Life and Soccer Chapter 7: Why?, a code lyoko fanfic

[2022 update: JESUS christ, little me was obsessed with love! I've tried editing out all the times these two complete strangers talk about loving one another instead of liking one another so I hope I haven't missed any, lol...this is such a corny story...]

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I don't know what to say! Hmmm...Oh well, just read it, that's what you want to do anyways!

Disclaimer-Sadly, I do not own this song that is appearing in this chapter. I do love it, though! (((I sooo forgot to put in the fact that I don't own Code Lyoko, I'm sorry. Thanks for reminding me! You know who you are)))

Life and Soccer

Why?

Ulrich rubbed the back of his neck, and racked his brain for the answer. He looked up into Yumi's eyes, full of passion, and didn't know why he couldn't answer.

"I..Uh..I have one doubt." He finally said, thinking that what he would say next would win her over.

Yumi held back tears as she walked past him, hissing, "I knew they were right about you."

"No, let me finish!" Before Ulrich could finish saying the doubt, Yumi had already walked through the doors and slammed them shut. God dammit, why can't she just let me finish? His thoughts were interrupted by a soft click coming from the doors. Did she just..

The boy ran to the doors, pulling on the handles as hard as he could. He pounded his fist, "Yumi! Yumi, please, open the door! I don't want to be suspended from the team, please open it!"

Yumi was sitting on the floor, her back resting on the doors that she had locked. She had thought it funny to lock him out, but now it was just hurting her even more. She was still trying to hold back tears as Aelita walked down the steps and saw her on the floor, rushing towards her.

"Hey, Yumi!" She heard the yells outside and looked at the wet-eyed Yumi, and decided not to ask until later. "I was looking for you because you weren't back yet..."

"Hi Aelita." Yumi answered, without any enthusiasm. Seeing Aelita made Yumi's tears multiply, and they started to fall out as her hands tried to hide the fact she was crying.

"Oh my god, Yumi, what's wrong?" Aelita sat down next to her, trying to get her to calm down. "We'll talk about it in the room, ok? I want you to go up there and wait for me, I'm going to let Ulrich in."

Yumi nodded, still hiccuping, and started to walk towards the stairs as Aelita opened the door for Ulrich.

"Yumi, wait!" The boy yelled as soon as he stepped into the building and saw her walking up the steps. Her pace quickened, as she started to run up them, and he lunged forward to try and stop her, but Aelita's hand was holding him back.

"You really hurt her, whatever you did. Why do you do this to everyone? Here I am, thinking you're finally serious about someone, when it's just another one of your schemes. I've allowed you to do it because you never did it to me or any of my friends, but you just crossed the line."

With that said, Aelita followed her friend up the steps, glaring at Ulrich at the top. As she looked back, the boy fell to the ground, head in his hands. He fell asleep like that, hating himself for not finishing his doubt.

The next day, Yumi walked to her first class, which was P.E. Her eyes were still a little red from last night, so she had to wear some black eyeliner to try and cover it up. As she reached the doors leading outside to the soccer field, she saw Ulrich on the ground, asleep. Suddenly a wave of anger arose, as she took one of her books and hit him on the head.

"Wake up," she said coldly, as he jerked his eyes open and grabbed his head in pain.

"What the hell was th- Yumi!" He yelled at her retreating figure. She has great legs...They're so hot..No, Ulrich, this isn't the time. It was never the time to think like that. You need to grow up!

The girl turned to him, and he saw her eyes were emotionless. She only smiled icily and turned back to walking as he got up rubbing his head. Looking back at the beauty one more time, he headed up the stairs to his dorm to try and get ready. I can patch things up later, I'll give her time to cool off for now...

Yumi managed to make it through the whole day without crying, and as she threw her stuff at the wall and fell back onto her bed, she heard a sound coming from outside. She sat up as she heard the first little part of a song being sung.

"I watched the proverbial sunrise
coming up over the Pacific and,"

She ran to the window and thrust it open, looking down and seeing Ulrich singing the song she heard.

"you might think I'm losing my mind,
but I will shy away from the specifics..."

She noticed Odd was in the band, and a boy from the soccer team named Theo was too. Another boy was also there, but she only knew his name was Nick. They're pretty good, but why are they doing it out there... Yumi propped her head on her hands and kept on listening to the song.

"'cause I don't want you to know where I am
'cause then you'll see my heart
in the saddest state it's ever been.
This is no place to try and live my life."

She watched other people throwing their windows open and watching the group sing. Aelita ran into their room, "Yumi! Ulrich going to sing a song for you.." She said, as she heard the music. "Well, it's for you" She finished, shrugging and walking up next to Yumi to listen in.

"Stop right there. That's exactly where I lost it.
See that line. Well I never should have crossed it.
Stop right there. Well I never should have said
that it's the very moment that
I wish that I could take back."

When Ulrich finished this part of the song, he looked up at Yumi, and kept his gaze on her. The sudden stare made everyone else watching the performance from their windows turn and look at Yumi too. By now, everyone in her dorm building was listening to it, so everyone was looking her way. A couple of people hooted playfully and whistled as Yumi turned a shade red and continued watching the band.

Yumi then understood what the song meant. She ran into her room, and wrote another note, running back to the window and folding it up.

"I talk to absolutely no one.
Couldn't keep to myself enough.
And the things bottled inside have finally begun
to create so much pressure that I'll soon blow up.
I heard the reverberating footsteps
sinking up to the beating of my heart,
and I was positive that unless I got myself together,
I would watch me fall apart."

Ulrich was now full-out watching Yumi, not caring about the girls forming a mob around him and the rest of the band. Yumi could hear little parts of the screams over the song.

"Oh my god, Ulrich!"

"You guys are really good!"

"They're so hot!"

These comments made Yumi snicker a little, but she turned her attention back to the music directed at her.

"And I can't let that happen again
'cause then you'll see my heart
in the saddest state it's ever been.
This is no place to try and live my life.
Stop right there. That's exactly where I lost it.
See that line. Well I never should have crossed it.
Stop right there. Well I never should have said
that it's the very moment that
I wish that I could take back."

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the principal walking out of the building, his face red with something Yumi was sure wasn't a blush.

"I'm sorry for the person I became.
I'm sorry that it took so long for me to change.
I'm ready to try and never become that way again
'cause who I am hates who I've been.
Who I am hates who I've been.
Who I am hates who I've been
and who I am won't take the second chance you gave me.
Who I am hates who I've been
'cause who I've been only ever made me..."

Ulrich saw the principal too and finally turned away from Yumi to the approaching man. His voice got a shake in it, and the words of the song became a little higher pitched than before, as he sped up and finished out the song.

"So sorry for the person I became.
So sorry that it took so long for me to change.
I'm ready to try and never become that way again
'cause who I am hates who I've been.
Who I am hates who I've been."

Then, at the end of the song, Yumi threw the note down at him, and shut the window quickly, as she heard the principal's angry shouts.

"Who gave you permission to borrow school equipment?!"

"No one, sir." She could hear Ulrich saying.

"And WHO gave you permission to have a concert out on school property!"

"But, sir, it's not a con-"

"WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION!"

"No one."

"That's right, no one. And no one in this little group is going to have a free night for the next month. Detention, all of you, until a month is up."

"But sir, states for soccer are coming up in two weeks!"

"Well, that's just too bad, isn't it?" The principal finished, as he turned and walked away.

"He can't tell them they can't play soccer! We need them!" Yumi shouted into the room, only to Aelita.

"Calm down, the principal cares too much about us winning that championship to not let them play," Aelita said comfortingly.

"Dude, you think the principal will let us get out of detention for the states?" Odd asked as he and Ulrich made their way back to their dorm.

"Ha, what do you think? He cares too much about us winning, he'll have to let us go." Ulrich answered, opening Yumi's note.

"Yeah, Mr. BigButt can't hold us back! But, we're going to break out if he DOESN'T let us go, right?"

Ulrich simply nodded, trying to focus on the note.

-Ulrich

Someone once said loving someone is giving them the power to make you cry, but trusting them enough not to. You broke that trust. Your song sounds nice, but you couldn't even answer a simple question directly, so this performance means nothing. These games of yours are really tiring. I'm done playing.

-Yumi

"Shit."

"Lemme see that," said Odd, pulling it out of Ulrich's grasp. "Dude, you got burned by a chick! Haha!"

"Wow, such a good friend! You really help me out when I'm down, don't you?"

"Man, what are best friends for?" Odd replied with a smile

Yumi doesn't know it yet, but she's going to be mine. The other boy thought, as his 'Odd' friend danced around, laughing. The fact she even wrote the note shows she's still playing along more than she wants to admit.

I'm sorry that, it took so long for me to change! Oh, sorry, it's kinda stuck in my head...Oh well, you know you like it! I'm being lazy so I'm not going to re-read this and find spelling mistakes-DEAL WITH IT!I know you know what I mean when I type stuff wrong, it's not like its the end of the world, okies? Ok, that was a little mean, sorry...REVIEW!

.StArRy.