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Alrighty, then, this chapter is going to partly explain Odd…Thank you for the reviews!

Falling off the edge

He sat and stared out the glaring orange light, trying to get a glimpse of something other than the ugly tint. He sighed and shifted his right foot slightly, as it had fallen asleep. Suddenly, pain shot through his arms and he cried out in pain.

"Had enough?" the voice came from above. He felt a tear streak down his cheek.

"I'll never tell you! Never betray her! Never!" he yelled, ignoring the pain lancing through his arm.

"Really? Hmmm…" the pain got worse. He winced.

"Now?" it asked again. He gritted his teeth.

"I told you, never!" he screamed. It went up another notch.

"You, my dear cat boy, are going to tell me just how to break her heart. It will just take time. Now," he muttered, "you will tell me how to do it, or you will die."

Yumi stepped outside slowly, savoring the cool night air. A slight breeze flipped her hair out behind her. She sighed slightly, but then remembered the reason she was there in the first place. She ran for the door of the new girls' dorms and managed to reach the third floor within thirty seconds. She sprinted down the hallway and slid to a stop outside Meg's door. She started to reach for the doorknob but changed her mind.

"Meg…Meg, are you there?" she asked. A sob came from the room.

"Go away!" the heartbroken girl's voice yelled. Yumi tried the doorknob. It was locked.

"Meg, don't be like this! Whatever it is, we can fix it together! Just tell me what happened! Please?" she begged. There was a sniffing noise from the room.

"Look, Yumi…I just need some time alone…All right?" she asked, her voice sounding at least partly awake.

"All right…Fine. But please come out in the morning?"

"Fine."

"No, I want you to promise me…On your honor as a Lyoko fighter, you have to promise me you'll get up again in the morning. Well, promise!" she urged. Meg sighed and leaned against the door on the other side of Yumi.

"I promise, on my honor as a Lyoko fighter, that I will get up tomorrow morning. Happy now?"

"Yeah. I'm gonna go back to the dance thingy now. And Meg?" she began.

"What?" Meg asked her, her voice starting to get annoyed.

"You'll be all right. Me, Jeremie, Aelita, Ulrich and Odd will make sure of that." After a few seconds of silence, Yumi walked back down the hallway. On her side of the door, Meg began crying again. She slid down the wall to the floor, her face etched in pain.

"Why…h, why…" she whispered to herself in the half-darkness…

Linden finally sat after one of the fastest dances she'd ever done. The DJ got on the mike and started talking.

"All right, y'all, this right here is the last dance, so y'all had better get your partners and start dancing…Here's your slow dance!" slow music started up and Linden shrugged and grabbed a drink off the table.

"Not going to dance with your new friend?" a voice asked behind her. She jumped but then realized who it was.

"Oh…Hey, Jessie. How's it going?" she asked, leaning back in her chair a little.

"Fine…Just fine. And you?" he asked, leaning a little closer to her. She blushed and scooted her chair back slightly.

"Fine. I was just wondering where Meg went…"

"Cool. Can you believe the dance is almost over? Crazy, huh?" he asked. Linden nodded.

"Totally." They sat in silence for a few seconds.

"So…um…How many sisters do you have?"

"I have three sisters. Meg, Jordan and Bella."

"Cool," he replied. More silence.

"How about you? Do you have any siblings?"

"Nope. I'm an only child, but I guess that makes it easier on me, you know?"

"Yeah. Having sisters can be a real hassle some times. Especially when I don't have any parents to really lay down the law, you know? But it can be fun sometimes." She told him. He was struck. He hadn't known she didn't have any parents.

"I'm…I'm sorry. What happened to your parents?" Linden stared down in her lap and realized she was ripping a napkin to shreds. She twisted her hands together and shrugged.

"Meg won't tell me. I don't want to ask Jordan and…something tells me Bella doesn't know."

"Oh…I'm sorry." He muttered. Linden made a face and stood.

"Don't be. It's not your problem." She walked away, leaving Jessie staring at her as she walked away.

"Lela? Lily? Miranda? Come on, Aelita, throw me a bone here!" Jeremie complained. Aelita grinned and kissed him on the cheek.

"Poor Jeremie, you have to cater to me now…I just want her name to be perfect. You know?" she asked. Jeremie nodded slowly and sighed.

"Hmmm…How about Psyche?" he asked. Aelita considered it for a minute and smiled brightly.

"It's perfect, Jeremie!" Jeremie grinned.

Finally…

Chloe sat down back at her seat tiredly. Her feet were just starting to hurt and she was getting tired. She flipped the top of the laptop back open when, suddenly, it started beeping.

Uh-oh, I broke Uncle Jeremie's computer… she thought. A picture of what looked like a computer game popped up. She winced and closed the top. Rolling up the cords and carrying it across the room was simple, but halfway there, she hesitated. She was all right with computers…In fact, they were more like her best friends than normal people were. So she just sighed and set the computer back up. It was still beeping and there was a picture of a big tower-ish thingy on it. She sighed and started typing. Suddenly, a visual popped up on the computer. She jumped and stared at it . There was a purple dot followed by five or six red ones. She typed in some new coordinates, frowning at the screen. Suddenly, another screen popped up to show a boy with dark blue hair staring at her. She jumped and fell off her chair. A few seconds later, she struggled back into her chair.

"Who are you?" she asked. The boy shook his head, a little lock of hair curling over his worried face.

"My…My name…is…" he struggled, looking like he was going to faint.

"Woah! Take it easy, you look like you're gonna die or something…" she told him, inching closer to the computer screen. The music behind her was making her head pound. She unhooked the cord and ran outside where she found another plug. She hooked it back up and stared at the face again.

"They're…they're coming…I…need…help…please help…me…" his face creased with worry and his knees buckled, dropping him on the ground. She winced.

"Is there any way I can help? Anything? Where are you?" she began. His breathing began to slow.

"I'm…In Lyoko."