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Chapter 3: The Date?

The next morning everyone was eating breakfast together, except for Yumi who eats breakfast at home.

William wanted to show that he wanted to wanted to be part of the group so he asked, "Did you find anything else about the supercomputer?" Looking over to Aelita and Jeremy.

Jeremy, who was obviously frustrated, said, "No. We can tell it's a supercomputer, but nothing else."

"Is it XANA?" Odd asked, about to start with thirds, possibly fourths. "No, it can't be. My multi-agent program wiped out any think that had to do with XANA." William was relieved that it wasn't XANA, he didn't want to ever be controlled like that again. But he was still worried. "So, what are we going to do?" Jeremy adjusted his glasses before answering. "Well, the only way to get more information is to go there. So I started rebuilding the skidd. I started it last night," he looked over to Aelita, "but I wasn't able to get far because Aelita came in and made me get some sleep."

"It was passed midnight!" Aelita said, defending her self. "It must be nice to have your girlfriend come tuck you in at night." Odd joked. William and Ulrich laughed, Jeremy and Aelita blushed. Jeremy, wanting to change the subject, said, "It will only take about a week to program it this time."

"We're going to the factory today to work on it." Aelita added.

Odd sat up, finally done with breakfast, and said, "I would go with you two, but I wouldn't want to interrupt your 'working'." Putting air quotes around programing. "I think I'll head to the skate park instead. Ulrich would you like to join me?"

"I can't, I'm..." Ulrich didn't know what to say. He wasn't trying to hide what he was doing, but he was too embarrassed to tell anyone. "I have something to do."

"Odd," William said to get Odd's attention, "do you mind if I come." Odd didn't want to go with William, but he remember his conversation with Ulrich the day before, and he new he needed to try to get along with William. So he said, "Sure."

After breakfast the group split up. Ulrich went up to his room to get ready for his lunch with Yumi. Jeremy and Aelita headed off to the factory. Odd and William grabbed their skate boards and headed towards the skate park. Most of the way to the skate park Odd and William didn't talk. They didn't even walk close to each other, William stayed behind by a couple of steps. When they were almost their, William broke the silence. "I'm surprised that you said yes to letting me come." Odd kept walking as he said, "Why would I say no?"
"I thought you were mad at me?"

Williams words caused Odd to stop and turn around. He sighed before he started to speak. "I know it wasn't your choice. I don't think you wanted to be XANA's pawn." He stopped and sighed again, "Its just for the couple of months the only time I saw you was as a clone, who had the mind of a 4 year-old. Or you were trying to rip off my head." Knowing that what Odd said was true, William looked down at his feet, ashamed of what he had done, weather it was his fault or not. Odd continued, "It'll just take some time for me to get used to you again."

Odd, who didn't like to talk about such negative stuff, or really anything serious, changed the subject. "Hurry up. we're wasting time standing here. Lets skate." As soon as he finished speaking he turned around and ran towards the park. William ran after him, feeling better finding out that Odd wasn't actually mad at him.

Ulrich couldn't decide what to wear. He normal wouldn't have this problem, but he didn't know if it was a date or not. If it was a date and he didn't dress formal enough Yumi may think he is a slob or something. If it wasn't a date and he dressed to formal, Yumi may think he is weird for dressing so fancy. He came up with his normal cloths, but with a jacket that is a darker green then his normal one. He thought, "We're just going to lunch so it wouldn't be too formal any way." He wore the jacket because he wanted to where something different then what he always wears.

Yumi had a similar problem. She wasn't sure if it was a date or not and she didn't know what to wear. She came up with a similar solution to Ulrich's. She decided to wear her usual shirt( A/N the one with the blue stars) and her dark purple skirt (A/N see episode 1).

A little while later, Ulrich was frozen on Yumi's front porch. The door opened. Hiroki came running out and ran into Ulrich. He yelled back into the house, "YUMI! YOUR BOYFRIEND IS HERE!"

"What," Yumi looked out the door and saw Ulrich, "HE'S NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" She yelled back at her brother. Hiroki stuck out his tung at Yumi and then he continued running out of the front yard and down the street.

When Ulrich saw Yumi he was stunned. The only thought going through his head was, "Wow." Yumi noticed that Ulrich was just staring, to brake him out of his trance she waved her hand in front of his face and said, "Ulrich, Earth to Ulrich." When he broke his gaze she said, laughing a little, "Hey, Ulrich."

"Hey Yumi." He said a little embarrassed. "You ready to go?" Yumi nodded and they started walking. After walking for a little Yumi asked, "Were are we going?"

"I didn't know what you wanted, so I though we should go to the food court at the mall."

"Sounds good." Yumi said excitedly. She wasn't sure what she was excited about but she definitely was. After a few minutes of silence while walking, Yumi asked another question, "What did you want to talk to me about?" Ulrich wasn't ready to tell her. He knew he had to tell her today but he wasn't ready yet. "I'll tell you after we eat."

The two each got a slice of pizza. They were sitting near the back of the food court. Ulrich was thinking of how to tell her, making him quite. Ulrich was a quite guy but, Yumi didn't really like him being this quite. "So... Did Aelita and Jeremy find out what the 'thing' was?"

"Not really. They are remaking the Skidd so we can go check it out."

"Do they think it's XANA?"

"No, Jeremy said it couldn't be." They continued to talk about other things.

When they were done eating Ulrich through away there trash. When he came and sat back down, Yumi said, "So..."

"So, What?"

Yumi didn't know if what Ulrich was going to tell her was good or bad, but the anticipation was killing her and she had to know. "We're done eating. What did you want to tell me."
Ulrich still wasn't ready but, he knew he couldn't stall any longer. "Umm… I don't know how to say this. Um… Yumi, I really like you, will you go out with me."

Yumi stared at him. He wasn't sure if this was good or bad so he just kept talking. "I wanted to say that for a long time. But I couldn't because if you said no it could affect how we fought against XANA. If that caused you to get hurt at all, I don't know what I would do, but know that XANA's gone …"

Yumi cut him off by shaking her head and saying, "You wouldn't have to worry about that, I would have said yes."

"Dose that mean?" Ulrich said a smile coming to his face.

"It means that I can't keep yelling at Hiroki when he calls you my boyfriend." Yumi said. She also had a smile going across her face. She leaned over to Ulrich and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. The two teens faces turned bright red.

Yumi looked down at her watch and said "I need to get home. My mom will be back soon and my dad wants me to be their."

On the way back to Yumi's house they walked next to each other, faces still red. Ulrich looked over at Yumi and asked, "Can I hold your hand?" Yumi got closer to him and grabbed his hand. "You don't have to ask, we're going out now." Ulrich's red face got even redder.

The arrived at Yumi's house just as her mom was getting out of a taxi. Yumi let go of Ulrich's hand and ran over to greet her mom.

As Yumi was talking to her mom, Ulrich noticed another girl getting out of the car. She was Japanese and about Yumi's age, maybe a little younger. When Yumi saw the girl, she ran around the car and jumped on top of the girl.