Chapter 4: The Reaction
Yumi and Ulrich were blushing furiously as they walked into the cafeteria, even though it was only seven in the morning and there was barely anyone there to stare. Walking over to the line for breakfast, Ulrich took his hand from Yumi's and grabbed two trays.
"Here you are, Princess Yumi, your tray." stated Ulrich, performing a small bow and handing Yumi her tray.
"Oh stop, Prince Charming. I could have gotten my own tray." replied Yumi, blushing again. "Now move so I can get some food. I left my house early to meet you so I didn't get to eat anything."
"What!" asked Ulrich, looking genuinely concerned at this news. "Yumi! You can't just not eat because I wanted to meet you! Don't do that again!"
"Jeez! Not even ten minutes having a girlfriend, and you're already bossing her around." said Yumi, giving Ulrich a light shove with her shoulder as she ladled something onto her plate that resembled scrambled eggs. "Come on, let's grab one of the good tables by the windows before they all fill up."
After Ulrich grabbed a soggy bun and a sausage patty and ladled some egg slop onto his tray, they both set off and grabbed the best table in the entire cafeteria, right by the window that faced out into the forest. About five minutes later, the Kadic Academy students began pouring into the cafeteria to get breakfast.
"Looch ober dere, it's Jerebey an' Ayleeta." mumbled Yumi through a mouth full of the egg slop. Swallowing the runny mess, Yumi repeated herself.
Ulrich turned in his seat and waved to them after they had grabbed their food. Glancing at their usual table in the back of the room, Jeremie shrugged and nudged Aelita over towards Ulrich and Yumi's table. Sitting down, Aelita noticed immediately Ulrich's extremely happy demeanor and Yumi's slightly blushing face.
"Finally! I thought that you two would never end up together." squealed Aelita, nearly hopping out of her seat. "Jeremie look! Ulrich's blushing!"
Jeremie, who had been looking for Odd, turned to look at Ulrich when he had heard Ulrich and blush in the same sentence. "So, did you kiss her yet?" asked Jeremie, picking at his hard boiled egg, being his usual blunt self.
"Jeremie! You don't ask people if they've kissed yet! Sometimes I think that you need to read less computer manuals and more magazines." Being new to Earth, one of the first things that Aelita picked up was the habit of reading magazines, and not just one either.
As Aelita continued to berate Jeremie for his breach in social etiquette, Ulrich and Yumi reached under the table and grabbed each other's hands.
Suddenly breaking up Aelita's tirade, Ulrich shushed loudly. "Be quiet! Here comes Odd. Don't say anything! I wanna see what he does." Ulrich gave Yumi a wink, which she returned with a Don't you dare do something stupid… look.
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By the time Odd had cleaned out the leftovers in the line for breakfast, Odd still hadn't noticed his friends relocation to a good table. He was still grumbling to himself that he was late for breakfast.
"I can't believe I slept until ten thirty. Ulrich usually gets me up by ten for a late breakfast… Where is Ulrich anyway?" Glancing around, Odd did a double take at the good table to see all his friends sitting there staring at him.
"Thanks soo much you guys for waking me up," here, Odd shot a glance at Ulrich "and for letting me know where we were sitting. Is this a new thing or what?" Odd slumped down into the last chair at the table. With a yawn, he dove into the pile of food on his plate that reached all the way to his nose.
Glancing up from his flying egg mush, Odd noticed that everyone was still staring at him. "What, is there something in my teeth?" Odd gave a huge grin, showing his teeth filled with bits of sausage and egg. Everyone laughed.
"Honestly Odd, you are so dense. Did it really take you that long to find us?" asked Yumi.
"As a matter of fact, yes is did. Someone didn't wake me up this morning in time for breakfast." Throwing a scowl at Ulrich, Odd tapped his fingers on the table, waiting. "I would like a reason for why you suddenly decided to leave me alone to die of hunger."
"Don't be so juvenile, Odd." said Ulrich, smiling. "And as for the reason why I wasn't home this morning…"
Tapping Yumi on the shoulder, who was engaged in a conversation about yesterday's math test with Aelita, Yumi turned just in time to lip-lock with Ulrich. Scooting her chair forward to meet Ulrich's the new couple continued to make out in front of a completely bewildered Odd.
Odd's spork was halfway to his mouth with a spoonful of egg when he saw this. Jaw dropping, the egg slid off his spork and landed in a cup of juice, spraying everyone. The distraction was just enough to cause Ulrich and Yumi to pull apart, and an annoyed Sissi to turn to see why she had been splashed with sticky orange juice, just in time to see Ulrich and Yumi break away, blushing fiercely.
Sissi dropped her tray and uttered a noise halfway between a growling scream and a squeaking gasp. Now in a fit of rage, Sissi turned around and stormed straight into Herve and Nicolas, who had both decided to get the last night's leftovers Sloppy Joe's rather than the sloppy eggs.
Both trays flew up into the air, Sissi landed on her butt on the floor, and the trays landed on her head, spewing Sloppy Joe all down her new shirt, which she had worn that day in hopes of impressing Ulrich Dear. "You bumbling idiots! You stupid, annoying, dumb-asses… You… You… You… Oooouhhh!"
Sissi stormed out of the cafeteria, the laughter of the entire school ringing in her ears. No one noticed that behind her meat covered face and flying hair, tears were mixing with the meat sauce. I give up… Yumi won. I can't believe it, but Yumi won Ulrich over me. I hate her. I hate her! I HATE HER!
A car pulled up in front of the school gates and deposited the most gorgeous boy Sissi had ever seen, even hotter than Ulrich. Thrusting her nose in the air, Sissi walked off to her rooms to change. That tramp can have Ulrich, I don't want him anymore. That new kid is hott! thought Sissi as she wiped off some of the meat on her shirt.
Back in the cafeteria, everyone had witnessed the events with Sissi, and therefore, noticed Ulrich and Yumi holding hands underneath the table and blushing. It soon became the morning gossip amongst the tables.
Turning to Yumi, Ulrich said "I can't think of a better way to have spent the firstthree hours of my time as a boyfriend to Yumi Ishiyama than to see moldy meat products dumped over Sissi Dear."
Staring at each other for a second, the whole table burst into laughter and then watched Sissi find a new target for her affection. As Sissi walked off to her rooms, everyone laughed even harder than before.
Well, there it is. Chapter 4. I myself thought that it was really good, considering I wrote it at 2:30 in the morning. Let me know what you think. Press that little purple button (and for all you people out there who say it's blue, it's PURPLE on my computer, GOT IT!)