Yes. I am back again! This is my third story and is longer than the other two. I started reading this to a friend and she liked it, so now I hope you'll like it too. Enjoy!

-YumiwithUlrichalways

''-Thoughts

Authoress' (the almighty authoress) POV-

'Why can't I tell her that?'

Was the thought of a fourteen year old boy about his friend. His name is Ulrich Stern. All he could really think about is his raven haired friend, Yumi Ishiyama. She was a grade higher than him and a little taller than him with her boots on. She always wore black and never wore make-up. He looked up to her like a friend but wanted so much more. He wanted to be her boyfriend, but knew that wasn't going to happen in a million years. In her own dorm, our little Yumi is also thinking of Ulrich. He was sweet and always there went she was down. That chocolate hair boy that wore green most of the time might've been a grade lower than her and could have any girl in the school, she still loved him. The only thing that was getting in the way of the two was the principal's daughter Elizabeth "Sissy" Delmas and William Dunbar.

That morning, Ulrich and Yumi was sitting in the courtyard with their other friends, Odd Della Robbia, Jeremie Belpois, and Aelita Hopper, when Sissy comes up to Ulrich for the fifth time that day and ask him to get away from these losers and hang out with her.

"For the last time, No I don't want to hang out with you. Your voice gets on my nerves and if I did hang out with you, I might as well take a rope and hang myself. Go play with your other little boyfriend, Herve."

It was the same thing every day, Sissy torturing Ulrich to hang out with her then a put down coming back to her.

"Yourdoing that because she's here."Sissy walked away.

"I'm sorry guys. I have to go eat dinner at my house. See you guys tomorrow. Keep me posted on the monster." Yumi replied.

"Who's a monster?" Aelita asked.

"It's Sissy, who else?" Odd said. They all had a good laugh about that.

"Bye, guys." Yumi gave a wave to everybody and left. The only one that didn't say anything after a few minutes was Ulrich.

Ulrich's POV-

'Wow! She's so beautiful.'

"Ulrich, are you still in there?" Odd said waving a hand in front of my face.

"Huh? What?" I snapped out of it.

"You were daydreaming about Yumi again weren't you?"

"No. I wasn't thinking about her. I was thinking about the torture of dinner with Sissy around." I groaned. "You know what? I'll just skip dinner and just go to bed. Bye guys." I headed up to my room and lay down. My thoughts wandered onto Yumi. They always tend to wander on her.

'I don't see why she'll like me. She probably likes William. I mean he's in the same grade as her and they have a lot more in common than me and her. I just think I should just stop trying. She obviously likes him better than me.' I punched my pillow. 'And the night I followed her home, (A/N-remember- A Bad Turn when he followed her home and William was there.) she probably kissed him. She could go out with him for all I care.' I felt my heart twang. 'All right, I'd be insanely jealous. Probably beat the holy heck out of him.'

I fell asleep with dear Yumi haunting my dreams with William.

Yumi's POV-

"Bye, guys." I waved to them.

The only one that didn't answer back was Ulrich. I went into a run back to my home.

'Why didn't he say good bye? It's not that hard… unless he was thinking real hard again. He's usually doing that these days.'

"Mom! I'm home." I yelled through the house.

"Welcome home, dear. How was your day?" Mrs. Ishiyama yelled through the kitchen.

"It was fine." I entered the kitchen with my school stuff. I set in down in a chair. "How was your day then?"

"The usual. Do you mind helping me in the kitchen?"

"No I don't mind."

With the help of me, my mom and I finished up supper. We all sat down at the table, dad, mom, Hiroki, and me. It was silent for all through dinner, but Hiroki broke the ice.

"How's your boyfriend, Ulrich?"

"He's fine except one thing. He's not my boyfriend."

This was the usual time that Hiroki wanted to do that to me. I could feel my face getting red but I maintained a calm balance in my voice.

"Fine, I love you, Ulrich."

"Mom, can you get him to stop? Either that..." I got up from the table. "I'm going back to school. Don't follow me Hiroki and I mean it."

"Oo, going back to tellhimyou love him?"

"Whatever. Night, mom. Night, dad."

I went back to my dorm that only I occupied. I took my clothes off and got on some night clothes. I pulled most of my hair into a bun and sat down on my bed.

'Okay. So why do I like Ulrich. Well, because he's sweet and kind. Even though he controls his feelings, he's very cute. He's a great athlete and… wait am I thinking. Why couldn't I stop myself? Why do my thoughts go to him?'

I went into a deep sleep with Ulrich hard on my mind.

A/N: There is no XANA in this story.If there was,itwould be AelitaStones, not Hopper.No this is just about 5 ordinary teens with a complicated love life between the groups. For the last reviewers of Message of the Rose, thanks:

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