Chapter 3 -Lunch With Them

A/N- sorry i havent updated in ages, i've been doing work experience, and was really busy!

DISCLAIMER: me no own code lyoko okies? or the song, Start Of Something New, from HSM!

Yumi Ishiyama was nervous.

This could be her big break to get those guys off her back, to stop the pain and the teasing.

She had to make a difference.

Picking out a red v-neck that said, "Varsity Basketball", a pair of bootleg hipster jeans, and a pair of red shoes with a little bow at the front that she had bought the other day.

The shoes were nice, if she had added some glitter, she could have been Dorothy from the Wizard Of Oz.

To finish the look, she tied her short hair into a side ponytail and tied it with a red ribbon.

Giving herself a lookover in the mirror, she told herself, "Time to rock babe.", picked up her bag, and left for school.

Halfway down the road, being the involved with her thoughts, she walked right into someone.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, I didn't see where I was going!" Yumi stared at her feet, not wanting to show her face to the person.

"It's okay, don't worry about it!" the boy chuckled and Yumi raised her head to the familiar voice.

"Ulrich!" she cried.

"Yumi!" Ulrich looked her up and down, "Wow. I didn't even recognise you. Um, you look, um, you look great!"

Yumi blushed, "Thanks."

"Well, we should get going, or wel'll be late." Ulrich began walking again.

"Yeah, and I have music first period." Yumi said, "It's my favourite class."

"You took music? What do you play?" Ulrich asked interestedly.

"Play drums, piano and guitar, but what I really love is singing." she admitted.

"Singing? I've never heard you sing! Go on!" he coaxed.

"I...I can't sorry." she found herself once again gazing at her feet, " I can only sing when it's just me and my piano. As soon as there's a crowd, I freeze up."

"Please?" Ulrich pleaded, "I'll even sing with you."

"Well...there is one duet I'd like to do. Start of Something New? You know it?" she asked.

"Hmm...I have a passion for musicals." Ulrich confessed, the began to sing, "Livin' in my own world, didn't understand, that anything could happen, when you take a chance." his voice was smooth.

Yumi continued, "I never believed in, what I couldn't see, I never opened my heart, to all the possibilities, ooh, "

Ulrich smiled as she grew more confident with each line.

"I know" they both smiled.

"That something has changed," Yumi span around laughing.

"Never felt this way, "Ulrich joined in.

"And right here tonight, " Yumi jumped onto a wall, walking along.

"This could be the start of something new," Ulrich jumped up with her.

"it feels so right," Yumi hopped along.

"To be here with you, oh, and now I'm looking in your eyes, I feel in my heart, the start of something new." They held each others gaze.

"Wow. You're good. No. Better than good, Yumi, that was amazing! How come you never try out for school shows?" Ulrich asked.

"Thanks, you're pretty good too. And, well, like I said, I freeze up. Anyway, why would anyone want to see me in a musical? Gloomy Yumi puts a downer on the day." she said quietly.

"You forget that you're not Gloomy Yumi anymore. You're just...well, one of us now." Ulrich smiled.

"I...thanks, Ulrich."

BRRINGGG!

"Oh crap!" Ulrich cried just as Yumi said,

"Mrs Mathieson will kill me!"

The pair ran off to their classes.

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Lunchtime.

Gulp.
Yumi ran to the toilets to check her hair, then left for the cafeteria.

"Yumi! Over here!" Argent's broad smile could be seen from halfway across the dining hall.

"Oh, hi!" Yumi returned the smile slightly, sitting down next to her.

At the other side of the table, Sissi and Milly scrutinised her with Looks.

"How are you?" Argent asked.

"Okay, I guess. Just had Math, so my brain is fried." Yumi told her.

"Are you kidding? Math is sooo easy" Argent laughed.

Sissi nodded in agreement, "Yeah, it's been so easy for me this year, sitting next to that Belpois kid."

Argent rolled her eyes, "Well, I didn't have to cheat for a perfect score Sissi." She turned to Yumi and whispered, "They think it's weird how I can actually think for myself."

Yumi didn't know how to respond, was Argent genuinely being nice to her? She dared to hope so, "Oh," she said, unsure.

"Ehmagod you guys - there's Odd and Ulrich! Aren't they so hot!" Milly practically drooled over her caffeine-free latte.

"Odd? Yes please!" Argent snapped out of her daydream at the sound of his name.

The others laughed, bar Yumi, who was -

"Staring like a deer in headlights huh?" Argent raised an eyebrow.

Yumi blushed, "Oh no, I-"

"Save it, you so like Ulrich." Argent said in hushed tones, while the other two had turned their attention to a senior named William Dunbar.

"I...he's cute." Yumi confessed.

"Hmm. Listen Yumi, did Odd mention me to you?" Argent asked.

"No, not really why?"

"Well, I've know him since we were, like, one, and I..." her voice dropped so low that Yumi could hardly hear it, and she saw the pained look on Argent's face, "I love him Yumi...I love Odd Della Robia."