Dream of Me
By: Leelei
Disclaimer: I don't own Code:Lyoko.
Author's Note: Oh man, I'm sorry for not updating this sooner. This chapter came out a little rough, so I hope you don't read it quickly (the sentence structure is a little "f'ed" up let's say. If you can fill in the blank, you'll save me from having to up the rating). All right, let's get the ball rolling again…
Chapter 3
"Then she said that she just needed to feel like a normal human girl again and left," Jeremie finished explaining the next morning as he sat on a bench in the school courtyard. His face was slightly red and tear-streaked, his eyes a dried out red color as well. He had obviously been crying during the night.
"It's okay, Jeremie," Yumi said. The Japanese girl put an arm around his shoulders and hugged him tightly. "You're Aelita's best friend, and I know that this will all blow over soon."
"But that's weird how she just took off like that," commented Ulrich, standing in front of them with his hands buried into his pockets. "Especially just because you wouldn't take her to go see a movie."
"No, it's more than that," replied Jeremie. "It was her memories that drove her away." He looked over and saw Aelita sitting alone on another bench across the schoolyard reading a book. "She doesn't want to be around me because the lifestyle she leads with us is what's making remembering so painful for her."
"So she thinks if she acts like she doesn't know about Lyoko, and hangs around with other people that also don't know about Lyoko, then she'll be normal and the pain will go away?" asked Odd, peeling a banana that he had swiped from the cafeteria after breakfast.
"I guess so," answered Jeremie glumly.
"Odd, do you ever stop?" Ulrich asked, watching Odd smash the piece of fruit with incredible speed. "I think you've eaten an entire bunch of bananas just since breakfast!"
"Hey, a growing boy's gotta eat!" Odd countered as the bell rang. "Guess I should save the apple for during chemistry. Ulrich, buddy, would you mind putting it in your pocket for me?"
"Oh, no! The last time I stashed fruit for you that pear ended up having a mushy bruised spot that I had to sit on all through math. No way!"
"Aww, come on, Ulrich! You know how hungry I get twenty minutes after breakfast!"
As the two boys continued their dispute while walking off to their class, Yumi looked to Jeremie again. "Are you going to be okay?" she asked.
"Yeah…" he replied meekly as he watched Aelita across the courtyard stand from the bench and walk to their classroom.
"Do you want me to walk over there with you?"
"No…I can make it." Jeremie understood that Yumi knew he was no stranger to cutting class when he felt that he had more important things to take care of, but he didn't want her to think that he would also cut to avoid a situation. "But you can come with me if you'd like."
Yumi smiled. "Okay, let's go. My English teacher won't be too suspicious if I'm only a few seconds late."
The two walked to the chemistry classroom, Yumi hugging the blonde boy again before hurrying off to her own class. Jeremie fixed his glasses and walked in with the late bell, catching just the last of Aelita's conversation with Mrs. Hertz as he heard the science teacher give her permission to move her seat towards the front of the room to better see the notes on the overhead projector. As Aelita turned to her new desk, she caught eyesight with Jeremie and smiled. Jeremie almost had to force a smile for her in return.
"All right, class, take your seats," Mrs. Hertz announced as Jeremie sat down in front of Ulrich and Odd and immediately put his head down. "Please get out your notebooks and begin copying the overhead," the teacher commanded again in her stern voice, turning off the lights and switching the projector on.
"Jeremie?" Ulrich whispered to the blonde boy. "Are you okay?"
"Huh?" Jeremie looked back over his arm, not even bothering to lift his head.
"I said, are you okay? You know Mrs. Hertz will yell at you for putting your head down."
"Yeah…I'm fine," Jeremie replied and returned to his former posture. Ulrich and Odd just shrugged to each other and pulled out their notebooks to begin copying.
"We will be taking notes today and tomorrow in order to prepare for our lab on Wednesday," Mrs. Hertz continued as she moved the overhead to reveal more of the notes.
Suddenly, Jeremie perked up. If there would be a lab on Wednesday, he thought, then Aelita would have to be his partner since she originally sat by him! And, since there was an even number of students in the class, Mrs. Hertz wouldn't let her join another group. The old science teacher was infamous for never letting anyone work alone in order to save her time on grading papers, save Jeremie before he had virtualized his pink-haired classmate, considering his labs were always flawless anyway.
"Do your best to pay attention, as this will not be coming out of the textbook. Jeremie, pick your head up or go to the nurse. There is no sleeping in this classroom," Mrs. Hertz said, placing a new overhead on the projector.
Jeremie saw Aelita just for a second as she glanced back at him while the others laughed. She turned back quickly, but he could see just a hint of blush on her cheeks and a small smile on her face.
So he had a plan. He would talk to Aelita again on Wednesday and finally set everything straight. He couldn't wait. After living nearly his whole life not knowing her, and then having been only able to talk to her through a computer screen for a year, spending just a couple months with her on Earth had spoiled him too much for him to ever want to be without her again.
Okay, chapter 4 is written already, but I don't know how soon I can promise it with the due date for my English paper looming around the corner, but I'll definitely keep updating in the back of my mind while I'm pounding my head on the walls over commas and proper citations. Until then, please drop a review on your way out:D