And in honor of my 15th birthday, here is chappy #15! Hurray! This is my 3rd chappy today, hope that makes up for missing during the week.

(Ulrich P.O.V.)

I walk home in blissful peace that night. I just made a new girlfriend, and we were both happy as can be. I walk into my dorm and there sits Odd, strumming away on his guitar. He stops when I enter.

"How'd it go?" He says

"How's what go? I don't know what you're talking about."

"Oh, come on. You and I both know that after our meeting in the factory, Yumi went to find you and you two ended up together. Ah, that proves it, your blushing."

I was indeed blushing, so I compromised by throwing a pillow at him. He dodged.

"So, how'd it go?"

"It went just fine Odd. And yes you're right, Yumi is my girlfriend now. Macas and you are the only ones who know, and I'd like to keep it that way."

"Why does Macas get the privilege of knowing before me? I've know you for years, he's only known you for a couple of days!"

"He figured it out by himself. After we came out of the principal's office, he noticed me holding Yumi's hand."

"Why were you in the principal's office?"

"Okay, the weirdest thing. You remember how XANA possessed William and attacked Yumi? Well, the security camera caught it on tape."

"Okay, isn't that a good thing? Now William is going to get expelled."

"Wrong. On the CD from the camera, a direct video from the camera, it showed Macas beating up Yumi, and I saved her."

"That is not good."

"No it's not. Macas is being held for student trial, and if he loses, he will get expelled."

"So just have you Yumi and Macas testify that none of you remember ever doing that."

"Testify, hmmm. That's three syllables Odd, I'm impressed."

"Not funny."

"Anyway, a video tape would easily outweigh the fact that three teenagers said that they don't remember that happening. I got the CD, and I'm hoping Jeremie can shed some light on it."

"What could Jeremie do? It's not like he can change it without the principal noticing, and then Jeremie would be expelled for tampering with evidence."

"I think XANA messed with the original video, and if he can mess with it, Jeremie can undo it. I hope."

"Good thinking, we'll work on it tomorrow." And with that, Odd crawled under the covers and promptly fell asleep. I laughed and drifted off to sleep too.

I was awoken in the middle of the night by a soft knocking on the door. Because I was so tired last night, I forgot to put in my earplugs. Luckily, Odd wasn't snoring all that much. Oh well, back to the subject. There was a soft knock on the door and I went to go answer it. And to my utmost surprise it was Yumi, tear-stained and sad, but still Yumi.

"Yumi! What's the matter?" I say as I lead her into my room. We sit down on my bed, and I hold her close.

"Ulrich, we n-need to talk. But not here, somewhere else."

"Okay, just a sec." I say, realizing I was sitting there in my boxers and a white undershirt.

"Okay…" She says quietly and turns away.

I quickly pull on some blue jeans and a green shirt and lead Yumi out the door.

"Where do you want to go?" I ask gently.

"Anywhere." She says.

I lead her to my favorite tree in the park, where we first kissed earlier that day. She is silent until we reach it, tears running silently down her face.

"Yumi, what's wrong? I haven't ever seen you this upset." I say and sit down. She sits next to me, crying harder.

"Ulrich… oh Ulrich! He left!" Yumi managed to say before she starts sobbing into my shoulder.

"What? Who left?" I say bewildered.

"My… my father."

"What? What kind of father would do that? No, wait, don't answer that. Why did he leave?"

"He saw you, he saw you and me kissing on the porch. We got in a big fight. We were yelling back and forth. My mom said that maybe I could date whomever I want. Then he yelled about how she always sided with me and he left."

"He'll come back Yumi, he can't just abandon his family like that!"

"I know my father. This was the last straw, he's not coming back. He never liked you, he never wanted me going to school here. I was lucky I got to be a day student." She says through the tears.

"Don't worry Yumi, I'll help you find a way to make it work. I won't let anything bad happen to you or your family." I say. When I promise something like that. I mean it.

I will help Yumi and her Mother and Brother. I will not let anything happen to them!

"Promise?"

"I absolutely promise. Nothing bad will happen, I won't let it." I say reassuringly.

"Thank you Ulrich." She says and stops crying long enough to kiss me. Then she starts sobbing into my chest. I just hold her and stroke her hair. I take out my cell phone and look at the time. 12:56.

This is gonna be a long night. I might as well make the best of it. Wait a minute, if I dropped her off around 10, she must have been wandering around alone in the dark for nearly three hours!

I make my self comfortable and hold Yumi tight. After about twenty minutes, she falls asleep.

She must be exhausted. We finally got together, and Yumi's dad leaves! Why does everything good in our lives have to be spoiled rotten? We discover Aelita, and awaken XANA. We finally materialize Aelita and XANA implanted a virus in her. Aelita gets to stay in our world, but she has recurring nightmares. Yumi and I finally get together, but her dad leaves because of it. It's not fair, why does everything bad happen to us? Yumi has been hit one of the hardest, it's no wonder she's breaking down. I will not let this happen any more!

Not wanting to wake her up, I just sit there. And that's how we stay all night.

Wow, nice way to end the chappy. anywayz, R&R, I love seeing reviews. I've been grounded of the computer, i don't know how often I can update from now on. Good thing I've got the next couple of chappys written out. Or mostly. Whatever.