Dream of Me

By: Leelei

Disclaimer: I don't own Code:Lyoko.

Author's Note: Fuck The Sound and the Fury, fuck Hamlet, and fuck any other book we read in my English class. Now, on with the fic…

Chapter 4

Jeremie felt the anticipation bubbling inside of him. He spent all of Monday night thinking of what he would say to Aelita until finally he realized that he just had to be himself and let her know that he missed her too much. On Tuesday, however, he had found an interesting file in Franz Hopper's logs and spent another night with his eyes glued to a computer screen. But when Wednesday morning rolled along, he had enough excitement to cover for all of his friends as he waited for class to start.

"Good morning!" he called with a smile as Ulrich and Odd trudged up to him.

"Uhhg…what's morning?" Odd mumbled, dragging his feet and book bag over to the bench and slumping himself down.

"Jeez, what's wrong with you two?" Jeremie asked, holding the strap of his messenger bag. "You look like you've barely had four hours of sleep."

"Three and a half…" Ulrich managed to reply.

"You forgot about your English papers, didn't you?" Jeremie asked, remembering his own typed, printed, and neatly stapled as it sat in a folder within his book bag. He had finished his with ease the week it was first assigned a month earlier, but his two classmates obviously had not.

"Yeah…" Ulrich replied as he tried to rub the wrinkles out of his shirt. Odd snored as he sat sprawled out on the bench.

Yumi walked up to join the group. "Hey you guys. So is today the big day?" she asked Jeremie, having talked to him about his plan.

"Yep!" Jeremie replied cheerily as the bell rang.

"Great, good luck, Romeo!" Yumi said to him with a smile as the group parted ways. "What happened to you two?" she asked Ulrich.

"I'll tell you what happened…" the tired brunette boy replied, almost feeling the bags sagging under his eyes. "Fourteen straight hours of Shakespeare happened, that's what."

"You guys forgot your term papers, didn't you?" Yumi asked with a raised eyebrow.

"How did you guess…Come on, Odd," Ulrich tapped the sleeping boy. "It's time for class."

After a pat on Ulrich's back, Yumi started walking to her class as the other two forced themselves along to their own. They barely made it in with the bell, seeing Jeremie smile happily as they took their seats.

"All right class, quiet down," Mrs. Hertz commanded as she walked around passing out a set of papers to each pair of partners. "You will have exactly one period to complete this lab. Only one set of notes is allowed between the two of you. You may begin."

Jeremie continued to grin as he turned to his partner. "Hey, Aelita."

"Hi, Jeremie," the said girl responded with a smile. "How have you been?"

"Good," he lied. "How about you?"

"I've been fine. But I really haven't been understanding these notes very well. I don't know how good of a partner I'll be for this lab."

"It's okay, I'll explain them to you," Jeremie replied a bit eagerly. He hadn't been paying much attention himself, but the chapter was simple enough for him to comprehend.

"Thanks," said Aelita with a smile that made him want to melt.

Jeremie never realized how much he valued his time with her as they worked together during that period. The hands on the clock seemed to fly by and soon Mrs. Hertz called for clean-up before the bell would ring. Jeremie and Aelita had already been long finished and the blonde genius used their spare time to put his plan into action.

"So, Aelita…"

"Yes, Jeremie?" Aelita asked, noticing the uneasiness suddenly forming between them.

"I know you said that we shouldn't hang out, but…" Jeremie trailed off, trying to word his thought perfectly so she would agree. "Would you mind if I called you…like, at night?"

Aelita smiled. "Of course not, Jeremie." The blonde boy suppressed a sigh of relief as she continued. "You can call me any time you'd like, I've always loved talking to you."

"Great! How about every night at seven o'clock then, is that all right?"

"Sure."

"That way we can each have a separate day, but then we can talk about what happened and keep each other updated."
"That sounds great," Aelita replied as she stood from her chair. "Well, I'm going to go use the restroom. Talk to you at seven?"

"You bet," Jeremie answered with a grin. "Bye, Aelita."

"Bye, Jeremie."

Jeremie watched Aelita leave, feeling as if he were floating on a cloud to have patched things up with her. Then he looked back as he heard someone struggling behind him.

"Hey Jeremie," Ulrich said to the blonde genius as he fought to get two test tubes unstuck. Odd sat snoring next to him with his head lolled back over the chair. "How quickly can you go over this lab?"

Jeremie just snickered and moved over to help Ulrich save his lab just before the bell rang for the end of the period.

That night, everything had gone great. And Jeremie didn't even have to call Aelita; she was the first to call him, not to mention at 6:45! They talked for over an hour, even if they were just a floor away from each other in their dorms.

It seemed that Aelita really did just need some time to feel like every other normal human being. She had been going to bed early, catching up on her Italian project, and had just started a new mix earlier that day after school with Odd's help (after he had taken a long nap). And also, she apologized for moving away from him in their chemistry class. She really did have trouble seeing the overheads, but Jeremie just shrugged it off and told that that it took months of practice to read a Mrs. Hertz overhead without squinting.

But the blonde genius was still confused as to why he hadn't been seeing her during lunch and dinner over the days since her split from the group. That is, until she explained that she was asked to tutor Milly and Tamiya in their math lessons during lunch and had been sneaking into the library with her dinner to watch old movies and read magazines. Aelita explained that she had missed so many important years of life and just wanted to catch up on what was happening in the world around them.

And as for Jeremie, his days weren't very interesting to retell. Mostly, he wanted to let Aelita know that he was working on finding a channel to open a link directly with Franz Hopper. He had tried countless times to trace the coded messages that the old scientist had sent, but he hoped forming a new channel would create a clear path of communication between them.

Aelita wished him luck with his project, but she tried not to think about Lyoko. It pained her to put off her responsibility, but she felt that it was best in keeping herself sane and the memories at bay. Since she had stopped talking to Jeremie in person, she hadn't had one memory plague her. But she continued to talk to him every night, the two taking turns as to who would call first, since things seemed to be working out rather well for the both of them that way.

All until one night when Aelita had decided to stay in the cafeteria for dinner. She didn't know that Ulrich had a late soccer game scheduled for that exact hour and that Jeremie and Odd went to watch, with Yumi planning on joining as well after she finished dinner with her own family, so Aelita was left to take a seat alone at an empty table. As she started her solitary meal, someone approached her and gently tapped her shoulder.

"Hey, what's a pretty girl like you doing here sitting alone?" a boy her age asked. He was of a normal height with hair the same color as Ulrich's, but flipped out in different directions, and also had a very charming smile as well. "Why don't you come join my friends and me?"

"Oh, hello, Theo. I would love to join you and your friends…"

Haha, I like how I censor myself for every other chapter, and then in this one I just let loose (Author's notes are now un-rated due to my anger-fueled foul mouth). I'm sorry for taking so long, the next chapter isn't written but I hope to take care of that soon. In the meantime, please review!