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The Rain Washes Away All Guilt
Chapter 2: Arguing with yourself
Previously
-Her parents were going to Japan for a whole month and Yumi would have to care for Hiroki
-Watch a movie. He falls asleep in the middle. I put him in bed. I have theTV to myself. Where's the flaw?
-When she awoke, the screen was the movie menu and looking at the clock she assumed it'd been over for a while. She stopped the movie and headed to bed herself.
-Yumi woke up to the beeping of her alarm clock and slammed her fist onto it.
-After eating breakfast, getting dressed, and packing their bookbags, Yumi and Hiroki headed to school
>After eating breakfast, getting dressed, and packing their bookbags, Yumi and Hiroki headed to school. Even though Yumi could drive, they walked to school anyway. It saved gas and money. It wasn't even that long of a walk. Granted, Yumi didn't arrive to school the same time as usually because she had to walk Hiroki to his school, it was still worth it!
-----7:35am Friday-----
Yumi arrived at Kadic High where she found her friends at a bench near the vending machines, the same place they always were.
Jeremie, a boy with blonde hair who recently turned seventeen himself, upon which date he also got contacts, was sitting with his also recent girlfriend Aelita, who was the same age as him. He was wearing khaki pants with a light blue tee-shirt over dark blue long-sleeve shirt.
Aelita was an interesting person. She used to live in the virtual world Lyoko, which was shut down a couple years ago, along with Xana. Aelita had shoulder length pink hair. She was currently wearing a pink mid-thigh skirt, a cami in a lighter shade of pink with a darker shade of pink over-shirt. She had on her pink back-less tennis shoes. Frankly, she was wearing pink.
Odd, another interesting character, was currently deciding what to order from the snack machine. He had long blonde hair spiked up with one purple splotch in the middle of the front. No one could quite figure how it'd been so perfectly located. He was wearing really baggy purple cargos, yellow shoes, and a yellow short sleeve shirt reading "I'll pretend to pay attention if you pretend to not notice my snores" over a long sleeve purple shirt. He was short for a boy of seventeen years of age.
Then there was Ulrich. He was sitting there casually in his baggy dark-green cargo pants and his plane green tee-shirt. He was about five months older than Odd.
Ulrich. Yumi loved Ulrich. Not "liked," not "had a crush on..." Loved. Unfortunately she didn't know he felt the same way about her and vice versa.
"Hey guys." Yumi said as she walked over, attempting not to stare at Ulrich.
"Hey Yumi." Ulrich replied, being the only one paying attention, as Jeremie and Aelita were deep in a computer-related conversation and Odd still choosing what he wanted to eat.
"What's going on?"
"Same thing that's going on everyday. Odd's getting a snack or twelve, Aelita and Jeremie are talking in some foreign language about some foreign topic, and I'm bored as hell." Ulrich replied to Yumi in a bored tone.
"Sounds so exciting around here."
"You wanna know what's really exciting?" Odd said as he came up with his pockets stuffed with junk food and a bag of chips in his hands.
"What?" Ulrich and Yumi responded in unison
"The dance is tomorrow night."
Yumi tried to hide the surprise from her face. She'd forgotten all about it. She'd been waiting so long for Ulrich to ask her, she'd forgotten what she was waiting for. William had asked her the other day. And the day before that. And the day before that. And ever since the principle made the announcement. And every time, Yumi said no.
Why can't William take a hint? Why can't Ulrich take a hint? SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE A HINT!
"Who are you going with?" Odd asked trying to drop the hint so that SOMEONE would take it. Ulrich glared at him. Please, God, let that be a "No one yet."
"And you?" Odd said turning to Yumi.
"No one yet." If he wasn't going to say it, she would. So she did.
No one yet? NO ONE YET? You idiot why'd you say that! Now you sound desperate.
No I don't. I'm only dropping a hint.
You said so yourself he didn't take hints.
I never said that
Yeah...but you meant it
Did not
Did to
Did not
I'm not even arguing with you...you know I'll win
YOU ARE ME!
"Yumi?" Ulrich asked for existence in her waving a hand in front of her face. Yumi noticed everyone in the courtyard was leaving towards the school.
"Oh," was all she could think to say to let him know she was okay...and conscious, "Sorry."
"Alright. Let's get to class then." They had first period together.
While Odd went off to history and Jeremie and Aelita went off to Pre-Calculus, they went to drama. They walked in a second before the bell rang.