Rule #3: A Kadic student should resist temptation...Especially if temptation is Ulrich Stern


Yumi was suddenly covered in dirt, as she met face to face with the ground. Her head was throbbing so bad she feared to pull herself back up just to be greeted again by the uncontrollable spinning her head had brought her.

Where the heck was she and how did she get here?

Before she could think hard enough her thoughts were invaded by the sound of footsteps that were also engulfed by the darkness. For a second she thought maybe she had died, or furthermore was on the verge of dying.

Was this really what heaven looked like? Was God on his way to punish her?

The taping noise stopped and she looked up at what appeared to be the silhouette of a boy, only to be hypnotized by the most gorgeous brown eyes she had ever seen. Eyes she had only seen once before.

To her luck, the one time she had wished she was wrong, she was completely correct.

At this point and time she realized fate was out to get her.

No this wasn't heaven…this, was hell.


6 Hours earlier

"Of all places, why did you bring me here?" Yumi whined.

"Where else would we bring you?" Aelita raised an eyebrow. "The mall is perfect for everything."

Out of the corner of Yumi's eye, she could see shops upon shops, that for a second it almost seemed endless.

She had almost been trampled several times just for trying to take a step forward, struggling to keep up with Aelita and Sam.

She would have defiantly settled for any other place than here. It was so cramped by upbeat teenagers, shopping mothers, and determined sales men.

Not to mention she felt so out of place hiding in her black hoodie. Everyone around her looked so clean and polished it was amazing. A large amount of people appeared to be wearing Abercrombie and Fitch to Aeropostal.

The further she walked the more she saw Gucci sunglasses and cell phones with people which could easily be compared to a Barbie and Ken lifestyle. They probably had it all.

She always knew there where kids out there like this, but never did she think she would be surrounded by them, let alone her new best friends would turn out to be like them.

Yumi nervously slid her hands in her pockets, wishing she could just melt away.

"Erm…I thought you said the party didn't start for another 2 hours?"

"Another 2 hours!?!" Aelita turned to her as if she was amazed by her question.

"This is short, especially for us." Sam explained. "That means we only have an hour and a half to find your outfit along with our own."

"Since when does it take 2 hours to get there?" Aelita asked.

"You want to get there on time don't you?"

"Well a late arrival is always nice, I mean, people notice you more." Aelita suggested.

"True."

Yumi tried her best listening to them go on and on, but found it quiet difficult since they had stopped in the middle of where people where trying to walk.

"Okay!" Yumi exclaimed after she got shoved in the side for the third time.

"Let's just walk, okay!? I get it now. I just don't get what the big deal is about this stupid party..." She went on.

They finally entered a dress store and Sam and Aelita eagerly jumped to look through the racks.

"What do you mean a stupid party? This is the party before soccer tryouts. This is not as big as the party before I rivalry game I must say, but it still is important if you want to get noticed." Aelita said as if it was a strain to have to explain this to a newbie.

Aelita pulled out a green dress and handed it to her.

"There. It looks like your color. Go try it on."

Yumi went into the dressing room and made sure she was careful with the delicate fabric. She caught a glimpse of the price tag.

1,000 dollars!?!?! She could defiantly afford it, but that was beside the point.

"Okay you are defiantly buying that." Aelita said when she walked out of the dressing room.

Yumi was now wearing a silk green dress that tied in the back and flared out at her hips and stopped at her mid thigh. It was hard to believe that it fit so perfectly and the material hugged against her skin.

It was a nice dress alright. But it wasn't her.

Aelita smiled as if she was satisfied by her good taste.

"I thought you said this was a casual party?" She glared at her two friends.

"It is." Sam said.

"Just not for you…" Aelita finished.

Yumi tried her best to fight the urge to roll her eyes right then and there.

"Kill me…" She groaned, burying her face in her palms.

This new Yumi would take a little getting used to.

And to think, the party hadn't even begun yet…


"She better show up." Ulrich complained to his best friend.

Everything was set up, and the party would be perfect just as he planned. There was just one problem.

The girl.

"Dude she's going to show up alright. Who could resist The Almightily Ulrich Stern?" Odd snickered.

Ulrich shoved Odd in the shoulder.

"This isn't funny." He stated

It was 9:05 and the place was already packed.

"What ever happened to playing hard to get?" Odd asked.

"Yeah Odd. Well she's…different. I haven't gotten to her yet. It requires me making the first move."

Odd threw his hands up in defeat and plopped down on the couch.

"Whatever, you're the man. Just watch out for Theo."

Ulrich couldn't help but laugh. As if he was a real challenge.

Ulrich felt a tug on his shirt and turned around.

And of course it had to be Emily.

"Ulrich sweetie please…we need to talk." She begged.

"About what? We are O-V-E-R!" he said slowly.

"But why!" She said her face turning a purplish color.

"This is bull shit Emily. Leave now!"

"Can we please just sit down and talk about this!" Her voice squeaked.

"There is nothing to talk about!" Ulrich rolled his eyes. When would this woman leave him alone?

"Is this because of the sex!?" She yelled causing a few heads to turn.

Ulrich glared at the few people causing them to quickly turn their eyes back to what they were previously doing.

"What sex? Oh god no!"

Odd sat happily on the couch, enjoying every bit of this.

"Emily it's not like that so please leave."

"It is like that!!! And you know it! You practically did every girl in school besides me!!" She screamed tears pouring down her face.

'God why!?! WHY!! What have I done to disserve this?' Was all Ulrich could think.

He let out a big sigh.

"Fine." He said grabbing Emily and heading upstairs.

Talking to Emily wouldn't be fun, but anything just to shut her up.


They were here.

Yumi was standing on the door mat with the door wide open. Already she could see lots of people. Aelita and Sam stood right behind her probably waiting for her to enter the house already.

She figured there was no other way to go, but forward.

Yumi's mouth almost dropped open when she entered inside.

Just his living room was ballroom size. Or maybe this had been a ballroom itself. How was she supposed to know?

Above her head there hovered a crystal that hung from the double-height ceiling.

She had seen nothing like it except for at her new home. And even though she had been living there, she still had not encountered every room.

The rooms were filled with beautiful furniture that looked like it had probably been worth more than her previous homes.

She tried to take in the beautiful home, some of which couldn't even be seen because of the stupid teens and the scattered beer and soda cans.

There was a DJ and lights coming from every direction she thought she might go blind. And with all the screaming voices and blasting music, she as well thought she might go deaf.

"Oh my god! There's Odd!" Sam squealed as she pointed in the area of the pointy blonde and purple hair.

"Wow…you've got it bad." Aelita said. Yumi couldn't help but laugh at Sam's excitement.

Sam mouthed a, wish me luck, and then walked over to greet Odd, who seemed to be excited by her presence.

"Um, yeah Yumi. I think I'm gonna go for a bit."

"For what!?! You can't leave me!" She protested.

"Just for a bit." She said turning in the other direction. "I just want to talk to Jeremie."

"Aelita you can't leave me here! Not like this, in this stupid dress at this stupid party!"

"Sorry." Aelita quickly said then sprinted off.

"And how am I supposed to walk in these!!!!" She yelled pointing to her aching feet.

Some party.

If she hadn't felt awkward before, she knew she did now.

She leaned on the nearest wall, hoping that maybe if she stood there long enough, she would blend into it and nobody would notice here.

But they did.

A random guy had walked up to her.

"So, I heard your name is Yumi, right?"

'Oh yes, he was the king of flirting.' She thought sarcastically to herself.

"Yeah…" She answered dully.

"What are you doing here on the wall? It's a party. How about we say you and me have a little fun?" He rested his arm on her shoulder.

Four guys who looked to be his friends were cracking up behind him.

How bad she wanted to slap the smirks right off their faces, and would have in a second if she didn't want to make a scene.

"Oh really?"

She took the heal of her shoe and jammed it into his foot.

He howled in pain and grabbed his foot.

"The hell?! Bitch!!" he said about to show her she was going to regret that.

"Whoa." A male voice interrupted.

Someone pushed the guy away who was invading her space. 'Thank god' she thought.

"Go drink somewhere else." He told them and they quickly shooed.

"Are you okay?" He asked offering her a hand. She didn't take it. Why would she need it? She was clearly standing if he hadn't noticed.

"I'm fine, thank you." Yumi said flattening out the wrinkles at the bottom of her dress and walked in the opposite direction, having no idea where that would be.

"Hey, I don't bite." He said. "Why don't you just sit down, and I'll make sure no one will bother you." If he was trying to charm her, he failed miserably.

She tried to resist holding in her sigh and sat down on a high chair.

"I'm Theo." He said reaching out his hand.

She waited a moment then slowly reached out her hand and shook his.

"Yumi." She said. "Yumi Ishiyama."

"Ah, the new girl?" She nodded.

"I've heard so much about you already."

"Well hopefully you haven't heard too much." Literally. It was like what? Her 2nd day here?

"Well you know. Just about you being the next Jackie Chan, you were raised in the circus, and has been in jail more than 3 times. The usual."

Yumi laughed.

"Well your school is certainly...something." She said for lack of a better word.

He laughed and handed her a drink.

She stopped herself before drinking some, noticing it reeked of alcohol.

"Um…what's in this?" She questioned.

"Don't worry, its not too strong." He said and she sipped out of her cup a bit. She didn't want to seem like a loser. She also didn't want to confess that she had never had anything with alcohol before.

They talked for a bit more, and before she knew it, she had finished off her whole cup.

"You want another?" He asked.

"Oh no, I'm fine." She said. "But yeah that was SO funny." She said laughing really loud and couldn't help but to giggle afterwards. She wavered in her chair while saying a few more things Theo couldn't quiet catch.

"You know I totally had this one time where…" She then started tilting herself farther back. She fell off the back of the chair, but Theo was able to catch her before she hit the ground.

"Whee.." she said between giggles while he still tried to keep her up.

The music in the background was the only thing that seemed to catch Yumi's attention.

"What?" Theo asked, when she again mumbled something he couldn't quiet understand.

"Oh my god. Do you know how to dance?" She repeated. "We should. Here I'll show you."

She pushed herself off of Theo and nearly tripped over herself again.

Theo quickly grabbed her. "Whoa lets take it easy." She wrapped her arms around Theo's neck to keep herself up and giggled even more.

She didn't even know this guy. She mentally slapped herself. 'Stop it! Stop it right now!!' She screamed in her head.

Her body still continued to argue with her thoughts.

What was wrong her?


Ulrich had finally walked down stairs and was finally in what was supposed to be his party.

He had finally escaped and was done with Emily. Well at least for now that is.

He caught up with Odd, who this time was accompanied by Sam on the couch.

"Hey Sam, you brought Yumi right?" "Yeah." She replied. "She was over there when I left, so try looking over there."

Ulrich took her advice and went the way she had told him to find Yumi. How exactly was he supposed to find one girl with all these people in the way?

Finally he had spotted her.

There stood Yumi with Theo, all over him. Literally. She had her arms wrapped around his neck and he had his arms around her side.

They hadn't even known each other for a day.

"I can't believe it." Ulrich thought allowed.

He was pulling an Ulrich Stern.


"Theo sweetie." She pushed herself off him and took a minute to regain her balance.

"I'm going to go to the bathroom." She struggled to say without laughing. She started walking off.

"That's fine." He said.

She walked off almost hitting another wall hoping to find a bathroom soon.

Yumi noticed the house front door open and stumbled over to it.

She brought herself over to the bottom step outside and sat on it. The night air had smelled so good.

Being here made her feel like she was a kid and she used to play outside of her house until it got dark and her parents called her in the house. Their house.

She got up and circled around the house's lawn.

This kid was so damn lucky. He had it all. He had his house. Money. A school. But most importantly, his parents. But none of it really mattered to her. The only thing she seemed to be jealous of was his parents. If she wanted to, she could get everything else, but of course it was the thing she wanted that she couldn't have.

In frustration she went to kick a rock a rock, but missed and lost her balance and fell face down to the ground.

Fantastic.


Ulrich needed to relax.

For some reason his thoughts scattered all over the place.

He'd lost this stupid girl and this stupid bet. Now he was going to have to streak through the cafeteria. But the worst was, he was going to have to date Sissy.

He shivered at the thought of even having that thing touch him. It would be like having the twilight zone come to life.

If Emily hadn't gotten in the way he wouldn't even have this problem.

Ulrich sat down on his porch bench and buried his head in his hands.

He was finally alone. It was like he hardly was anymore. Out here he could escape everyone and everything.

At least for a bit.

He heard a ruffling sound in the bushes which immediately caused him to stand up.

"Hello…" He asked.

Silence.

He was probably imagining things.

The ruffling started up again, accompanied by a few mumbles and a groan.

Ulrich sprinted off, curious to see where all the noise was coming from.

He ventured through his front yard, until he found someone laying on the ground.

It was a girl.

When he reached her he saw two brown eyes looking straight up at him.

It wasn't just any girl.

"Yumi?" He asked.

Yumi frowned and groaned, wishing she would die.

"Anyone but you…" She started.

He helped her up. "Are you okay?"

"Whatever. I'm fine. I just had a little to much to drink."

She was covered in dirt from head to toe.

"Here let me help…" He walked her over to his porch bench and sat her down.

She tightly clutched the bench to keep her up straight and glared at him angrily.

"Oh your welcome." He said.

"I didn't ask for your help!" She shot back. "Seriously, shouldn't you be making out with someone, or getting drunk…or…or taking someone else's virginity away!! Something else a rich boy would do…"

"First of all I'm not even like that!"

"Oh really now! You get everything you want. Parents, money, girls. We wouldn't want you to strain your perfect little fingers!"

He glared back. "What do you have against me?! You don't even know me! I know I have it all, but I don't want it! Everyone expects me to be something I'm not. I can't even remember the last time I've seen my mother and father in the same room together! She's always busy, he's always away…" He sighed. "Just let it go."

He was right. She didn't know him.

"Oh…" She said quietly. "I didn't know…"

"Yeah well hardly anyone does…" he slunk back in the bench. "And what about you?"

"Not much. I lost my parents in a car crash when I was seven, ever since then I've been moved from foster parent to foster parent. I'm sorry for how I've been treating you. I'm just, I guess…jealous."

He turned to her. "…I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm not the one to be jealous of."

"Yeah…" She looked down.

She shivered slightly as the cold breeze brushed against her skin.

"Here." He unzipped his jacket and put it over her.

Her head hurt so bad, but she felt so comfortable with his arm still around her. She expected it to leave her body in a second or too, but it didn't. It stayed.

She could feel the warmth of his breath on her neck, and felt like melting.

It was probably the alcohol getting to her again. Or was it?

Perhaps, he was different…

She rested her hand on his chest and leaned in to kiss him.

Surprisingly she felt his warm finger press against her cold lips. She opened her eyes.

Was he stopping her?

She looked deep into his eyes, hoping there was a hint of something. At least to get a hint of his thoughts.

She couldn't tell.

He looked back into her eyes.

Before she could reflect more on what had happened, she slowly felt light headed and closed her eyes again.

She passed out in his arms.

Ulrich looked at her. What had he done?

He kept his arm around her. He wondered how was he going to get her back to her dorm like this?

She had wanted him, and he had refused.

Everything in his body had the urge to hold her, to touch her, to kiss her… to make her his.

But something had told him no.

It wasn't right to take advantage of her like this.

But why did he care?

He wouldn't make his move.

Not yet.


End of chapter 3! Whew. This chapter was dedicated to LonelyDreamer27 for making me want to update! Thanx!!!

So here's whats next...

Things are heating up between Ulrich and Yumi I must say...but how did he get her home? Did he get her home? Did she stay at his place? Will rumors start spreading in every direction...?!?!

Hard to say...

But its not all a happy ending...

Review and tell me what you think

I WILL RETURN!!!

-YuMi2-