By: aZn dreamer xD
Author's Note: I'm really sorry, I haven't updated in a month! I got a major writer's block, and
then I went on vacation. Anyways, I hope you
enjoy!
:Next Day, at 7:23 AM:
The sun was in the sky, blasting powerful rays at the sleeping Yumi Ishiyama.
Yumi stretched and yawned. Apparently, she had fallen asleep watching MTV, as the TV was still on.
She turned it off, and lookd at the clock.
"7:23…" She mumbled, her eyes sleepily rested on her cell phone.
It read, "1 NEW TEXT MESSAGE"
Yumi lazily brought the cell to hre, skimmed the message, and quickly dialed Ulrich's number, her eyes snapping open.
"Hey." Yumi could hear Ulrich's muffled voice.
"Hey Ulrich. Are you going ot materialize Aelita today? You should've done it yesterday, you don't have to wait for me." Yumi said.
"YUMI!" She could hear Odd exclaim.
Yumi laughed and said, "Hi to you too, Odd. Go tell Jeremie to go and materialize her. I'll wait."
"All right," Ulrich said excitedly, and Yumi could hear footsteps and muffled voices, as they ran towards the factory. (A/N: They had already finished their classes, so that's why they're together and stuff.)
After a few suspenseful minutes, they reached the factory.
Jeremie typed in codes at the speed of lightning.
He pressed a key, and they all quickly ran to the Scanner Room.
"Is she materialized yet?" Yumi asked, impatiently. Well, she was waiting for like 10 minutes, who wouldn't be impatient?
"We're in the Scanner Room. She's about to-", Ulrich was cut off, as one of the scanners opened, smoke escaping.
When the smoke cleared, they saw Aelita, looking around curiously.
"AELITA!", They all screamed, and ran to the dazed girl.
"Wait- so Aelita's materialized?" Yumi said, excitedly from the other line.
"Yumi?" Aelita said faintly, hearing Yumi's voice.
"Here Aelita," Ulrich said, handing the phone to the girl.
"Aelita! Is that you?" Yumi asked.
"Jeremie, where's Yumi? I don't see her." Aelita said, looking around, joyously hugging all of her friends at the same time.
"This is a phone. You can only hear someone's voice, but you can't see them. You can talk back as well." Jeremie explained.
"Okay." Aelita brought the phone to her ear, "Hello? Yumi?"
"Aelita! You're finally materialized!"
"Yes, I know." She let out a little laugh, "It's been a while hasn't it? How are you? Where are you?"
"I'm in California, I'm going to be a model."
"Really? Oh wow."
"Sorry Aelita, I have to go now."
"All right, but where are you going?"
"Mother's wake-up call."
"What's that?"
"Ask the guys to explain. I really have to go now. We'll talk some other time okay? Bye!" Yumi hung up.
"YUMI!" Her mother screeched outside of her room, "Time to wake up!"
"I'm up already Mother." Yumi replied, flopping on her bed.
"Then come out, time to eat breakfast." Her mother said, pounding on the door.
Yumi rolled her eyes and obeyed.
:Next Day:
Beep! Beep!
Yumi's annoying little alarm clock beeped repeatedly.
Yumi groaned and punched it, causing it to turn off.
"YUMI!"
Great. Her mother's wake up call- again.
"You have to get up now!"
"OKAY." Yumi checked the time sleepily.
Her eyes widened, as it said 5:23 AM. She quickly threw off her covers, did her morning routine, knowing she couldn't be late to see Clarice.
She grabbed a bagel, and waved good-bye to her mother, quickly stuffing her wallet in her pocket.
She ran out of the hotel, running at lightning speed.
"Oh my god, I'm going to be late… my mom's going to kill me if she finds out!" She pushed through people, trying to get to the subway in time. She had to get there at 5:45, that's when the subway would go.
"5:38!" Yumi panted, glancing at her watch.
She saw the subway nearby.
"Finally, Lyoko comes to some good use."
She ran down the stairs, quickly purchasing a Metro Card.
She slid the card through the machine, and ran to the crowd of people.
Yumi was out of breath, and could barely step into the subways as it screeched to a stop.
She quickly claimed a seat. She wasn't going to stand up for another second!
A lot of business people were bustling about cramming in, and trying to get a seat.
Yumi sighed, catching her breath.
And before she knew it, sleep consumed her, letting her rest for the next hour.
"This… this must be it…" Yumi murmured, gazing at the tall skyscraper in front of her.
She resisted the urge to turn around, and catch a plane ride back to France.
Okay, maybe the plane ride wouldn't work. But at least turn and run…
Yumi turned around and began to run around the corner, when her conscious stopped her.
(A/N: All right, the italics is her conscious, and the bold is her.)
"Yumi… you know you're not supposed to run and do this… what will your parents say?"
"I don't care. Why would they care if I ran off anyway?"
"They would care because they're your parents. You know it won't be right…"
Yumi shook her head as a feeble attempt to clear her conscious and resumed running around the corner.
It won't be right… it won't be right…
Her conscious continued to taunt her uncontrollably.
Won't be right… won't…be…riiight…
"UGH! DAMN CONSCIOUS!" Yumi shouted in the middle of her streets, causing several people to turn around and look at her like she was demented. (A/N: Forgot to warn you, sometimes the characters are a bit… uncharacteristic. Heh.)
Yumi growled a little, resisting the urge to whack her head as an attempt for her conscious to go away once and for all.
Staring at the front door, she stomped in, pushing the large door out of her way as it banged into the wall.
The black guard at the front desk, who was reading a magazine, jumped up a little in his seat, startled by the banging.
He would be more suitable as a military man than a guard at a front desk.
He quickly regained his composure and said in a gruff voice, making it sound more like a statement than a question, "Hello, how may I help you?"
"Uh, ya, I'm Yumi Ishiyama, and here to see Clarice."
"Clarice Smith? Ya here for that new modeling agency?"
"Uh… seems like it."
"All right lil missy, go up to the 12th floor. G'luck with that." He said, returning to his sports magazine.
Yumi clenched her teeth, keeping her retort to herself.
She ran to the elevator, quickly punching the "12F" button.
Yumi waited, crossing her arms, successfully hiding the look of excitement on her face.
(A/N: Sorry for all these A/Ns! I have NO idea what it's like being a model. So, if you see any really big faults, then I'll redo the chapter. Otherwise, just deal with it.)
The elevator doors opened to reveal a large studio, with beautiful paintings lined up on the walls, a spectacular window, showing off the beautiful view of San Francisco, a few girls her age, a pampered, gorgeous cocker spaniel sleeping on the couch, and last but not least, a gorgeous, tall, thin, curvy or to sum it all up, a model-material blonde-haired woman named… you guessed it, Clarice Smith.
It sure was one crammed, but beautifully casual studio.
"Ah, Yumi, yes?" The woman asked.
"Yes, and you are Clarice?"
"That's me! You're a few minutes late, but that's all right. Now please join the girls on the side."
Yumi quickly obeyed, standing next to a beautiful Chinese girl. She reminded Yumi of those perfect China dolls.
"Girls, as you know already, I'm Clarice Smith. I'll be starting a modeling agency, and you were chosen to be in it."
"Now let me introduce you to the girls, Yumi."
Starting from left to right, Clarice started, "This is Deana,"
Deana had brown curly locks, gracefully toppling on her shoulders. She had a creamy complexion, as did everyone else. She had a dimple on her left cheek, and her eyes were soft and brown, with a little fear mixed into them.
Deana gave a shy wave at Yumi. Yumi waved a little as well.
"Ashley," Ashley smiled jubilantly, flashing her straight, whit teeth at Yumi. She was a hyper, bubbly girl. Her straight blonde silky hair with natural brown highlights fell on her shoulders, a little above her waist. She was energetic, her eyes were hazel and dancing.
Yumi smiled back. She was an "odd-type" of girl. (As in, she seemed to act a little like Odd. Hint hint!)
"Lexi," Lexi was gorgeous all right, her orange hair straight and long. She had freckles on her face. Lexi didn't smile, she just stared right through her. She seemed snobby.
"Sissy-clone…" Yumi thought, staring icily at her.
"And Kristen," Clarice finished.
Kristen was the Chinese girl, beautiful as well. Her black hair was a little wavy, flaring out a bit. She had unnatural red and brown highlights, splattering here and there. Her eyes sparkled, so brown it looked black. All in all, she was dazzling.
Kristen smiled at Yumi, earning a smile right back.
"Well now you know the girls, Yumi, we will begin." Clarice said, "Depending on how long the photo shoot is, you'll have to smile for a while, as the cameras will continue to flash. Let's see if you can go on for five minutes. This will be our daily warm-up, and it will be longer than by 1-5 minutes every day."
The girls groaned inwardly, and flashed their smiles, leaning on the wall, looking around.
By five minutes, their mouths were aching a little. Nothing major though.
"Good, ladies, good!" Clarice said, "Now, I shall work with you all individually. Lexi, come with me."
Yumi breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the couch with the rest of the girls, happy that the snotty one would be going first.
The cocker spaniel woke up, and began prancing around, jumping on Yumi's lap, as she scratched her behind her ears.
"Hey!" Ashley said, bubbly.
"Hey." The girls said, flashing each other a smile.
"Do you think modeling will be hard work? I mean, I never modeled before." Deana asked shyly.
"Yeah, probably will…" Kristen said, sadly, "My parents decided against my will to do this, I just wanted to stay in school, and hang with friends. Although sometimes the boys are such creeps." She shuddered.
"They hit on you?" Yumi asked, taking a wild guess.
"Yep. Bet you have no idea. There's this one guy- he's my ex, and he used to be really cool- someone I could talk to, I could trust, that my parents actually approved of. But after I dumped him, he started stalking me, and won't stop. All my friends already cursed him off, but he still doesn't stop… I was hoping maybe this job would help me forget about those memories, and help him get another girl, and move on with his frigging life." (A.NL heh. This person knows who she is…)
"Wow, I would beat the crap out of him." Yumi joked.
Apparently, none of them understood the "joke".
"Anyway, that guard at the front desk looks more like a military man that a guard." Yumi said, swiftly changing the project.
"My thoughts exactly," Deana nodded, "He called me a lil missy! I'm already around 5"6. That's pretty tall for a 15-year old. Well- at least I think it is…"
They all nodded.
"But the guard's like 6"6. He can call anyone lil missy. Even my dad!" Kristen said, as everyone laughed.
"Do any of you like Lexi?" Kristen asked in a hushed voice, even though Lexi was in the next room.
"No, not at all," The girls said, stating their different opinions, but all in all, the answer was no.
"She's so snobby." Yumi said, "She reminds me of a girl named Sissy at my school. She tried to steal away my best friend, Ulrich. But, I guess I can't blame Sissy, Ulrich is pretty cute…" Yumi blushed.
"oOoOoOoo." The girls said, glancing at each other knowingly.
"Do you have any pictures?" Deana asked.
"Yep." Yumi took out her wallet, and inserted in a little flap was a mini picture of the gang when Yumi left.
"Ulrich's the one beside me." Yumi tried to restrain herself from blushing, but failed miserably.
The girls looked at the picture in interest, and began commenting instantly.
"He's a hottie all right. You guys are perfect together!" Kristen cooed.
"I second that!" Deana announced.
"Who's he? The one with the blonde hair and the purple dot?" Ashley asked, gazing at the picture dreamily.
"Who? Odd?" Yumi asked.
"Huh?"
"Oh, the guy's name is Odd. The one with the blonde hair."
"Weird name, but he's hot all the same." Ashley said, still gazing at the picture.
The girls looked at her strangely.
"In an odd way," She added.
Everyone burst into fits of giggles.
Maybe modeling wouldn't be so bad after all…
Whoo! Seven pages! Anyway, I need a name for the Modeling Agency. Is anyone a model out there? Like I said, I have no idea what it's like being a model. If you have any idea, then please e-mail me or tell me by review or AIM! Thanks! I'm more than happy to take suggestions!
Oh, and Sam and Odd aren't a couple. Though I mentioned it before, they aren't a couple, as Odd is getting together with an OC.
Please, if you read, you review. I have a LOT more hits than reviews, (I'm not complaining though), and so far on 24 people's author alerts list. O.o And I barely know who you are! So please, review!
Review Replies
American-Kitty- Thanks!
aZn sister 92- Thanks! Nope, Yumi didn't call Ulrich back yet- well, until now. Lol, I didn't even like that chapter. That chapter was just to explain things. So yeah, not that great.
Yumi-Ulrich4ever- Lolz. Thanks! Ya, something I would do too. Haha.
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Shayna- Haha Shaynaaa. Thankfully, the crisis is over. LoL. Thanks!
Tessa- Thanks! I'm sure you can, just have to have those right moments. Lol
magicalfairy12- Awww. I hate summer homework. I haven't even finished it yet. The pressure… whenever I can (not anytime soon), I'll start reading it. Haha. Did you read the Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot? They're a good series! Thanks! Well, I certainly did take my time here. It's almost been a month:anime sweatdrop:
Vic92091- Yes, I know. I waited for the next chapter to do that (this chapter). Yes, it is a good show. I watched it a few times.
Lyoko-Luver- Thanks!
dongsang- I'm planning to put in the romance in like Chapter 20. Ha! Jkjk. I mean, I'm planning to put in the romance later on. Love is not rushed, and that goes for my story as well. And ha, like Jo said, be patient! Interesting, a 3-way review. I don't mind—much. O.o Anyways, thanks!
Aelitagurl- Well, this is mostly UxY. The JxA is later on in the story. Like I said, love is not rushed. If you want JxA fluff, then go check out my other story, "Good Times Fasho" (previously Anime Bubbles')
xx Painful Bliss xx- Oops! Sorry, took me almost a month. Hehe. Yes, inspiration DID strike me. I have came up with another story idea! Woot woot! But, since school is coming, I won't have a lot of time. Look out for it! Anyway, glad you enjoyed it!
Yumifansanchez- Thanks! Yes, it does suck.
aliice- Haha. Thanks!
Lune-Solei- LoL. Yep, a bit of foreshadowing. Thanks!
Purpurroter Schatten Drache- :( Aw, I know what it's like too. Thanks! I owe it all to Microsoft Word! Lol
ChinaWings- Thanks! Yes, I'm trying to make it as detailed as possible
Oh, and the next chapter will be the future. So, if you have any ideas, or any songs that you wish for me to post on the following chapters, please contact me by email or AIM, as shown on my profile. And, of course, I'll give you full credit. Or, if you want to write a snippit of the story for me, that'd be greatly appreciated! I'll give you full credit for any work you do for this story, or for my other story, Good Times Fasho. Please check that one out as well! (And review)
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