He Who Calls
Chapter 12
Journal of Odd Della Robbia
New Entry
Stupid Milo. Aelita's on and on about how great tonight's going to be. I don't have a date. I'm going to the dance on the hope I'll meet someone there. Or Milo will do something stupid and Aelita will dump him. Not likely. Milo's great to her, whether I like to admit it or not. Maybe I should leave him and Aelita well enough alone and try and find someone else
Journal of Milo Salian
New Entry
I think Odd's going to have fun at the dance tonight.
Odd walked into the dance room, wearing a white tuxedo, and was met by a big surprise. Sam was there, in a glittering dress.
"Sam?" asked Odd, stunned. "I thought you moved to America!"
"I did! But someone donated ten thousand dollars to scholarships so I could come here for high school. The guy knew I was trying to get into Kadic and he gave me the money!"
"Who?"
"Someone named Milo Salian. Do you know him?"
"Milo! Give me a minute, I have to go ask him where the hell he got ten thousand dollars." Milo was standing with Aelita near the punch bowl. He was wearing a suit that looked similar to his Lyoko one, but no blades and no top hat. The shade of black was exactly the same, however. Aelita looked radiant. She wore a long pink dress, with white gloves. Apparently they had gone for an old-fashioned motif, but they pulled it off very nicely. "Milo! You flew Sam over from America?"
"Yeah," said Milo. "I felt bad about… you know."
"But where did you get ten thousand dollars?"
"Actually, I had a hundred thousand. I won this big math competition in Portugal. Fifty thousand went to my college fund, forty thousand went into a present for someone, and ten thousand went to getting Sam into Kadic."
"How did you get that generous?" asked Aelita in shock.
"I didn't want it. I grew up on the damn streets, all I really want is a first rate education and three square meals a day. And great friends and a great girlfriend. I have all that, so what do I need anything else for? Odd, go hang out with Sam, I like this song."
"Right," Odd said. "Thanks, Milo! Thanks a lot!" He ran back to where Sam was standing a started dancing with her. Yumi was dancing with Ulrich, Jeremy with Emily, and Milo started dancing with Aelita. He didn't know how life could get much better. And Aelita really was a great dancer.
Journal of Odd Della Robbia
Entry Right After the Dance
I can't believe all the bad things I thought about Milo. Sam's back! He only wanted things to turn out well for everyone, but hey, Sam's back!
One day before Milo's birthday, thought Jeremy the next day. And we still don't have any idea what we're going to do.