Ulrick's POV:
"So, have you guys decided whether or not I get to go back to Lyoko?" Willem whispered to me. Thanks to the sword fight he started, we were both stuck in the library for the next several hours.
"Not yet." I said.
"How soon will I know? XANA doesn't just wait around, you know…"
"Don't you have some school work to catch up on?" I asked, avoiding the question. I knew that Jeremy was sending Od & Alita out to get some data today for some brilliant idea, but we had decided to not tell Willem until we figured out how involved we wanted him.
"Yeh, but Yumi has to tech me most of it…" He started reading his text book any way, which I hoped would be the end of the discussion.
No such luck.
"So...Did anything happen with you & Yumi while I was gone?" Willem asked.
"Yumi & I are just friends." I said, yet again.
"She's not seeing anybody?"
"No." I said, not really liking where this was headed.
"Well, if you are just friends like you say you are…maybe I'll ask her out, if I can come up with a fancy enough way to ask."
I was about to comment that Yumi might not be interested in dating somebody she wasn't even sure she could trust when I remembered Yumi's words. Can't you try to find some common ground?
"…Yumi doesn't need anything fancy." I said after a while.
"But don't all girls want excitement in their lives?"
"Yumi has lots of that." I said. "Think about it. Our lives are anything but normal. Yumi just wants normal, even if all you do is just hang out & talk to each other."
"Oh." Willem said. "I've always gone bold & dashing. I have no idea how to just talk with a girl…"
"Seriously?" I asked. "I thought you got kicked out of your old school for sticking love poems everywhere."
"Yeh, but I didn't write it. They were written by some fames guy she loved."
I again flashed back to what Yumi & I talked about this morning. Can't you find some common ground?
Oh, great. I knew what I had to do, & I didn't like it one bit.
Then again, it felt like Yumi had made it perfectly clear how she felt. All I really want is for her to be happy, & if being with Willem cold make her happy…
I took a deep breath & said what I knew had to be said.
"Maybe I can help you…"
What do you guys think? Can Ulrick & Willem put their differences aside to try to get Yumi to fall in love, or is this just a bad idea?
I guess you'll just have to keep reading to find out…
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