Yeah! Time to update!

Edit: Just edited the story layout, & added a bit more drama to the lunch scene

An Unexpected Development part 2 continued

"Ok, that's it, I give up" The guy with the shaggy brown hair said as he leaned back into Jeremie's chair in front of the Super Computer and took off his glasses and then rubbed his sore eyes.
"This is just too frickin' hard!"
"What, are you telling me that the great Capt. Crunch, who hacked the IRS database in ten seconds flat, has been outwitted by a kid?" The large burly man in black smirked as he loomed over the left side of the chair.
"Oh, this is no kid" the so called Capt. Crunch said as he slipped his glasses back on.
"Every attempt I've made at trying to get into this computer's main files has left me shut out, blocked out and generally denied any and all access" The hacker said, and then to the agent's surprised started to smile.
"Boy, what I wouldn't give to meet this kid…"
"Now wait just a minute" The agent said, " Are you telling me we've wasted all this time and effort of getting you out of jail and in here just to find out you can't hack into this computer at all?!"
"Oh no, I can hack it… give or take ten years or so" The hacker grinned.
"Uh, but if you want" he said as he saw the look on the agent's face, "I could always install this handle little gadget, and through that hopefully we should be able to tap into his system, undetected, whenever he's busy on it" Capt. Crunch said as he reached down in the bag lying next to the chair and pulled out a small plastic capsule with a little red light blinking inside of it.
"I hope you're right" the agent said as he watched the hacker crouch down and fiddle around in the bunch of wires hanging down below the computer, and then he touched the mike in his ear.
"Hmm, and we might be testing you're little toy sooner then later. I've got confirmation that the girl's just left the house"

"Now remember Yumi, if at anytime you don't feel you want to stay you can just call me and I'll come pick you right up-"
"Yes Mom, I know" Yumi groaned as she and her Mom drove towards the school, her heart hammering in her chest as she got closer and closer to Kadic.
'Maybe I should go back home' she thought.
'Maybe- maybe I'm just not ready to face Aelita and Ulrich…. No' she shook her head, 'No, I've got too do this, if only to get away from Mom for awhile'
"Oh yes" her Mom's voice interrupted her voice, "and if anything should happen, or if you don't feel well, you can go to Yolande.
I've already told her everything, and she said she'll ready-"
"You told Yolande?!" Yumi gasped as she stared at her mom in disbelief.
Leave it to her mom to keep it a secret.
"Well yes, I had to-"
"But what if she tells everyone else, or what if someone hears her and then tells everyone else?" Yumi said worriedly as she imagined all the kids and teachers staring at her, feeling sorry for her or wondering just what she must've done to land in this situation.
"Don't worry Honey" Yumi's Mom said as she reached over and gentle patted Yumi's shoulder. "She promised she wouldn't breathe a word of it to anyone, and believe me, I know how well she can keep a secret"
Yumi glanced over at her mom as she heard the change of tone in her voice when she said the last bit, and wondered just what her Mom meant by that.
"All right, here we are" Her Mom said as she pulled up to the curb just outside the school gates which was already starting to fill up with students busy trickling in.
Yumi swallowed hard as she stared up the path to the school, and then reached back into backseats, grabbed her bags, and started to climb out when her Mom grabbed her hand and said:
"Yumi?"
"Yeah Mom?"
"Have a good day Honey"
"I hope so, Mom" Yumi smiled, and hoped her Mom hadn't heard the worry in her voice as she made her way up towards the school with her heart in throat.

"So, how's Yumi doing, Odd?"
"The same as yesterday and the day before" Odd said as he sat down next to Aelita and Jeremie on the bench under the tree just next to the vending machine and took a sip of hot chocolate in his cup while Ulrich stood next to them and leaned against the tree.
"Bored and worried. She really needs some cheering up, like maybe from a visit from all of her friends?" he said as he shot a look at them.
"I mean, I know you've been way busy trying to figure out how to help her Jer, and I know she might kill you on sight Aelita, but what's been keeping you from doing a climb-up-the-drain, in-through-window-at-night visit, Ulrich?" he asked as he glanced over at him.
"It's… complicated Odd, Ok?" Ulrich said.
"You mean you're worried her dad will skin you and turn you into a rug for his living room?" Odd teased.
"That's one of my worries…" Ulrich muttered.
"Oh come on, that's never stopped you before"
"I wish I could go and visit Yumi" Aelita said sadly as she stared at the ground and occasionally kicked at the dirt underneath her booted feet.
"I wish she was here…"
"Uh, I think you're wish has been granted" Odd said, and as Aelita looked up and gasped as she saw Yumi walking towards them.
"Yumi!" she smiled, and then jumped up and ran to meet the girl.
"Oh, I'm so happy to see you-" she said as she hugged her, and then quickly jumped back with a worried look on her face.
"Oh, uh, sorry Yumi. I- I know you must still hate me, so if you don't want me be here I could just go-"
Yumi stared at her for a bit and then smiled as she reached out and hugged Aelita back.
"It's Ok, Aelita" she said as they pulled apart and started to walk over to the guys.
"Right now I'm too worried about what to do about this then too keep staying mad at you. And beside, I can't keep blaming you forever, especially since I know you didn't do it on purpose"
"Thanks Yumi" Aelita said as they reached the guys, and then frowned as she saw Ulrich turn around and leave.
"Ulrich? Where you going?" she asked as she steered Yumi down to sit on the bench.
"Uhm… I-I forgot something in my room" he said, and then ran off before anyone could do or say anything else.
"Ulrich-!" Odd started to say when Yumi touched his arm and shook her head.
"Leave it Odd, I'll talk to him later" she said, and her friends couldn't help but hear the slightly hurt tone in her voice.
"So, anything new while I've been gone?" she asked as she leaned back against the bench and put her bag down on the ground.
"Oh, nothing much" Odd said as he grinned at her while Aelita leaned over the backrest of the bench and smiled.
"Sissi's got herself a new CD which you can hear all the way to the Cafeteria, Jim's still being a pain now and again, and well, that's about"
"Ah, same old Kadic" Yumi grinned.
"How about you, Jer? Any new developments on my… condition?"
"Almost" Jeremie said as he patted his bag, the edge of his laptop just peeking out from the flap.
"I've been working non-stop in trying to unlock the digital code of your 'problem', and I'm sure by tomorrow I'll have cracked it"
"I hope so Jeremie, I really do" Yumi sighed.
"Man, I can't wait to be rid of this pregnancy"
"Yeah, especially before it can make you look like a blimp!" Odd joked, and as the gang all groaned and smirked at his joked none of them noticed Milly and Tamiya silently slinking away from them.

For the rest of the day up to lunch, Yumi's day didn't go too bad.
The classes where the same as always, William was glad (And how) that she was back (she didn't even mind him bugging her about where she'd been), and for awhile she forgot about her pregnancy.
However, as lunch slowly got closer and closer, Yumi started noticing more and more kids and teachers giving her odd looks, or stepping out of her way whenever she stepped close to them.
"What the heck's going on?" she thought as she stepped into the cafeteria, and then stopped as every kid inside stopped eating and talking and just stared at her.
She spotted Odd and Aelita at a table, looking extremely worried, but before she could move Sissi suddenly blocked her way and asked in a demanding voice:
"Is it true? Are you pregnant?"
"What?" Yumi asked, shocked, and watched as Sissi unfurled the school newspaper she had had in curled up in her hand and held it
"What- How-?" Yumi gasped as she read the headline:

Yumi Ishiyama- Pregnant!
By Milly & Tamiya

This morning Kadic's star reporters stumbled on this fact when they overheard Yumi Ishiyama and her friends discussing it-

But before Yumi could read further Sissi pulled it away and growled:
"Well, is it true or not?"
"I- I-" Yumi stuttered and took a step back as Sissi poked her in chest.
"So it is true! Little Miss Innocent Ishiyama got knocked up! So who's the dad- Oh, it isn't Ulrich is it?!"
"What? No!" Yumi said as her cheeks burned red.
"Oh no, don't tell me it's William's!"
"No!"
"Well then who is it-?" Sissi started to ask, but Yumi turned her back to the snobby girl as she turned to run out of the door but found herself trapped as Will suddenly came barging in.
"Is it true?" he asked in disbelief.
"Oh man, it is, isn't it?!" he said as he saw the look on her face.
"It's Ulrich's isn't it?"
"Nope" Sissi said before Yumi could reply, "And it's also not yours. So then whose is it-?"
"Ok Sissi, that's enough" Odd said as he and Aelita came to Yumi's rescue.
"Just back off already"
"Why?" Sissi asked with a toss of her head.
"We've a right to know. Or maybe it's because you're the dad. It wouldn't surprise me at all-"
Slap
"Why don't you just shut up for a change?" Aelita said as she took Yumi's arm and walked out of the cafeteria past the stunned William with her and Odd as Sissi just stood there and stared in shock at her as she rubbed her red cheek where Aelita had slapped her.

After the disastrous lunch Yumi felt herself sinking deeper and deeper into despair as she headed to her next class and sat down for the test awaiting her.
William was waiting for her at the door, but she just brushed past him and headed to her seat with her head down.
She tried to concentrate on the test, but all she could hear was the whispers of kids around her, talking and gossiping about her, all she could feel was their eyes staring at her, trying to sneak in a glance or two of the poor pregnant girl.
"no more" she muttered under her breath.
"I'm sorry, did you say something Miss Ishiyama?" the teacher asked.
"No more! I've had enough of this!" Yumi snapped to everyone's shock, and then stood up and ran out of the classroom, her head pounding as she tried to fight back the tears welling up in her eyes, and then she stopped and stared into space as a new thought popped into her head, and with a small smile she ran to the stairs and headed to the dorms.

"Yumi's gone!" Aelita said as she and Odd ran into Jeremie's room.
"It gets worse" Jeremie said as he stood up from the floor and turned to them with a large book in his hands with several pages gone from it.
"She's ripped out the part where I've been working on an improved Return Trip Program that would turn back time not by a day but days, even weeks"
"So she's going too turn back time until she's not pregnant anymore" Odd said,
"Wouldn't that just solve everything?"
"No" Jeremie said, "Because if she does try and use this program, the Super Computer could critically overload and explode!"
"Oh, uh, then I guess we really should be go and stop her, right?"
"Right"
"Uhm, shouldn't one of us go and get Ulrich?" Aelita asked.
"Mr 'I don't care'? I don't think so" Odd said, and without a further word they took off to the factory.

With a soft whoosh the lift's doors opened, and as all Odd, Aelita and Jeremie stepped out they saw Yumi at the super computer with a smile on her face and a glassy look in her eyes, her cheeks still wet from the tears she'd cried.
"It's too late" Yumi said as she stood next to the super computer.
"I've already typed in the program. Now all I've got too do is press enter, and then all this will be gone for good"
"No Yumi, there's got to be another way-"
"No" Yumi said as she shook her head, fresh tears glistening in her eyes as she glared down at the keyboard.
"No more stares, no more whispers, no more Dad shouting, Mom being overprotective, Ulrich scared to death… and no more fear and worrying and nightmares about what's inside of me. I.. I just can't take it anymore" she said and then reached down to the computer.
"Yumi no-!" Aelita shouted and tried to tackle Yumi away from the computer, but it was too late as Yumi's finger stabbed down into the keyboard, and with a roar activated the Return Trip Program.

"No!" Aelita shouted as the field of white disappeared and she found herself standing in the Super Computer room with Odd and Ulrich standing next to her and Jeremie sitting in his chair.
"Jeremie, did she- How far back are we?"
"Uh, hang on.." Jeremie said as he quickly called up the program and then sighed in relief.
"It's ok, we've only gone back two days. Luckily she didn't manage to-"
But Aelita wasn't listening anymore as she spun around and quickly ran to the elevator and headed up to the top.
The minute the doors opened she rushed up to the Factory's entrance, and once there she just ran and ran down the street, never stopping, not even when her legs ached and her lungs burned, not even when a car almost ran her over, not until she reached Yumi's house and then barging past Yumi's shocked mom when she opened the door, and then raced up the stairs until she reached Yumi's bedroom and swung open the door to find the dark haired girl kneeling on the floor at the end of her bed with her head bent down and her shoulders shaking as a few teardrops dripped down to the floor from her cheeks.
"Yumi?"
"…It didn't work" Yumi said as she turned her tear streaked face up to Aelita.
"I can still feel it inside of me" she said as Aelita walked up to her and knelt down in front of her, and then Yumi just grabbed her and hugged her close as she just cried and cried and cried.

Continued in Part 3 : Discovery

Heh, in case you're wondering why I called the hacker Capt. Crunch, it was just a small salute to the hacker mentioned in the Cowboy Bebop Movie: Stairway to Heaven.

And in the next part to come, prepare to find out why everyone's making such a fuss about this kid.

It's going to be a chapter you don't want to miss.