In the Middle

Chapter two: Odd beginnings.

Yumi looked at her watch again and for about the fifth time and sighed. 7:14 Didn't her mother say to be there at the air port at 6:30? And her mother was worried about her being late. Ulrich agreed to stay until her parents arrived and currently he was dozing off. She would too if she didn't have to look out for her parents. A fly buzzed around a magazine that she had left open on the empty seat next to her. It was crawling over some pop star's lips.

It's probably kissing it. Okay...obviously I'm bored...

It was only a few minutes before she heard Ulrich snore, though it was barely audible. Other wise she'd smack him though that would likely be Odd than Ulrich. She never knew if he snored or loudly for that matter. Yumi sighed and folded her hands on her lap; she scanned the crowd again for her parents and found nothing yet. She wished she had her phone, but of course it was packed in the suitcase of her parent's car. She only brought the clothes on her back and her school bag.

Wait a second! Ulrich has a cell phone, in his pocket. She didn't want to wake him up and if she out right grabbed it out of his pants, the situation to other people wouldn't what you would call appropriate.

"Oh whatever!" She looked at him for a minute. "Ulrich! I'm eloping with William! Stop me!" Yumi received strange looks from an elderly couple across from them.

Ulrich opened one eye and sniffed. "How can I stop...wait, your joking aren't you?"

"Yes you idiot, out of all people why would I elope with him? I'd rather marry Kiwi. Anyway, I need to borrow your cell phone! ASAP."

"Your parents still haven't come yet?" He asked while digging into his pocket. He raised his eyebrows in surprise that it wasn't there. He checked into his other pocket.

"Well on top of my marriage, they've been fighting a lot too. But about silly things, they fought over whether fuchsia was pink or purple and it went a little farther than verbal, if you know what I mean..."

"My dad and I fought over if the time was four or five and he sent me to my room. Those stupid grandfather clocks that like to go two minutes fast...gah! I can't find it! I must have left in my dorm. Though I do have some change for the pay phone..."

"Thanks but since the flight delays were announced people have been killing each other for the phones. And I really don't feel like going to the other end of the airport, because A. they might be crowded with lines B. my parent's might come while I'm gone and C. I have no idea."

"Lucky people aren't we?" Ulrich muttered. Yumi smiled, a apart of her was angry about her parents being late and the other part of her was actually really glad, maybe this moment she could talk things out a little more with Ulrich. She looked over at him. His face was in the opposite direction and most plausibly his facial expression said "Bother me and die"

"You don't want to do this do you?" He said softly turning to her. Yumi raised an eyebrow.

"What? Oh... Um, I don't know. All this time I've been putting up a happy face and now reality finally hit me with its powerful bricks."

"Same here, but you're a whole lot better hiding your feelings."

"Well no-"

"Why didn't you tell us what happened Yumi? How can you hide this from your best friends, we thought you were committing suicide or something and Ulrich was helping!" A voice yelled a few feet way. The elderly couple from before squirmed in their seats.

"Odd?" Yumi questioned. Maybe not just Odd, all of her friends and the new girl that was at the lunch table, Jeremy wasn't there but right now she didn't care. "What? Why...how?"

"We were asking the same question. And Ulrich how could you-"

"I thought you said you wouldn't tell!" Yumi pointed at Ulrich accusingly, he shrugged trying to get a word out but Yumi kept on speaking.

"Don't yell at him, we heard rumors about "Yumi eloping with Ulrich and they're flying to Japan."" Aelita threw in. "Of course we knew you liked each other but we knew you wouldn't go that far."

Odd cut in this time. "And as an added bonus, William started that rumor. Sissy stretched it, Emily blew it up by saying you were pregnant so that's why you ran off crying 'cause of over-active hormones and wait a minute, I never knew Emily was that evil...oh hey!" He cocked his head. "Ulrich, why didn't you tell us? I mean really, don't you trust your best buddy?" Ulrich at this point didn't say a word so Yumi filled in.

"I told him not too..."

"Ah-hah. So what's really going on?" Odd asked. "I just have to tell you, you should have seen the look on Jim's face when he heard the rumor that you were pregnant." Aelita glared at him.

Yumi sighed. "My mother is making me marry some guy in Japan. Short and simple. Kay?" Yumi glanced at Ulrich (who still wasn't uttering a word), he was visibly shrinking for an unknown reason. Then she looked at her friends whose expressions were shocked. Or maybe shocked was an understatement. Clor chewed her lip and glanced around like she wasn't there.

"However, this is a bright side too this, I'm not going to go to Kadiac any longer so my reputation can be ruined as much as it wants. BUT...there is your people's reputation to deal with. Especially Ulrich's, in curiosity who did Emily say was the father of my non-existent pregnancy?"

"That's another thing, Heidi. I never knew she was evil either but she said it was either William, Ulrich and get this, Hervé!"

"WHAT?" Ulrich blurted out. "Okay 1. Hervé? Like anyone believes that. 2. I'm thinking of stealing someone's plane ticket and hopping a plane with Yumi, there is no way I can go to the school now. 3. If that rumor gets out of Kadiac's doors, the school's reputation is shattered and some people most likely my father might take us out of the school." Ulrich stood up and deathly glared at a plane outside. The plane would have melted if looks could kill.

Clor walked up from behind Odd. "Well alright, let's all pick our poison. Go back to school and have our lives damaged forever or we hop a plane with Yumi too Japan and have our folks look down upon us OR die. Good gravy this reminds me of that time my Aunt Harriet's cat fell in cow...waste. It smells, it's disgusting and the cat wailed incessantly. So annoying." Everyone looked at her weirdly. "What?"

"Nothing Clor, so...um...yeah." Odd scratched the back of his head. "What now?"

"Die." Ulrich said and fell back in his chair.

Well here's the second chapter. I know it's small but it's 1:40 AM and my parents are gone because a neighbor went to the hospital and I had nothing better too do.

Review please!