#36 Three
Sometimes, Ulrich thought back to when he first discovered Lyoko. Back when all he simply wanted to do was get rid of a pest which was from a pest of a roommate and to get good grades.
It was the first second that he was on Lyoko. When it was just him, Odd, and Aelita. And the only ones who seemed involved that were humans were him, Odd, and Jeremy. And sometimes, he wondered what would have happened if it stayed that way, or even if Sissi had become one of the three real people to be on Lyoko, but that thought process never lasted long. He wondered what it had happened if he had stayed in the group of four they had, made up of two groups of three. One group of humans: Jeremy, Odd, and himself; and one group of warriars on Lyoko: Aelita, himself, and Odd. He wondered what it would have been like, without Yumi, or Sissi, or William.
Being on Lyoko, with just Odd and Aelita always reminded him of the first time they were on it, and though their first time was short, it had the air of something that they most certainly didn't understand. Adventure was in every single thing he laid his eyes on.
They still didn't understand they mystery that was Lyoko, but it was a bit more clear now than it was then, and Lyoko didn't contain the exciting adventure and mystery in the same quantity that it had the first time. It was the first time, where it seemed like it was his. He might have shared it with Odd and Aelita, so it was theirs, but it felt like it was where he belonged.
Ulrich would never tell Yumi, that sometimes, and very rarely at that, he wished that she had not stuck her nose in their business, and Lyoko had still been theirs. Because even though her showing up changed nothing about Lyoko, he sometimes associated her presence with Lyoko not being a fairytale world.
Sometimes, he only wanted three.
Quick note: I don't not like Yumi. But I was just wondering a bit about it, I mean, originally, it was just them, even if it was for five minutes or less, but that's plenty of time to get a feeling for the place. And I have been focusing on her for a bit; but that's mostly trying to even every character out.