After reading a section from XANA's lair about Aelita x Ulrich, I was inspired by one of the ideas mention of how Ulrich and Aelita might end up getting feelings for each other if Ulrich was the first one to find the supercomputer instead of Jeremie.
For the very first time, Ulrich Stern completely hates his life in the boarding school known as Kadic Adacemy.
At first, the young aspiring martial artist and soccer player thought that living in a school will be all right because it means he will not see the disapproving look on his father's face every day of the week.
His father is essentially the male version of a tiger mother and like one, Alexander Stern pushes his son to be successful academically, even going as far as to homeschooling Ulrich by hiring brilliant tutors when Ulrich was still young before thinking that sending him to a boarding school is a better idea. Ulrich's relationship with his father is a strained one, the two rarely speak to each other in conversations that are outside of academics. Ulrich finds solace to the fact that his father was never physically abusive.
His mother was never around the house since she is a busy fashion designer, actress, and model. Unlike his father, Cheryl Stern is a loving mother and always tells her son that his father is proud of him. Ulrich loves his mom a lot like any son to his mother, but he finds spending time with her to be embarrassing since she has him model clothes for her on several occasions and she even had rehearse him several scenes from famous plays.
Other than the 24/7 lessons from his tutors, life back home was bearable. Since his father is a successful businessman, Ulrich has lived a luxurious life such as eating food prepared by the family's personal chef, sleep in a queen's sized bed, and even watch shows in a large, high definition, flat screen TV. His father even lets him take martial arts lessons, which is one of the things that Ulrich was happy about since he could impressed his father and fighting is one of his passion other than sports.
His first year in Kadic, which is in the 7th grade, was rough, but not by much since he had to get used to a new schedule since Kadic is the first school he has ever attended. Even so, it was manageable since he did not have to worry about going to school late since he lives there and only needs to worry about waking up on time which is also not a problem since his father got him a rather annoying alarm clock.
He gets his own dorm room which he can decorate anyway he likes as long there is nothing that goes against the school's policy. In his old room back home, all he had in his walls were poster regarding academics such mathematics, science, litertature, etc. When Ulrich was finally given his dorm room, he proudly hung up a martial parts poster that he always wanted to do back home.
In just a month into his first year in Kadic, he ended up getting a roommate named William Dunbar, who is a grade above him and older by a year. Ulrich could tell by the clothes, that William wears, that his roommate is a trouble maker. He was right on that assumption since his roommate gets into trouble a lot from riding his skateboard every where on campus to harassing the female student body. William defends himself on the latter by always stating that they were just talking.
Ulrich and William actually got a long after a week of getting to know each other. The younger boy respects William for his martial arts skills and vice-versa; the other students would always see them sparing in the gymnasium. Even though the older teen is not that big in school, he sometimes tutor Ulrich on some subjects since he already learned them and even taught him how to ride on a skateboard.
To Ulrich, William was like the older brother he never had which is why he was sad to see him go. James Dunbar, William's father, decided to pull him out of Kadic Academy to study somewhere else abroad after his son only attended Kadic for six months. After they received the news, the two boys decided to make William's last day in Kadic to be worth it by pulling off a prank.
Since William was never in any of the teachers' favorite list, they were all happy to use him leave. Other than respecting William for being an athlete, Jim, the school's Physical Education teacher, really hated him due to all the trouble he has caused. The PE teacher hated seeing the raven haired teen skateboard around campus and all the ruckus he caused, but what really made his blood boil was finding William's graffiti of him, which depicts the PE teacher in a clown suit with a message saying, "William was here."
Jim went ballistic and demanded William to clean up his prank, but the dark teen was excused from the punishment since he was already long gone by the time Jim went looking for him. Luckily Ulrich was also not punished since there was no evidence that he was part of it other than being a roommate of the crook who did the act, which is not enough.
After William left, Ulrich got depressed for losing his surrogate brother and only friend in school. He became a recluse soon after and devoted most of his time studying and perfecting his martial arts skills, but mostly the latter. All of the students and staff noticed this, but mostly the female student body. Ulrich was already famous among the opposite sex due to his looks and athleticism, but his loner personality made him even more desirable; especially the school principle's own daughter, Elisabeth Delmas, who preferred going by the name Sissi around school.
Sissi is a rather beautiful girl, but that is all that is appealing about her, her looks. On the outside, she is cute, but in the inside is a very annoying brat who thinks she is better than any one on campus all because she is the principle's daughter. She annoys Ulrich on a daily since they go to the same school and have the same classes together. Ulrich has no doubt on his mind that Sissi will persuade her father to have her have the same classes as Ulrich in the future.
When William was still around, he helped Ulrich evade Sissi by making up excuses or when Ulrich is in a tight spot with the principle's daughter. He even looks out for Sissi so he could warn Ulrich to leave the area immediately before she could even make it. Now Ulrich had to spend the rest of his life in Kadic Academy to avoid her without aid. Every time she asks him out on a date, she does not take a no for an answer, so when he "stood her up", she would complain the next day and the cycle starts over again. What a pain.
He barely managed to survive before his first summer vacation started, which he was so ready for because it meant a long vacation from Kadic and Sissi. When he got back home, it was just the same as before: being taught by tutors, living in an empty house without seeing his parents much save for during breakfast and dinner, and getting disapproving looks from his father since his grades are still not up to his expectations.
When summer ended, Ulrich went back to Kadic to attend the 8th grade. Like before, he was pestered by Sissi 24/7 and being back at Kadic reminded him how much he missed his surrogate brother. Also like before, a month into the school year, he ended up getting another roommate, a blonde haired boy who is in the same grade as him.
There was a lot of things that Ulrich hated about his new roommate, Odd Della Robbia. For one, he is no William Dunbar. Also, his current roommate assumed he is dating Sissi, which greatly annoyed him. And then there is Kiwi, his roommate's dog.
Ulrich was both surprised and furious when he found out that Odd brought his pet with him because no animals are allowed on campus and that Kiwi ruined all of his stuff while Odd just lied down on his own bed while it was all happening. Ulrich had half a mind to tell the principle, but he did not after he threatened Odd, but he never did.
He is not a snitch. William taught him that.
His father still think he is a failure.
Sissi is never getting off his back.
William is gone, so there is no fun.
And now he was to share a room with a dimwit and his dog.
Ulrich really his own life right now.