It has been three days since my last update! That is some serious skill, updating in three days. Go me! This chapter is a bit lengthier than my last chapters too! Yay! So as you may be able to tell I am going to be updating quicker than usual now since it is the summer time! Hooray!

Well, my chapter question for last chapter was only answered by two people and I am sorry to say they both got it wrong . . . They both get brownies though! Delicious brownies just for trying! I asked what state the new girl would be coming from and just to let you know, it is not California. I more was looking for the state's nickname. California's is The Golden State, Florida's is The Sunshine State, New Hampshire's is The Granite State, and so on. I was looking for The Bay State and if you don't know what state that is you will find out in the chapter. So, sit back, read, and enjoy! Review too!

Chapter Four:

The Angel of Heart

Odd POV

"Class, today we have a bit of a surprise," I heard Mrs. Hertz say, "We have a new student in our class, her name is Cecilia Nevins."

"This must be her," Aelita whispered to Jeremy, Ulrich and me.

"Let's hope she's not another Sissi," Ulrich said to me.

I laughed, "Yeah, that would be a sign of the apocalypse!"

Sissi glared at me. I grinned at her and turned to see the new girl walking through the door.

I took one look at her and I admit, I goggled. This girl was tall, and I mean TALL. Like 6' tall, actually probably 5'11" tall but 6' sounds better. Not only was she tall she was beautiful, like stunningly gorgeous. I think almost all of the boys in the class fell half in love with her when she walked in. I'm included on that list.

She had long reddish brown hair that reached down to her waist. It hung their in wavy pin curls that shined every time she moved. Her eyes were deep navy blue with small teal and hazel streaks in them making them as unique as can be. An assortment of freckles peppered her nose and cheeks. Her smile lite up the room, and melted my heart.

"Odd! Odd," Ulrich whispered harshly to me.

"What?" I asked irritably shaking my head.

"Your staring," he said in a monotone.

"What? I am n–-" I started to say, then I stopped myself and blushed slightly realizing I was.

"Would you like to introduce yourself Miss Nevins?" Mrs. Hertz said from the front of the classroom.

"Sure," she replied in a cheerful voice that was music to my ears, "Hi! I'm Cecilia Nevins, but you can call me Lia. That's what my friends call me at least, and I hope to become your friend. I'm from Boston, Massachusetts in the U.S.A. I'm so excited to go to school here in France! I can't wait to meet you all and . . . I'd better stop talking," all of this she said in perfect French, but with a very thick American accent, but it was still perfect French. She smiled nervously and looked over to Mrs. Hertz.

"Well then Lia," Mrs. Hertz began, "You can sit at the empty table behind Ulrich Stern and Odd Della Robia. Boys, please raise your hands."

I instantly shot my hand up and Ulrich leisurely followed. As she walked by us, I gave her a friendly smile. She uncertainly smiled back then she sat behind me. I sighed and got ready to "listen" to Mrs. Hertz.

Aelita POV

After class, Jeremy and I walked up to the new girl, Lia.

"Hello," I said, "I'm Aelita and this is Jeremy. According to Jim your going to be my new roommate. Let me be the first to say welcome to Kadic and France. Nice to meet you."

"Hi and thank you. It's nice to meet you too. Both of you. You already know I'm Lia. So you're my roommate. It will be nice having a roommate. You guys are going to help me around this place, right? It's huge! At least compared to all the other schools I have been too."

"Don't worry," Jeremy said "Aelita was new last year, she'll teach you all the tricks."

Lia smiled from above us, even Yumi who was a year older wasn't that tall, "OK, you'll have to teach me your first trick now, Where is the cafeteria? I'm starving!"

"Right this way," I said smiling and I led the way to the cafeteria.

Ulrich POV

Odd and I sat at our lunch table waiting for the others. Well, I was mostly waiting for Yumi and Odd was seemingly waiting for someone in particular too.

"What's wrong Odd?" I asked, "You seem . . . different."

"It's nothing," he said obviously preoccupied.

"OK," I said smiling. Then I turned and continued my search for Yumi.

About a minute later Odd sat straight up. I looked over to see what was happening and I saw Aelita and Jeremy walking into the cafeteria with the new girl. I waved to them and they quickly walked over.

"Hi guys," Jeremy said as he sat down.

"Odd, Ulrich," Aelita said, "This is Lia, the new girl from science class, she is my new roommate. Do you mind if she sits with us?"

"No, not at all" Odd said quickly. He stood up and put out his hand to Lia, "Hi I'm Odd."

Lia smiled and shook his hand, "Hi Odd. Nice to meet you. May I ask a question? Is Odd really your full first name?"

"Yes," he said proudly.

"Well, that's o–," she started to say, "I mean, different."

Odd smiled brightly as he sat back down. Lia and Aelita followed suit.

"I'm Ulrich," I said to Lia, then I looked around and spotted Yumi, "and that's Yumi."

I stood up and waved to Yumi. She spotted me and smiled. When she got to out table she spotted Lia.

"Hi," she said, "I'm Yumi and you must be the new girl."

Lia nodded, "Yes, I'm Lia"

"Lia," Yumi said as she sat down beside me, "Is that your full name?"

"No, it's Cecilia," she replied, "But nobody calls me that. Except for my grandma."

"So, Lia," Aelita started, "How do you like the school so far?"

"Well, I've only been here for about an hour," Lia said, "But so far, I think it's wicked cool!"

Jeremy coughed, "Um . . . wicked?"

Lia put a hand to her mouth, "Oopies! Stupid me, I'm in France!" she wacked her self lightly on the hand and smiled meekly at us. We all looked at her oddly and she just laughed, "It's a Boston thing. People in America call it a Boston accent or Boston slang. We pronounce a lot of English words wrong, according to the rest of the country. I would give you an example, but it is kind of hard to have a Boston accent while speaking French! It's not just Boston though, it kind of travels throughout New England . . . but"

"But you have an American accent," Odd said confused.

"Call it a Boston American accent then," she said smiling, "Or just forget about it. I'll just be using a few odd words every once in a while. Do I really have a bad accent?"

We all laughed. She looked around at us, confused. Finally Odd gasped out, "Yes," and she frowned.

"I'll have to work on that," she said pondering, "My French teacher had a French accent, so I thought that would help with my accent. It is supposed to prevent at least some accent, but I guess not. So, Aelita. What does your, I mean ours now really, dorm room look like? I haven't seen the dorms yet, they just took my stuff and sent me to class. Come to think of it, I have never seen a dorm. Is it big? Does it have a TV? Does it have a phone? Are the beds big? I'm assuming they are twin beds, right? I can't see why a dorm room would have a bed bigger than a twin. I have a twin at home so that is OK with me. What about other people though? A lot of people have full beds or queen beds, they probably fall out of their bed at first. Poor them. Are the beds high off of the ground? Because if they are, the people might hurt themselves. Do we get a lot of homework each night? I'm just wondering since I don't really love homework. I mean it is not that bad, but. Is there a lot of free time? Are we allowed to leave campus? Why am I asking all of theses useless questions? I tend to do this a lot. Don't mind me."

When she finally paused for breath, she just smiled at us. Yumi and Aelita stifled a giggle. Jeremy and I just had large grins across our faces and Odd turned to the side so she couldn't see his bright red face. But, it was Sissi who said what was on all of out minds.

"Woah!" she said haughtily as she walked up to us with Herb and Nicholas trailing behind her, "I thought you would never stop!"

"Oh, hi!" Lia said as if she didn't hear what she'd just said, "I'm Lia and I'm new here. What's your name?"

"I'm Sissi," she told her, "But I'm not here to meet you. I'm here to see my Ulrich."

I looked at her tiredly and opened my mouth to say something, but Lia beat me to it.

"He's not your Ulrich," she said as she stood up, "Even if he was your boyfriend or something, I wouldn't think you'd have a very good relationship. Ulrich is obviously in love with Yumi and vice versa. You would have to be blind not to notice it, come to think of it, deaf too. Plus, if you looked at Ulrich's face a moment ago, you would have seen that he was not extremely happy to see you."

Sissi just stood there her mouth gaping like a fish. She had probably known that before but hearing it aloud from some tall girl with a thick American accent just hit the nail too hard.

"Come on," she said angrily to Nicholas and Herb, then she stalked off.

Yumi and I looked at each other through side ways glances. We caught each other's eye smiled, blushed, then turned away. Could Yumi really like me back?

"Go Lia!" Odd said standing up and giving her a high-five, "You can get rid of Sissi and get Ulrich and Yumi together all in one breath."

Lia smiled, "I do talk a lot, don't I?"

"Yes, " we all said in unison then we all laughed. It felt like Lia would fit very nicely into our group. But we couldn't tell her about Xana, that we would keep a secret. For now.

Yumi POV

"So," I said to Lia as we walked to gym class, "Tell us about where you live, Boston, Massachusetts, right?"

"Yup," Lia replied, "It's not that interesting. The only things that are interesting about it are all the historical things and I hate history so I don't care. Massachusetts is stock full of history though. It should be called the historical state rather than the bay state."

I gasped, and as I did so I heard a crashing noise behind me. I turned to see that Aelita had dropped her books. Both Jeremy and Aelita knelt as if to pick them up, but instead they stared up at Lia.

Then Ulrich said what we were all about to say, "What did you just say?"

She looked at us oddly, "I said, it should be called the historical state."

"No, no, after that," I said.

"The Bay State?" she asked "That is the name of Massachusetts."

"Finally the sixth shall come from the bay . . ." Odd whispered.

"What are you guys talking about?" Lia asked now throughly confused.

I looked around and everyone had the same shocked expression I had on my face.

Finally Jeremy shook his head, "It's nothing," he said, "Nothing at all."

"Really?" Lia said suspiciously.

"Really!" Odd said quickly, "It's just we have never seen the ocean, or the bay before!"

"No way!" she said as if believing Odd, "You'll have to go sometime, it's wicked awesome!"

"You'll have to take us," I replied.

I had a feeling she didn't really believe that was why we had acted so strangely.

I cannot think of a chapter question that will be answered next chapter! So instead I'm going to ask a question that is not greatly important that will be answered in a few chapters. Chapter Seven to be exact. Yes I know it is a while from now but if I keep updating at this rate it will be in less than two weeks!

This chapter's contest question is:

What is Lia's usual choice of weapon?