Yumi and Aelita were the life of the dance floor at Flarez, they were showing off their talents on the dance floor and everyone's eye was upon them, even the guys who were sat at a corner table with their drinks discussing life.

"Can you believe that girl was once in a virtual world?" Odd said as he watched Aelita dance.

"I know" Ulrich laughed his eyes on Yumi who was laughing while dancing to the beat of the song. "It woul-"

Ulrich was dragged up by a guy who he didn't even know

"You hurt the girl of my dreams- now I hurt you"

And with that they guy punched Ulrich right in his face then in his stomach with such a force that he kneeled in pain.

"Who are you? What the hell are you talking about?" Ulrich coughed as Yumi and Aelita came running to his aid, the others had already knelt beside Ulrich to see if he was alright, which he clearly wasn't his nose and lip was flowing with blood and he was holding his stomach.

"You mean you don't recognise me? None of you do?"

They all shook their heads

"It's me Herb from kadic"

They all stared at him in shock. He certainly didn't look like herb from kadic who was such a geek. The herb standing in front of them had grown a lot of muscle, his hair was one colour and he had dyed it light brown, he no longer wore glasses which meant that he must have purchased contacts and his acne was no more.

"And just so you know Ulrich, Sissy is mine now she got over you long ago after you broke her heart"

"Do you mean when I told her the truth?" Ulrich said standing up with the help of his friends

Herb walked off, when he saw a bouncer coming towards him, but hit Ulrich back down before leaving

Odd and Yumi helped Ulrich back up and sat him down. He was still holding his stomach.

Ulrich sat in silence, half because of shock half because he was starting to feel sick. The others around him were talking about what had happened in shock but Ulrich wasn't listening.

Suddenly Ulrich leapt up and ran towards the bathroom holding his mouth.

Once he got there he vomited bits of blood up at first, then just what he had been at the club; peanuts and crisps and of course alcohol.

Ulrich barely heard someone come in his stall as he was being sick again

"You ok mate?" Odd's voice said to him as he placed his hand on Ulrich's shoulder as he was sick again.

After he had finished, Ulrich stood up, with the help of odd, and walked over to a sink.

He washed his face over with water, he was shaking bad but that was to be expected; he had just threw up everything he had had to eat and drink in the last 3 hours.

"Yeah I'm ok but I'm gonna go home, tell Yumi not to worry about me, kay?"

"Yeah, ok, how did you get here?" Odd asked

"We walked but I'll get a taxi back, don't worry Odd I'll be fine" Ulrich said walking out of the bathroom

AN HOUR LATER

Yumi crept into the flat as silently as she could so she wouldn't wake Ulrich up.

She wasn't in a party mood anymore so had decided to call it a night.

Since Odd had told her that Ulrich had decided to go home and for her not to worry, she had done nothing but worry.

She crept into their bedroom and saw Ulrich sitting up in bed-reading!

"Oh I thought you'd be asleep" Yumi said slipping her clothes off onto the floor on slipping her nightgown on.

"I tried to but I wasn't tired" Ulrich said watching Yumi in the bathroom taking her make-up off "How did the rest of the night go?"

"The other's are still there but I got a bit tired so I called it a night"

"Liar" was Ulrich's only word as she got into bed with him

"Fine but I missed you and I wanted to see if you was alright, Odd had said that you had threw a bit of blood up"

"Yeah I did a little but after that it was just like my food that I had had"

"That was a shock wasn't it?"

"You're telling me" Ulrich said putting his book down and wrapping an arm around Yumi.

Yumi leaned in to his body and placed her head on his chest while her hand stroked his shoulder.

Ulrich reached over with his other hand and switched the lamp off and then placed his head lightly on Yumi's. Her hand had stopped stroking his shoulder and as Ulrich watched her with a loving gaze, she fell asleep. Ulrich smiled and closed his eyes and soon fell asleep too.