"Dang Ulrich," Odd stated as he walked with Sissi and Ulrich down the stairs he had minutes earlier traversed with excellent form, "you didn't have to do that ya know. I appreciate it, but now we are both gonna fail."

"Be quiet you idiot!" Sissi hissed towards Odd. "It's your fault we are all in trouble!"

Odd was about to argue agains her until he noticed a hand motion from Ulrich, which Odd guessed meant to let it go. A crisp spring breeze welcomed them as they walked out the doors of the Math Building.

"My daddy won't punish me when I explain what happened, in fact I think I will just try to make your punishment worse Odd, since it is your fault."

"You know what Sissi!" Odd was unable to hold that back, he had heard enough from her today.

"Let's just be quiet until we get there, okay?" Ulrich asked, becoming the voice of reason for the group. They all needed some time to cool down it seemed, but Ulrich was unable to think of a reason as to why they were so mad at each other. Sissi had been a brat like this dozens of times, but Odd has never gone off on her like that before.

His thoughts were interrupted as he blindly walked into the doors leading to the Admin Building. Sissi giggled, but refrained from making any of her usual rude and unwelcome comments.

Ulrich could feel his body tense up as they reached the principal's office door. He was about to receive a punishment that would affect his life greatly in the coming days.

—

"I hope they didn't get into too much trouble." Jeremy was talking to Yumi who had just entered campus as her first final wasn't until about nine.

"Why do you think Ulrich was that intense?" Yumi asked, still perplexed by her friend's actions.

"I don't know, but things got really crazy for a minute between him and Sissi." Jeremy began mentally going over the events of that event. He just couldn't figure out how it escalated so quickly.

"Look!" Yumi said in a slightly anxious voice, "It's Odd and Ulrich!"

Ulrich walked with his head hanging low, knowing he would have to break the news to his friends. 'How could my dad make a decision like this without even considering how I feel about it? Oh, wait, I know why, it's because all he cares about are my grades and my future.'

When Ulrich and Odd reached the others they were met with sympathetic smiles. This didn't help cheer Ulrich up any.

"So, what happened?" Yumi asked, breaking a silence that was about to impose itself among the group.

Odd reluctantly answered first, knowing Ulrich didn't want to say anything yet. "I am going to have to stay this summer and retake the class."

"That's it?" Jeremy asked, curious as to how limited Odd's punishment really was.

"Yeah..." Odd still had a dark look in his face as his eyes moved to look at Ulrich.

"So, Ulrich, what happened to you?" Yumi had no idea that her asking would anger him.

"It really doesn't matter." Ulrich said in a harsh tone as he turned around and began to walk away.

Yumi began to walk towards Ulrich, but Odd lightly grabbed her arm, bringing her to a halt.

"I'll explain." Odd said, beginning to try to find where to start. "When we were in Headmaster Delmas's office, he gave the normal speech on respecting our teachers and being on time and how because we missed the test we would fail and have to go to summer school. We thought we were lucky to get off easy like that, until Mr. Delmas mentioned that he had informed our parents of what had happened. Ulrich's dad had told Mr. Delmas to have Ulrich call him whenever he came down. I don't know what they said in the call because I was already sent out of the office, but what Ulrich's dad did won't be easy to deal with."

"What did his dad say?" Yumi was anxious and nervous, unnoticeably shaking slightly.

"His dad is sending him to a military school to 'fix his attitude'." There was an instant reaction from Jeremy and Yumi, unsure how to take the news.

"When is he leaving?" Yumi asked, trying to seem much less upset than she was.

"He leaves in a week."

—

"He's leaving in about a week." Jeremy had just finished explaining the situation to Aelita. Her room was dark and cold as she had closed the blinds to keep the sun out, allowing her to sleep.

"This it terrible," Aelita said with a truly sad tone, aided by her illness slightly taking away her voice.

"I know, and I haven't seen Ulrich since he walked out on us in the courtyard."

"Well, just give him time. This is a big..."

*BING*

Silence fell in the room as Jeremy's laptop ringed.

*BING*

They both knew what that meant, but couldn't believe it true.

—

Ulrich was in his and Odd's room hitting a ball from his hand to the ceiling and then started over again. He had been lying in his bed for the last hour, hoping that this was just a bad dream, they he would wake up and find Odd snoring across the room.

*Buzz* *Buzz*

He felt his phone vibrate next to him, it was Jeremy. He didn't feel like talking and quickly hung up.

*Buzz* *Buzz*

Again, the genius called him. "I'm not gonna talk right now Jeremy." Ulrich said out loud as he turned his phone off.

It had not even been a minute before Ulrich had the silence he so desired broken by a knocking on his door.

"I'm not in the mood right now, go away!" Ulrich shouted towards whoever it was knocking on his door.

The knocking stopped, allowing Ulrich to get back to what he was doing.

*CRACK*

Ulrich turned his head towards his door, seeing wooden pieces go flying as a fist was visible in the gaping hole in his door.

"What tha..."

I decided to kinda alter my view on this chapter, having to re-write it about twice. I hope you enjoy where I'm taking this, but please review with any ideas or thoughts you have towards the story, thanks!