Yumi was sitting at the table in her home eating breakfast, still half asleep. She had been up all last night texting Ulrich, something they did quite often now. Last night Ulrich texted her about how he and William were actually starting to get along, something that caused her great relief. For years Ulrich had resented William, first because of his interest in Yumi and them more so when he became possessed by X.A.N.A.

"Yumi dear, how's your toast?" Her mother asked, awakening Yumi from her dosed off state of thought.

"It's good, mom." She replied with a slight slur in her voice, showing just how tired she was.

"Did you sleep well last night? You seem very tired." Her mother questioned, forcing Yumi to think of something to say, defiantly not that she was texting a boy all night.

"We have a big English exam today and I was studying." She wished she had said something else as her lie seemed very apparent to her.

"Speaking of English," her father interrupted while he took a bite out of his slightly burnt toast, "what's your grade in there?"

"Umm... I think it's a high B, but I'll bring it up to an A with this test, I promise." She was beginning to sweat, knowing that she would most likely do poorly on this test.

"Good, you know how important your grades are. Colleges are looking for overachievers, that means all A's." Yumi's father said, looking over at his daughter with a serious face.

"She's probably too busy taking to her boyfriend to study." Hiroki interrupted, laughing a little after saying this.

"Hiroki!" Yumi half yelled towards her little brother.

"It's true!" He returned the tone his sister had just sent him.

"Settle down you two!" Mr. Ishiyama said, closing the argument.

"It's about time for you two to head off to school." Mrs. Ishiyama said. "Hurry or you'll be late."

Yumi grabbed her last piece of toast and walked out of her house, Hiroki following suit.

About half way to school, Hiroki said, "I know all about you and Ulrich. Your diary was a pretty interesting read, but I thought it was pretty boring after a while of the same stuff. 'I wish I could be with Ulrich more' and 'Ulrich is so sweet'." Hiroki looked at his sister after saying this, her ears might as well be steaming as her face resembled the molten rock of a volcano.

"Hiroki, you have five seconds to run before I kill you." Yumi's expression while saying this was one of pure anger, not a drop of forgiveness existed in her pool of rage at the moment.

"You wouldn't hurt me, Yumi." Hiroki replied, trying to avoid the situation, possibly even thinking it was an over exaggerated reaction that she would quickly cool down from.

"Five!" Yumi counted, continuing her stare of anger down into her younger brother.

"Come on, Yumi, it's not that bad." Hiroki was beginning to worry, taking her threat more seriously.

"Four!" She said even louder, her expression as non-changing as though she was a stone figure.

With that, Hiroki ran for his life, not looking back for anything. Yumi continued walking towards school at her normal pace, slightly upset by her brother's actions.

'Hiroki, one of these days I won't give you five seconds.' Her thoughts were then changed over to Ulrich. 'Maybe I could ask him if he wants to see a movie later. Oh, right. Tonight is homecoming. I'll see if he wants to go with me.'

Her thoughts wondered for the rest of her walk to school, causing her to bump into people from time to time. She wasn't sure why, but she had a feeling that today would be interesting for her. The thing that bothered her most: she has no idea wether it would be interesting in a good way, or a bad way.

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Aelita and Jeremy had been in the factory all night looking for any trace of Aelita's father, Franz Hopper. They had been looking from 9:00 pm to 7:00 am with no luck. Jeremy got some work done on William's vehicle, but it still wasn't fully operational. Aelita spent most of them time searching on her laptop through the supercomputers processors.

"Aelita, we should probably head back now, classes will start in about forty-five minutes." The tired genius said, stretching as he yawned out the words.

"You go ahead, I want to keep looking for a few minutes." The pink haired angel responded, her mind so focused on the task at hand that she was unable to look up from her screen.

Jeremy hopped out of his chair and walked over to Aelita. "Come on, Aelita, we can come back after class and keep looking if you want."

Aelita gave in to his request, slowly closing her laptop. "I thought for sure we would find him, given all the time we spent looking." Aelita stood up and yawned. Unlike Jeremy who was used to no sleep, she wasn't handling her tired condition very well.

"Let's go, maybe if we're lucky we can make it in time to hear Odd complain about wanting more food." Aelita laughed at her boyfriend's joke. This got her thinking, he has done so much for her in the past: helping her look for her father even when all hope was lost, helping her discover information about her past, heck, he even saved me from possibly being stuck in the supercomputer forever. She owed him everything, her existence in this world was because of him.

"Jeremy, thanks for all the help." She said, a bright smile forming on her otherwise tired and motionless face.

"Anything for you, princess." He replied, smiling in a similar fashion.

"Not just for this, but for everything." Aelita walked up to Jeremy and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you for everything, Jeremy."

"You're welcome, Aelita." Jeremy said in his usual post-kiss state, hardly able to react. If anything could wake him up after a night of no sleep, this was it. His face was locked in full smile, but he quickly moved towards the elevator where Aelita was waiting for him. He still had an awkward reaction to romantic things, but he was gradually getting better at dealing with it.

As Jeremy pushed the button sending the ever-aging elevator upward, both of them thought about everything that had happened to them over the last couple of years and how greatly their lives had changed.

Jeremy though about how, without the supercomputer, he may never have become friends with Ulrich, Yumi and Odd. More importantly, he would never have met Aelita, the angel of his dreams.

Aelita had similar thoughts. Had Jeremy never found the supercomputer, she may never have been awakened from her eternal slumber, leaving her as just bits of code, never to awaken and be freed into the real world.

As they exited the elevator and made their way up to the bridge leading back to the city, they held hands, knowing they wouldn't wish to be anywhere else.