“Hey Ulrich!” a female voice called as four friends walked out of the cafeteria. 

          Ulrich looked towards the voice and smiled. “Caroline!”  

        Caroline came up and hugged him, kissing him on the cheek.

          Meanwhile, Yumi stopped dead in her tracks as she saw Ulrich kiss a brown haired girl on the cheek. 

         Yumi turned around and ran into the restroom so no one could see the tears streaming down her cheeks.

          Questions like, “Who was this girl?” and “Where on earth did she come from?” and “Why was Ulrich kissing her?” all ran through her head as her fingernails made lines in the sink’s edges as she gripped in to control her rage. 

         Ulrich smiled as he turned to his friends, unaware of what Yumi had just seen. “Guys, this is my cousin, Caroline. Caroline, this is Jeremie, Odd, Aelita, and Yumi should be around her somewhere.” 

         “Ulrich’s told me about you guys.” Caroline said with a smile as she put her arm around Ulrich’s waist, his arm already around her's. 

         “You know, if you hadn’t had mentioned she was your cousin, we would’ve thought you were dating her.” Jeremie said, crossing his arms and smiling.           Caroline pulled a face, sticking her tongue out. “That would be very weird, defiantly since he’s already da-“

          “Uh, Caroline, we should go to Delmas’ office before the bell rings.” Ulrich interrupted his cousin.

           “Right.” Caroline said, “Where is he?”

           “We’ll show you.” Odd said, giving her one of his goofy smiles.

          The bell rang, telling Yumi she had to get to class. She dried off her face and walked out of the restrooms, mad at Ulrich. She got to class and sat next to William, throwing her bag to the ground.  

        William jumped, surprised. “What got on your bad side?” 

         Yumi thought about telling him, but a thought popped into her mind and she decided to do it. She sat down and looked at William, smiling. “Hey, meet me over by the vending machines after class, ok?” 

         “Alright.” William said, not sure what was going on. 

         Class ended after what felt like hours for Yumi. She found herself at the machines, her bag next to her on the brick flower beds. Yumi looked up and saw Ulrich and the brown haired girl walking over to her with the rest of her friends.  

        "Yumi, you wanted to talk?" William asked as he came up from behind her.  

         Yumi saw that Ulrich was geting closer and quickly grabbed William and kissed him on the lips, taking him off guard. A few steps away, Ulrich stopped dead, making his friends almost run into him.

           "What on earth?" Odd asked, looking at Ulrich. Than he followed his friend's gaze and saw Yumi and William. "What?"

          Yumi let go of William and dropped her arm.  

         "Wasn't that Yumi?" Caroline asked, looking at Ulrich, who was still staring.  

         Yumi looked towards Ulrich and smiled as she grabbed William's hand and walked off, bringing him with her.