Chapter 3

Sunday

Knock Knock

"Hey Odd, can we come in?" a female voice asked from the hallway.

"Odd, it's for you!" Ulrich said, rolling over in his bed.

"Hey Kiddo, you awake in there?" the voice asked, trying the door handle and found it unlocked.

Maggie opened the door only to find that Ulrich was also in the room.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Maggie said as Ulrich sat up, his brown hair sticking in all directions. "Odd didn't tell me he had a roommate."

"It's ok." Ulrich said, yawning. He looked at Odd's Aunt and saw why they had used her as Aélita's mother. She had hair that was just a tone darker than Aélita's own hair.

Maggie walked in, a brown haired girl behind her, and went over to the heap of blankets on Odd's bed. "Odd, wake up!"

"It's Sunday!" Odd said, turning around so that he was facing the wall.

"Oh well!" Maggie said, going over to his wardrobe and opening a draw. "I'll put Kiwi on you."

"I'M UP!" Odd said, sitting up fast.

Ulrich and the girl laughed as Kiwi jumped up and went straight over to Odd to lick his face.

Ulrich looked at the brown haired girl and smiled, saying, "Hey, I'm Ulrich."

He held out his hand and she took it, nodding her head. "My name is April Morgan."

"Well, welcome to France, April." Ulrich said as they let go. "The a crazed one is Odd."

April looked at him, questioningly. "Sorry, you speak fast, very fast*."

"Bad habit." Ulrich said, talking slower. "Welcome. The crazy one is Odd."

April smiled, understanding. "It goes with his name, no?"

"Yes it does." Ulrich said, smiling.

"Is today the only day you get off of school?" April asked.

"Yeah. I mean, on Saturdays and Wednesdays we have half days." Ulrich said.

"Ok." April said. "We have Saturdays and Sundays off."

"So where's my daughter?" Maggie asked as Odd stood up, straightening his shorts that had twisted around in his sleep.

"She's probably downstairs in Jérémie's room, working on a computer program." Odd said.

"In Jérémie's room?" Maggie asked.

"Don't worry. They like each other but won't tell each other." Odd said, knowing what she was thinking. He looked at Ulrich as he continued, "Like another two-some I know."

"Ha ha ha, very funny." Ulrich said, throwing off his blankets and standing up.

"Come on, get dressed so I can meet my daughter." Maggie said.

"Shhuuu." Odd said, his eyes going to April.

"Do not worry. I know about Aélita. I will not give away your secret." April said.

-.-.-.-

"I wonder when Maggie's going to get here." Aélita said as she waited for Jérémie to finish changing clothes. She was lying on Jérémie's bed, her head on his pillow so that she was looking straight at the wall. Behind her, Jérémie was zipping up his pants.

"All I know is sometime today." Jérémie said, grabbing his shirt. He put it on and turned to grab his glasses. "You can get up now."

Aélita sat up at looked towards Jérémie as he looked around for his shoes. He opened his wardrobe only to have a pile of junk fall out.

"Need to clean your room again, huh?" Aélita asked.

"After Xana." Jérémie said, skimming the pile for his blue shoes.

Aélita knelt down on the floor and pulled out something black. "Why do you have Yumi's shoes in your wardrobe?"

Jérémie looked up as he found his own shoes. "Oh, Yumi asked me to keep an extra pair of shoes in here for her."

"Why?" Aélita asked.

"I don't really know." Jérémie admitted.

"I guess I really can't say anything." Aélita said, standing up and helping him put the stuff back in his wardrobe. "She asked me to keep an extra set of her clothes in my room."

"Hey Einstein." Odd said as he opened the door.

Aélita and Jérémie looked towards the door to see Odd and Ulrich walk in. Behind them was a woman with pink hair and a girl with brown hair.

"Hey Ulrich, you feeling any better?" Aélita said, putting a box inside the wardrobe.

"A lot better, thanks to you." Ulrich said.

"You were sick?" April asked, her hand covering her mouth.

"Nothing you could catch." Ulrich explained. "Shell fish allergy."

April nodded her head, taking her hand away from her mouth.

Jérémie looked at April and Maggie and asked, "Sorry, who are you?"

"I'm Odd's aunt Maggie and this is April. She's from New Mexico." Maggie said, smiling.

"New Mexico?" Aélita asked. "Where in New Mexico?"

"I am from Albuquerque. It is almost in the center." April replied.

"But Maggie, this is Aélita." Odd said, motioning to Aélita. "Aélita, your mother."

Aélita looked at Maggie's hair and understood why they could be believed to be mother and daughter.

"If I was not told the truth, I would believe you two were, truly, mother and daughter." April said, smiling.

"You won't tell, no?" Jérémie asked April.

"Of course, no!" April said, shaking her head.

"Good." Jérémie said.

"I'm hungry." Odd said as his stomach started to alert everyone.

"Good, because I wanted you to help me show April some of France." Maggie said. She looked at April and asked, "When do you have to go back to the US?"

"When do I have to go back?" April asked, making sure she understood Maggie right.

Maggie nodded her head.

"I have to go back to New Mexico in one week." April said.

"So who's up for some Presto Burger?" Maggie asked everyone.

"Yes!" Odd said, glad to eat soon.

"I've got to stay here and work on my computer." Jérémie said, sitting down at his computer.

"Come on Jérémie." Aélita said, putting her hands on his shoulders. "Get out and do something new, like hang out with an American."

April smiled at the thought that hanging out with her could be a novelty.

Jérémie smiled and looked up at Aélita, looking into her jade green eyes. "Alright."

"What is this Presto Burger?" April asked as Jérémie stood up.

"It's the best place to get burgers on this side of the river." Odd said.

*If you've watched the French version of Code Lyoko, he talks really fast. For a non-native of French, it's sometimes hard to understand him.