Odd lies on his bed, snoring loudly, the obnoxious noise echoing over the walls of the room. His head is turned to face the door, his hair seemingly untouched by his nightly movements, tossing and turning as he dreamt.

Kiwi pushed the dresser open and stood up, his resting place still warm from the heat of his small body. Kiwi shook, knocking off any remaining need to sleep, waking him up fully. He whimpered slightly, moving over to his masters arm which was hanging from the bed. He stuck out his pink tinted tongue and began to lick Odd's hand, his pace transforming from slow to a more rapid pace as the seconds passed.

"Emm..." Odd moaned as he awoke, his head in a great deal of pain. He moved his hand to feel his head, his reaction instant as he felt his wet palm.

"Kiwi, I'm not in the mood." He voiced through his groggy and pain filled mind. He looked over towards Ulrich's bed, noticing it to be empty. In a panic, Odd frantically reached out for his alarm clock to determine the time.

'Hmm, I'm not late, it's actually kinda early. Where could Ulrich be?' He thought, placing the clock back down on as turned his body upright. Kiwi sat, his tail wagging as he look up at Odd.

"Don't worry, Kiwi, I'll come by and bring you bacon if I have time." He said, scratching Kiwi's head where he enjoined it most, just behind his left ear and to the right. Odd stood up, again grabbing for his head which pounded with pain, as though his brain was attempting a prison break from its boney cell.

"Man, what's wrong with my head this morning?" Odd said aloud, not expecting any answer from the inanimate objects of his room. Kiwi yelped, looking at his master with large and caring eyes, at least that's how Odd interpreted them.

"Oh, Kiwi, your the best diggity dog in the world." Odd said, grabbing a towel and his usual attire. He walked out the door, the aching in his mind progressively intensifying. He walked down the hall until he reached the shower room door. Just as he began to reach for the door handle, it swung open, Ulrich standing by the open entrance, his hair still glistening from his shower as he didn't dry it well.

"Hey, whatcha doin' getting ready so early?" Odd asked, moving out of the way so Ulrich could enter the hall.

"Just wanted to get an early start today. To be honest, I'm not really sure why, I just felt like getting ready early." Ulrich replied, still trying to figure out why he had a desire to get ready so early.

"Well, I gotta take a shower. Enjoy all your extra time, use it wisely." Odd said sarcastically as he walked into the shower room. Ulrich began walking back to their room, brushing off his strange feeling this morning as just being nothing.

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Ulrich, Aelita, Odd and Jeremy sit in Ms. Hertz's Class, taking notes over osmosis and cell diffusion, except for Odd who planned to ask Jeremy for his notes later.

"Remember, hyperbolic means the cell shrinks, hypobolic means the cell grows." Ms. Hertz said, gazing over her class, her pointer stick in hand. "After lunch we will be taking our trip with the rest of my classes to the forest downtown to study diffusion in plant cells. Don't be late, the buses will leave at 1:00 o'clock on the dot. Any questions?"

Odd raised his hand, leaning forward slightly against the lab table.

"Yes, Odd, what's your question?"

"Wouldn't it be a lot easier just to have the class look at salads instead of going all the way to the forest to look at the same thing?" Odd asked, his voice steady as he spoke.

Ms. Hertz gave Odd a look, not of anger, but of total confusion. "Odd, sometimes I wonder if you have a brain up there." The class laughed a little, but this quickly ended when Ms. Hertz eyes formed a deadly stare towards her children. Now then, are their any legitimate questions?"

The room was silent, not many of the students cared enough to ask any questions.

*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*

The students rose from their seats as the bell rang, signaling the beginning of lunch.

"Hey, Jeremy, can I borrow your notes?" Odd asked, following his blond friend out the door.

"Odd, you had a whole class period to get the notes." Jeremy replied. "If I give you these notes, then you'll never be able to do them for yourself and you'll be begging me to do everything for you."

Odd tried to make up an excuse, then realizing he didn't need a fake excuse, he was actually in pain. "I have a bad headache, I couldn't take the notes."

Jeremy looked over at Odd, Odd's eyes appearing so desperate, Jeremy couldn't handle it. "Fine, just get them from me tonight."

Odd decided to test his luck. "Hey, could I copy your math homework too?"

"Odd, don't ask questions you already know the answer to." Jeremy replied, his voice not strict, not said in a similar tone.

"So, that's a yes?" Odd asked, trying to act confused even though he did already know the answer.

"Odd, give it a rest." Ulrich said, having overheard the last few sentences of the conversation. "We can just study the math together tonight."

"Thank you, Ulrich." Jeremy said, his mood brightening up slightly.

"Okay, next on the agenda:" Odd said, his mouth watering, "lunch."

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Yumi walked into the lunchroom, almost tripping in the top step, but quickly regaining her balance. She noticed her friends over at their usual table, Jeremy, Aelita and Odd on one side with William and Ulrich on the reverse end.

As she made her way over she noticed Odd's tray was loaded with extra helpings of nearly everything. "What'd you tell Rosa to get her to give you this much food?" Yumi asked, arriving at the table.

"I don't know who, but someone just left me their servings." Odd replied, taking in a large spoonful of mashed potatoes.

"Don't you find it, I don't know, strange that someone randomly left you their food?" Yumi asked, a brow raised towards Odd.

"Don't look a gift horse on the mouth." Odd said, his mouth full of assorted foods.

"Speaking of horses," Aelita said, "it looks like you're trying to eat one." Aelita said, causing the others to laugh.

"If that's true, then this is the best tasting horse ever." Odd said, just encouraging more laughter from the others.

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