Chapter 17: Sam

"What was that all about?" Madison asked Odd as they sat down at their table. Everyone else was already there. They all started looking at him.

"What happened?" Ulrich asked.

"Sam. That's what happened" Odd answered really annoyed.

"Not again" Jeremie, Aelita, Yumi, and Ulrich groaned.

"Can we please get filled in here?" Alexis asked impatiently.

Odd sighed. "Sam and I supposedly went out though we never did. She says that we did though"

"And we think that she has feelings for him" Ulrich said trying to help his friend for finishing for him.

"I still don't get it" Alexis said.

"It's like Ulrich and Sissi" Madison tried explaining. "Sissi like Ulrich but he doesn't like her"

"Oh, I get it now" Alexis said still a little bit confused but able to understand the main part.

"That's good" Madison said sleepily.

"You okay Madison? You seem tired" Jeremie said.

"Yeah, I'm fine" Madison replied.

"Girl! Eat something! It will give you energy!" Alexis told her sister. Madison nibbled on her food. Everyone went back to the conversation about Sam.

"So, how'd she run into you this time?" Aelita asked teasingly.

"When we were coming to dinner and down the stairs, she saw me and she was coming up the stairs and she jumped on me and hugged me" Odd explained.

Madison finished eating and said that she was going to go to bed. Jeremie and Aelita wanted to go to the library and look at the new books that they had gotten over the summer even if Aelita had looked at most of them while she was at the school by herself because she got really bored. Ulrich and Yumi went to the gym to practice martial arts. Alex and Alexis wanted to go see a movie. Odd threw his plate away and headed up the stairs to Madison's room. He was going just to check on her and make sure nothing happened. He opened the unlocked door to see Madison asleep underneath her lime green comforter. She was holding a stuffed frog. He went back down the stairs so he could go to his dorm room section. When he was going up the stairs to his dorm, Sam came out of no where and blocked him from going anywhere.

"Odd, I was looking everywhere for you! My parents finally let me be a student here!" Sam exclaimed happily.

"Leave me alone" Odd said trying to get by her. He now knew how Ulrich felt with Sissi.

"Odd, who was she?" Sam asked annoyed.

"Madison, now let me by" Odd ordered. She didn't move.

"Do you have a relationship with her?"

"Yeah, she's my girlfriend" Odd lied. He didn't even know if Madison liked him. Sam was so furious that she slapped Odd on the cheek and he fell down the stairs being knocked out as Sam stormed off to her room.

Madison bolted straight up in bed breathing quickly. She had a pain in her heart. She got out of bed quickly and changed back into her normal clothes. She had to go see Odd, he always made her feel better. She was almost to the stairs that she would take to go see Odd in his dorm. When she entered through the door that leads to the stairs, she saw Odd tangled up at the bottom of the stairs with a bright red hand print on his cheek. She ran to his side and started crying. Sam started coming down the stairs and saw Madison sitting next to Odd crying.
"You cry too much" Sam said and walked away.

A few minutes later, Odd woke up. "How come whenever I get hit, I wake up with you at my side crying?" he asked teasingly. Madison hugged him and stopped crying. He hugged back.

"What happened?" Madison asked, letting go of Odd.

"When I was going up to my dorm, Sam asked me who you were and I told her and she got mad and slapped me"

"Right here?" Madison asked touching the red handprint on his cheek. He nodded grimacing, holding back the tears and pain. Madison hugged him again. "We better get you to your room" She suggested.

"Okay" Odd said standing up. He took Madison's hand and they went up the stairs.

AT the movies, Alexis and Alex went to see The Chronicles Of Narnia. Whenever one of the characters started crying, Alexis would too. Alex would hug her and when she'd cry and then she'd put her head on his shoulder.

When the movie was almost over, Alex leaned over and kissed Alexis on the cheek. She looked at him passionately and kissed him on the lips. He kissed back.

In the gym where Yumi and Ulrich were practicing martial arts, Ulrich had just pinned Yumi to the ground. He was now hovering over her. How ever, he didn't get off of her. He looked into her deep eyes. She looked right back. After a few minutes, Yumi pushed Ulrich off of herself. He landed on the floor next to her. She sat up and so did he. He was starting to stand up when she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him. He was shocked and then he hugged and kissed her back. When they finally let go, they both turned a bright red.

"What was that for" Ulrich asked looking at her.

"An urge I've had since the day we met" Was her answer. She looked down.

"I've had the same urge" Ulrich said.

"You have?' She asked looking up at him.

Their eyes met "Yeah." They hugged one another.

"Well, I better go" Yumi said letting go of Ulrich.

"Yeah, I better go make sure that Odd didn't kill himself" Ulrich added.
"Yeah, and then inform Madison if anything has happened" Yumi laughed.

"Yeah, she'd cry"

"So you've noticed their relationship too?"

"It's kind of obvious"

"Agreed, now I got to go, dinner's starting soon at my house"

"Right…" Ulrich said rolling his eyes playfully. Yumi sent him a glare then laughed a little. Ulrich just smiled.

In the library, Jeremie and Aelita were looking at all the new books. They were laughing at some and were intrigued by others.

"Aelita, look at this book" Jeremie said holding up a book on monsters.

"Maybe XANA's monsters are in there" Aelita said laughing. "Let's look"

"Nothing in here" Jeremie laughed. Aelita laughed too. Before they knew it, the librarian came over and told them to be quiet. They just ooked at each other.

Once they had gone through most of the new books, they left. Jeremie walked Aelita to her dorm and then left to go to Odd's room to see if he was there. He knocked on the door.

"Come in" Odd yelled. Jeremie opened up the door to find Odd and Madison sitting on Odd's bed.

"Hey guy, and girl" Jeremie said. Madison smiled.

"Hi" Madison said.

"What's up Einstein?" Odd asked.

"I brought Aelita to her dorm" he answered.

"Well then I better go so she won't get too lonely" Madison said quickly.

"Do you really have to leave?" Odd asked giving her his puppy dog eyes.

"Yes" she answered. She left the room without another word. She went into her own room.

"So, what else happened between you and Aelita?" Odd asked.

"We found a book on monsters ad started laughing and I guess we got a little bit too loud and the librarian came over and told us to be quiet." Jeremie answered.

"That's it?" Odd asked disappointed.

"Yep, what did you and Madison do?"

"Well, I was coming up the stairs and I ran into Sam and she asked me who Madison was and I told her that Madison was my girlfriend and then Sam got mad and slapped me and I fell down the stairs and I was knocked out. Madison came and cried by my side and when I woke up we came and hung out up here" Odd said running out of breath.

"Is she really your girlfriend?"

"Well, I like her a lot but I'm not sure if she likes me though but I think she does"

Ulrich and Alex walked in and sat down on their beds.

"I'm so tired" Ulrich complained. "Yumi got better at martial arts"

"The Chronicles of Narnia was awesome! Alex said pretty much jumping up and down. "There was a fire phoenix and a lion killed the white witch"

"Cool, well, I better head back to my own room" Jeremie said.

"Bye Jeremie" the other three answered at the same time and they all went to bed.