Chapter Two

Reunited

"I can materialise Aelita forever!" Jeremy exclaimed

"No way!" Said Odd sitting up all of a sudden

"Way" both Ulrich and Yumi said excitedly.

"Aelita? Are you there?" Jeremy asked

"I hear you and heard the good news. I'm ready whenever you are." Said Aelita.

"o.k. I'll begin the transferral. Your data will be sent to the computer and you will lose consciousness. See you in a while." Jeremy said hardly able to contain his joy. He had dropped everything in his life for Aelita and had never actually told her why. The plain and simple truth was that he loved her.

"here we go!"

"scanner on, pod 3 active, inputting virus code f1. we are ready to launch. Activate virus!" said Jeremy.

Three days later:

It had been two days since Aelita had been materialised. Jeremy was walking to his dorm which he now shared with odd as he and Ulrich had fallen out because odd had broken Ulrich's mp3 player. But Jeremy hadn't seen as much of Aelita as he had hoped. In fact she had spent most of her time with odd.

As odd staggered in looking dazed and confused Jeremy finally cracked.

"what have you and Aelita been up to?" he demanded.

"ask her yourself why don't you!" odd said loudly.

"o.k. I will" shouted Jeremy.

He walked out of the door slamming it violently in odds face. Aelita was outside.

"I thought you might want to talk to me" she said and started walking to here favourite place in the world. Jeremy had also started knowing exactly where she would want to go.

As they walked an uneasy silence settled upon them.

Finally Jeremy broke the silence

"why have you been seeing odd?" he asked plainly, in no mood to much about.

"well he told me about love…"

Jeremy tensed expectantly

"And he was telling me how to behave. Ike it is not appropriate to take my clothes off, even if I want to, if you are standing near by. He also said that if you love someone you would do anything for them."

They walked on for a few more steps then climbed over a small rocky outcrop that was barely noticeable, into a big cavern that no one, not even the others, knew about except Aelita and Jeremy.

"I wanted to ask, do you love me?" Aelita asked unrepentantly.

"well I… I mean… well the thing is…" Jeremy stuttered

Aelita just stood there looking at him with her big round eyes with that little hint of confusion that Jeremy had come to recognise and love.

He thought he would have to come clean eventually.

"yes I do Aelita"

"I thought so. Odd told me how to recognise when someone was in love with you and told me you were."

Jeremy was waiting for the final blow hat she would say she didn't love him.

"I love you too" she whispered and moved closer to him so he could feel her breath upon his face. Then their lips met and Jeremy couldn't think of anything except the girl whom he had thought would never be real was standing next to him, kissing him.

After a minuet of kissing they broke off.

"wow" said Aelita "odd told me what to expect, but not like that."

Jeremy just stood still looking amazed again.

"I'm sorry" Aelita muttered as she say his face "it was wrong of me to…"

"no. Don't be sorry" said Jeremy "but how about another kiss?"

"certainly" said Aelita. They didn't even come out of the cave for an hour.