Hi peoples!

Sorry I haven't updated for so long but I do have reasons!!!! Look at my profile for one of them. I'm trying to write two stories at once and it takes me forever when I get writer's block. Anyway, on with the story!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own code Lyoko blah blah blah, yadda yadda. Oh and I don't own the All American Rejects either

Happy Holidays!

One more thing: As of now I am going to be posting updates on upcoming chapters (how far I am, how long it should be, etc.) So if it's been a while and you wondering when I'll update try looking on my profile. There'll be a section call 'other messages' that will have everything written in it.

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A Few Weeks Later:

Aelita woke up on Saturday morning and looked out the window to see everything covered in snow. This being one of the few times she had experienced snow Aelita immediately got dressed and ran to Nikki's room.

Just before her closed fist touched the door it opened to reveal Nikki already dressed with a water bottle in her hand. (Keep that water bottle in mind)

"Morning," She said smiling.

The pink haired girl grinned in return before saying, "It snowed!!! We have to go get the others!"

Nikki nodded and they ran off to Ulrich and Odd's room first.

They whispered together "One, two, three!" Before bursting into the room and shouting "WAKE UP!!!"

Ulrich woke up with a start and bolted upright causing the girls to crack up.

Ulrich caught on to what they were doing and sighed, "Alright, you got me."

"Of course we did, that was the point of the whole thing," Nikki said, her laughter dying down.

Aelita looked over at the other bed and frowned slightly, "Looks like it didn't work on Odd though. Could you help us wake him up, Ulrich?"

"No way, I'll leave that to you two," The boy said, smirking.

Aelita sighed and tried shaking him awake.

Sadly, it didn't work.

"Ok, how are we supposed to wake up someone who could sleep through a car crash?" Aelita huffed.

Nikki kneeled in front of the sleeping blonde, smirking "I've got a pretty good idea."

Silently, she unscrewed the cap on her water bottle and tipped it until the cold liquid spilled out and onto Odd's face.

Odd woke up sputtering and fell on top of Nikki.

"What was that for?" He asked. Water was dripping off of his face and narrowly missing the girl underneath him.

Aelita and Ulrich were cracking up as this was happening.

Nikki continued smirking as she replied, "We had to wake you up one way or another, now would you mind getting off of me?"

"And you couldn't have done it some other way?" Odd muttered before standing up and offering the girl his hand.

"Now why would I want to do that?" Nikki replied innocently, as he pulled her up.

"It doesn't really matter right now, you two get ready and Nikki and I'll wake up Jeremy," Aelita interrupted.

"Yeah, the sooner we get outside the sooner we get to make you two suffer," Odd bragged.

As the girls walked out of the room Nikki countered, "We'll see. Just wait, you'll eat those words!"

Aelita and Nikki woke up Jeremy with no problems, getting more of a reaction then they thought possible.

And by that, I mean the loudest they've ever heard Jeremy yell.

As you would imagine, this caused Nikki to crack up.

"What did you do that for?" The baffled genius asked.

"Never mind that, get dressed. It's almost time for our annual snowball fight!" Aelita said, seeing as Nikki was just getting over her laughing fit.

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Meanwhile:

Hiroki opened the door to his sister's room to find her still asleep.

He crept over to the side of the bed, careful not to wake the Japanese girl up.

Or so he thought.

Mere seconds after he reached the bed, Yumi bolted up and whacked him with a pillow.

"Nice try Hiroki! Aelita called and woke me up half an hour ago! You'll have to do better than that if you want to get me!"

This resulted in a brief pillow fight until the siblings were called down for breakfast.

About an hour later, Yumi was on her way to school even though it was a snow day.

When there is no school, snow on the ground, and Nikki and Odd are around, there is no way to get out of the annual snowball fight.

Not that you would really want to anyway.

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When Yumi reached the schoolyard, Aelita and Nikki were working on one snow fort, which was turning out pretty well, and the guys were building another.

Aelita was the first to notice her, "Hey Yumi! Merry Christmas!"

The black haired girl ran up to them and started making snowballs, "I'm not late am I?"

"No, you're just in time," Ulrich grinned.

"Aww man, now the teams are uneven!" Odd whined out of randomly.

"What do you mean," Aelita asked, "Now it's three on three."

"Yeah but we have Jeremy," Odd was now grinning.

"Don't worry Odd, I don't think it'll make a big difference," Yumi comforted jokingly.

"Yumi's right, you're going to lose either way," Nikki teased.

In a matter of minutes the snowball fight had begun.

It took about an hour before it finally came to an end.

The girls and guys were crouching behind their now bedraggled forts panting.

Ulrich, Odd, and Jeremy began throwing their last pile of snowballs at the girls.

Aelita yelled a warning to the other girls, "Duck and cover!"

A few minutes later the siege stopped.

Yumi muttered under her breath so Nikki could hardly hear her, "I think that those were their last snowballs."

The girl breathed back, "Right," She began pushing aside snow in the side of the fort to reveal a small stash of snowballs.

"Should we give them a chance to surrender?" Yumi asked.

Nikki sighed, "It would only be fair."

Aelita nodded and stood up, "Do you give up yet?!"

"Never!" The guys shouted in unison.

"Alright, just remember, you asked for it!" Nikki shouted before the guys were pelted with snowballs.

Three Minutes Later:

"Alright we give!!!!"

"Awww, but it was just getting fun," Nikki complained.

Odd looked at her, "For you, maybe."

The girl smirked back at him, "I told you you'd eat your words."

"Never mind that!" Aelita said shivering, "Let's just get inside before I freeze to death!"

"You guys go ahead; I'll meet you in the rec. room," Odd had is hands deep in his pockets.

"Are you sure?" Nikki asked. Odd rarely said to go on without him unless Xana was attacking.

He looked at her teasingly, "Does that mean that you want to stay with me?"

Nikki looked taken aback, "N-No that's not what I said."

By now the others were already on their way to the rec. room.

"I guess I'll leave you alone now," Nikki said, turning her back on him.

That was Nikki's mistake.

Odd crept up behind her and grabbed her around the waist, "Who said that you could leave?"

He spun her around a few times, while Nikki was laughing before he dropped her into a snow drift.

"That was for the water bottle!" Odd exclaimed, clutching his stomach.

"Ha-ha very funny, Odd. Now hurry up and help me out," She said, sticking out one of her hands.

Odd stopped laughing long enough to grab Nikki's outstretched hand to pull her up.

That was Odd's mistake.

The moment Nikki had a firm grip on Odd's had she pulled him into the snow next to her.

Odd recovered from the momentary shock to see Nikki laughing.

"What's so funny?" He asked, clearly annoyed.

"You have snow all over your head and it looks funny!" She said, laughing harder.

Odd brushed the snow off of his head, "And you find that so hilarious?"

Nikki calmed down immediately and pressed her forehead to his, "Not really, I just wanted something to laugh at."

She got to her feet and offered to help him up but failed to notice the blush that was spread across Odd's face.

"The others are probably wondering what happened to us," Odd said, scratching the back of his head, looking anywhere but at her.

"Alright, let's go!" Nikki grabbed his wrist and led Odd towards the rec. room; ignoring the spark she felt when she touched him.

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In the Rec. Room:

Aelita, Jeremy, Ulrich, and Yumi were sitting in the rec. room when Nikki and Odd came through the door and sat with them.

"It took you two long enough," Jeremy said, grinning.

"Yeah, if I didn't know better I'd say you two ran off to be alone or something," Ulrich teased.

"No way, you would all miss us too much!" Odd shot back.

Too bad the blush on their faces gave them away.

"Anyway, can we please just open up our presents like we came here to do?" Aelita interrupted.

Every year, he Lyoko gang worked together to buy each other a present for Christmas. They agreed that if someone wanted to give someone else something special they would buy it themselves and it would only be from them, not the entire gang.

Jeremy was the first to open his gift. It turned out to be a book on computer formulas and theories.

"We read the back and it didn't make any sense to us," Odd explained, "So we figured that you would love it."

Jeremy laughed lightly, "Don't worry; it makes perfect sense to me."

Yumi was next but following Japanese tradition, she didn't open it.

Ulrich didn't open his but you could tell by the shape that it was a soccer ball.

Nikki opened hers and found a new sketchbook.

Aelita got a cell phone charm with an angel wing on it.

Odd got a bag of biscuits for Kiwi and a spork?

"A spork? What am I supposed to do with this?" Odd asked, clearly confused.

"Absolutely nothing, you gave us weird presents last year so now we're returning the favor," Nikki explained, seeing as everyone else was to busy laughing to hear him.

After a few hours it was dark outside and Yumi had to head home.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow, right?"

"Sure, it's not like we're going anywhere," Aelita joked.

Yumi had just gotten to the campus gate when somebody spoke behind her.

"It's about time you left those annoying friends of yours."

Yumi turned around and glared, "William, what do you want?"

"I want you back, it's been too long," He stepped closer to her and Yumi backed away.

"Don't be stupid, why would I want to get back together with you? You broke up with me, remember?" Yumi spat back at him.

"And it was a huge mistake, now why not just calm down and come back to be?"

By now Yumi wad backed up against the fence and William was tilting her chin towards him.

Flashback

One Year Ago:

Yumi ran through the schoolyard to find William. When she found him he was making out with another girl on a bench.

"William! How could you?!"

The boy broke the kiss and looked at his soon-to-be-former girlfriend.

"Yumi I-"

"Save it!" Yumi cut him short before running off in the direction she came, tears streaming down her cheeks.

She was only running for a few minutes before William grabbed her forearm and spun her around.

"What? What more could you possibly do to hurt me anymore?" Yumi was screaming, she knew, but then again, she didn't care anymore.

"Yumi-"

"Don't," Yumi interrupted him again, "Don't give me another excuse, I can't take it. Tell me why you did this to me!"

William took a deep breath before starting, "From the first time I asked you out I was only doing it to make the girl you just saw jealous. Now that it worked, I don't need you anymore. I was going to break up with you later but then you came just now and all of this happened."

Yumi's eyes widened, "So it was all just and act and you never really cared."

"No, I didn't. And now that everything is out in the open I can tell you that it's over between me and you," William's tone was cold and flat.

Yumi stood for a moment, frozen. Then she did the first thing that came to mind, she slapped him hard and sharp in the face, not even bothering to look at him as she turned on her heel and ran.

Never had anyone hurt her this badly before.

(Important a/n: The song Swing Swing by the All American Rejects really goes along with this scene so you might want to listen to it as you're reading (mainly the chorus))

With Ulrich:

A few minutes after Yumi left, Ulrich remembered the present he had gotten for her.

So there he was, walking through the snow, on his way to Yumi's house.

As he rounded the corner, Ulrich saw Yumi and William close together near the school gate.

"So much for going home!" Ulrich shouted, turning around and running towards the area where they had had the snowball fight earlier that day.

Yumi looked over to see Ulrich running away. Obviously, he had seen her with William and gotten the wrong idea.

Out of instinct, Yumi pushed William away from her and ran after Ulrich.

With Ulrich:

Ulrich reached the snow forts and sat behind one.

It wasn't long before he heard footsteps coming towards him and Yumi came to sit in front of him.

"Ulrich, look at me, please," Yumi pleaded.

"Why were you with him?" Ulrich asked coldly, still looking away.

"I didn't plan it! I was on my way home and stopped me! I was about to leave when you showed up; why would I want to be with a guy who broke my heart a year ago?!" Yumi's voice was cracking but she couldn't tell if anything she said was getting through to him.

"Can I really be sure about that?" Ulrich asked, looking her in the eyes for the first time.

Yumi was about to yell at him until she saw the look in his eyes. Was it curiosity, anger, disappointment? No, it was pain.

The Japanese girl took one of his hands and intertwined her fingers with his.

"Ulrich, I was put through so much pain last year because of William. I would never want to hurt someone like that, especially you."

Ulrich looked away from their hands and back at Yumi and smiled lightly.

"Alright, I believe you," As Ulrich said this, Yumi began to smile back at him.

"Ok, I should really be going home now. My parents are going to be worried sick," Yumi said.

That was when Ulrich remembered the reason he went outside in the first place, "Yumi, I came out to give this to you, it's a present just from me."

He reached into his pocket and produced a small red box with a green ribbon around it.

Yumi took it and held it gently, "Thank you Ulrich, Merry Christmas."

Before Ulrich could say anything in response, Yumi pecked him lightly on the cheek and began to run home.

Ulrich placed his hand on his cheek and watched her go.

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Aelita, Nikki, Odd, and Jeremy were standing around the corner, watching the whole scene take place.

"Well that took a rather unexpected twist," Jeremy said.

"You could say that again," Nikki whispered.

Aelita yawned and looked at her friends, "I'm going to go to bed now; it's been a long day."

"I'll walk with you," Jeremy said.

They said their goodnights and Jeremy and Aelita walked up the stairs.

Odd and Nikki counted to ten before creeping up the stairs behind them.

At the landing that led to the guys' dorms Aelita and Jeremy were about to part ways for the night.

"Um, Aelita, look up," Jeremy pointed towards the ceiling where a sprig of mistletoe was hanging.

As Aelita stared at it, Jeremy placed a hand on her shoulder and kissed her lightly on the cheek.

"Merry Christmas Aelita," Jeremy smiled at her before heading through the door and disappearing around the corner, his face beet-red.

"Merry Christmas Jeremy," Aelita whispered, turning around and heading up the stairs towards her room.

Nikki and Odd stepped onto the landing; arms crossed and satisfied smirks on their faces.

"That worked out better than I thought it would," Nikki thought out loud.

"Well of course it did. That's what happens when you doubt me," Odd exclaimed proudly.

Nikki smiled and messed up his hair, "And that's what you get for bragging, goodnight Odd!"

Odd was about to remark but Nikki was already half way up the stairs, laughing.

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Ha!!!!! It's done!!!!! dances I know it took me FOREVER but I updated right??? Give me a break! I'm not always full of inspiration! It comes in short, periodic bursts. Anyway, I hope you liked it! I thought it was WAY better than my last chapter. I repeat; I am no good at action scenes! I gotta go though, Christmas is two days away and I have stuffs to do! Oh and if you're annoyed at the fact that every kiss in here so far has been on the cheek don't worry! Not much has happened yet between the pairings. Now that I have said that please don't send me a review complaining about it!

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