Sorry that the update took so long guys! I've been so busy lately that I haven't been able to write! I really don't think this chapter is my best, but it's kind of essential to the plot for this chapter to happen. Please read and review!

Yumi woke again a few hours later to find herself still in the dark dorm room, with Ulrich's arm draped over her waist as she rested her head on his chest, having fallen asleep to the rhythmic sound of his breathing. However, a completely different sound in the room had woken her, and she was shocked to find that her boyfriend had slept through it. On the opposite side of the room, Odd was coughing violently. Yumi shook Ulrich awake quickly as she sat up. "Wake up," she said.

Ulrich opened his eyes groggily and mumbled incoherently while Yumi got up and went to Odd's bedside. She put a hand on the small blonde's shoulder. "Odd are you ok?"

The light turned on as Ulrich finally became alert and got up. "What's going on?" Ulrich asked as he stood beside his kneeling girlfriend and looked at Odd worriedly. "Are you alright?"

"Don't worry… about it…" Odd said in a raspy voice between coughs. "It… happens every night…"

"I've never heard you," Ulrich said suspiciously.

Odd smirked tiredly as he sat up and the coughing fit subsided. "As sound as you sleep lately… I wouldn't expect… you to hear…" Catching Yumi's worried gaze, he tried to reassure her. "It's alright, really."

Yumi put her hand on his forehead in a motherly way and frowned. "It's not alright! Odd, you're burning up!"

"Maybe I should get the nurse," Ulrich suggested nervously.

Yumi nodded. "I can't be caught in here though," she said as she grabbed bag off of the floor. "Stay here with Odd a minute while I go take my stuff to Aelita's room. I'll bring Aelita and Jeremie here, and we'll just pretend you called us up."

"Stop guys," Odd said. "I'm fine. I just need to sleep."

Yumi sighed and shook her head. She threw her bag over her shoulder and picked up Ulrich's 2 pillows, carrying them back to Odd. "Here," she said as she put them behind him. "Just keep yourself propped up. It might help with the coughing. I'll be right back."

She opened the door a crack and peeked out into the hall. Confident that the coast was clear, she made her way down to Aelita's single bedroom and knocked. "Aelita!" she hissed quietly through the door. When there was no answer, she grabbed the doorknob and found the door unlocked. She went in and quietly closed in behind her. Tossing her bag to the side, she want to Aelita's bed and roused the pink-haired girl.

Aelita rubbed her eyes sleepily. "Yumi?"

"Get up!" Yumi told her. "Odd's sick and we need to get to his room!"

Aelita quickly got out of bed. "What are you doing here?" she asked. "How do you know that Odd is sick?"

"Long story," Yumi said. "And if anyone asks, I slept here."

"Ok," Aelita agreed in confusion.

"Let's go," Yumi said as she led her to the boys' floor. They came to Jeremie's door and knocked loudly. "Jeremie!" Yumi yelled. "Wake up!"

This attracted not only Jeremie's attention, but Jim's as well. The large man came up to the girls just as Jeremie opened the door. "What's going on here?" Jim grunted. "Ishiyama, what are you doing here?"

"I slept in Aelita's room," Yumi lied. "Ulrich just called and told us that Odd's got a fever, so we came to get Jeremie."

"Odd's sick?" Jeremie asked.

"Come on," Jim said as he led the way to the boys' dorm room. "We'll check on the kid."

They entered the room, having found the door unlocked. Ulrich was sitting on the bed, beside a very exhausted-looking Odd, who was suddenly not so happy that his roommate's girlfriend had spent the night in the room. "What's wrong?" Jim asked as he stood beside them. "Are you alright, Della Robbia?"

"Just peachy," Odd said sarcastically. "Seriously, you can all go back to bed. I'm fine." His suggestion proved to have fallen on deaf ears however, as Jim's large calloused hand covered his forehead. "What are you doing?"

"You have a fever," Jim told him. "I'm going to get Dorothy. Odd, you stay put."

"As if I had a choice," Odd muttered before he began coughing again.

Yumi shook her head. "I'll go get you some water from the vending machine," she said as she got up and headed down the hall.

"Why do you all have to make this a big deal?" Odd asked moodily.

"Because it is a big deal," Aelita said as she sat on Ulrich's bed. "You can't afford to get sick Odd."

"They won't give you the transplant if you're too sick," Jeremie added.

"I'm fine," Odd told them again defiantly. "I just want to go to sleep. Can you all please go to bed?"

"Too late now," Ulrich said. "The nurse is already on her way to take a look at you. You can go back to sleep as soon as she's done."

Odd frowned and looked away from the nervous pairs of eyes that watched him. He sat in silence until Yumi returned with the water and set it on the bedside table as Jim and Dorothy came in just after her. Dorothy took Ulrich's place beside Odd and excused the others from the room. She grabbed the stethoscope that hung around her neck and put it in her ears and pulled Odd's blankets away a bit. "Odd I need you to take off your shirt a minute," she said.

Odd complied and sat up straight once he was done, bracing himself for the touch of the freezing metal on his skin. A slight shiver went down his spine as the stethoscope was placed on his chest. "Take a deep breath," Dorothy told him. He did so, and she moved to the other side of his chest. "Again," she said with a slight frown. Once he'd done it she moved the stethoscope to his back and told him to breathe again.

This time, as Odd breathed in, he began to cough. Dorothy removed the stethoscope from her ears and let it hang around her neck again. "Odd, how are you feeling?" she asked as she touched his hot forehead gently. "Is that cough painful?"

"No," Odd replied. "Just annoying."

Dorothy smiled at him sympathetically and removed her hand. "Well, I think this is just caused by your medicine," she said. "These are pretty normal side effects. I think that maybe you should have a checkup with your doctor tomorrow, though, just in case. For now, just get some sleep." She stood and opened the door while Odd put his shirt back on.

Yumi, Aelita, Jeremie, and Ulrich came back in as Jim and Dorothy left. Odd lied back on his pillows and gave her friends a dirty look. "I told you it wasn't a big deal," h said. "You guys really need to stop treating me like a baby."

Aelita just shook her head. "Not a chance," she joked, though she looked at him hesitantly. "So, you're ok?"

"Yea," Odd replied. "I'm fine."

Sissi couldn't sleep that night. Things were just so unusual at Kadic recently that sleeping there felt awkward and uncomfortable. She just had so much on her mind, and all she was used to thinking about was her appearance and her jealousy of Ulrich's friends. Her newest thoughts and feelings were foreign to her.

Sighing, she stood up and put on a pair of slippers. She decided to go see her father in hopes that he could help her sort out her thoughts. She walked down the quiet halls to the Principal's quarters, and was about to knock on his bedroom door when she heard voices coming from his office beside it. Quietly, she peaked through the small opening and saw the nurse and Jim standing with her father. Dorothy was talking about Odd, who had apparently woken up sick during the night. "I'm going to call Dr. Greene first thing in the morning to see if he can fit him in for an appointment," she was saying.

"I thought you said that it was just the medicine," Jim said.

Sissi saw a look of deep nervousness on the nurse's face. "Yes, the cough and the fever probably are," Dorothy said. "His doctor still needs to confirm that it isn't anything more serious. But that actually isn't my biggest concern. I didn't like how his heartbeat was sounding when I examined him. I'm a bit worried that his problem might be progressing more quickly than expected."

Sissi bit her lip worriedly. Her father gave a dismayed sigh. "Poor boy…"

"I should be getting back to the infirmary now," Dorothy said.

Mr. Delmas nodded absently, dismissing his employees, and Sissi hid in the shadow of a large statue beside the door. However, only Dorothy left the room, and Sissi strained herself to hear the rest of Jim's and her father's conversation. "Oh, sir," she heard Jim staying. "I just wanted to tell you that Yumi Ishiyama is sleeping in Aelita Stones's bedroom tonight. I wasn't sure if you had already known."

"Her mother had called earlier to tell me," Mr. Delmas said.

Deciding that this conversation was of no importance, Sissi left before Jim and headed back to her own room to think. As she passed Aelita's room, Yumi and Aelita were just entering it again. Sissi stood at Aelita's doorway awkwardly. "Is Odd alright?" she asked. "I heard Daddy talking to the nurse about what happened."

Yumi nodded while Aelita smiled slightly. "He'll be just fine," Aelita said as she sat on her bed.

Sissi gave a small nod, knowing that they must not have been told about Dorothy's suspicion. She stood there a moment longer, not sure if she should leave or say something about what she'd heard. She looked around the room, observing Yumi's bag on the floor and the lack of a sleeping bag on the floor.

Yumi looked at Sissi questioningly as she lingered in the doorway. "You should go to bed Sissi," she said.

Sissi turned to leave, but looked over her shoulder before going. "If I didn't know any better," she said. "I'd say that Aelita slept here alone all night."

Yumi and Aelita watched the door shut behind Sissi before looking at each other and shrugging. "Let's just get ready for bed."

So like I said, not the best chapter, but it needed to be in there.

Next chapter: Odd confesses to Sissi, but will she break his heart? Does she care about Odd or is she still jealous of Ulrich and Yumi?