He had told her to be there at 9:30 but Yumi had already blown that. She quickly pulled on her cloths and ran out of her house toward the school. Yumi's mother heard the door slam behind her and knew all too well where she was going and why. It was the same way that Yumi's father had done it too. She closed her eyes and smiled fondly on her gingerbread men that she was currently making. She could still feel the cold air on her cheek as she too had rushed over to the school those long twenty years ago. Ulrich however was almost to his breaking point. It was freezing outside. He had been waiting for Yumi for over half an hour. "She just had to pick this one morning to be late, this morning of all the mornings in the world", he thought to himself. He looked down from his perch in his favorite tree. Its thin branches were crystallized with thin ice so that when the sun caught it in the right light it looked like little lights. He thought to himself, "This is perfect, the area is beautiful and it was quiet. It was the perfect time to finally tell her how I feel. Nothing can stop me now." Suddenly Ulrich could hear his name being called from far away. It was for sure Yumi, who else could it be, Jeremy and Aelita were in Canada looking at the mountains with Jeremy's parents, Odd was at home probably getting tortured by his many sisters, and Sissy was at home. William couldn't ruin this for Ulrich either since he was still under the control of Xana, but he didn't even have to worry about that because before break Jeremy had shut off the super computer so that Xana couldn't attack when nobody could get to the computer.