Astrid's POV

I ran into the gym, trying to get away from the three nimbisuls chasing me. Running into the streamers we put up I let out a squeak as Ulrich nearly caught me.

"Astrid you'll pay for that!" Ulrich yelled laughing even though he was trying to be mean. I had accidentally ,not really, poured a bouncy of sticky glitter covered in perfume all over Odd, William, and Ulrich. All three were chasing mr through the school. Yumi, Aelita, and I made the concoction during our break. Jeremy had only been spared because he was in the bathroom. I had been the one chosen to dump it on them so Yumi and Aelita were off the hook.

"Only if you can catch me!" I called running into the girls bathroom. Aelita and Yumi were in there laughing. We had made this our base because even they wouldn't go in here.

"we'll get you back!" William yelled amusement in his tone. None of them were really mad. After all we've been doing this to each other all day. After getting that phone call I was determined go brighten my mood. Me and odd had walk around holding hands for a while, which always brightens my mood. However I'll admit it, I was the one who pranked first. It was only a bit of shredded paper in Odds hair though. We've been going at each other for a while a while now though.

"If only there was a window in here, we could sneak out through that." Yumi said, specipulating our escape. Still breathing heavily I sat down against a wall.

" Hmm, they seemed to be walking away. Oh nope. They're leaving William for guard." Aelita reported. Peeking out carefully.

finally with my breathing under control I stand up and start pacing. "One of us could run out and distract William. But the question is what after that? Where else can we go to be safe." I say in a war commander tone. I think we were all liking this way too much. Aelita and I waited for a second as Yumi ran out right after she did. With William distracted by Yumi I led Aelita out of the gym and through the hall. Soon we could hear footsteps behind us.i turned for a split second to see Yumi followed closely by William with Odd and Ulrich close behind. Soon Yumi was able to catch up with means Aelita and we all ran.

"Quick!" I yell as another safe zone appears. As we run into the bathroom I slam into the wall and yumi and Aelita crash into me. We quickly scramble out of they're sight and start laughing as soon as we can breath. I here the boys cursing outside, making me laugh even harder. We high five each and locate exactly where we are.

"Well we're in the bathroom close to a door that goes out side. Maybe we can use that to our advantage." Aelita said speculating on a battle plan.

"hmm well we could do that but opening the doors would take too long. Especially if all three of them are out there." Yumi said and something hit me.

"Well three of them are out there but what about jeremy? Maybe we could make him be on our side. After all we've been easy on him." I say and Yumi and Aelita smile.

"Wait! Maybe instead of Jeremy we can call two other friends.." Yumi said and Aelita apparently caught on to what she was saying.

"Maybe our favorite reporters could help us. In exchange for a scoop." Aelita wispered, our voices now low so the guys won't hear.

"Like inside winter dance decorating committee fun." I say finally catching on to who they were talking about. Yumi and I pulled out our phones and rang up Kadic academy's favorite reporters.

Aelita just finished texting Jeremy. He agreed to be on our team if he could instead keep working on Aelita's anti-virus. We agreed sighing at his lack of eagerness to do this. I thought it was fun. Although Jeremy does work hard, I can't really complain. However I do know Aelita will be forcing him to come to the winter dance tonight.

"Will you girls come out of hiding already?!" Odd called slight annoy but still in a good mood. I peeked my head out and stuck my tongue out at him. I quickly pulled my head back in as I heard them laughing.

"Are we ready?" I asked Yumi and Aelita who were creating our distraction. A perfume grenade. I had offered mine since I'm not into that stuff. Frankly I don't even know why I had it on me. I guess Aelita might have slipped it in my bag as a joke.

"nearly...okay done." Yumi said and we walked over silently to the door.

"Ready?" Aelita asked and we nodded.

"1"

"2"

"3"

"Go Go Go!" We yelled as Yumi through the "bomb" out and we bolted. The boys saw the bottle of perfume and ran away, we took this opportunity to book it out of there. We ran straight to the door, which Millie and Tamara were holding open for us, and then sprinted for the hermatage. Running under the freezing cloudy day without a jacket made me want to climb inside an oven. I didn't have a jacket on a not even running this hard could warm me up.

Soon we made to the hermatage and stopped for a minute. All three of us stood there trying to catch our breaths.

"You know" I say between breaths amusement heavy in my tone, "We should...get back to work of the dance." the truth is we still have a lot of work to do. Yumi and Aelita nodded but judging by the look in ther eyes we all knew this wasn't finished.

"Now!" The called split through the air as the three guys jumped out of no where. Shocked fear coursed through me aa us three girls bolted each in our direction.

"Split up!" I called but the others had already gotten the point. After running in on direction for a few seconds I spotted Odd behind me.

Already tired from our earlier sprint my legs quickly tired. I turned a hard left, the sky looks like it will snow soon. I ran harder but I was hardly paying attention to the run any more. Looking into the sky I couldn't see even a sliver of sunlight. Even though not much time could've past, it looks dark.

"Ouff!" I groaned as Odd tumbled into me. We rolled on the ground colliding with a tree. With Odd holding me tightly but not uncomfortably a snowflake driftsdown and lands on the grass in between us. I look at Odd and his eyes are full of love. It doesn't take me long to realize my eyes are too.

He stands up brushing off the dirt on his legs and then helps me up. Still breathing heavily I lean against the tree we ran into. Odd puts his hands on my arms and rubbs them, a frown appearing on his face.

"you should wear a sweater if your going to go outside when it's this cold." Odd wispers and the frown drains from his face. I try to hide the fact that I'm shivering but he already notices. I stare into his eyes and he wraps his arms around me. As the snow falls, heavire now, i lean in close to him. Our lips brush and neither hesitates as we we press the against each other. The snow practically a storm now we kiss, softly but sweet.

Odds POV

If I would've known it was such a bad storm I would've kissed for just a bit longer. Watching her white hair swish beuatifully in the snow mesmerized me. When we pulled apart the snow was whirling angrily around us. It was almost to hard to see through. I grabbed Astrid's hand securly and we trudged against the wind. I turn to look at Astrid for a moment and she has a look of fear on her face.

Her mouth moves but the snow is too heavy for me to hear. Quickly I realized how bad of a situation we are in. The snow around us has unnaturally turned into a blizzard, when there was only call for light snow. I pulled Astrid and she woke up from the state of shock she was in. We trudged on until we finally mad it into school grounds.

We ran to the door and pushed ourselves inside.

"You two, all you alright? Nevermind jym, take the two to the others. Quockly there freezing." Mr Delmas said while Jym came and picked up Astrid who let out a protesting squeek. Even though she capible of walking herself the look of worry in jyms eyes kept me from saying anything. We walked down to a basement like room where the rest of the school seemed to be huddled.

"Jym, I'm fine. Can you let me down please." Astrid said, and watching her I have to admit she right. Even though it's still freezing in here she wasn't shivering anymore, even though I was. Jym reluctantly put her down and our hands immediately intertwined. We walked into the room and Jeremy immediately stood up and ran over to greet us.

"Are you guys okay? where are the others?" Jeremy asked as we sat down. A blanket was thrown over me and Astrid, but Astrid wrapped me in it. I protested but she apparently wasn't effected by the cold.

"No, We had all splt up right before it started to snow." Astrid said clearly, how can she not be cold? She was freezing outside but even then she wasn't as cold as she should've been. Right now her arms were with only a tshirt on.

"oh great, if you couldn't guess there's an activated tower! What are we going to do?" Jeremy said. Just perfect, the one thing we need on a fun day anticipating a fun night is a Xana attack. Lucky us.

"maybe they made it into the tunnel, the one that goes from the hermatage to the factory." I said and Jeremy seemed to consider that. If they did then they were safe, if they didn't they are probably in big trouble.

"Well in that case we'll have to hope they did, There's no signal out there with this blizzard." Astrid said with a worried look in her eyes. We don't know for sure if they're okay. I squeeze her hand and she smiles up at me.

"So how are WE going to get to the factory? Any ideas?" I say but no one says anything.

"Well the one way that's safe is the boiler room tunnel. But the teachers will catch is if we even walk over there." Jeremy says and an idea hits me.

"Maybe we can-" my reply was cut short as Brynga suddenly Waltz over and sat down straight on my lap.

"It's cold, would you hold me Odd?" She asked and I didn't take long to shove her off.

"Buzz off, your starting to get more than obnoxious." I say and Astrid grabs my hand protectively while glaring at Brynga. I laughed and smile at her.

"Fine I will, unless you want my help get to the boiler room." Brynga said and the three of us looked at her in shock. Her sly face annoys me so much, but we do need to get to the boiler room.

"How did you know?" Jeremy asks and Brynga face gets even more annoying.

"Well you were talking so eargently, I wanted to make sure everything was okay, besides I want to make up for messy ing up the supercomputer. That way after it's all over and done there will be no reason to be mad at me anymore." She said her tone smooth and full of fake innocence. I ball my fist and sighed, I guess it's up to Jeremy wether we say yes or not. He was the one who had to fix the computer. Besides we're running out of time.

"Fine, but how do you plan on getting us to the boiler room?" Jeremy ask and Brynga dint answer but stood up and walked over to the sissy. The two of them went to talk to the teachers and we saw our chance. As quiet as we could we slipped unseen out of the basement, with only a few puzzled looks from other students.

As soon as we made. It through the hall and to the boiler room we booked it down the tunnel. We all ran as fast as we could, hoping the others were already at the factory. Before i knew it Astrid, who was running infront of me, started breathing a little too heavily.

"Astrid are you okay?" I asked urgently as we stopped for a moment and she slipped to one knee. As she coughed I put the my hand on her back.

"You don't think she has asthma or anything, do you?" einstein asked and I shook my head. After a few more seconds she recovered and stood up.

"I'm sorry you two, no it's not asthma. I just a have a little cough. I'll be fine let's keep going." She said smiling at me. I checked her forehead to make sure there wasn't a fever. Though the only reason I let her keep going is because of the strong look in her eyes.

When we got out of the tunnel and ran to the computer we weren't surprised to find Aelita and William there.

"Where are Ulrich and Yumi?" Astrid asked out if breath. I grabbed her hand to steady her, she still seemed a little weak.

"Long story, Yumi got caught under a tree that fell. Apparently there was a news guy here today. Besides the point we need to deactivate the tower quick." William said and both he and Aelita looked winded and cold.

"Okay, Astrid, Odd, and Aelita get to the scanners. William don't start with me just stay here in case. Like you said we don't have much time." Jeremy said quickly interrupting Williams protest to not go. He looked a little miffed but he obeyed and walk tot he computer shivering as the rest of us ran for the scanners.

hey guys! Hope this wait wasn't as long as the last few.. Probably was though... Anyways I'm in the holiday spirit and, even though some of you might not and I don't mean to offend in case or anything, I celebrate Christmas and I want to give you guys some type of gift this holiday season. I'm going to try and upload the next chapter as soon as possible but, knowing myself, I'll probably get sidetracked a lot. So I'm going to dedicate a part or episode( if you haven't noticed I've been putting numbers next to every few chapters and that kinda indicates an episode or a mini plot beginning. I don't know what to call it but basically they are episodes.) to an idea some one gives me. And I know I probably won't get many suggestions but if you don't have an idea you can either private message me or write a review on it, it doesn't matter. But I will pick one randomly, i have methods for randomness, and write about it. I know it's kinda Odd, get it, but if you want to you can. Thank you all for reading and have some happy holidays for whatever you celebrate!