(A/N): sorry it's been a while since I've worked on re-uploading, but stuff came up and well…..honestly, I'm lazy. But fear not, for here is the next oneshot.
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Paranoid
The ringing phone filled her with dread. Every time Yumi heard it, it seemed, XANA had launched another attack and Jeremie was calling to ruin her afternoon. And now, knowing the return to the past made XANA stronger, they didn't do it that often, unless it was a big emergency. She played the options in her mind. She could just not answer her phone, and then Jeremie would yell at her later for missing a mission, or worse, assume something had happened to her. She could say no, but how would she justify just skipping. Jeremie would never accept that. She could go, but then her entire afternoon was shot, and she was in mortal danger. She could offer to stay on earth and look for trouble, but that yielded the same results, and she was all sweaty. She could pretend XANA was attacking her house, but then Ulrich or Odd would show up, and see her bluff. She could pretend she was somewhere else, and XANA was attacking there, but that only delayed the results of the last option. She was at a loss for what to do, and the phone was at a loss for rings, the voice mail picked up.
"Hey Yumi, its Aelita. Just wanted to know if you wanted to go shopping later, call me back when you get the chance. Bye-Bye."
The phone beeped, and Yumi sighed. This was getting out of hand. She was so paranoid she wouldn't even answer her own phone, for fear it was Jeremie with another mission. Then she realized, not once in this whole incident had she thought to look at the caller ID.