Hey! Yea, this chapter came now thanks to Kiwi, who wouldn't send me 'Dear Friend' until I finished this. If she hadn't done that it might have been another week or two.

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"A hunting we shall go, A hunting we shall go," Odd sang jovially.

"Odd, please stop singing." Ulrich groaned.

"Or at least stop singing that." Aelita added.

"Why don't we turn the radio on?" Yumi suggested.

"It's broken." Adele stated, "If we had an MP3 player we could plug that in."

"Oh darn," Odd sniggered, "Too bad we don't have any of those."

Ulrich eyed Odd, "This doesn't mean that we need Odd the human radio."

"You ruin all my fun." Odd huffed, turning to stare blankly out the window at the moving scenery outside.

- 20 minutes later -

"The bear climbed over the mountain, the bear climbed over the mountain," Odd sang quietly.

"Odd, enough with the singing already." Ulrich groaned.

"Please." Yumi agreed.

"But I'm bored." Odd whined.

"Then find a quiet way to amuse yourself." Aelita suggested.

"How much further is it?" Odd asked.

"About an hour." Adele stated bluntly, "One long hour."

Odd, Aelita, Ulrich, and Yumi all groaned in unison.

- 15 minutes later -

"Has it been an hour yet?" Odd groaned.

"No." Adele replied, "You got another forty-five minutes."

"Ugh."

- 10 minutes later -

"Does anyone have a pack of cards?" Odd asked.

"No." Ulrich replied curtly.

"How do you even play cards in the car?" Aelita asked.

"It is possible." Odd reassured her.

"Why did I agree to come in this car again?" Yumi asked.

"Same reason I agreed to drive you," Adele stated, "There was no choice."

- 10 minutes later –

"We are driving, driving in a car," Odd sang.

"To a lake house, a lake house with a door." Aelita continued.

"Are you sure we're not there yet?" Ulrich asked grumpily.

"It's only been ten minutes." Adele replied.

"We're trapped in a time vortex." Yumi stated, "And time has been slowed down."

- 15 minutes later –

"This is the song that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends," Aelita sang happily.

"Some people, started singing it not knowing what it was," Odd joined in.

"And now they'll just keep singing it forever just because," Ulrich added.

"Ulrich!" Yumi scolded, "I thought you were my sane friend."

"If you can't beat them," Adele stated flatly.

"I'll keep the crazy in the back thanks." Yumi sighed, leaning back in the seat.

- 5 minutes later –

"This is the drive that never ends," Ulrich began.

"It just goes on and on my friends," Odd added with a gleeful smile.

"Some people, starting driving it," Aelita faltered.

"And now they'll just keep going on because this is the…" Yumi sang.

"We're here!" Adele announced excitedly.

"WHOOHOO!" Odd, Yumi, Ulrich, and Aelita screamed joyously as the car rolled to a stop.

Yumi opened her door and happily stood up, stretching before slamming the door closed. Ulrich and Odd filed out of one side of the car eagerly, also stretching and closing the door. Aelita opened the door and attempted to get out, though she was held back by something pressing against her hips and across her body diagonally.

"You coming Princess?" Ulrich asked as he hefted a duffel bag onto his shoulder.

"I'm trying!" She huffed, attempting again to stand up only to be thwarted by the persistent strip that was holding her back.

"Wha-?" Yumi asked, turning to look as she began walking towards the lake house, a bag thrown over her shoulder, she erupted into a fit of giggles.

Ulrich looked around to see Aelita, held in the car by the seatbelt she had neglected to take off. But rather than helping the pink haired girl, he just laughed, shaking his head as he resumed his walk towards the lake house.

Odd popped his head out from around the back of the car.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"Her… seatbelt…" Yumi managed between giggles.

Odd rolled his eyes, "Lita, try unbuckling the seatbelt." He suggested.

Aelita looked to where her seatbelt was still dutifully snapped into the buckle.

"Oh," She muttered, her face flushing a deep pink, "Oops."

Yumi giggled as she headed off to find where to dump her stuff inside the lake house. Odd handed Aelita a bag and took one himself.

"Let's go find out were we're supposed to be." Odd said cheerfully.

"Right behind you." Aelita stated; heaving the bag Odd had handed her earlier.

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"So, we'll if we have each couple in a room to themselves, then we could put the... How many of us are there again?" Adele asked, rubbing her eyes. Papers were strewn across the coffee table in front of her, hand-made maps and rejected rooming designs. Takeo and Akkio sat nearby, talking with Andrea and Ulrich's parents.

"Eighteen Adele, We've been over this." Odd stated with a sigh, his placing his feet on the coffee table.

"Feet off." Yumi growled, "Give the parents their own rooms, that's three rooms taken." She suggested.

"And then what? Is it boys and girls?" Ulrich asked.

"Yes." Adele said, "So there are three boys, Ulrich, Odd, and Hiroki."

"And then there's the girls." Odd stated, "And there's no way your scrunching them all up in one room."

"Pffft, like I would do that." Adele scoffed.

"We could put Aelita and Yumi in one; Izzy, Annie, and Alice in another; and then split up the remaining Della Robbias into a group of two and a group of three." Ulrich suggested.

"I could room with Pauline, and then Elizabeth and the twins could be in the last room." Adele stated.

"Does that work?" Yumi asked, eyeing the home-made map.

"Umm…" Adele muttered, furiously scribbling initials on the map, "It does!" She yelped happily.

"Yay!" Odd cheered, "Now, point me towards my room."

"You, Ulrich, and Hiroki are upstairs, at the end of the hall to the right, Yumi and Aelita are at the end on the left." Adele stated, "Annie, Izzy, and Alice are downstairs, between Mom and the Stern's, across from the Ishiyama's."

"Sounds good." Aelita said, shouldering her bags.

"Who else is upstairs?" Odd asked.

"Me and Pauline, and Elizabeth and the twins, we're across from each other, the first two rooms."

"Cool." Odd smiled, grabbing his bags and taking off, "Come on then, let's get our stuff in our rooms."

Ulrich sighed, but followed, quickly joined by Yumi, Aelita, and Hiroki, who was looking a little overwhelmed.

"Don't worry," Ulrich reassured the boy, "Odd's only slightly insane, and it's only contagious through kissing."

"Hey!" Odd huffed, "You were singing in the car too!"

"I was stir-crazy, not Odd-crazy, there's a difference." Ulrich stated bluntly.

Odd stuck his tongue out at the brunet childishly.

"You calling me crazy too?" Aelita challenged.

"I said it was transmitted through kissing, I'm sorry, I don't think Odd-crazy is curable." Ulrich shrugged.

"Eww." Hiroki stated.

Aelita stuck her tongue out childishly at both boys.

"Example." Ulrich said with a grin, "Just don't go kissing Odd or Aelita and you'll be fine."

"Break it up children." Yumi sighed; opening the door to the room her and Aelita would be sharing.

"I is not a child!" Odd whined, "I'm a big boy." He stated with a childish grin, disappearing into the room he was sharing with Hiroki and Ulrich.

"Boys mature?" Aelita asked.

"No, no they don't." Yumi answered, dumping her stuff on the floor of the room.

"I heard that!" Ulrich's voice came as he stood in the doorway after quickly dumping his stuff on the floor of the other room.

"It's true." Yumi said, walking over to him.

Ulrich crossed his arms, "Oh really?"

"Yes." Yumi replied, giving him a kiss on the forehead, "It is. Deal with it."

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I hope you like it! It should get more exciting soon, now that we're a little further in. Review please!