~Flashback ~

After the bell rang, Yumi and William went to their usual spot where they would meet up with the gang, Yumi gracefully walked up to her group of best friends who she had known for five years now, She had a single piece of paper in her hand, she was unzipping her bag to put it away while William had bragged about how great of a score the dark haired girl got. Yumi stood shyly, she didn't think of it as a big deal.

Odd couldn't believe this and snatched it quickly before she even had the chance to slip it inside, he held it away from her as she tried desperately to get it away from Odd, She knew he was going to read it and she didn't want that. He held it in his hand and coughed getting ready to read the writing. "Let's read this baby and see how great it is." Odd chimes.

"Odd, Don't do that." Yumi replies she had continued to reachout for the paper that he held in his small hands but he moved away and moved it out of her grasp still and so he began reading it and there was nothing Yumi could do at this point.

Yumi couldn't help to glance over at Ulrich who knew even though Ishe had used anonymous names, he still knew it was about him, the look on his face broke Yumi's heart. Odd eyed the group of friends and stopped when the others had given him the signal, he gave it back to her but it was too late, the damage was done. Ulrich was upset. He even bailed on going to Lyoko, he had told me that it would be best if the two of us didn't see each other and stormed off.

~End of Flashback~

Yumi quicklywondered around Kadic in search for Ulrich Stern, who never showed to Lyoko after he heard the little of her short story that had called him unreliable and immature and only cared about himself. Yumi knew deep down it was wrong to write about him like that, but at the time she was was pissed with him, he had stood her up when she had asked for his help for something important to her. Thinking of Ulrich on Lyoko, Yumi couldn't focus on the mission so she surrendered to the monster getting herself killed. He was so stubborn he didn't see the good he only saw the negative things.

The determinded girl came across someone in the quad, A girl, Yumi walked up asked her if she had seen him, she had directed Yumi to his room he shared with Odd Della Robia. Yumi thanked her and stormed off to his dorm and knocked on his door softly.

Yumi waited leaning against the wall glancing at the names written in cursive on the door in black sharpie, she sighed fustrated and sad at the situation, Yumi already knew he wasn't going to answer the door.

"Stubborn..." Yumi whispered to herself.

"Ulrich, It's me, Yumi...You can be mad at me all you want but you can't take it out on our friends, they need you in Lyoko, It's not right to stand them up...Listen, It was only a stupid story, yes you may be childish and immature but that is at times...I was wrong to say you don't care about others, you do...You know no idea what I think about you, You never even saw the positive things I had wrote..." Yumi said through the door before walking away.

Ulrich sat on his bed after hearing the door, he slowly got up and stood leaning against the door, he didn't want to talk to anyone. The brown haired boy placed his ear against the cool door hearing Yumi speak, she was right about everything, I shouldn't have taken it to heart but it was hard hearing those things when it came from the girl you love. Thinking it through, Ulrich sighed and opened the door shutting it behind him and ran after Yumi.

Slowing his pace as he reached the forest, he stepped on a couple twigs but he didn't care. Ulrich found her in the forest where she walked towards the entrance to the factory, she was fed up with him and he knew it, he just hoped she would forgive him for being so stupid to throw away their friendship and everything they've been through.

Ulrich caught up to her pulling her back, she looked up at him, her dark brown eyes glossy, she had been crying.

"Yumi..." Ulrich said softly.

Yumi stood there facing him, her arms crossed over her chest. She left the dorms after figuring Ulrich wasn't going to budge, she cried all the way here. Yumi hated seeing him so hurt, She felt bad that he had to hear the things in that stupid paper especially from the loud mouth Odd.

"Ulrich, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings but it was just a story...And I guess instead of writing it and sharing it to a bunch of people in a classroom I should have come to you...I just don't understand how you could just say that you don't want to see me anymore, Do you really think that would have been the best for us both to destroy our friendship over some shitty paper...Could you really live your life without me?" Yumi asked, she felt herself tear up, all that was on her mind was the fact Ulrich never wanted to see her again, it tore at her. She couldn't believe he wanted her out of his life after everything they've been through. Yumi wiped the tears that fell with the sleeves of her black sleeve.

"Yumi, I'm the one who's sorry...I should have shown up this morning to help you, I don't know why I didn't...I shouldn't have acted the way I did, yes that paper hurt but it also opened my eyes to change myself. Yumi...your my best friend, I could never live without you, your my whole world." Ulrich said.

Yumi's heart sank a little when he added 'my best friend' she was happy but at the same time she was sad, she kind of wanted him to forget that, she knows she had kept telling him the 'I just want to be friends.' speech. But after they had shut the supercomputer down the first time, her feelings changed. Yumi kept it to herself.

They looked into each other's eyes silently as they stayed close together frozen in place.

Ulrich knew he would have ended my speech differently with an 'I love you' but he didn't want to make things awkward between them, Ulrich had to stop himself after he had remembered Yumi wanted to be just friends, Ulrich was stuck with the fact that he didn't want to be just friends because he was completely in love with her, he has since the first time they met back in the gym when they were partners for their fighting activites. Now he wanted to respected her wishes. They stood looking into each other's eyes silently lost in the moment, oh how Ulrich wanted to lean in to kiss her, he was close to getting the courage to do so but her phone rang.

She walked a couple steps away. Ulrich assumed it was Jeremy Belquia calling to ask where he was, He was left with his heart raced thinking how he was partically thankful for the interruption, from doing something stupid yet but all and all he wished to have kissed her.

Yumi turned to him. "We have to go, A ninja's attack the skid." She said and soon they were off to the factory.