Explanation
Ulrich chased Yumi up to their room where she was pretending to read a book.
"Yumi? What's wrong?" he asked with deep concern in his voice.
Yumi put down the book to look at him and them immediately looked at her feet. Hesitant to answer she shuffled her feet and picked up the book again.
"Yumi, what did he look like?"
She still didn't answer, at this time Ulrich was getting upset.
"Yumi, what did he look like."
No answer.
Ulrich grabbed her by the arm and held her arms to the side, Yumi was fighting strong hold, but was obviously losing.
"Ulrich, let me go!" she demanded.
"Not until you tell me let he looks like!"
"Let go of me!"
"Tell me!"
"Let! Go!"
"TELL ME!"
Yumi stopped struggling and started sobbing a little, to Ulrich's surprise.
"Okay! Okay. These nightmares have been happening ever since college, when you and I, supposedly forgot each other. I've never had these dreams before and my tormentor looked like you, the younger you, his bodily features at least. I was afraid to tell you."
Ulrich stood there shocked, still holding onto Yumi. He loosened his grip, and she looked at him. Sadness and fear in her eyes.
"Why were you afraid to tell me?"
"I thought that you'd be upset, and you'd leave because you were. You, Aelita, Odd and Jeremie are all I have left. I left my family behind to go college. They didn't want me to go, but I did. They gave me the money to pay for it, packed my bags, and let me leave. They were part of my dream as well...they laughed as you would whip me."
"Yumi..."
Ulrich let her go and she fell to her knees, crying very hard. Ulrich dropped to his knees and held her close, she blushed and looked up at him with red, puffy eyes. He smiled at her.
"You don't have to worry anymore Yumi, we're you're family now and we won't let anything happen to you."
"Ulrich...thank you." she smiled.
They sat there for moment in silence, snuggling each other, until the sweet silence was broken by Yumi's cell-phone ringing. Ulrich released her and she swiftly grabbed her phone and went back to her place on Ulrich's lap.
"Hello? Hi Aelita."
"Hi Yumi! Guess what?"
"What?"
"I got my first gig!"
"Really? That's Great!"
"How are you and Ulrich?"
"We're fine."
"Okay, I'm gonna catch up with Jeremie, see you soon!"
"Bye."
Yumi hung up her phone, when Ulrich cell-phone started vibrating in his pocket.
"Um, Yumi?"
She got off of his lap and he answered his phone.
"What's up Odd?"
"I'm a street painter!"
"What?"
"I get paid to make awesome graffiti all over walls and stuff!"
"That's good, your vandalism is actually paying off."
"Ha ha. Well I've gotta go, ciao!"
"Ciao."
Ulrich hung up his phone and turned to Yumi.
"Was that Odd?"
"Yep he found a job, he's a street painter."
"That's cool."
"And Aelita?"
"She has her first gig."
"Now all that's left is Jeremie."
"Yep!"
Ulrich and Yumi waited for Jeremie to call, so they went downstairs and turned on the T.V. They watched Avatar the Last Air Bender for a while, the episode "The Crossroads of Destiny" was.
"The Fire nation took my mother from me..." sobbed Katara
"That's something we have in common..." said Zuko
"They are so perfect together, although Aang is Katara's match." said Yumi.
"Yeah, every Avatar said Zuko would eventually get Katara." said Ulrich.
"I hate it people believe the person you will never be with perfect with you and the person who you love is wrong in their eyes."
"Yeah..."
They kept watching the episode, Yumi snuggled up to Ulrich on the couch and they both blushed a little.
Then, just as the episode was about to end, both Yumi and Ulrich's phone went off.
"Hello?" they said simultaneously.
"That's how it works." said Jeremie.
"Jeremie!" said Yumi.
"Hey, Yumi, Ulrich guess what? I'm hired."
"Great!" said Ulrich.
"Well, bye for now Aelita just showed up."
"Bye." they again said simultaneously.
Sorry I took so long, my favorite episode Avatar was in this chapter . I love Zukatara ! I hade to explain the dream and the jobs.
R&R please!