Ahhhh omg, I completely forgot to post this chapter yesterday. This week has been crazy...
Hehe, you guys are gonna love this chapter!!!
Chapter 20
Odd's POV
I lie awake in bed, waiting impatiently for sleep to succumb me. I must've been laying here for at least an hour. I took a quick glance at my clock.
Okay, so maybe I'd only been laying here for 20 minutes… but that's still a pretty long time.
I looked over at the darkened other side of the room, wondering if Ulrich was still awake. He's always had problems sleeping. But he's been so quiet, I'm almost positive he's asleep.
My eyelids begin to droop, and my last thought is of nothing but the peacefulness of sleep, until…
"Odd?"
I fall out of my bed in shock, tumbling onto the ground and taking my covers with me. Darn it… I was that close to sleeping!
Ulrich chuckled quietly on the other end of the room. "So, you can't sleep either?" he asked.
I crawled back into bed, shaking my head and then realizing like an idiot that he probably couldn't see me. Unless he had like, super vision or something. I imagined Ulrich jumping out our dorm room window with a cape attached to his super-tight super hero suit, and him flying away. I laughed.
"Uh… Odd?" Ulrich asked, probably wondering if I was sleepwalking.
"Sorry."
It took me a moment of laying in bed to realize that I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep. I figured I might as well make fun of Ulrich. "So, how are you and Yumi these days?" I began.
"Fine," he said, his voice a little higher than usual.
"So you like her?"
"NO!" he blurted out. But I knew he was going to change his answer in 4… 3… 2… 1…
"Maybe," he corrected.
4… 3… 2… 1… I counted silently in my head. "Yes." He sighed. "But she doesn't like me."
"How do you know?"
"Well…" he began, and I could hear him shift positions on his bed, "Yumi's the kind of girl to just go right out there and ask a guy out if she likes someone. She's not the kind of person to sit around waiting."
I thought about this for a moment. "Well, Yumi's the kind of straightforward person to tell someone how she feels."
"So?"
"Well, she hasn't told you how she feels about you yet, right?"
"Right…"
"So Yumi's being un-Yumi-ish. Meaning, she isn't going to go right out there and ask you out. She's going to wait for you to make the first move."
It took Ulrich a minute to figure this all out. "You think I have a chance?"
I grinned. "Dude, I know you have a chance."
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Yumi's POV
You know, I thought my life was bad last year, the day after I dumped one of the most popular guys in school at the school dance, saying the most awful things, not knowing the microphone right next to me was on. Everyone glared at me like I was the most insensitive person ever.
I thought my life was terrible when I bent over a few months ago and the pants Aelita had made me wear on our yearly dress-each-other-up day split open and revealed that I was wearing a lacy thong (that Aelita made me wear as well, obviously).
I thought my life was awful when I was stuck in a closet alone with Ulrich just a few weeks ago, wishing I could be anywhere on the entire world than right there.
But now, my life is hell.
Every girl that I pass in the hall glares at me, or just stares at me in bewilderment. During my classes, everyone watches my every movement, and people are always throwing notes at me behind the teacher's back. Some are my friends, asking why I didn't tell them I was dating Ulrich and some are just people curious about our relationship, but most are threatening… the gory, violent I'll-kill-you-if-you-don't-let-me-have-Ulrich kind of notes.
Oh, and did I mention the fact that between classes, every single guy is around me hitting on me, carrying my books, or trying desperately to get my attention? Honestly, I'm like a freaking guy magnet. And that just makes every other girl in school madder at me.
The only good thing about having a group of 30-or-so guys around you at all times is that you don't get killed by the murderous girls in the halls. Whew.
But the worst part about all of this is that the one time I actually want to see Ulrich, and the one time I actually want to talk to him, I can't. He's surrounded by a mob of girls just as massive as my mob of guys. They're like this huge wall between us, keeping us apart.
When I enter the lunch room, I consider getting food, but just sit down instead, not wanting to draw attention to myself and not really hungry. My mob of guys follow and sit down around me, growing in size now that we were in the cafeteria, but I just tuned out their voices and focused on the mob of girls around Ulrich, wishing I could just get to see him.
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Aelita's POV
I watched Yumi as she fought her way through the crowd of guys, literally fought (4 of them were on the ground looking unconscious already) just so she could break free of them. I sighed, looking over at Ulrich who had girls clung onto every inch of his body, just sitting there sadly, not even doing anything about it.
"This is pathetic," I announced to Odd as he approached the table. He looked over at both Ulrich and Yumi.
"Tell me about it."
I looked at him hopelessly as he began devouring his food. "We have to do something!"
He chewed thoughtfully for a moment, then stopped and swallowed, grinning. "I have a plan."
This was never going to work.
As Odd, Anna Xana, Sissi, and I all separated from our plotting, we went to our classrooms; Odd and Anna were in Ulrich's class, and Sissi and I in Yumi's class. Maybe, just maybe, this would work with Anna and Sissi helping out….
Sissi sat down in her seat at the opposite side of the room as the door, as planned, while I leaned up casually against the wall next to the door. Just as Yumi entered, I slipped a note into her back pocket, a note that told her to go to the forest a few minutes into class to meet me. Phase 1 of the plan: complete.
Only a couple minutes into class, just as planned, Yumi raised her hand. "Mrs. Dude, can I go to the bathroom?"
Our teacher smiled. "Of course, Yumi." And with that Yumi stood up from her seat, going to the door. Hmmm… maybe Sissi wouldn't even be need in the plan….
…Or maybe she would. Just as she opened the door, three or four guys stood up to follow her. After she left the door, almost all the guys in the class had stood up to follow her, as well as the girls. No one wanted to leave Yumi alone- whether they were intending to win her heart, or intending to kill her. I nodded to Sissi, who initiated phase 2 of the plan: Distraction.
"Hey guys!" Sissi screeched girlishly, jumping on top of her desk, and flipping up her shirt. While all the guys goggled at her boobs and the girls gasped, I dashed out of the room, hoping out teacher wouldn't notice. Luckily, she didn't. She was too busy screaming at Sissi.
Whew…. Okay. Now that Yumi was safely on her way to the forest, without anyone following her, it was time to get Ulrich away from the girls… which was a lot more complicated.
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Odd's POV
I sat on the edge of Kadic's roof, holding Ulrich's diary in one hand and a walkie-talkie in the other. All I needed was an intense ninja costume, and I could actually be an undercover agent.
"Is the fishing pole wire attached to the diary?" Aelita asked through the walkie-talkie. I pulled at the wire, which was securely tied to the diary on one end… and attached to a fishing pole Aelita had in the forest on the other end.
"It's attached. Are you ready?" I asked into the walkie-talkie.
"Ready."
Then I slowly lowered the diary down so it hung just in front of the open window of Ulrich's classroom. Oh, this was going to be so great….
"Hey, look!" I heard Anna Xana shout, right on cue. "Is that a diary?" I could just imagine the look on Ulrich's face when he saw that the diary hanging outside the classroom window was his own.
A bunch of girls screamed. "That's Ulrich's diary!" one of them shouted. And then there was a huge burst of noise as 10 or 15 girls, and Ulrich, leapt out of the window to get Ulrich's diary. Just as one of the girls almost got it, I dropped it, and it began trailing away from school quickly; meaning Aelita was reeling it in towards the forest.
I tried stifling my laughter as I watched Ulrich and the mob of girls chasing a diary attached to a fishing pole towards the forest, but I ended up cracking up. It was just too funny.
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Yumi's POV
"Aelita?" I called out, wondering why she wasn't in the forest with me. She said she'd ask the teacher if she could go to the infirmary just a couple minutes after I left so it wouldn't look suspicious, but it didn't look like she was coming. I paced around impatiently.
Where could she be?!
And then, out of nowhere, something person-sized collided into my side, sending both me and it tumbling across the branches and further into the woods. "Ow…" I mumbled, and was amazed to see it was Ulrich.
He put his hand over my mouth, making sure we were well hidden behind a log, clutching onto me tightly. I heard a thunderous pounding as a number of footsteps ran by, and by their high-pitched panting I could tell they were girls.
As soon as they were gone he let go of me, standing up. He groaned running a hand through his hair which, for some weird reason, nearly made my heart stop. "Did Odd send you here?" he asked.
"No, actually Aelita gave me a note that said…" I began but my voice trailed off. "Damn it, they set us up to meet here, didn't they?"
Ulrich nodded and I groaned as well, turning away from him to make sure he didn't see happiness light up my eyes. I've been wanting to be alone with him all day.
I looked around at the forest around me, not quite ready to look back at Ulrich. The weather was warming up now… finally.
"Yumi," he began, sounding extremely nervous. "Look… I don't really know how to say this… I've been feeling this way for a long time, and I just haven't…" he paused, thinking of a different way to say it.
"I know you don't really… I mean I wouldn't expect you to… I don't really know what you've heard or anything but…" he stopped again, frustrated.
I turned around to face him now, but he was looking away from me, playing with his hands nervously and kicking at the ground. "I really don' t know how to say it but…."
"Just say it!" I shouted, finding myself shaking with anxiousness of what he was going to say. Was I excited? Was I scared?
"I like you!" he blurted out in one quick breath, then ran his hand through his hair again, breathing deeply. "I know you don't feel that way about me Yumi, but I really like you."
Somehow, I knew I had been waiting for him to say that all along, even if I really didn't know it. My mouth actually hurt from smiling so hugely, and I worried that I might pass out from breathing as quickly as I was. Or at least die of a heart attack… it was beating so fast… that can't be natural.
I just stood there, stunned, and with him still being turned away from me, he couldn't see my reaction. He took a deep, ragged breath, taking my silence the wrong way. He began walking away, his head down in dejection.
I felt horrified by his sadness, and ran after him. "Ulrich!" I cried out.
"It's okay Yumi… you don't have to say anything," he said softly, slipping his hands in his pockets as he walked away.
I was frozen. Despite the warm weather, I suddenly was icy cold and too shocked to even move a finger. This was the big choice. Do I chase after him, leap into his arms, and kiss him with every bit of love I have for him? Or do I let him leave?
I watched myself over and over in my head put on a huge burst of speed and run towards him, tell him I love him and kiss him. But somehow… I couldn't make myself move in real life.
Yumi Ishiyama… what the hell are you doing?! Didn't you just tell yourself last night that you liked him? Didn't you just feel the happiest you've ever felt because he told you he likes you?
I do like him… I really do… but… I just can't do this.
And why not?! my inner-self demanded.
But my other self didn't have a reason. The only thing I knew was that Ulrich was walking away from me, and my body refused to let me move.
As soon as Ulrich left the clearing, I regained feeling in my arms and legs again. I tried screaming after him to get him to stop, but my mouth wouldn't move yet. So I ran after him instead, at full speed.
I found him quickly, still walking slowly and gloomily towards school. "Ulrich!" I cried out, my voice a little scratchy. He turned around to face me and I sprinted towards him.
He smiled crookedly at me, making my mind go into overdrive. Suddenly, before I knew what I was doing, I was inches away from him, still running full speed. Crap.
BAM!
We both ended up lying on the ground, Ulrich underneath me, rubbing his head. "Ow…" he mumbled. "You could've warned me you were going to attack me…"
"I didn't attack you!" I said defensively.
"Uh yeah Yumi, you kind of did." He said seriously, but a hint of a smile tugged at his lips. He gently helped me off of him and helped me up. We stood their for a moment before he realized he was holding my hand and he dropped it, turning away from me.
"What did you want?" he asked casually, as if my words meant nothing to him. But by his trembling hands, his tense and anxious position, and the way he looked at me from the corner of his eye despite the fact he was turned the other way, told me otherwise.
When my eyes caught sight of the heartbroken chocolate brown eyes that were his, I felt my insides melt. How could I have done that to him?
He sighed, slipping his hands into his pockets and walking back towards school.
"Ulrich, wait," I said, stopping him from leaving me… again. He turned around reluctantly. "What?"
I opened my mouth to tell him that I really did like him, that I was sorry for saying that I hated him, that I was sorry for not telling him how I felt when he opened up to me, that I wanted to be more than friends, that I couldn't live my life without him… but not a single word emitted from my mouth.
He turned away once again, but this time, instead of just telling him to stop, I grabbed him. I gripped onto his shoulders roughly, spinning him around to face me.
His mouth was slightly open in surprise, his brow screwed up in confusion, and his eyes searching mine for whatever I wasn't saying. His mess of brown hair blew gently in the breeze, shining in the sunlight. He was perfect.
Okay… so, maybe he was far from perfect. But still, at this very moment, he seemed perfect… perfect enough for me.
I got up on my tiptoes, closing my eyes as I bent forward to kiss him.
But, just before my lips reached his, I opened my eyes just to see his completely shocked expression, and laughed. "I like you too, Ulrich," I whispered.
And then, seemingly out of nowhere, what may be the entire population of our grade found us. Guys and girls alike gaped in horror at the tiny proximity between me and Ulrich, the way we were looking at each other.
Damn it… school must've just let out. People continued to gather around us, now from lower class grades too. Ulrich backed away from me slightly, his cheeks burning furiously. I knew he hated being the center of attention. I was surprised when I saw that he was beaming though, his eyes lit up, like the sun coming out after weeks of rain.
A few girls around us swooned and fainted from the dazzling effect of Ulrich's smile. I stifled my laughter.
Then I decided, you know what? So what if the entire school was watching. Me and Ulrich were in the middle of a freaking moment here, and no amount of people should ruin it.
So I leapt at him, kissing him full on the lips, and feeling my heart soar up into the air with joy when he began kissing me back. For a few seconds there it was just us, my heart beating against his, his arms wrapped around me and mine wrapped around his, our lips moving slowly and passionately against each other.
I didn't hear anything from around us. It seemed, that just for those few seconds, we were the only two people on the planet.
But unfortunately… we weren't. So when something huge smacked into us, breaking us apart, I was a bit shocked when I found my arms sprawled out on the ground, instead of on Ulrich.
I tried opening my eyes but everything was dark and spinning, and in a quick second I realized I was slipping into unconsciousness. I bet you anything some of those stupid Ulrich fans tackled us to the ground.
It didn't matter that I was slipping into unconsciousness though, because I had just kissed Ulrich Stern.
And that meant the world to me.
FINALLY! WHOOOOO! THEY'RE TOGETHER!!!!
Gosh it's crazy... having them finally actually kiss.
So... what did you guys think?!?!?!
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