Ch.9
'Oh man, my head feels hazy.' Yumi thought, putting her hand on her head while slowly getting up.
"I see your awake, Yumi." Ulrich said, laying in the other bed with one arm holding him up to see Yumi.
"Ulrich, what are you doing in my room? Yumi questioned, getting up very quickly. She began looking around to find something to throw at him and she found a pillow on the bed and threw it at him.
Ulrich blocked the pillow with his arm."Wait, can't you tell this is my room?" Ulrich informed.
"Wait, that can't be." Yumi said, she looked around and realized he was right. "Why am I in your room instead of mine?" Yumi questioned with a confused look.
"Why are you asking this? You remember what happened yesterday, right?" Ulrich asked.
"What are you talking about? What happened yesterday? I don't know what happened?" Yumi ranted worriedly.
"You seriously don't remember?" Ulrich asked.
"No, I don't. If you tell me what happened, I might." Yumi said.
"Well, I don't know what exactly happened myself." Ulrich wondered outloud.
"Just tell me what you know." Yumi stated.
"You were in the woods, it was raining, and you were alone." Ulrich explained. 'I'm remembering it a little bit.' Yumi thought while picturing the image Ulrich was saying. "Jeremy was going to his dorm but he stopped when he saw William following you." Ulrich informed.
"William, why?" Yumi questioned, still trying to remember.
"You will figure out later once I get farther into the story." Ulrich stated impaitently.
"Okay, I'm remembering some parts but I need more." Yumi patiently sat at the end of his bed, waiting for more.
"Jeremy, left after that." Ulrich was about to finish his sentence but he was interrupted.
"What? Jeremy left me when William was with me? he's not that kinda friend! Your sources are not right, mister!" Yumi said, anger growing in her voice.
"Well, I didn't finish." Ulrich snapped.
"Oh." Yumi mumbled quietly.
"Back to what happened. He left to go get me and Odd. He told us the problem and they voted for me to go, so after complianing slightly, then felling horrible afterwords, I went. So, When I finally got to the woods, I heard you scream and ran towards the sound. Then I found William on top of you with your clothes torn off. Thus, I got pissed and kicked his face." Ulrich stated simply.
"Wait, do you know why William was like that?" Yumi asked.
"Well, it's William. He just wants you, so he was trying to make you his. His usual moves, except he went too far this time." Ulrich blurted out what he thought.
'Good, he didn't figure out that I'm being abused. He just thinks it's the normal William.' Yumi thought, sighing in relief. 'Wait I remember now!' Yumi thought, having an epiphany, 'He started to suck and nibble on my breast.' Yumi realized, with a shiver going down her spine.
30 minutes had already passed because of the story.
"Wait, what time is it?" Yumi shrieked.
"7:50." Ulrich said.
"What? Oh no, I'm going to be late! I still have to get dressed and do other things!" Yumi frantically cried, about to turn the door nob to exit.
"What's wrong? You still have 10 minutes to do all that and get to class, you have plenty of time." Ulrich reassured.
"No I don't!" Yumi yelled, running out the door and downstairs to the girls hallway. She bumped into someone.
"Yumi, what were you doing up in the boys hallway?" Jim asked, with his hands on his hips.
"Uh, Jim I was just...sl-sleepwalking and you woke me up! Thanks Jim!" Yumi squeaked.
"I'm not falling for that lie." Jim said, grabbing Yumi's wrist and dragging her to the principal's office.
'Ah! I don't like how he's he's grabbing me wrist! Man, why did I have to bump into Jim on my way down.' Yumi thought with a terrified look on her.
Jim and Yumi both entered the principal's office.
"What is it this early in the morning, Jim?" Principal Delmas said, with an annoyed look on his face.
"I found this one going down the boys hallway this morning, which means she was with one of the guys, right." Jim accused, looking at Yumi.
"Hold on Jim, let's hear what Yumi has to say, she wouldn't lie to us." Mr. Delmas said, waiting for Yumi to answer.
"Sir, I was just sleepwalking. I have bad habits of sleepwalking, you can ask, Aelita. You see sir, the door to the room broke a few nights ago, so now i can walk out of the room so easily, because the door can't be looked." Yumi lied. She decided to mention the door so she could lock it at night, so William can't sneek in. She was merely thinking ahead.
"Alright, Jim, go find Aelita Stones so we can see if it's true." Mr. Delmas said, seeming to just wave Jim away. It was certainly too early in the morning.
"What? Are you just going to believe her?" Jim questioned.
"I know Yumi wouldn't lie to us. Right, Yumi?" Mr. Delmas asked, with a serious look on his face.
"No, sir, I would never lie." Yumi said, sitting down in the seat in front of the principal's desk.
"Fine, if you say so, Delmas." Jim growled, walking out the door.
Jim walked into Aelita's class.
"Jim, what brings you here?" Ms. Hertz questioned.
"I need to see Aelita Stones." Jim informed.
"Alright, Aelita, go with Jim." Ms. Hertz ordered.
"What do you think Jim wants you for?" Jeremy asked quickly.
"How should I know? I'll talk to you guys later." Aelita whispered back and left with Jim. They didn't say anything from the walk from Ms. Hertz class to the principal's office. 'Principal's office, why here?' Aelita wondered.
"Ah, Aelita, we called you here for a reason. You won't be in trouble if you say the truth, and you both can go back to your dorms since class is going to end soon." Mr. Delmas informed.
"Sure, what do you need?" Aelita asked while eyeing Yumi.
Yumi's face said it all. Aelita need to help her.
"Alright, Jim caught Yumi going downstairs to the girls hallway from the boys hallway, Yumi said that she sleepwalks a lot and that was what she did last night." Mr. Delmas began. "Since you're her roommate, you should know if she sleepwalks a lot." Mr. Delmas said.
"Well, I have been her roommate for a while, and of what I heard and see sometimes is that she does in fact sleepwalk." Aelita said protecting Yumi.
Principal Delmas rose an eyebrow. "Does she usually leave the room?"
"No, we lock the door at night,"
"What's different this time?" Delmas questioned.
"The door broke recently. Some girls where carrying some heavy boxes and one tripped outside out door. The box broke the handle, and the weak door came off one of its henges. We didn't think to report it because it could still close..."
"Alright, that's all we wanted to know. You two are being truthful right now, right?" Principal Delmas asked.
"Yes, sir." The girls said at the same time.
"Okay, I believe you two you're off the hook, so you may go. We will fix you're door when we can," Prinicpal Delams said, opening up his door for them to head off for their dormroom.
They went out of the door and saw their friends outside waiting for them with curious looks.
"So, what went on you guys?" All the guys questioned.
'Man, I really don't feel good.' Yumi thought, feeling horrible but enduring it.
"We'll talk in our room." Aelita said as she walked off, knowing everyone would follow.
All of the gang went into Aelita's and Yumi's room. Odd, Jeremy, and Aelita sat on the floor while Ulrich and Yumi were on the bed.
"So, who's explaining?" Odd asked.
"I will, it seems like Yumi isn't the best right now since this just happened." Aelita inhaled, about to tell the event that just happened moments ago. "While Yumi was coming down the stairs from Ulrich's room, Jim caught her and brought her to the principal's office." Aelita explained.
'Dang, it's hot in here.' Yumi thought, starting to sweat.
"Yumi said that she was sleepwalking and Jim didn't believe her. So the principal wanted to make sure it was true, so they got me to answer since I'm her roommate. Also, we are getting the door fixed!" Aelita said, still explaining.
"So, mostly..." Odd said, but got cut off.
"Sss- so mostly Aelita covered for me and I'm not in trouble." Yumi stuttered. She began to look pale.
Yumi fainted from exhaustion and fell on Ulrich's lap.
"Hey, Yumi, you okay?" Ulrich said, while putting a hand on her forehead.
"What's wrong with her, Ulrich?" Aelita asked, getting up quickly.
"She's burning up! I think she has a cold for being out in the rain yesterday for so long." Ulrich said, letting Yumi rest where she had fallen on his lap, not wanting to disturb her.
"Jeremy, Odd why don't you go get a wash cloth and a bowl with cold water in it." Aelita suggested.
"We're on it, Aelita." Odd said, with a hand gesture saying yes ma'am. Jeremy and Odd ran to get the supplies.
"So how long do you think she'll be like this?" Ulrich said.
"She'll be okay and up tomorrow morning, probably, she has a good immune system." Aelita explained.
"Well that's good, as long as she's okay." Ulrich said, sighing while messing with Yumi's hair.
"So, Ulrich." Aelita began.
"Yeah, Aelita." Ulrich said, looking at Aelita.
"Do you love, Yumi?" Aelita asked.
"What, why do you ask this?" Ulrich said, jerking from the sudden question.
"That's not the point. Do you or do you not love her?" Aelita treid to get an answer from him.
"Yeah, I do, a lot." Ulrich said sincerey. A blush crept on his cheeks when he admitted his feelings.
"If Yumi had a dark secret from you and didn't tell you or was scared to tell you what would you do?" Aelita rushed the question out.
"I'd let her know that I'm here for her, and I'll be there for her even if there is something really bad going on in her life. I'll help her however I can." Ulrich assured her. "Why are you asking all these questions all of a sudden?" Ulrich questioned.
"That's not the point, just answer the questions, it's important." Aelita said seriously. "Ulrich, she won't admit it, but even though she seems all tough, and gets mad, she wants someone just to help her, and break the wall apart so she can trust them." Aelita informed.
"Yeah I know, but I feel like I'll hurt her if i push myself into her bussiness. She may not want me in it, and it may ruin our friendship." Ulrich said, looking at Yumi's sweet and delicate face.
"But Ulrich it seems like you're the only one she actually wants to help her in her problems, she relies on you." Aelita assured him.
"Yeah and I rely on her." Ulrich said, before Jeremy and Odd silently came in. It was getting dark, and Jim could could at any time to check on them.
"Hey guys we're back." Odd said, waving the wash cloth around in his hand.
"So how's Yumi." Jeremy said in a worried tone, with a the bowl in his hand.
"Her head still feels hot, but not as bad as before. She should be better tomorrow." Ulrich said, feeling Yumi's forehead again.
"Well let's put this cold wash cloth on her." Aelita said, putting the wash cloth in the cold water and then on her forehead.
"Hmm? Where am I? Oh I feel horrible." Yumi started to wake up. She put her hand on her forehead so the wash cloth wouldn't fall.
"Hey, your awake. Your fine, Yumi, you just have a fever." Ulrich reassured her.
"Wait Ulrich, why am I...?" She realized she was on his lap. She tried to get up but had arms holding her down.
"No, Yumi, you need to lay down." Ulrich said, holding her in his arms.
"But Ulrich, why are you here? Isn't it dark?" Yumi asked.
"Yeah that reminds me we need to get back to our rooms." Jeremy stated.
"You coming, Ulrich?" Odd asked.
"Um, no, actually I want to stay here. I'll be careful in the morning when leaving." Ulrich said.
"Alright then, see you tomorrow. At least I can sleep in my own bed tonight." Odd said, waving and walking out the door.
"Well, see everyone tomorrow." Jeremy said, leaving right behind Odd and closed the door.
"Yeah, see you." The three teens said softly.
"So how's this going to work tonight?" Aelita asked curiously.
"Well, I guess you can sleep with Yumi, and I can be on the other bed." Ulrich said as he tried to stand up.
"But it seems like you're a little stuck." Aelita giggled as she pointed to his shirt. Ulrich looked down to see Yumi holding on to his shirt, not letting him go.
"Yeah I guess I am, so you sleep in that bed and I'll lay down with Yumi and sleep." Ulrich said, carfully laying down next to Yumi.
"Hey Aelita, Yumi, are you awake?" Jim asked, knocking on their door.
No one answered.
"Well, I guess they're asleep." Jim said as he shrugged and walked off.
"I'm glad Jim doesn't come in on us anymore." Aelita whispered.
"Yeah that's good... Wait, anymore?" Ulrich said as he sat up slightly.
"Oh, we never told you, he was about to come in one morning, but I called him a perverted Jimbo, and he left," Aeita stated simply as she snuggled into her blanky.
Ulrich shrugged as he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning came fast.
Ulrich heard the alarm that went off.
"I better get up. I have about 20 minutes till class starts..' Ulrich looked up and realized it wasn't his room. He eyed the girl next to him. 'but first,Yumi." Ulrich thought, slowly putting Yumi down in her bed and checking her forehead. 'Good, she doesn't have a fever anymore.' Ulrich thought as he ran out the door fast.
Ulrich ran to his room to find Odd just waking up with half lidded eyes. "Hey, Romeo, so how did it go last night?" Odd asked smugly.
"It went fine. She seems fine now, she doesn't have a fever anymore." Ulrich said.
"Was it from that tender loving care?" Odd said while making kissy faces. Ulrich punched Odd's arms as they ran to class.
"Yumi, we better get up we have about 15 minutes till class starts." Aelita said, getting up and shaking Yumi to death. Yumi fell out of bed.
'Oh damn, stupid good immune system! Now I have to see William.' Yumi thought, getting out of bed and getting dressed. As Yumi and Aelita left the room to go to class, Yumi turned to Aelita. "Hey, Aelita, I'll talk to you later. I need to study for a test next period." Yumi said.
"You sure?" Aelita called as Yumi began to run off.
"I'll be fine!" Yumi called behind her. She was about a few feet away from the library, walking by a closet that was close by, when the door suddenly slammed open and she was pulled in. 'Oh no, not...' She heard his chuckling behind her. The sound of it sent a shiver down her spine. 'Just what I needed, stuck in a closet with the most obsessed and abusive guy in the whole world, William.' Yumi thought, having who she thought tie her legs and hands together.
The bell rang.
"Uh, William, the bell rang, I need to get to class for a test, so why don't you untie me?" Yumi pleaded. She shivered once she felt his hand on her thigh.
"No, I'll keep you here until you love me." William breathed into her ear.
"William, when will you learn that whatever you do I won't love you?" Yumi growled, she was becoming annoyed at his futile attemps of making her love him.
"Oh, I don't know about that. And even if you don't, I love your face and body when I do these things." William said, amusement sorounding his voice.
"So what are you planning this time?" Yumi questioned, her voice had fear in it again.
"Oh, you'll find out, but just in case." William mumbled. Yumi heard the sound of ripping duck tape.
"What are you going to do with that?" Yumi asked, trying to squirm away from him.
"What do you think I'm going to do, rip the hair off your legs?" William asked sarcasticly, putting the tape on her mouth.
"Mmm!" Yumi tried yelling for help.
"It's no use, Yumi. No one will save you this time." William smirked. "Now let's get this started." William pulled down Yumi's pants. Yumi squealed. "Don't worry, it's not like I'm going to do anything really bad, you just need a punishment for being bad." William breathed deeply into her ear as he began to rub her butt.
'Damn, of course this is punishment. He is touching me, and in a way that makes this much worse! Even if I wasn't afraid of touching, the only one I would even consider this with would be...' Yumi began to cry. 'Ulrich, anyone, Please Save Me!' Yumi screamed in her mind while William was still rubbing her butt.
"So, Yumi how do you like this? This is just the beginning." William laughed evilly as he slapped her butt.
'Ow, this is not the kinda hurt your supposed to get when someone is slapping your butt! Maybe it's because this guy isn't the one I love...' Yumi thought as she continued to cry. It hurt really bad, and she wished it wasn't him doing it.
"How does this feel, Yumi? Have you figure out you love me? Is that why you're crying?" William asked, slapping harder. Yumi flinched when he slapped her, but she managed to shake her head to his question. "Fine, then since you still haven't I'll just have to be more rough." William said, grabbing Yumi's boob with the other hand. Yumi left out another muffled cry for help, that no one would hear.
With the rest of the gang at lunch.
"Hey, where's Yumi?" Ulrich questioned as he sat down. He looked at Aelita for the answer.
"Don't look at me! I don't know, I haven't seen her since this morning. She left to study for her test." Aelita informed.
"Well, I hope William didn't get her when she was alone." Jeremy was staring at his pudding with worry.
Odd got up and threw away his food.
"Where you going, Odd? No, seconds?" Ulrich asked in disbelief.
"No, I'm good. I'm going to see if I can find Yumi. You can't always be a hero, lover boy." Odd said, running out of the cafeteria before a blushing Ulrich could retort. Odd was running so fast he didn't see where he was going. He mistakingly bumped into someone.
"Odd Della Robbia, Stop running in the halls! Why don't you make yourself useful and go get a mop from the closet next to the library?" Jim yelled, pointing to what used to be his coffee on the floor.
"Right, Jim." Odd said, jogging to the closet.
'Man, now it really hurts. I can't take much more... I'm about to faint...' Yumi thought as consciousness was about to betray her.
Odd opened the closet door really fast. "Excuse me!" Odd cried as he pushed William to the side to grab a mop. He looked over at William again. "Oh, was I interrupting something?" He looked over to see Yumi. His eyes got wide with understanding. (Who else would William steal to a closet, Odd? Really?) "Of course I was, get away from Yumi!" Odd yelled as he hit William with the mop. "Yumi, get up before William wakes up!" Odd cried, grabbing Yumi and pulling her pants back up.
"I can't, I'm to exhausted." Yumi muttered weakly before she fainted.
"Oh, man this is not the time to be fainting, Yumi!" Odd whined, putting Yumi on his back heading for Yumi's and Aelita's room, leaving the mop next to the unconscious William. They finally got to the room and Odd carefully put Yumi down on her bed. "Poor Yumi, It must be hard dealing with all this." Odd mumbled, sitting on her bed right beside her. 'She's been getting hurt in differant places... I wouldn't blame her if she was scared.' Odd wondered slightly before he thought "Was that the same mop that we used last time...?" He suddenly heard his phone and picked it up.
"Yeah, Ulrich." Odd said, already knowing who it would be. Ulrich was always the worry wart.
"Did you find Yumi?" Ulrich asked with worry in his voice, just as Odd thought.
"Yeah, I found her. We're in her room and she's asleep. Come when you can." Odd said, hanging up the phone. 'I can't tell him if he asks if she was with William, Yumi would kill me.
After classes all of the gang was in Aelita's and Yumi's room. Yumi was still sleeping on her bed, looking very peaceful.
"So, where was she?" Ulrich questioned as he took one step into the room.
"She was in the library studying really hard, so hard she forgot to go to class! She was tired when I found her, so we went to her room and she fell asleep." Odd lied.
"It just doesn't seem right though." Ulrich said curiously. He wasn't dumb. He knew there was a bell in the library, and she had to hear it.
"Well that's what happened, so believe it." Odd said as he crossed his arms.
"Yeah, I guess." Ulrich agreed reluctantly, walking out of the room with his hands stuffed into his pockets.
When the door clicked close, Jeremy began the questioning. "So... was that really where she was?" Jeremy questioned with a knowing look.
"No, of course I lied to him. Yumi would kill me if she found out I told him! You know she's relentless!" Odd pointed his finger at his friend.
"So, was I right what I suggested before?" Jeremy asked.
"Tell me again what you suggested?" Odd smiled like the idiot he knew he was.
"She was with William..." Jeremy pushed his glasses up.
"Yeah, You were right on the mark, einstein." Odd said, eyeing Yumi with a pitiful look.
"I thought so. How bad was it this time?" Jeremy questioned.
"I'm not saying."Odd threw his hands up in surrender. "If Yumi wants to tell, she can, but it's her personal business. But, I'll say, it was pretty bad. Worse then the last." Odd explained, his hands resting on his knees.
"I see, his attacks are progressing, and getting rougher everytime." Jeremy said with his hand on his chin.
"I agree with you, Jeremy." Aelita agreed, sliding her hand off the newly repaired door. "Just by looking at Odd I can tell, this time was so horrible... There has to be something we can do! Tell a teacher or something..."
"Well, for now we can't do anything. We should let Yumi rest. We'll have to talk about this more later." Jeremy said, he turned completely towards Aelita. "We can't expect that telling a teacher will help everything, Aelita. This could be the work of a greater source-"
"You mean XANA?" Aelita held her hand to her mouth.
"Exactly. But we can't be sure, I've been watching XANA this whole time. He's done nothing, no towers has been activated or anything. I want to blame this on XANA, but the logic says no... Anyway, for now, we need to get some sleep."
"Yeah, your right, so we should go soon." Odd said. He waved goodbye as he and Jeremy left the room.
'Well, we can't help, Yumi. At least not right now, but we'll help you, don't worry.' Aelita thought, Pulling the blankets over herself and falling asleep.