Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko nor the songs, "Breathe", "If I Could Rewind", "Are you Happy Now?", or "Always" which are used in this chapter. I do own Xenon Smith.
Dedication: I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my most recent new reviewers: iNVERTED and Gothic6sense. Also, to notcreativeenoughtomakeone who when I read his review, I was like, "SHHH!!!"
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Odd groaned as he woke up and a headache came. He squinted around the room as he tried to remember last night. He remembered Xenon crying as they were dancing and then leaving to get a drink for her. ..
(Flashback)
"Odd, really I'm fine. I'm thirsty though." Xenon said, directing their conversation to something else. Odd stared at her for a second.
"Alright, I'll be right back." Odd said as he headed to find drinks. He walked round the tables and didn't find punch, but even if he did it would most likely be spiked.
"Odd!" Ulrich called, walking up. Ulrich had a beer in each hand. Ulrich shoved one into Odd's hand. "Cheers."
"I'd rather not." Odd said and looked to see where Xenon was. She had either moved from the spot he had left her or went outside. Odd took a sip of beer and then drank more. "Just don't let my sixteenth birthday replay its self tonight." Odd said.
"Hey, I didn't force you to drink a bunch then." Ulrich said in his defense.
"Yeah, put you gave me the first one." Odd said and drank more. Five beers later…for Odd. Ulrich was still on his first. Odd was wasted and saw Sissi pass by and started to yell at her…
(End flashback)
Odd groaned. That must have been embarrassing for Xenon. Odd thought. He looked around he was in his and Ulrich's room and noticed he wasn't wearing anything. Odd looked around wildly to see if Xenon was in the room, causing he head to pound even more. No one was there with him in bed.
"You awake now?" Ulrich questioned. His voice wasn't cheerful. Ulrich was sitting on his bed and waiting for Odd to get up. He gave Odd two pills for his headache and threw a water bottle at him. Odd took them.
"What happened?" Odd asked.
"What didn't happen--" Ulrich began.
"What do you mean?"
"Odd…you…" Ulrich began slowly trying to brace Odd for something. "Odd, you slept with Sissi." The piece of information did not register in Odd's brain.
"What?"
"When I came in this morning. She was in bed with you and as soon as I shouted in surprise, she ran. I don't think she noticed who I was or where she was."
"Oh my god." Odd said breathing heavily. Sissi? He thought. Wait, what about Xenon? "Where's Xenon?"
"Last night as me and Yumi were leaving, we saw her walking across the campus. She was a mess. She also I had a suitcase with her. I think she saw you with Sissi. She left."
"Why didn't you stop her?" Odd asked, angrily. He sat up and put his head in his palms.
"We tried, but she outran us." Odd didn't say anything. Odd racked up all the things that happened last night. One, he got drunk. Two, He cussed Sissi out and slept with her. Three, Xenon saw them and left Kadic to an unknown destination.
"I need to find her." He swung his legs out of bed, grabbed some fresh clothes, and put them on in about a minute and ran out the door.
"Odd!" Ulrich called. Odd's head appeared again. Ulrich threw him his cell phone and he caught it and started running down the hallway and stairs. As he reached the hallway on the second floor and ran into someone who had been knocking on someone else's door.
"OW! Odd? Where's Xenon?" Odd had run into Aelita who had been knocking on Xenon's dorm room, 112. Odd grimaced slightly at the fall and even more as he saw Aelita was questioning him about Xenon. Aelita seemed to be bothered not by Odd, but something else that seemed to be eating her inside.
"Sorry princess!" Odd yelled over his shoulder as he started running again. He didn't feel like explaining to Aelita that he had slept with Sissi, Xenon saw him, and ran away. As he ran across the campus, he stopped suddenly in the center of the courtyard.
I didn't think. Where would Xenon be? Odd thought. Hermitage? Nah, she knows that would be the first place I'd look. Where would she go? She would be drastic and go to her parent's house in Paris? Would she?
Well, said a voice, would you leave if you saw her kissing William, Herve or somebody and you didn't trust as soul besides her and for her to rip out your heart?
"Shut up." Odd muttered under his breath. He ran to the campus gates and through the city till he saw a cab. He raised his hand and the cab turned from the street to the side and was in front of Odd. Odd opened the door and climbed in. The driver looked at Odd in the rear view mirror and lifted an eyebrow at Odd's appearance of wearing all purple and having a purple spot in his hair.
"Paris." Odd said, thinking about where to start looking for Xenon in Paris.
"Where in Paris?" the cab driver asked.
"Bus station." Odd said. Good place to start looking, I suppose. But how many Smiths could there be in Paris? Odd thought to himself as the cab made its way through the city and headed to the highway. Odd stared out the window and his eyes didn't focus on anything.
I've been driving for an hour, just talking to the rain
It seems just like yesterday was the first time I heard you call my name
(Several flashbacks)
"Now today, you'll be working on your project for the science fair. Just a reminder for when you work on this, it's worth 60 of your gra–" Mr. Delmas's walked in the room with a new student. The new student was a girl. The new student had blonde hair with purple streaks, wore a purple shirt and a black skirt, and had purple eyes. "Excuse me Mrs. Hertz for interrupting, but I'd like to introduce our newest student. This is Xenon Smith…"
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"Look, there's no time. Xana has launched an attack and is in control of an airliner that is headed straight for the factory." Xenon said hurriedly.
"Why would Xana want to kill himself?" Odd asked, suspicious of Xenon, yet he attracted to her even though he didn't even know her.
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"I've wanted to tell her that for years." Odd said, giving Xenon a high five. Odd felt the touch as if electricity went through his body, but didn't show a physical reaction.
…
"I'll be with Odd and Ulrich. Sounds like they'll need the help they can get." Xenon said.
(End of flashbacks)
I'll be with Odd…Odd… Xenon's voice echoed in his head and sound just like it did when she said his name for the first time. But…
Since then so much has changed...
Odd arrived in front of the Paris bus station and paid the fare. Odd got out. He looked around and watched as people moved to and fro to their destinations, where they knew where it was. Odd looked around then saw a row of pay phones on the wall of the bus station. He walked up to one and saw a phonebook. He flipped through it till he reached the S's. There were three pages of Smiths. Odd groaned.
When Xenon had faked her death and her step parents came, they never gave their first names. Angry, Odd kicked the wall only to regret it as a sharp pain ran through his foot. People stared at Odd because of his stupid actions and appearance. Odd ripped out the pages of Smiths and ambled down the street, keeping his head down.
He didn't know where to start. He listened to bits and parts of other people's conversations.
"A new year, a new start…"
"That's an unreasonable price for…"
Odd waited for the crosswalk sign to say cross. He looked to the side of him and saw a pair of to girls that looked about the same age as him. One had short red hair and green eyes and the other brown hair and blue eyes.
"I wonder what happened to her. She was the smartest student in our year." Said the brown haired one.
"Maybe she went to a university. She did take the tests to skip the rest of high school and be qualified to get into a university. I miss her." The crosswalk sign turned green and Odd walked across the street. The girls still talked. Once all three of them were across the street, Odd continued straight and the girls to the right.
"She was weird though. I mean she had purple eyes and her name of Xenon--" Odd perked up. Their conversation was carried in a different direction via the wind. Odd doubled back and ran for the girls.
"Did you say Xenon?" Odd asked them. The girls looked scared out of their minds as a complete stranger was talking to them.
"Are you lost?" The red head asked Odd in English. She thought Odd was an American or some tourist.
"We're you talking about Xenon Smith?" Odd asked in French, just to prove to them he could speak fluent French.
"Who's asking?" asked the red head, in French.
"I'm---was---I am her boyfriend." Odd stammered, having a fight inside him trying to think how Xenon would see their relationship together.
"Boyfriend?" the other asked in astonishment. "With Xenon Smith?"
"Yeah." Odd replied slowly.
"Well, you're the first for her." The red head said. "I can't blame her, you are cute." She said eyeing Odd up and down. "Not to be offensive, but you're like an American like a weird dressed one--"
"None taken as I am from the US. Do you know where Xenon lives?" Odd asked, hopeful trying to save hours of searching by going to each house with a Smith till he found her.
"Yes, but Xenon told us that if someone came asking around for her was not to tell them--"
"Look, I need to find her. I made a mistake and I need to find her." Odd pleaded. They looked between one another and communicated silently.
"Look, I'm sorry--"
"I NEED to find her." Odd said angrily, seeing as this wasn't getting him anywhere.
"You really love Xenon, don't you?" the red head asked.
"Yes." Odd answered. Both of the girls sighed.
"Can't mess with love. She lives on 1212 Violet--" Odd ran off before she finished his mind just registering 1212 violet. "Impaire personne." The brown haired girl muttered.
Odd ran a few streets down and saw a sign saying Violet Avenue. To his left he saw 2700 and right 2705. Odd turned left and ran as quick as he could down Violet Avenue and dodged running into people. 2600…2500…1800…1300…1220. Odd slowed down to catch his breath. He arrived in front 1212. He saw the well kept house which was painted sky blue and was simply part of the blue sky cut out. He looked at it. It looked like no one was home. There weren't any cars, but that wouldn't stop him. He walked up to the front door, took a deep breath, and knocked.
Xenon opened her eyes as someone vigorously knocked at the door. She was stiff and forgot where she was. It was just a bad dream. Xenon thought. She looked around to see her dorm room of Kadic, but instead saw her stepparent's living room. "Or not." She whispered to her self. She got up and stretched. She pushed back her tears, walked to the door, and opened it.
"Xenon--" Odd said as she opened the door. Xenon was a mess overall. She had bloodshot eyes and her hair was messed up. Xenon glared at Odd then slapped him hard.
She was starin' through the doorframe, and eyeing me down like already a bad boyfriend.
"I deserve that." Odd said. "Xenon…" Odd moved his hand near her face to touch tenderly. She slapped his hand away.
"I don't want to be around you." Xenon said with no emotion in her voice. She turned her face so she wouldn't look directly at him when she said this.
You say I've been driving you crazy and its keeping you away. But knowing that I could be without anything scares me from being alone.
"Xenon…I love yo--
"Why were you kissing Sissi then? Why should I go back?" Xenon asked angrily.
So just give me one good reason, tell me why I should stay 'cause I don't want to waste another moment in saying thing we never meant to say.
"Xenon, I was drunk. I was really drunk." Odd explained.
"That's not a good enough reason." Xenon said as she slammed the door in his face and locked it. Part of her wanted to accept Odd. Another part screaming that Odd kiss Sissi! Do you really want to touch the lips that kissed Sissi?
Why didn't my older self tell me this would happen? Xenon asked herself. Surely this happened before with my older self?
Odd fell to his knees. He sighed sadly. "I blew it." He muttered. He stayed their frozen unable to leave Xenon nor did he want to.
If I could rewind and watch all my life just pass me by, I could see you. If I could rewind I'd take back the lies and all those times I hurt you. I don't know if I'll ever know exactly how much I hurt you, knowing that hurts me everyday. If I could rewind, I would take it away.
"Xenon…" Odd whispered at the door.
Now, don't just walk away pretending everything's ok and you don't care about me.
Xenon cried with her back on the front door. She was torn. She still loved Odd, but he had hurt her.
I hear a voice say don't be so blind, it's telling me all these things...
I don't want to see him. Xenon told herself.
And I know there's just no use when all your lies become your truths.
Odd found the strength to stand and did. He stared at the door for a moment and then knocked again. Xenon got up and opened it.
"Xenon, I wanted to say goodbye." Odd said, his body was shaking.
"What?"
"I'm going back to California. I can't stand to stay here anymore." Odd replied.
I feel like you don't want me around. I guess I'll pack all my things. I guess I'll see you around... All I hear is the sound: I hate you...
"Odd…" Xenon whispered. Odd didn't hear her. He turned his back on her and walked away. Xenon stared at him for a second then ran after him. She grabbed him by the arm.
Odd knew it was Xenon. He didn't look at her. "I've become attached to you, Xenon. I can't stand it if you're within reach and I can't be with you. Xenon, it might not be the same to you, but I can't stay."
Could you look me in the eye and tell me that you're happy now. Would you tell it to my face or have I been erased? Are you happy now?
"Odd…I--" Xenon began. "Odd, do you love me?"
Am I the reason you breathe?
Odd turned to Xenon. "More than anything."
I can't live without you…
"Do you love me? Only me?" Xenon asked.
Am I... your one and only desire?
"Yes." Xenon cried and lost control. She fell and Odd caught her. Xenon flinched at Odd's touch.
"Odd, please don't touch me." Xenon said softly. Odd released his hold to support her and Xenon supported herself. "I can't do this. I—after last night I--"
"I'm sorry…I didn't mean to kiss Sissi. I was drunk." Odd said.
"It's not that." Xenon said not looking at Odd. "After you cussed Sissi out, I took you to your room so you could get some rest. You thought I wanted to have sex, I said that wasn't what I meant…and…you…" Xenon took in a shuttering breath. "You acted like you were going to hit me."
"Xenon, I'm sorry." Odd said. He moved his hand closer to hers in a way to say sorry. Xenon's hand flinched when his came within two inches from hers.
"I'll go back to Kadic, but Odd I don't want to be like what we used to be…not yet." Xenon looked up and into Odd's eyes.
"I understand."
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A/N I find this chapter a little sad. I couldn't restrain myself in adding lyrics. I listen to a lot of AMV on YouTube while I basically do anything. I'm not immediately going to work on chapter 13. I'm going to work on a Halloween Code Lyoko story which I plan to publish it on Halloween. To see what it's about, look on my user page.
Also, In a past review someone requested to have the time travel and other things to be explained so they wouldn't get confused. I was thinking of posting a timeline. So, if anyone would want this please state so in your reviews.
Ask questions about the story in your reviews even if it's random like what are the Smiths first names? But of course if it's something like how did Odd die in past time folds. I can't tell you that. Anyway, REVIEW!
