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Authoress' POV-

Ulrich was tossing and turning all night long. He was still thinking about Phoenix. He got up and put his head into his palms.

'Why can't I get her out of my head?' He thought. 'She's getting on my nerves. I can't be sure if it's Yumi. Okay, I know it's not Yumi because she is taller than that.'

"Hello, earth to Ulrich?" Odd waved his hand in front of my face. "Are you going to get dressed or not? I really want to go to breakfast before they're out of eggs."

"Go on without me. I'll be out in a minute." Ulrich told him.

"Suit yourself." Odd said with a shrug.

He walked out of the room, leaving Ulrich to get his clothes on. He got dressed quickly and walked down to the cafeteria. He grabbed his plate of food and sat down with the rest of the gang.

"Morning, Ulrich." Yumi said cheerfully. "How's the search of finding Phoenix?"

"Who told you about her?" Ulrich asked.

"Aelita told me in my room that the queen was a girl that you hanged out with all night at the dance. She said you called her Phoenix."

"Oh, right." Ulrich said confusedly.

'Okay, why isn't she going off like she did with Emily?'

"Oh, Ulrich dear!" a high-pitched voice shouted across the room.

"I'm not your Ulrich dear for the millionth time!" Ulrich said outraged.

"You know what Sissy? I have a joke for you. What's red and black all over?"

"I'm not falling for that again, Ishiyama. I hate that one girl that said it and I don't want to hear your answer."

"The answer was pink being turned into red with a black dye. You are so stupid. I can't even think why Herve really likes you."

The table went into an uproar. Sissy just stalked away.

"What did she mean by 'that one girl'?"

"She meant Phoenix. She told Sissy what was red and black all over. Sissy didn't know and Phoenix said it's going to be her if she doesn't leave me alone. Also told her that if did go out with her in the past, it was for my friends or to not make her look bad. She sounded almost like you Yumi." Ulrich explained to Yumi while he was searching her face for a complete truth to see if she was Phoenix.

'Trust me, you'll know. What if I am here?'

Ulrich held his hands to his head. Nothing made sense to him anymore. He really liked Phoenix but couldn't find her, Yumi been ignoring me for a past couple of days, and his head hurts.

"I need to go to the infirmary. Can you guys tell the teacher that?"

"Yeah, sure Ulrich" Odd tilted his head to one side. "See you in a bit."

The gang moved up from the table… besides Ulrich and Yumi. Yumi started to walk away but Ulrich grabbed her hand.

"Hey, Phoenix, can I talk to you?"

"Ulrich I don't know how to tell you this but I'm not Phoenix." She was looking everywhere else but Ulrich's face.

"Yumi, don't lie to me. I know your Phoenix. You were the only girl that stands up to Sissy for me. You even said last night, 'you'll know, trust me.' Well I do know. Only you would've known about red and black joke."

"So what if I was Phoenix? It wouldn't matter now."

"Actually…" They both looked into each others eyes."It does matter to me, Phoenix."Her eyes softened."I had a feeling that it was you from the beginning."

"Ulrich, I…I'm… I'm sorry, okay? I just didn't want to believe, refused, what my heart was telling me."

She broke into a silent flow of tears.

"Calm down Yumi. I know what would make you feel better. Follow me."

He took Yumi by the hand and led her out into the forest. He stopped in front of his favorite tree and turned around into Yumi's face.

"What is it Ulrich?" Yumi whispered in a super sweet tone.

"I love you." He mumbled.

"What? I didn't hear you."

"I said I love you." He ran away with his face a crimson red.

Yumi's POV-

"Ulrich, wait!" I screamed to nobody in particular. "He's gone yet again. He still didn't get my message. I do love him but I didn't think that he would."

"Didn't think what?" said a mysterious voice to the tree right of me.

"Nothing. I'm going to climb the tree in front of me."

I climbed in Ulrich's favorite tree. I heard a rustle of leaves behind me. "So why are you out here, sir?"

"Quit calling me sir. Call me... Grasshopper. I'm out here thinking about anything that pops into my mind. Mostly my thoughts have been on two girls. One for being a pain in the butt, and the other one just doesn't see me the way I see her. What about you?"

"I'm out here because my best friend told me something and then ran off without me answering back. I hate my life. The most perfect guy in my eyes and he happens to run away from me."

I felt hot tears running down my face and I started to sob a bit.

"Please don't start to cry. It breaks my heart to hear it."

"Why would you care?" I managed to get out. "It's not like you know me very well."

"Well just by listening to you, you sound like you try to keep your feelings hidden, don't show any emotion on your face that you don't want anybody to see, you really like your friend and he does too but is scared to listen to your answer, and you can get very emotional sometimes."

"Wow! It seems like you already know me." I managed to smile.

"You might think this is funny but I can tell about a person just by the way their acting. Such as Sissy Delmas, she thinks she something but wants to be accepted by your group. She gets rejected because of Ulrich Stern and Odd Della Robbia. Sissy tries to get to Ulrich but can't because he's in love with his best friend that happens to be you.

"Odd does it because he does it for the fun of the prank and hates it whenever you and Ulrich aren't together.

"Jeremie loves Aelita but won't admit it either. He loves computers or anything technology. His biggest rival is Herve.

"Herve is very smart like Jeremie but hangs around Sissy like a puppy on a string because of his heart.

"Nicolas is the other person in her group that acts like an idiot and doesn't have any brain cells left.

"Aelita is a kind and sensitive girl that is in love with Jeremie.

"William is a guy in your grade that really likes you and hates it when Ulrich is around you so much. He gets jealous and tries to get your attention. You ignore him because you're in love with Ulrich. He tries very hard to please you but you don't like him as much as you do Ulrich."

"Wow! You got that all off of looking into a person's face?" I asked intrigued.

"Yep and by their voice and the look in their eyes; we need to get to class before we get in trouble."

"I agree with you. Can you meet me back here after school?"

"Yeah, sure, if you want me to look you into the eye, I'll bring a mask."

"That would be great. Thanks for talking with me grasshopper."

I jump out of the tree and headed back to class. I practically skipped to class because my heart had been lifted by a total stranger.

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