Ch.1
Love fights
Flashback: "Harley! Don't run away! What about your family? You can't leave us!" He just kept going. Ulrich sobbed the story to his mom who was cooing, "Don't worry. Shh. He'll come back soon." Ulrich didn't really want him to come back after he left that night. 'How could he just leave the family? How could he just run away?' Suddenly his dad walked in and told him, "Your mother fell down the stairs. I called the ambulance. Get in the car. When they come, we'll follow them to the hospital." Ulrich's eyes were filled with tears when he heard that. He couldn't loose another one. He nodded and went down the stairs holding the handrail and looking pale. When he got to the bottom, he saw his mom, dead. He slowly crept up to her and felt where her heart was. There was no beating. He was too young for such a thing to happen. "Mom…" Ulrich whispered. When the ambulance arrived he was ushered to the car, and to the hospital. When he got there, all the doctors looked sad. He went up to one of the doctors and pulled her white apron. "Where's my mommy?" The doctor looked at the teary eyed boy and explained, "Your mommy got hurt very badly. She's died because of it…" He did not understand what the word "die" meant so he asked, "What does that mean?" Then a nurse came over and the doctor told the nurse, "He wants to know what, die means." The nurse nodded slowly and explained, "You see uhh.. you said your name was Ulrich… right?" Ulrich nodded slowly thinking of the worst thing that could happen. "Well Ulrich, your mom is not going to be able to see you, hear you, touch you, or anything like that. She got hurt very badly and she cracked her head open." Later when he was taken home, he got beat for asking stupid questions at the hospital. He got beat ever since his mom died for 6 years. Suddenly one day when he was 12, his dad barged into the room. "Dad! Please! I didn't do anything!" He yelled. And then his dad walked up to him and smiled a big toothy smile. "Ulrich, son I'm enrolling you in a school called Kadic Jr. High. It's a boarding school. Your leaving this afternoon, so pack."
Present: Ulrich sighed as he threw a rock in the water. It was a year since his dad had dropped him off at this school. He had never come back. Not that he missed the daily beatings. He also had some great friends for once in his life, at all his other schools, he had back-stabbing friends, and drooling girls all over him. Nobody understood him as much as Odd. He was like a long-lost brother to him. Suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder, a nice soft hand. "Hey Ulrich, you okay? Your missing lunch." It was Yumi. The one girl that didn't drool over him like any other girl, that he secretly crushed on. "Uhh… yea I guess. Just thinking about before." Yumi sat down next to him and questioned politely, "Well? What happened? I see tears on your face." Ulrich told her only the part of the beatings and the moving here. He couldn't tell everything else, it would be way too painful. "Oh, Ulrich. I'm sorry. I never knew…" Ulrich then stood up and smiled in a pained way. "It's not your fault. My dad was a jerk, I'm glad he never comes." Yumi smiled then they walked to the lunchroom. On their way back, Yumi trips over a pinecone and stumbles, Ulrich grabbed her hand, and pulled her up with no problem at all. After she regained her footage she notices that he's still holding her hand. She looked at him and he turned and looked at her then realized, "Oh! Sorry Yumi! Uhh.." Yumi smiled and told him, "Its okay Ulrich… I enjoyed it…" She responded blushing ferociously. Ulrich then took that as a hint and took her hand in his as they walked back. When they were about to enter the cafeteria Ulrich stopped. "Uhh… Yumi?" Yumi responded, "Yea Ulrich?" Ulrich wanting to get it over with announced, "iloveyouwillyoubemygirlfriend?" Yumi giggled and kissed him on the lips. "You can count that as a 'yes'." Then they walked inside holding hands. Odd noticed them holding hands and jumped onto the table and announced, "Announcing our schools newest and most OBVIOUS couple of this school… ULRICH AND YUMI!" By then Ulrich had Odd in a head lock and Yumi was hitting him on the head. Sissy then decided to make an appearance, "Ulrich darling? Is this some sort of joke? I thought WE were a couple!" Ulrich stopped the headlock and Odd ran by Aelita. Yumi walked up to Sissy and told her, "Okay, listen Sissy. First of all, Ulrich is not YOUR dear. Next, yes the rumors that I'm gonna kill Odd for later are true. We are together." She was now blushing as red as an apple. "And last, LEAVE US ALL ALONE!" Sissy was now on the verge of tears and ran out of the lunchroom. Ulrich walked up to her and gave her a hug then told her, "You know… you didn't have to do that. I always have handled Sissy." Yumi shrugged and explained, "I've wanted to say all of that to her face since day one." She giggled, but it was cut short when a beeping was heard. "Guys, Xanna attack." Jeremy finally spoke. Aelita started walking out of the lunchroom, when she saw a guy with blonde hair start coming towards her and the group. "Hey. I'm Aaron." Aelita was speechless when Yumi came up and whispered, "Aelita! Tell him your name!" Aelita nodded and replied, "I'm Lita- I mean Aelita." She then blushed. Jeremy walked over and looked the guy over several times. "Hey Aelita, we should go." Aelita nodded, but was staring at his perfect soft eyes. Jeremy dragged her away with the group as they walked towards the forest. Jeremy thought, 'Oh great! Aelita's interested with that guy! How am I ever going to get her to go out with me? Aww… today is just NOT my day!'
Suddenly out of the bushes came this tall, muscular person who had deep brown eyes. He was wearing a navy blue shirt, and jeans. "Hi. I'm Harley. Harley Stern."