Yumi heard her father leave and decided to go in the kitchen. Yumi walked up behind her mother and looked at the delicious gingerbread cookies. Her mother made the best gingerbread cookies in the world. She smiled when she saw the family ones. Her mother would make gingerbread cookie replicas of the whole family and the family members would eat each other's and were not aloud to eat their own. Yumi smiled when she saw hers and Ulrich's cookies, Ulrich's cookie had brown frosting as his hair and green frosting for his clothes, Yumi's had black licorice as her hair and black frosting as her clothes. Her mother had not done her parents cookies so she didn't' see them yet. "Mom is dad really mad at me and Ulrich?" Yumi asked half afraid to know. "No Yumi he's not mad he just doesn't understand that you two are young and he just thinks of you as his little girl so he doesn't like to see a lot of guys around you. That's how my father was when I was younger. Your father asked me out but I wasn't aloud to see him ever. We had to keep our relationship secret. That's why I don't agree with your father about you and Ulrich. I don't want you to have to keep anything from me. Especially anything about Ulrich or anything else you want to talk about." Mrs.Ishiyama said as she hugged her daughter and looked into the living room. Ulrich was sitting near Yumi's little brother Hiroki while Hiroki showed Ulrich how to play Dungeon Masters 4. "Now stop worrying about you father, leave him to me, now go enjoy your life while you still have the time." Yumi looked up at her mother and smiled. Yumi walked out into the living room and sat by Ulrich. She grabbed his hand and held it in hers. Hiroki looked at them and smiled from one ear to the other, "Yumi loves Ulrich Yumi loves Ulrich" Hiroki chanted as he paraded around the couple. "Shut it Hiroki!" Yumi shouted. "Hiroki come here a minute sweetie!" Mrs.Ishiyama shouted from the kitchen. "What mom I'm talking to Yumi and Ulrich!" "Come here Hiroki! I need you to model for your cookie!" Hiroki brightened at the idea of cookies. "Well he's easy to get rid of." Ulrich said with a smile, "Just put sugar to the conversation." Yumi laughed and hugged Ulrich she still couldn't convince herself that it was real that he really liked her. Hiroki soon returned to the living room with his mother fast on his heels trying her best to occupy him with anything that didn't involve the living room. "Mom if they wanted to be alone they would go in her room which is exactly where they are not aloud to be." Hiroki said matter 'o factually. Yumi looked into her mother's eyes and pleaded with her. Mrs.Ishiyama nodded but silently told her with her out a board game before he starts investigating. Yumi smiled from ear to ear and nodded. She grabbed Ulrich's arm and ran upstairs.