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Look Before You Seek

Chapter 6

Minnie woke up the next morning feeling incredibly excited. She was the kind of excited that made her want to jump around and squeal, however immature it might be to do so. She also had butterflies in her stomach. Personally, I think that it is rather strange that they give such a pretty name for a horrid feeling in the pit of your stomach. I, myself, would describe the feeling as having slugs squirming in the tummy. But I will leave it up to you to make up your own mind.

It seemed that Minnie had completely forgotten about her sadness and self-pity, and had turned a new page into excitement and adventure. Gone where her doubts, her worries, forgotten. This girl who had wallowed in the past for a short time had turned a new leaf and looked to the future. For the first time since she had left Australia, she giggled for no reason.

Back in Australia, Minnie had hung out with her friends and laughed. In fact, her friends found it quite strange and rather scary, as her laughing fits would sometimes last such a long time. But, eventually, she started to rub off onto her friends, and they laughed too, although not as much.

Minnie had always classed her fits of laughing as a disorder or a disease or a disability. So, to make matter easier, she was said to have T.L.D. It stood for The Laughing Disorder/ Disease/ Disability. Minnie was often bracketed under the disorder column. Anyone who started laughing insanely afterwards was considered to have the disease, which usually spread rather fast. Very few people had the disability, as Minnie said that it would be the condition someone who had been through some sort of trauma and would laugh insanely to hide hat they were really feeling. Her friends often wondered if this was the case for Minnie as well, as she seemed to know a lot about the matter.

So Minnie lay there early that morning, smiling at nothing and randomly giggling despite herself. It was 5:30 in the morning. Minnie had slept soundly that night, but had woken early, as the sudden time change had obviously affected her sleeping patterns. Minnie considered herself more of a morning person, but even she didn't rise as early as 5:30. But, she was awake, and did not feel in the least bit sleepy, so she got out of bed.

Aelita was still asleep, which was no surprise. Minnie quickly and silently made her bed, then considered getting dressed. She would need a shower first, a people might hear the shower turn on. Eventually, she decided to take the risk. She grabbed her clothes and headed silently to the showers down the hall.

She turned the water on cautiously. She suddenly realized that it was a very bad idea, but it was to late now. The water pattering against the tiles made a echoing sound around the empty shower room. Minnie showered very quickly, trying her hardest not to make to much noise. She then dried and dressed. Minnie wore a green skirt down to her ankles, and an blue t-shirt with turquoise studs on it. After yellow, her second favorite colour was green, as she felt very connected with nature.

Minnie silently crept back to her room, Literary thanking the Lord that no-one had woken. If you have not guessed already, Minnie was a Christian. In fact, she was a very devoted Christian, in her own way, although she hadn't gone to church or youth gatherings in nearly 2 years. Her Christian faith was very deep, but I will not go into the reasons why she will not go to church anymore, as it is a long and complicated tale, and it is not the tale that I am telling you now.

By this time, it was nearly 6:00, and it had begun to get light outside. Minnie grabbed her book-bag and left again. She went straight to the woods, though she was quiet about it and did not use the fire exit, as it was much quieter than it was the other night, and people would defiantly become suspicious.

So, Taking the long way around, Minnie went to the forest and wandered. As Minnie wandered through the trees, she thought. And, although it may be obvious to you, I will explain what she was thinking about. She was thinking about Lyoko. Although she didn't know all that much, as the information she had obtained had been scattered through conversations at random, like some strange form of a scavenger hunt for words, then putting the words together like a puzzle. It was too much to try and desirer inside of her head, so she sat a began to write.

(Now we will check on Aelita)

Aelita woke with a start. She had cold sweat running down her back and her face, leaking into her eyes and making them sting. She had been dreaming of something. It had been about something horrible, but for the life or her, she couldn't remember what.

She checked the time. 7:00 am. Well, She thought. This is as good a time as ever to get up. Even though she usually woke half an hour later, Aelita knew that she would have no hope falling back to sleep again.

Aelita felt like she needed a nice, long shower. She grabbed her clothes, and was about to head out the door, when she remembered Minnie. She thought that she should probably wake her. She was very surprised when she saw Minnie's bed empty, and it was made as well. Aelita wondered what time she had gotten up, and why she hadn't heard her.

Aelita started to feel slightly dizzy, as all the thoughts in her mind came whizzing past in one big wave. She reached out and held the end of her bed for support, but the strange feeling had stopped as quickly as it had started, maybe a bit faster. Aelita took a few breaths to calm herself. She then took up her clothes again and headed for the showers.

A while later, she met Odd, Jeremie and Ulrich down at the lunchroom for breakfast. Aelita had assumed that Minnie would also be here, but she wasn't. In fact, Aelita was starting to become more than a little worried.

"Hey," she said, coming over the their table with her food. "Have any of you seen Minnie?"

"No," Jeremie answered. "Why?"

"Well, when I got up this morning, she wasn't there." Aelita's voice sounded unsteady

"Relax," Odd said. "She probably just got up early. Nothing to worry about." Odd was very easy going.

"But she isn't here either. I thought that she might at least have come for breakfast." Aelita's voice still took on a worried tone.

"Maybe she wasn't hungry?" Ulrich suggested. Odd snorted at this comment.

"But," Aelita started. "I haven't seen her eat anything since she got here!"

"Maybe she's fasting?" Jeremie said.

"For what?" Odd said with a laugh.

"Well, she could be fasting for religious reasons," Jeremie said to Odd.

Odd seemed appalled at the idea. "You mean that some religions stop you from eating! That's not right."

"I don't know," Aelita said, still worried.

Aelita needn't have worried. Nothing had happened to Minnie. She had just lost track of the time and forgotten her stomach. Aelita spotted her when she walked into her first lesson, and let out a sigh of relief. She was going to ask her where she had gotten to, but the bell rang, and the class begun. It would have to wait.

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