-1Chapter 7: False Addiction

Disclaimer: I do not own code lyoko, sorry some French guys do..

"Snort" ZZzzzzzzzzzzz... "Bam!" "Hugh.. what, who..where!" Aelita jerked her head up form the table she was sitting at. Her forehead had a large red mark on it and it stung a little. "Yawn." she let out a large yawn and rubbed her forehead seemingly unaware of the lecture going on at that very moment.

At the sound of the yawn the instructor stopped and looked up from his lecture board. "Miss Stones." the teacher loudly stated singling out the only pink haired girl in the room.

"Uh...yes professor Porter?" Aelita spoke neversouly.

"I will need to see you after class about that yawning."

"Yaw... "Um yes sir." Aelita stopped in mid yawn and snapped back to the land of the awake and put on her best Alert face.

The entire class burst into laughter after all this was college not middle school and talking to a teacher after class was all but unheard of .

"That's enough!" The professor clearly stated smacking his lecture pointer onto his desk. There was a loud crack however it did little good until he resorted to threats. "Ok class you wanta play hardball me too, if I cant hear a pen drop in this room in the next five seconds that will be 20 extra questions on your already full final." Suddenly the room became quite and still as convent on some idle Tuesday afternoon during prayer time.

"Good that's better." the professor stated and with a smile on his face he picked up on the lesson where he left off.

A little while later...

Class had ended and the students were slowly filtering out of the Nano lab. and professor porter stopped Aelita.

"What is it professor?" she still a little drowsy asked

"Well miss stones to be quite frank, I am concerned about your uh... um your grades in the last two weeks ive well never seen such a reversal of fortune. I mean 2 weeks a go you had a 109 in my class and a 4.13 GPA over all. Now your grade in here has fallen to 89 and your GPA to 3.5. I don't understand how such a brilliant young woman could have such a..a...a."

"Sporadic shift in the logarithm of my Grade point average." Aelita interrupted finishing his sentence. "Look professor its I still have a B+ in your class so why are you so concerned?"

"Its not the B that worries me its the drop of 20 points in in your grade in 2 weeks most people cant afford to drop 2 points or be in danger of failing. Listen if you have some sort of a problem in sure some of the staff here would be more than happy to help you out. We have councilors for those sort of things."

"No I don't think I need counseling." Aelita said calmly "but I will tell you what is going on."

The professor's ears perked up and the stood there attentive ready to hear.

"Well it all started 2 weeks ago when I bought Earth of War The massive multi-player online Role playing game. it has taken up all of my free time recently you know I almost have my Bezerker to lv 49." She shook her head and continued it is very addictive."

Well if your sure that is all you may go." The professor sighed

"Thank you professor" Aelita said with a smile as she hurried out.

"Hum 2 weeks and she's already lv 49 man ive had the game for six months and Imp only a lv 28 sidekick. Maybe I should have picked a better character class." The professor thought to himself as he began picking up his lesson plans.

"Sigh finally free" Aelita thought to herself as she reached to her room there was still so much to do but before she could make it in she was meet at the door by another girl.

"Your not a very good liar." The girl stated with a half smile standing in front of her dorm door.

"Was it really that odious Emily?" Aelita asked

Emily just nodded. "Everyone knows that you cant get a bezerker to lv 49 in 2 weeks even if you didn't stop but to use the bathroom."

"Ok maybe I lied.. a little but what's it matter anyway I mean its none of his business anyway as long as im passing and I still have the highest grade in his class, in fact im doing everyone a favor by bending the grading curve a lil." now if you don't mind ied like to go and get some sleep."

"Aelita that's not like you, you know?" Emily said "what's really going on?"

"Noth..."

She was about to finish with ing but she was cut off by Emily "It has something to do with that e-mail doesn't it?" the strange one you got 2 weeks ago."

Aelita jaw dropped open and she stuttered through these next words. "um...uh..but..how...how did you...how did you know."

"Call it intuition. and maybe a little luck the student center computers aren't the best place to check your email if you don't want other people reading them." Emily shrugged and pushed her glasses back up on her nose.

There was a long pause of absolute silence nothing seemed to move to and for a moment the universe sat there in total deadlock. When "And who is this szanta person you always mumble about while you are sleeping in class. Aelita froze and Emily gave her the evil eye look. (the one your mother gives you when she says without words (I know your Up to something and I WILL find out.")

"Oh gee wiz um look at the time." Aelita said pointing at the wall surprisingly this caught Emily off guard and Aelita darted past her and into her room slamming and locking the door.

"That wisent fair Aelita." Emily yelled

But Aelita was in her room in her grove. Techno music blaired as loud as the dorm matron would allow. Now nothing else mattered quickly she booted up her computer and again typed as a woman possessed she probably wouldn't stop until she had to go to class the next morning and even then she might not go. She was so close to an answer well... maybe was more like it but she had to have an answer something this was just all too much.

this email this resurgence of old memories and data not to mention the nightmares they all pointed in one direction... at least to her.

Again she pulled up the email probably the ninety-seventh time this week and scanned it. "Two whole Terra bites" she said to herself "Bigger than just about any computer's hard drive." it was a good thing she had managed to hack the University's T3 line otherwise she would be waiting for it when she was old and grey.

Finally after a few minutes of loading screens the e-mail loaded. In truth the massive attachment was some sort of encrypted computer program Aelita was sure of this but as for the encryption she had no idea of how long it would take to decode it or if it could even be done without a supercomputer. Hopefully the three processors she had hooked together could stop arguing long enough to process this data and break the code if not she would probably burn them up trying.

"Sigh" she had been here ever night since the electrical storm and was still in the same place she was a week ago. "Well" She said to herself ied rather be comfortable if im goanna be here all night again." as she stood up and stripped off her clothes she slipped on her night shirt and pink socks while she dug around in her mini fridge for something to eat. "Raman again... what a surprise." She said to herself as strings of strange digits and characters rained down on the screen.