Astrid's POV
"So, what was with last night?" Aelita asked me. After we got to the dorm all I felt like doing was crashing. I suppose she must have thought it was strange.
"Oh sorry, for some reason once I got back I was so tired I could hardly put my pajamas on." I said laughing a bit. It's about 7:00am and we didn't have class today until 9:00. We're about to down to Breakfast but she had to fix something on her computer first.
"How do you think William is doing?" She asked me as we left our room. I had been thinking about how hard it was for me when I moved from school to school and everyone thought I was a freak with my silver hair.
"I hope he's doing alright. It's not easy having to build up a reputation." I said and we chatted about it the rest of the way to breakfast. My stomach rumbled and Aelita giggled at me. I didn't dinner last night after we saved William.
"Hungry?" Aelita asked as we walked into the cafeteria. I almost drooled at the food, Im hungrier than I thought. We got our food and sat down with everyone else. Yumi was already there but Odd and Ulrich were devouring their food. I sat down next to him and said only a small hello until I dug into mine.
Aelita sat next to Jeremy and said, "I think their hungry."
"Well didnt they eat dinner last night?" Yumi said laughing as Ulrich finally looked up from his food.
"Odd and I crashed once we got back to our room, I'm guessing Astrid did too." He said wiping his mouth with a napkin. Just then William walked over and sat down.
"hi William!" yumi said "How has it gone?" Referring to the clone Business.
"Well my dad seemed happy enough when I 'came to my senses'" he said figuring his hands in quotation mark symbols. "At least it wasn't as bad as I thought." He sighed.
"Well did anyone tell you about the art project class today?" I asked my mouth half full. He should probably know or else he'll really seem like an idiot.
"Yumi told me. It seems strange they haven't done this before have they?" He asked and I could tell he was trying to change the subject. We chatted a bit more about that and what we were doing in other classes. Odd, Ulrich, and I all went up to get seconds. Odd kept trying to steal my crescent.
William kept looking at us though, I found it strange that he thought it was strange me and Odd were "together". I mean he tries to hit on Yumi. I let the subject drop from my mind as we finished breakfast and went to check the new bulletin board they put up. Instead of telling us this class period they decided to put up which classes were paired on the board. I crossed my fingers as I looked for our class.
"Oh here it is! Ours is paired with yours!" Yumi said excitedly and I couldve sworn I saw Ulrich flinch a bit. He really shouldn't be so sensitive About that.
"This will make it easy in case of Xana attacks, at least until this class is over." Jeremy said and I looked excitedly at Odd. He looked troubled for a second but before I could say anything he turned to me and smiled. I smiled back but I'll have to ask him about that later.
"We still have about a half an hour, what should we do?" I asked as we walked away from the bulletin board so others could have a look.
"We could just go hang out it the rec room." William suggested and after thirty seconds of "pondering" we headed down to the rec room. Odd sifted closer to me and we held hands as we walked there. I looked over and caught him giving William a strange look.
"What's wrong?" I whispered to him and he squeezed my hand gave me smile. We'll talk about it later.
"hey what's that?" Yumi asks and points towards the left side of the room. I looked over and on a small table was a trumpet with a few mouth pieces soaking in water...no it's cleaning solution. I walk over there quickly and read a sign that says, tWin this trumpet, enter the raffle and find out tomorrow who wins! Take one mouth piece to play, clean after use!
Suddenly I get a flash back to when I was in the orphanage as a ten year old girl. I used to play the trumpet then, even the adults who hated me never denied me when I asked to practice. Every day at four I would practice for thirty minutes, the tune of my favorite song still whispers inside of me. I reach out for a mouth piece and look at the raffle box. No one has put their name in. Quickly I scratch my name on one of the slim sheets of paper, fold it up, and throw it in the empty box. I double check to make sure the signs date says today's and then I put the mouth piece on the trumpet. At this point every one is staring at me wondering what I'll do. Years in being in that coma without practicing would probably make me sound horrible but I don't care. Just as I remember I put my mouth to the mouth piece and buzz. A smooth professional sound comes out and before I know it my fingers are pushing the right buttons and my mouth is using the right muscles. My favorite song comes out in a quiet but smooth and professional style. When the song ends I snap out of my trance and look at the others. I laugh as I see there mouths hanging open and faces in plain shock.
"Di I ever tell you I can play the trumpet?" I asked casually and still laughing.
Odds POV
I was shocked. just flat out blow away. Who knew she could play the trumpet!? And who knew she could play it that good? I stood there with my mouth on the floor for a few seconds until I finally answered her question.
"No! that definatly never came up!" I said laughing And I walked ober to her smiling. She took my hand and the others started to recover. Next to her I reached over and signed my name on a card and through it in the raffle box. If anyone else wants it then now she has two chances. The others got my idea and all came up to do the same.
"That was awesome! Your really good!" Yumi said the pure truth in her voice. Jeremy, ulrich, and Aelita also comgradulated her. The only one who didn't was William, he stayed back and didn't put his name in the raffle either. He had a longing and almost disturbed look on his face. He must be sad to have been left out of this. Suddenly I realize that he doesn't know her at all yet, one of the only things he knows is that when it took him ages for us to trust him, we trusted her in a day. He just turned around and sat down on the couch.
"Well what should we do know, our intertwine not system seems to not want to play anymore." William said bitterly but I was the only one who heard him. Instead of reacting I just stayed at my spot next to Astrid. Turning to her I smiled and she smiled back. However behind the smiled I could see a line a concern and I followed her gaze after she looked away to William. After wanting to rescue him so much it must be a disappointment for him not to like her.
"Come on why don't we play some table tennis I said nudging her and the others started challenging each other, oblivious to what had happened. Right now it's between Me, William, and Astrid. Maybe the others will notice soon.
Williams POV
How could they. I wasn't gone for that long and it wasn't my fault I was gone. Somehow, though, they managed to trust someone else. Someone who they had known for less than a day. The group had always been secretive, kind and welcoming, except when I came to joining there group. I can't remember how many times it took for them to trust me, literally. Apparently there were times before I that I dont remember. I had to go through a lot to get them to trust me, and then it all disappeared when I was caught Xana. She didn't have o go through anything.
" William we have a table tennis set in here, you wanna play against me?" Yumi called over. I looked over and smiled. She is the only reason being in the group mattered to me. I would always fight for the others too but I am in love with Yumi, and that's all that counts. Maybe someday I can make her feel the same.
" Sure, why not?" I said and walked over there. The others were hanging around at a different table than Yumi's except for Odd and Astrid. Those two were over by themselves talking about something. By the look on there faces I could tell it wasn't good news. Curiosity burned inside of me but not enough to drive me away from Yumi. Once we started playing I was acutely aware of Ulrich watching me.
I beat Yumi just barely and she laughed, claiming she let me win. By this time Odd and Astrid were done talking and had been watching our game. Cheering occasionally. Before Yumi and I left to go do something else Astrid came up and asked me, " Can I play a game?" sudden end hatred burned inside of me. All of the bitter thoughts I held came flooding into my mind.
I was just about to refuse when Yumi said, "I'd like to see this. Astrid can play a pretty mean game." the others walked over and I had no choice. As the anger subsided I couldn't help admire the persistent but kind smile she had. Just like when I had to prove myself to the others. I sighed, picked up a paddle, and shot the ball across the table. Fast as lightning she hits it back. It goes on like this for a while until we all have to hurry to class, neither of us making a single point.
Once we get to the room out classes were assigned I sit down next to Yumi and the others sit around us. Astrid and Odd sit at the table to the right of us, Aelita and Jeremy sit in front of us, and Ulrich sits on the other side of Yumi at the table to the right of us.
"We will be combining classes to make this process quicker and more fun. We will also assigning partners. Your partner will be chosen at random from either class to make it fair. We will go around with a bucket full of names. After we do this we will dive right in to our first project." The teacher said and while one of them carried a bucket the other carried a clipboard. They went around the classroom and surprisingly none of our names were chosen yet when it finally got to Aelita.
"I got Jeremy!" Aelita said excitedly as she opened what she pulled out. The teacher holding the bucket search through the bucket util she found Aelitas name and took it out. Aelita looked up at her and said, " Doesnt that seem a bit tedious? Isnt it hard to find the name? Especially for the first one?"
I held back a laugh as the teacher looked back at her unamused, " Don't remind me of my mistakes mrs. Stones." then he walked over to Ulrich and he pulled out his name.
"Yeah yumi!" he cheered and he and Yumi fist bumped. My heart sank. Oh well, we still have all of our other classes together. Just because she gets him as a partner doesn't mean I won't see her anyway. He walked over to me and I pulled out a slip of paper. There were only a few left but I didn't have anybody to really hope to get.
I opened the paper and blinked a few times as I read it out loud, "Astrid"
Astrid's POV
Him. Why do I have to be with him? He hates me. I'm almost positive he hates me. Out of the entire class, the huge chance of being paired up with Odd, I have to get William?
At first I thought that William would be nice and fun to hang around but all I get from him is confused glares and the occasional cold stare. Both of which were kinda creepy. Disappoint had buzzed through me for the past few days but now I have to do this entire semester long class, partnered up with him. Odd got paired with this boy we didn't know from Yumi and William's class. William hadnt said anything to me after that. Since we didn't do anything with our partners today. After our classes we headed down to lunch. I made sure to sit away from him, seperating us with Odd and Aelita. I kept an eye on him and I noticed he did the same. Despite revolting when I saw what he was like I still couldn't resist giving him a soft smile when our eyes met. Whenever I was interacting with him his nature suddenly changed in my view. for some reason that just made me dislike him more.
"So what's are next move?" I asked and everybody looked away from chatting. The topic of lyoko must have been on their minds too. "Now that we've saved William, what's our next goal?" I asked through a bite of meatball.
"Clearly you haven't been apart of the group long enough to know that we need to get the virus out of Aelita." William said before Jeremy could explain. Just then a sharp object hit the back of my head and I yelped, not able to react to Williams rude comment.
"Ow!" I said as my hand instinctively flew to the place where it hit. It burned for a second but I looked around widly trying to find the thing that hit me.
"What happened?" Jeremy asked while I turned around to see where I came from.
"Something hit her in the back of her head." Odd said nudging my head sideways so he could see what it did. " Well more like back of her neck." He said and I flinched as he touched to spot it hit. "Theres going to be a bruise."
"it's fine" I said through gritted teeth. Then I spotted a good size rock on the floor between Odds and my chair. I bent down to pick it up. I set it on the table and everybody stared at it.
"Who do you think through it?" Ulrich asked and I shrugged angrily. Whoever it was is really asking for it. Just then a wave of exhaustion swept over me. I yawned hugely, giving up all hope no one would notice.
"Did you not get a lot of sleep last night?" Aelita asked, looking as confused as I felt. I got plenty of sleep, I don't remember waking up during the night. I shrugged again, the anger subsided but still lingering. Something is really ticking me off today and it's not the blazing pain still throbbing the back of my neck. As we finished lunch we headed toward to factory. As I yawned again the thought occurs to me that they never specifically told me what we are planning now.
Surprise! Ha ha! How many of you were expecting a new point of view to come along? Yes I decided I wanted to spice things up a bit. For those who didn't or couldn't notice the summary, which is a pretty bad one on my part, tells a tale of a love triangle. And I know I told you guys you dint have to comment and all that stuff, but I would like it if you told me what you think of this. Like I've said before I want to be an author so anything helpful from you guys would be greatly appreciated. Anywho sorry for not posting for so long. Well. Maybe it hadn't been that long but it seems like it to me. Either way I got pokemon y so my life has pretty much been filled with that. On that note I'll try to post sooner next time!