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Aelite, Jeremie, and Odd stood under the foyer. Waiting for Yumi's parents to arrive. Yumi was standing out in the rain, trying to wash away the memory.

.:FLASH BACK:.

It was a sunny day. When Yumi went to school. She saw Jeremie, Odd, and Aelita sitting on their favorite bench. Right by the carbonated beverage machine and the soup suspensor. She waved, as she ran up, to her perched friends.

"Hi Yumi." Aelita said, "What's going on?"

"Oh nothing much." Yumi sat her backpack down, next to the bench. She was about to asked Aelita "how she's been", when a soft hand compassionately touched her shoulder. Yumi turned and smiled, when she saw Ulrich's face.

"Hello Ulr…" Yumi was cut off by a light kiss on the cheek. Yumi's cheeks looked like two big cherrys, as she blushed.

.:END FLASH BACK:.

"Yumi are you all right?" Mrs. Ishiyama pulled away from the kiss she laid on her daughters cheek. Yumi fingered where her mothers lips had been. It was her mother that kissed her, not Ulrich. Yumi looked to see her friends running to her mothers parked car, and climbing in.

"Come, Yumi. Before you get a cold." Mrs. Ishiyama put her black umbrella over Yumi. Yumi stepped out from under the umbrella's tree like shelter and walked to the car.

Mrs. Ishiyama sighed, she hated seeing Yumi so depressed. She even tried to convince her daughter to go talk to a therapist, but she refused. Sprinting, Mrs. Ishiyama made her way to the passengers seat of the operating car. Buckling herself in, then turning around to see if everyone was in the vehicle.

Jeremie, Odd, and Herokee were squished in the back seat. Jeremie wasn't on his computer, like he would usally be. Odd wasn't jabbing his noise into anyone's business and Herokee wasn't playing his Game Boy.

Aelita and Yumi were in the middle seat, tears flowing. Jeremie tapped on Aelita's shoulder and gave her two hankies. One for herself and one for Yumi. Why would he have two hankies? Aelita didn't care, she was just glade she had something to whipe up her tears with. Hoping her make-up wouldn't smear.

Mrs. Ishiyama turned towards her husband, in the drivers seat.

"We need to stop back home, so Yumi could change." She said, as Mr. Ishiyama put the car into gear. Slowly pulling away from the curve, Mr. Ishiyama made his way back home. Five minutes later, he arrived at there caramel colored house. Parking in the drive way. Yumi unbuckled her seatbelt, and got out of the car. Pulling out her house key and unlocking the door, she stepped inside. Leaving everyone out in the car, waiting for her.

Yumi could smell the aroma of clearners, all thru out the house. Slowly Yumi turned on the entryway light. The darkness crawled away. Yumi ambulated up the stairs, dragging her feet the whole way. Yumi saw her bedroom door, towards her right. It looked depressed. How could a door look depressed? Well her door just didn't have any life in it. Nothing did any more.

The door screeched, like someone dying, when Yumi opened it. Flipping on her bedchamber light, Yumi saw a dress was already laid out on her bed. Mrs. Ishiyama set it out this morning, that way Yumi wouldn't have to go looking for something to wear. Yumi took off her pants and her top. With her pink bra and red panties on, she slipped the black,

Plane-Jean dress, over her head. Thru the light fabric, yumi tought she saw Ulrich walk by her. She pulled her head thru and Ulrich wasn't there. Of course he wasn't there, he was dead.

OKAY HOW MEANY OF YOU FOUND OUT IT WAS ULRICH THAT DIED, BEFORE THIS CHAPTER?

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