A Little Bit of Swing Never Hurts Anyone!

By: Starlight Girl

Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko and I'm sorry if I have forgotten any other disclaimers before. Please… I don't own a thing like Code Lyoko… if I did I would be rich and picking out a horse for me

Ch. 5

"Tryouts for swing choir will be held on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Monday will be dancing tryouts and Tuesday will be for singing. That is all for the afternoon and have a good weekend Kadic Junior High School."

The bell rang right after Mr. Delmas hung up the speaker. Children of all ages where running out of the building. It was finally the weekend, a time to just sleep in and lay around the house like a slug.

"Oh Lord! Thank you for letting me see the end of this day!" Odd bent down on his knees and looked to sky.

"Well, why are you so happy Odd?" Aelita asked as she joined her friends by a tree where that were all standing, "Are you doing something this weekend."

"No, we just finished that science test about plants." Odd got up off the ground, "Now when we get back we start on physics, which I just, happen to be good at thanks to you and Jeremie."

"Heh. Well, I got to go now." Aelita turned to the school gate, "I promised my mom to come home early. I'm going to make dinner with her. My dad's gone for the weekend so this is our time just as girls!"

"Well, have fun. If you have time on Sunday, wanna see a movie?" Yumi said, "You know that remake of King Kong is out now and it got four stars from the critics."

"I'll see." Aelita started walking away, "I also got to practice for tryouts if I want to make it!" As she walked away she waved a peace sign with her fingers and turned to the gate. Just before she left, she saw Ulrich walk out of the forest.

"Um. Aelita?" Ulrich walked over to her, "I need to explain this to you."

"Yes you do Ulrich." Aelita put her hands on her hips, "First of all, why did you hid it from us?"

"All of the others would laugh and put me down like so many other times here at Kadic." Ulrich said, still looking to the grass.

"Why would you think that!" Aelita was surprised, "If you told them the truth they would have-"

"Well you don't know them like I do!" Ulrich barked at her, "Before you came, when I first started here, I wanted to try choir. Just choir. I asked Odd and Jeremie and they both laughed. They laughed so hard they never found out that I was telling them the truth! I can never trust them with these kinds of things again!"

"Well, if you tell the truth!" Aelita shouted back at him, "Maybe they'll not think it's so funny!"

"This is something else." Ulrich turned around and his back faced her, "It's about my dad."

"Huh?" Aelita asked, "Well, could you fill me in? I mean I won't laugh or think it's silly. You can trust me Ulrich." She put her hand on his shoulder.

"It's my dad." Ulrich said, still turned around, "He always wanted to see me at my best. He thought he could only see it in soccer. Well, I got bored of it, hard to believe huh? I wanted to do something else and well my cousin, who was like an older sister to me, she kinda got me into music and the arts you see?"

"But don't you have an older brother?" Aelita asked.

"Yeah, but he's a lawyer and isn't home." Ulrich was quite unhappy, "When I was younger, I would love to play soccer with him. When he got older and more into school, he started not coming home. He went to college and I only saw him on breaks and over summer, but still was always working or being with his friends. Soon after he left for school again, my aunt got a divorce and had to move in here. Her daughter came here too. She was quite the star of the school back where I came from. She loved singing and dancing. She helped me out with some dances and got my singing better. Soon after, my aunt moved out and she left too. I just got so into music and dancing that I wanted to go to school and try it out. When I came here to Kadic, I wanted to do choir you see? Well, I told Jeremie and Odd and they just laughed. So, to hide that day, I did other things to fill it up. Soccer was one of them and my dad got so into it he wanted me to keep on doing it until college and get a scholarship for it. Well, it's going to wind up that way, I'm not doing swing choir.

"Ulrich!" Aelita said, "Just because you just told me your secret, doesn't mean you have to not do swing choir. You're good with your feet so you'd be good at the dancing."

"It's not about that." Ulrich started to walk away, leaving Aelita behind, "It's about me and my dad nothing more."

Aelita just stood there as Ulrich walked to the dorm building. Just before he was out of earshot she cried out, "Well it's your life isn't it? You should choose your own path. You're old enough to choose and not hang on to your dad and side with him!"

After that, she walked away and out of the school grounds, leaving Ulrich this time to stand and think about what she said.

Aelita's Home

"I'm home!" Aelita opened the door to her house, "Hello?"

"Hey there." Her dad walked over to Aelita with bags and his coat on, "I'm leaving now, got to catch my flight."

Aelita's mother walked into the room and walked over to her husband and daughter. She kissed him on the lips goodbye.

"Bye daddy." Aelita got a kiss on her forehead as he walked out the front door and went into the car. They watched as he drove off.

"Well, he's gone." Mrs. Hopper said, "What do you want to do? I got that new movie The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, you wanna see that?"

"Of course!" Aelita smiled and closed the door, "Yumi said it was really good."

Later

"Then she just left him there!" Aelita laughed, "I mean he had it coming for him, just playing video games right in front of her date!"

"Haha! Yes, but can't you feel a little bad for him?" Mrs. Hopper said, they were both sitting on the couch waiting for the popcorn to finish up, "I mean, it was his first date and he didn't know what to do."

"Well, a good date would never do that." Aelita said, "I mean it's kinda hard to forget your date when you were, like, really nervous just to ask her out! How could forget!"

"I know, I know, you win." Mrs. Hopper got up and walked into the kitchen, "Have any one asked you out? What about Jeremie?"

"Well, with school kinda hectic, I don't blame him for not asking." Aelita followed her, "I still wanna go out with him though, but everyone think we are."

"Well, why don't you ask him?" Mrs. Hopper nudged her daughter.

"Is that okay?" Aelita asked, "I mean, everyone says that the boy should ask the girl out."

"Well, that's how it worked out with your father and me." Mrs. Hopper said as she out the popcorn in the bowl.

"Huh?" Aelita asked, "How did that work out?"

"Well, your father and I met in high school and it ended up that we were going to go the same college. I had asked him to the end of the year dance and after that our relationship grew. At graduation, right after I received my degree, he was waiting by my parents. After he congratulated me, he asked me to marry him, right in front of the whole school body! It felt so great, like I had gone to heaven. Later that night, at the party a friend of your father was throwing, I was thinking about the time we first met. If I didn't ask him out to that dance, I would never have that ring around my finger. I asked him the same and he was glad I asked him or he would have not been so happy."

"When did you ask him that?" Aelita asked kind of knowing what she would say.

"While were in a closet, well in seven minutes of heaven." Mrs. Hopper laughed.

Aelita laughed too. She knew what it was because of Sissi always saying that all the boys at every party she went to always asked her to go in the closet. It was a big lie after all.

"Come on, we should start the movie." Aelita said as she took the popcorn and walked into the living room.

After the movie Aelita had a question to ask her mother.

"Hey, mom." Aelita asked as her mom was walking up stairs to her bedroom, "Can you tell me about you and dad's relationship?"

"Of course!" Mrs. Hopper said, "I haven't talked to you so much! Please, come into my room."

Aelita followed. When she walked into the room she saw her mom already on the bed looking for a book in a box. Aelita joined her. Mrs. Hopper pulled out a leather photo album.

"Here," Mrs. Hopper said as she was turning the pages, "this is a picture of us on that date that I asked him out for."

It was picture of them behind a picture background. Aelita's father had his arms around her mother's waist and they were both smiling. Her mom was wearing a light pink dress while her father a black tux.

"Aw, it looks so cute!" Aelita said.

"This one is from that party after graduation." She turned the page and showed a picture of her mom and dad standing next to each other; they were both wearing their graduation hats but different outfits.

"Was that before or after you had your little moment?" Aelita giggled.

"Before, this one is after as you see." She showed her another picture. This time, her mother's hair was messy and her dad's shirt was wrinkled up, "These are just other pictures of us before our wedding. Here are some of our wedding, but I have another album with better pictures of our wedding and honeymoon."

Aelita looked at some of the wedding pictures. Her mother was in her white wedding dress that looked just perfect on her. It was a strapless dress and with it she had a silver locket and diamond earrings. Her father was in a black tux like all men wear when getting married. The honeymoon pictures just had them at a beach in some resort in a wonderful, tropical place.

"They had to be one of the best days in my life so far." Mrs. Hopper looked at Aelita who was still looking at the pictures.

"What other days are out there?" Aelita asked.

"The day I found out I was going to have a baby and the day you came to your father and I." Mrs. Hopper smiled.

"Really?" Aelita asked, "Well, that makes sense, it must be so exciting when two people are expecting a child soon."

"Here are some pictures of when you and I were still in the hospital, just a few hours after you were born." She pointed out some pictures. They had Mrs. Hopper holding Aelita in her arms, "You were so cute. It felt wonderful to have you in my arms."

"Aw, mom!" Aelita hugged her mother.

"It's the truth, you can even ask your father and he'll say the same thing." Mrs. Hopper said as she hugged her daughter back.

They sat there just talking for the next few hours until it became dinner time. They both starting with dinner and went to their bed's straight afterwards. Aelita was about to go to sleep happy when she remembered about Ulrich's problem. She would have to sort it out later.

To Be Continued

Okay, before you review ((I hope)) I want you too tell me something. I'm writing a story that has to do with Neon Genesis Evangelion. It's not a crossover, but it has to do with the story. I was wondering who do you want to go to Tokyo 3 and fight in a huge robot to save all humans from death and destruction. One is going to be Aelita so buts about it, but I need a boy to go with her. I can be Jeremie, Odd, Ulrich, or even William if you really like him. Tell me in your review please. Thanks a lot!

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