Chapter 7 of I Will Stand By You! Sorry the last one was so short but, gee, it's kinda hard for me to update these days! Darn babysitting! Anyways, here's the 7th chapter of IWSBY!
Chapter Seven!
(Aelita POV)
I was glad that Sissy convinced her dad to let us have a few days of no classes because I really want to spend as much time as I can with Odd, along with the others.
Right now, we're heading to the hospital on foot, enjoying the soft breeze that surrounded us, and the sun shining above.
"Man, if Odd weren't so messed up right now, today would be a good day for him to go to the skate park-" Ulrich started, but stopped, probable not wanting me to be all sobbing or feeling guilty or something.
"You know there's nothing wrong in saying anything like that Ulrich?" I say, and he just shrugs.
"Just didn't want to say anything that would you know hurt your feelings or something," he says.
"Like I said its okay, I won't be offended," I say. "I promise."
Ulrich just looks at me sort of sadly, then turns away and puts his hands in his pockets.
The rest of the walk to the hospital was silent and awkward. When we arrived, we told them we were visiting Odd, and then we walked to his room.
When we reached it and got inside, Odd was eating breakfast.
"Well what do ya know, he's eating," Ulrich says laughing, making Odd laugh.
"Yeah, but what you don't know is this stuff sucks!" Odd says, poking around at his oatmeal.
"Aw, it can't be that bad! Not worse than the school food," Ulrich says as Odd gives him a piece of toast, and he takes a bite. " Ugh! Gross! This is worse!"
"Told ya!" Odd says as Ulrich throws away his toast.
"Yuck! What an after taste!" Ulrich says. " I'm going to get something to drink."
"Alright, I'll still be here," Odd says, smiling at his dorm room mate.
"Yeah," Ulrich says, walking out of the room.
"I think I'll go and get something to drink too, that walk made me pretty thirsty," Yumi says, walking out of the room too.
"I bet you she just wants to talk ta Ulrich," Odd says.
"Yeah right, I doubt it!" Jeremie says laughing. "Those two haven't been talking much lately. I don't know why, but they just haven't."
"Huh. . . A MYSTERY NEEDED TO BE SOLVED!" Odd exclaims, making me laugh.
"Wow Odd," I say. "That's the best you could come up with, huh?"
"Well, it's true! Betcha somethin' happened between em!" he says, then flinching.
"You okay Odd? Do I need to get a nurse?" I ask, worried.
"Eh, no thanks. Just a head ache that's all," he says, waving my suggestion away.
"Are you sure?" Jeremie asks, obviously as worried for our friend as I am.
"Yeah, sure I am Einstein! I'll let ya'll know when it's too much," Odd says, crossing his arms and closing his eyes, making a face that looks like he's focusing, but he's really in pain, I can tell.
"Okay," Jeremie and I say, shrugging.
"Well, I'm back," Ulrich says walking into the room. "Miss anything interesting?"
"Nope," Odd says. "Hey Ulrich. Why haven't you and Yumi been talking much, eh?"
Ulrich looks at Odd with a surprised face that changes to a warning face when Yumi walks in. like the kind of face that says, "Say anything and your dead meat."
"Hey guys, what did I miss?" she asks, sitting down next to Jeremie.
"How weird!" Odd randomly exclaims. "Ulrich practically said the same thing! Oh, Yumi by the way-"
"Odd! Would- uh- like something to drink too!" Ulrich exclaims before Odd has time to continue with his asking the oh so terrible question.
"Um. . . okay. . . I'll just go get him some then. . ." she says before walking out of the room.
"Oh, Ulrich, you such a fun ruiner!" Odd says, crossing his arms.
" ' Ruiner' isn't a word Odd," Ulrich says, smiling at Odd's odd expression.
"Well, it don't matter!" Odd says.
"Ew, bad grammar, scary," Ulrich laughs, and I smile.
"Hey Odd I got you some water because that's what the doctor said was okay," Yumi says walking in and handing Odd the cup of water.
"Oh that's okay, I wasn't even thirsty anyways- uh I mean- uh," Odd looks at Ulrich who looks real white.
"What? But Ulrich said that you were-"
"Odd is just a little out of wack today!" Ulrich interrupts again.
"Why do you keep doing- " Yumi is cut off by her cell phone ringing. "Hello? Oh, hey mom. Uh huh. Okay."
"What goes on?" Odd says weirdly.
"My mom is here. She wants to take me out shopping," Yumi makes a face and a gagging noise.
I laugh then say, " Oh, it can't be that bad!"
"Well, my mom makes me try on everything. It's being trapped in a cell and being forced to put on clothes that I don't even like," she says to me.
"Okay, I guess that is pretty bad…" I say when Yumi's mother walks into the room with the nurse behind her, and both are holding baskets.
"What's that stuff?" Odd asks looking confused when they place them next to him.
"They are for you. One is from Yumi, and the other is from a girl named Sam," Yumi's mom says. "How have you been Odd? Any better?"
"Eh," Odd says, grabbing Yumi's basket. " Yay!"
"What?" Ulrich asks, looking into the basket. " Oh no. You got him candy and a new video game for his game boy. This is not looking good for the nurses."
We all burst out laughing, even Yumi's mother and the nurse while Odd smiles and lightly punches Ulrich's arm.
When we're finished, Mrs. Ishyuma (? Is that right?) says, " Well Yumi, we should get going. We want to be finished in time for dinner!"
"It's only like 10:00 in the morning though…" Odd says. "Does it really take that long?"
After Mrs. Ishyuma walks out of the room, Yumi mouths to Odd, "Yes!"
The nurse walks over to Odd and takes his food tray with a frown and says, "You barely touched your food! Are you feeling well?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine! I just-uh- wasn't hungry," Odd lies, probable not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings by saying, "The food really tasted BAD."
Odd looked over at Jeremie, who was on his computer, and says, " Hey, Einstein, watcha doin'?"
"Nothing much Odd," he says, looking a bit nervous… a bit like he was hiding something.
Odd and Ulrich must have noticed this as well because Odd looked at Ulrich and pointed to the computer and whispered real quietly, " Go get it."
Ulrich got up and pretended to throw away his empty cup in the trash can, but then turned real quick, and grabbed the lap top.
"Ugh! Ulrich no! stop! Give it back!" jeremie says, trying to grab the device out of his hands, but Ulrich held it high above his head, not allowing Jeremie to touch it.
Odd was sitting in his bed laughing his head off, and I was sitting there smiling.
"Ulrich! Please!" Jeremie says when Ulrich pushes him away with his foot. "What you will see is not supposed to be seen by any of you! I was trying to take care of it myself! You don't need to see it! I'm dead serious!"
Odd stopped laughing, his smile replaced with a questioning look.
Ulrich lifted down the computer, but didn't give it back. Instead, without looking at the screen yet, he sat on Odd's hospital bed, and turned the screen to where we could all see it.
I gasp at what I see. This is impossible! There is no way that this is happening! This is terrible!
"Einstein-?" Odd says looking at Jeremie.
Jeremie doesn't look up, not even when Odd says, " X.A.N.A?"