Ok so this is my first ever fanfiction, so all flames will be used to light fireworks or sparklers. This chapter involves field hockey, abused math books, and karate flipping people. The character Serenity is based on me and the character Demi is based on my best friend, Haley.

I would like to dedicate this entire story to my editors Haley, Yutaro, Justin, and occasionally Teresa.

The chapter itself however is dedicated to Marta because of the duct tape.

DISCLAIMER: Yes! I've made a million dollars in the lottery! I've bought Code Lyoko and am in the process of making this into a Code Lyoko movie…(wakes up from dream)…aww…(bangs head on pillow). On the other hand I own the many made up characters in this story and the plot so if you want to use them I would appreciate if you asked first.

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It was a cool crisp day in September, the second week of school at Kadic Jr. High. Four friends sat on benches on the side of the field lazily watching the field hockey game before them where the home team was up by 3. The challenging team had the ball and was dribbling it up the field. The offensive girl shot the ball into the upper right corner of the net and the goalie leaped up diagonally to the right and whacked the ball outside the circle with the tips of her fingers. A couple seconds later she saved another shot by doing a split. A few minutes later the final whistle blew announcing the end of the game. The final score was 5-0 home.

"Wow, that goalie is really good," said Odd looking down at the padded figure who was now surrounded by her teammates.

"Yes she's quite talented" Jeremy replied looking up from his laptop to peer across the field at her.

"Whoa! She's pretty!" exclaimed Odd as he watched her take off her helmet and shake her hair out of her eyes. Ulrich chuckled and elbowed Odd in the ribs. Jeremy just blushed a little and went back to typing.

Yumi finally looked up from her book to see who Odd was talking about and said, "oh yeah, she's the new girl in my grade but I only have like 3 classes with her though 'cause I think she takes mostly Advanced Placement classes."

"What's her name?" Odd asked eagerly.

"I don't know she keeps mostly with the field hockey players and her best friend Demi. See look," Yumi replied and pointed back to the field where the girl had just high-fived another girl with straight shoulder-length blonde hair.

"Mm-mm," said Odd lost in his own thoughts as he watched the two walk off the field together.

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'Wow, I'm really getting good at this, I thought as I saved another goal. The final whistle blew and the game was over.'Finally! I'm so tired, but at least we won.'

"Hey Demi, great goal!" I said, as I high-fived my friend.

"Thanks! You did great too," said Demi a little breathless. "Come on, let's get out of here. I need a shower," Demi said as she walked away toward the girl's locker room.

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"Come on Demi, you promised." The brown haired girl said making a puppy face.

"Ok, ok," said Demi hurrying to pick up the boxes and bags filled with the other's stuff. "Man, what do you have in here," she commented lifting a large box.

"I have no idea. I was up late last night stuffing random stuff into boxes. I don't want to have to go back home for anything. My room at my uncle's house is basically empty now." The other squinted at the scribbled label on the box, trying to decipher what lay within.

"You crazy kid, that room is probably three times bigger than your dorm room here is."

Here I'll take it," the brown haired girl said quickly. "Whoa, you're right this is heavy," she said and loaded the final things up on her friend to carry to her dorm. They set off breathing a little heavy from the weight of the numerous boxes and bags they carried.

"I'm so glad we got dorms right next to each other," huffed the brown haired girl.

"Oof, I know, this is so cool," said Demi regaining her balance and fixing a tipping box.

"Oh god, that weird girl…um, Sissy is coming over here, she thinks we're friends or something," the brown haired girl said and quickened her pace. "You go and take my stuff to my room. Okay? I'll go get rid of her."

"'Alright," Demi said and staggered on, towards the domitory.

"Oh hey Serena" Sissy said stopping her fanclub a few feet from Serenity.

"Oh hi… Sissy isn't it? The principles daughter?"

"Yes, that's me. So I've got a proposition for you: since you're new and all, I thought you'd like to hang out with my group for a while."

"No thank you." Serenity declined coldly.

"Are you sure?"

"I'm quite certain. I'd rather drink poison, actually."

The two guys behind Sissy cracked their knuckles and moved forward. Serenity yawned, "well come on then." In two seconds both were on their back wincing having just been flipped. "Thanks gentlemen, this was fun. We should do it again some time," she said picking up her boxes and starting to walk away very fast since she only knew how to flip people. She looked back and saw that Sissy was yelling at the boys looking extremely grumpy.

Bang!

She walked into something solid and her boxes went flying. She lost her balance and fell backwards landing hard. "Ow!" She said this as she looked up to see what she had bumped into. 'Not what but whom.'She thought as she looked at him.

He was wearing purple and had blonde hair with a purple spot in the middle. He looked at her and grinned.

She was wearing white hip hugger jeans and a red corset tube top with an unzipped white hooded jacket that was way too big for her on top. She had tied open toed heels on and a ruby toe ring. Looking at her more carefully he saw that she had a belly button ring in (a red stud), a red cartilage earring and silver hoops on.

He offered her his hand to help her up. She took it and hoisted herself up of the ground onto her feet. "I'm really sorry I bumped into you. Are you ok?" She said, collecting her things.

"Yeah," he said moving to help her. "Who were you running from anyway?

"Oh, that girl, Sissy and her followers. See I just karate flipped those horrible boys that follow her around and they looked kind of angry" She said.

"You flipped Herb and Nicolas?" he said and laughed. "I wish I was there to see that."

Their eyes caught for a moment, then she looked away. "Anyway, I'm really sorry I bumped into you, are you sure you're ok?" She said still looking at the ground.

"Yeah, it was my fault anyway…" he said grinning.

"How could it be your fault, you were just standing there, I bumped into you." She said laughing.

"Ok, it was your fault. I was just trying to make you feel less guilty. Hey, I haven't seen you around here before; you're new aren't you? You guys had a great game today," he said.

"Yup, I'm new. I think it kind of shows. My name's Serenity."

"I'm Odd." He said, taking her hand and shaking it.

"Christ, Demi's gonna kill me." She said glancing at her watch. "See you later Odd," she said. Then picked up her boxes and ran towards her dorm. Demi was waiting for her outside her dorm room, her boxes piled high against the wall.

"Where were you? I didn't have a key."

"Sorry, I lost track of time. I let Sissy down easy, and then I did my karate kung fu on her 'boyfriends'. I was running away because I, as you know, I only know flip people because I failed out of karate but I was looking backwards while I was running to see if they were following me and I ran straight into this guy. He apparently watched our game today and we introduced ourselves but then I remembered you were waiting for me so I left and came here.

"Who was it? A stalker?"

Serenity shrugged. "Maybe. I don't remember seeing him before so if he is a stalker then he's a really sneaky one. Let's go get dinner."

"Can't you give me more information than that? Tell me what he looked like!" Demi begged but Serenity was already out the door.

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The two girls got their food and sat down with their trays in the corner of the lunchroom. "So tell me more "said Demi.

"Mmm" Serenity said her mouth full of food, motioning with her eyes across the room.

"Chew and swallow before you try to talk next time." Demi said then craning her neck to see better. "All of the people at that table look really young. Are you cradle robbing your stalkers these days?"

"Be quiet already."

"You don't need to be so touchy. I'm just kidding." Demi said punching her in the arm.

"Sorry, I'm just a bit tired." Serenity said brushing the bangs out of her eyes.

"That's ok. I know you love me." she continued "so what his name?"

"Odd" Serenity said turning back to her food.

"Sounds exotic."

"You're such a nerd."

After a while their talk turned to field hockey and then school.

"I hate math. We have a test tomorrow and I'm probably going to fail." groaned Serenity.

"It's ok. I'll help you study," said Demi grinning. She knew her friend could do as well as her if she tried at all but she put no effort into school and even less into math.

"Thanks a bunch. We can study in my room. I want you to hear the new demo we finished right before I left. My solo is crap but everybody else did really well" Serenity said brushing her bangs again.

"Ok'" Demi replied. They got up to dump their trays, leaving their bags behind.

"Christ," Demi said she picked up her bag and everything fell out of the unzippered pocket. Serenity knelt to help her but she said," No, you go on ahead."

"Are you sure?" Serenity asked her, picking up her own bag.

"Yeah, go, I'll see you in a couple minutes. I'll meet you in your room." Demi said waving her away.

"Ok."

Demi packed her stuff very slowly on purpose, just as she had spilled her bag on purpose. The thin, proportional, blonde had always had a way with people. I was right. Here he comes,she thought. The purple-spotted boy bid his friends goodbye and walked straight towards her.

That's her friend. I wonder how…he thought.

"So I expect you didn't come over here to sell me something." She said curtly, addressing the topic directly.

"How did you know…"he started.

"Stop" she interrupted. "Just tell me something. Are you a stalker? Serenity's had some trouble with that in the past. If you are just come out and tell me now. Then I won't have to kill you.

"I am definitely not a stalker."

"Great." She smiled then her face turned serious. "If I find out you're lying I'll pull your limbs off your body then dip you in a pool of syringes filled with methamphetamines."

Odd's face was frozen, his eyes wide with surprise and fear.

She smiled, shouldered her bag and walked away, leaving him behind.

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Demi opened the door and was blasted with music. Serenity had duck taped her math book to the wall and was throwing darts at it. "DOES THAT HELP YOU ACE THINGS?" she screamed to be heard over the music. Serenity looked up and grinned, then reached over and turned the volume down.

"Sorry." she said throwing the last dart before continuing. "It doesn't necessarily help, but its good fun." She said getting up and pulling all the darts out. "Wanna try?" she said offering Demi a dart.

"No thanks, I'd love to murder educational text with you but I've got to study." Demi said sitting in a second beanbag chair.

"Ok, but you don't know what you're missing." Serenity said throwing another dart.

After a couple of hours Demi yawned," wow, ok I'm calling it a night."

"Me too, all that studying really took it out of me," said Serenity, flopping onto her bed. Demi just shook her head, gathered her things and left. She dumped her stuff, pulled on her pajamas and was asleep before her head hit the pillow.

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"Serenity are you still asleep?" Demi shouted, pounding on the door.

She heard a groan and a distinctly muffled Serenity say "come back tomorrow."

Demi barged into the room, surprised to find it unlocked, and began shaking Serenity saying, "Come on get up. Also, lock your door when you're sleeping like a normal human being. What if you got stolen? I would totally get blamed for it."

"No Justin I don't want to take the dog out, do it yourself." Serenity said rolling over.

"Come on get up." Demi said shaking harder.

"Ok I'm up, I'm up," said Serenity, throwing Demi off and rolling out of bed. She went over and turned on her music.

"Is this all you're going to listen to the whole year?" asked Demi covering her ears with her hands.

"I'm sorry, I miss those guys."

"Oh, that reminds me, here they sent it to the wrong room." Demi said, handing her a letter:

Dear Serenity and Demi, 'cause she's either reading this out loud to you or you're reading over her shoulder.

We miss you! School here is so boring without you. I hope you guys haven't killed each other yet and that Serenity is still passing math. Holiday's decided she would be a good solo artist and is pushing us all to the limit with her guitar playing into the early morning hours. We're going to get earplugs soon and maybe move out of the suite. Stacy says she's going to hit her over the head with a drum. Hope you're doing well, staying out of trouble, and meeting tons of cute boys. Call us anytime 'cause we're bored out of our minds and write back soon.

Lots of love

Stacy, Diana, and Holiday.

"We have 10 minutes before class starts," Demi commented, looking at her watch.

"Plenty of time." Serenity said, then sat down and wrote a quick response. After about a minute she finished and sealed it into an envelope. "Come on let's go." She said picking up her bag.

Demi followed her out the door, closing it behind them.

On the way to class Serenity dropped the letter into the outgoing mail slot at the student mailroom. Once in class they took their seats right together in the very back corner.

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Ok I hope you enjoyed that. I will update as soon as I get 5 reviews. So review if you want to know what happens. Flames count so do that to if you hate it. The next chapter involves ditching Demi, a cool key chain, and an elf named Luna. Ponder on that for a bit and I'll hopefully see you soon.

Katie

Update (10/24/2010)

Dear readers,

I'm going through and editing the earlier chapters of this story for your convenience and mine. I started this story when I was still in middle school and as a current college student some of it makes me cringe and want to die in a hole. You don't have to reread everything; hopefully nothing will be too drastically changed. I just wanted to let everyone know that this is what's going on.

-Katie