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Chapter 21

Aelita's POV

Within the next week, all the drama began to die down at Kadic High… for once. All the girls had completely forgotten about Odd's little 'incident' of dating over 20 girls at a time because of the whole Yumi and Ulrich together thing, which, believe it or not, some people were okay with.

It didn't take long for people to stop trying to break up Ulrich and Yumi… they were just such a perfect couple, it seemed impossible they would ever break up. I don't think Yumi notices, but everywhere they go Ulrich's always holding onto her- her hand, his arm around her shoulders or her waist, his fingers brushing hers when they walk. Just the way he looks at her… like everything he's ever wanted is right there, right before his very eyes. I think that's what made most of the girls give up on Ulrich.

The guys… well, I guess they were just too relaxed and ready for summer to take any major action on breaking up Ulrich and Yumi.

And, amazingly, Sissi has completely given up on Ulrich. She and Odd are actually really good friends now, because they both found they enjoy pulling pranks and making other people's days miserable, without really doing any permanent damage.

Odd, the kitten, and I have been hanging out more too… except the kitten still doesn't have a name yet. I've been ignoring Jeremie a bit, which I feel a little bad about, but he's busy with exams, and I'm busy with… Odd. I just can't figure out if I really like him….

Melanie, Anna Xana, and William are all pretty good friends too. Melanie and William sneak out of Kadic a lot, but I don't think Anna goes with them much… she's too much of a peacemaker and good-doer to break the rules. Luckily, she hasn't had to do much peacemaking and breaking up fights lately.

It seems like the whole school year is coming to a nice, perfect end, the warming weather and summer breeze creating a buzz of excitement around the school. The only thing that really can keep us in school right now is driver's ed… the behind the wheel portion that just started last week.

And let me tell you, most people and Kadic should neverbe allowed to get a driver's license. Especially Odd.

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Ulrich's POV

Schoolwork is impossible to focus on. As I sat there at the desk in my dorm, attempting to read all of the chapters in Chemistry that I was supposed to read months ago, I found myself being distracted by everything.

The summer weather outside, the deformed paper crane Yumi had made for me ("it looks just like you!" she had exclaimed), the screaming and shouting coming from outside and from in the hallways, pictures of the cars Odd and I had picked out for ourselves even though we know we'll never get our licenses, and the smell of cat food thanks to Yumi and Aelita deciding I should baby-sit the kitten last night.

After realizing how many distractions I had, I gave up on reading my science book completely, burying my hands in my hair, groaning. This was hopeless.

I heard the door behind me swing open and shut, and so I assumed Odd was coming back from wherever he had been all morning. But instead Yumi came up beside me, laughing quietly.

"What?" I said, trying to sound annoyed with her even though I was overjoyed she had come. "Are you… trying to study?"she asked in disbelief.

"…Maybe," I mumbled. She laughed, sitting on my lap and resting her head on my shoulder. "Come on, Ulrich, it's Sunday… don't you want to do something?"

I put my arms around her, pressing my lips softly to her forehead. I still couldn't believe she was mine. "I already promised Odd I'd sneak out of Kadic with him." She stuck out her tongue at me. "You suck."

She stood up and walked away from me, pretending to be hurt. Then she stopped, putting her hand on her stuck out hip, doing a perfect impression of Sissi. "Ulrich dear, we never spend enough time together."

I chuckled, remembering the day Sissi and I were going out and she said that to me. Yes, she actually said that to me.

"I don't care if we've only been going out for three hours, you need to spend more time with me and less time in class!" Yumi mocked, trying not to laugh.

I stood up, walking over to her until we were only inches apart. "You're amazing," I told her with a smile, loving the way she looked at me.

"Well, you're kind of a loser," she joked, and I punched her arm lightly. She looked up at me for a moment, then suddenly jumped on me, locking her legs around my waist and her arms around my neck, kissing me.

"Holy shit," I murmured against her lips, stunned by her out-of-the-blue leaping on me, but definitely not complaining. Her lips curved upwards into a smile as she continued kissing me.

I wrapped my arms around her, supporting her weight as I carried her to my bed. I sat down on the bed, continuing to kiss her, feeling my back tingle as her fingers slid down my spine.

Then I heard the door open, and I knew it was Odd because I could tell by his laugh. "Am I interrupting something?" he asked.

I stopped kissing Yumi and turned to face him, my arms still wrapped around her.

"No," Yumi said sarcastically, and I grinned. She gave me a quick kiss on the cheek. "Bye," she whispered in my ear, and then she got up and left, leaving me in a daze.

Odd was still standing in the middle of the room, grinning. "You look stoned," he commented. I rolled my eyes at him, blinking to get rid of the dreamy look that I knew was in my eyes, and trying to clear my foggy head. Yumi just has that kind of effect on me.

Odd just shook his head at me. "You are so whipped."

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"So, what about her? I think I'd give her a six," Odd said, nodding his head over a woman on the other side of the street.

"Yeah," I agreed, not really wanting to rate her. Call me pathetic, but I haven't found a girl that I actually thought was really hot since I figured out I like Yumi.

Odd sighed, giving up on me. "So, you're ready for Driver's Ed tonight, right?" I grinned. "Hell yeah."

He looked up thoughtfully. "Won't it be amazing? Us… driving?!"

I tried imagining Odd driving, but all I ended up with was his car smashed through the cafeteria wall and into the cafeteria, begging for Mr. Delmas to forgive him. Obviously he was thinking of something else though, because he looked excited.

"It'll be great," he said. Then he suddenly burst out, "hey look, an 8!" as he pointed to some lady in a car. The lady must've caught him pointing, because she looked confused... and a little scared.

I shook my head. "Odd, don't you ever see something in a girl besides their looks?" He took a minute to think about this. "Not really."

Then I remembered something Yumi told me about. "What about Aelita?" I asked. Odd looked at me like I was crazy. "Well obviously I see stuff in Aelita besides her looks… we're just friends."

"Are you really just friends?" I asked, knowing that Aelita and Odd had been spending a lot of time together lately. He nodded his head slowly. "Yes Ulrich, we're just friends."

I continued my questioning. "Could you ever see yourself going out with Aelita?"

Odd looked thoughtful for a moment, probably imagining what his life would be like if he was dating Aelita. Or, maybe he was just thinking about what he was planning to eat for dinner tonight… I could never tell what was going on in that head of insanity.

Odd opened his mouth to answer, but his eyes flickered to something in the store next to us. Instead of answering the question, the next words to come out of his mouth were, "GROSS! She's definitely a 2."

I smacked my forehead. Man, that kid has some severe ADD….

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Aelita's POV

The sun was shining down on us from the cloudless blue sky as almost all of our grade sat around in the grass, talking and listening to Jim. …But mostly talking. It was a perfect day for driving.

"Now, each of you will be taking turns in pairs of two for your driving lessons, one sitting in the driver's seat and the other in the back seat. You are not to disobey the speed limit, crash into things, run over pedestrians…" Jim explained. Then he paused, thinking hard.

"Uh, did I miss anything?" he asked. No one was brave enough to raise their hand to tell Jim that he had no idea how to drive. "Good!" Jim said, clapping his hands together.

"BELPOIS! HERVE! You two are up first!" he bellowed. Jeremie approached the driver's side of the car trembling nervously. But I wasn't focused on Jeremie right now.

My mind was focused on everything but Jeremie and the fact that within the next hour I would be driving a car. In fact, my mind was fully focused on Odd.

I'd thought it through. I'd thought about it all this weekend, all last night, and all of today. Pretty much, I'd thought about it since the moment I started to have doubts about liking Jeremie.

I'd thought about the fact of liking Odd.

I didn't want to turn into Ulrich and Yumi… I mean honestly, look at how long it took for them to get together, and all the torture they went through just to get there! Maybe they were whispering and laughing quietly as they sat next to each other in the grass right now, but for the past few months they'd both been complete disasters.

And so, I'd decided instead of just waiting for Odd to make the first move, or instead of waiting for some miracle to pull us together, I was going to confront him and tell him. I was going to do it right now.

"Hey, Odd," I called out to him, approaching the spot where he was sitting on the grass hanging out with a bunch of girls. He grinned widely, his teeth gleaming in the sunshine. He immediately got up from his group of girls and walked away from them with me. "What, no 'hey Daisy' today? Have you finally given up on calling me that?" he asked.

Happiness and anxiousness surged through me at the sound of his voice. I tried putting on a casual expression, smiling nervously at him. He looked confused. "What's up?" he asked, catching onto my nervousness.

"I just… wanted to talk to you," I said, stalling for time so I could think of what to say.

"About what?" he responded curiously.

I stopped walking, stopping to look up into his eyes, brimming with excitement and curiosity. "Well… the truth is Odd, I think I-" but I was cut of by Jim's thunderous voice.

"DELLA ROBBIA! STERN! GET UP HERE!" Odd was literally leaping with excitement. "We'll talk later, okay Aelita?" he confirmed. He waited for me to nod before running off to the car. I watched as Jeremie and Herve got out of the car, both pale faced and shaking. Herve barely managed to walk out of the street before fainting onto the grass. I'm guessing driving with Jim wasn't exactly easy….

I sighed as I watched Odd hop in the front seat of the car, Ulrich getting into the back. I'd just talk it over with Yumi, then tell Odd about how I feel. No big deal… it had taken Ulrich and Yumi half a year to admit their feelings. What was one day compared to that?

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Ulrich's POV

It was amazing, how relaxed I was when sitting in a car with two idiots who have no idea how to drive. If Odd had been in the driver's seat of a car a few weeks ago, I would've flipped out. And I definitely would not be sitting in the back seat.

But with Yumi around... I was just too happy to care. Or maybe to obliviously in love to actually realize who I was driving with. More likely the second one.

"Ready!?" Odd asked manically. Jim, who actually looked a little scared, put his foot on the break pedal on his side of the car, poised and ready to break. Then Odd shot off in a huge burst of speed, sending school flying far behind us.

I was bracing myself for the sudden brake I knew Jim was going to activate, but when the car continued to increase in speed, I looked up to see Jim pumping his break pedal rapidly. "WHY THE HELL ISN'T MY BRAKE WORKING!?" he screamed.

Odd grinned back at me, giving me a thumbs up. Two things that clearly said, 'I screwed up Jim's breaks'. I laughed too, looking at Jim's panicked face. When I opened my eyes to see where we were, I saw we were entering an intersection and the light was red. "ODD!" I screamed.

He pulled himself quickly over into the turn right lane, turning with such speed and force that Jim's car door whooshed open. "DELLA ROBBIAAAAA!" he screamed. One moment he was sitting there, and then the next moment he wasn't. Odd and I looked back in the review mirrors, seeing Jim lying across the sidewalk, shouting and shaking his fist in anger.

At this Odd and I began dieing laughing. I unbuckled my seatbelt, jumping up to take the passenger's seat next to Odd. Before I even reached for the door, Odd pulled a sharp turn to shut it for me.

As Odd began skillfully maneuvering around cars down the road, I was beginning to get the feeling he had driven before. I wasn't sure if I should be scared or reassured by that thought.

Then Odd slowed down, just enough so he could do a U-turn, turning back toward Kadic. He stayed at a normal speed for a while, just until we passed a couple of police cars outside of the police station, and then sped up again at the next road.

In only moments we were driving towards Kadic. Odd slowed down a bit again, rolling down his car door window. He stopped just in front of where all the sophomores were sitting, waiting their turn to drive. "Anyone want a ride?" Odd asked with a grin. No one moved.

"Where's Jim?" someone asked hesitantly. Odd and I laughed, and people began whispering to each other, shocked. "Later!" Odd shouted, then sped off as quickly as possible.

As we watched all of the people in our review mirrors, some cheering and some looking freaked out, we continued to laugh. Odd put his head on the wheel, still laughing, closing his eyes to try to stop.

When I began to actually look around, I found us approaching an intersection… with another red light. Everything seemed to slow down as I came to the horrifying realization that we were headed into a busy intersection at completely the wrong time.

"ODD!" I screamed. In a few elongated moments we were in the middle of the intersection. I turned, looking out Odd's window to see if any cars were coming. Unfortunately, one of them was coming directly at us… and it was a huge truck.

Odd turned around and saw this only seconds after I did. He grabbed the wheel with both hands, spinning it as fast as he could to swerve out of the way.

But he was too late.

The truck came crashing into the side of the car, and I felt myself being jolted into the corner of the windshield of the car. Then, with a huge impact on the side of my head, everything stopped.

omg Odd and Ulrich, I am so sorry... I cannot believe I just did that!

Uhhh... yeah.

--bRoK3n h3aRt--