Like A Boy
A Code Lyoko fic by Madame Halie
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko.
N.B. : Before starting chapter 7, I'll be posting the piece of chapter 6 that I wasn't able to post at the library. Hope you like it.
Aelita stepped out her dorm room. She decided to keep her hair red since she liked the colour. William didn't mind.
Despite the flack she got for choosing William, Aelita decided to still go out on the date. Unfortunately this date meant the end of her friendship with Yumi.
"That's what I get for calling my best friend 'a stupid tramp'," Aelita said remembering getting slapped by Yumi after calling her that in the heat of a violent temper.
But Aelita had no apologies.
She had no right to tell me not to date William, Aelita thought, worse bringing up the past and calling him names, she recalled, I'm better off without her, she decided, I can see why Ulrich's dumping her for her bossiness.
"Aelita," William said.
Aelita looked to see William in a navy blue tuxedo.
"You look nice," Aelita said smiling.
"You too," William said in reference to her glimmering red ankle-length spaghetti strapped dress, "let's go," he said extending his hand to her.
Aelita smiled and took it.
I made the right decision, Aelita thought, Odd will find someone else, she told herself, he always slept with someone else.
Chapter 6 Completed
Chapter 7: Drama
Emily sat beside Odd smiling. Odd had agreed to take her to see the soccer game after school. She liked watching guys play and asked Odd to come along.
It was now the day after Aelita dumped Odd so it was a Tuesday. Odd sulked a lot and kept to himself.
But Emily was determined to bring the old Odd back.
Damn that girl, Emily thought, dating steady with William before dumping Odd, she thought angrily, worse, telling William she was dumping Odd without letting Odd know first.
Kadic was playing against several visiting schools for the next two weeks. This tournament included visiting schools from other countries.
"Is this seat taken?" someone asked.
"No," Emily said not looking up.
"Jeremie?" Odd asked in a cracked voice.
"Jeremie!" Emily cried looking at the spot to her right to see Jeremie sitting down.
Other Kadic students turned to look at the long gone genius.
""Hi Odd, everyone," Jeremie said smiling, "how are you holding up?" he asked Odd.
Odd's face fell.
"Herve told me," Jeremie revealed, "said to let you know it wasn't Ulrich."
Odd sighed in relief.
"But Odd, you really need to change your attitude," Jeremie said seriously.
"Can we talk about something else?" Emily said rudely.
"If you can ask me nicely," Jeremie responded.
There were a few gasps.
"You tell her Jeremie," a few of the students visiting from Jeremie's new school spoke up, some saying it in French.
"Shut up American!" a Kadic student shouted.
"Make me frenchie!" several Americans shouted back.
The bleachers started getting tense.
"See what you caused?" Emily huffed.
"Emily leave Jeremie alone," Odd said tiredly.
"If he were his quiet self…" Emily started.
"I've changed, so what?" Jeremie asked frankly.
Emily pouted.
Jeremie was visiting for the Annual Brotherly Soccer Sports Tournament. His school Einstein Academy was competing and in the seventy years of the tournament's existence, had won the tournament four times. That would be unimpressive under most circumstances, but Einstein Academy won four times in the last fifteen years of the competition. And they didn't enter twice. So they won four times while competing for thirteen years. Extremely impressive for a genius school which weren't usually known for entering or excelling in physical sports tournaments of this level.
Jeremie wore a v-neck vest with the colours green, yellow, red and Einstein's head in the middle outlined in white. This was also his school colours and crest. He had on blue cotton shorts; white socks with his school colours on the top half, and white sneakers. He also had on three badges. One shaped like Einstein's head, which was his school badge, the second was that of an American flag (where his school was) and the last one in the shape of France's flag (representing his home and the residence of his old school Kadic).
"I'm not the quiet boy who left here," Jeremie said seriously, "they're certain things I took then that I won't take now."
"Jeremie lay off a bit," Odd spoke, "she's just upset about the current situation."
Jeremie looked at Emily. She was rude to him even before he left Kadic.
"It's not going to grow," Emily said rudely.
"Emily," Odd reprimanded.
"I could say the same about certain things," Jeremie said and gave a swift look, which insinuated her size b breasts.
Emily went bright red.
"Told you," Odd said softly, "so how do I fix it?" he asked Jeremie.
"What!" Emily shouted.
"I'm talking about me and Aelita," Odd said incredulously, "I don't mind your boobs."
Jeremie groaned.
"I could say flowers and some good loving," Jeremie said, "but that would be a lie," he continued, "I say wait it out a bit, talk to her after a week and keep hinting for the next month or so," he suggested, "if she's still steady with William after two months though," he said forebodingly, "I suggest you find someone else."
"Someone else?" Odd asked him, "do you give up so easy?" he asked.
"I'm giving you an opinion," Jeremie said shrugging, "I'm no Casanova."
I'd never guess, Emily thought sarcastically."What if I lose her?" Odd asked.
"Then you have to move on," Jeremie emphasised.
"Like you did?" Odd asked curtly.
"You chose your own path Odd," Jeremie said instead of answering.
"Oh Jeremie," Odd realized, "I'm sorry," Odd apologized.
"It's the stress talking," Jeremie said, "I can forgive that."
"Thanks," Odd said smiling weakly.
"That stupid goalie just allowed those Americans to score," Emily complained.
"Can you imagine if Einstein lost?" Jeremie asked as he looked on, "I can't believe we have Kadic in the first round."
"We?" Emily asked incredulously.
"I'm attending a new school now," Jeremie reminded her.
"Traitor," Emily muttered.
Odd grinned finding the situation funny.
"Getting that old grin back are we?" Jeremie noticed.
Odd blushed and looked away.
"Keep doing that and you're gonna replace Jeremie," Emily said bitterly.
Jeremie glared.
Emily stuck her tongue out.
"God, girl grow up," an American shouted.
And that's when a fight broke out.
The game was stopped for fifteen minutes. Three Americans were injured. Emily and Jeremie were taken in arguing bitterly. Odd explained how the fight started because an American told off Emily for teasing Odd. Unfortunately Emily was a girl with a lot of male Kadic admirers and six attacked the American. Emily and Jeremie were given detention. Jeremie was suspended from watching the game for three days. Emily was sentenced to her dorm once she finished classes for the rest of the tournament.
When the game was over Einstein Academy won 5-2. Kadic was eliminated in the first round on the first day. It was a humiliating defeat.
Teachers and other officials watched to ensure that there was no more fighting. All those who were directly involved in the fights were suspended. Except for two of the three injured Americans.
Tuesday was truly a rough day.
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Ulrich sat in Sissi's dorm room. It was night time and Sissi had 'asked' him to come over.
This is not a good idea, Ulrich thought as he shifted on her bed.
Sissi tried on a pink nightie and paraded around Ulrich.
"Do you like it?" Sissi asked giggling.
"Yeah," Ulrich said focusing on her thighs.
"I do a lot of yoga and eat mainly seafood to help maintain my figure and skin tone," Sissi said proudly, "you don't know how many girls look ugly because of bad skin tone."
"Uh huh," Ulrich agreed.
Sissi giggled and pinched his cheeks.
"I just wanted to know what you thought," Sissi said sitting beside him, "I don't usually do this."
"Oh, um, of course not," Ulrich said quickly.
"I'm not Emily," Sissi added.
"She's not my type," Ulrich said frankly.
"I'm glad," Sissi said smiling, "thanks for coming over," she said blushing.
"Um, yeah," Ulrich said blushing, "I better go."
"It's not like I'm trying to bed you or anything," Sissi said shaking her head.
"Of course not," Ulrich agreed blushing heavily, "um, bye," he said reaching for the door.
"Do you think I'm pretty Ulrich?" Sissi asked suddenly, "llike Yumi pretty?" she asked him.
Ulrich froze.
"Because maybe if I were pretty like her you'd…" Sissi started tearfully.
"Sissi," Ulrich said turning around.
"Will you promise," Sissi started, "that when the bet's over…"
"Sissi," Ulrich repeated.
"That you'll still talk to me," Sissi begged, "that Yumi won't…," she continued, "keep you from saying hi to me or maybe even walking with me around school grounds sometimes," she requested her eyes filled with tears.
God she's begging me to keep giving her some company if Yumi's still my girlfriend after this, Ulrich thought, where's the mean Sissi I could ignore in eight grade?
"Okay," Ulrich promised her.
Sissi flung herself on Ulrich and cried.
Ulrich had to brace the door to keep from falling.
"Um, hush?" Ulrich asked.
Man I suck at this, Ulrich thought, Yumi was never this emotional.
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Jeremie sat in his hotel room sulking.
"Stupid whore," Jeremie muttered in reference to Emily.
He had to miss the match for three days. Plus he had gotten detention for the first time since he started Einstein Academy. Detention was seen as a disgrace at his school, especially when it was for fighting and worse at a public event. It didn't matter that it wasn't physical; it was still disgraceful by Einstein Academy standards.
I just hope that I can contest it before returning to the States, Jeremie thought, thank God they don't record detentions immediately when you're visiting a foreign country.
Other witnesses from my school are already rallying around Jeremie. He just hoped that he could get their main supervisor Mr. Albert Roberts to change his mind. That way it wouldn't be recorded disallowing it from reaching on his permanent record.
"If I could just…" Jeremie said tightening his fists.
"Get back at Emily," a dark haired American teen asked.
"Gregory?" Jeremie asked.
Gregory Jamerson stepped in and sat on Jeremie's bed.
"This is my last year," Gregory said his brown eyes filled with mischief, "I might as well go out with a bang."
"But I'm a Kadic…" Jeremie started.
"Former Kadic," Gregory reminded him, "you're an EA now, Einstein Academy my friend."
Jeremie nodded.
"Switching school's hard," Gregory noted, "but Nair's a lot harder," he added.
"What?" Jeremie asked confused.
"Nothing my dear friend," Gregory said leaving, "nothing."
Chapter CompletedI've noticed that readers from the last chapter have added me to their faves. Thank you. I also thank all those who've already done so as well as those who have added this story to their fave story list and or story alert. Anyone who's added me to their author alert also receives my thanks. I'm glad about the positive reception for this story and hope to continue satisfying you with my fan fiction. Good news the computer's back. It seems that the monitor isn't working but fortunately we had another monitor so I'm using that now. Thank God for small (yeah right, I mean HUGE) blessings. Thank you everyone for reviewing so far and here's to you continuing to do so.
Announcement. My Madame Halie Fics forum now has a section for 'Like A Boy.' In that section is a place where you can chat about this story. Also there's a betting bar where you'll see choices A-I and you get to choose which one you think is the ending (and yes one of them is the real ending). Read the post for more information and the special prize. Hope this makes things more interesting and I'll hopefully update three times next week.