Hey everyone it's me once again, twice in one day?! Unheard of! I was feeling productive and wanted to get chapter 5 out since it was a short one anyway! Read and review! All reviews, positive and negative are welcome! Please enjoy and I'll see you down in the footer!

Chapter 5: Hanging Out.

Vivian's P.O.V.

I awoke to the sound of Aelita and Jeremie talking over the phone about their plans for the evening. "Ugh is this gonna become a regular thing?" I said putting my pillow over my ears.

"I have no Idea what you're talking about." She walked out with her nose in the air. I laughed and followed her down to the mess hall. I sat down next to Jeremie at the table.

"I wouldn't sit there unless you want Aelita to slice you up and feed you to Odd's dog." A tall brown haired man said laughing. "By the way, I'm Ulrich Stern." He reached out his hand towards me for a handshake.

"I'm Vivian. Nice to meet you Ulrich." I said returning the handshake and moving to the next empty seat.

"Same here Viv." He calmly said. Viv? No one has called me that before I shrugged it off and dug into my food since I was starving chomping down on my food as fast as I could.

"Geez you remind me of Odd!" Jeremie chuckled. I guess he really wasn't so high strung after all.

"Who's Odd?" I asked still chomping down on my food.

"Hey everyone! Who's the good lookin' babe?" A man with blonde hair with a purple streak in it and dressed in all purple sat down at the table and immediately started chowing down. Babe? Was he talking about me? I could feel my face getting redder with each second.

"Um Odd, that would be Vivian, y'know the freshman that Aelita went crazy over thinking she was X.A.N.A, then they went to Lyoko and Jeremie had to get them out? Or did your tiny brain forget because of the food?" Ulrich had responded laughing at the last remark

"Doesn't matter, she's still cute!" He had replied back I felt my face get even redder "Looks like you have some competition for Aelita Jeremie!" he finished with a chuckle.

"I'm not a lesbian Odd." She huffed as she kissed Jeremie good morning "Although she is cute in a weird messed up sort of way." She teased.

"Can we change the subject?" I said with obvious embarrassment on my face. They all laughed and we finished our food

"So since we don't have school today, what's the plan Einstein?" Ulrich asked Jeremie.

"I was thinking we could all head up to my room and watch a few movies I downloaded. We all haven't hung out together in a while, whattya say everyone?" They all nodded their heads in agreement and we went to Jeremie's room and started watching movies. In the middle of the first movie there was a knock on the door and a short-black haired woman walked in.

"Since when did you guys ever start a party without me?" The woman asked. Everyone jumped up and hugged the woman until Ulrich came over and kissed her.

"It's great to see you Yumi." He said softly.

"It's great to see you too Ulrich." She replied back and smiled. She walked over and sat down next to me with Ulrich. "So I see you guys have found a replacement for me." She said jokingly. "Well, go on, what's your name?"

"Vivian...Vivian Valentino." I replied not really knowing what to expect.

"Yumi Ishiyama!" She replied happily "So your the girl that Aelita went X.A.N.A crazy over huh? Honestly I expected someone who looked crazier, not this innocent-looking child."

"Yup!" Jeremie chimed in and laughed. After that he started up the movie again and we watched several more after the first one was over. Soon though it was nighttime and we all got up to go to our rooms after regretfully saying goodbye to Yumi..

"Wait!" a voice said as I was turning the hallway. I turned around and Odd ran up to me and picked up my hand. "I had a great time with you today, I hope that we can do this again sometime, except y'know alone, like a date I guess."

"I'd like that Odd." I replied smiling like an idiot. I've never had a guy say he's had a great time with me before.

"Thanks beautiful, I'll see you tomorrow!" He said as he kissed my hand like a gentleman and left. I immediately got butterflies in my stomach.

"What was that all about?" Aelita asked curiously.

"Odd wants to go on a date with me, and I think I might take him up on that offer!"

"Good for you!" She said as she turned the handle to her room. I gathered all my night things and went to the shower room. I got out of my day clothes putting them on the bench near the shower, then walked into the empty shower feeling the cold floor against the soles of my feet. I turned the knob and let the warm water run caress my body, I shamelessly allowed my mind to think that they were Odd's hands. After a few minutes of thought and washing my hair, I got out, dried off, and put my nightclothes on. I walked in the hallway to see the hooded figure from yesterday standing there staring at me.

"I have found the remains of Project Carthage." The figure whispered Then dissipated into black smoke. What the hell did I just witness? I ran to my room and bumped into Aelita.

"Ow watch where you're going Vivian! Honestly!" Aelita said rubbing her haid

"Aelita I ran into the hooded man in the hallway, he disappeared into black smoke but he said something before he left, He said 'I have found the remains of Project Carthage' Do you know what that means?" I choked out quickly.

"Look you were just hallucinating, I think you need some rest Vivian, if it makes you feel any better, I'll talk to Jeremie about it in the morning. Now can I please go to bed?" She replied leading me to my bed.

"Yeah you're right, that blow to the head you gave me yesterday messed me up I guess." I forced out a chuckle.

"Now go to sleep!" Aelita said yawning.

"Right." I replied closing my eyes, it took a while getting to sleep because of all the thoughts of Odd, the hooded figure, and whatever the hell 'Project Carthage' was. But eventually I fell into a blissful sleep.

So here we are at the end of chapter 5. What could the figure have meant by "Remains of Project Carthage"? Well that's for me to know and you to find out later! :p anyway hope you enjoyed and leave any thoughts as a review! All criticism is welcome! Chapter 6 will be out between March 15 and 27th :D -SuperGingerX (Crimson)