Authors Note: Alright...there will be no sequel to this story. What was originally going to be the sequel was this chapter, but I realized that it didn't make sense as a sequel, because it would come after the next chapter. So therefore...this chapter is very short. not even a chapter really, more like a paragraph. I'm sure you can already see that. XD And I can't make the next chapter a sequel, because then the story wouldn't have a proper close...so basically, you have to tell with me for one more chapter after this one. But just one more...honestly, I couldn't possibly make this longer than four chapters...

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She knocked on the door 3 times before she heard a stir from inside the room.

She knocked again. Poking her head in the room, she asks "Ulrich, can I come in?"

Ulrich sighed and rolled over so that he was lying face-up toward the ceiling. "Come in."

Hesitently, she walked over to his bed and lingered siting on the edge of it for a moment before lying on her back next to him.

He didn't hear her say or do anything for a while, so he took a hold of her hand and looked over at her. She was looking up towards the ceiling and her eyes looked empty...tired.

"I couldn't sleep." she looks over at him, expecting a reply.

This is the fifth time this week she's had insomnia like this. I guess it happens to her often.

"Got alot on your mind?..." he questions. she laughs.

"You know, it's funny. With Aelita and Jeremie's wedding over, you'd think I'd have less on my mind...but,...I don't know." She finally says.

He thinks about it for a moment before saying, "Is this about your parents?"

Yes, true, Yumi's parents were having a few more fights right now...so bad that they had to seperate again...And on the verge of getting divorced.

"I just...sometimes I just wonder whether or not I'll be like them...you know what I mean?" she spoke the words, not really understanding what she meant. Ulrich seemed to.

"So this isn't really about them...it's about us." She looks at him, confused. he keeps talking. "Yumi, I love you. And you love me. And I don't care who are what tries to bring us down. I don't care if everyone in the world is breaking up and getting divorced and fighting. It won't be us, Yumi. Because we're not everybody. We were meant to be together forever...and I know that. And you know that. Nothing else should matter."

Surprised as ever, Yumi hated herself for letting just one tear slide down her cheek as she hugged Ulrich. yet she felt peace all the same.

"Goodnight Ulrich."

-yawn- "Goodnight Yumi."

Before those first few moments of drowsiness when a person drifts to sleep, Yumi realized that when Aelita told her about how Ulrich felt, it was a lot different than hearing the words from Ulrich himself. She believed them now.

And it was also then that she realized that at 1:00 in the morning, all bedroom walls look the same color.

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woooo that was me trying to share what I know. I'll start on the next chapter right away.