Forward to the Past
Chapter 1 : New Life
A/N: nothing to say, except the story just popped into my mind, and I started typing.
"Ready?" Jeremy asks the rest of his group.
"Uh-uh." They all chime and Aelita nods.
Jeremy takes a deep breathe, and pulls the plug out. They all look at Aelita expectantly, but nothing happened.
"I guess that's it." Odd says half-heartedly. At that moment, the group of friends were lost.
What happened, you ask? About three months after Aelita kissed Jeremy, he found the antidote to cure the virus. And finally shut down Xana. The bad news? Odd's parents were moving to Manhattan, New York, and wanted Odd there with them. Ulrich was moving to Los Angeles, California for the same reason. Yumi was moving to Japan, but not for the same reason as her two friends. Her parent's were murdered, and she was moving to a home in Tokyo, Japan where she was adopted. Jeremy? Aelita? Those two lovebirds were staying right in France at the Academy. Anyways, back to the story.
Jeremy and Aelita bid goodbye to their friends as the taxi cab drove off the curb. All three friends were in the taxi, but none of them talking. All of them twisted in emotions and too depressed to talk.
"Where's Ulrich?" Sissy asks, more like a command, looking over Jeremy's shoulder and twirling her hair with her finger.
"He's gone." Jeremy simply responds.
"Excuse me?"
"He moved." Aelita solemnly replies.
"WHAT? WHERE? HOW COME NO ONE TOLD ME THIS!" Sissy screams, pushing Herb and Nicolas away from her and storming off to her father.
"Wait till Ulrich hears that one." Jeremy chuckles.
"Uh…dude? Are you listening? Anyways so why did the chipmunk cross the stream?" Odd laughs.
"This is pointless, I do not care." A girl in dark blue and purple darkly says, and starts walking away.
"Why?" A boy around the same age as the girl asks. He was extremely…green.
'Wonder what would happen if Ulrich met him!' "Because-," Odd begins.
"OHH! Let me guess!" A tall man…who was oddly half mechanic yells, pushing the green boy out of the way.
"Let's move!" The dark girl comes back, pulling both of them by the ears. "It's obvious Slade isn't here, let's go meet them in California." (this is not a cross! I just felt like adding them in..hehe..sorry)
"Well, that was sure weird." Odd mutters to himself. "This place is filled with wackos!" He yells to himself, causing people walking on the streets to stop and glare at him. He giggles nervously and waves, and quickly runs into the hotel where his family was waiting. 'So far this move is horrible.'
"And THEN I like told him that he really needed to take a hike so he was all 'uh' and I was all 'duh' and then my friends were all like 'um' so it was all like TOTALLY-,"
Ulrich sighs. On the plane, he was unfortunately stuck sitting next to this annoying PINK girl who wouldn't stop talking and followed him off the plane and kept on following him. He didn't even know her name! She was frightening. Ulrich interrupted her, "Where are you going?"
"Wherever you are sweetie!" The girl smiled and continued her story.
She might even worse than Sissy! He shooks his head and crossed the street and passed by a tall gorgeous redhead who 'eeped' as they passed by. The redhead screamed someone's name.
"Kitten!" A boy who came up beside the redhead yelled. The girl in pink turned around in surprise and then winked at a boy in a cape.
The redhead turned literally red, but the cape-boy stopped her. "Calm down. She isn't causing any trouble, and we have to meet up with the rest."
"If you say so." The angry, yet gently redhead mutters, walking off with the boy in the cape. The girl, 'Kitten' was looking after them, so Ulrich took that time to escape her.
'These people are creepy. So far, I'm hating this move.'
Yumi uncomfortably scratched her nose. It stunk in that car. Well what else could you expect from a family with eleven kids, girls and boys, ranging from the age of four to seventeen? Correction, now twelve kids. It's very confusing to tell which kid came from where and their background. Five of the kids are girls, and the other six boys.
Amy and Maimee are twins at the age of sixteen. Jessica is twelve, Kelly at nine years. And Baby Rachel at four. For the boys, Jake is fifteen. Brian, Bryant, and Brent are triplets and fourteen years old. Ben is ten years old and Harold is seven.
Yumi looks around her. The twins and triplets were friends from Puerto Rico as kids and were now in a huge argument involving yelling. Jessica is teaching Harold and Rachel a game, they all came from a foster home in New Zealand. Kelly and Ben were whispering to each other. Kelly from Kansas and Ben from Korea. Yumi looked up in surprise, surely she miscounted them all or something, where's Jake? She then slowly looks around the whole van and finds Jake sitting all the way in a corner, observing his family members as well.
'Well, looking on the bright side, I won't feel lonely at all.' Yumi tries to be optimistic. Just then an ice cream cone was smashed into her face. 'Who am I kidding? This stinks!'
"Bye guys." Odd waves to his parents as they leave for a restaurant. He quickly grabs his cell phone and dials fourteen numbers that are engraved in his head.
"Hello?" Both Yumi and Ulrich answer at the same time.
"You don't know how glad I am to hear you two! I hate it here, I don't know anyone, and the first people I asked a joke to ran away!" Odd cries out, almost literally in tears.
"Wait, you didn't tell them the chipmunk and the stream joke did you?" Ulrich asks interested.
"Ulrich!" Yumi scolds.
"It's all right, and yes I did Ulrich."
"Well, so far my trip is worse. From the plane to half way to my new home, this physco girl in pink followed me." Ulrich shudders.
"Oh yeah? Well try living with eleven different people? One of which just got ICE CREAM IN MY HAIR!" Yumi half yells the last part to her innocently smiling 'brother' Harold.
"Ouch, tough, I think Yumi's got it the worst." Odd winces.
"Touché." Ulrich agrees.
"Guys, I'm happy and all that that I won this unspoken contest, but it isn't helping!" She frantically says.
"Wait, guys, I gotta go, I'll catch ya later, I miss you guys!" Odd yells into the phone and shutting it off in a snap, running after his parents to beg for them to bring him leftovers.
"Still there Yumi?" Yumi grunts in answer. "I miss you."
Yumi smiles even though Ulrich couldn't see it. "I miss you too."
Ulrich's heart hammers in his body, should he finally tell her? No, now wasn't a good time, he reasons with himself. "So will you tell me more about them on your private myspace?"
"Uh-uh." She answers back. Odd, Aelita, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Yumi all had private Myspaces that only 'friends' could see, and they only had it s so those five were on the friends list, all of them did of course have one for all their friends also. "Hey Ulrich?"
"Yeah?" Ulrich asks uncomfortably.
"Nevermind." Suddenly, a loud voice came from the phone, 'who ya talkin' to Yumerino's?' Then Ulrich could hear her yell, 'I'm on the phone Brian, leave me alone wouldya?' He answered back, 'no'. Yumi yelled 'why?'. Brian responded with an 'it's fun' and from what Ulrich could barely hear, Brian stole Yumi's cell phone.
"Hey are you Yumi's boyfriend?" Ulrich blushed immensely at the question.
"Sorry about that." Yumi hastily says, grabbing her phone back. "Listen, I'll talk to you on internet when I get to my new house and my own room! I still have my laptop so it's all good."
"That's fine. Bye Yumi." After Yumi responded back, Ulrich shut off his cell and laid back on his bed. 'I really miss her.'
Odd rubs his stomach happily. 'Yuuuuuuuuuuuum.' Still rubbing his tummy, he sat down on his chair and turned his laptop on and got onto his private myspace. 'Ohh, Yumi and Ulrich are on.' He clicks on a picture of Yumi.
He scrolled down to the 'about me' section.
-Amy and Maimee are twins from Puerto Rico, are sixteen
-Brian, Bryant, and Brent all triplets from Puerto Rico, are fourteen
-Jessica, Harold, and Rachel area all from New Zealand. Jessica: twelve. Harold: seven. Rachel: four
-Kelly and Ben are friends.
Kelly: nine and Kansas
Ben: ten and Korea
-Jake is fifteen from I'm not sure.
Amy and Maimee are stuck-up and arrogant, and rude.
Bryant and Brent are arrogant and nerdy.
Brian is crazy and funny.
Jessica is a helpful and a suck up
Harold is mischievous
Rachel is Harold's partner in crime
Kelly is a sweet and shy girl
Ben is a thoughtful, charming, and outgoing boy
Jake, from what I can guess is…different
Below her descriptions were pictures of all of them. Odd scrolls back up and clicks on 'im'. He enters a chatroom with Aelita, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Yumi.
NeRdBoY1O1: sissy found out that u moved and was hysterical
CoPuTeRwHiZ: it was quite funny
gothic angel: ha
athleticjerk: wish i could have seen it
odDbaLL: yea that sounds hella fnny!
gothic angel: well all of u know how my life is
NeRdBoY1O1: don't care, xplain more
gothic angel: well i'm sorta friends with brian, kelly, and jake
athleticjerk: this weird freakishly PINK(no offense aelita) girl followed me evrywere aelta would hav liked her but yumi woulda hated her
gothic angel: anthing like sissy?
athleticjerk: worse
odDbaLL: yup my trip was weird 2. i hate is so far
NeRdBoY1O1: surprisingly, i thnk dats sometin we all agree on
gothic angel: who's ulrich?
athleticjerk?
gothic angel: damn brians buggin' me again, g2g. I miss ya guys! xoxo
athleticjerk: don't say it odd
odDbaLL: not fair
CoPuTeRwHiZ: okay? i'm ganna go to sleep night
NeRdBoY1O1: ditto
odDbaLL: gonna find sometin interesting to do
athleticjerk: me 2 c ya
All five of them, surprisingly, slept at the same time, even with the time differences. They all fell asleep, thinking the same thing at the same time, "I miss them."
Two years Later: (sophomore year)
I yawn, stretching out as my radio blasts. Quickly, I lower the volume and dance around my single room while getting ready. Finally, I look in the mirror.
My fingers smooth out my hair, I've grown in a lot since I was dematerialized, my pink hair now reaches right to my shoulders. At the bottom of my hair, there was a slight red highlight, which Milly and Tamia and helped me do last year. My shirt was a very light pink with a magenta vest over it. My belt is silver with a star right in the middle, was hanging loosely on my knee cut pink and white skirt, merely for decoration.
Skipping across my room, I grab my matching purse, and grab a lip gloss out of it. I rub a tiny bit on each lip, and pucker them up to see how they look. Right before I leave, I quickly check my hair, giving it a quick fluff, leaving the room. Perfect.
Yes, I have changed a lot in two years as everyone does. But don't worry, I'm not a Sissy. As thoughts cloud my head, I almost bump into the wall, but Jeremy comes to same me right in time. I give him a swift peck on the cheek, and walk to the cafeteria with him, hand in hand.
"Goooooood morning. It is now six-," My hand lazily slaps my alarm to shut it off. Reluctantly, I get out of bed, putting on my glasses. Why does it have to be so bright? Moaning, I rush over to the bathroom to wash my face. Once I am wide awake, I quickly change into my clothes.
My shaggy blond hair keeps on getting in my hair, and I constantly have to shove it back up. One day, I even tried using tape to keep it there; it wasn't exactly my best idea. With the picture of Mrs. Hertz's face when she saw me that day in my head, I brush out any lint from my clothes. My shirt was a regular bland white short sleeved shirt with a blue vest on top. My jeans, yes I said jeans, were a slight baggy, but not anywhere near some of the other guys you see walking around these days. Quickly, I clean my glasses with my night shirt, sliding them back on with ease.
I rush out of my room, hoping to meet Aelita on the way. The angels were clearly on my side today. Aelita wasn't paying attention to her surroundings, giving me a perfect time to save her and be all manly and macho. She gives me a kiss, and I instantly turn red, mumbling something incoherent; so much for macho and manly.
"Mr. Della Robbia?" A stern teacher questions while tapping her foot.
"Odd!" A boy yells.
"Where's Xana?" I jump off of my chair yelling, and then I look at my surroundings and blush, sliding back into my chair. The teacher merely rolls her eyes and walks away.
"Smooth." The same boy snickers.
"Oh, shut up." I hiss. This boy's name is Peter, and a good friend. Of course, no where near Ulrich, but a good one.
"Where's Hannah looking at?" Peter asks me, motioning to a pretty girl by the window. "Or should I say who?"
"At me." I wittily say, sliding my hand through my slightly gelled hair.
Anyone can change a lot in two years, I really didn't much, but in looks I did. I grew about a foot taller, okay, exaggerating a little, but I'm taller than what Yumi was last year. Took forever for a growth spurt, huh? Well, anyways, back to my handsome features. (ARROGANT) My hair had trouble staying up through the harsh winds and rains, so I chose a new hairdo. Now, my hair is slightly spiked up, with purple streaks on the tips. My shirt? Pretty much the same. My pants? Jeans.
Once class if over, I rush over to the girl by the window. "Hey Hannah, have you ever heard the joke about the chipmunk and the stream?"
I yawn as I trudge through the crowding streets of Los Angeles. Friday. What a beautiful day. "Hey Ulrich!" Instantly, I turn around to spot Amy, one of my friends. "I've been looking for you everywhere! Where were you? Doing someone, eh Ulrich?" Amy jokes.
If anyone else had passed by, hearing the last sentence, they would shiver in disgust, thinking that I would actually do that. But the truth is I would never do that, Amy just liked to tease me along with everyone else. But who cares? I really don't. "I couldn't help it. They were all jumping over me." I shrug, winking at her. She giggles and continues talking at hyper speed.
As rude as it might sound, I tuned her out the second she started. I mean, Amy's a great friend, but it's not as if I really care if Macy's is on a super blowout sale. I quickly glance at a mirror stuck in one of the shops as I pass by. I've changed over the past year, not inside really except for a little more confidence, but physically. I am much taller than Yumi was last, and about a bit taller than Odd the last time I was in contact with him. I pretty much wore the same clothes however. I grin, I was going to surprise Yumi, and the journey would begin today.
"Ulrich!" I hear my dad yell out from his car.
"Hey Amy, I got to go."
"I know, I know. See you in a few days or weeks."
"That's what the federal government wants you to think!" Brian yells.
"I swear Brian, if you don't shut up right now…" Jake stopped, letting their minds wander.
"What did I do to get stuck with you two?" I fake moan.
"C'mon. You know you love us. We're adorable." Jake and Brian say at the same time.
I laugh along with them. I'm so lucky so have such good friends in my family who welcomed me quickly, unfortunately, there's my only friends in this family besides Kelly. But I love them both. Brian didn't get along with his brothers, and Jake didn't talk much, except when he was around me or Brian.
I tune them out as they start arguing about something stupid, something along the lines of fuzzy pink slippers. Without noticing, I tuck in some of my hair behind my ear. Stupid habit. My hair was soft and straight, and I love it. I have it layered a tiny bit in the front. My black soft spaghetti strap fit my curves perfectly, accentuating each one. I wore a small black net sports jacket. I sigh, and sit up straight, bringing my legs closer to me. My legs snuggly fit inside my perfectly sized jeans.
In three days, it will be my birthday. My sweet sixteen! I miss Ulrich, Odd, Jeremy, and Aelita. How I wish –
"Morning Yumi!" A sweet voice rang out; it was Kelly who had just entered the room.
"Morning."
"Ulrich!" Odd yells.
"ODD?" Ulrich screams happily, turning around to see his best friend. "Damn, is that really you?"
"You've changed so much in a year." Odd tearfully says, giving his best friend a tight hug.
"Can Aelita and Jer come?"
"Nope." Odd quickly responds. "But Yumi will be happy to see both of us, and even more happy to see you." Odd nudges Ulrich vigorously.
"C'mon man, I just got here and you're already cracking jokes about that!"
"You haven't seen my worst yet." Odd winks at Ulrich, laughing at his expression. "C'mon, let's rest for a bit at my crib. Let's ride in my car." Odd wags his eyebrows, eagerly boasting his car to his best friend.
Ulrich rolls his eyes, and follows his friend outside. Odd immediately began describing his friends and school life, dreamily trailing off about a girl named Hannah. After a short period of time, like old times, I tuned him out. Some things never change.
Ulrich almost gapes as they reach Odd's car. A very nice, sweet red jaguar. Odd jumps into the driving seat, and zooms off, driving back to his family's home. Ulrich entered the room, looking around, two story house, a tall ceiling, and traces of dirt on the walls, no doubt from Odd. Odd's parents come rushing into the room and cooeing at Ulrich until Odd 'kindly' reminds them that they have work. After a few minutes of complete boredom, they both decide on something. Soccer. They both jog out of the well kept house to a park nearby and let down the soccer ball. In a matter of minutes, Odd's friends were pouring into the field to join in the game. Ulrich gave Peter a quick look over, just to see if he had any real competition. When Odd, pulled him out to 'talk' to him, Odd told him that no one could ever replace Ulrich, and he felt better immediately after.
"So, who's Hannah?" Ulrich asks Peter, splashing water from his bottle onto his face.
"Girl over there." Peter says breathing deeply.
Ulrich turned his head to the right to see a timid looking girl reading a book under a tree close by. Before Ulrich could see a word, Odd was already walking towards her. Peter shrugged and continued walking while Ulrich trailed behind him.
"Hey Han."
"Shut up." The girl hisses, not even looking up from her book.
"But, I was just going t,"
"I really don't care." The girl snaps, standing up and walking away.
"You definitely work magic with the ladies." Ulrich sarcastically says, wrapping his arm around his friend's neck in a comforting way.
"Oh well, let's go home and take a shower and then head off for the airport." Odd grumbles a little light-heartedly.
"Aelita?" Tamia calls out from a table on the left.
"Are we still going to your room?" Milly asks.
"No, it's at Jeremy's room." Aelita corrects them, saying 'Jeremy' a little fondly.
Both of them take a seat at the table. "So what are we going to do?" Theo calls out, walking toward them. All four of them wrinkle their noses; Theo had overheard their plan a few days ago, and forced himself into the plan. Theo took a seat beside Jeremy.
"What's up man?" Theo asks, looking at all of them in an innocent manner.
The four original people at the table groan again as they see Sissy heading towards them with Herb and Nicholas in tow. Just Peachy.
"You did get us seats together right?" Ulrich suspiciously asks when the air tender points to two different directions on the plane.
"Uh…" Odd looks as though a light bulb appeared in his head. "I hope so."
"Odd!" Ulrich angrily hisses, grabbing his ticket and disappearing behind the red curtain. "Idiot. I swear he's going to be the death of me one day." Ulrich finds his seat and sits in it. One thing was good; at least he got the aisle seat. Then he sighs and gets up again to put his carry on luggage up on the luggage compartment. Right when he was about to sit down again, he felt two puny, anorexic arms wrap around his torso. He jumped, and twirled around, and the arms immediately fell.
"I've missed you sooo much! What are you doing here?" A girl in bright pink squeals.
Oh no! What the hell? Ulrich groans inwardly. It had been two years and he still vividly remembered the girl he encountered when he first moved to California. Yes, that very same girl. He still didn't even know her name! No, wait, I think it was Kitten, or some foolish name of the sort. Was it Flamingo? Ulrich shook his head in amusement, and then it darkened. Odd was so going to freakin' pay for this!
"Hi, Kitten." Ulrich winces as the girl giggles.
"Oh, Ulrichpoo! You still remember my name!" She 'flirtatiously' bats her eyelashes.
Ulrich had a strong urge to ask her if she had something in her eyes, but Odd beat him to it. "Excuse me, but I think you have something in your eyes." Odd snickers, swiftly moving up to Ulrich and putting his elbow on the taller man.
Kitten scoffs, and then her eyes narrow. "You're not gay are you?"
Ulrich slaps his hands to his face and Odd begins to laugh hysterically, smacking his thigh, and from time to time, smacking Ulrich's thigh. Ulrich gave him a quick and harsh glare, causing him to slow down his laughter to deep chuckles.
"I didn't think so." Kitten says in her fake ten-watt smile.
What is up with this girl? Annoyingly enough, Odd gave him a quick pat on the back, and then walked, to the seat across from him, on the other side of the plane. (this is for people who don't ride first class(lucky ppl): you know how like long airplane trips are bigger? They have like two/three seats on the left side, then four in the middle, and finally two/three on the right side? Well Ulrich is on the right, and Odd on the left.) It hasn't even been twenty-four hours since he met up with my twit best friend, and he was already bugging the living hell out of Ulrich. Ulrich sighs, and puts on his headphones, might as well have a little bit of fun, eh?
Ulrich opened one eye, if anyone was walking past them at that moment, it would look like Ulrich was stuck in a wink. 'Good, the horror is asleep.' Ulrich reassured himself, and sitting up straight. 'I'm going to kill that bastard.' He had good reasoning to back up his remark; he pretended to be asleep for who knows how many hours! A sweet smile spread across Ulrich's face. It was all worth it, to meet, after two long painful years, with the love of his life, Yumi.