Yumi woke up to the sound of knocking on her door. She sat up in her seat and rubbed her arm on the window to find that someone was knocking on it. Yumi was surprised to find Mr. Trespa outside obviously freezing since he was only wearing his pressed suit that he insisted on wearing everyday to work even though he was only manager of a greasy burger joint. Yumi opened her door slowly to be instantly pushed into the next seat by her boss who was trying to force his way into the car. "Mr. Trespa get out of my car you are not welcome inside." Yumi said trying to push her boss out the way he came but he had already closed the door. Mr. Trespa breathed on his hands and held them up to the air vents. "Your lucky that Linda is my best employee and sticks up for you because if it wasn't for her you wouldn't have your job back now." Yumi looked at Mr. Trespa and crossed her arms, "Who said I wanted the job back?" Mr. Trespa looked at Yumi in shock, "Your crazy, I know your financial status, you barely have enough money to buy toothpaste let alone bills." Yumi looked away from her boss, "Maybe I'm not too crazy, you are too strict I wasn't even late this morning and you go blowing steam off on me for no reason." Mr. Trespa looked at the window anxiously obviously wishing he could go inside, "Well Ms. Ishiyama do you want a job or not, to be honest you're the only one we got, other then Helga and Linda you're the only one that can work all the stations and if we lose you we have to close until we can find someone else, so I'm not asking you not just out of pity but out of desperation please come back to work." Yumi looked at Mr. Trespa with a mischievous smile, "If there's something in it for me I will." Mr. Trespa looked at Yumi and sighed, "I knew that this would happen if I told you our status in finances." Yumi looked at her boss obviously feeling no pain for him, "I want a raise, some respect, and I want to make my own hours." Mr. Trespa looked from the building to Yumi and back, he was obviously troubled by her demands and had a hard time deciding what to do, "O fine but if you are late four more times I really will have to fire you." Yumi smiled from ear to ear, "Well since I get to pick hours, I'm taking today off. Goodbye Mr. Trespa." Yumi said as she pushed her boss out of her car and speedily drove towards the highway. All the while leaving her boss in the parking lot freezing to death. In the car Yumi was obviously pleased with herself, at least one thing went right this week. Ulrich finished packing his personal items into a small bag and set it in front of the front door so he could quickly grab it when they left. Sissi had long since given up trying to talk to Ulrich since he wouldn't answer her. Sissi was walking past Ulrich in the kitchen and mumbled a couple words to him as she left the room. It took him awhile to figure out what she was saying but when he did Ulrich wasn't surprised by what she had said, she would usually just say little things when he was acting this way towards her to make him feel bad, most of the time it worked but Ulrich wasn't going to let her get away with it this time. Ulrich agreed with her that he was freaking out over nothing, she had a point it was only a shirt but what he was actually giving her grief about was all the things she had said and done over the length of time that he had known her. Ulrich walked into the living room where Sissi was sitting and pouting in a corner of the couch. "If you done pouting now we have to leave." Sissi looked up at Ulrich with red eyes, she was obviously trying her best to look convincing so he would feel bad, "O just go yourself I'm too depressed to go now." Ulrich looked up at the ceiling and rolled his eyes, "O come on Sissi I was only going to go since you were going to drag me there." Sissi stood up so she was equal with Ulrich in height, he never was very tall, "I said no, I slaved all morning packing your clothes without even being asked and you repay me with the silent treatment and acting as if your four years old." Ulrich was quickly losing his patience, "Just so you know you're the one acting like your four years old, for god's sake your twenty-nine years old and you still pout about small things. And you did all the packing before I was even up I could have packed my own stuff I'm a big boy. Finally I'll go without you just to show you that pouting and trying to make me feel bad doesn't work anymore." Sissi looked up at Ulrich shocked, "Well good riddance, hope you see all your dorky friends again." Ulrich didn't even hear her finish the sentence he had already picked up his bags and left. Outside Ulrich unlocked the doors and stepped inside the car. It took him a while after he was already on the highway to realize that he had left the house with only a t-shirt and sweatpants on and it was only thirty-five degrees outside. When Yumi got back to her apartment she felt like she was walking on a cloud, she had told he boss what to do that morning and now she knew that he needed her she didn't need him. When Yumi walked past her sink she noticed a paper on the counter next to it that she had opened the day before. Yumi picked up the paper and looked at it more closely,
Your are cordially invited to the Kadic Academy 2009 Graduates Reunion
Please be at Kadic Academy by 6:30 p.m. on December 11.
Thank You to all who attend.
Jim Morales
Principal.
Yumi couldn't help but laugh when she read that Jim was now principal, when she had known him he was a half strict half easygoing guy that did numerous things in the school. Yumi wondered when the other principal Mr. Delmos had retired. When Yumi looked at the time and date for a second time she noticed that today was December 11th and it was only three hours until six. Yumi decided quickly that she couldn't just push her past behind her any longer; she had to face it and get it far behind her while she still had the chance. As Yumi hurried ran into the bathroom to change into something a little dressier for the reunion in the back of her head she was actually hoping that her old friends would be there.