Hello, everyone! I'm here and I'm back with yet another chapter. You know you people should appreciate this. I haven't done a single thing for my other stories because this one's been getting more feedback (mainly because I haven't given you another chapter for the others to receive feedback). I will eventually write more for this and the other stories so it doesn't matter. . . Well it might to you all because you're the ones who don't know what will happen(honestly I'm not sure what will happen with some of my stories and I'm not sure how I'll be ending this part of this story as well). Well enough small talk, let's get this chapter started!

Chapter 6: The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend

Yumi stared at Sissi in disbelief, her mouth agape. "Huh?"

Sissi smirked. "You do know what's going on with Emily and William don't you?" Sissi repeated.

"Wh-What are you talking about?" Yumi asked, raising eyebrow as she tried to act innocent.

"Too late. Your look when I asked you the first time answered it for me anyways." Sissi said as she shook her head. She stared at the counter—obviously she was thinking about what to ask the Japanese girl next. She gave Yumi a cautious look, one filled with possible hostility if Yumi answered it negatively. "How long have you known?"

"F-for about a month." Yumi said slowly. She still didn't know if they were talking about the same thing.

"A month?" Sissi glared daggers at her. "I thought you were better than that!"

"What?"

"You're practically best friends with Ulrich and you won't even tell him what's going on!" Sissi coated her words with loathing and Yumi could even sense a bit of betrayal in them as well.

"And why won't you tell him?"

Sissi's glare faltered and then completely broke down into a hopeless frown. "We'll talk more about this at length on lunch break okay?"

Yumi stared at Sissi. This was the same woman that yelled at her in jealousy just a couple months ago, but now she was talking to her as if she was her confidant. She seemed to be lonely, and from what Yumi knew, she never talked to anyone in the company at all. "Okay."

Yumi couldn't wait for lunch break. She didn't even wait for Emily to give Ulrich taunting kiss in front of her. Right when Emily opened the door, Yumi jumped out of her seat.

"Hi, Emily! See ya, Emily!" She said in breath as almost (and quite rudely) knocked her to the floor as she passed her. Yumi quickly made her way to the small café inside the office building and scoured the room for Sissi. She saw the girl waving at her and quickly made her way to her.

"Okay, tell me everything that you know." Yumi demanded

Sissi snorted. "Trust me. You're not going to be so giddy when I'm finished." Sissi stared at the floor as she pondered over where to start. "I've known Ulrich since elementary school. We pretty much grew up together. Did he ever tell you that he and I used to be close friends?"

Yumi leaned back in amazement. "I've never known anything about this. Honestly, he looks at you in disgust."

"You are brutally honest." Sissi snorted. "There's a reason for that, though. But we really were best friends. We did everything together. I don't know about him, but he was only one I've ever felt comfortable being around. And I've always felt that I needed him around. There's something about him that just makes you want to be around him at all times." Yumi thought about this and she had to admit that one of the perks to working here was when she and Ulrich talked one-on-one. "In middle school, I had the biggest crush on Ulrich." Sissi blushed. "By high school I think was even start to fall in love with him. But I was always too scared to tell him how I felt. I was just satisfied with having as a friend. It was in college that all of that started to change, and it was because of that witch." Sissi growled.

"Ulrich's had a few girlfriends before, but honestly, he's pretty much naïve as hard as that may be to believe. But I would know better than anyone. He's an innocent like a little schoolgirl when it comes to love. He only had a select few friends, but he's never met a demon like Emily. I've never met a demon like Emily. But I don't have to tell you. I bet the only reason you haven't been fired yet is because you haven't told Ulrich and she hasn't put on her witch charm on him. I remember Ulrich telling me about Emily—sure she sounded nice and even acted nice—but when I was alone with her, she completely threatened me "to stay away from Ulrich, or regret for the rest of your life." I didn't know what she was talking about. But then Ulrich started dating her. I easily found out what game she was playing. Ulrich never dated much because of reason—money. Girls always wanted to be with him because—let's face it—he's rich! Who wouldn't? But Emily hid so well!" Sissi said. Yumi understood. Emily dressed like she poor. It was always jeans and sweatshirts or T-shirts. In fact, she never asked Ulrich for money, and she seemed to be so thrifty whenever she talked about shopping with Yumi.

"The only thing she wants is his money. That's all she wants from him. His money and his business. She doesn't care about him at all. I heard her bragging to some friends—talking about how stupid and easy it was to manipulate Ulrich. I was so disgusted. I told Ulrich that he couldn't trust her, but he just said I was being paranoid. I found out she was cheating on Ulrich when we were about to graduate. I remember when I called her out on it. She denied everything. She started crying and acting as if I just completely ruined her life. She's a great actress—I'll give her that. Even I would have believed her if I hadn't have seen them together. Then she topped her act off by pointing at me and accusing me of being jealous. Ulrich believed her. He took her word—someone he had only known for a year at that time over his best friend who he had known for most of his life!" Sissi looked down as she tried to hide the tears that were streaming down her face. I don't know how she does it, but she's got him under her spell. She got him to completely hate me. I . . . I don't know what to do anymore." Sissi sobbed. "She's using him. She doesn't love him at all."

Yumi grabbed Sissi's hand and tried to console her. Sissi calmed herself and gave Yumi a determined look. "We've got to stop her."

"But how?" Yumi asked. "You know Ulrich won't believe me. He didn't even believe you!"

"True, but he might falter if you did."

"That's hardly enough. We need hard cold evidence to get Emily."

"But what is there? The only people who know about this is William—and you know he won't tell—and Emily."

"I don't know." Yumi asked she thought on what to do.

"Are you sure Ulrich wouldn't believe you?" Sissi asked. Yumi looked at her incredulously.

"Was it not even less than a minute ago that you said he believed Emily over you who he's known since his childhood? Of course he won't believe me!"

"I don't know." Sissi tilted her head to the side and peered up at Yumi. "I heard that he almost fired William on the spot when you told him that he cheated on you (you should've told him who—that would've really thrown him for a loop). And then you easily persuaded him not to on the spot. Besides Emily, you're the only one who's ever gotten him to react in such a way.

"Really?" Yumi blushed.

"Really! You know Ulrich. He hardly comes out of his shell unless it's something that's got him very passionate! He really cares about you. I mean Ulrich acted that way whenever I had a few cheating boyfriends, but that was after years of friendship and even I couldn't dissuade him from knocking their teeth down their throat! But only after six months, you've gotten him to get angry for you and completely calm down by only you talking a few words to him. You and him are very close."

Yumi blushed as she gave a nervous laugh. "It's not like we've got anything going on now."

"Maybe you should. Yeah! Get Ulrich to cheat with you, and then he'll leave Emily for you!"

"But isn't that using and manipulating him?"

"Not if it's to get him away from that slut! We're doing this for his own good!" Sissi laughed and Yumi joined.

"You know, I thought you were actually serious about that." Yumi commented.

"No, just joking. We'll have to give this some more thought." Sissi concluded.

"You're right. We'll talk more won't we?"

"Yeah I'll talk to you when I come up something or vice versa."

"I meant about other things." Yumi said. Sissi stared at her. "You're great person, and I feel kind of guilty for insulting you when you had such a weight on you. I think we could be great friends."

Sissi's eyes lit up. "Thanks." She barely whispered. "Thank you, but, Yumi! I wake up looking forward to insulting you! If you take that away from me, what's left?"

"You're mean like Ulrich." Yumi said.

"We built up each other's sarcasm levels. But I guess as long as there's Emily, there's always someone to hate."

"The enemy of my enemy," Yumi started.

"Is my friend." Sissi finished. The pair smiled as they went their separate ways.