Chapter 3: New Warrior?; General POV

"Aelita, I heard you had a new roommate." Odd started as he sat down at dinner. Everyone was there, apart from Yumi who had gone home fairly early for dinner.

"Yes!" Aelita nodded excitedly. "I can already tell she's going to be great friends with us!"

"I vote no more new Lyoko Warriors." Ulrich stated. "After what happened with William—"

"I think we should wait and see." Aelita said. "Let's face it, William was incredibly reckless."

Odd swallowed the meatball he had in his mouth. "I think we could always use another hand."

Aelita looked over at the blonde boy seated next to her. "Jeremie, what do you think of all this?"

"Huh?" Jeremie looked up from the computer in his lap. "Sorry. I was running another scan. Just to check for towers."

"Really? Another scan, Jeremie?" Odd asked, shoveling more food into his mouth.

"It's good to check that nothing is going wrong." Jeremie pushed his glasses back up his nose and looked back down at his computer.

Ulrich watched his roommate continue to gobble down his food. "Odd, you should really stop eating so fast before you—" Ulrich was interrupted by Odd coughing and dropping his fork. "Choke." He finished.

"I'm fine." Odd weakly said, picking his fork back up. He continued eating as all of his friends laughed.

"Snoop around. Got it." Lacey said into the phone and hung it up. "Lyoko…" she mumbled, over and over again. She picked up a pink book. Is this Aelita's diary? Lacey opened it. "Science notes." She mumbled, flipping through the notes that were written in curly handwriting about the periodic table. She stopped on one of the back pages, handwriting that was in blue pen and was less curved was in the back. It seemed as if Aelita and one of the guys—Jeremie—were writing back and forth.

Any news about Lyoko or X.A.N.A. lately, Jeremie?

None yet. I'll keep you updated. Weird that X.A.N.A.'s been so inactive lately, huh?

Very. We better watch out. Whatever he's up to is going to be big, then.

Agreed. I'll keep checking.

Lacey sighed. There wasn't any big information that she could give to X.A.N.A., except that the "Warriors" were getting suspicious. She put the journal back on Aelita's desk when she heard Aelita saying goodbye to her friends down the hall. She quickly sat on her bed and pretended to still be unpacking her clothes.

"It's a shame you missed dinner." Aelita said as she entered. "The food was pretty good tonight."

"I'll eat tomorrow morning." Lacey said, folding a black towel that she had in her suitcase. "Can I still take you up on your offer to sit with you and your friends tomorrow?"

"Of course!" Aelita smiled at her roommate. "It's nearly 10 o'clock. Are you going to shower?"

"I'm actually feeling kind of tired. I guess you could call it jetlag. I'll just shower in the morning." Lacey zipped her suitcase up, leaving only what X.A.N.A. had given her in it and shoved it under her bed.

"Okay, then." Aelita gathered her bath supplies. "I'll be back in a few minutes."

Lacey nodded at her and pulled out her mobile to call X.A.N.A. Just as she was wondering if she could just text him instead, there was a knock at the door. She closed her contacts, bringing the screen back to her home page and opened the door. A blonde boy with glasses was standing there, looking rather nervous with his hands in his pockets.

"Oh! You must be Aelita's new roommate. Is she around?" the boy asked.

"Unfortunately not. She just headed off to the showers." Lacey answered.

"Oh." He looked disappointed. "Can you just give her this?" He handed Lacey a piece of paper.

"Sure." She held it in her hand. "I'll tell her that you stopped by, Jeremie."

Jeremie furrowed his brow. "How did you know my name?"

Oops. Please don't tell me I blew my cover already! Lacey mentally smacked herself. "Aelita told me about you."

Jeremie shrugged, seeming to buy the unsupported statement. "Tell Aelita I'll see her tomorrow."

"Bye." Lacey quickly closed the door and pushed her back up against it, making sure that no one could enter unannounced. She quickly unfolded the note. "Aelita," she read aloud. "Will you go to the dance with me? Jeremie."

Lacey groaned and folded the paper back up. Frustrated, she threw it on Aelita's bed. It's only my first day, she thought to herself. I'll be able to get more tomorrow.