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Chapter 5 : Anger and Forgiveness
"She did what? How could she do that to Odd!" said an angry Japanese girl.
"I know, how dense is she?" said the angry brunette.
(Angel's POV)
With Angel . . .
"Hey Yumi! What's up?" said the cheery girl to the downcasts group. She surveyed the group for a minute. "Hey. Where's Odd?"
"Why should we tell you punk?" said an uberly (A/N : I heart this word!) angry Ulrich.
"Yah, like you should know." The raven head seemed equally as mad at her.
"Just beat it!"
I looked at Jeremie, maybe he could tell me. I caught his eye, but he just shook his head. I wonder what I could have done? I guess I should find Sissi, I'm probably more welcome there then I am here.
It wasn't that hard to find her, after all she was the only one with pink clothes on all the time. Except for maybe Milly, but . . . I wonder though, why is it that everyone hates Sissi. She's not that bad once you get to know her. She just wants attention. A lot of it. And friends, can't forget that. Or at least someone to talk to. I'll stop, I'm beginning to sound like a psychiatrist or a broken record.
"Angel, over here!" someone called interrupting my silent pondering. By the time I got to her the bell rang.
At Mrs. Hertz's Class . . .
Well, at least I know that Odd's okay, he looks really depressed though, I'd go up and ask Odd what's wrong except that Ulrich was glaring a gazillion daggers at me.
"Good Morning Class."
"Good Morning Mrs. Hertz."
"We have a new student today, please welcome Ms. Aelita Stones."
Strange. She looks so familiar. But where could I have seen her? As far as I know, I know no one that has pink hair or wears pink snow boots, and a pink pullover dress.
"Hello Aelita." Chorused the whole class.
"Please take a seat by . . . lets see. . . Ah yes. Please have a seat by Jeremie, the boy with the glasses and blue turtleneck."
I glanced at her for just a second. We caught each other's eye and suddenly we were both clutching our heads in agony.
There was a small girl with pink hair woven with flowers and wearing a summer dress, looking down at me.
"Papa?" she said ",isn't see so bootiful?"
"It's beautiful dear, not bootiful, and she not see, and yes she is very adorable."
This new man had blond hair, a beard and moustache. and big, round glasses. I heard the baby giggling as the pink haired girl was tickling who I could only assume was me. I was reaching out and tried to touch her and I wrapped my hand around her finger. She was giggling. Suddenly a man with a laughing face picked me up and put me around his neck. And swung me around. I was still laughing and having the time of my life.
Jeremie seemed pleased that Aelita was with him but also very worried since she seemed to be in so much pain. I'm guessing that they knew each other from before. I probably tuned out to long because since Ulrich was behind me, and he was very, very pisst off at me already, he threw a paper ball with a very hard rock inside. How did he get the rock though? Oh well, what's done is done. Mrs. Hertz was passing out tests, oh gosh, I just know I failed, I mean, I don't even know the language.
"Jeremie, very good 100. Herve, good job, 100. Ulrich, you should get Jeremie to tutor you, 58. Angel, excellent, 100."
My eyes widened with shock. How could I get a 100? This has to be some sort of sick joke. Did I mention Herve was staring and gawking at me probably because I was the only girl to have got 100.
At Lunch . . .
I went to sit at Jeremie's usual table and thank gosh he was alone. After all, he's my only hope of finding out what the heck is going on here!
"Jeremie, why are all of you so mad at me?"
"Shouldn't you know, after all, you're the one who caused it" with the same cold anger as the others. I looked at him with confusion. But kept pressing on.
"Jeremie, what have I done? If this is all about me ditching you guys after school, I'm sorry."
"You really don't know do you?"
"Look into my eyes Jeremie, does it look like I know?"
At least he had enough courage to actually look at me. After that he started to talk.
"They're all mad at you because you have a boyfriend." He said quietly.
"WHAAAAT! I do not, I repeat, I do not, have a boyfriend. I never did in my life! Care to describe this boy? And may I ask why is it of your guys concern as to who I go out with."
"He's black, he was wearing a red shirt, and he had dark brown eyes. It's our concern because Odd likes you."
"Okay, so Odd was stalking me, please tell him to stop, it's creepy." I looked back for a second and the gang was coming and they didn't look to happy. "the guy you saw was my brother. Jeremie, I've got to go now, bye" I said in a rushed, quiet voice and I quickly hurried off. No need to get knocked out by Ulrich, that is, if he can knock me out.
(Sissi's POV)
Angel came back with a dejected look on her face. I asked her what's wrong, but she just plastered this happy look on her face and acted as if nothing bad happen. I can't be sure but I think Herve and Nicholas caught on as well, even if Nicholas is a little dense. I can't help but think their scheming something. She's one of my best friends, one of my only friends as a matter a fact. I'm blessed to have a friend like her, who sees me for who I am inside, instead of who I pretend to be. I may think I'm blessed but I think she feels as if it's the other way around.
Angel's POV
After School . . .
Oh gosh. What are those two bone heads doing to Jeremie? I'm guessing he's not having a fun time since Nicholas is pinning him to the wall and Herve is in a yelling fit. He looked terrified and kept glancing at his laptop that had slid into a tree, probably broken. I think I should go help. I ran as fast as I could to help Jeremie. I skidded to a stop. I got there just in time to stop the punch Nicholas was going to give him. I'm guessing it caught him by surprised since he looked so shocked.
"Hey Nicholas, what're you doing to Jeremie? Has he done something wrong?"
"Uh. Angel. Hi?" he said awkwardly.
"Shall I repeat the question? What're you doing to Jeremie?"
"Umm. We're just getting revenge for you and teaching him a lesson!" Herve said
"Yah, you looked so sad after you talked to him! We're trying to make you feel better." Nicolas put in.
"Thank you, but I insist it wasn't his fault for my sadness, I provoked it. It's my fault for feeling so sad. Also, violence doesn't solve anything. Now if you please, put Jeremie down, he looks as pale as a ghost." I said slightly laughing.
Oh great, just great! The last thing I need is for Ulrich to cause trouble, I just know he wants to fight! And who the heck is Asian boy with them? I swear he's checking out Yumi, I don't think she knows though.
"Hey Angel, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Ulrich said while cracking his knuckles.
"ULRICH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! William or Yumi or Odd stop him!" I heard Jeremie cry in the back ground. But did that stop Ulrich? No siry. He got out of the hold his three friends had on him. His punch connected right in my eye. I flew back like 3 feet.
"Ulrich, care to stop this madness? I don't want to hurt you." I said pleading with him. I know he wants to hurt me but I don't want to hurt him.
"Yah, like you totally can hurt me." he sneered, and as if to prove my point, I punched him in the arm. Hard. He was grabbing his arm in pain and staggering. I reached in my bag.
"Put this on. It'll ease the pain and swelling." Did I mention that I made up a lot of my own medicine that worked better than prescribed ones? That's probably why I'm the Nurse Yolande's assistant. Good thing about this is, if she has to many patients, I can skip class without going to a detention. I turned to look at Odd, poor guy, he's just in shock that Ulrich got beat by a girl other than Yumi who Ulrich couldn't bear to hurt since he's head over heels in love with her! ",just for the record, I don't have a boyfriend." I started to leave.
"Thanks." I heard Ulrich call out after me. I also heard Odd running after me.
"Angel, hey Angel! Wait up!" I stopped.
"If you don't have a boyfriend, then who was he?"
"Who?" I played dumb. Just for the evil little fun of it.
"The boy in the park."
"Oh! You mean Chris?" I feigned shock "He's my brother. Were you stalking me?"
"N-no! But you don't look anything alike!"
"I guess you could say . . . I'm adopted. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go."
Unfortunately he didn't excuse me and kept stalking me all the way to the shelter.
"Odd if you're going to stalk me, do it more discreetly." I looked back, he must have been shocked to see me walking into a homeless shelter. "Odd, don't get any assumptions, first impressions are always deceiving. Please go home, you don't belong here. I doubt you'll last even an hour here." After that he took off, probably telling the others I live in a shelter, even if it's not true.
"I'm back Jen. Should I start cleaning the dishes?" I said as I walked in.
"Ah, yes, but first stop that fight." I'm guessing fighting must be normal here since Jen didn't even seem to worried about it, just another chore for her and since she's a lazy butt, she gave it to me. I glanced over at the fight. It was between two boys. Oh gosh! What has Nat got into now! I can't tell if he's sparring or if he's actually in a fight. Well, I better check it out.
I walked up to the now gathering crowd and pushed through it. I could hear the yelling, but the only word I could make out is a very angry 'shut up' coming from Nat. I soon found Adriana in the crowd looking scared and crying. I guess she must hate fighting a lot. So I took her out of the crowd.
"Adriana, what are they fighting about?" I said while wiping away tears from her eyes.
"Their fighting over you." she said in a really tiny voice.
"Ummm, come again?"
"Their fighting over you." she said in the same innocent tiny voice.
"I don't get it. Can you please explain."
"Nat likes you and Thomas was teasing him about it and I think that Thomas like you too."
"Okay," I said skeptically ", so this Thomas guy that I don't even know and Nat who I just met both like me and I only started coming here a month ago (A/N : she came a lot, I just was to lazy to write every single time she visited the shelter!)? Are you sure? How the heck did you find this out! And why the heck do they like me?"
"That's basically it, yes, I'm pretty sure, I listened to the fight to find this out. They probably like you because your so nice to them and since they don't have much friends, they treasure the once they have and in this case, they fall in love. You're really popular here yah know? Everyone likes you, even the ones that I thought had hearts of coal. I think Thomas just adores you from afar, you should here how he talks about you and how he bugs Nat just to tell him everything you guys talked about." she said rolling on the floor laughing. I was cracking up too I'll admit.
I think that I'll keep this to myself. I'll just let this fight play out and start on the dishes. This fight should end as soon as I finished the dishes and started to play with Adriana. Just as I predicted, the fight ended. They both looked very bust up and war torn. I started laughing, not at them mind you, but at a memory I had of something like this. Either way they both looked at me in disgust.
Your probably wondering what memory I'm thinking of. I'll tell you. Before Chris left me and the sextuplets, some kids were picking on me and Chris got in a fight with them and won but they all walked away looking just like Thomas and Nat. I really should get a life and stop reminiscing on the past! Well I better see how Nat's doing.
"Hey what's up?" I said while taking a seat next to him. He was bruised all over. It looked really disgusting. But oh, so funny. "Here put this on it'll ease the swelling and pain, give some to Thomas too and what in heavens name was that fight about?" even though I knew, playing stupid seemed the best way to go.
"Oh. You saw that didn't you." he turned away, he couldn't face me I guess, it's understandable of course. It takes tons of courage to tell someone you love them. Except for that one time when I was really, really hyper and started to hug everyone telling them I love them. Oh boy, that was a really horrible day. Anyway.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. . . I guess I'm not sparring you today!" Instead of laughing, he just noticed my growing bruise on my right eye that was getting so swollen that it was hard to see.
"What happened to your eye! Who did this to you?" I smiled, well at least it shows he cares about me when he really should be thinking about himself.
"Nothing I just got hit with a baseball, it's okay, really, I've been through worse. I have to go I'm going to be late for dinner (it's nearly 8)." I just left him in shock, but it's better than telling him my whole life story.
Odd's POV
At School . . .
"Hey you guys! I think we really should stop harassing Angel, she didn't do anything wrong, the guy I saw was her brother."
"What do you mean? the boy you saw was African-American, Angel's Asian!" said Ulrich and Yumi together. Meanwhile Jeremie sat calmly and watched it all play out.
"That boy was really--"
"--Angel's brother. She was adopted." Jeremie interrupted.
"How did you --? "
"How did I know? She told me she had a brother during lunch and since they don't look the same, I deducted that she must have been adopted." Jeremie said as if it was so obvious.
"I think we should go over an apologize to her all together after dinner."
"Great idea Yumi!" I said.
"I'll meet you guys in front of her house at 7:30"
After Dinner in Front of Angel's House . . .
"Hey you guy's I can't believe you actually made it on time! C'mon lets go!" Yumi said as we were walking to the door.
We rang the bell and instead of Angel answering the door as we hoped, her aunt did.
"You must be Angelique's friends! I'm sorry but she's not home right now. You can wait for her if you like."
"Okay since she's not here lets go!" Ulrich said but Yumi stopped him from leaving by grabbing his collar.
"We'd love to stay if you wouldn't mind." Yumi said happily while glaring at Ulrich.
"Not at all, please come in and make yourself at home."
We waited for along time, about a half an hour before we heard Angel coming through the door.
"I'm home Aunty Ann!" she turned to go into the living room and saw us. If she was shocked, she didn't show it. "Umm. Hey?"
"ANGEL! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN! I was so worried about you!" She flinched when her aunt said that, I've never seen her actually flinch before.
"I'm sorry aunt, it was my fault. I should have called you." her voice just ever so slightly shaking.
"I'm sorry dear did I scare you? After what you been through I have no right to yell at you. I'm sorry . . ."
What the heck? What was she talking about? I looked at the other's and we all exchanged looks. They didn't understand either. Angel must have noticed too because she rushed her next sentence.
"It's okay, It's my fault, but shush aunt we have guests, you should be in bed. Go! Hurry!" she said with pleading eyes. Then she turned to us "is there some reason you guys are in my house?" while plopping down on a chair. I just noticed how big her bruise was getting, it was so swollen that her eye couldn't open.
"Yah, we all wanted to say we're sorry. We shouldn't have jumped to conclusions." I said with downcast eyes. All the others just nodded in agreement.
"It's okay, we all make mistakes. You guys should head back before Jim finds you. I need to finish my homework."
They all left and Ulrich gave her back the medicine, thanked her, and apologized for the brutal punch, but I stayed behind and caught her before she started on her homework.
"Angel, are you sure your okay? You seem to be letting us off too easy."
"Odd I'm fine, really, stop worrying about it." I wanted to believe her but she still looked like she was in pain with her swollen eye. I was pretty sure she couldn't see out of it. Did I mention she started to have a bleeding nose?
Thunk
I turned back and found Angel on the floor with her nose still bleeding. I ran and told her aunt and she came running down. I really hope she's okay. But at least she's our friend again.
A/N : Wow. That was a long chapter. Almost eleven pages. Sorry it took so long, I hope it makes up for the time between this chapter and the one before this. I finally gave up trying to watch the second season of Code : Lyoko since I don't have cable tear , but I have managed to watch six of the new episodes! Hurray for me! But I really want to watch 'em all. If you guys know any way to, please tell me! I'll love you forever puppy dog eyes ! Anyway, thank you to all my reviewers so far. You guys are the best! Please review!
