Chapter 5! Whoop. Never thught I"d get this far so thinks for the reviews and inspiration.
Do I really have to say the disclaimer every time?
Breakfast on Monday morning wasn't as bad as expected. Everyone was at the table, no glares were thrown or dirty looks avoided and there was actually laughter at the table. A sound that almost ceased to exist for the past two weeks. The bell rang and everyone began filtering out of the cafeteria.
"Hey you guys coming?" asked Odd as Ulrich and Yumi hung back.
"We'll be there in a second," Yumi called out and grabbed Ulrich before he could get up. Odd shrugged and walked away.
"What is it?" Ulrich asked.
"Did you find out anything?" the black haired girl asked.
"I foud outna shit load of stuff but if I told you, you'd kill Odd, did you find anything?"
"Same here you'd murder Aelita in her sleep," she replied.
"Well how about we say it at the same time?" he suggested. Yumi nodded.
"Ok, one," she started.
"Two, THREE!"
"Aelita kissed Odd!" Yumi shouted a little loudly. She glared at Ulrich who had kept his mouth shut.
"You bastard!" she accused.
"What I forgot to speak," he defended himself. She fumed at the Lyoko samurai.
"Well don't feel to bad, Odd told me the same thing and he also loves her," said Ulrich. Yumi was speechless.
"Wow," she managed to speak.
"Yeah,"
"Poor Jeremy if he find out he'd be devasted!"
"Yea but in all fairness he dosent deserve her," Ulrich said nonchalantly.
"Well yea but Jeremy loves her,"
"Too bad," he shrugged.
"So are you helping Odd?" she asked curios to know.
"Hell yea he's my best friend. Yumi smiled weakly, "Ok then."
"Gotta get to class and put phase one in action," Ulrich told her rising from his seat.
"Care to share," she asked raising a perfect black eyebrow. The lae bell rang.
"Nope gotta go," he called out over his shoulder.
"Today I'll be giving out you partners," said Mrs Hertz. They were on the bus to the woods for a science project. Odd was next to Ulrich and Odd were sitting next to each other and across from them giggling and whispering were Aelita and Jeremy. Odd mind was racing a mile a minute. What do say, where do I start?What if we're not partners, I'll never talk to her! What if she rejects me? What if Jeremy finds out and sneaks some weird virus into my hot chocolate?
Odd started hyperventilating. ULrich noticing his friends anxiety put a comforting arm on his friends shoulder.
"Hey don't sweat it about being partners with her, try to focus on what to actually say to her," he told Odd.
"What if we're not partners?" Odd asked.
"You will trust me,"
"What are you some freaking psychic?"
Ulrich smirked, "Something like that."
"Herve and Nicholas. Sissi and Theo. Odd and...hhhmmm," Mrs Hertz was looking at her sheet on who she partnered togetjer and there was a smudge next to Odds name.
"Uhm, Odd and Aelita, Jeremy and Ulrich," she finished as the bus came to a complete start. "Ok," she commanded, "get started." Odd ran of the bus and performed backflip.
"You seem happy," came a voice from behind him. Aelita, Ulrich and a pissed off Jeremy came towards him.
"Uh yea I'm just happy to uh do science, yeah," he blurted out. Ulrich shook his head. Lame excuse, he thought.
"C'mon Aelita," Odd said grabbing her hand and dragging her towards the forest, "let's get started." Within a few seconds they disappeared. Jeremy started off in their direction but Ulrich grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"Hey, loook over their!" he said and pulled Jeremy in the opposite direction.
About twenty minutes later Aelita and Odd were chillin under an old oak trees. Aelita laughed when the leaves fell on her face and Odd did his best to explain to her the concept of changing seasons. It was, of course, a fail and Aelita laughed at his attempt.
"Aelita," Odd said after a while. She turned to face him and she scooted closer to him.
"Remeber that time two weeks ago when you kissed me?" he asked. Aelita blushed.
"Yeah," she said quietly. Odd took a deep breath.
"Aelita I-I love you!" he blurted out. He hoped no one heard that. Well no one except her.
"What?" she asked.
"I love you," he repeated quietly. For a second there was deafening silence he prayed would go away. She looked down on the ground, leaves littering it.
"I know you might not love me, that you love Jeremy instead but I thought you ought to know," he said his eyes cast to the ground. Odd felt the tears coming on. She dsen't love me! Hell she probably doesn't even like me anymore, not even as a friend. The tears were threatening to spill and he just let them fall freely down his face, leaving glittering tracks on his cheeks. Aelita crawled over to him and grabbed his face gently with her hands. She was shocked when she saw him crying. Odd crying over me? she thought.
"Odd I-I like you a lot too," she said quietly. The tears stopped flowing from his eyes.
"Really?" he asked. She kissed him.
"Was that a good enough answer?"
"Oh yeah,"
The two walked hand in hand back to the rest of the group. As the approached the class the reluctantly let go of each other but stayed close. A few minutes later Ulrich was hauling Jeremy back to the rest of the group. Ulrch panned the class for Aelita and Odd. When he saw their silly grins and stolen glances he figured out things must have gone well. On the bus ride home Odd sat next to Aelita, much t Jeremy's disappointment. No it was their time to giggle and whisper among themselves. Jeremy glared at them from across the aisle. Ulrich put in his earphones and cranked up his iPod trying to drown the sound of Jeremy's angry labored breathing. Finially, thought Ulrich as they hopped off the bus. He saw Aelita kiss Odd on the cheek goodnight and he walked, dazed, over to Ulrich.
"So I take it things went well," Ulrich asked his room mate who was still in a trance.
"It went AMAZING!" Odd yelled in his friends face. He continued to talk about it until the reached their dorms. Odd fell asleep happier than he'd ever been
Meanwhile
Aelita changed into some black shorts and a pink camisole for bed. She was still smiling from the days previous events. They were all good until Jeremy surfaced her mind. Poor Jeremy I feel awful. But Odd is just so much fun and kind and funny and handsome and he can actually be smart if he tries. Her mentall rants continued until there was a knock on the door. Aelita looked at her desk clock, it was 9:32 PM. Aelita got up and opened the door.
"Jeremy?" she asked. Yup it was Jeremy all right but here was something...off. Not XANA-ish but still something different, and she didn't like it.
"Hello Aelita," he said in a cool voice. He breezed into her room.
"Jeremy its after 9:30," she whined but Jeremy just sat on her bed and pated the space down next to him. She sat down and he took her hand.
"I haven't spent any time with you lately," he cooed. She shuddered.
"I talked to you on the bus today,"
"NO! That was Odd," he yelled at her. For a second he lost his cool but regained his composure.
"What I meant to say was we haven't spent alone time," he said in a suave as hell voice. Aelita didn't find it very sexy. Infact she felt uncomfortable.
"Jeremy, what-" she was instantly interrupted by a rough unexpected kiss. Aelita pulled away.
"Jeremy, stop," she pleaded but the kiss got rougher. He pressed his weight on her and she fell back on the bed with him on top of her. She squirmed under him but he didn't budge. Finally he pulled back, a mischievous grin plastered onto his face. Aelita pulled back and slapped him. Hard. His face was bright red and it cooled down into an ugly dark red blotch. Jeremy stared at her, confusion anger and hurt shinning from his eyes.
"What was that for?" he asked nursing his bruised cheek.
"What was that for?" she eachoed. "You kissed me!"
"I'm your boyfriend," he said.
"Yea but I said stop and you wouldn't listen, you hurt me," she told him tears brimming her eyes. Jeremy took a step towards her. She took three steps back.
"Aelita I'm sorry I didn't hear you it's just that I haven't seen you in so long...I missed you." His voice was dripping with compassion and regret but his eyes were barren of it. He was lying. Jeremy knew he's lying and Aelita knows too.
Yea the whole "I love you scene could have been more romantic but thats too bad. Yea i know Jeremy was OOC but also thats too bad.
So they're together but everything isn't rainbows and sunshine. Now the have to keep their affair a secret.