Welcome to Chapter 3 everyone! This chapter is going to surprise you I think… I think. Please don't hold me to that but if I do then YAY! Anyway just read it.

Ulrich sat in class staring out the window. He watched as the autumn leaves fell. The orange and gold colors flashed through his mind as Mrs. Hertz continued teaching her lesson.

"Ulrich I'm sure you or Odd would love to answer the question, wouldn't you?" Mrs. Hertz asked. Ulrich looked at Odd for a hint but neither of the two boys new how to answer.

"Can you please repeat the question?" Ulrich asked hoping she was in a good mood. Fortunately she was and she repeated the question for the third time.

"What does then acronym DNA stand for?" Mrs. Hertz asked knowing Jeremy was probably the only in the entire class that could answer the question correctly.

"Deoxyribonucleic acid." Ulrich said rather confidently. He looked up and realized what he had done. He only knew this from studying with the others. Jeremy looked at him with a smile and Odd just stared in awe. Mrs. Hertz congratulated him silently and then continued on with the lesson.

Switches to Yumi's class

Yumi stared at her papers hoping they might give her the answers to her Ulrich problem. She wanted so desperately to tell him. She wanted to awaken that inner part of her that longed so badly for him. She knew that she could never tell him. She constantly wrote notes, secret notes, that explained how she felt. She pretended so much, yet did so little.

She had asked herself so many times what was stopping her. She wondered why she would not leave herself in peace. Sometimes she tormented herself more than XANA ever could.

The bell rang again and all the students filed out the door. She walked toward her friends. She watched as Jeremy and Aelita talked to each other and blushed. She listened to Ulrich and Odd talking, Odd making jokes in between sentences.

"Hi guys," Yumi said.

"Hi Yu…" Ulrich was soon cut off by a terrible sound. The sound could have only come from one person.

"Ulrich dear!" Sissi's voice chased away the birds from the trees. (AN: Sorry for all you Sissi fans.) She walked toward Ulrich with her band of losers following right behind her.

"Ulrich when are you finally going to work up the courage to ask me out?" Sissi asked with a little hope.

"Oh I don't know, around the same time Herb works enough strength to beat me in martial arts." Ulrich said laughing. Sissi just glared at him for a moment and then stormed off. Ulrich looked back at his friends. They had tried to hide their chuckles but none of them had succeeded.

"So Yumi, what's up?" Ulrich asked.

"N-Nothing." Yumi replied cursing herself for tripping over such a commonly used word. 'Why am I so nervous around him?' She thought.

"I better get going… it's going to get dark soon." Yumi stated hoping Ulrich might ask to walk her home.

"Yumi do you wan…" Ulrich started before he was rudely interrupted once again.

"I'll walk you home Yumi." Odd said smiling.

Like I said I'm proud if I shocked you… not proud if I didn't! Get ready soon I will have Chapter 4 up… I hope.