It had been two months since Souji had left Inaba, Yumi at first was saddened by his leaving however she noticed Souji had a lot of female friends, the closest were Chie, Yukiko, Rise and Naoto. The girl hadn't gone much outside her circle of friends, but to know more about Souji and to try and close the wound his leaving had left. After becoming acquaintances with them Yumi slowly forged bonds of friendship with them, eventually hanging out on regular basis. It was one fateful instance that would change Yumi's life.
Yumi and Yukiko were both waiting on Rise and Chie to head over to Junes for lunch, Naoto was on a case and wouldn't be able to join today's excursion. "So We pushed him and Yosuke in and Moroka was puking in the river."
"Awwwww Nasty." Yumi said.
"Hey you two." Rise said as she and Chie walked up.
"Hey, we were just retelling the trip into the mountains we had." Yukiko said.
"Did you mention the part where we snuck into the boy's tent because of Hanako and Kanji and had to wait for Moroka to leave?" Chie asked.
"Not really." Yukiko said.
"Wow...you guys had all the real fun with Souji...I just got cheered up by him and that's it." Yumi said.
"Oh hey, don't feel bad...we also had a very important...project that we needed his help on. If he didn't I'm sure he'd have spent more time with you." Chie said as Rise and Yukiko gave her glares at what she was implying.
"Thanks guys, really. I should be apologizing, after all I feel like I'm becoming friends with you all for the wrong reasons."
"That's not true, all of us were brought here by Sempai. Fact is a lot of us are very different, I'm a pop idol, Chie's a tomboy, Yukiko is prim and proper, and Naoto is extra serious. We have almost nothing in common." Rise said.
"I guess you're right..." Yumi said looking at her cup with a drink in it.
"Well now it won't do to see a lady upset." A Familiar voice said as Teddie sqeekly walked up in his bear suit.
"Hey Ted, what brings you here?" Chie asked.
"Well I've been noticing you're new friend lately and figured it'd be nice to introduce myself. I'm Teddie." Teddie faced Yumi.
"Teddie huh? Well I'm Yumi, I've seen you working here a lot, isn't it hot in that costume?"
"It's no problem for a man such as me." Teddie said with a light growl.
Yumi gave a light giggle. "Well since it'd be insulting to not face such a beauty with a gift I picked this in my wor...I mean I picked this in a field."
Teddie pulled out a beautiful rose, it was bloomed more then any normal rose, with delicate and bright petals all over. "Wow it's beautiful, thank you Teddie."
"Hey how come she gets flowers?" Rise asked Teddie.
"Well like I said I just found it...I'll try and find more for you girls." Teddie was distracted by the angry trio that he handed Yumi the rose wrong and she pricked her finger.
"OW!" Yumi held her finger.
"Oh dear, I'm sorry Yumi-chan, are you hurt?" Teddie asked.
"No, I'm fine it's just a simple rose thorn. Didn't hurt too bad." Yumi said.
"You better find some water and a vase for that, I think there's a nice selection here in the gardening section." Yukiko said.
Yumi nodded, she looked at the rose before saying her mind.