Me: I do not own Code lyoko.

Yumi: Your notebook is for math. Why do you have Code lyoko writing in here?

Me: Because I don't like math and I'm using the extra pages to write.

Yumi: I can't believe you have 14 pages together for chapters.

Me: Neither can I.I doubt even half of them will be for this chapter.

Yumi: Where si you get that? ( points to notebook with a pink rose on the front.) Isn't that mine?

Me: Yumi it is you lent it to me so I could look at the pictures.\

Yumi: Oh yeah. Okay. On with the story.

" I wonder what made Yumi stop eating. It must be big." I heard Ulrich say worried as I sat alone in the shade of a tree drawing in a black notebook.

" A break up with the parents?" Odd suggested. Little did they know, Odd was right.

" Let's go find out. It must be big for her to do something like that,." Aelita said. I heard them come toward me. I sat on the bench my back turned to them as I drew a picture with a black rose highly details and a heart broken. Off to the side I was working on drawing a gun as it was how I was feeling. I was the black rose in a dark world with a broken heart of my parents divorce and the gun representing how at time I wanted to die. I felt Ulrich and the others look over my shoulder at my work. I heard Aelita gasp and Felt Ulrich Pull the book out of my hands. I turned and Watched him flip through the book and stare at the pictures all being a black rose, a dark background, a broken heart, and some sort of weapon.

"Yumi this pictures are beautifully detailed." Ulrich gasped as he saw one of the picture with tear stains on it. I knew he wanted to know but he didn't ask.

"Yumi this are gorgeous. You need to talk to Mrs. Karp." Jeremy grabbed my arm and Pulled off the bench and toward Mrs. Karp's office. Mrs. Karp was the school art teacher.

" Yumi! It's …It's Beautiful ignoring the weapons. It's so detailed… so gorgeous. You will enter the school art contest right?" Mrs. Karp exclaimed ever so excited at the site of my word.

" Um… I don't know."

"Yumi, If you enter and win you move onto a town contest and then state, then Country. If you win all of them you win money, vacations, Schools will offer you scholars for collage, you will make Kadic better known, and you will become better known."

"Really? Sign me up!" I almost yelled. It would get my parents together even if it was only for a night. IT might even be enough to get my dad to stop drinking.

"Yumi here are the rules. I need a parent signature. It needs to be in color so you'll need markers, paints, pastels, color pencils, crayons, and other colors. If you need anything just ask." Mrs. Karp handed me a few papers and walked away to finish cleaning up her project that she had just finished working on.

"Yumi, you're going to enter?"

"Yeah." We went off to lunch and for the first time in weeks I ate in front of my friends. After I finished I pulled Ulrich out of the Cafeteria.

"Ulrich I need some advise."

"What Kind?"

"Um… I haven't told any one yet but my parents… they got a divorce three weeks go and… my dad started drinking heavily in his sorrow and now he's and alcoholic. And…" I pulled up my shirt sleeve and reveled a nasty looking bruise." Hit me. He's trying to quit but he can't and…"

"Yumi stop. We need to tell the others before you continue." Ulrich ran inside and got the others. They came back out I left the sleeve up but I hid my arm behind my back.

"Yumi, Ulrich said you needed some advise and we all should be there to hear you finish." Aelita said. I took a deep breath.

"My parents have been divorced for 3 weeks and he's really sad and because of it he started drinking heavily and last night.. I know he didn't mean to but… he hit me." I showed my arm. "He's trying to stop but he can't and… he's sending me here to try and keep from hurting me."

"I'll go offer to be your roommate." Aelita Sprints of to see the principle as she finished speaking.

"YUMI! How could you hid this from us?" Yelled Jeremy as I flinched at his harsh voice.

"Jeremy I've only known three days my dad's been drinking and I have every right not telling you about the divorce. I wasn't ready to talk about it."

"SO!?!" Jeremy continued yelling. Aelita ran back.

"He said yes. Jeremy stop yelling. Yumi probably under a lot of pressure. Her parents divorced, they probably took Hirkoi away."

"They did."

"Let's drop this subject and go get your stuff Yumi." WE walked to my house were we picked up my stuff.

"Take off your shoes. I kicked off my shoes before I walked across the wooden floor. I stuck my head into the kitchen. There at the table was my dad, knocked out from the beer that was in his hand. I picked up the bottle and placed into the trash trying not to make any sound. I motioned for my friends to stay out of the kitchen. I grabbed a few snacks for my friends and me and left the kitchen.

"He's out cold so let's stay quiet." I lead them to my room and pulled out two suit cases and a backpack. Aelita started packing my clothes into one bag. I pulled out books and but them into the backpack and grabbed some art stuff.

" Odd can you toss me that black book with silver engravings on the dresser?"

"Sure."

I caught the book and tucked it into my pack pocket. I slipped my hand underneath the mattress for my emergency bag. It had first aid, clothes, food, snacks, a lot of things I might need if I run away and I put that in my backpack. Aelita slipped my jewelry into her purse when no one was looking. I had said I was going to leave it but Christmas being a month away she had a good idea to grab it for me.

AS I finished packing the two suit cases and grabbed the backpack it was 2. AS we walked toward the door I heard a grunt from the kitchen. I stuck my head in to see my daad still sleeping. I wrote a quick note and grabbed the last box of pop tarts in the house. I dropped it into the backpack. I picked up all the beer bottles and put them in the bin. I slipped from the house with my stuff with the others behind me. Ulrich had picked up the one suit case and I picked up the backpack but before I could pick up the suit case Aelita had picked it up. WE grabbed a bus to the corner of Kadic road were our school was. No one was outside as they were all in their rooms hanging with each other. I sat my stuff down in my room and opened my art stuff. I grabbed my notebook and opened it.

"What do you guys think of this picture?" I showed them the picture. It was a picture of the outside, it was dark and there was a black rose, a dying rose, a dead rose, and dead flowers and darkness everywhere. The picture was in color so you tell that the dying rose was pink and the dead rose was once red. On the ground was a pink heart broken in two and the moon looked like it was crying

"Wow, it's beautiful. Its got feeling and it shows pain and sorrow. I think you should put that into the art show." Aelita praised.

"Agreed." Ulrich spoke up. Odd and Jeremy nodded there heads in agreement. The guys wandered off to Jeremy's room as Aelita helped me unpack a little. She put my jewelry on the nightstand.

"Aelita I told you not bring it."

"Yumi don't forget that next month there's the Yule ball. Jeremy said he was nominating you and me."

"Oh, I have an idea. Let talk weird things and confuse the guys."

"Yeah." We walked down the hallway.

"Up style?"

"His hair."

"Purple?"

"Clothes."

"Not just them."

"what?"

"Hair."

"But it's blond."

"Blond and purple."

"OOOOOOOO." Aelita understood as we walked into the room.

"Oh, purple black and blue."

"OOO" I laughed. The others turned and looked at us.

"Wait which one? Todd, U, or Germany? O Todd."

"What are you talking about?" Jeremy said.

"I don't see black."

"Course not he's facing the other way." Odd looked at the window turning his back to us. His back was all black. He had been leaning on wet paint in my house when my dad hit me I smacked my head into the wall and got blood on it from my nose bleed so I painted it black. It was still wet. Ulrich looked at Odd and started cracking up letting us start laughing.

"What's so funny? Who's Todd?"

"You!" I stopped laughing on enough to continue speaking." Odd Todd even Stevens. They taught that to you didn't they. Your Odd. Get it?" I started laughing again.

"How am I black?"

"You butt is blue and you back is black." (hey it rhymed) Odd looked at his back and groaned. That evening at dinner Sissy came to our table to ask Ulrich to come sit with her at her table.

"Ulrich dear, would you be as kind to sit with me at my table?" She asked sweetly.\

"I don't think Ulrich wants any thing to do with you Sissy." I aid after reading Ulrich's glare at sissy.

"Yumi! What are you doing here? Your not supposed to be here. Just Wait until my Father hears!" She sprinted to her fathers office. I started Laughing and continued eating and talking with my friends.

"Yumi we hear your entering the Art compiton." I turned my head. It was Clara the leader of the Art club. She smiling very warmly.

"Mrs. Karp told the club about your amazing work." She continued.

"Thank you."

"Dang right she good look!" Odd snatched my notebook and showed it To Clara.

"Amazing but it's sad. You were putting your feelings into this weren't you?"

"Yes. My parents recently divorced. It's practically torn me a part."

"Oh, I hope things get better for you." Clara nodded her head and walked off. Jim soon walked over to us.

"Yumi, I hear your entering the school art competition. I'm sure you'll dominate it like I did back in the day."

"What was it like back in your day."

"To be truthful I'd rather not talk about it." He turned his attention to Aelita. "Oh, my nephew sent this to me to give to you." Jim walked off. Aelita opened the note. I read over her shoulder.

'Dear Aelita,

WE have been getting Rave reviews about your music and wanted to know if you would be interested in making a CD to sell. We want you to meet us again at the same studio as the last one. If you don't remember the address is below.

Sincerely,

The sub digitals'

"You are so going Aelita. If you don't I'll lecture you."

"I'm going and no one is stopping me." She said.

"No one?"

"No one."

"Not even X.A.N.A.? or Jeremy?"

"Okay almost no body. Oh, Yumi, I think you should come with."

"Really?"

"Yeah your Art work rocks. They'll love your pictures. Draw a picture of odd and you'll see what I mean." I drew a picture of Odd. It looked just like Odd only in black and white.

"So…………. They probably have a photographer and don't want an artist."

"I'm going to go ask Jim." I watched as Aelita ran to Jim and spoke to him. She came running back and the rest of dinner we talked about things like X.A.N.A.

Me: I want three reviews before I continue. What Yumi doesn't know won't hurt her.

Yumi: And don't I know.

Me: One word… X.A.N.A.

Yumi: I don't get it.

Me: May5000 suggested it and I'm going to use it soon. And I mean real song and then I'm going to end the story after A wedding.

Yumi: Who's?
Me: Yumi, I'm not going to tell. That's like 6 chapters ahead. I've only got 2 chapters in my note book waiting to by typed up. I have 5 stories other than this one that I'm working on. And I have 2 stories sitting in my note book one being a oneshoot and the other in progress.

Yumi: They code lyoko?

Me: No. There Xiaolin Showdown.

Yumi: How many stories do you have in there?

Me: Hold on let me continue do you want done, in progress or total?

Yumi: all three.

Me: In progress 1. Complete (pulls up internet and counts) 4 complete so that makes 5 in Xiaolin showdown.

Yumi: Power Rangers?

Me: 2 complete 3 in progress. 5 total. I have 11 stories in all.\

Yumi: What's the last Section.

Me: Avatar. I've got one person waiting for it only thing is I don't know what else to do with it. I was posting it on nick but it kept being deleted so I gave up and found this site and it was like 8 chapters long and I made it one. It was like 10 pages long. I'm thinking about deleting it but then I'd be letting down the reader… I don't know Any way. I need 3 reviews before I start working on chapter 6. I have other stories to work in the mean time.