Starlight

I've discovered a new title! Thank you to Burraku's shadow for being the only one who bothered suggesting a title, but before I could read your review I came up with this new title instead. Thanks anyway, and thanks for the reviews. The title will make sense later... I'm in a good mood right now.

Disclaim: I don't own Code: Lyoko or any of the songs.

Claim: I do own Audrey, Ivy, Amber, Cleo, Alan, and whatever else I own.

+Wishful+

(A Few Minutes Ago)

Ivy walked out of the lunch room, striding briskly in order to get to the infirmary quickly. As she reached the top of the final flight of stairs, someone ran around the corner, muttering something about hating cats, and slammed into her.

Unlike Audrey, however, Ivy had experience (thanks to a lifetime of gymnastics lessons) keeping her balance. She stuck her foot out behind her as she was knocked back just two inches away from the first stair, causing the other girl to slide down and hit her lip on the stair her foot was inches from.

"Hey watch it!" Ivy then looked down at the girl, and saw- "Cleo?!"

"Ow, God!" She replied, holding her hand to her bleeding lip. "It worked on Audrey..."

"What!?" Cleo then noticed Ivy was glaring down at her.

"Don't look at me like that! I'm moving this Saturday, had to get back at the two of you somehow!"

"Why?"

"Ehm, gotta run!" She took off down the hallway, but Ivy wasted no time getting back to the cafeteria. She entered it and ran over to the table.

She paused to catch her breath, and then heard Ulrich speak, "-stairs aren't steep at all." At that moment, Ivy spoke.

"She didn't fall..." Ivy whispered. "Cleo pushed her."

"What?!" Odd jumped up.

"She just told me! She said she's moving on Saturday and she had to 'get back at the two of us' somehow."

"I know why. It's 'cause of that fight you had with her over cats. She never really-"

"Figures, it's my fault." Her eyes turned light blue full on and stayed that way, and she looked away from the group, who were now over the shock and staring at Ivy's eyes.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Yumi was first to speak.

"Huh? What?" Her eyes were now yellow.

"They're ch-changing colors!" Aelita replied. "Just like Audrey's!"

"I-I-" She closed her eyes and forced them back to dark blue. "I wish I could tell you- maybe one day I might- but-" She turned and ran toward the infirmary.

"What was that?" Jeremie asked, but nobody responded. Instead his computer started to beep.

+Confused+

I want to tell them... but we don't always get what we want. I, of all people, should know that.

Ivy hit the ground seconds later and felt a sharp pain stab into her back. When she looked up, she saw a raven haired girl, her hair was to her waist, with the Lyoko symbol in her eyes. Her white halter top belly shirt was covered in mud, mostly likely from falling when she was fighting off XANA, but it wasn't visible against the brown pants or flip flops.

Anyway, Ivy found herself unable to move, thanks to the spot where the chair had hit her. She had simply one defense left, and she used it. She reached up and touched the cat pendant and a swirling blue light surrounded her, and once again she was a light blue cat.

But the transformation took too long, because when she was the cat, she went tumbling, thanks to the chair. She reared back as though hunting a mouse, then lurched forward and dug her claws into the halter top, drawing blood. The XANA-fied girl had her hands around Ivy's belly and squeezed. Ivy found herself unable to breathe, and realized the light was coming again.

"Me-at!?" She said while she was transforming back into a human. She realized her cell phone had rang, and it had forced her to become human once again. She screamed as loud as she could when the chair came down on her again, and a boy came around the corner- one she'd hoped she'd never see again.

"I-Ivy!" He was there, right in front of her eyes, and he was coming to help her.

"Get the hell away from me!" She replied, scrambling up as she began running. Her eyes held a dangerous swirl: light blue, yellow, red, silver, white and black.(sad, confused, angry, regretful, hurt, and afraid.) Her eyes stung as she climbed the stairs, hearing her footsteps, echoes only by his. She dove in the room and landed hard on the ground, rug burn stinging at her face. She slammed the door and sat against it, then realized her cell was still ringing.

"H-hello?" She struggled to speak through her tears.

"Ivy!" Jeremie sounded relieved, but then concern and worry sank into his voice. "I-is something wrong?"

"He's back!" She burst into sobs. "After all of it- and he thinks he's got the right to come back!"

"A-are you okay?"

"Do I look okay?" She ignored the small detail that he couldn't see her.

"I-uh- never mind!" She moved to sit on her knees next to the bed, holding onto the bedpost for support.

"I'm-I'm sorry, Jeremie-" she stammered, but the phone was taken from her hand, and she could just barely hear his voice now: "Ivy? Ivy?" She turned to stare at him- into those orange eyes. Into those orange eyes, and was surprised slightly to be met with eyes of light blue and silver. He looked about to say something, but before she could move at all, react at all, before he could speak, they heard a voice over the phone.

"Return to the past now!"

"What?" She murmured at his words, but he didn't react. He stared into her swirling eyes, but before he could say anything, he lost her face into the return to the past.

+Hope+

Here Ivy was, running again. This time, though, she ran into him, and, unfortunately for her, into his arms. He wrapped his arms around her- trying to keep her still- trying to talk to her, but she wouldn't let him.

"Let go of me!" She squirmed, fighting the tears that threatened at the brims of her eyes.

"Ivy- please! Just let me talk to you!"

"Shut up, Alan- I've seen enough!" He didn't let go.

"Ivy."

"Alan, let go of me!" She gritted her teeth and knee-d him where it hurts.

"Ah!" He let go to lean over and fall on his side.

"I hope that hurts!" She couldn't resist giving him a final kick in the shin before she ran all the way back to her room, only to find that Audrey was there, her head wrapped in a bandage.

"Ivy, are you okay?" She noticed her friend's cherry red eyes.

"No! I'm not okay!" She yelled, jumping on her bed. She began screaming into her pillow. "How dare he touch me! How dare he..." And so on.

Audrey sat down next to her friend, "What the matter, Ivy?" She asked the question even though she was sure she knew exactly what was "the matter".

"I'll tell you!" She sat up, a single tear streaming down her face. She wiped it away. "Alan's here. Right now! He's here, and he- he- he-!" She was so angry she screamed into the pillow again, and there was a knock on the door. Audrey went to answer it.

"Who is it?" She called, and Ivy screamed even louder, but the noise was muffled.

"It's me," came the reply.

"Who's 'me'?" Audrey replied, doing her best to keep him away as long as possible.

"It's Alan, goddamnit, Audrey, open the door!"

"Don't you use that language with me, mister!"

"Just let me in! We need to talk!"

"Go away!" There was a long silence, and Audrey stuck her head out the door just to be sure he wasn't out there, but Alan's strong hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her outside, leaving the still-screaming Ivy oblivious as the door shut.

"Audrey," he said.

"A-Alan?" She was bewildered at how much he had changed. He now wore a pair of knee-length khaki cargo shorts. Over that he wore an orange shirt that read in black letters, "i c u have no life, cuz u are taking the time to read every word that is on this shirt" Finally, orange socks with black skater shoes and orange ties. His white blond hair was getting a bit too long and almost touched his orange eyes.

"I know what it looked like, but it isn't true," he replied.

"Not what me and Ivy both saw," she replied, remembering.

Flashback

Ivy and Audrey were both walking back into Alan's house with a large cake, a surprise for his birthday. As soon as they stepped into the house, though, they both stopped and stared as Alan stood there, kissing a girl they knew as Tyresha, a popular girl at school, right next to the window. He pulled away as soon as he saw Ivy and Audrey standing there, staring with eyes more hurt then he'd ever seen.

"I-Ivy!" He said. "I-" But his voice was lost as she dropped the large cake, splattering orange icing all over the white rug.

End Flashback

Alan was remembering at the same time, but he seemed to remember it differently.

Flashback

Ding, dong.

Alan walked over to the door and opened it. Tyresha, in all her brown haired beauty, stood there. Smiling a glossy smile, she let herself in without a word.

She leaned against the window and looked out, "Whoa, nice view!" He closed the door.

"Ehm, what are you doing here?" She looked at him and moved a bit closer. They were so close... he could feel her body heat and smell her lavender perfume.

"Hey, Alan?" She smiled that brilliant white smile.

"Uh, yeah?"

"Happy birthday!" She leaned in before he could reject, and pressed her lips to his. Then the door opened just as he pushed her away, and he stared at Ivy in the doorway.

"I-Ivy! I-I-" She dropped the cake in her hands onto the floor, splattering it's perfection, and then ran out the door in tears. Audrey stared at him, her eyes flickering yellow, then she followed her friend, leaving him with Tyresha, who looked very satisfied.

End Flashback

"It was! She kissed me!"

Audrey looked hopeful. "I'll talk to her, but I can't guarantee it'll do any good."

"Thanks Audrey, I owe you one."

"Actually, you owe me six." She went back inside and closed the door behind her.

+Love+

"I don't know what it was," Jeremie said. "All I know is that she kept saying 'he's here' and that she was crying."

"We could ask her about," Yumi suggested, pacing up and down the bench.

"She might get suspicious," Ulrich glanced at Odd, who was busy with Cleo, who looked ready to slap him. (He's breaking up with her.)

"So? We're going to show them anyway!"

"Yes, Yumi, but take into account that she's so secretive," Aelita said gently. "Maybe the point of not telling us is so that we won't find out." Yumi didn't reply. Instead she stopped pacing and stared at Odd, who was rubbing his bright red cheek and glanced at Cleo, who was stomping away.

"I feel like something... weird is happening right now," Odd commented.

"Okaaaay," Ulrich stated. "I think I'm going to check on Audrey." He walked up the stairs to the infirmary but was surprised when Dorothy told him she had gone to her dorm. As he turned the final corner, he bumped into a boy dressed in orange and black.

"Sorry," the boy kept walking. Ulrich knocked on the door lightly.

"I thought I told you-!" Ivy stopped in mid-sentence when she flung open the door. She turned around. "Audrey! Your stupid boyfriend wants to see you!" He noticed she wasn't trying to hide her tomato-like eyes, but in a moment, Audrey was outside the door, closing it behind her back. He noticed Ivy screaming into her pillow.

"What's up with her?" He asked.

"It's not really my story to tell," Audrey replied. He suddenly realized how close they were and blushed. She looked up into his eyes, somehow relaxed despite their position. She was pressed against the wall and his body was less than two inches from hers...

This is when it (finally!!!!!!!!!) happens. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer, right into a kiss.

This startled him at first, and he didn't react. For a moment she thought he wasn't going to at all and felt like killing herself.

Is it too soon? Did I just make a huge mistake?

But he then wrapped his arms around her waist so that they were even closer. They stayed that way for a full twelve seconds, and by the time they parted she was blushing like crazy.

"'G'Night," she whispered.

"'Night," he hesitantly gave her a kiss on the cheek and she went back inside. Ulrich touched his lips. Could this mean that they were officially dating? That wasn't a friendly kiss, that was for sure, but what if she had intended it to be?

His mind raced as he walked back to the dorms. Laying down on his own bed, he tried to fall asleep, but he couldn't.

For once in the last three years of his life, he wasn't thinking- or dreaming, for that matter- about Yumi. He was thinking- and dreaming- about Audrey.

Audrey lay on her bed. She wasn't trying to sleep- the light was on, anyway. Ivy was at the computer, listening to the music. She'd always said "the songs that play have the answers."

Later on that summer we went to the county fair

They had a brand new roller coaster and everyone was scared

It was two bucks to experience the thrill

And she took my hand and said

"Come on boy, I'll ride it if you will"

Baby I'll be your Huckleberry

You don't have to double dare me

When the ride gets wild and scary,

Count on me to be right there

You're so extra-ordinary,

sweet like maraschino cherry

We'll grow up, and we'll get married, baby I'll be your Huckleberry.

We snuck off on a slow dance at the junior-senior prom,

I was lookin for some romance before I

had to get her home

Steaming up the windows of my car,

She said, "Until I get my wedding ring, boy, we can't go that far"

Baby I'll be your Huckleberry

You don't have to double dare me

When the ride gets wild and scary,

Count on me to be right there

You're so extra-ordinary,

sweet like maraschino cherry

We grew up, and we got married, now look at those three little Huckleberries

Ivy seemed to tire of the song, and switched to the next one.

The path that I'm walking, I must go alone
I must take the baby steps til I'm full grown
Fairy tales don't always have a happy ending do they
And I forseek the dark of hell if I stay

I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you
It's personal, myself and I
We got some straightening out to do
And not gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket
But I've gotta get a move on with my life
It's time to be a big girl now
And big girls don't cry
Don't cry, Dont cry, Dont cry

Audrey tuned the music in and out.

I open my eyes,

I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light

I can't remember how,

I can't remember why,

I'm lying here tonight

And I can't stand the pain,

And I can't make it go away,

No, I can't stand the pain

How could this happen to me?

I've made my mistakes,

Got nowhere to run,

And life goes on as I'm fading away

I'm sick of this life,

I just want to scream,

How could this happen to me?

This is for the ones who stood their ground

For Tommy and Gina who never backed down

Tomorrow's getting harder make no mistake

Luck ain't even lucky

Got to make your own breaks

It was around here that Audrey fell asleep.

Yay! A First kiss! Nay! Alan returns! Yay! I spilled the secret! Yay! Odd dumps Cleo! (SPOILER) Nay! Ulrich's already found someone else he might like better! Okay, just review.

SB