I'm back!! Again!
I apologize for taking so long!! I was working on a oneshot and my other story!! I don't know if I'm going to post the oneshot though…it's an OHSHC fic if you wanted to know.
I'm not going to bother with anymore excuses; it's a waste of your time and mine.
Disclaimer: I do not own Code Lyoko. I own Nikki and the plot but that's about it (that you'll see in this story at least). Oh and I don't own Leona Lewis and her songs either.
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Last Time:
In the factory, he found Aelita and Jeremy looking at the monitor of the supercomputer.
"Hey, have either of you seen Nikki? I can't find her anywhere," He asked, walking up to them.
Both geniuses turned to look at him, a hint of pity in their eyes.
"Odd," Aelita started.
Odd's eyes widened, "Is something wrong?"
"No, everything's fine," Aelita said.
"Then where is she?" Odd demanded.
The pink haired girl spoke hesitantly, "Odd, she left."
Odd took a few steps back.
"No, NO!"
"I'm sorry Odd," Aelita whispered, lowering her head.
Odd shook his head and paced back and forth across the room, "I should've known something like this would have happened! I shouldn't have gone and lashed out at her! If I hadn't, she'd still be here!"
Jeremy walked up to the distraught boy and put a hand on his shoulder, "Odd calm, down; she's coming back soon."
"She wouldn't be gone if I hadn't yelled at her in the first place," Odd mumbled before turning on his heels and walking into the elevator dejectedly.
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Ulrich lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling. He told Yumi he loved her-well; he almost did, and now there was nothing left for him to do was await her reply.
That was when Odd burst into the room, slammed the door shut, and flopped face down onto his bed.
The boy mumbled something incoherent into his pillow that Ulrich made out as 'she left'.
"Did Aelita tell you?" Ulrich asked, slightly surprised that Odd already knew that Nikki was gone.
Odd flipped over onto his back and glared at the ceiling.
"Yeah, she left because I lashed out at her," He grumbled.
Ulrich sat up to get a better look at his friend, "That's not why she left. Someone in her family had a birthday last week and she had to go and visit them. Didn't Aelita tell you?"
Odd shook his head quickly, "I left before she had the chance.
After a moment's silence, Odd mumbled to himself, "I bet she hates me right now."
"Odd if you paid any attention you'd know that that was impossible," Ulrich stated, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
The blonde tilted his head to look at his friend, "What do you mean by that?"
"Never mind," Ulrich said, lying back down again, "You'll figure it out at some point."
Still baffled, Odd rolled over and started to think. He had a girlfriend; it shouldn't have upset him so much that Nikki hadn't come. Odd was attracted to Nikki, he knew that. But so what? He's been attracted to almost every girl in the school, so why would Nikki be any different? Except, this was different, he's never been this hung up on a girl- and Nikki wasn't even his girlfriend! The only reasonable explanation would be that he was in love with her. But that's impossible-isn't it?
Odd shut his eyes and furrowed his brow. If he was in love with her, he wanted to know how she felt about him. Playing through all the recollections of her he could think of, Odd couldn't come up with much. Finally, he came to his most current memories. One sentence rang clearly through his head.
"I can't take doing this so often! It hurts too much!"
For the first time, those words made sense. Odd silently cursed himself for not noticing before. All this time it was right in front of him and he just stood there like a fool and ignored it. She loved him! How could he have missed something so obvious?
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Meanwhile:
Yumi sat on her bed silently. A small velvet box with a green satin ribbon wrapped around it was in front of her.
Taking a deep breath, the girl opened it up and gasped. Inside was a silver chain with a shining, heart shaped locket was inside the box. Tiny crystals embedded into the front making another heart sparkled.
"Oh my god,"
So it was true. Ulrich really did love her. She had overheard Nikki and Aelita talking about it at sleepovers while they thought she was sleeping, but she never really believed it.
Yumi caressed the face of the locket gently, "Too bad I can't return those feelings," she murmured.
It wasn't that Yumi didn't love Ulrich; she had fallen head over heels for him in reality. But the thought of caring for someone again scared her. As much as she hated to admit it, that was the only thing that William had done to her that she couldn't fix; he made her afraid to love someone else.
Then the Japanese girl thought of something else. It had taken Ulrich this long to even as her out, let alone tell her that he loved her. Even if she couldn't say yes to his request for a date, the least she could do would be tell Ulrich that she loved him and explain why she had to say no.
Hardly satisfied with her decision, the black haired girl placed the box beside her bed, turned off the light, and went to sleep. (a/n: it's about 11:00 PM right now.)
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The Next Evening:
(a/n: I was having trouble with this section. But listening to the song Bleeding Love by Leona Lewis helped. Try listening to it during the chapter.)
Nikki sat cross legged on her bed. Her bed at home, that is. For the second time that day, she flipped open her cell phone.
14 missed calls.
The girl groaned and shut her phone, tossing it onto the sheets in front of her. What did Odd have to say that was so damn important? Especially after their fight; he could wait until she came back to apologize, right?
That was when her older cousin Michelle came in. Michelle had long dark hair that fell to her waist and piercing green eyes. Even though she turned 22 last week, she and Nikki were pretty close.
"Alright, who's the guy?" she asked, sitting on the corner of the bed.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Nikki replied, drawing her knees up to her chest and avoiding her cousin's gaze.
"I think you do. Besides, I can stay here a while, I sleep in here anyway."
Nikki glanced at the air mattress and the open suitcase in the corner of her bedroom, "That's true, but even so, how would you know if it was a boy that was bugging me?"
"C'mon, you think I don't know my own cousin?" Michelle grinned at her and picked up Nikki's phone, "Other than that I can tell because you have all of these missed calls on your phone and if you're not being asked to do something you're either spacing out or cooped up in here; so spill."
"Hmph, alright you got me," Nikki said, ignoring her cousin's triumphant expression, "His name is Odd."
Michelle laughed once before talking, "Odd? That's a weird name. Can I assume that you're dating?"
"Of course not," Nikki snorted, "But he has dated almost every girl in my grade by now." Nikki trailed off as she said this. It was completely true, but part of her wished it wasn't.
"Are you at least friends?" Her question was answered by a brief nod.
"Huh, now that I think of it, it must've sucked having date all those girls," Michelle stretched her arms up in the air and lay back on the bed.
"It was much worse than that," Nikki mumbled miserably, "He went through girlfriend after girlfriend and he broke my heart every time he asked me to meet one of them. I don't think he even realized it!"
The brown haired girl on the edge of the bed pursed her lips, "You know it was kind of like that for me when I met Ryan."
"What do you mean by that? Ryan loves you; like he should since you're engaged and everything."
"Well it's not like it was love at first sight," Michelle contradicted, "It was a long time before he even worked up the courage to ask me out."
"That's probably true," Nikki drawled before snapping back to the actual topic, "But I don't think that this is just a case of nerves. If he cared that much he wouldn't have gone out with so many girls."
"Maybe he was trying to make you jealous?" Michelle suggested.
Nikki dismissed the idea quickly, "Nah, I'm not normally the type to get jealous, he knows that."
"Well I've gotten all I need to know," Michelle said, hoisting herself to her feet.
Nikki eyes her cousin suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"
"Well, the way I see it, you have three choices," Michelle started, "Choice one," she held up her pointer finger, "Would be to try and get over him and hope that all these feelings go away in time. The second," she held up two fingers, "Would be to wait and see if he comes to his senses. Finally," a third appendage went up, "the third, and probably the best option would be to straighten things out and tell him how you feel."
"Easier said than done," Nikki muttered to herself, rolling her eyes.
Michelle halted her advance on the doorway and looked at Nikki, "What do you mean?"
Nikki sighed and leaned against the pillows, shutting her eyes, "Odd and I had a fight before I left because I skipped out on meeting his latest girlfriend."
"And you just left?" Michelle's surprise was answered with a meek nod. "Well then the chances are that he's already figured out that you're in love with him and that's why he's been trying to call you. But I think you could wait until you go back if you really wanted to."
Nikki opened her mouth to protest to the love part but her cousin cut her off, "Well I'm gonna head out. Someone's got to help make dinner. But don't worry, I won't tell anyone."
"Alright, thanks Michelle."
"That's what I'm here for."
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The Next Morning:
Aelita was sitting on her bed fiddling with a strand of short pink hair when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," Aelita said quietly.
Yumi walked in and shut the door behind her. Tossing her backpack onto the chair at Aelita's desk she asked, "You wanted to talk to me?"
"I think I made a mistake breaking up with Brad," Aelita said, not bothering to answer Yumi's question.
Yumi's eyes widened slightly as she sat on the empty end of the bed, "How come?"
"I don't know, I mean there wasn't anything wrong with our relationship. We never fought or anything and I enjoyed spending time with him," the pink haired girl rambled desperately.
"Then why did you break up with him?" Yumi pressed.
"I kept thinking about Jeremy," Aelita explained, "I would catch myself thinking of him during when I was on a date with Brad and it made me feel like I was cheating on him."
"Huh," Yumi mused.
"That's all you can say; huh?! I'm about to have a breakdown here and that's all you can say!?" Aelita ranted loudly.
"Aelita calm down," Yumi said soothingly, resting a hand on her friend's shoulder, "The answer is simple; you're in love with Jeremy."
Aelita stared at the Japanese girl for a long time before saying quietly, "I'm pretty sure you're right."
Yumi smiled, "Glad to be of service."
Aelita smiled back at her before changing the subject, "So how are things going between you and Ulrich?"
"I'll fill you in later, we have to go now otherwise we'll be late," Yumi said, glancing at the clock.
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Nikki watched through the window as the train pulled into the station. In less than an hour she would be back with her friends at Kadic.
As she wandered away from the strain with her bags she froze in her tracks. Right in front of her was Yumi, Ulrich, Aelita, Jeremy, and Odd.
She walked up to them in utter disbelief, "What are you guys doing here?"
"It's nice to see you too," Ulrich retorted.
Nikki grinned, as Aelita hugged her, "But seriously, what are you guys doing here?"
"We called your house last night to find out when you were coming back," Yumi explained.
"I should've known," Nikki said, shaking her head.
That was when she forced herself to look at the one person she wasn't sure she wanted to see then.
"Hey Odd," She said feebly, not meeting his gaze.
The blonde didn't say anything. He stepped towards her and brought her firmly into his arms.
Nikki tensed automatically, "Odd? What are you doing? You have a girlfriend."
"Not anymore," Odd muttered into her ear.
Nikki remained silent for a moment, "Odd, I'm-"
"It's alright," Odd interrupted, "We can talk about that later."
After he released her, Jeremy spoke up, "I hate to ruin the reunion, but I have big news."
"And that big news is?" Ulrich urged.
"I found a way to defeat Xana."
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Okay, it's finally up.
I don't have time to write anything down here so I'm just going to tell you to read and review.
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