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What did you say?" Yumi
asked him again, making sure see heard that right.
" As you wish. Yeah I know it's weird. Why would I say that," Ulrich answered. Yumi froze solid. She was starting to feel better about this ' not ' being her fault. ' As you wish,' Yumi said again in her mind. He answered her wish that she never wanted to make. It wasn't an accident. Ulrich stepped in front of the car to fulfill Yumi's wish. Ulrich had tried to kill himself.
" You okay Yumi?"
Yumi didn't hear him at first but snap back to reality and looked at him, " Huh?"
" You okay?"
" Oh, I'm fine," lied Yumi.
" Do you have any idea why I would have said that?" Ulrich asked.
Yumi looked at him, thinking whether or not she should tell him. ' The night of the accident I told you I wished you just go and die, so you did.' Yumi said in her head instead of to him. She wanted to tell him. She had to tell him. " I don't know." Yumi said to him. ' Dammit Yumi.'
" Oh well, another mystery. Until I get my memory back." Yumi had forgotten his memory loss was temporary. He'd eventually remember, then what. Would he try it again? Yumi sat back down. ' I just stay with him till then.'
" Until then, I'll just lean back, and watch this crap they play on the tv twenty four seven," he said, continuing to watch some crappy soap opera in french.
Through the next week, Ulrich was remembering a few new things. He remembered the events in lyoko after two weeks, giving their conversations a little more topic to talk about. They laughed at a few things, and would blush and look away from a few others. Yumi was liking this actually. Because Ulrich had his memory gone, he needed to talk more to get it back, something he didn't do very often. He was more open with her, something Yumi always wanted from him.
Ulrich was starting to remember his emotions toward everyone, especially Yumi. Remembering he was usually nervous around her, made him laugh because since he woke up, he wasn't. It was like talking to nice stranger. Now that he knew his emotions, and compared them to the ones before the accident. He was open, but not nervous. It surprised Yumi things they were able to talk about. They didn't express love or stuff like that, but things the two normally wouldn't talk about.
The entire time, Yumi was trying to think of a way to tell him. She was trying to tell him why he had said those words. How would he react? Would he even react? Right now it seemed anything could be said to him. It seemed he hadn't remembered the details from that night yet, but when he did, Yumi figured she'd notice.
It was a month after Ulrich had woken up. Most of his memory was back, except the memory of the accident. Ulrich was finally permitted to leave his bed, and Yumi pushed his wheelchair around the hospital for him. Ulrich loved getting some fresh air for a change, and Yumi enjoyed having more to do with him. They would roll his chair through the courtyard of the hospital. The others visited as well, usually all at once. Sissi had noticed he was gone, and had visited a few times, but the entire time Ulrich would pretend to be asleep till she left.
Yumi walked into the room to see Ulrich in his bed, playing go fish with Zack. " Got any fours?" Zack asked Ulrich.
" Go fish?" Zack groaned and grabbed another card, him having nine now. Seeing he had pulled a card that completed a pair he put them down, waiting for Ulrich to take his turn. " Got any kings?"
" Your cheating aren't you?" Zack asked handing Ulrich his king. Ulrich laughed and put the pair down face up. " Got any twos?" Ulrich handed him a two as Zack celebrated in his mind.
" Hey Yumi," Ulrich said thinking of what he should ask for next. Yumi smiled and stepped into the room, standing next to Ulrich on the opposite side of the bed as Zack. Ulrich looked at the mirror behind Zack and saw his cards in the reflection. " Do you have an... Ace?" Zack slammed his cards down in disbelief as Ulrich laughed, because he had just won.
" You were cheating, not one guess was wrong the entire game."
" I'm just lucky, play again?" Zack shuffled the cards back into the deck and dealt them to everyone. This game, Yumi and Ulrich tag teamed Zack to bring him out of the game early. Then the fight was between them. Because they weren't using a mirror, it was actually a game.
" Do you have a three?" Ulrich asked. Yumi shook her head and said the necessary words. Ulrich drew his next card and groaned, no pairs.
" Got any fours?"
" Go fish." Yumi drew her next card and smiled mentally, keeping her game face. " Any jacks?"
" Go fish, any threes?" Yumi asked before Ulrich drew his card. She had pulled a three on her last draw. Ulrich drew his card and threw the three to Yumi, then placed the pair of fives down. Ulrich had one card left, and not enough pairs to beat Yumi. Yumi had three cards left, then looked at them. A ten, a six, and an ace. Looking up from over her cards, she looked at Ulrich who was waiting for her to guess.
" Umm, do you have a six?"
Ulrich threw the card to her and said, " Dammit. Can we play something else?"
" Cry baby," Yumi said to him playfully. " You get out of your casts tomorrow right?"
" Yep. Good timing to, they were getting itchy." Yumi giggled and collected the cards, shuffled, placing them on the small table next to Ulrich's bed. " I'm not joking. They're driving me nuts." Yumi giggled again and rubbed his hair that was growing back fast. " Sissi came by again."
" What she'd do?" Yumi asked him, knowing this would be entertaining.
" I pretended to be asleep again, and the entire time she was playing with my hair. Then she leaned down, and smelled it." Yumi looked at him, not sure how to react. " That's what I said, I pretended to wake up and she freaked out."
" What did she do?"
" Started to talk about how much she loves me, and all that bs. I told her I was pretending to be asleep the entire time, and she thought I was just being shy."
" Sounds like Sissi. When did she leave?"
" When Zack came in. She thinks his eyes are creepy and didn't feel safe being in the same room, so left."
" Finally Zack," Yumi said looking at him, " Something your useful for." Zack just shrugged.
" We all have our purpose, even me. Well I need to go, I have a date." Zack stood up off his chair and put his coat on.
" What's she like?" Ulrich asked, interested in Zack's relationship.
" She's an american who moved for the company. I'm going to show her around town and stuff. You know, introduce her to the city." Zack zipped it up and said his goodbyes and left.
" Good luck." Yumi said to him before he reached the door. " I can't wait till you get your casts off."
" I can, it means I'll be physically healthy enough to attend school," Ulrich said, actually starting to enjoy his little vacation.
" I go to your school, it can't be that bad," Yumi said, telling him one nice thing about Kadic. Then Yumi stopped smiling because she was going to tell him something. " Umm Ulrich there's something you need to know about that night."
Ulrich turned to face her and asked, " What about it?"
" I think I know why you said those words before you stepped into the street." Ulrich waited for her to continue eagerly. " We had a argument that night, and I said I wished you just go and die." Yumi had said it, now it was his turn to say something.
To her surprise Ulrich smiled and said, " Bout time."
