Hey there!

This is my first Fan Fiction. Soon, I'll be making another one and (maybe) a third one. Sorry, but no spoilers to anyone! ;-)

Anyway, let's continue:

disclaimer: I don't own Code Lyoko (drat!)

Note: this story might contain some swear words. (MIGHT).


-Deadly Lovesick-

I stood staring at them, not moving a muscle; he was telling her something and then they started laughing. Part of me hoped he wasn't talking about me: the last thing I wanted him to do was laughing about me with his…girlfriend? Acquaintance? Friend? Love of his life?

Whatever: I was his best friend; I can cope with whatever girl he's hanging out with. At least, that's what I told my other friends earlier at lunch:

F.

"Did you hear the new gossip?" Odd had asked me, as I moved the chair of the seat in front of him with my feet and noisily slammed the tray on the table before sitting down.

"Are you alright?" Aelita asked me. I nodded.

"Just figured out I made a stupid mistake on my history test" I explained, visibly a little frustrated. (I'm still pondering over that stupid obvious mistake which will surely be the cause of my B+ Later on. Humph)

Odd ignored my last lesson update, finished gulping his last mouthful (knowing his eating habits, I guessed by that sign that whatever he wanted to say was deadly important…at least for him) and lowered his voice: "Rumor is that HE's going out with the new girl from California! That's why he's never around when we need him!".

"Who's HE?" I asked, distractedly, picking at my salmon.

"You know who I mean: your lover boy"

Both mine and Aelita's fork dropped simultaneously from our hands. For a moment, I felt a hard lump in my throat; but it wore off after three seconds and a half.

"Seriously?" Aelita stared, her eyes wide as plates as her hand cleaned her fork from the cheesecake its handle had dropped on.

"Gossip doesn't lie" Odd smirked.

That was his latest proverb and for some reason it annoyed me more than all those he made about Ulrich and me.

"It does sometimes" I told him, still thinking about that piece of news I just heard.

"Sometimes it does" he said. "But we all know that 80% of non-supernatural rumors are true here at Kadic; I've got proof".

Then he leaned closer to me and whispered, smirking: "So, what are you experiencing?".

"What should I experience?" I asked, my eyes concentrating on the salmon plate. "He's a friend to me; that's it; how many times to we have to tell you three?" I glanced from the corner of my eye at the empty seat on Odd's left: Jeremy wasn't there. I wondered where he was for a minute or two, then figured out he was probably in his room, doing homework or something, since X.A.N.A. is long gone now.

Still, it was weird he wasn't here; maybe he missed the days he had a valuable excuse to not have lunch.

"And, anyway" I said, staring at Odd with fiery eyes. "I'm fine with whoever he hangs out with. IS THAT CLEAR?".

Those last words surprised me: why did I even yell in the first place? Maybe it was the fact that Odd kept sustaining that the whole "just friends and that's it" concept I had with Ulrich months ago was a lie. Why did everybody keep saying that? Was it so evident that…

I mentally shook my head as a self-answer and picked up the tray: I wasn't hungry anymore.

As I walked towards the garbage can, Ulrich walked by holding hands with the new girl. She was smiling and had a look in her eyes…that look was in his eyes, too…

As I threw my tray as deep as I could in the garbage can, I felt as though I was about to scream or grab a pistol and murder everyone which came in two feet near me; I felt as though I could've dumped the garbage can on his and his new friend's head…Instead, I ignored the two and walked away.

Later that day, Odd had sent me a text as soon as class finished: "Park bench ASAP. U-know-who's with "date"".

I walked to the bench, unsure if I wanted to follow them. Aelita met me there, with the guys; Odd pointed at the "couple-to-be" (we all believed they weren't actually dating...for now) with wide eyes.

Since that minute, it was all "mission: impossible" as me and my friends started to follow our best friend and his new pal around the school.

F.

"So, how's it going?" Aelita asks me, bringing me back to the present. We are now behind a big tree in the school yard, near the Administration Building, and Jeremy and Odd are watching us from a bench not too far away. Aelita's fiddling with her phone, probably texting Jeremy about something (or the "mission" progress).

As I said before, I'm staring at Ulrich and the girl, hidden behind the tree, but I've noticed that I'm not really good at hiding that much: for the last five minutes, guys passing near Ulrich pin-pointed me staring to him and it was thanks to my lucky star that I managed to disappear behind the tree every time it happened before he could see me.

"Can't hear them" I whisper in response. "But they're laughing about some…" I stop in mid-sentence, eyes locked on target: is it me or are they holding hands and staring weirdly in front of each other?

I see him say something to her, and my stomach jumps; it's a nasty jump, a "something-REALLY-bad's-going-to-happen" jump, not like that time when...ehm, never mind.

ANYWAY...

I hear Aelita sneak next to me to see what's going on; but that's all I hear, before I see them leaning closer…In my shock, I get away from the tree and walked away from it, eyes still looking at the Scene and hear the whole world silencing. I feel different, like never before; I feel angry, scared, sad, dead, furious, completely speechless…

I hear Aelita' distant voice as she tries to bring me back to life, but the words come muffled to my ears...

I hear my heart beating like a drum...a misfortune drum...

I hold my hands in two fists, my eyes unable to look any other direction besides in front of me and my whole body petrified...

I think Jeremy and Odd said something mean about him. No surprise: he had never told us, not even me, about his new friend…if I can now still call her that way.

I could hear jealousy creeping in me like a serpent, and the whole world disappear from my sight, leaving a big black hole where it was.

What is he thinking? Are they…They aren't…

I stare, relieved, as they stop, the anger dies down and I take a deep breath to calm down, and relax…but it doesn't last long…I see him slowly brush her cheek…

Oh, dear God! My inner voice exclaimed Don't tell me…He's not…

Two seconds, and the black hole which has replaced the courtyard crashes to smithereens before me. A sharp pain hit my heart in a way I could've never imagined, while everything that I could see became blurrier and blurrier…

I dropped to the ground on my knees, staring at the ground, wishing that this is all a bad dream and that when I wake up nothing would've happen…But everything remained as it was, that image burn in my brain for who knows how long. A day? A week? A year? I feel weak at the thought.

I want to die! I scream in my head, small tears running down my cheeks I want him or me to die! I don't want to ever see him again! That pain…it's too much…I hold a hand over my heart: I was worried I'd get a heart attack or something, but the pain stopped suddenly, reminding me that I forgot to breath. I took three long deep breaths, hoping my body won't suffer for the few seconds of oxygen loss before.

Suddenly, I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and I see Aelita, her sad, green eyes looking at me as though I was a lost puppy; she helps me on my feet. Then she looks at me for a few seconds and pulls me in a choking hug.

That was when the real, big tears came.

I cried quietly, thanking my lucky star no one but these people I've mentioned are close by: the last thing I want to deal with is a crowd of curious students, asking me what the heck had happened and laughing at yours truly, the "goth-like" girl crying like a baby on her friend's arms.

"Some friend! How could he?" I faintly hear Jeremy say.

"I'm ashamed of him: giving up like that without even trying" agreed Odd. "He's such a stupid jerk; and to think that I "live" with him…".

The tears in my eyes continue to flow, with no sign of stopping, while Aelita give me a few pats on the back, sadly unable to comfort me, since she's never had this problem before.

Before she "released" me, I hear her say a few words with a pint of venom in her voice, addressed to either herself or me. The words made me feel sadder than before:

"I can't believe he did this to you and to us! We knew that..."

She whispered other words which I wasn't able to hear.

After a few minutes of my friends trying desperately to cheer me up, I set off home, my heart (I sadly realized) probably broken.

When I shut the door of my room, (which was as a clear "I'm not in the mood for dinner" sign to my parents) I throw the bag on the floor and jump on the bed, staring at the ceiling and reaching for my MP3 player.

There's no reason to deny, no reason to cry,

I broke your heart like you broke mine.

I slide my hand through the little, searching for a less sad song, but my lucky star had abandoned me, because the cheerful playlists refused to…well...play.

"Damnit!" I say to myself, and turn the darn thing off to get some sleep and forget everything.

But I can't sleep. My mind is full of dark thoughts, my eyes still want to cry and the pain Still bothers me a little.

I call Aelita: the phone rings and rings like mad, then it turns to voice-mail. I sigh and look at the names of the other contacts, wondering who to call at (*look at the clock*) 10:30 pm. I wince as I see Ulrich's name among them.

The phone shuts off when I was about to dial a number: damn battery!

I plug it in, stared at it and waited…for what? A call? A miracle? The sound of the alarm clock assuring me it's all a dream?

I climb back to bed and put my hand under the pillow, fishing for my diary. I find it, I open it and I write these words:

My nightmare became true: Ulrich is officially together with some birch wood table

(AN: I do not own the "birch wood table" expression. I thank the person who introduced it to me with a big smile :-D if you don't get what the heck it means, concentrate on "birch" and put a t...).

Nothing can go worse than what I saw: they laughed, held hands and kissed in front of me, basically forming into a couple with me as a witness…And to think that sometimes I always hoped that…oh, never mind.

I still can't believe it: Ulrich Stern, you have broken your first heart. And Odd was more merciful than you are his first time. You know why? Because YOU, my dear "friend", have broken the last heart you'd EVER want to shred: your best friend Yumi's heart.

Ulrich, you really hurt me today. You don't even know how much you did, too.

Little did Yumi know that she didn't know either how much the pain will effect her.


Ok, this is the end…of the first chappie. If I can figure out how this thing works, I might be able to figure out how to put a new chappie. Stay tuned!

SCL