Author's Notes: Thank you to everyone for the reviews, favorites, and follows! It means a lot to know that people read and enjoy my work. I am so excited to present the continuation of Chapter 1 as Chapter 2.
I know that ThePurplePyroHedgie said that the chapters may be too short for some readers' likings, but I like to keep all my chapters around 1,000 words so it can be a quick read per chapter. This also gives me a lot more time to think about the next chapters and to actually write the next chapters while my readers get a medium update to read.
All in all, thank you to everyone who reads. I hope that I can keep you interested! Now here's the second, but still first, chapter:
Amy strutted through the front doors with her cat friend beside her. She placed one hand on her hip and flipped her hair in an excessive fashion using the back of her other hand. Blaze crossed her arms across her chest and gave a nod to the people watching. They returned to walking down the hall to the main lobby where some of their friends were talking.
Sonic was chatting about something to Knuckles when he gave a quick glance at the pink hedgehog that was walking toward him, and then gave another noticing it was his biggest crush.
"Hey, Amy!" Sonic waved to get his friend's attention, "C'mon over! We are talking about our summer breaks!" The gang of Sonic, Knuckles, and Tikal all waved along with Sonic to greet Amy. Knuckles and Tikal were sitting on the side of the indoor fountain while Sonic was standing in front of them. The main lobby was the center of the entire school and was a popular hangout for Amy's friends and her.
As Amy and Blaze walked closer to the crowd of Mobius High School's finest, Sonic noticed just how amazing Amy looked closer up. Amy gave a wink to the group as she said hello to all of her friends, some she hung out with quite a few times over the summer, while others were just school friends. Sonic hadn't stopped starring at Amy since she arrived. He was almost hypnotized by the girl's wink.
"A-Amy," Sonic began, "you look so g-great! Did you do something different with your hair?"
"Yes I did, actually," Amy gave a solemn nod to Sonic, "thank you for noticing."
"It looks like you have changed a lot in the frontal region too!" Knuckles blurted out the statement that should have remained silent. Tikal gave her boyfriend a glare and Knuckles put his hand on the back of his head sheepishly. Knuckles knew it would be trouble if he didn't say something to fix this.
"I mean, umm, you look a lot newer, like more new," he rambled.
Amy folded her arms and shrugged with a smirk on her face, "New year, new me."
The warning bell letting students know they had a minute left in passing period rang over the school's speakers. "Uh-oh, we better get out of her quick or we will be late!" Blaze informed the group.
"No problem! The star of Mobius High's track team knows everything about quick," Sonic gloated, running in place to show off his skill.
"Quick in the sheets maybe," Knuckles whispered to Tikal which caused her to spit out the soda she was drinking. Knuckles busted out laughing, partly because of his joke, and the other being from his girlfriend's reaction to it. Tikal shoved his shoulder playfully for teasing her, but he wasn't as well balanced from laughing so hard. He flailed his arms to try and keep his balance, but he failed and fell backward into the fountain.
The group had a quick chuckle at Knuckles' tumble and Blaze lent a hand in getting him out of the water. "Serves you right for making fun of the track star," stated Blaze.
"Yeah, yeah," Knuckles drained some of the water out from his dreads, "karma and all that junk." The friends said their good-byes and agreed to sit at lunch together; they figured out over summer that all of their lunch shifts were the same. Blaze found it quite a shock because the chance of five students having the same one of three lunch shifts is one in two-hundred forty-three, in other words, very improbable statistically. Knuckles told her not to be such a nerd.
Amy rushed through the halls to get to her first hour on time. She couldn't be late to her first class on the first day of school. With a good amount of dodging passersby, she managed to get to her first hour without a tardy. The room has desks in the center with sewing machines hugging the sides of the room. On the walls, posters of dresses, skirts, suits, and other types of clothes hung. Amy had always dreamed of become a fashion designer, and that was exactly why she chose Advanced Fashion Design to be one of her electives.
Her teacher passed out syllabi while Amy took a seat in the third row. She thought the third row offered the best distance from the front to see and hear all around the room. Luckily for her, the fashion design teacher wasn't too picky about where her students sat. Amy looked around and noticed that none of her friends were in this class, but it was unsurprising considering none of them had as strong as a passion for fashion like she did.
The teacher read through some of this year's projects and how the grading system worked in fashion design. Amy already looked over the syllabus quickly, so she found it a good excuse to day dream. She thought back to this morning when that mysterious, dark hedgehog rode up on his motorcycle. Amy didn't quite know what it was about him, but she wanted to know more. 'He has to be a new student,' she figured, 'I have never seen him before here, yet he seems so… familiar.'
Amy was looking off into nothingness when the bell rang. "Second hour already?" she said aloud to no one, "this day sure is going by fast."
Amy pulled out her schedule from her red book bag. Upon seeing the class, she made her way to the social studies hall. On her way down, she saw Sonic walking a few people ahead of her. "Hey Sonic!" she called to him, "Wait up!" Sonic turned around and pulled himself to the side to what for Amy to catch up. He remembered that the two had second hour together when the shared their schedules over summer. Amy finally made her way up to the blue blur and they walked together to their Sociology class.
"So, why did you take Sociology?" Amy turned to him giving a quizzical look, "I never have seen you as a social studies guy."
Sonic shrugged, "Well, I'm a social guy, so I figured Sociology would be a breeze for me."
Amy gave a slight chuckle at his jovial tone. "Whatever you say, blue boy," she teased him. She knew that whenever she said that pet name it would make him blush and get nervous.
"Why must you keep calling me that?" he groaned, rubbing his temples with his right hand, "you know I don't like it."
"Your red face begs to differ, blue boy," she pointed a finger to his blush filled cheeks.
"Whatever…" he gave up trying to get out of it.
Sonic and Amy sat next to each other by the windows. The two like to look outside when the class gets too boring for their tastes. Their teacher passed out a vocabulary packet and explained some of the terms. The term readings took nearly the entire hour, but there were five minutes left after for everyone to chat. Sonic closed up his binder and put it into his sports bag. He used his track bag for everything. It was big enough and he was strong enough to carry all of it, so he saw no issue, even if his sweaty clothes and shoes were sometimes inside next to his work.
Sonic looked over to Amy who was putting her new worksheet away. He was still in amazement about how great she looked since last year. He had always had a small crush on her, but he never really acted on his feelings. This year though, he decided he would finally ask Amy to the Homecoming dance. 'How could she say no to me?' Sonic thought to himself, 'I am the star of the track team for crying out loud!'
"Hey, Amy-" the bell rang as Sonic was in mid-sentence.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, Sonic!" Amy said, "You will have to tell me later. I have to get to Marketing class as soon as possible."
"Uh, yeah, I'll just tell you later," Sonic looked away from her and slowly got his bag off the cold floor. Amy was already half-way through the door when he looked back up.
"She has got to be the only person faster than me," Sonic mumbled to himself, walking to his next class. It wouldn't be wise for him to be late to Chemistry.
