Well hello there dear people, I don't know if you get a notification when I changed a chapter or not, if not then I guess we'll have to wait until I've updated this, but if you do the awesome :D basically, I decided to rewrite this, I couldn't bear to read it anymore, it's so bad ;-; It's not entirely rewrite everything, more just going over what I've already written and changing words/sentecens hopefully making characters more in character and to put it simply, extreme beta reading xD
I suppose all I can say is enjoy and keep reading to see the rest of the chapters become readable.
A bad start is only just the beginning.
Chapter 1
(Ulrich's POV)
I laid on my bed, my pillow moulded into my face in an attempt to block out Odd's blaring MP3 player; which he seemed to increase in volume whenever I shouted at him. Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that Yumi was coming back today I wouldn't have bothered waking up. I mean there's Odd; I've got three tests which I will inevitably fail; Jeremy thinks that a certain someone might attack soon and to top it all off, according to Jer, Mr I-can-deffeat-the-scyphovoa(William) is getting stronger.
"I hate him so much," I whispered to myself, my hands crushing the pillow above my head in anger, if I could see them I bet my knuckles would've turned white from the intensity of the force which I was gripping the soft object with. Then I soon realised that the music had stopped and Odd had just heard me say that. Great.
"Hate who?" he asked me, head cocked to the side in confusion...why couldn't you just keep listening to your music Odd?
"Errr…" I paused, I couldn't say it was William, there was no way, I knew that if I did Odd would just say it was because I liked Yumi, which although was true I'd never admit it, at least not yet, "…XANA, I mean Yumi's coming back today, and it wouldn't be fair if he attacked us."
"Ulrich, old buddy," Odd said putting his headphones back on, " XANA isn't fair we just gotta deal with it and kick his and Williams asses when they attack," and with that said, music started screaming out of the headphones again, I swear it's a miracle that Odd isn't deaf yet. Seriously.
I knew that I wasn't going to be hearing anything from Odd save for his his terrible singing for the next half hour, so I decided to make use of my time and rescue by ears by taking a shower and maybe brushing up on some math for the test later. I walked down to the shower room shower gel in hand and the towel over my shoulder, only to find a line longer than the girls on a day Sissy decides to be 'extra careful' putting her make-up on; well at least that's what Aelita's told me. Could this day get any worse? I take back what I said earlier; maybe I shouldn't have bothered waking up.
After about 10 minutes of waiting, which involved reading over the back of the shower gel bottle multiple times and straining my hearing to see if I could hear Odd down the hall; I finally got to go in the shower. As I turned it on a sigh of relief left my lips as the warm water cascaded down me, I'd half expected the water to be cold, so it felt good for at least one thing to go right so far today and with Yumi coming back, I think the rest of today is going to prett good.
When I got back to my room, after a shower that probably lasted far longer than it should have, I looked at the time and saw that I still had 20 minutes until breakfast and that Odd was still listening to his MP3 player, and so I went up to him snatched the headphones from his head and ordered him to go take a shower.
I sighed, with Odd gone I'd have some peace and quiet. Deciding that it would be best to try and prevent another failure of a test, I sat down on my bed, opened the nearest text book, which happened to cover math and started reading, my eyes darting back and forth as I read about various things that made my head hurt just thinking about it.
A while later, Odd had come back, hair magically dry and up in its trade mark point and we decided it was time to go to breakfast...well Odd decided, I was just dragged from my bed, but I managed to grab the text book so I could at least read over it, if it didn't get covered in Odd's food whilst he ate that is.
