High School Mishappenings Chapter 6: I'm No Coward, a code lyoko fanfic

Hi guys! I know that the last Chpt. Wasn't that good sooo.. yah.. Sorry! Lol. I kind of wrote it in a rush just to get to this one becuz it's one of my favorite chpters in this INCREDIBLY long story.. lol.. Yes.. It will be very long. But thankfully I have all of it planned out in my head.. Okay.. well.. A secret here. This scene was just a little add on scene with Yumi and Ulrich. We'll just say that they need to get closer together for a reason. And you'll find out why..

The whistle blew and the teams were assigned to positions on the soccer field. My mind was buzzing and exhilaration raced through my whole body like pure blast of clean energy.

And it was not from the soccer game.

This afternoon I was going to be alone with Ulrich Stern.

The thought scared me more than anything else imaginable. We were going to meet up at Siena's studio and I was going to teach him falsetto. And Siena was not going to be there.

I played nervously with the key in my pocket. It was the spare key to the studio. Siena had willingly trusted me with it as she couldn't come along.

I was alone with him.

"Ishiyama! Get your head in the game!" my P.E. teacher shouted at me. I didn't even notice that the whistle had blown. Still, lucky she's not the soccer coach. We have separate coaches for each sport.

I started to run and go for the ball, although I felt very dizzy and somewhat nauseous.(sp?)

No one beats me at soccer. I ran as hard as I could and I stole the ball easily from one of Sissi's perfume girls and I took the shot.

I missed.

What's wrong with me?

Before I knew it, the game was over and I was still very dizzy. I wanted to collapse. The whole world was spinning.

"Remember soccer tryout's our two weeks from today, before the Christmas Concert, so all of you better get ready. Class dismissed." I heard the coach murmur although she sounded like a blur and why was there three of her standing across from each other?

I remembered Aelita and I walking away from the field and heading to the cafeteria.

I missed.

The soccer shot. I had missed from five feet away. And anytime I messed up in soccer meant there was extra training to be done.

There was a lot of extra training to be done.

I grabbed my under armor and put it on and my soccer shorts and prepared for a run during my lunch period.

I briefly told Aelita were I was going and I headed out.

I headed out to the side road that was behind the soccer field. It brought good memories as the first soccer field that I had ever played on when I was six was on this road. Also it was safe because there weren't a lot of cars.

It was a rainy day and the skies were a dark blue color. It started to drizzle as I started down to run down Oakview. La.

Alone.

Alone with Ulrich.

I took my head in my hands hand stopped running. My hair and clothes were dripping wet now. I felt dreary and my vision was starting to cloud.

'No! You have to keep running.' I thought. 'You have to take your mind off it.'

I tried to keep running, but my vision was getting darker and darker, I could barely see where I was going. I started to stumble down the hill, but I kept my balance.

You do not like him.

YOU DO NOT LIKE HIM!

And suddenly my eyes went pitch black and I collapsed on the side of the road.

Aelita was getting worried. Yumi did not come back from her run in time for the first class of afternoon, which was history.

'No,' Aelita thought. 'She probably just lost track of time knowing how dedicated she is.'

Fifteen minutes passed and Yumi still did not come back. Aelita was getting more and more worried every second.

'What if something happened! She did seem a little out of it today.' The pink-haired girl thought desperately.

Finally Aelita raised her hand.

"Yes, Miss Stones, what is it?" said Mr. Boone nicely from behind his desk.

"It's my friend Yumi, sir. She took a run this lunch period and she hasn't come back. I'd like to go look for her. I've finished all my work! Please, I'm really worried." Aelita pleaded from her seat.

"I guess it's okay then. Since you are such an excellent student. You may go." Said Mr. Boone and he shuffled his papers in his hands.

"I'd like to go to, sir." Said Ulrich and he stood up and raised his hand. Everyone looked at him, him being the last person they expected to go.

"Don't try to skip this class on me, Mr. Stern!" said Mr. Boone crossly.

"We have a date this afternoon." Said Ulrich and he looked genuinely worried. The class gasped.

Aelita almost fell over. A date? No way! He's lying. Although she said nothing.

"Oh. You are her boyfriend?"

Ulrich simply nodded. The class let out another huge gasp in shock and everyone started to whisper excitedly about this piece of news. Sissi started to whale loudly.

"Oh. Alright then. You may go as well. Remember to be back by next period!" shouted Mr. Boone as Ulrich quickly skated out the door with Aelita hotly on his tail.

"You big fat liar!" gasped Aelita when the door was closed.

"No you're wrong! We do have a date today." Said Ulrich and he smiled to himself as if he had just won first prize at the fair.

"Yeah, right. Once we find Yumi, she'll set you straight, Ulrich." Aelita rolled her eyes at him as she set off down the hallway.

Unless, Yumi had finally admitted the truth to herself...

Maybe...

Just maybe.

Aelita and Ulrich walked across the field looking for Yumi. They shouted her name out loud but they got no response from the raven-haired girl. It was starting to rain harder and harder and Aelita saw lightning in the sky.

She squealed and covered her ears when the response of thunder came.

"What're you kids doing out there? Come here this instant!" shouted an unfamiliar adult voice.

Aelita looked around towards the school to see that the voice was coming from a cheery looking big-stomached man.

Aelita and Ulrich ran inside the cafeteria to meet the man inside.

"Who are you?" Ulrich sputtered out when they reached him trying to dry his soaked clothes of some of the water.

"I'm Coach Carp, the soccer coach. What were you kids doing out there?" said Coach Carp in a mellow voice.

"We're looking for my friend, Yumi. She was out for a run during lunch hour and she hasn't come back since." Said Aelita even more worriedly than before.

"Yumi Ishiyama?" said the coach in shock. "The soccer player? She goes here?"

"Yah. How did you know?" said Aelita in shock.

"I coached her when she was just a little kid. She was part of our in house team that was undefeated for 3 years straight. Yumi was one of my favorite players. Always the strategist." He said smiling remembering the old times. "But this is no time to reminisce. She was out for a run you say?"

"Yes. Nothing unusual for her, but she always comes back on time. She was acting a bit strange today." Aelita said.

"Do you know where she usually runs, umm.. What're your names?"

"I'm Aelita Stones, her best friend and this is-

"Ulrich Stern." Said Ulrich and he proudly introduced himself.

"I should have figured," said Coach Carp. "Yumi always talked about you two, to my daughter Kelsey." He looked at Ulrich. "She also said that you were the most annoying person she had ever had the misfortune to meet."

Aelita laughed at this as Ulrich scowled.

"Anyways," he continued. "We need to find a flashlight. It's getting hard to see out there. We need to find her soon in this weather."

"I just hope she's okay." Pleaded Aelita silently to herself.

"Don't worry." Said Coach Carp. "Yumi's a smart girl. She'll know what to do."

He opened the door and allowed Ulrich and Aelita to step out into the rain and thunder. The trio walked around the field for a bit looking in the storage compartment seeing if Yumi had taken shelter from the weather in there, but to no avail.

"Like I said before, Do you know where she usually runs?" shouted Coach Carp over the thunder's roar.

"I thought she ran on the track field!" replied Ulrich and he squinted trying to keep the rain out of his eyes.

"So did I- Oh no!" gasped Aelita as she remembered something. She took off running towards Oakview La. The street behind the school's athletic field Yumi had said had her favorite soccer pitch down at the end of the road.

"Follow me!" Aelita shouted back to her companions as she waited for them to catch up to her. "This road-

"Oakview field." Said Coach Carp. "We used to have practice down there.,"

"Yes! At the end of the road is the soccer pitch. I bet she's there!" shouted Aelita over the thunder once again and the rain pelted down upon them so much that it hurt.

Ulrich and the others took off running down the road and they started to walk down a slippery hill.

Aelita saw something clad in red lying on the road. "Oh no!"

Ulrich and Aelita took of sprinting towards the body laying drenched on the ground.

"Oh god., Please let her not be dead.." whispered Aelita in tragedy as she watched Ulrich tenderly turn Yumi's body over so that her face was facing toward him. She was soaked down to the bone.

Ulrich carefully put his hand carefully over her heart and he felt the steady beat. He sighed in relief.

"Don't worry." Said Ulrich. "She's definitely alive."

Coach Carp caught up with the two teenagers and he moved them aside and knelt down beside Yumi.

"It looks like.. She passed out." Said Coach Carp as he looked for any sign of physical injury.

He took out what looked like a walkie-talkie and he ordered for the nurse to come with a stretcher and truck down the scene. "Was she under any sort of stress?"

"No.." said Aelita. "I can't think of any possible reason she would faint."

The nurse truck was there in a matter of minutes and Ulrich and Aelita watched as Yumi was wheeled away and taken to the nurses office for treatment.

I awoke with a snap of nervousness flowing through my body and I sat straight up right. It took me a moment to realize where I was.

"Yumi!" said a voice that sounded very pleased from beside me.

I look to my right side to see the smiling face of Ulrich Stern beaming at me.

"Are you okay?" he asked as I sat back down to try and come up with a conclusion to all of these events.

"I'm fine." I said as I rattled my brain for a medical answer. "How long have I been out?"

"Well. It's 4:00 and that means about 5 hours."

Then the light bulb went right off. The reason why I was out cold for 5 hours was partly my stupidity and the other 95 percent was sitting beside me.. holding my hand!

"Ulrich.. Is there any reason why you're holding my hand?" I asked nervously and blushed bright pink.

He took his hand away immediately and looked at the ground, blushing bright pink. "S-sorry."

"It's fine." I said still looking at him quizzically.

"I should probably go. You can teach me falsetto some other time." Ulrich said and got up to leave.

"No! That's okay. I'll be fine. We should get going anyway." I said and started to get up from the bed.

"Woahh. Wait a second. You just woke up!"

"I said I'm fine! Stop arguing. Do you want me to teach you or not?" I argued back at him fiercely.

"Okay fine. You win as always. Let's compromise, though. We stay here and do it in the music room so we don't have to run down to the studio." Said Ulrich as he followed me briskly out the door.

"Whatever.." I said and kept on walking.

"Remember you have to make the transfer smoothly." I said as I sat in my seat and watched Ulrich try to transfer from his chest voice to falsetto. I plucked the string's on my Epiphone.

"It's harder than it looks you know! You said it takes months to prefect this and we only have a couple of weeks!" he snapped back at me obviously frustrated with himself.

"Why doesn't blondy- I mean Barbaro have to do this?" He asked sharply to me his eyes narrowing.

"Because Nick has an unusually high register for a guy and because he has a heck of a lot more training than you. You're just born with it." I answered calmly.

"And how about you, Miss-I've-never-used-falsetto-in-my-life?" he retorted at me angrily.

"I don't have to. I've trained my range to be very high so I can hit almost any note in my chest voice." I said proudly.

"Can't we at least take a brake?" Ulrich sighed suddenly looking weary.

I felt my stomach do flip-flops as Ulrich sat down in the chair next to me. There was an awkward silence as if nothing to say.

Without warning, Ulrich grabbed me and started tickling me. He laughed as he saw my smiling face.

"U-Ulrich stop!" I choked out as we both fell to the ground.

Ulrich landed on top of me on the floor. I blushed wildly. He carefully took his hand and put my hair behind my ears. We just started at each other trying to understand.

"Why can't we? Why can't we just be friends like before?" Ulrich gazed at me with longing in his eyes.

"Things are different now. We're teenagers." I stated weakly, losing control of myself.

He put his arms around my waist and pulled me as close to him as he could. There was no space between us.

Ulrich put his face in the crook of my neck and nuzzled it lovingly, coaxing me to relax.

I sighed and wrapped my arms around his neck and laid my head on his shoulder. Where was my pillow and a blanket? I want to fall asleep here!

The shock of reality hit me like a dozen speeding bullets in the heart. Fast as lightning, I squirmed back in my seat.

I breathed slowly and tried to calm my racing heart down.

"That can never happen again." I said, without opening my eyes.

"And why not?" shot back Ulrich as he stood up and tried to cuddle me once more.

I quickly stood up to evade his arms. "This is exactly why! You can't control yourself! I just some prize to you! Another one of your trophies. YOU DON"T LOVE ME!"

I ran out of the room, both anger and sorrow sweeping through me, tearing at my soul.

I started to walk down the hallway briskly, away from Ulrich.

He got out of the hallway and stood in the hallway facing his front towards my back, although I was already way ahead of him.

"HOW CAN I KNOW IF I LOVE YOU WHEN YOU JUST KEEP RUNNING AWAY FROM ME! YOU COWARD! YOU'RE TO SCARED TO LET ANYONE IN!"

Tears formed at the brim of my eyes.

But my voice was firm,

"Don't ever call me coward."

End of Chpt. 6.

Wow! You guys don't know how much I wanted to have them get together right here! Lol! It was hard for me not to whisk the blanket and pillow out of my imagination! But it was well worth it. And just wait till Yumi hears the news at school... Let's try for 10 reviews plz! Thanks!

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