Summer Not to Forget

By: Starlight Girl

Ch.3

Everyone left for the night. All of them agreed to come up with a way to tell their parents they could not come home this summer. Aelita was the last one to leave Jeremie's room.

"You know, Jeremie, I have never been able to thank you for everything you have been doing." Aelita said facing the door and looking to the ground.

"You don't have to." Jeremie said putting his hand on her shoulder, "You need us more than anything else in the world."

"Yes, but still," Aelita turned around and faced Jeremie, "thank you for every single thing you have done for me in my life."

Aelita planted a kiss on Jeremie's lips. Jeremie's eyes widened in shock, his mind went blank? What the heck? Jeremie thought. When they parted Aelita was the first one to speak.

"I'm sorry." She blushed, "I don't know what I was thinking. All I know is that I really have something for you Jeremie."

She turned around and left, leaving Jeremie behind, touching his lips. Did she really say that to me?

The Next Day

"Okay guys!" Odd was up and awake before anyone, "What did you think of?"

They were all in Aelita's room. Kiwi was sitting on Aelita's lap again. The small dog seemed to fall in love with her and was nicer to her than Yumi, Jeremie, or Ulrich. Aelita was sitting on her bed with Jeremie, pretty close, right next to her. Yumi was leaning against the wall, while Ulrich and Odd were sitting on the floor.

"Nuttin." Ulrich was the first one to tell. That checked him off their list.

"Not one thing." Jeremie said looking at Aelita. She smiled.

"It's okay, at least you tried."

"Nothing what so ever!" Odd said, "And I had more faith in you Jeremie."

"Well sorry! It's kinda hard to come up with something to fool our parents. I mean they have known us forever how can we fool them without having any trouble?"

"Well, I have an idea how to get away form my parents." Yumi said, making everyone perk up, "Well, we are going to Japan and my cousin lives in this area where you can mountain climb and everything. I can pretend to break my arm or something."

"Do you think that they'll leave you all alone for the rest of the summer?" Ulrich said.

"They won't be gone for the whole summer, only half." Yumi said, "They can't stay long because my brother is young."

"Make it so." Jeremie said putting his hand on Aelita's hand resting on the bed. Aelita gave it a firm squeeze.

"Well that's one down, and about three more to go." Odd sighed. He hated to think so hard, especially since school was almost out.

"Well, I kind of have an idea." Aelita said finally, "You guys can all tell your parents that you have a club or something. I kind of got this idea last night."

"Please tell it to us." Odd said desperately.

"Jeremie, you have a printer right? You and I can make up some fake forms for clubs or out of school activities and print them out. They can only be for half of the summer."

"Why only half?" Yumi asked.

"I am sure we can find my father and kill Xana before you know it. I have all my faith in you guys." Aelita smiled.

"Continue." Ulrich said, leaning forward.

"Call your parents; tell them to sign the form that we'll send them. If you want ask for some money to make it more convincing. We will also have to make a health release form if it is a sport. Your parents will get scared if they don't have you checked off for sports. If they want to call the office give them the phone number to the super computer. Jeremie you will have to use the voice changer to talk to the parents. The only problem is to figure out what are you guys going to do for half of the summer?"

"Before we go any further, how in God's name did you come up with that!" Odd said in shock.

"Your father must have been a genius." Yumi said smiling, "You inherited that genie."

"Well, for the summer activities, I'll be in a soccer training program. My parents won't put that down. They love to see me play." Ulrich said standing up and stretching.

"Odd you can be in some arts program. Like something to do with music. Maybe you can learn how to play various instruments and then you can record them on a cd." Aelita said.

"How the hell did you come up with that?" Odd said in even more shock.

"Saw it in one of your music magazines you lent me last week." Aelita said, "And why do you always have to swear like that?"

"Going on," Jeremie said eying Odd, "I can be in some Academic Club, you know tell, them I'll be having academic meets at different schools and best of all you really don't need a health form for that."

"Why don't you do something like, muscle building?" Odd said laughing, "Your parents will be really happy when they find their Jeremie a buff young man when he comes home!"

Odd's joke caused the others to laugh. It wasn't very good, but al least it was something to laugh at. There had to be nothing funny anymore since Xana had almost won the last battle.

"I'm going to pretend that never happened." Jeremie said standing up and walking to the door, "What are we doing just sitting around? Aelita, you come with me and we can figure out a layout for the forms. Yumi, you got to figure out a way to get "hurt" some how. Ulrich and Odd you need to give me ideas for what you will be doing, like more details you see? If I and Aelita work on this hard we can maybe finish it and make it look good maybe tonight."

"You will be eating right?" Yumi asked.

"Aelita can, I got to much work to do." Jeremie turned the handle and opened the door.

"No, it'll go by faster if I help you all the way." Aelita said walking up to him, "Let's go! The faster we get this done the faster you guys can face your parents."

"Aelita."

"Come on lets go!" Aelita grinned, grabbed Jeremie's arm and pulled him into his room. Jeremie smiled. Maybe this will really work after all. He loved to see her so happy. Aelita, I will make you happy, even if I have to give everything away just to see you happy."

To Be Continued