The Letter

It's after school and the gang is messing around in Jeremie's dorm room. Xana is no problem and Aelita is free from his viral grasp. A year has passed since the Xana era ended and the gang had focused on grades and social fun life. Aelita learned a lot about human life and being human, her relationship with Jeremie grew much more and with Odd as well. She had the love of her life and a budding close friendship with another. Well sparks are indeed to fly soon, eh? As for Ulrich and Yumi, these two still have a shy barrier between them and seeing others to hide their true feelings of each other. So we last left the gang in Jeremie's room where things will drastically change.

"Man I can't believe that Sissy fell for that!" Odd laughed out loud, accompanied by everyone else.

"I know, you tell her one thing about her complextion and she goes to the nearest bathroom to set up a dressing room slash emergency stuck up princess hospital." Yumi laughed.

Suddenly all was quieted when a knock on the door sounded. Ulrich got up and answered it, it was Jim, with mail.

"Oh hello Jim!" Ulrich and the others said cautiously.

"Good evening you guys, I hope you do remember that curfew begins in ten minutes? Well anyways, mail for……..(sifting through letters)…..for Aelita Stones." Jim pulled out a simple but thick letter from the pile in his hands.

Ulrich took it and kinda closed the door on Jims nose.

"I wonder what it could be?" Aelita looked perplexed.

"Maybe it's fanmail from those kids you donated those cans of food too?" Odd tried to solve the mystery.

"Here you go." Ulrich gave it to her.

Aelita opened the letter and carefully took out several folded papers in a bulk. She took the first one and soon she grew a look of happiness and unbridled joy. She held the letter in one hand as she embraced Jeremie as if he'd just given her a wonderful present. The others wanted to know as much as Jeremie what the occasion was.

"So…..you gonna…..tell….us what the letter….is about?" Jeremie tried to get out of the suffocating hug.

"Oh your never going to believe this! Remember those Universities you and I sent in our applications too?" she said with glee.

"Yes?" he responded trying to recall all of that.

"Well…..they said we got through!" she jumped up and down on the bed sitting.

"Awsome…." That is all he could muster.

Till now the others where left out of the fun, till Yumi broke in.

"Wait, if you two got into that school then wouldn't you have gotten a letter as well Jeremie?" Yumi said in a thinking fashion.

"Yes that quite right, Jim must be going in alphabete order. I should go see him right now and get immediate conformation." Jeremie fixed his glasses and took out the door slightly worried.

The gang in the meantime talked about life at a university and more so in a new school to train or study for that specific university that was required. Until Jeremie came back with a pondering face looking to the ground. The others felt uncomfortable and worried as well, they watched him sit down in his desk chair and stare to the desk, turning on the computer, accessing the universities website and user info, and then looking like he'd seen a ghost.

Aelita walked to him and turned his chair so he and she were facing each other.

"Jeremie your making us feel bad, what's happened?" her pain awoke Jeremie from his sullen mood and back to reality.

"I just found out……..only you are going to that university……I didn't make it." He said plainly and without emotion.

Aelita was dumb struck, she could believe it.

"Are you sure your letter didn't get lost in the mail system?"

"No, I check out the uni's webpage and my account. It reads that due to over entries, there's just not enough room for the both of us to go together."

"That's just like schools elsewhere." Odd said with sarcasim.

"What university is it your trying to get into may I ask?"

"A United States based, highly known as one of the worlds top educational facilities." Aelita said mimicking her loves behavior and sitting down on the bed reading the other contents of the scholarship and grants she and Jeremie worked so hard at getting.

"Well can't you go to the others around the world?" We could but those other places don't have what we need to get our degrees correctly and on the first time." Aelita threw the papers to her side.

"Wow, you guys are in one serious pickle." Odd remarked trying to lighten the mood.