AN: Sorry it has been so long since I've updated! I was on vacation and kicked off the computer. I have 10 more chapters (I think) written for you. I'm only posting three or four now so you don't get too overwhelmed. Read, review, and enjoy!

Yumi shot upright into a sitting position. Sweat beaded on her forehead and her throat ached from the scream that had been torn from it. At first her wide eyes didn't recognize her surroundings, then she remembered she was in Odd and Ulrich's room.

"Ulrich," she whispered frantically, untwisting her hands from the blanket the latter had placed over her carefully earlier that day. Her eyes darted around the room and lingered for a moment on Odd, who had risen from his bed and was moving toward her. Yumi's racing heart clenched in sudden fear and she recoiled from him.

"Yumi, what's wrong?" Odd asked sleepily, "I heard you scream."

"Where's Ulrich?" she asked softly, almost afraid to hear his answer.

"He's sleeping on the floor. Why?" was Odd's reply. Yumi scrambled out of the bed and crouched down between the beds where Ulrich was laying.

"Ulrich, wake up," Yumi whispered at him urgently, "It's me, Yumi." When he did not stir, she began to get worried. "Please Ulrich," she pleaded, raising her voice a notch. Yumi placed a trembling hand on Ulrich's shoulder and shook it gently. Getting no response, she increased the intensity and didn't notice as tears began streaming down her face.

"What's going on?" Ulrich asked groggily as he tried to sit up. On his way up, he pulled the earplugs from his ears.

"You're alive!" Yumi cried softly as she threw her arms around him and buried her head in his shoulder.

"Of course I am," Ulrich said, awkwardly placing his arms around her. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"Theo killed you," Yumi sobbed, "He killed you and then he stabbed me. We were in Lyoko and Jeremy was there, but he wasn't Jeremy and you guys wouldn't believe me. Then you changed into Theo and he said he killed you then he killed me."

"Whoa, slow down," Ulrich said, pulling back from her and studying her tear-stained face. "I'm alive, and you're alive. Jeremy is still Jeremy and we aren't in Lyoko. You were probably having a bad dream."

"No kidding," Odd said, "You should have heard her scream your name. I'm surprised the whole school didn't hear her."

Yumi sat back against Ulrich's bed and tried to get her breathing and heart rate back to normal.

"Are you going to be ok?" Ulrich asked, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah," Yumi said, trying to keep her voice steady, "You guys can go back to sleep. I'm going to sit up for a little bit." When it finally dawned on her that Ulrich had given up his bed for her and chosen the floor, she blushed a little.

"First she's screaming, then she's blushing... I'll never understand girls," Odd mumbled, climbing back into bed.

"What did he say?" Ulrich asked, looking at Odd.

"It was probably nothing," Yumi said, though she knew exactly what Odd had said. "You can have your bed back now, Ulrich. I'll sleep on the floor."

"I don't mind giving up my bed," Ulrich said, laying back down and folding his arms behind his head.

"Are you sure?" Yumi asked.

"Positive. Goodnight Yumi."

"Goodnight Ulrich." Yumi climbed back into Ulrich's bed but didn't lay down. Instead, she sat on the edge with her feet dangling over the side as Odd's chorus of snores began.

"Yumi?"

"Yes Ulrich?"

Ulrich pulled his left hand out from under his head and twisted one corner of his blanket with it. "Did you really scream my name?" he asked quickly.

"Well, I know in my nightmare I did..." Yumi said, "I guess if Odd says I did then I must have."

"Why?"

"Why do I trust Odd or why did I scream your name?" Yumi asked.

"Why did you scream my name?"

"Theo said you were dead... that he killed you," Yumi began.

"Why would that matter to you?" Ulrich interrupted, a tinge of jealousy in his voice, "You have Theo and I get the feeling he would like me to just die."

Unable to take the verbal abuse so soon after the terror she had experienced only minutes ago, Yumi swung her legs back onto the bed and laid down.

"Goodnight Ulrich," she whispered as more tears joined the ones already staining her cheeks.