Yumi walked up to her best friend. He was wearing his normal green cargo pants with a tee shirt and button down the front over it. " Hey Ulrich! What's up?"
"Looks like our day of sun is cancelled." He said to her. She was wearing a black pair of jeans and a new black tank top. Ulrich didn't say it but Yumi looked good in the tank top. She always wore black long sleeved shirts. The change made her look even more beautiful then normal.
"Why?"
His thoughts went back to the conversation. "Because something has happened to Aelita. We don't know where she is. It looks like she left in a hurry and not in a good way. We think it's Xana."
"How's Jeremie taking it?" Yumi said worriedly.
Ulrich looked at the dorms and then looked at the down. "Odd and I didn't tell him. We're not really sure how."
Yumi looked at the dorms and mumbled to herself "He has to know already. He knows where Aelita is every minute. Is she's missing he could do something stupid. He loves her." She then realized she was still talking to Ulrich and quickly said "I'm going to see him and I'm going alone.
Yumi ran the dorms as Ulrich watched with a look of disbelief on his face. She had never said anything to him like that before. Why did she have such a worried look in her eyes? Xana has gone after Aeilita in Lyoko before and Jeremie was always fine. She must know something we don't.
X X X
Yumi reached Jeremie's room and knocked on the large wooden door. "Go away!" Jeremie said in a soft muffled voice.
Yumi's heart dropped, she heard in his voice how upset her best friend was. She said into the door "Jeremie, I'm not going anywhere."
"Go away. I want to be alone!" was his only response. She opened the door and saw Jeremie on his bed with his head in his hands. Before he could turn away, through his fingers Yumi could see that he had been crying. She pushed the door closed and sat down next to him. She put her hand on his shoulder and turned him around. As she did so Jeremie dropped his hands and Yumi saw his tear streaked face. "Jeremie, we will find her no matter what it takes." Jeremie started to cry again. Yumi put her arms around him and he sobbed into her shoulder.
X X X
Ulrich started to walk to the dinning hall, when Odd caught up with him. "I saw you talking with Yumi did you tell her?"
"Yea I did, but she acted weird. After I told her she said she was going to see Jeremie alone. Then ran off."
Odd looked at Ulrich and said "Your overreacting man, Yumi's just worried about Jeremie."
"I probably am, but did you notice something going on between them since Christmas break. When we first came back they weren't even saying two words to each other. Then they were talking alone all the time. I see Yumi in his room more then anyone else even Aelita sometimes."
"Ulrich don't worry about it."
"All right" As he was walking Ulrich noticed something on the ground and picked it up. :Wait this is Yumi's cell phone. I'd better take it to her. What if we need to get a hold of her or Jeremie."
"We can call Jeremie's on his cell."
"He wasn't answering the last three times I tried calling him."
Ulrich ran to the dorms. Odd headed to the dinning hall and said to himself "Wonder how long they'll be mad at each other this time."
X X X
When Ulrich got to Jeremie's room a few minutes later the door was cracked open. Enough where he could see in. Ulrich quietly walked closer and looked in. Yumi was holding Jeremie. He saw Jeremie look up with tears in his eyes and said "I love... You know." Ulrich moved closer her could only hear parts of what they were saying and what he did hear, he thought he heard wrong.
Yumi kissed Jeremie on the forehead and said "I know you do. I love..." Ulrich backed up before he could hear the rest. He was so shocked, that he backed right up into the picture of the Principal behind him, and knocked it clear off the wall. Yumi heard the noise and opened the door to see a still shocked Ulrich standing in the hallway. When Ulrich finally started to say something, other were opening their doors to see what had made such a racket. After what seemed like hours to Ulrich but was only a few seconds he said "You dropped you phone... and, and I..." Then he ran off down the hall with Yumi's phone still in his pocket.
X X X
Ulrich didn't stop until he reached the factory. He took the elevator down to the scanner room and opened the hatch to the brain of the computer. Without thinking he climbed down leaving the hatch open.
When he reached the bottom and sat down on the floor, the extent of what he just heard hit him. Thoughts went racing through his mind.
Jeremie and Yumi? How long have they kept this secret. Does Odd know? But what about Jeremie and Aelita , they've been going out since we materialized her. "I thought, I thought wrong!"
Ulrich heard footsteps coming down the ladder. Who would come down here. No one but me does and no one know I come here. When he saw Yumi's black boot he realized he still had her cell phone. Jeremie must have tracked it for her. "Traitor" was all he could say.