Chapter 2 - Friends

A/N - HEY! I'M UPDATING! dances YAY! has anyone seen High School musical! It's the best! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! woo i'm hyper, because i was at drama today and me, Lewis, Harley, n Steph were being cool walking around in H&M dancing to "Everybody Dance Now" of course, you have no idea who these people are, so i'll shuddup now.

DISCLAIMER - Me no own Code Lyoko okies?

Ulrich knocked on the door to Odd's dorm, "Hey idiot, it's me!"

"Come on in!" Odd called.

Ulrich opened the door and went inside, slowly followed by Yumi, to find Odd playing on his brand new PSP.

"Hey Ulrich...hey...uh, sorry, I haven't seen you around before - what's your name?" he asked.

"Yumi Ishiyama - I'm in the year above you. You might of heard of me as 'Gloomy Yumi'." she told him.

"So you're that girl huh?" he looked her up and down, "Well, you certainly don't look too gloomy to me! I don't understand why they give you such a hard time." shrugging, he switched off the console and placed it aside, "So how's your first day been so far Ulrich?"

"Pretty good actually, Drama, Spanish, English, PE, and of course, saving Yumi from some evil-looking girl." he smiled at her cheekily.

She blushed slightly, "Hey, it's not like I couldn't of handled it on my own, it's been that way for as long as I can remember."

"Well guess what Yumi? We're your friends now." Ulrich smiled and Odd gave off a cheesy grin, nodding stupidly.

Yumi did a sort of double-take at them, making sure this wasn't another episode of Punk'd and Ashton Kutcher wasn't going to jump out of the closet...Nope. This was real, "You're not serious? Friends with me! I-"

"Stop." Ulrich help up a hand to silence the confused girl.

"Yeah Yumi, if we didn't like you, chances are you'd still be out on those stairs." Odd half-joked, chuckling.

'Man these guys are cool.' The girl was so stunned, and happy, "Wow, you guys are awesome!"

"Well I do try." Odd said offhandedly.

The three looked at each other and burst into fits of laughter - it was going to be good for Yumi Ishiyama from now on.

Or, that's what she thought.

The following day, she couldn't find the pair anywhere,a dn she just so happened to run into the 'Plastics'.

Cue: Sissi Delmas; the leader of the gang. She was rich, snobby, and always knew everything about everyone.

Milly Solaviaff; wore nothing that wasn't designer, never a hair out of place, and you could say, not the smartest girl of the bunch.

Then there was Argent Valentine she didn't exactly fit in with the others, but for some reason they loved her to pieces; perfect hair, naturally strawberry-blonde, but usually dyed it with a wash-in to match her outfits (today it was comic blue - black until the light hit it), a perfect figure - not too skinny, not too fat - perfect nails (aqua blue)...nothing was flawed in her. Infact, today she was almost completely blue. Blue converse, blue fishnets, blue miniskirt, blue and white polkadot scene top, and a white army jacket to finsh the look. There was nothing amiss about the girl. Yumi figured that the only thing stopping her from taking over was Sissi's father - the Principal. they listened to her more anyway.

Today, they decided, it was a 'pick on the freak kids' day, so as they moved away from two 'geeks' that Yumi didn't really know, but was sure were called Jeremie and Aelita...they moved towards her.

Gulp.

"Hey look girls, gloomy Yumi's on her own today...what a surprise!" Milly sniggered, gaining evil smiles from the other girls.

"No she isn't!"

Yumi yanked her head around to discover Odd and Ulrich pulling chairs up beside her.

"Sorry we're late Yumi - we had basketball practice." Ulrich explained.

"So...girls...what were you saying?" Odd eyed the silly girls boredly.

"I was about to tell them to back off." Argent glared at the two, "Mind if I sit?" she sat down without any answer. The other two made an attempt to sit down, "No, you guys - I'll handle this."

Sissi and Milly backed off confusedly. Sissi didn't look too pleased at Argent taking control, but obeyed anyway.

"Now then, " she smiley lightly, rapping her talons on the table, "Why is it that you Odd, babe, a jock - a skater, the most popular guy in school, and you Ulrich, who also seems to be pretty cool, are both speaking to this...er, how do I put this..." she paused thoughtfully, "Yes. This...frea- I mean, unequivalent member of our student body?"

"I don't believe that Yumi is any different than us - do you Odd?" Ulrich raised an eyebrow.

"Nope!" Odd laughed, "We're all just peas in a pod!"

The boys smiled and Yumi. She smiled back in gratefulness.

"I'm sorry Argent, but Yumi is our friend, and you can't stop it." Ulrich stared her right in the eye.

"Well then I guess there's only one thing to do then!" Argent gave an award-winning celeb smile.

The others drew her blank looks.

"Why Yumi dear - tomorrow, you're having lunch with us." Argent announced.

Yumi would've laughed with unbelievability if Argent didn't seem so serious.

"And soon..." the goddess rose from her chair, "You'll be a star!"

As she walked away, the other exchanged glances.

"Does anyone know what she was on about?" Ulrich asked.

"Does anyone ever know what she's on about? The girl's a walking enigma!" Odd cried.

"Probably not." Yumi and Ulrihc chanted.

The three friends walked out of the lunch hall, unaware that the entire school was buzzing of rumours on how Yumi was addressed by Argent Valentine.

A/N - Well? was it good? I'm off to listen to HSM OST kay-o? Please review if you feel like it!

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