Here's another chappy. Hope you enjoy!
(Odd P.O.V.)
I wake up before Ulrich (which is weird because it doesn't happen often) so I decide to have a little fun. I go kneel next to his bed and whisper in his ear.
"Ulrich… oh Ulrich… it's me Yumi. Won't you wake up for me?" I say in the most girly-ish voice I can.
"Mmm… Yumi… Yumi?" He says stirring.
"Ulrich, oh no Ulrich! XANA's going to get me! Help! Oh no!" I say still quietly. It's hard to keep from laughing.
"Yumi… Yumi…" He says, practically in convulsions. "Yumi! I'm coming!"
"Ulrich help me!" I shout in his ear and he jolts up. He jumps out of bed and is immediately in fighting position. He looks around confused. Meanwhile, I'm rolling on the floor laughing. Ulrich does his signature scowl.
"Not funny Odd."
"What are you talking about that was hilarious!" I say between bouts of laughter. Ulrich throws a pillow at me and walks out the door towards the showers. I follow suit. I know now that Ulrich is going to give me the cold shoulder for a while, but eventually he will calm down and realize it really was funny. But he'll still never admit it. Oh well, it was funny anyway. After my shower, I head down to Avery's room. I knock a couple of times, but there's no answer. I try the doorknob, but it's locked.
"Avery? Are you in there?" I call, hoping that maybe she will answer. No such luck, it's completely silent inside. I think nothing of it and walk to the cafeteria.
Maybe she just was hungry and went on ahead…I get in line and take the normal stuff, which happens to be everything, and head over to our table. Jeremie, Aelita and Ulrich are there, but Avery isn't.
"Hey, have you guys seen Avery? I went to her room, but she didn't answer."
"Maybe she just wanted to sleep some more. Last time I was on a plane, I slept for a day afterwards." Ulrich suggests.
"Maybe. I think I'm going to go and check on her again…" I say, standing up.
"Odd, I'm sure she's fine." Aelita says.
"Yah, beside, you haven't even eaten yet… wait a minute, are you feeling okay?" Jeremie says.
"Yah, I feel fine, just worried about her. Is that a crime?"
"Are you sure? You have never gone without breakfast before."
"Woah, Odd actually wanted to skip breakfast? Are you the real Odd, or did XANA clone you?" Ulrich says laughing. Aelita joins in, but Jeremie doesn't find it very funny.
"Okay, you win. I'll check again after breakfast. Happy?" I sit down and start eating, but slowly. I can't help it, I don't have much of an appetite because I'm thinking to much about Avery.
What's up with me? Why do I care so much about a girl I barely know…?"Are you sure you're okay Odd? You haven't said a word since you sat down."
"Yah, I'm just thinking about… stuff."
"Ooh, I think somebody has the love bug." Ulrich says, but I barely hear him. I snap to attention at the word love.
"Huh? What was that?"
"Yup, that proves it. Odd, you're in love."
"Shut up Ulrich."
"I think we've switched places now, haven't we. Now I know you're in love and I get to tease you about it while you deny it."
"It's ironic." Jeremie explains.
"What's that mean?" Ulrich and I both say at the same time. We look at each other and laugh.
"It means an odd circumstance that usually is funny. Like if Ulrich says all blondes are dumb, but then Jeremie beats him at chess." Aelita explains, but I still don't get it.
"Okay, I'll take you word for it." I respond, grateful we finally got off the topic of Avery and me.
"But that brings us back to a good point, where could Avery be? Yesterday she ate almost as much as you did, but now she skips breakfast? Weird." Jeremie says worriedly.
"Oh, I know. But I am not going to tell." Says an annoying voice right behind me. I look behind and of course, the stands Sissi.
"And how could you possibly know? Not like she would tell you anything after what you did to her yesterday." I say angrily.
"What did she do?" Aelita asks.
"She ditched her without telling her anything. Avery was wandering around for an hour before I found her."
"That's cold Sissi, even for you." Ulrich says, menace in his voice.
"So what? She deserved it. And you can forget about me telling you where she is."
"No Sissi, wait. I'm sorry." I say quickly, before I realize anything. Everybody at the table gasps in surprise. I actually said sorry to Sissi instead of insulting her?
What the hell am I thinking?"Please, just tell me where she is."
"W-why should I?" Even Sissi seems amazed that I apologized.
"Please Sissi, tell me where she is, I need to know."
Why do I need to know so bad? She's only a friend… right?"What will you do for me?"
"What do you want?"
"I want something from my Ulrich dear."
"No fucking-" Ulrich starts to say, but I turn around with a pleading look. Ulrich sighs. "What is it?" He asks as if he doesn't want to know the answer.
"I want you to go out with me."
"No way. Even knowing where she is isn't worth that. Besides, I'm dating Yumi."
"Fine then, just a kiss."
"Hell no." He says and looks away.
"Fine then, good luck finding Avery!"
"Okay fine Dammit. But I wont like it."
"You don't have to." I say to him, giving him the most thank you smile I can think of. Ulrich walks over to Sissi and gives her a quick kiss, making it as short as possible.
"There, happy?"
"No. I want a better one." Ulrich gives an exasperated sigh and kisses her again. Unfortunately, Yumi picked this moment in time to walk into the cafeteria.
Oh shit. Not good, not good!Ulrich notices and they quickly break apart. Sissi just stands there dazed.
"Yumi wait!" But he was too late, Yumi had run out with tears in her eyes. Ulrich was quick to follow, we saw him catch up to her outside. We could hear her yelling from here.
"Ulrich what the hell was that?" Ulrich says something quietly, so we can't hear it.
"Well no duh you were kissing Sissi! Even an idiot could see that!"
"Wait Yumi, just let me explain!" But he was too late again, Yumi had run off. Ulrich stood there rigidly. We heard him give an anguished cry and run off towards the dorms.
"Wow, that worked out rather well…" Sissi commented.
"Sissi, you're a bitch. Tell me where Avery is and then leave before I sock you." I say angrily. Sissi looks mad, Aelita and Jeremie look shocked that I would use such language.
"Fine then. At six this morning, I saw her walking off towards the city." Sissi says and turns away.
"What the hell? What kind of information is that? You broke up Ulrich and Yumi so that I could know that?"
"Yah, and it worked out really well. See you later Odd, I'm going to go and convince Ulrich that Yumi never liked him so he'll go out with me." She says smugly.
SLAPI step back angrily. Sissi lets out an anguished cry like Ulrich's and runs out of the room, her whole side of her face is red from my slap.
"Odd, what has gotten into you? Since when do you ever hurt girls?" Aelita looks shocked.
"Sissi isn't a girl, she's a bitch. She deserved that. But no girl deserves to be hit, so I slapped her." I pull out my phone and send a quick message to Ulrich.
DON'T LISTEN TO SISSI
-O
"I need to go and talk to Yumi."
"Okay go Odd. This mess really is your fault anyway."
"Thanks Jeremie, that really helped." I run quickly out of the cafeteria, forgetting completely about my breakfast. I run quickly towards the woods, hoping Yumi would be in there. I hear crying and stop. I turn around and see Yumi laying against the side of the cafeteria.
Wow, she didn't run very far…
"Yumi…" She looks up at me. Her cheeks are covered in tears, and the little makeup she wears is running.
"Go away Odd." She looks down again.
"No Yumi. I need to explain."
"What is there to explain? Besides, you must think I'm stupid, crying this hard."
"No, I understand, you love Ulrich."
"What could you possible understand about love?" She yells at me. I'm taken aback, but I quickly recover.
"My love is what got you into this mess in the first place."
"What do you mean?"
"I think I'm in love with Avery. I was worried about her when she didn't show up for breakfast this morning. Sissi came by, saying she knew where she was. She wouldn't tell unless Ulrich kissed her."
"And of course Ulrich was ready and willing-."
"No he wasn't. I practically begged for him to do it. He finally consented to do it for me, and that's when you came in." I decided not to tell her he kisses Sissi twice. That might make it worse.
"So, Ulrich didn't want to do it?"
"No, he nearly told her to fuck off, but I stopped him. Please don't be mad at Ulrich, this was all my fault."
"I'm so stupid…."
"No, you're extremely smart. You just overreacted and stopped thinking clearly."
"Do you think Ulrich will want to out with me again?"
"Ulrich loves you. More than you can imagine. He will definitely want to go out with you again, I just need to talk to him first."
"Okay. Thanks Odd." I offer her my hand and she takes it, standing up. "Just one last thing…."
"What's that?"
"Who's Avery?" I explain the whole story as we walk back into the cafeteria.
"Hmmm… I don't know. I had a cousin I hung out with all the time, but I just remember calling her Ave. She could be the same person. You said she was from the states?"
"Yah. Well, I think so…."
"Hey Yumi. Are you going to be okay?" Aelita says immediately when Yumi sits down.
"Yah, I think I will be."
"I was thinking, even though Sissi was being extremely harsh, she did give us a little bit of helpful information. She said Avery was going to the city, early in the morning. That rules out that she was just sleeping in her room."
"So? It still doesn't help very much."
"Well, when she comes back, we'll ask her where she went."
"That is if Sissi was telling the truth. She could have been lying."
"I don't think so. She wasn't lying, I can tell." Aelita says.
"How do you know?"
"I just know."
Maybe it's a girl thing…
(Avery P.O.V.)
After waking up this morning, I decided to check out the supercomputer that I found last night. I head out the school gates with a map I printed from the Internet. I find the river and cross the bridge with my laptop in my backpack. I enter the factory. It smells like old rusty metal and cheap air fresheners. Finding no other way down, I use a rope and swing down to the ground floor. After a minute of searching, I find no computer. I decide the only other place it could be is downstairs, so I enter the freight elevator and push the button. The door closes smoothly.
That's weird. If this factory is abandoned, it should have been squeaky.
The elevator goes down a floor and then stops. A panel opens underneath the button with a keypad.
I need a combo…
I take out my laptop and quickly hook it up. I press the password finder button that I created. It tries all four digit number combinations to find the password. After a couple minutes, it comes up with it. 8614. I put it in and the door opens to a large room. The room has some kind of holographic projection in it. I look at it and there seems to be four different rings, one is rock, one is sand, one is grass and the last one is ice.
Weird.
I look around and see a keyboard with three monitors. I sit in the chair, leaning my backpack against the side. I type in the combination again, it grants me full access. I look around and find myself in the smaller cell.
This isn't the right one. I still can't destroy the virus; I need to find the other access panel.
I look at the time, it's nearly 9:00.
Where did the morning go? Oh well, I have all day.
I get back into the elevator and go down another level. The door opens to an empty room. I walk inside and something comes out of the floor. I don't know how to describe it. I take a closer look and see an access port near the bottom. I plug in my computer to it….
Muahahahahahahahaha(cough)haha. Mesa lika da cliffies! R&R, see if you can figure out what is going to happen in the next chappy! Anyone who gets it right, will get a cookie! (Or maybe a dedication)