"ULRICH! NO!" Yumi yelled
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked uncertain on what was happening
"PLEASE NO ULRICH, I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU" Yumi yelled again.
Ulrich realised that Yumi was having a bad dream and woke her.
"Yumi wake up, it's ok I'm here, you just had a bad dream" Ulrich said comforting her
Yumi opened her eyes and saw Ulrich looking down at her. She hugged him fiercely and like she never wanted to let go.
Ulrich stroked her back in comfort.
"Never leave me, Ulrich, please" She whispered still sounding slightly scared.
"You know I won't"
"Ulrich, tell me the truth" she said pulling away from him and looking at him "Do you, even in the slightest, for what happened?"
"No Yumi, I don't, it wasn't your fault at all, what you ate wasn't supposed to have fish in it so don't you dare blame yourself, you hear?" Ulrich said knowing the cause of her bad dream
"OK, but if you did you would tell me wouldn't you?"
"Yumi we have an honest relationship, does that answer your question?"
"I guess, hey! What time is it?"
Ulrich glanced at the clock- it read 6:05am
"Do you honestly want to know?" Ulrich half-laughed
"That early?" Yumi laughed she was fully awake after her bad dream
"Five past six" Ulrich said now fully awake himself
"Sorry for waking you" Yumi said quietly thinking about her dream
"Don't be silly, Yumi" Ulrich said stroking her hand "Wanna talk about it?"
"Um I dunno" Yumi said, she knew it would either be him or Aelita and Sam she told, so decided that it was best to talk to him.
"It was after we found out about it and you were yelling at me and blaming me for it. Saying I should have stuck to having the pasta and that you hated me for it. I sort of begged you to stay and you slung me to the floor and then the real you woke me up" Yumi finished quietly
Ulrich pulled her into a hug and stroked her hair
"It's getting easier outside of dream world for both of us, last night was evident of that, but well, our dreams will take longer, Yumi"
"I know, Ulrich" She kissed him softly and went into the bathroom.
Ulrich sighed. He got out of bed and got dressed before having to do his daily morning routine.
"So what are we doing today since uni is closed today?" Ulrich asked looking at Yumi who was applying her mascara
"I dunno, I suppose we could start Christmas shopping after all, it is only a month away now" Yumi sighed
"Yeah, I suppose, have we got enough money?"
"Yeah plenty, I got my education support money yesterday, so we're cool"
"Ok, good" Ulrich said brushing his teeth
"Wanna go about 10am?"
"Yeah sure" Ulrich said through toothpaste
Yumi giggled.
5 HOURS LATER
"Well we got everyone's except each others" Yumi said putting her two bags down on the kitchen counter
"Yeah but we couldn't exactly get each other's with the each other there, could we now?" Ulrich breathed putting about 10 bags on the floor
"Suppose not!" Yumi laughed
"Going to wrap them now?" Ulrich asked her
"Got nothing better to do, 'coz I'm not really in the mood to clean this place up"
"Don't blame ya" Ulrich laughed
"What you going to do?"
"Dunno, just relax I guess, unless you want help?" Ulrich asked her knowing the answer
"You must be kidding, after last year!"
Ulrich laughed
The door knocked, so Ulrich went and got it
The next thing Yumi knew was that Grace, Matthew and Faith were entering her living room
"What?" Yumi asked not caring to sound polite.
Since Yumi and Ulrich had got their old friends back. Matthew, Grace and Faith had totally ignored them. Which they hadn't cared about. They didn't like to get involved with their twisted love lives.
"We just wanted to know, why you aren't speaking to us?" Matthew said
Yumi heard Ulrich laugh and saw him leaning on the doorframe staring at them in disbelief
"Look I haven't got time for you childish games. You ignored us. We ignored you. Simple as that. You going to leave now?" Yumi said
"Are you not going to ask what happened between us?" Faith asked looking at Yumi in shock
"If I was bothered, yes but I'm not"
"You've changed, Yumi" Faith said
"Things have happened no if you don't mind, Ulrich will show you out" Yumi said firmly
"There's no need, we know where the door is" Grace said coldly
Yumi started wrapping the presents up when she felt two arms come along her own.
Ulrich was sat behind her on the floor.
"You ok, Ulrich?" Yumi asked when he saw his pale face
"Yeah, just a bit tired I think"
"Then go to bed for a bit, get some rest and before you say it, if there's anything I need or want I'll come and ask you ok?"
Ulrich smiled at kissed her on her cheek and went to bed.
Ulrich woke up 3 hours later and heard quiet talk in the living room. He looked at the clock to find that it was 7pm.
He got dressed and went straight into the kitchen to get a glass of water.
Ulrich got the glass from the cupboard and was heading to the fridge when everything went black for him.
The other's in the living room heard a thump and a glass breaking and looked at Yumi.
"I'll go and see what he's doing"
She left and screamed at the sight of Ulrich on the floor
The others ran into the kitchen to see Yumi leaning over Ulrich on the kitchen floor trying to wake him.
"What happened?" odd asked confused
"Ulrich, wake up, come on, wake up please" Yumi was pleading with him on the floor.
Odd kneeled beside her and looked at Ulrich.
He looked perfectly fine. He wasn't pale like Yumi had mentioned before.
"Jeremie help me carry him to the sofa" Odd said starting to pick him up.
Odd and Jeremie carried the unconscious Ulrich to the living room and placed him on the sofa.
Yumi kneeled beside him and still pleading with him to wake up.
Ulrich slowly opened his eyes
"What happened?" Ulrich asked on seeing Yumi and his friends looking over him with concern on their face.
Yumi hugged him gently.
"All we heard was a thud and a glass breaking mate and then found you on the floor unconscious, we hoped you would be able to fill us in on the rest" Odd said
"How are you feeling?" Yumi asked him
"When I woke up, I felt fine. But now I feel a bit worn out I suppose"
"Ulrich, I suggest you go to bed" Jeremie said to him "Or else it's going to happen again"
Yumi told him to do what Jeremie had said.
He had obeyed her knowing that if he didn't she would worry more than she probably already was.
"What do you think happened, Jer?" Yumi whispered.
"Simply too tired. He probably isn't getting a good night's sleep. I have noticed how tired he's been looking. Does he take sleeping tablets?"
"No, should he?" Yumi asked
"Only if he finds sleeping hard, is he?"
"Not that I know of. All I know is that he's been getting bad dreams as well" Yumi said making her friends look up at her.
"He has a couple a night I think, but he doesn't tell me about them like I do mine" Yumi said
"Well I suggest that that is the problem- bad dreams not letting him sleep easily" "If it keeps happening I'd get him to take a sleeping tablet's to help him get more sleep"
"Ok"
"Guys I think we should go in case we wake Ulrich"
The other's left saying goodbye to Yumi.
Yumi didn't want Ulrich to pass out like that again.
So instead of disturbing tried to sleep on the couch but was having trouble due to not having Ulrich to comfort her when certain unwanted thoughts ran through her head.
After about an hour of trying to get to sleep. She did but a bad dream started up where Ulrich was yelling at her and he drove away from her and she saw a lorry smash into Ulrich's car completely crushing it.
She awoke with silent tears down her cheeks. She felt someone take the tears away. She looked up and saw Ulrich
"Are you ok?" Ulrich asked her concern on his face
"I'm fine just another bad dream"
"Same one?" he asked
"No a worst one, I caused your death" She said another tear leaking from her eye at just the thought of her dream.
"Why are you sleeping here?"
"I didn't want to disturb you after what happened" Yumi said "How are you feeling now?"
"Much better, but I'd feel 100 better if you slept beside me so I knew that you were safe"
Yumi laughed quietly and entered their bedroom.
She and Ulrich crawled into bed. Yumi cuddled into Ulrich while he wrapped his arm around her.
Soon Yumi was asleep and Ulrich smiled.
When he had awoken and saw no Yumi there. He'd panicked.
When he had entered the living room and saw her crying about her dream, he was worried.
But now that she was with him, he felt much better.
He too fell asleep thinking of the tests that they were having to take these next few days at uni to get their degrees in psychology.
For once, he felt confident about taking the tests and knew Yumi did too.