Alright!!! It's the weekend!!! Well here's my next chapter. Also this should clear things up on what happened to Ulrich and what has happened at Kadic.

Enjoy!

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"... so lemme' get this straight. They kidnapped you, sent videos to your father with threats that they were going to kill you if he didn't send them the ransom money, then you escaped and told the authority's? Do I have that all right?" Odd asked, cracking his knuckles anxiously as he talked.

"Yea that pretty much sums it up." replied his bestfriend, stretching out on his dorm bed.

"Wow... that's a lot to take in. I never knew your dad owned such a big company." Odd stated, still amazed at Ulrich's story.

"Yea well, that's why he's always bugging me to get better grades. That ass cares more about his company then his family." Ulrich said, anger slowly gathering in his voice.

"That bastard would've probably let them kill me. He wasn't gonna pay them!" Ulrich said, almost yelling.

"Hey c'mon man, take easy ok? You got out and your ok. That's all that matters. Screw your dad, your safe and that's what we care about." said Odd, trying to calm Ulrich down.

"Yea... yea I guess your right," Ulrich mumbled. "Well tell me how its been going here. How's Aelita? Is she doing good?"

"Ulrich... I've got really bad news," Odd said nervously. "Lyoko... lyoko is no more. Xana ended up destroying Aelita. After that we just shut it down."

"Wha- no! No that couldn't have happened!" Ulrich said, guilt filling inside him.

"I'm sorry Ulrich, but she's gone. She got knocked into the digital void, and me nor Yumi could save her. Jeremie tried all he could to get her out, but he couldn't re-materialize her. I think its because of the virus she had." Odd muttered looking down.

"I'm sorry Odd. I should've been there." said Ulrich, now feeling extremely guilty.

"Hey you couldn't do a thing about it. It's not like you coulda' went up to your kidnappers and said,

"Hello there mister kidnapper. I would like to know if you would kindly let me go so I could save my pink haired friend Aelita from an evil computer virus that wants to destroy the world." Odd said, trying to cheer Ulrich and himself up.

Ulrich gave a small chuckle.

"Yea that's true. Well how's everyone else doing then. Is Yumi ok?" Ulrich questioned, trying to not sound too anxious to here about Yumi's life.

"Yea Yumi's fine... but I wouldn't worry about her if I were you." said Odd, remembering his conversation with Jeremie earlier on that day.

"Well then who should I? Is Jeremie ok?" Ulrich asked.

"I'm not really sure. He took losing Aelita really hard. He doesn't really eat much anymore, and doesn't hang out with us either. Also you should probably steer clear of him. He pretty much hates you, thinking you could've help prevented losing Aelita." Odd answered back.

"Ok gotcha. Well I think I'm gonna go walk around a bit. Wanna come?" Ulrich questioned, pushing his longer hair out of his face.

"Nah, I think I'm gonna stay here. Got some homework for Mrs.Hertz I should probably due. She'd kill me if I didn't." Odd replied, pulling out his binder.

"Alright I'll see you later." Ulrich said, grabbing his key and leaving the room.

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Yumi's P.O.V.

'Man it's such a nice day out. Today has been a pretty good day, considering William and I got to have our alone time in the forest. I thought I heard someone else walk up to us, but I guess it was just my imagination. Well I had to get rid of him for a while, considering he was getting kinda perverted again. I told him he should probably go do his homework, which he reluctantly did.'

'I guess I'll go home tonight about now. Don't want dad questioning me. Hey... who's that?'

'Who is that boy? He must be in my grade, since he's a little taller than me. But I feel like I've seen him before, though I don't remember knowing anyone with such beautiful chocolate colored hair.'

Yumi picked up her pace a bit, following the boy as he left the school. He walked in the direction toward her house. He finally stopped when he was outside her house.

'What is he doing? Does he know me? I'm going to figure who he is.'

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Normal P.O.V.

"Hey you there!" Yumi called to the boy. The boy turned around, and opened his mouth to speak, but seemed to stop at the sight of Yumi.

"Hey you! What's your name." Yumi asked, walking closer to the boy.

Yumi stopped. Is that... Ulrich? She thought to herself.

"Ul..Ulrich? Is that you?" Yumi questioned.

"Umm... Hi Yumi." Ulrich replied, nodding his head.

Yumi smiled then walked up to him. She just stared into his mysterious eyes for a second. Then she slapped him.

"WHERE THE FUCK HAVE YOU BEEN?!?!" Yumi screeched, causing other pedestrians to start walking away quickly, muttering to themselves.

"Yumi, wait! I can explain this, but you wouldn't believe me. Its too complicated!" Ulrich said, trying not to raise his voice.

"I've had enough of your crap Ulrich. Was our relationship too complicated for you? Is that your excuse?" Yumi screamed.

"OK YOU WANNA KNOW THE REASON? THE REASON WAS BECAUSE I WAS KIDNAPPED!" Ulrich yelled.

"That's a load of shit! God I hate you Ulrich Stern. I hate you! You can just go die for all I care."

These words hit Ulrich like a hundred punches to the face.

"Oh... well I'm sorry for all the pain I've caused you." Ulrich said softly, almost whispering.

"Yea whatever. Listen just don't bug me and William when we're together ok?" Yumi asked, a bit taken aback from Ulrich's apology.

"Wait, why?" Ulrich answered, wondering why Yumi asked that question.

"Because we're going out." Yumi replied.

These last four words hit Ulrich like a finishing knock-out punch. If he were a boxer, he wouldn't be getting up.

"...I see," Ulrich said finally. "Well um.. we'd both better go."

And with that Ulrich left his only love there, walking back to his dorm with shiny tears flowing down his face.

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Until next time. See ya!