All right, here's another chapter. I know, I know…I haven't updated in forever. I'll try and make it long-ish. Don't hate me, please!
I don't own 'Fallen through' or 'Just want you to know', aight?
Oh, and, by the way, I'm going to write another book after this…Called 'Just like Fear'. It's gonna be about Linden mainly…You'll see then!
The second song
Meg yawned tiredly and stretched her arms over her head as she stood in her small, childish dorm room. Sun shone through the small cracks in the window shades, lighting up the small room brightly. In the bed next to her, her little sister, Linden slept soundly. She grinned and ruffled Linden's hair. Her little sister jumped up sleepily and stared at Meg with bleary eyes.
"Wha…? Wha's goin' on? Did the killer marshmallows come back…?" Meg stared at her blankly for a second and started laughing hysterically. Linden blinked at her and realized what she said, so she started laughing, too. Still giggling, they headed for the bathroom. Fifteen minutes later, they stepped out and walked back to their room in robes…
And, an hour later, they walked out of their rooms, their outfits planned to the smallest detail.
Linden had a black, short skirt and an electric blue spaghetti-strap shirt. She had high-heel sandals and her hair was swept up and over her face.
Meg was wearing a bright red peasant shirt and a black floor-length skirt. She had her hair up in a bow and away from her forehead and was carrying a guitar case. They were talking and laughing and you'd only know Meg was upset of you could see the way her forehead creased and her fingernails digging into her palm. Linden didn't notice, as she was far too preoccupied with her own thoughts.
"Meg!" Aelita called from behind them, "Wait for me!" They turned to see her walking toward them and holding her stomach. Meg ran to her.
"Aelita, don't run like that! You'll hurt the baby!" Aelita grinned sheepishly.
"I was just trying to catch up…Next time I'll just yell for you!"
"Hey, Meg, could I please go do something else?" Linden asked. Meg sighed.
"I guess."
"Cool! You're the greatest!"
"You'd better believe it, babe!" Linden laughed and ran off. Yumi walked up.
"How's it going?" Yumi asked them. Meg's face tightened for a second.
"I got up this morning." Yumi looked at her sadly.
"Good. So…Have you seen Odd anywhere?" Meg's eyes started to fill with tears.
"I'll be right back…I have to…Fix my makeup!" she muttered, running away. Yumi watched her leave and sighed.
"Come on, Aelita, we're supposed to meet the boys at the bench…"
Meg wiped her eyes and gripped the sink tightly, getting control of her emotions. She took a deep breath and glanced in the mirror quickly. No, you couldn't tell she'd been crying. She sighed and grabbed her guitar off of the floor quickly, not wanting to miss a chance to talk to her old friends.
Ulrich was standing in front of the old coffee machine and glaring at it so hard, it just might have gone down in flames. Yumi came up behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist. He jumped and turned to look at her. Then he smiled at her and kissed her cheek. She smiled at him happily and kissed him on the lips.
"Hey, you two get a room!" someone yelled from behind them. They turned to see Jessie there, hands in his pockets and a huge grin on his face. Ulrich blushed a little and Yumi laughed at him.
"Are you sure it isn't just jealousy, Jessie?" Ulrich shot back. Now it was Jessie's turn to blush.
"Yeah, cus girls suck!" he answered. Yumi made a face at him.
"Even me?"
"Yup. Just cus you're going out with my uncle doesn't mean you're cool."
"Hey, no dissing my lady!" Ulrich laughed. Yumi punched his arm playfully as Aelita and Jeremie walked up.
"Has anyone seen my laptop?" asked Jeremie, worry creasing his forehead. Aelita had her hand on his arm and looked worried as well.
"No, not at all. Why?"
"It has all of Aelita's information from L-I mean, where she used to live." Aelita started at the mention of Lyoko and looked at Jeremie worriedly. He must be extremely worried to slip up like that-he usually got scared by any sort of mention to her old home and seemed afraid of anyone finding out about it. Unfortunately, no one had an answer for him. They hadn't seen it.
Meg walked up from the girls' new dorm building and waved at them. They all turned and waved back. She smiled a little and jogged up.
"Hey! How's it going, everyone?" she asked, flipping the strap of her guitar off her shoulder and carefully setting it on the ground. Ulrich glanced at it and raised an eyebrow at her.
"What'd you bring that for?" She shrugged and looked at it.
"I was gonna play a song for you guys, if that's all right," she told them softly, staring at the ground.
"Oh, that'd be awesome!" Yumi exclaimed, elbowing Ulrich in the ribs.
"Oof. What'd you do that for?" he complained. Yumi gave him a look and he shut up. Meg kneeled on the ground and undid the locks on her guitar case. She pulled out the guitar and swung the strap over her shoulder. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, starting to strum a simple melody on her guitar.
"I do what he says, but I end up falling off the edge,
I don't know what to do,
It never seems to end up being true.
Seeps in underneath the door,
Sinks in and stings the floor,
I don't know what to feel,
Takes so long for these wounds to heal,
Tell me it's not really real.
Fallen through,
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibis that you said,
Left me holding on, by now,
There's the red.
Stop, stare and watch me burn,
Some day, it'll be your turn,
Can't believe I can see all the things that you don't want me to see.
You threw my heart away,
That's the price that I paid,
I know it's everything,
And you'll always be there,
But you never really cared.
Fallen through,
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibis that you said,
Left me holding on, by now,
There's the red,
Fallen through,
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibis that you said,
Left me holding on, by now,
There's the red,
Fallen through,
Why did I fall for you?
Fallin' for all the lies, alibis that you said,
Left me holding on, by now,
There's the red." she played softly for a few more minutes before hitting the last note. They clapped for her and she held up a hand.
"Hey, I'm not done, yet! I have another one to sing." Aelita laughed a little and she smiled.
"Here it goes,"
"Looking at your picture from when we first met,
You gave me a smile that I could never forget,
And nothing I could do could protect me from you that night,
Wrapped around your finger, always in my mind,
The days were plain 'cus we stayed up all night,
Yeah, you and I were everything, everything today.
I just want you to know that I've been fighting to let you go,
Some days I'll make it through,
But then there's nights that never end,
I wish that I could believe that there's a day you could come back to me,
But, still, I have to say that I would do it all again,
I just want you to know.
All the doors are closing, I'm trying to move ahead,
And, deep inside, I wish it's me instead,
My dreams are empty from the day,
The day you slipped away.
And I just want you to know that I've been fighting to let you go,
Some days I'll make it through,
But then there's nights that never end,
I wish that I could believe that there's a day you could come back to me,
But, still, I have to say that I would do it all again,
I just want you to know,
That, since I lost you, I lost myself,
No, I can't fake it,
There's no one else.
I just want you to know that I've been fighting to let you go,
Some days I'll make it through,
But then there's nights that never end,
I wish that I could believe that there's a day you could come back to me,
But, still, I have to say that I would do it all again,
Just want you to know,
just want you to know that I've been fighting to let you go,
Some days I'll make it through,
But then there's nights that never end,
I wish that I could believe that there's a day you could come back to me,
But, still, I have to say I would do it all again,
Just want you to know…" she stopped her guitar and the group clapped for her enthusiastically. She grinned and took a bow for them. Then she started putting her guitar away. Jessie kneeled next to her.
"Could I help?" she raised an eyebrow at him for a second.
"Sure. Go ahead," she told him. He opened the case for her and watched her put it away.
"Um…So…Where's your sister?" Meg smiled at the back of the case for a second before flipping her hair over her shoulder, hooking the strap of the case over her shoulder and standing up.
"Ah. A secret agenda. I see how it is," Jessie blushed and she smiled a little, "She ran off towards the woods, I have absolutely no idea where she went," almost before she finished speaking, Jessie was off to the woods. She watched him go.
"Young love…" she muttered to herself quietly.
Linden slid under the open manhole quickly and climbed down the ladder. She grabbed one of the skateboards left there and took off down the sewer hallway, ignoring the fact her miniskirt had flown up and was showing…well…pretty much everything. When she reached the other manhole, she straightened it (her skirt) and climbed up quickly. She swung down one of the wires and headed straight for the elevator. She hit the red button and went down to the level she'd been at yesterday-the one with the computers. As the doors opened, however, she had a huge surprise…
A girl was sitting at the computer and a boy was standing beside her.
Meg strolled around the grounds, having left her guitar with Aelita and Jeremie. She shivered suddenly and rubbed her arms as a gust of wind blew her hair back from her face and stole the ribbon from her hair, blowing it down the sidewalk. She chased after it and ran head-first into a tall man. She fell backwards to the ground and rubbed her head.
"Hey! Why don't you move, jerk! I ran straight into you!" she yelled angrily, retrieving her ribbon and standing up. The man stared at her with his mouth open.
"Is that Meghan!" the man asked, sounding amazed. Meg stared at him for a second before answering.
"I'm sorry, do I know you?"
"It's Nicolas! Don't you remember me? I used to hang out with Sissy and Herb." She stared at him, trying to find a resemblance. It finally dawned on her.
"Wait, Nicolas the Idiot Nicolas! You've definitely grown!" He was taller than her now and looked extremely buff. She was shocked.
"Woah," was all she could say. Nicolas grinned at her.
"So, where's the rest of your clique?" he asked her, looking around as if they'd pop out of nowhere. So he obviously hadn't gotten smarter.
"Well, Aelita and Jeremie are trying to think up names…Aelita's pregnant, you know. Yumi and Ulrich went off somewhere to think up plans for their wedding."
"And what about the other one? What's his name…Strange?"
"Odd," she automatically corrected him, "I don't know and, right now, don't care."
"Why? What happened?"
"We had….A fall out."
Linden's mouth dropped open in surprise and the boy and girl turned to look at her. They were both blonde and looked almost exactly alike-probably twins.
"Who are you?"
"What are you doing here?"
"None of your business," they said at the same time. They glared at each other for a few seconds before a voice floated out of the computer.
"What's going on, Chloe?" the girl in the computer seat turned to the screen quickly, a blush staining her cheeks slightly.
"I don't know, Romulin, an unexpected girl just walked in," there was a short pause.
"What does she look like?"
"What?"
"What does she look like?" the girl stared at the screen for a second.
"Um…She has brown hair and green eyes…?"
"Linden?" he called from the computer Linden grinned and walked over o the computer.
"How's it going, Rom?" she asked, walking over to the screen. The twins stared at her.
"How do you know him!" the girl asked her, her voice edgy, almost jealous.
"How about I introduce myself before you start to hate me. Would that be all right?" Linden asked sarcastically. The girl looked stricken by her question.
"Well…I wasn't trying to be rude…" she trailed off, realizing she was lying.
"Good. My name's Linden Ingénue. You two?" she asked, holding her hand out. Chloe stared at her for a second and sighed.
"Chloe Belpois," Chloe told her, shaking her hand. The other boy smiled at her wildly and held out a hand.
"Christopher Belpois, but you can call me Chris. Nice to meet you, Linden."
"Ditto. So…How did you guys find this place?"
"I got into contact with Romulin yesterday…In an S.O.S. call," Chloe replied, turning back to the computer.
"Yes…I found this old factory from my research…Did you know there were people here before me? A girl from here and five people to help her…I can't seem to uncover their names; they've been encoded in the computer so I can't find them. There are also large cylinders in the floor below called 'scanners' that will take you into Lyoko…Where I live. Do you want to try?" he asked calmly. Linden stared at him on the screen.
"Sure…are you sure it's safe?" she asked him, sounding a little unsure. Rom nodded.
"Yes…Of course."
Chris turned to look at her.
"Shall we go together?" he asked, holding his arm out. She grinned and hooked her elbow through his. They climbed into the elevator and descended to the floor below.
Their mouths dropped open as they viewed the scanners.
"Woah, that's some crazy she-it right there…" Chris muttered. A voice floated out from above them.
"All right, you guys, you're supposed to climb into them…Then I'll send you to Lyoko. Don't worry, I know what I'm doing…" Linden shrugged at Chris and climbed into the scanner…
A light lit up and illuminated her face. Wind blew her hair straight up, and she found herself flying…
Then, she landed on a barren, bright ground…
Oooh...Another cliffie! I swear I'll try my hardest to update sooner!