To All: I am open to ideas for a story I can write after this one is finished. When I know what kind of story I want to make, I'll let you know. I'd prefer my next stpry be a Code Lyoko series. Thanks. Enjoy this great chapter!

Chapter 12-Month of Rain

Aelita sat on her bed, looking stoic staring at the wall. She was just trying to get at Yumi, who had been trying to get her on Jeremie's side.

Problem was, she was doing the exact same thing.

Odd and Ulrich wouldn't even talk to them. Jeremie was in constant communication with Yumi, trying to find out things about what the others were doing because they wouldn't talk to him. The group was in chaos.

Aelita stood up. She started toward the door. She heard Yumi take a breath to speak. Before she could say a word, Aelita spun around and snapped, "Shut up!"

Yumi's eyebrows shot up and she frowned, obviously hurt. For some reason, Aelita regretted it though it was what she was aiming for.

She walked out and ambled down the stairs. Hiroki ran after her, having popped out of nowhere. "Hey, what'sa doin'?"

"Go away."

"Man, you're just like my sister!"

He ran off and Aelita arrived in the kitchen. Afternoon sunlight poured in the window, accompanied by a light breeze. Mrs. Ishiyama was reading and drinking tea at the table.

"Oh, hello, dear. Having a good time with Yumi?" she asked.

Aelita was silent for a second.

"Aelita?"

"Sure."

She walked out of the room and went outside. She went to the sidewalk, no scooter, just a pleasant walk to calm her.

She went along, observing the kids on stampedes through their backyards, running through sprinklers, playing tag, or shooting hoops. In some driveways adults and their kids were scrubbing cars, spraying each other with hose water and laughing their heads off.

Aelita found herself having gone half way around the block when the sky got cloudy. The outside activities began to slow or stop. It got cloudier and cloudier as Aelita went all the way around the block and back to the Ishiyama house. She decided against going back inside and instead walked down the street, turning corners here and there, not knowing where she was going.

Before she knew it she was walking downtown. Stores were bustling with shopping people. The streets were crowded with three o'clock traffic. Sidewalks were filled with people and kids on bikes. Aelita fought past them and kept walking.

Way down the busy road was an area a little less businessy and a little more remote. There she saw a dirt road trailing off under a wooden archway with 'Lake Aphrodite Campground' painted on it and into a huge green landscape. She could see a huge blue-gray lake shrouded with swarms of people and a field of countless trailers out past that.

Rain started to fall, very lightly, in a sprinkle from the sky. Soem people left the lake, though many stayed. A boy with wheat colored hair stood on the shore yelling. Lake Aphrodite was close enough that she could hear what he was saying.

"AELITA! HEY!"

He waved frantically. Aelita frowned. It was Jeremie. She piveted around and walked away.

"NO! WAIT, DON'T GO!"

Aelita just quickened her step. As she walked along the rain came down harder. She could hear thunder and when she saw a flash of lightning, then she was alarmed. She turned to go back, but she didn't recognize anything behind her. Uh-oh.

"Uh... oh... I'm lost..."

She whimpered and sighed. It was a remote area. Not many people. And her friends had never told her how to handle it herself if she ever got lost.

She stood and started to silently cry. "Think... Aelita, think..."

Meanwhile in the Ishiyama house, Yumi, Hiroki, and Mr. and Mrs. Ishiyama sat eating dinner in the kitchen. Their parents were concerned Aelita wasn't there, though Yumi and Hiroki were feeling sour and didn't give a flying whoop.

"Yumi," Mr. Ishiyama said, "where is Aelita?"

"Why do I care..." she grumbled under her breath.

"Hmmmmm?" Mr. Ishiyama asked with a stern edge.

"I don't know."

"We're going to go look for her then," Mrs. Ishiyama said. She set down her bowl of noodles and went to the foyer. Everyone watched her.

"Well? Get your raincoats!"

Oh, no! Aelita is lost! How do you find out what happens? Gotta read. I am so evil! I have cliffys and confusing twists everywhere you look! Mwahahahaha!

Next chapter-Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremie all try to find Aelita. Chapter 13-Lost