Alright ummmm, I want to thank my reviewers a whoooooooole lot, i love you all and yes, thank you Katie for giving me that idea of making Yumi running away.
Ulrick ran towards Yumi. He had just turned the corner when he had seen her faint. He reached for her body and knelt down beside her and checked her pulse. Ulricktook a deep breath of relief that she was still alive. He looked at her knocked out body and noticed a puddle of blood forming beside her stomach. Worried, he flipped her over so he could examine were the injury was. Lifting up her shirt, he was shocked as he started unveiling the cut.
The cut was extremely infected and bleeding. Ulrick pulled down the shirt quick, it was too disgusting to see. He lifted Yumi up and hurried down the infirmary.
The annoying sound of the bell woked up a sleeping Odd. He got up from his chair and streched yawning. He gathered his books up and was about to leave when he felt something missing. Looking back at his desk he noticed. Ulricks things were still there.
What the. Thought Odd confused.
Jeremy was passing by with Aelita by his side and Odd stopped them.
"Hey, Jeremy, do you know were Ulrick went?" He asked confused.
"Yeah, he went to the bathroom sometime ago, I guess he never came back." Said Jeremy astounded that Ulrick got out of class and never came back and the teacher didnt even notice. "Ignorant teachers these days." he thought.
"Well, lets go find him he probably fell in the toilet," Said Odd jokingpicking up Ulricks books and putting them in his already loaded bag.
Ulrick waited outside the infirmary. The nurse had told him to go back to class but he was to damn worry and he didnt want to go back to that boring room anyway. He had been waiting about fifteen minutes and it seemed the nurse was still working on Yumi's wound. Finally she came out looking exhausted.
"How is she?" Asked Ulrick anxious to know some news.
The nurse looked at him, "What are you still doing here boy, I thought i told you to go back to class?" She snapped furiously.
"I dont care, how is she?" He rephrased.
The nurse stared at him suspiciously eyeing him up and down and rubbing her chin. " She is well...but, are you a close friend of her's?" She asked still rubbing her chin.
Ulrick was startled by this question, " Yes why?"
The nurse was still looking at him very suspiciouslyandUlrick was starting tofeel intimidated.
"Do you know if she's being abused by anyone?" she asked.
Ulrick shrugged, "no, not by anyone i know. Why?"
The nurse smiled at him " Oh nothing, if you want to you can enter and see her, although she's sleepping." And she walked away leaving Ulrick disturbed by the sudden change of attitude. He shrugged and went inside.
Yumi was as the nurse said, sound asleep. He got a chair fromthecorner and brought it up next to Yumi's bed and sat down. Ulrick examined her features and noticed dramatic changes he had never noticed before in her. She was tremendously white and deep purple bags were below her eyes, there was also a bruise that was probably a slap someone gave her judging it was shaped like a hand She had also lost an awful lot of weight. he had notice that when he had carried her to the infirmary.
He grabbed her hand that was beside her and rubbed it against his cheek. It was cold and he was shure he had felt a hand like that before.
It felt like the corpse of his mother. He quickly shook away the memory and the feelings that were coming back to him.
Yumi moved her head a little and Ulrick stared at her. She turned her headtowards himand opened her eyes and smiled as she noticed it was Ulricks soft, warm hand that was touching her cold one.
Ulrick smiled back. Beside the terrible skin color and loss of weight she had, he could still see his old fun loving Yumi.
"What are you doing here?" She asked.
"I found you lying on the hallway floor. There was blood beside you and i carried you to the infirmary." He said.
The memory of what had happened came flowing back to Yumi's mind. The cut, the pus, the black out.
"what happend?" Asked Ulrick looking seriously.
"What do you mean?" Asked Yumi confused.
" Your cut Yumi, what happened?"
Yumi was suprised he knew about the cut. But then again she wasnt, Ulrick probably had look to see what was the source of the blood flow.
After not answering, Ulrick questioned her. "Did you do it yourself?"
"No, of course I didnt, why would i do something like that?" She asked angrily.
"Who slapped you?" Asked Ulrick changing the subject.
"My neighbor Gabrielle, we got into an argument and ended up fighting."
"Don't lie to me Yumi, who gave you that cut and that slap?" He asked again.
"I already told you who gave me the slap!" she stated sounding annoyed.
Ulrick looked at her suspiciously. He knew Yumi had no neighbor called Gabrielle. As a matter of fact, her neighbor was an elder man that was an author. He knew this because he visited him once for a report about one of his books.
"You know the nurse asked me if someone was abusing you?" He recalled.
"when?"
"when i was asking her about your well being just right now." He said.
Yumi sat up alarmed. She ignored the pain and of the cut and the plaster that was pressing against it.
"And what did you say?"
"that I didnt' know anyone that would abuse you, Yumi, what's going on with you you've changed a lot" Said Ulrick changing the subject.
Yumi looked at Ulrick and chocked. She didn't know what to say to the person she loved and confided in a lot. She didn't say anything.
There was a pause for a moment and Ulrick was about to say something when the door to the room opened and the nurse came in.
"Ulrick it's time to leave, Yumi needs some rest."
Ulrick stood up and started to leave without saying a word to Yumi. He went out and the nurse closed the door behind him.
Now Yumi was alone. She felt down and sorry she had'nt told Ulrick the truth. That her guardian was abusing the crap out of her. That she needed help, that she needed to get away from him.
Get away from him.
That was it! She should get away from him! Why oh why hadnt she thought of it before!
Before she could think about it, Yumi got out of the bed, changed to her clothes she was wearing (although her shirt was covered in blood) and jumped out of the window.
