle of the night?"
"You were having a bad dream," Ulrich tried to explain. "Although I'm wondering about why you screamed Aelita's name, then said you loved her..." He looked at Odd's face. A stray tear slipped down his face. "Now you're crying..care to explain all of this?"
Odd sighed to himself. "I've been secretly in love with Aelita ever since the first day we found Lyoko," Ulrich's eyes widened slightly, but Odd simply continued. "When I found out that Jeremie had affections for her, I didn't want to start an argument and possibly a battle over her heart or something, so I kept it a secret. I started going out with Sam because she and Aelita have very similar eyes. Gosh, I love Aelita's eyes...but then it turns out that Sam was cheating on me with Theo. Also, Jeremie says that tomorrow he's going to tell Aelita that he loves her, seeing as the materialization is almost ready. I really don't want to get hurt again, but I just can't spring this on Jeremie, even though we've both known her just as long as the other..." Odd went on and on, all the time Ulrich patiently listened to him.
At around 3 o'clock Odd got finished with his rambling and started to cry again. "C'mon, Odd," Ulrich said. "First Yumi, now you...but I'm definitely not hugging you!"
"You hugged Yumi?" Odd's tears stopped, now he was interested in what had happened that evening. "What else did you do?" He wiggled his eyebrows.
"You're strange, Odd," Ulrich said to him.
"Fine, fine, but what happened?" Odd asked him, sounding very interesting in his explanation.
"I went to Yumi's house to apologize like I'd been advised to do. Ms. Ishiyama said that Yumi wasn't there and that they didn't know were she was. I found her and she was crying. She said that she was going through a confusing time, or something. Then we sat and talked a while. I hugged Yumi and convinced her to stop crying."
"That all?" Odd interrupted.
"Well..." A smile came to Ulrich's face.
"You kissed her!" Odd assumed.
"Well, yes, but there's something even better."
"What's better than you kissing her?"
"She kissed me," He grinned. "I brought her to her house, then she ran right in the rain and kissed me on the cheek."
"Awww!" Odd sighed, causing Ulrich to blush. "So sweet..." I just knew they'd get together someday! He sat there with a dazed look on his face until Ulrich snapped in front of his face. "What huh? Oh hey, Ulrich! What's up?"
Ulrich shook his head at his oddfriend (hehe I just hadta put that in hehe!). Then he glanced at the clock. "Well, it's 3:15. What do you wanna do now?" Ulrich asked him.
Odd yawned. "Go back to bed."
Ulrich couldn't resist, "Yeah, so you can dream about Aelita." Odd blushed a deep red. Ulrich's sides split with laughter. He just couldn't contain himself.
"Shut up, do you wanna wake up everyone in the dorm?"
"Oh so you don't think your crying did already?"
"Heh," Odd sighed, pulling the covers of his bed back over his head. Ulrich got off of Odd's bed and into his own. Pulling the covers over himself, he played back the events of that night through his mind.
She kissed me! She really kissed me! And I had the courage to kiss her! Wow...Ahh, I love her so much...but when to tell her? Hmm... He drifted off to sleep, still pondering how exactly he'd confess his love now.
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Sorry I haven't updated in a while, guys! I've been so busy with the research paper assignment at school, plus talent show try-outs and rehearsals. I promise I'll work harder to update once school lets out on June 8th. Well, I'll see y'all later, heh. Please review!