Is It Fate?
Ulrich pulled Yumi aside, the others walked across the street to the parking lot.
"So what is it, spit it out Ulrich. Davis and the others are waiting for us." Yumi sighed as she tapped her foot.
"Yumi this is hard for me okay! Let them wait this is important to me, give me that!" he raised his voice.
She stood speechless, now he had her complete attention. They stood under a streetlight as a few cars passed by and their headlights bathed the couple.
"Yumi, here it is, I love you! I have always and because of my personality to this day I never had the courage to do so. Remember Kadic, William, Lyoko or those other times we shared?" He told her letting his heart pour out.
"I always mistook your feelings for normal crush syndrome?" she said sarcastically.
"Yumi, you know what kind of guy I am. You really think that I'd go up to you and tell you this back then? Yumi I love you and that's all there is too it, I want to be with you for the rest of my life just give me a chance please?" he pleaded to her.
His speech was all she needed, Yumi has secretly wished for Ulrich to tell her what she wanted to hear. She'd just about given up hope.
"Ulrich come close to me." She said as if his words didn't affect her.
The brown haired young man did as he was told, his heart anticipating her reaction be it a slap in the face or a kiss he so longed for. Just as he stopped in front of her, she grabbed his head and kissed him forcefully on the lips. Taking him by a long shot surprise, his heart really sped up and his muscles went slack. He could smell her perfume more then before, her lips as soft as silk his dream had become reality.
Yumi broke the kiss, "It took you long enough?" she smiled.
"I…duh…eh…emm…" he grinned and said unintelligible words.
"That's one thing out of you that I always liked, love makes you into putty. Well all that is needed to be closed is to break up with Davis." Yumi said letting go of Ulrich when she suddenly heard her date calling her.
"Hey Yumi we need to get going, the others are ready to take off!" Davis told her as he walked on the street.
Yumi was about to reply to him but her words were stopped short of making voice. Davis had his hand up waving to her when a large white van ran into him fast, his body was thrown after making contact with is front left corner. His head slammed into the hood and his body bounced off of the van into the air. The poor lad recoiled forward, the van screeching to a halt, and fell without moving much. He would of likely lived if it wasn't for a Lincoln Town car that arrived at the same speed but going the other way. Davis's head was the first to hit the wind shield, the rest of his body rolled on the roof of the speeding car. Yumi could hear the sound of smashing glass and glass shards hitting the street. She saw his body return back to its original position before the Lincoln car and skid in the direction of the car on the street. Bystanders could imagine the guy as a rag doll in that horrible incident. The man laid on the street not moving, both vehicles stopped and the drivers immediately got out to see his condition.
Both Yumi and Ulrich saw the whole incident unfold and quickly ran to the fallen mans side. The Japanese girl knelt down crying wanting to touch him but didn't for fear of making his pain worse. Davis wasn't moving and not even breathing, the driver of the white van check his neck for a pulse but found none. The driver of the Lincoln town car took off his jacket put it on the unfortunate man cut down in his prime. Yumi had by now clung to Ulrich just weeping out tears and cries of sorrow. He comforted her as best as he could and let her weep in his arms, not the ending he'd hoped for. Nor the way he wanted Yumi and him to break up.
Jeremie and the others came running to the streets, though looking both ways to not make a repeat. They ran to the accident and took in the violent scene, Davis was covered by a black leather jacket but not enough to hid the blood pooling where his mouth was. Odd looked around, he saw both of the drivers on their cell phones. Kila and Aelita looked away from it all and went to aid Ulrich with Yumi.
"Man…" was all Odd could say, not an appropriate time for a joke.
Jeremie just put a hand on his friends shoulder, he sighed.
"Life can deal a good hand or a bad blow to us all." The blonde haired boy gave a short intellectual word so his friend wouldn't feel wordless.
The gang left to the restaurant as planned, by then Yumi has calmed down from the worst of her lamenting. Aelita and Odd decided that taking Yumi to the food outlet might help her recover fully.
They arrived and ate, but watched their raven haired woman chug several mugs of root beer. She showed at least a half focus to what they overall talked about, a definite improvement for her. She wasn't sulking or depressed enough to worry whether she would close up.
She surprisingly spoke up, "You know I never really knew him completely, we've been going out for only a month. I say cheers to him, he deserves at least that much." Yumi raised her eighth mug of root beer in the air.
The others lifted their mugs and clanked them together, "Cheers!".
They all drank till their mugs were empty. Aelita was the loudest of everyone when she belched, Odd was the second, Kila third, and the others the last ones. It was after a few seconds of silence when they all busted out laughing themselves to tears.
At the Dorms
Nathan unlocked his room and let the woman enter, he turned on the lights.
"Wow, for a dorm room this is quite nice like a small fancy apartment." She eyed the whole living room.
"I worked hard to get where I am now." He told her closing the door, "Hey want some coffee?"
"Sure, I'll set up our papers on your table and we'll work it out." She told him nodding to him.
He smiled and left to the kitchen to start the brewing, as he did she took her information out of her bag and placed it neatly on the table. Though afterwards he still remained busy, so she decided to look around.
To her eyes, he was quite a clean person but by the looks he wasn't the type to have a lot of people over. His sofa was clean and untouched by someone's rear, the TV was polished and clean, and the floor felt virtually vacuumed before she arrived. The young woman took a seat on the table chair and waited patiently.
Five minutes passed and the boy returned with two cups of fresh coffee. She smiled and took her cup he offered and watched him take a seat.
"So, um I never got your name?" he asked putting his cup down.
"My name is Yunia Dokishi." She told him.
"Nathan Hernandez, good to meet you." He shook her hand again.
They talked over a bit of some small things and about the accident, and they sorted everything out with their insurance companies.
"Well everything's been taken care of, oh please excuse me." He blushed and left for the restroom, the martini earlier ago hit his system.
Once he left, Yunia scoped around the room once more. She checked out his CD collection and as she pulled out an album of Beethoven, a picture came out. It fell like a feather on her dress shoes and sat down like a sleeping kitten. She picked it up and examined the photo, it was a picture of Nathan with another girl with pink hair?
He and her looked like they were having a great time, his arm slung around her and her head tilted onto his body as they made the peace sign with their hands to the camera. The date was four or so years ago during the summer.
Nathan finished in the facilities and came out closing the door.
"Well I was thinking I could drive you to your home since your car is…" he said chuckling nervously but stopped when he saw Yunia holding one of his secret pictures looking at him puzzled.
"She your friend?" Yunia smiled to him.
He rushed to her and snatched the photo away from her hands and went to his room. Leaving her more puzzled and cautious about him, he came back and she took a seat on the sofa.
"I'm sorry for acting like that…" he stopped by the windows and looked out.
"She a family member or something?" she asked.
"Lets just say fate gave me happiness and then quickly stole it away from me." He told her sounding depressed.
"I'm guessing a girlfriend." Yunia looked away.
"More then that, she understood me and what I went through. She knows about my past more then my oldest friends! We've been together…" he recalled the wondrous times.
"Oh…I see, well I didn't mean to bring back old wounds." Yunia started to rise.
He snapped out of his day dreaming, "No no, I did this to myself. I can't let my mind forget about it all, hey lets forget about this. I'm sure you need to go home anyways, it's past midnight." He told her.
"Well my cars damaged around the engine and I don't know if that has affected any of it. I'd rather not have it break down at night if you know what I mean." She looked away shyly.