Ulrich wrapped his arms around her tighter as she began to cry.

"I just don't understand why they can't work it out. Why did they get married in the first place? If they loved each other than that love wouldn't just die" Yumi sobbed.

Ulrich just allowed her to cry on in his arms. He knew he couldn't do anything for the family anymore. He had done it twice and knew it wouldn't work a third time, especially if they had told their children that they were getting the divorce.

After another thirty minutes of crying she removed herself from his arms and started to apologise about crying, he soon cut her off.

"Yumi, there's no need to apologise. You're my girlfriend, and I'm always going to be there for you"

Yumi smiled sadly and hugged him.

"You always know how to make me smile, Ulrich" she whispered.

Ulrich smiled and hugged her closely.

They lay like that until six in the morning. They had fallen asleep but had also woken up in the night and had started to talk about random subjects to make them fall asleep again.

Ulrich was allowed out when the nurse had come through to check on him again, to his relief.

Ulrich had to go straight to the principal but everyone knew it was only to give him the talk everyone else had received about the fighting.

Ulrich endured the talk about how fighting was wrong and how they had disgraced not only the school but themselves as well.

After that serious talk, Mr Delmas started speaking about how proud he was of Ulrich and how glad he was that Kadic had finally won the Soccer cup and how he hoped that Ulrich would keep it up so that he would never have to see the cup leave his awards cabinet.

Ulrich walked out of the principal's office with 6 cinema passes for his dedication to the team and to Kadic.

Ulrich had to admit that he was very surprised at the principal but he had to laugh. One downside of it was that he had received bad grades prior to the match which had led to his Dad phoning him up threatening him with Militarily School of he didn't raise his grades by next month.

He hated his family, he knew he shouldn't have done but he did. Friends were a lot better, friends you could choose yourself.

Later that day, Ulrich could be found in his dorm room studying for the test he had the next day. Yumi walked into the dorm room without knocking, which was normal procedure now that she and Ulrich were going out with each other.

Ulrich turned around only to see Yumi in silent tears. He removed himself from his desk chair and sat down, grabbing her with him, on his bed.

"What's happened?" he asked gently.

"My Dad, he's moved out and my mom couldn't be happier" she sobbed.

"Yumi, it's probably for the best that they are divorcing" Ulrich comforted.

Yumi jumped up and looked at him tears still evident.

"WHAT?" Yumi yelled. "YOU THINK IT'S A GOOD THING THAT MY PARENTS ARE GETTING A DIVORCE?"

"No, I didn't mean it like that Yumi at all. I meant that they're not being selfish they're thinking of you-"Ulrich attempted.

"OH YEAH MY PARENTS DIVORCING BECAUSE THEY CARE ABOUT ME, IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY ULRICH?" Yumi yelled some more.

"Yumi, your parents know what's best"

"IT MAY BE BEST FOR THEM BUT IT ISNT BEST FOR ME AND HIROKI!"

"Yumi, you'll see how happy your home can be without the arguing"

"AND WITHOUT MY PARENTS? NOT EVERYONE IS LIKE YOU AND HATE THEIR FAMILY, YOU HEARTLESS THING. I THOUGHT MY PARENTS CARED ABOUT ME UNLIKE YOURS. I DIDN'T THINK I'D HAVE TO TURN OUT LIKE YOU BUT I GUESS I WILL IN THE END!"

With that Yumi raced out the bedroom in a temper.

Ulrich just stood there speechless. He had always wondered what the gang thought of him with his family issue and now he knew.

Next morning, Ulrich wasn't speaking to anyone. He hadn't spoken since arguing with Yumi the night before. He had pretended to be asleep when Odd came in the room but had been avoiding the gang ever since.

As he rounded the corner he saw the gang with their backs to him, they were talking about him, he knew it was wrong but he listened into their conversation.

"So you haven't heard him speak since 4pm yesterday?" Jeremie was asking Odd.

"Yeah and when I cam in at 10pm he was asleep"

"Probably pretending" Aelita hypothesised.

Everyone looked at Yumi who was being silent.

"You're his girlfriend, when was the last time you heard him speak?"

"Around 9:30, I suppose" she sighed.

"Ok, that's it, what has happened?" Jeremie asked sighing.

Yumi looked up, from where she was sitting on the ground, guilty.