A/N: I do not own Code Lyoko. If I did, there would be a season 5 already and the show wouldn't have ended. Okay, here's part 2 of Odd's Big Mouth.

Odd's Big Mouth - Part 2/2

"I know you stole it! Where is it, Odd?" yelled Ulrich. Yumi listened in behind their door. She was too late. She was stuck. She didn't get to Odd fast enough, and Ulrich thought that Odd was the one that stole it.

It was the next morning, and she had woken up exhausted. Exhausted as she was, she had run to their room as fast as she possibly could.

It wasn't fast enough. She knew that now.

She froze there by the door, unsure of what to do. Ulrich whipped open the door, and there was Yumi. Yumi smiled, and Ulrich's mood totally changed.

"Oh, Yumi, hey." Said Ulrich.

"Hello Ulrich." Said Yumi. "Uh, what's wrong?"

"Uh, well you know that journal I told you about?" Ulrich asked. "Well, it's missing and I can't find it."

Yumi tried not to blush. "You want me to help you look for it?"

Ulrich, as she expected him to, looked down at his shoes. "No, I'm sure it'll turn up somehow."

"Are you sure? I am really good at finding things." Said Yumi.

"No, that's okay. I got to go get ready now." Said Ulrich. He picked up his clothes and headed for the showers.

"Here, Odd." Yumi said, just as Ulrich left the room.

It was still in Yumi's hand when Ulrich came back in the room a second later, now shirtless. He put his shirt back on.

"Odd, I forgot my shampoo, can you – Yumi?"

Yumi's face became beet red, and she ran out of the room. Ulrich ran after her, and then, because he was as fast as her, caught her by the hand and stopped her.

"Yumi, did you?" asked Ulrich. Yumi turned away, embarrassed and ashamed.

"I – I don't know what to say." Said Yumi, "I know that I shouldn't have –"

"Yumi, I can't believe you! I can believe that Odd would give it to you, but for you to actually look at it?"

Ulrich was angry, and Yumi just wanted him to calm down and be normal.

She reached out to grab his hand, and he pulled it away.

"Ulrich, please listen!"

"No, Yumi, now you know everything." Said Ulrich. "We can't be friends anymore."

"But what about, after Lyoko, that –"

"How much did you read?" asked Ulrich.

"I read wherever I saw my name." said Yumi, and that was sort of the truth. Her name was on every page.

He clenched his teeth, closed his eyes, blushing.

"I'm going to kill Odd." Said Ulrich, "I think I just want to turn Lyoko back on just to kill him over and over again."

"Well, that's great, but there's something that I want to do first."

"What?"

Then, right there, she kissed him. Both of their faces went red, like two halves of one heart.

With all of it, Yumi told him that Odd was the best friend that he could ever have. Why? Because the goofball had brought them together, after all of the "almosts", here and now, was the real deal. Ulrich was really kissing Yumi. Yumi was really kissing Ulrich.

It wasn't a dream any more.

It wasn't just written down in a book, or a diary, or a journal, or whatever Ulrich wanted to call it.

It was real.

They didn't need Lyoko.

They just needed each other.