Chapter 26

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Wrong Exposure

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Abandon Home

"Are you sure we will fins something in my father's house? We're already cut everything that seemed important?" Aelita asks Jeremy walking over to a house.

"We left everything behind we thought was useless and that was our mistake. We did find Mr. Puck." Jeremy replied.

"Just as I thought you're really desperate." Aelita said.

"No it's just I don't want to leave anything to chance when it comes to fighting Xana." Jeremy said.

Jeremy and Aelita enter the house.

"Well where do we start?"

"Try the living room. I'll look in the study." Jeremy replied.

Jeremy walks into the study, as Aelita walked into the living room.

Aelita gets a flashback of the living room, then she goes through one of the boxes and finds a photo of her and her father when she was little.

"Aelita have you found anything yet?" Jeremy asks.

"Yeah my former life."

"What is it."

"Just a picture of me and my father."

"You and your father? That's so cool that you found it. Can I see it?"

Aelita hands Jeremy the photo.

"You look so happy."

"I was, it must of been one of the last pictures taken-"

"What's that behind your father? Bingo those are formulas. I can read some of them. It's a rough draft of a programming code, we have to blow up this photo."

"Hang on-"

"Its a great challenge, besides you said I was desperate right, so what have we got to lose."

A few minutes later

Kadic

Jeremy types on his keyboard in his room.

"I was right. It is a program." Jeremy cheered.

Odd plays with his fork scraping up food.

"Odd you only took two rounds of seconds. Are you sick?" Yumi asks him.

"No, I'm okay."

"Is this about a girl by any chance?" Ulrich asks.

Odd turns away from them looking at a girl at a different table.

"Incredible I can't get her to notice me whatever I do."

"You could try growing a few inches." Ulrich smirked.

"Wanna try wearing today's lunch."

"Oh, here comes Aelita." Yumi said.

Aelita walks over to their table with her lunch.

"So is Jeremy still at the hermitage?" Yumi asks.

"He's in his room. He's not hungry."

"I guess that means you struck something there." Ulrich said.

"I have no idea. He thinks there may be something useful in a old picture we found."

"A picture. Now why didn't I think of that before." Odd said.

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