Chapter 4 : Play It Right/Seriously?

Okay so there is a line break in here and the previous chapter, meaning that there will be another part/scene. There are also two names in the chapter name, separated by a comma. For it to make sense the first part will be the lesson that Odd will be learning, and the second part is whatever the first half before the line break in the story talks about, xD Does that make sense? Hope it cleared some things up. WOOHOO second review. hahaha. Oh and sorry if my story/chapters seem kind of rushed to you..

The next day...

"Uhh... Aelita why are you following me again?"

Aelita held her head up high with a smile of victory. "To make sure you don't wander off again, simple as that." The two had just come out of one of their classes, Odd was the first one out of the room but Aelita soon came after.

"You know, usually it's the guy who follows the girl." he said with a smile. Aelita squinted her eyes, "don't make it seem like I'm into you or anything." Aelita turned when they made it outside of the building but Odd just kept on walking.

"Where are you going?" Aelita asked confused. "To the lunchroom." He replied not looking back at her. She put her hands on her hips and took on an aggravated expression. "You do remember what time it is, right?" Odd turned around and looked straight at her, "Come on Aelita, just 5 minutes, you don't want me to starve when you're teaching me do you?" he pouted and did the infamous puppy eyes. Aelita, though unfazed, agreed and told Odd that she would be waiting for him, and told him not to be late. "Hey, can we do this every time? You know, I get to eat a little and then go?" Odd asked excitedly, maybe this whole thing wouldn't be so bad after all. She sighed, "You're pushing your luck here, but alright you get 5 minutes."

"Alriiight! Thanks babe." Odd quickly spun around and ran off. He could hear a shout from Aelita, "BABE?" Odd zipped through the door and into line leaving his fangirls with only a 'hey'. Disappointed, they walked off. Odd grabbed as much food as he could: pudding, jell-o, fruit salad, strawberry shortcake, and maybe a cookie or two. Though his favorite was steak and beans. He quickly, but carefully walked to where his friends where. As he put his tray on the table the three looked up at him, and his pile (exaggerating) of food.

"Gee Odd, what are you, going into hibernation?" Ulrich joked, staring at his steak. With no hesitation, Odd took a bite of his steak, and stuffed in some jello along with it. "Ew, gross, Odd! If you're going to eat at least be civilized about it." Yumi stared disgustingly at him. "Can't talk, Aelita, waiting." Odd gasped out the words as he swallowed and stuffed in more food. "Oh... I see how it is." Yumi smiled with a mischievous glint in her eyes. Odd turned to Jeremie who was quietly working on a report on his laptop. "Hey there Einstein, what time is it?" He asked, putting in a mouthful of fruit in his mouth, some were dipped in his chocolate pudding. "Uhh... let's see... 12:03." Odd's eyes grew large for a second but then he instantly looked back down and intensely focused on his food.

Strawberry shortcake with beans, pudding on top of jell-o, steak with cookies, he didn't care, they tasted all the same to him anyways. Odd felt as if he could hear a clock inside his head, tick-tock, I hope I finish this in time, tick-tock, almost 12:05, tick-tock. The time slowly wound down and Odd was down to his last bite.

As he was going to engulf it, hands slammed on his side of the table, startling him.

"Odd, time's up." Aelita grinned and looked over at Yumi, Ulrich, and Jeremie. "Hello." she greeted them cheerfully. "Sorry, but I've got to take Odd away." She looked back at Odd who was slowly inching the steak closer to his mouth. She placed her hand on top of his and slowly lowered the fork, "Come on, we've got a schedule." Odd groaned, and got up from his seat and walked out the door with Aelita.


"Second Lesson; Moves." Aelita sat next to Odd to make sure he would at least put some effort into taking notes. "What's up Aelita? Going to demonstrate for me?" He smirked. "You wish." she said. "Maybe I do." he replied. Aelita just rolled her eyes and continued on with the lesson.

"As I was saying yesterday, if you are a girl's type, you'd have to know how to play your cards right."
"Now for example.... you're at... a bar." Odd took his pencil and wrote down The Bar on his notebook as he tried to write neat and stay inside the college-ruled lines. "Yes, the bar, though cliche as it may be, offer a girl at the bar a drink." "Some girls think that's really nice or cute for your effort to try to get their attention."

Kay... the Bar. Odd thought to himself. 1. Buy her a drink

Aelita took off her shoes and sat on the bed Indian-style, criss-cross applesauce, or whatever way you call it. "Now some girls will tell you to get original, so then you'd have to try and take it from a different approach, such as... go straightforward and talk to her or if at a club; wait `till she's out dancing."

Okay... so if that doesn't work.. On the line below that Odd began to write Okay, alterna.... "Hey Aelita how do you spell alternatively?"

Aelita leaned forward to look at the notebook, she simply smiled. "Ah, so you are taking notes hm? It's A-L-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-V-E-L-Y."

"Anyways, same thing goes for chivalrous styles. You know that saying 'chivalry is dead'?" Odd looked at her and nodded. "Well it's not." she said sternly. "You should always open the car door for the girl, let her go first, tuck her chair in and what-not, a lot of girls find gentlemen more attractive than slobs." She glared at Odd as if referring to him.

"Hey, what are you looking at me for?" He whined. Aelita cleared her throat and ignored the question. "Fine fine... I get it..." Odd muttered and went back to taking notes. In underline he wrote, Chivalry is NOT dead.

"Now, say she agreed to your first date and you're at... whatever you decided to go to, and you're talking about each other and getting to know each other." "Don't go on and on about whatever comes into mind, what's important is you talk about yourself and you ask her about herself." Aelita paused and sat up. "Now this is an important thing to know, don't keep going on about yourself either, leave the girl a chance to speak."

Odd put his pencil to his mouth then began to write again. Okay... First Date : Talk about you, don't rave, let her talk about herself.
Hang on a second, first date? Come to think about it I never actually had an official one myself.

"If you talk about yourself too much you might start to bore the girl, and everyone knows the first date is the make-or-break moment." "You can tell the girl is starting to get bored by reading her body language."

"... but that's another lesson." Aelita winked and chuckled.

As soon as Odd finished writing down all his notes from 'lecture', Odd looked at her in awe. "Hey what's wrong?" Aelita asked curious at what was so interesting about her. "How come you know so much about these kinds of things Aelita?" Aelita looked up at the ceiling with a dull blank expression. "I don't know really, I don't have experience with guys either." "What?! You've NEVER been in a relationship?" Odd exclaimed. "Nope, none at all, but I wonder what your definition of relationship is." She joked, Aelita got off the bed and put her shoes back on. "What are you going to do for the weekend?" she asked.

"Ehh. I don't know really..." he stopped for a moment. "Why.. do you want to go on our date earlier?" He asked in a mischievous tone. Aelita smirked, "No, thank you." "I was just asking, I'm thinking of going to the swimming pool tomorrow."
"Oh... reallly?" Odd's face lit up. Aelita stared at him puzzled for a second, "Yes... why?" Odd got up from the bed and walked past Aelita towards the door. "Oh, no reason, now hurry up or we'll be late for music!"