Ulrich stared at Yumi as she stared back at him, He felt frozen, His mouth wouldn't open and no words were going to come out. He realized thinking and actually acting on saying 'I love you.' were two different things, It wa really hard for a shy guy like him. Ulrich cleared his throat and stood up in front of her.
"I...I don't think William's right for you...I guess I feel protective over you because your my bestfriend and I care about you. What I wanted to tell you is...I want you to be happy and I think you're great." Ulrich said.
Ulrich knew he should have told her but he choked at those three little words, He instead just rambled on about something other than the fact that he loved her.
"Ulrich, I don't have feelings for William...He's just a friend..." Yumi said makng sure the brown haired male knew.
Ulrich felt she had a lot more to say but she didn't get the chance, her phone rang interrupting us.
Yumicouldn't believe it, she was about to tell Ulrich how he felt, she even opened her mouth to say it but her phone rang. She cursed at the timing but picked up her cell answering it and soon hanging up seconds later turning back to Ulrich.
"That was my mom...I have to go home. I guess I'll see you around." Yumi said. "Oh and just to be clear, Our conversation isn't over...So don't think your getting off that easy, Stern."
"Alright...See you later. Yumi." Ulrich replied.
He hugged her out of the blue so Yumi hugged him back, with a smile on her face. Yumi Iwalked away and slid out the dorm room and walked down the stairs leaving the campus to go home to her family. Yumi knew she had a lot to think about, She knew she needed to open up and tell Ulrich how she felt, Yumi felt Ulrich had more to say to beside 'That I'm great.'
Ulrich sighed relieved that the pressure was gone but he knew she would come back at keep pushing him to confess. He collapsed onto his bed, it had been a very long day for him but not a moment later did his best friend walk into the room. It was time for question time because knowing Odd he was a curious little man.
"Did you tell her, Did she accept it, Did you make out?" Odd asked question after question.
"No, All I said was that she was great...Before that I barked at her and William for kissing...I'm such a ass." Ulrich said bursting out full of embarassment for his actions, he felt horrible and that everything he does he fucks up, he even snapped at her.
"Ulrich, It's called jealousy...You need to figure out what you want to do before it tears you up." Odd replied.
"You're right." Ulrich agreed. Jealousy over took him, he knew that. Like the time he lost it when Yumi first introduced William Dunbar, Oh how Ulrich hated him because he right then and there that William Dunbar would be the definition of problem, moments later he had even followed the two and spied on the two working on their picture project. Jealousy always got the best of him.
Odd couldn't help but to feel that his friends are really stupid, Ulrich and Yumi are madly in love with each other and they can't see it. Odd can see it, Jeremy and Aelita can see it, even the fucking campus can see it. He wanted to scream at Ulrich and tell him to open his green eyes and see that Yumi really loves him and stop being so scared.
Of course Odd held his tongue though, instead he listened to his bestfriend vent out about how he unleashed his temper on William and Yumi once again. Odd thought he was bad with girls...He felt like he was going to explode. Odd was about to tell Ulrich but Aelita had knocked on the door and walked in.
"Hi Aelita." Odd greeted the pretty pink haired girl.
"Hi guys, I hope I'm not interrupting anything...I wanted to borrow a cd from you Odd." Aelita greets.
"You're not...Ulrich's just talking about his feelings for Yumi again..." Odd answers. He walked over to the dresser and opened it, I fished in the lower drawer finding the CD Aelita had been talking about, Odd shockingly found it right away. He jumped up and handed it to her. "One CD right here, Princess." He added with a bright smile.
"Thanks Odd, Ulrich...You should stop being so scared and just tell Yumi...For the record I'm sure she feels the same." Aelita says leaving the room.
Odd stood in complete shock that she had opened her mouth and spoke those words, He couldn't do it. He looked at where she once stood with amazment, Odd turned his attention back to Ulrich seeing what he would say.
"Aelita's right...I shouldn't be keeping my feelings bottled up, I'm not scared anymore...I'm going to Yumi's and I'm just going to get to the point and tell her that I love her." He said, I jumped up from the bed and put on my white shoes.
"Yes, You do that." Odd agrees. "Go get her romeo!" Odd adds basically pushing him out the door.
Ulrich opened the door and raced out of the dorm and his my way to Yumi's home. Along the way he saw a beautiful red rose, he picked it up and took it with.
Ulrich walked up the steps and to her front door, he took a long and deep breath as he stood there. Ulrich pressed the door bell and waited paitently waiting for someone to answer the door, hopefully Yumi.
Yumi answered the door.
Yumi saw Ulrich standing on the doorstep, she felt her heart pick up racing a mile a minute. She smiled.
"Hi Ulrich, What's up?" Yumi greets.
"What I told you was a lie...I was hiding what I really wanted to say..." Ulrich spoke quickly before he could clam up.
Yumi was confused, She knew he was lying before but she wondered what was so big that he had to cover. Yumi stood waiting for Ulrich to continue, she wondered if he would come clean.
Ulrich shuffled from foot to foot as he looked down at the ground and then up at her beautiful face. stood and shuffled from foot to foot, I looked at the ground and then up at her beautiful face. He smiled and felt his cheeks began to burn as blushing. Ulrich shyly pulled the rose he hid behind his back showing it to her, giving it to her.
"May I come in?" Ulrich asks not wanting to stand outside in the cold of the night.
"Of course, You're lucky my parents went out for a weekend vacation and Hiroki went to stay the night at Johnny's." Yumi answers, she opens the door wide letting Ulrich inside.
Ulrich with his hands in his pockets walked in just as Yumi shut the door, Yumi turns to Ulrich a smile on her face.
"I'm just going to come out and say it...I know we have our problems, I know we get very jealous easily to where it wrecks everything...I mean I know I do...But beyond all that I think we go well together, We can survive anything because we are strong alone but stronger together. Even after you had told me we need to be just friends...I still love you, Yumi. I have for a very long time and I can't fight my feelings for you..." Ulrich confessed leaving Yumi speechless.