The gang wasn't able to meet up with each other today as, Sam had a baby scan at the hospital and of course Odd was going with her. Jeremie and Aelita were going on a school trip to see what work truly goes into a computer game. Ulrich and Yumi had nothing to do now that they're exams were over so had decided to stay at home.
"Who was that on the phone?" Yumi yelled from the bedroom to wherever Ulrich was in their flat.
"Odd" Ulrich yelled back not really wanting to tell her.
Yumi didn't yell a reply in fact there was total silence.
Ulrich walked into the bedroom to find Yumi sitting on their bed and holding an Eeyore cuddly close to her chest.
"Is that what we got when we found out about you being pregnant?" Ulrich asked in barely a whisper but Yumi had still heard him.
"No, it isn't. It's the one you won on our first date, remember? The state fair?" Yumi asked holding her hand out for Ulrich.
He took it and sat down next to her.
"Yeah I do remember" Ulrich said taking the donkey out of her hands and looking down at it.
"What did Odd say?" Yumi asked already knowing
"Just to say that everything was fine and that he wanted to show us their scan pictures" Ulrich asked dropping his voice to a whisper at the end.
"Oh" Yumi managed to say
Yumi took her cuddly from Ulrich and placed it on her bedside table. She took a pillow and threw it into his chest laughing. Ulrich looked up in time to say a pillow hit him right in his face. He grabbed a pillow and aimed it at Yumi's head also now laughing.
They continued laughing after their pillow fight.
"What got into you?" Ulrich asked grabbing Yumi and placing her in his lap.
"Nothing" Yumi said starting to kiss him.
Ulrich kissed her back.
"When do we find out our results?" Yumi asked leaning into him.
"No idea, all I know is that they come through the post" Ulrich said leaning back into the chair.
"So they come here, then?"
Ulrich nodded his head.
Yumi's cell went off revealing that she had a text message off Sam.
"Do you want to go to a Christmas party at Sam's place?" Yumi asked Ulrich
"Is it Christmas eve?" Ulrich asked thinking
Yumi nodded her head
"Sure if you want to, can't be that bad, can it?" Ulrich asked
Yumi laughed.
"So we're going?"
Yumi nodded her head
"Who else?"
"I dunno, but she's coming over later"
"Ok" Ulrich said starting to tickle Yumi.
Yumi squealed. "No, Ulrich please, stop!"
"There's only one way to make me stop" Ulrich smiled still tickling her
"What's that?" Yumi said through breaths.
"Kiss me" Ulrich said stopping when he felt her lips on his.
Ulrich deepened the kiss but then stopped when the need for air was too great.
"When Sam comes over, it's going to be the real test you know Ulrich" Yumi said sounding apprehensive.
Ulrich nodded.
He knew that it would be hard to see to see a scan of a baby so shortly after losing their baby.
He knew that Yumi might break down and cry.
He knew that he might feel stinging in his eyes from tears welling up. But he also knew that if this happened that his two friends would feel guilty to which he didn't want. He didn't want his friends to feel sorry and sad for them in their own time of happiness.
LATER THAT DAY
The gang had met up at Saka, a café.
After a while of mindless banter, Aelita asked Sam how her scan went. Sam took out the scan picture and gave them to Aelita. Aelita smiled at them and hugged her. She passed Jeremie the scans, and was heard to say, 'yes perfectly healthy' Jeremie went to pass Ulrich the picture but stopped halfway in doing so. He realised what he had said about the baby being healthy without thought to his other two grieving friends.
Ulrich took the scan out of Jeremie's hand and looked down at it. Ulrich felt a lump rise in his throat and passed Yumi the scan wondering if she would be alright.
Yumi took the scan, looking at Ulrich wondering what hidden emotion was behind those eyes.
She looked down at the scan in her hands and she too felt a lump in her throat, she could feel tears stinging the corner of her eyes.
She gave the scan back to Sam and managed to say 'congratulations' before excusing herself saying she had to go to the ladies room.
Everyone's attention turned to Ulrich, who had made no comment or anything on the scan.
Ulrich, who had been looking down but on feeling people watching him, looked up and saw his four friends looking at him unsure of what to do.
"Congrat's Sam and of course Odd" Ulrich said after fighting to make the lump remove so that he could speak.
"Thanks, Ulrich, if there's anything I can do, just let me know, ok?" Sam said wishing that Ulrich's and Yumi's child had not been taken away from them.
"Actually there is" Ulrich said with a look of worry on his face.
"Yeah?"
"Can you check on Yumi? I would but you know it is a girl's bathroom"
Sam nodded and walked into the bathroom to find Yumi with a tear running down her face.
Sam hugged her and apologised.
"No don't say sorry," Yumi said wiping the tear away.
Sam looked at her with an admirable look on her face.
Yumi really was being brave and she knew that it was getting better for her as well as it was Ulrich. And for that Sam admired them because she felt that if that happened to her and Odd that she wouldn't have been able to cope.