well this chapter may be a bit short, but i figured i should update something.

i dedicate this chapter to my amazing friend Circus Runaway because it is her birthday today, so everyone go wish her a happy bday and check out her story!

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Chapter 5

Ulrich's POV

I got out of the car slowly and stretched after a long car ride. I felt a bit sore from the previous day, but I shrugged it off. It was amazing how happy I was to see Kadic again.

I hoisted my bag over my shoulder and slowly walked inside Kadic's main building. I walked down the hallway to the stairs, occasionally waving and saying hi to people. As I rounded the corner I walked right into somebody and both of us fell crashing to the ground.

"Oh gosh, I'm sorry," the person said quickly as they stood up.

"It's okay," I said as I looked up at the person I bumped into. She had long straight black hair and a delicate looking face. I was positive I've never seen her before.

"Um do you go to school here? I've never seen you before," I explained as I looked into her deep violet eyes.

"Oh, um, I'm Melanie. And you probably haven't seen me because I just moved in here today," she said stuttering slightly.

"I'm Ulrich," I said standing up, "can I walk you to your room?" Melanie was extremely pretty. She immediately blushed.

"Well… I guess so," she mumbled quietly. The two of us began walking up the stairs to the upper floors where the dorms were located.

The guys' dorms were on the third floor and the girls' dorms were on the second. It was the other way around last year, but Jim said we needed more exercise so he put us on the higher floor. Look who's talking.

"So… who's your dorm mate?" I questioned as we reached the top of the stairs and began walking down the hallway.

"My cousin, Yumi," she told me somewhat nervously. Wait, Melanie was cousins with that… that vile Yumi?

"Yumi Ishiyama?" I asked. She nodded. I opened my mouth to speak again but Melanie beat me to it.

"I know, she hates you, you hate her," she said sighing. She stopped walking when we reached her dorm. "Thanks for walking me," she said smiling sweetly. I gave her a grin flashing my perfectly white teeth. I was about to ask her to go out with me tomorrow, but then I remembered Emily.

I would date Melanie behind Emily's back, but normally Emily stuck to me like glue. I think she would find out if I was dating someone else.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow," I said before walking off to my dorm.

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"Ulrich, why the hell didn't you bring your cell phone along to your dad's house?" Odd asked as soon as I entered my dorm. He was sprawled out on his bed listening to his iPod. I simply shrugged and tossed my bag on the floor.

"Why did you want to call me?" I asked as I plopped down on my own bed.

"Dude, you totally missed out at breakfast yesterday morning," he said laughing slightly. I gave him a questioning look. He picked his phone up from off the ground, pressed a few buttons and tossed it at me. I easily caught it and looked at the screen of his phone. It had a picture of Jeremie dressed up as a gangster.

"What. The. Fuck," I said slowly. Odd burst out laughing at the expression on my face.

"What did you have to do to get him dressed up like that?" I asked Odd amazed, assuming this was one of his pranks. Odd smirked and rested his hands behind his head.

"That's the great thing about this Ulrich. I didn't do anything to him; he just showed up looking like that the other morning," he stated. I stared at him. "Aelita was so pissed off," Odd said chuckling.

"I can't believe I missed that!" I half shouted lying back on my bed. "That would've been great to watch," I said grinning from ear to ear.

Odd's POV

The following day, and much to everyone's disappointment, classes began again. The first three classes of my day I pretty much spent daydreaming or zoning out; but I actually was excited for the fourth class of my day today. Well not exactly excited… more like anxious.

My fourth class was health, which meant we would be assigned partners for the project of taking care of stupid doll babies. I actually didn't really care who got picked to be my partner for the project, I just couldn't wait to make fun of everyone who got bad partners.

Especially Ulrich… I hope he gets a really bad partner. Like Nicolas… too bad Ms. Mayer was pairing up boys with girls. For once in my life… class was actually going to be interesting.

I entered the noisy classroom to find everyone separated into their groups of people already. I noticed a lot of the girls in one group were squealing and pointing at Ulrich making me roll my eyes.

I walked over to Ulrich and the group, taking a good look at Jeremie as I passed by, whom was sitting alone looking very similar as he did that morning at breakfast, except this time he was wearing a black hat on backwards. It made me snicker.

"Before I even got the chance to get up to Ulrich and the rest of the guys, Ms. Meyer entered the classroom, signaling for everyone to sit down. The desks were arranged so each desk was separate, but I still got a desk next to Ulrich in the back of the room so we could make fun of all the people who got paired together for the project.

"Now class, I know you are all eager to find out who your partner is for this long term assignment, so I will just begin listing names. The names are not in any order," Ms. Meyer began. The classroom noise immediately died down until it was silent.

"Heidi Klinger, you are with Nicolas Poliakoff," she announced. I looked over to see Heidi looking extremely pissed off and Nicolas staring at her from across the room, practically drooling.

"Theo Gauthier with Noemie N'Guyen." I could tell Theo was happy, he always had thought Noemie was hot. I think Noemie was happy too… she and her boyfriend had recently broken up and she was desperate to get a new one.

"Odd Della Robbia," Ms. Meyer started. I immediately tensed up and waited for her to call the next name.

"And Aelita Hopper." I looked over at Aelita who smiled and waved at me. I smiled and waved back at her as well.

Hey, Aelita was a good partner… I didn't particularly want to be with any of the other girls in the class. And I didn't really want Aelita to get stuck with 'gangster' Jeremie either… this project won't be so bad!

"Ryan Gaillard and Courtney Blaisse." The brown haired guy with the giant mole looked over at the blonde, Courtney, from across the room and gazed at her. She shuddered.

"Sissi Delmas and William Dunbar," Ms. Meyer continued to announce in a booming voice. Sissi and William looked at each other with a look of indifference, obviously not sure what to think of about being partners.

"Alexander Pepin and Claire Girard," Ms. Meyer stopped for a moment clearing her throat, "Matthieu Ducrocq and Sorya Abulabbas, Jeremie Belpois and Herve Pichon." At this both Jeremie and Herve fell out of there chairs.

"Ms. Meyer, I think you've made a mistake, aren't boys and girls supposed to be paired up together?" Jeremie asked quickly in his regular voice. "Uh…" he stuttered realizing he wasn't using his deep voice, "I mean, Herve isn't a girl…."

I just couldn't resist the temptation.

"Or is he?" I shouted out, causing most of the classroom to burst into laughter. Herve's face turned an odd reddish purple color, partly from anger and partly from embarrassment. Even Ms. Meyer had to put up an effort to restrain from laughing.

"Quiet down class! You are correct Jeremie, Herve isn't a girl, thank you for that very fascinating observation. This class has an uneven number of girls and boys, so I had to pair up two boys as a partner," she explained calmly.

"I'm sure you two will work just fine together," she said. A few kids in the class snorted. Jeremie and Herve began glaring daggers at each other, Jeremie not even noticing his hat had fallen on the ground.

"Anyway… Caroline Savorani and Christopher M'Bala will be partners, and Yumi Ishiyama and Ulrich Stern will be partners. Did I miss anybody?" Ms. Meyer questioned but I wasn't paying attention. I looked over at Ulrich to see how he would take the news. He looked furious. Yumi looked like she was about to murder someone.

Wow, this was definitely going to be an interesting project….

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haha okay don't worry you guys dont have to remember who most of those people are or who they are partnered with, most of them were just random people on the code lyoko show i put in to make the class seem more real. i mean, the teacher isnt going to just call off Jeremie, Ulrich, Yumi, Odd, and Aelita's partners...

the last names were weird, but again they are just names from people on the show. and i checked the names out on the code lyoko website so i think theyre spelled right..

oh and i added a couple characters in there for my own entertainment... they dont really matter though

oh yeah! i forgot to mention there actually is something in the divider this chapter... if you havent figured that out. (lol thank you Frog Disease for the idea of what to put in my divider)

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