The others, on the balcony, realized what had happened.
"Oh my god... this cant be happening." Odd whispered to himself
"Yumi can't die. Sh-sh-e can't be dead... She can't! She can't!" Jeremy shouted.
He ran off towards the dorm.
"Jeremie! Jeremie! Wait!" Aelita ran off after him.
Odd fell to the floor. His friend, the girl that was always there for them,
she was...dead. No matter how much he tried to convince himself he was wrong, he was right.
Yumi, whom they had spent so many happy times with, was gone. He tried to imagine Yumi, strong, never-give-up Yumi, cold and lifeless, not moving on the hospital bed.
He couldn't believe it. He wished that there could be some kind of miracle... he wished that they could return to the past this one last time.
He thought to himself, 'Ulrich is going to be devastated. Ohh ULRICH where's Ulrich?'
Odd ran around the corner and into the hall the nurse had brought Ulrich to. Odd saw him crying. Never before had he seen Ulrich cry. 'I should leave.' he thought to himself.
He decided to go to his dorm, where Aelita and Jeremy had decided to come as well. Aelita was crying, and Jeremie's face was hidden in a pillow, but Odd knew he must be crying. He couldn't stand the tension. He put his hands to his eyes and let out a long sob.
"What will we do now?" Aelita asked, wiping her eyes.
Jeremie looked up from the pillow. His glasses were covered with water spots and his face was red.
"I don't know Aelita" Jeremie said, "I just don't know."
Aelita sat on the bed. "I don't understand why." she said.
"Neither do I" Jeremie said.
Suddenly Ulrich walked in. everyone went silent. His face was strait and emotionless. Without a word he came inside and sat down in Jeremie's computer chair. He hunched his shoulders and put his hands in his hair. There was a long silence. No one spoke or moved. Ulrich charged up from the chair and kicked a hole in the wall. Aelita jumped and everyone else gasped. Ulrich fury had no end. He ran through the door and back into the infirmary. Yumi's body was covered with a hospital sheet. He pulled it away and looked at her face. He kneeled on the floor and put his head on the bed. Ulrich cried for a long time. He picked up her hand. It was cold and scaly, and he dropped it immediately. 'No... No it's not true.' he thought to himself.
Right at that point Sissi walked into the room. 'Oh my god just what I need. Perfect timing Sissi.' he thought to himself.
"Oh my God! Is she... is she dead?" Sissi said.
Ulrich looked at Yumi's body with tears in his eyes.
"Yes, Sissi. She is. Now please leave." he said in an emotionless monotone.
"Ulrich dear, don't cry" She reached for his hand, but Ulrich took it away.
"No sissi. Please leave." Sissi knew she couldn't be mad at him and discovered that she too was very sad about Yumi's death. She walked outside, and a single tear fell from her eye.
Ulrich stared into space for a long time. Then he looked at Yumi. He took a deep breath.
"You're sad, aren't you" What? Could this be yumi?
Ulrich swung around to see Aelita.
"Oh, hi Aelita.I thought for a minute that you were...um..."
"Yumi?" she answered, raising and Eyebrow.
"Yes. Yumi." he said plopping into the nearest chair. Aelita sat down on the bed.
"She lived a good life." Aelita said, putting her hand on Ulrich's shoulder.
"I know she did." He said taking Aelita's hand. But it doesn't make any difference.
I'll never get to see her again or hear her voice, even feel her touch.
"It's going to be alright," Aelita said. "Just calm down for a while. It'll all be ok"
"Come on, you've had a hard day." Aelita said. "Come back to the room with us."
Ulrich took one painful breath and one very painful final look at Yumi's cold, lifeless body. He memorized every detail of her, so that he would never forget her. He walked toward the hall. He looked back at her right before the door closed.
AT THE DORM,
Everyone was in the dorm having sort of an informal funeral for Yumi. Even sissi was there, wearing a black dress. Kiwi came and jumped up on Ulrich's legs as he walked in. Aelita whispered into Ulrich's ear.
"Jeremie and I are going on our date so I'm going to have to leave early. Call me if you need anything. I have ummm... Yumi's cell phone, ok?"
Ulrich swallowed hard.
"Ok Aelita."
Ulrich sat down and instantly bombarded by Millie and Tammia for information about Yumi's death,
But he didn't want to talk about it.
JEREMIE AND AELITA'S DATE
Jeremy had decided to take Aelita for dinner at a local diner and later they took a walk down by the lake.
"Oh thank you Jeremie this was wonderful. Thank you." Aelita said,
"You're welcome Aelita." Jeremie said,
"You look much better in person then on a computer screen." Jeremy said,
"So do you." Aelita commented. She held his hand. Jeremie Blushed deeply.
Aelita sat down on the edge of the dock. "You're world is so beautiful. I wish I could stay here all the time," she said, looking thoughtfully into the lake.
"I wish you could to. That's why I'm working so hard on your materialization software."
"I'm afraid." Aelita said.
"Why?" Jeremie asked.
"I don't know." She said staring in Jeremie's eyes.
"Do you want to go home now?" Jeremie asked.
"Yes. I think so. Ulrich probably needs us."
"I agree" Jeremie said. They walked off into the fogginess around the dock and headed toward home.
They walked past the dock and went by the park on cherry tree road.
"Jeremie...." Aelita said again.
"What?" he said,
"I sense something strange...." she said.
"Well why woul...." Jeremie didn't have time to finish his sentence.
A mugger dressed in black charged out of the bushes, grabbed
Aelita by the waist and held a Knife to her throat.
Aelita stood petrified against him afraid to move.
She gasped and swallowed uncontrollably.
"AELITA! ! ! !" Jeremie yelled running toward her.
"DON'T MOVE! ! ! DON'T MOVE OR I'LL KILL HER! ! !" The mugger yelled. Aelita screamed.
Jeremie Slowly put his hands up.
"What do you want from me?" he asked,
"Put your money on the ground...put it on the ground."
"I don't have any mo...."
"PUT IT ON THE GROUND," The mugger yelled.
Jeremie pulled a dollar and 25 cents out of his pocket and put it on the ground.
"Let her go." he said calmly.
"THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!! DO YOU WANT HER TO LIVE? DO YOU?!"
the mugger yelled furiously, accidentally grazing her cheek,
making a bloody cut across her face.
"Jeremie Help me!! ! !" Aelita yelled with tears in her eyes.
"I don't have any more," he said... his hands rattled with fright. Aelita's did the same.
"Then I guess you don't get your little girlfriend anymore...." the mugger said.
"AELITA NOOOOOOOO! ! ! ! !" Jeremie yelled diving for her
the mugger sliced Aelita's throat and ran away. She fell onto the grass in a heap.
The mugger's knife had cut Jeremie's shoulder as he ran away, and it was painful but he lifted her up.
"AELITA ...AELITA ARE YOU OK???!" he yelled.
"Jeremie..." she moaned."Keep Ulrich and Odd out of trouble for me.," she said. A tear fell from her eye,
and she touched Jeremie's face.
"Goodbye Jeremie..." she said. She gave him a final kiss, her hand slid
from his face, and she laid dead forevermore. It wasn't long before her
body vanished in a huge electrical zap, leaving only
a thick pink computer chip behind.
NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Jeremie screamed into the night and lay down on the grass in a heap.
He screamed as if he had never screamed before.
Tears and blood dotted his glasses. His shirt was torn where the mugger's knife has cut him,
and his heart burned like a raging bonfire for Aelita.
He knew, for now and forevermore,
----------------------This was the end of Aelita
He lay on the grass and cried until he fell asleep there.
