Hey, look, it's the second chapter! Hope you like it!
Chapter Two
Ulrich sat in the classroom, looking longingly outside. Aelita and Odd were at the front of the class, as Jeremie was busy doing something with his laptop in the back, as per usual. The rest of the class was deserted, as it was lunchtime.
'MR. STERN! PAY ATTENTION!' Odd screeched in such a good imitation of Ms. Hertz that Ulrich nearly fell out of his seat in shock. He glared at Aelita and Odd, who were now laughing hysterically.
'Are you going to laugh all day or are we actually going to get something done?' he grumbled.
Odd and Aelita immediately grew mock-serious, but soon subsided into chuckles again.
'Remind me why I'm here again?' Ulrich groaned.
'Because, my lovesick friend, we are here to help you ask Yumi out!' Odd replied merrily.
'Listen, I don't need your help! I'm only here because of that stupid tape!' Ulrich retorted angrily. Odd and Aelita looked taken aback as Jeremie continued tapping away at his laptop.
Ulrich softened at the crestfallen looks on his friends' (minus Jeremie's) faces.
'Oh, all right… But don't make me do anything completely insane, OK?' he grumbled.
'Done! But we've wasted enough time already. I'll hand it over to Aelita.' Odd beamed.
'Look, we really want to help you, Ulrich! Yumi is as in love with you as you are with her.' As she spoke, she drew diagrams on the board to emphasise. 'You two could have a great relationship and… well… let's say we're here to speed things up a bit.'
'Yeah, with the way Ulrich is doing, it'll take all year just to muster up the courage!' Odd quipped. Ulrich shot him a death glare and Odd quailed.
Ulrich began listing all the things that could go wrong, but Aelita cut him off.
'Listen, d'you want this relationship or not?' she asked curtly. Ulrich, surprised at being cut off so suddenly, nodded uncertainly. 'Well then.'
Odd continued. 'Well, what we think is that you shouldn't just pop up and tell her you love h-'
'Well then why am I here?' Ulrich interrupted.
'Let me finish!' Odd glared indignantly at Ulrich. 'As I was saying, we want you to do something special. Not just the same old "Hey Yumi, I love you, wanna go out with me?"'
'But I wouldn't say it like that!' Ulrich protested.
'Interrupting again!' said Odd in a sing-song voice. Ulrich shot him another death glare. 'So we were thinking we would help you think of some original ways of telling h-'
'You know what? Forget this, I'm out of here!' Ulrich stood up and walked out the door.
'Well, I did tell you that would happen…' Jeremie said his first sentence in a long time, finally looking up.
'Don't worry. He'll be back…' Odd said confidently.
And, true to Odd's prediction, he did come back the next day.
At breakfast, before Yumi arrived, Ulrich voiced his thoughts.
'Look, I'm sorry I was like that yesterday. Um… could you… well-'
'Sure we'll help you, old buddy!' Odd clapped him on the back. 'Meet us same place same time today!' as the bell rang. Odd, Aelita and Jeremie left leaving Ulrich shaking his head in wonder.
'And he tells me not to interrupt.'
Near the start of lunch, Ulrich entered the classroom. Aelita and Odd were there, Jeremie was in his dorm.
'Now, you'd better not walk out this time! That's two lunches I've had to miss on your account!' Odd warned.
'Yes, and you know how dear food is to Odd's heart!' Aelita added.
Ulrich glared at them both and sat down heavily.
'You have got to stop glaring like that. Bad for your eyes, you know.' Odd helpfully commented. Aelita nudged him in the ribs.
'Get on with it!'
After much discussion, Odd and Aelita had finally convinced Ulrich on a way to admit his feelings.
'So, here's what we do...'
11.30 that night…
All was peaceful at Kadic Junior High. The only lights came from the dim ones in the corridor. Jim strolled down the boys' dormitory corridor on his nightly patrol.
He paused at Della Robbia's room, suspicious as he and his roommate had been caught breaking the rules more than once. His hand hovered above the doorhandle…
'AIEEEE!' A terrified scream rent the air, again and again, echoing eerily down the corridor. Jim dashed to the girl's corridor, where the sound was emanating.
Sleepy Kadic students poked their heads out of their doorways, wondering what the commotion was about.
'All right everyone, get back to bed!' Jim bellowed in his gruff voice as he rushed past. However, as most people are apt to do in these situations, they would not 'go back to bed' and followed eagerly.
Jim paused at Sissi's room. This was where, he guessed, the wails were coming from. Another ear-splitting screech from behind the door soon confirmed it as everyone in the immediate vicinity winced.
Jim put his hand on the doorhandle and braced himself. He swung open the door to find Sissi Delmas, hair dyed a hideous green and spiked, face ridiculously made up, and to top it all off, she was covered in a substance that gave off a strong odour of rotting eggs.
'Well, DON'T JUST STAND THERE!' she shrieked. Everyone winced again.
'Mind explaining, Miss Delmas?' said Jim dryly. Behind him, a camera flashed and quite a few people were giggling.
'Well, I was just having my beauty sleep when I was covered in this… this… stuff,' she said, gesturing at the rotten-egg mixture. 'That woke me up. I went to look in the mirror and…' Sissi screwed up her eyes, took a deep breath and screeched her loudest. She almost went supersonic.
Jim clapped his hands to his ears and only then appeared to notice the crowd of people behind him.
'GET BACK TO BED!' he roared. But nobody could hear him over Sissi's wails.
Hmm… what's Ulrich going to do?
Looking back on it, this story actually is pretty bad. I seriously won't be surprised if you don't like it. Sorry to put you through this, hopefully my next attempts will have more success!
