Hiya!
Be proud of me I finally I finally got working on this chapter!!!!!
Sorry it's been a while but I'm not gonna bother with the same old reasons since you might not be reading this anyway. But if you are, I have an important question at the end of this chapter!!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko! Tear tear.
On with the story!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Last time:
Odd and Ulrich were sitting on their beds throwing a ball back and forth when a blood curdling scream echoed through the room.
"What was that?!" Ulrich asked, looking around.
That was when Jeremy ran into their room.
"Did you hear that?" He asked, sounding frantic.
"Yeah, but it sounded familiar," Odd said.
"Is Xana attacking?" Ulrich asked.
Jeremy shook his head, "No, so I don't think it was Aelita."
Odd's eyes widened, "You don't think…that it's Nikki do you?"
The three of them exchanged glances and took off towards the girls' dorm.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
The guys came into the girls' dorm to see Aelita running towards them from the other end of the hall.
Panting, she asked, "Did you guys hear it?"
"Yeah, do you know what it was?" Jeremy replied.
As an answer, Kevin came out of a room and began running in the opposite direction, only to be caught by Jim.
The assembled Lyoko group didn't waste any time.
Aelita was the first to reach the open door and what she saw made her gasp and take a few steps back.
"What is it Aelita? What did you-oh no!" Jeremy came beside Aelita who buried her face in his shoulder.
There, inside the dark room, was the blood spattered body of Nikki spread amongst the tangled mess of sheets. Her eyes closed, and her mouth opened slightly.
A bloody knife lay on the floor mere feet from the bed.
Ulrich and Odd stood shocked on either side of Jeremy and Aelita until Jim came up behind them, all the while keeping a firm grip on Kevin whose hands then appeared to be bloody and had a bruise forming on his cheek.
Soon doors began to open up and down the hallway and the students and a few teachers crowded around the open door to see what was happening.
Jim was the first to snap out of things and take charge.
"Someone call an ambulance! As for the rest of you, go back to your rooms. NOW!" His voice boomed over the hushed tones and everyone did as they were told.
As the hall emptied and Jim took Kevin to the principal's office, Odd, Ulrich, Aelita, and Jeremy walked into the room.
"Is she alive?" Aelita croaked, tears streaming silently down her face.
Jeremy took Nikki's wrist to find the pulse and nodded.
Odd sat on the bed and picked her up, laying her in his lap.
The others sat on the bed avoiding the bloodstained parts around him.
"So much for being safer without him," Odd muttered, stroking Nikki's hair gently.
Before anyone could break the silence, two paramedics came in.
Once Nikki was put into the ambulance, the principal came out and stood beside the Lyoko gang. Ulrich had called Yumi and she had joined them minutes earlier.
Mr. Delmas stood there for a brief moment before sighing and saying, "Go on."
The group smiled and thanked him as they climbed into the ambulance.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
At the Hospital:
Odd paced back in forth in front of his friends, who sat in their pajamas outside the operating room.
"She'll be okay, Odd," Ulrich said, in effort to comfort his friend.
As an answer, a doctor came out of the operating room.
"How is she?" Odd asked loudly.
The doctor put his hands up slightly to quiet him before speaking, "She lost a lot of blood but she should be fine. Would you like to see her?"
Before Odd could say anything, Yumi put a hand over his mouth and nodded.
The doctor led them to a room and as they all filed into it, closed the door and left.
Before them Nikki was lying peacefully on a bed, hooked up to a few machines that beeped or hummed softly. Her skin had been wiped clean of blood and bandages across her chest were evident beneath her pale nightgown.
Aelita walked up to her and took her hand gently, smiling, "She's okay."
Yumi released a breath, "What a relief,"
"She gave us quite a scare," Ulrich said.
Jeremy laughed half heartedly, "That's and understatement."
Everyone sat on a chair except for Odd who leaned against the wall next to Nikki.
A few hours later, Nikki's eyes opened slowly and she attempted to sit up.
The others stood up and came to stand at her bedside.
Odd put his hand on her shoulder and her eyes widened, "Are you okay?"
"Let me go," She whispered.
"What?" Odd asked cocking his head slightly.
"I said, LET ME GO!" Nikki yelled, squirming out of his grasp.
Odd didn't say anything as Nikki continued screaming; he merely wrapped his arms around her and held on tight.
Nikki gasped and stopped yelling, her eyes widened.
Her silence soon gave way to tears, and she began to sob into Odd's shoulder.
Nobody said anything, there was nothing to say.
Pretty soon, Nikki fell asleep in Odd's arms and a nurse came in to look her over.
The Lyoko gang fell asleep soon after. Yumi and Aelita on the spare bed in the room and the guys on chairs they had pushed together.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
The next morning Aelita was the first to wake up.
Pulling herself into a sitting position she looked to the other bed to see Nikki with her knees pulled up to her chest, staring at the sheets before her.
Aelita walked up and sat gingerly next to Nikki, who looked at her through the corner of her eye.
"Morning," The pink hair girl said.
The other girl responded with a meager 'hi'.
"Are you feeling better?" Aelita asked.
Nikki looked up at her, "What do you mean? What happened?"
"You don't remember anything?" Aelita questioned.
"All I remember is Kevin coming into my room with a knife and trying to stab me in the chest. He still did but I guess I kept him from hitting anything vital. But then I blacked out and when I woke up, I was here," Nikki explained.
"Oh, that explains a little," Aelita murmured.
"What do you mean?" Nikki asked, looking confused.
Before Aelita could respond, Yumi, Jeremy, and Ulrich woke up and joined them on the bed. Jeremy next to Aelita and Yumi and Ulrich on the other side of Nikki.
"Good morning you two," Jeremy said.
"Hey," They replied in unison.
"I see Odd is taking his time waking up as usual," Ulrich said, making the others smile.
Nikki then turned back to Aelita, "So what happened?"
Jeremy answered for her, "We heard you scream and then found you in your room, bloody and unconscious. You've only woken up once between then and now."
"But I don't remember waking up at all, are you sure?" Nikki still looked bewildered.
"When you woke up you were screaming 'let me go' and something else like 'where is he?' until Odd got you to be quiet. Then you pretty much sobbed until you went back to sleep." Yumi replied.
"Oh. Do I want to know how Odd managed that?" Nikki asked, smirking like she used to.
"He basically wrapped his arms around you tightly until you were quiet," Aelita said, grinning.
Nikki said nothing. She merely glanced at Odd while her cheeks began to grow pink as the others grinned knowingly, laughing a little.
This of course, caused said boy to wake up.
"Why's everyone laughing?" He asked, stifling a yawn.
"No reason!" Nikki yelped, covering her mouth as the others cracked up.
Odd looked confused as he sat on the bed, between Jeremy and Ulrich, "Ok."
Then the nurse from the previous night walked in, "Good, you're awake. Now if you'll come with me we can change your bandages."
Nikki looked at the front of her nightgown to see the bandages underneath turning a light red before nodding.
The others let her slip off the bed and follow the nurse out the door.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
With Nikki:
Nikki followed the nurse into a separate room and sat on the bed as the nurse pulled the curtain around them.
While the nurse changed Nikki's bandages she couldn't help but ask, "When do I get to leave?"
The woman smiled and laughed lightly, "From the looks of things we can let you go now. But you'd have to stay in the infirmary for the week. You are a student from Kadic Academy, right?"
"Yeah, I am. But I have to stay there for a whole week?!" Nikki said, seeming slightly annoyed.
"It's either that or be stuck in a hospital for a week, your choice," The nurse said.
"I think I'll stay at the school then," Nikki said, scratching the back of her head.
"Alright, you can go back to your room now," The nurse said, walking out of the room.
Nikki pulled the nightgown back over the bandages and walked back to the others.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Nikki came back into her room to find the others still on her bed.
"So when do we get to bail you out of here?" Odd asked, with a goofy grin on his face.
Nikki smiled back at him, "If I stay in the infirmary of a week, I can leave today."
"That soon? Those stab wounds must not have been very serious," Jeremy said.
Nikki just smirked, "You should know by now that no one can keep me down."
That was when Yumi's cell phone began to ring.
"Hello? Oh hey Mom…. We're all fine….All right…See you in a bit. Bye," Yumi hung up the phone and looked at her friends.
"What did your mom say?" Ulrich asked.
"She just wanted to check up on us. She said that they'd come and take us back to school in a few hours," The Japanese girl replied.
"Sounds good to me," Aelita said.
After a brief silence Odd began to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Nikki asked, clearly confused.
"Nothing, it's just that I bet everyone at school thinks you're dead," Odd grinned.
"How is that supposed to be funny?" Ulrich asked, looking skeptical.
"I don't really know," Odd said, shrugging.
This made the others laugh.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
That concludes chapter three of This is How a Heart Breaks. I'm sorry it took so long but the lack of reviews is getting to me a little. I'll get chapter four up as soon as it's finished. (I'm starting right after this is posted)
Please review! If I don't get more soon I'll have to start putting up minimum amounts needed for a new chapter!!!
spirit