Ulrich and Yumi were the first ones at the café that they had agreed to meet up with their friends.
"I wonder who will be next to come?" Yumi asked Ulrich
No sooner had she said that Odd turned up smiling at his friends
"Isn't Aelita or Jeremie here yet?" he asked looking around
Yumi shook her head while Ulrich simply stared at his former best friend
"You ok Ulrich?" Odd asked him taking a seat next to him
"Yeah just thinking that's all"
Odd turned to Yumi "So he hasn't changed?"
"What do you mean?" Yumi asked slightly confused
"Being the deep-thinker he was in school?"
"Gosh no I doubt that will ever change"
"There here" Ulrich said bringing the conversation about himself to an end.
"Hi" they all said in union
Jeremie and Aelita sat down and an uncomfortable silence came upon the former best friends.
"So what have all been up to then?" Aelita said breaking the silence that had fell upon them
"Me and Ulrich are at the same uni and we're only a year away from graduating it" Yumi said
"That's cool" Aelita said turning to Odd who spoke next
"I'm at a music college with Sam we're studying a dj course together"
"Wow you two would make god dj's" Aelita said "Me and Jer are at a technology college designing and making computer games and all that stuff"
"Cool" Yumi said quietly stuck at what else to say
Silence fell upon them again.
"Anyone want a drink? My treat" Ulrich said getting his wallet out
"Yeah I'll have a coke please," Yumi said
"Um if your sure a vimto please," Odd said
"I'll have a fanta please Ulrich" Aelita said smiling at him
"Yeah me too," Jeremie said
"Ok I'll be right back" Ulrich turned away going o the counter to ask for the drinks
"So how's your relationship with Ulrich, Yumi?" Aelita asked
"Strong as ever" Yumi said smiling
"Good"
Ulrich returned with the tray of drinks. He, himself, had had a coke like Yumi. Silence fell upon them again
"I've got a question for all of us to answer: Why does this uncomfortable silence keep happening between us? We used to be such great friends," Ulrich said sounding pissed off
"I think it's 'coz we're all ashamed of not being the good friends that we were, well, I now I am" Jeremie said bowing his head
"I am too; after all you guys did for me in lyoko I should have made more of an effort to stay in closer contact with all of you" Aelita spoke softly a tear dropping from her eye
"We all take the blame really none of us tried our hardest did we?" Odd spoke quietly
"Yeah we do all take the blame" Yumi said fiddling with her shirt button
Ulrich's mobile went off, excusing himself; he left the table to answer it.
When Ulrich came back he was sort of distracted.
"You ok?" Yumi asked him when the others had given her a questionable look
"Yeah yeah I'm fine it's just that that was Grace, she spotted Matthew kissing Faith that's all,"
"WHAT!" Yumi exclaimed "No way Matty would never do that to Grace"
"Well he has and she's well upset" Ulrich frowned "But let's continue with this" He said looking up to see his friends looking bewildered
Ulrich laughed "The gang we hang out with at uni they're kinda freaked"
"Oh" Aelita said looking a little sad
Odd noticing this asked her what was wrong but she just shook her head 'nothing'
"You know what we should do?" Jeremie said speaking up sounding more confident then he had for a while "We should do what we used to"
"What's that Jeremie?" Yumi asked coming out of her thoughts that she was having about her friends at uni.
"You know how sometimes we got bored at kadic?" "And we asked each other questions, things we didn't know about each other?" "Why don't we do that?"
"Great idea Einstein" Odd said
"Ok who's starting then?" Yumi asked
"I think we should go in alphabetical order which means that Aelita will go first, followed by me then odd next Ulrich and lastly Yumi"
"Ok"
"Cool"
"Ok"
"Should be fun"
"OK let's do this"