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This chapter was written by me. It was edited by Discordant Night.

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Xana's Kiss

Inside Lila and Aelita's room

POV Lila's

Taking my pen I begin writing a new entry in my diary.

Dear Diary,

Jeremy and the others have gotten their letters from Cameron. Odd was happy to hear from him and how Cameron missed the food here in France, it made Odd laugh.

I also received a letter from Cameron. He told me his nightmares went away a while ago, which is good. And that he misses me.

When responding to his letter via text, I told him that I hope that he is well and that I miss him too. I haven't heard from him since though. I feel bad that we kicked him out of the group, but what else were we supposed to do?

I know Aelita mentioned she received a letter from Cameron… but she threw it out. She doesn't want to talk or see him any time soon. I can't say I blame her… I won't pretend to understand that I know how she's feeling. I don't.

Anyways, I'm going to meet with Aelita and Jeremy. See ya. Lila.

Afterwards

Under the arches

After meeting Jeremy and Aelita in Jeremy's room, the three of us are now walking under the arches. As we walk past the arches and towards the courtyard, Heidi strides purposefully up to us. She's wearing a light purple dress, the color similar to the jumper dress Aelita wears over her pink hoodie. She has short blonde hair and black eyes and is just a few inches taller than Aelita and me.

"Jeremy, would you mind telling me why you kissed me in front of Odd?" Heidi asks, crossing her arms. We look at Jeremy in shock.

"Huh?" my father blinks, surprised. "What are you talking about?" Jeremy asks, putting his hands in his pockets. He looks directly at Heidi. "Are you out of your mind?" She scoffs as she walks away. Aelita walks away from us.

"Aelita!" Jeremy exclaims. He turns to me and I look at him.

"You know I didn't kiss Heidi, right?" Jeremy asks.

"I… I know. I better go and catch up with her," I reply unsurely. I start running to catch up to Aelita.

Afterwards

Inside the cafeteria

Aelita and I are getting breakfast. We move in line to get our tray our food.

"Are you okay Aelita?" I ask concerned. She simply nods. I can tell she isn't okay.

Jeremy… I want to believe you didn't kiss Heidi. The man I knew who raised me, my father, loved Aelita. And I know you're still young Jeremy… but you should know by now how much Aelita is in love with you. If you did kiss Heidi... just what were you thinking? I think.

Grabbing our trays of food, we take our seats at our usual table. Aelita doesn't really talk much or eat much for that matter. Taking my phone out, I type in a text.

Are you sure you don't want to talk about it? I ask. Aelita seems to have gotten my message, as she takes out her phone and looks at it. She puts her phone back into her pocket, then shakes her head. I sigh, as I begin to eat my food, which consists of just croissants. I then take a sip of my tea.

Ulrich, Odd, and Sissi soon arrive and sit down at the table. Odd and Sissi are sitting on the same side as they usually do.

"Hey everybody," Jeremy says. He also has a tray of croissants and a bowl of what I assume is dipping sauce. I turn to look at him. "Slide over and make me some room."

"Don't you want to sit with Heidi?" Odd asks. He chews his croissant angrily and points to the girl in question. "She's all by herself," Odd remarks cryptically.

Jeremy looks to Heidi, then crosses to our side of the table and sits down next to me, setting his tray on the table. Odd begins sipping his dipping sauce.

"Listen I don't know what this is all about," Jeremy begins, "but I swear to you I-"

Aelita sighs, cutting him off as she pushes her chair back and gets up. She looks down at me.

"Are you coming Lila?" she asks. Looking at Jeremy, I sigh sadly and get up with her.

This is so conflicting… I muse.

Aelita and I leave the table and make our way to the entrance of the cafeteria.

Outside the cafeteria

Aelita and I are about to walk down to steps as the doors open up. Ulrich, Sissi, and Odd start walking down the steps with us. William comes up from the side, nearly knocking us down as he hurries… somewhere.

"Hey Ulrich, I'm glad I ran into you," William pants. "I'd wanted to tell you, in case you haven't heard the latest news, that Yumi is going out with Mathias Burrel." He pauses, then adds, "I know you had a thing for her." My eyes widen hearing that news. Ulrich is shocked by the news himself; it's amazing that he isn't dropping his croissant in the process.

"Morning everyone," Yumi greets, choosing that moment to approach. She walks up to us and takes Ulrich's croissant. "Hey thanks, Ulrich," she says, pretending to eat the croissant.

"So you really like Burrel do you?" Ulrich asks, crossing his arms.

"He's a nice guy," Yumi answers. "Why?" she asks.

"How does he kiss huh?" William asks.

"Kiss? How should I know?" Yumi asks.

"You can stop the acting Yumi, William saw you," Ulrich says. He walks away in a huff.

William nods as Yumi shoots him a confused look. "I saw you," he says. "I know I did." With a shrug, he walks away.

I want to hear Yumi's side of the story, but I rush to catch up to Aelita, Odd, and Sissi. Ulrich is going to need us.

Afterwards

In History class

Sissi mentioned she had to grab a notebook from her room. She's really been trying to do better in her classes. The bells ring, signaling it's time for class just as Sissi enters the room with her notebook and a pencil. I can tell she looks upset about something. She goes to an empty chair next to me and sits down.

"Last time we were discussing the causes for World War 1," Mr. Fumet, our history teacher says.

Ulrich makes his way to sit next to Jeremy. Odd and Aelita start walking down and make their way to me when:

"Aelita can we talk?" Jeremy asks.

"We're in class," Aelita replies softly before she and Odd squeeze pass Sissi and I to sit next to each other. I turn to Sissi, and even though she's writing notes I notice she's upset about something.

"What's wrong?" I whisper.

I really should be paying more attention in this class considering it's my worst subject… ironic huh? I'm a time traveler and I don't know squat about Earth's history. But my friend is more important than class right now, I think.

"Ulrich… he um…" Sissi trails off in a whisper. "He kissed me in front of Yumi, just as I was making my way to the classroom."

"He… he did what?" I whisper.

"Please don't make me say it again," Sissi blushes furiously, embarrassed. "All of you know I swore off Ulrich the second I joined the group. That was part of my agreement with Yumi and I've been holding up to it. That is until what he just did… now she thinks that I let him kiss me," Sissi explains. I look over to Ulrich, who is talking to Jeremy. He notices me looking at him and he looks at me.

"And so, my question is this: when did Ganymede die?" Mr. Fumet asks. Looking at him, he puts his chalk back on the chalkboard. He turns to us.

"Well, class? I'm waiting," Mr. Fumet says. None of us answer him, and he then says: "Ulrich, when did Ganymede die?" Ulrich is caught off guard by Mr. Fumet calling him out. He looks at him.

"Well um…. At the end of his life?" Ulrich asks. I can't help but chuckle lightly, as he's technically right. The rest of the class laughs, Sissi included. It's good to see her smiling, even if it's from the same guy who kissed her.

After class

Zipping up my backpack, I sigh internally; I didn't take as many notes as I planned to today. I feel so bad for Sissi. Given she did mess up my hair and everything…. Why would Ulrich do that? And in front of Yumi too?

This just doesn't make sense, I think. Pulling my backpack off the floor and shouldering it, I'm one of the few people to leave the class last – besides Jeremy. He walks up to me silently, and it's kind of awkward as the two of us walk outside the classroom together.

Once we're outside, and under the arches, we start looking for Aelita. Spotting her pink hair is pretty easy, even if there are a lot of students walking about.

However, Jeremy and I are both surprised because we see Aelita pulling Nicholas in for a kiss!

Ew… Aelita… what on earth are you doing?! I think, shocked beyond belief. Aelita lets go of Nicholas, she sees us and runs off. Jeremy and I look at each other in disbelief.

"Did you see that?" Jeremy asks.

"I did… and I can't believe it. Jeremy, I'm sorry. Everyone has been getting kissed by someone else, and I didn't think Aelita would stoop this low… No, I'm sure she wouldn't," I reply.

"Then what do you call it?" Jeremy asks.

"I… I don't know," I reply.

Jeremy sighs. "I'm going back to my room," he mutters and starts walking toward the dormitory. There's no reason not to, so I walk along with him. We continue walking until we reach the building, he goes upstairs, and I decide to head over to Sissi's room.

Outside Sissi's room

Having left my backpack in mine and Aelita's room, I knock on Sissi's door. She opens it and appears to have been crying. It looks like some of her makeup has been ruined.

"Sissi… what's wrong?"

"I've tried apologizing to Yumi about Ulrich kissing me. I tried to explain to her that Ulrich who kissed me first, but he says he didn't kiss me at all! He won't even own up to it and it's really upsetting!" Sissi exclaims.

"Can I come in?" I ask. Sissi nods and moves to the side of the door allowing me to go in. She closes the door. Taking my backpack off, I set it on the floor. The place hasn't changed much, which is saying something; it's been ages since I've been in this room.

Flashback

I opened the drawers one by one. They were filled with romance books, a few notebooks for class, which surprised me. And, a few pens, but no diary. Yumi gasped and I turned around. Yumi held a pillow in the form of a valentine's heart and gasped.

"Looks like we found it!" she exclaimed. I walked to the bed, sitting on the bed with her. I noticed that the diary is pink with a yellow pattern on it.

"Nice job," I complimented.

"Thanks," Yumi smiled unzipping the pillow. She took the unmarked diary out of the pillow. The diary looked to be pink and had a yellow pattern on it.

"Something tells me that's not Ulrich's," I said, as I giggled slightly.

"Ooh, you're right… definitely, Sissi's," Yumi nodded, she chuckled herself.

End of flashback

I look over to Sissi's bed seeing the same pillow from back then.

I can't help but wonder if she still keeps her diary in there? I think.

"Lila… everything okay?" Sissi asks. I look at her.

"Oh sorry, drifted off there for a second," I wave away my flashback. "Can we sit on the bed, and maybe you can tell me why you're sure it was Ulrich that kissed you?" I ask. Sissi nods. She and I go to her bed, and we sit down.

Looking to her pillow, she goes over to it and pulls something out of it. I'm surprised to see that her diary is still in there; then again, I've kept my diary in my drawer for ages.

Sissi opens the diary.

"I um… used to keep this old photo of Ulrich, I took from him a while back, in here, but I returned it to him see?" Looking at the page I see an entry has been crossed out, and even the photo Sissi had of Ulrich in there is no longer there.

"Okay. So I believe you didn't kiss Ulrich back. Then if that's really the case, why would he go through so much trouble of kissing you?"

"I'm not sure. I've known Ulrich since elementary school and he's never been that…" She trails off, searching for the right word. "Petty," Sissi finally blurts.

"Yeah…" I deadpan. "Aelita kissed Nicholas earlier, and…" I trail off, shuddering.

"She did?!" Sissi exclaims.

"Yeah. The only person who hasn't been seen kissing someone close to us in the group is me," I say.

"Okay… and why is that?" Sissi asks.

"Well…" I trail off.

I can't really tell her they're all like family to me. Aelita and Jeremy excluded since they actually are my family, I think.

"For starters, I've only ended things with Cameron. He was in the group and a Lyoko warrior… before we had to kick him out," I say.

"Cameron? Cameron Jones was a Lyoko Warrior?" Sissi asks.

"Yeah. But that's another story for another day. I just wish I knew why this was happening," I sigh.

Sissi sighs too.

It's a good thing Xana- OH. Oh… no, I think.

"Sissi… we've all been so stupid! I can't believe I didn't notice it before!" I exclaim.

"Notice what? Why have we been stupid?" Sissi asks, closing her diary. She pushes it back in her pillowcase and zips the case up.

"None of you have claimed they've kissed the other because you didn't!" I burst out. "Sissi, don't you see? it wasn't Ulrich that kissed you! It wasn't Yumi that kissed Mithais, and it wasn't Jeremy that kissed Heidi! It was-" I start to ramble on but Sissi makes the realization.

"It was Xana? That… that would make sense!" she exclaims.

"We need to go! Now! Did Odd say anything as to where he might be right now?" I ask. Sissi nods.

"Yeah, he told me he'll be in the woods with Yumi and Ulrich. He believed I didn't kiss Ulrich, but he wasn't so sure about Ulrich kissing me will really clear things up."

I nod. "Yeah, it will."

Afterwards

In the woods

Sissi had cleaned up her makeup just before we left, and Jeremy had met us about half way in the park, just as we were heading towards the woods. Now the three of us are running to the others, and we finally spot them. Reaching them, Jeremy, Sissi and I catch our breath. Yumi and Odd lean against the tree, while Ulrich is on the ground with his arms crossed; he's still upset. Jeremy pushes his glasses to the bridge of his nose.

"Right I can explain everything. All of this kissing is another one of Xana's schemes that-" Jeremy starts to explain but Odd interrupts him.

"That doesn't make any sense. Xana hasn't taken control of us for a while," Odd says.

"Just listen to what he has to say," I tell him.

"Look I know I didn't kiss Heidi, so there must be a Jeremy clone somewhere," Jeremy says.

"And a Yumi clone," Yumi adds.

"And an Ulrich clone also," Ulrich smiles slightly, it seems he's agreeing to Jeremy's hypothesis.

Jeremy walks up to Yumi and Odd. Sissi and I walk to them as well. Ulrich gets up and walks to us.

"Right, and I bet they're just one big polymorphing clone," Jeremy surmises.

"A poly what?" Sissi and Odd ask in unison. They look at each other and smile.

"Jinx, you owe me a soda," they say in unison. They laugh a little then let Jeremy speak again.

"As I was saying, a polymorphing clone. It can change its appearance at will. Xana must have sent a ghost that can look like anyone it wants to."

"And this ghost couldn't replicate someone I like, and make me jealous, because Cameron is back home. That's why I was never spotted kissing anyone," I add.

"Okay, that makes sense. But why would it do all of this?" Ulrich asks. Yumi leans closer to him.

"To make trouble in our group. To divide and conquer," Yumi replies. She pulls away from him.

"That is really smart," Ulrich says. "Not like us."

"I guess Odd was right," Jeremy says. "Jealousy makes people crazy," Odd starts walking to the grate.

"Listen we've got to Lyoko to solve this. Hey, where's Aelita?" Odd asks and reaches the grate.

"Gone," Jeremy answers.

I look at him.

"Gone? What do you mean she's gone?!" I exclaim.

"It… it was my fault," Jeremy admits.

"Oh bravo!" Yumi exclaims, crossing her arms. "Where did she go?"

Jeremy thinks about it for a second,

"I think I might know."

"Okay, then where?" Sissi asks.

"The only place she would go… the Hermitage," Jeremy replies.

"That makes sense. Let's get going," I say.

"No, I need to get there first. Just give me a chance to talk to Aelita, so that I can explain things," Jeremy says.

"Okay, we will," I nod.

Afterwards

Outside the Hermitage

After giving Jeremy some time to talk to Aelita we finally arrive at the Hermitage only to find two Jeremy's. One is next to Aelita, his hands on his hips, and another Jeremy just across from them, with his hands on his hips.

"Don't listen to him Aelita, I'm the real Jeremy," the Jeremy across from Aelita and other Jeremy claims.

"If I've got this straight, one of these two is the poly dorking clone right?" Odd asks.

"Polymorphing clone Odd," I correct.

"Aelita trust me," the Jeremy across from them pleads.

"Don't listen to him, I'm the real Jeremy. You know I am. I kissed you," the Jeremy close to Aelita says. He's holding her hand and Aelita realizes something.

"That's right," Aelita starts to say and points over to who I now know is the real Jeremy. "The real Jeremy would not have kissed me like that."

The polymorphic clone's eyes pulse with the Xana symbol, ruining the illusion. He walks up to Aelita and grabs her hand, then begins to pull her away from us.

"Keep your hands off her!" Jeremy exclaims. All of us together run to Aelita and try pulling her back to us. Odd jumps on us and then jumps down to polymorph Jeremy, who starts frizzing in and out. Odd gets up hastily, while Aelita shouts.

"Quick, to the factory!"

"You guys go on, I'll take care of him," Odd insists, making a fist. Nodding, the five of us go to the door that leads to the sewers. Sissi follows us, as this will be her first time using this entrance. Aelita opens the door, and she's the first one to run down the steps. Jeremy, myself, Sissi, Ulrich, and Yumi follow.

"Wow this place is convenient," Sissi says, as we go to our riding equipment. She brought her bike down here, after her first mission. She grabs her bike while Aelita, Jeremy and I grab our scooters, and Ulrich and Yumi grab their skateboards. We take off. Sissi starts pedaling her bike and asks:

"Hey Jeremy, I don't suppose you ever got around to making a vehicle for me?"

"I did actually," Jeremy replies. "I didn't have a chance to tell you because of all this kissing nonsense."

"Xana sure did pull a fast one on us. I'm sorry Sissi, I should have believed you when you said you didn't kiss Ulrich," Yumi says.

"Thanks, Yumi, and I owe you an apology too Ulrich," Sissi says.

"No don't, I'm the one that should be apologizing. Like Yumi said, we should have believed you," Ulrich says. Sissi smiles, and I can't help but smile too.

Afterwards

Inside the lab

The freight elevator's doors open, as we've arrived in the lab.

"Head for the scanners," Jeremy instructs. Jeremy walks out of the freight elevator.

We nod. Sissi presses the red button and the freight elevator's doors close. The freight elevator descends.

Inside the scanner room

The freight elevator's doors open. The scanners already opened, Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita go into them. Ulrich takes the right one, Yumi takes the middle one, and Aelita takes the left one.

"I'm launching the virtualization process. Sissi, Lila, you two will need to go last," Jeremy says.

"Right," I say. Sissi looks at me and smiles, she seems ready to use her new vehicle.

"Transfer: Aelita, Transfer: Ulrich, Transfer: Yumi."

The scanners start to hum.

"Scanner: Aelita, Scanner: Ulrich, Scanner: Yumi."

The scanners continue humming.

"Virtualization!" Jeremy exclaims.

The virtualization process is complete, and the scanners reopen. Sissi takes the middle scanner and I take the right scanner. The scanners close.

Lyoko's Desert Sector

Sissi and I land on the ground.

"The tower isn't very far away. North, Northeast," Jeremy informs. Looking for it, we see a tower not too far from it. Aelita points to it, as it is across a bridge connecting two of the desert plateaus.

"There! Across the bridge," Aelita says. She starts running and we start running too.

"I better activate it now when I get the chance. Lady luck!" Sissi exclaims. Looking at her bracer, the reels start spinning and three symbols appear in three slots, leaving the fourth one empty. We stop running when Sissi seems confused and looks up.

"Jeremy, what's the symbol of a joker mean?"

"A Joker symbol? Well since these powers of yours act like the card game, a joker card in some games can be good. It could be the wild card, and something good like say using all of your powers at once can happen. But from what I can tell, it seems this symbol, this time, is meant to bring you bad luck. It looks like you'll need to wait until your bracer recharges so you can activate your Lady Luck ability again. But remember, that will cost you an additional 30 life points bringing you down to 40," he explains.

"Dang it! I guess I'll need to rely on my trusty baton for now," Sissi says and we resume running.

Getting closer to the bridge, Yumi is suddenly hit by a laser. Aelita is shocked as Yumi is thrown off balance, but she quickly recovers by placing both of her hands on the ground and jumps back up. She lands on the ground and starts running.

"Sissi, Lila, get Aelita to the tower. I'll take care of them," Ulrich says, unsheathing his Katana blade. Sissi and I start running closer to Aelita. We continue running and the three of us get closer to the bridge. Hearing lasers going off where we left Ulrich and Yumi.

"Xana's sending a monster," Jeremy warns.

Looking back I see Ulrich and Yumi are dealing with and a handful of Hornets, as well as a Tarantula that's just finished materializing. I look ahead, and as we start reaching the bridge when it suddenly disappears.

"Great, what do we do now?" Sissi asks.

"We could jump," Aelita replies.

"No way, that's too much of a risk. Jeremy materialize mine and Sissi's vehicles, we're going to need them," I say.

"Right. Vehicles materializing," Jeremy says.

My broomstick materializes along with Sissi's new vehicle. I'm surprised to see it's similar to Ulrich's Overbike. In fact, I think the vehicle is based off it because the only difference with Sissi's is that it's completely white but has some pink stripes on it.

"I like it," Sissi says. She gets onto her Overbike and revs it up. "Come on Aelita."

Aelita nods, and I get onto my broomstick. Kicking my broomstick in the air, we take off. I see that Sissi's Overbike is leaving a trail of pink behind it, Aelita holds onto Sissi's waist.

"Just be careful Sissi," Aelita says, concerned. We continue flying over where the bridge was, and begin making our way to the plateau.

"I will. Hopefully, we won't have any trouble-" Sissi is cut off by several lasers that nearly hit us. I glance behind me to see that a few of the Hornets have split off from Yumi and Ulrich.

"Great, you were saying? Look get Aelita to the tower, Sissi and I will deal with them," I say.

"Right. Aelita, hang on!" Sissi exclaims.

"You're not going to-" Aelita is about to say but Sissi revs up her Overbike and takes off. I guide my broomstick to turn around, and as it does, I quickly grab the hunter's knife from its sleeve. I urge the broomstick to fly forward and to the Hornets.

"Lila be careful. Remember those Hornets can shoot acid!" Jeremy reminds me.

"I know!" I exclaim. Taking the hunter's knife in one hand, I use my hand to channel electricity into my gauntlet so that it flows into the hunter's knife. The Hornets start charging their lasers, and I continue channeling the hunter's knife with electricity. My lightning bolt glows, as the hunter's knife is engulfed with yellow electricity.

The Hornets fire off their lasers. I block them one by one, redirecting them to the Hornets. One laser hits one Hornet, the second laser hits another Hornet. And the last laser misses the Hornet. Guiding the broomstick, I circle it around as I aim the electrically charged hunter's knife at the Hornet. Drawing it back, I throw it. The extra juice in the hunter's knife gives it a boost as it flies quickly through the air and hits the target eye. The Hornet explodes and the hunter's knife falls to the ground out of reach.

"Sissi!" Aelita exclaims. Turning to Aelita, I see another Tarantula firing at Sissi, who appears to no longer have a vehicle. Twirling her baton, which has extended twice its size, Sissi generates a gust of wind as she manages to use the wind to redirect the lasers away from her and Aelita. She manages to redirect more than a couple, but the remaining lasers hit Sissi who is knocked off her feet and is devirtualized in a cloud of pixels.

"Lila, I need help!" Aelita calls out to me.

Broomstick get there quickly! The broomstick takes off quickly. I see the Scyphozoa now approaching Aelita, and she turns to it.

"Jeremy! Lila! Someone please!" Aelita exclaims. My broomstick continues to fly to Aelita. The Scyphozoa is about to take hold of Aelita with its tentacles, but I'm determined to make sure it doesn't.

Quickly taking my bow off its hook, I grab an arrow from my quiver. Putting the arrow on my bow, I hold it and I pull the drawstring back. Aiming the arrow at the Scyphozoa's tentacles, I release the arrow. The arrow flies into the air and towards the Scyphozoa.

I then nock another arrow on my bow. Pulling the drawstring back, I aim the arrow at the Tarantula's head. I release the arrow and let it fly. The first arrow hits the tentacles of the Scyphozoa, causing the Scyphozoa to screech. It pulls away from Aelita. The second arrow then hits the target eye and the Tarantula explodes.

It seems these arrows are more powerful than my old fire bolts, I think. The Scyphozoa starts heading for Aelita again and she starts backing up.

"No, you don't!" Ulrich exclaims as I see him Super Sprinting over the empty space. Commanding my broomstick to go to Aelita, it does so. Ulrich gets to where Aelita and the Scyphozoa are, and I get to Aelita's side. Ulrich Super Sprints to the Scyphozoa as he then takes out his Katana blade and swings it at its tentacles. The Katana blade hits the Scyphozoa's tentacles, cutting them off, and it screeches. It makes a full retreat and Ulrich puts his Katana back into its sheath.

"Aelita quick. Sissi's polymorph is-" Jeremy is about to say but is interrupted. Aelita looks at us and we nod. She starts running to the tower, and then slowly walks in. She phases into the tower's 'doorway.'

"Nice work," Ulrich compliments.

"Thanks, you too. Let's hope we make in time," I say. Getting off my broomstick, Ulrich and I watch the tower's aura turning from red to blue. We take a collective sigh.

"Jeremy, is everything okay?" I ask hopefully.

Ulrich and I see Aelita phasing out of the tower. Jeremy finally responds:

"Yeah we're a bit roughed up but I'm okay. I'm going to bring Ulrich in first. Aelita, there's a way tower nearby. You don't mind bringing her to it, do you Lila?"

"Of course not," I say. I get onto my broomstick, and Aelita gets on with me.

"Materialization: Ulrich," Jeremy says.

Ulrich devirtualizes and I kick my broomstick into the air. I fly it to the way tower so I can bring Aelita home.

Afterwards

By the vending machine area

Jeremy is sitting on the garden ledge, Ulrich is kicking back against the wall with one foot on the garden ledge. The rest of us are standing.

"So how strong was the Sissi clone?" I ask.

"Pretty strong actually," Yumi replies.

"Odd, how'd you know I wasn't the clone?" Sissi asks Odd.

"Because you called me dork. Xana would never call me that. He's got too much… respect for me," Odd replies.

Jeremy chuckles a little,

"Oh no. Xana just doesn't know you as well as Sissi does." He laughs a little bit. I smile a bit at that. I look to Aelita as she seems to be thinking about something.

"Jeremy?" Aelita asks. Motioning her hand, she walks a little bit away from us.

"Would you come with me for a minute?" she asks. Jeremy gets off the ledge and walks to Aelita. Sissi, Yumi, Ulrich, Odd, and I look at her.

"Um, I'd like to check something. Do you mind?"

"Uh no, go ahead. Check what?" Jeremy asks. Aelita grabs Jeremy's head and to my surprise, and I think Jeremy's as well – she pulls him for a kiss. The kiss lasts a few seconds and Aelita puts her hands in her pockets. Jeremy seems to be in shock.

"I knew it," Aelita says smiling. She walks away from us.

"Uh Jeremy, come back down to earth," Odd says. Jeremy seems to be unresponsive.

"Let's hope that Xana leaves us alone for a little while. I think Jeremy is going to need some time to get over that one. Huh guys?" Odd asks. All of us start laughing, as we can't help but agree.

Later

Outside Sissi's room

Knocking on the door, Sissi opens it.

"Oh hey, Lila. Did you need something?" Sissi asks.

"Um see the thing is… I think there's something I should tell you. It's about one of our old missions," I reply.

"Okay. Come on in," Sissi says. Sissi moves to the side, and I walk into her room. She closes the door. She and I go to her bed, and we sit on it.

"So what's this about?"

"Do…" I hesitate. "Do you remember the time when you stole Ulrich's diary?"

Sissi nods.

"Yeah, I do. But Ulrich found it somehow, even though I hid it in the girl's bathroom. Like he already knew it was there. Why?"

"Well… I have a confession to make. There's a reason why I drifted off when I came into the room earlier," I say.

"Okay… so tell me," Sissi says.

"Right okay…" I trail off as I begin to tell Sissi what really happened that day.

I know you're starting to become a different person from back then. At the very least… you should know this if we're going to continue being friends. I feel like I owe you this, even if you did dye my hair red, I think.

Author's Note: I hoped everyone liked that chapter. Please don't forget to go onto my poll and vote on the Adventures of Lila Belpois's fate. No, Yes, it helps me decide if I should continue the filler arc. I want to thank my readers too, as of last night we hit just over 11,000 views! Thank you, and until the next time!

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