Tails and Silver sat in the hallway during the break, on the floor with their bags against Silver's locker. They took out their lunches, Tails mother had prepared a nice sandwich for him and a small salad. Silver just ate their leftovers from breakfast since they were never really that hungry in the morning. But it would be a shame to throw away a perfectly good meal, so eating leftovers for lunch was more Silver's style.
They both talked about what they did over summer break, Tails his parents took him to France during the vacation, where they mostly spent their time hiking through the mountains and enjoying the weird but delicious cheeses they had over there.
``Wow that sounds so good!'' Silver responded, ``I hope I could go there sometime as well, it sounds amazing, to enjoy nature like that.''
``Yeah it sure was, and what did you do the past few weeks?''
Silver thought for a bit. ``We didn't actually go on a vacation.. uhm.. because of the cats, yeah it would be so sad to leave them be home alone for such a long period of time,'' Silver explained, but to be honest they didn't really have the money to travel far. ``But I did get a job at a florist this summer, so that's nice. I can start saving some money for special things. Now that school has started, I will be working in the weekends mostly.''
``Shame you didn't get to go on a vacation again,'' Tails felt sorry for his friend as he knew how much Silver wanted to travel the world.
``Nah, it's nothing, who knows, maybe next year''
``Yeah you're right, but very cool you have a job now! And working with plants really sound like something that suits you,'' Tails quickly added to not linger too much on the fact that Silver didn't go on vacation again, he just wanted his friend to stay positive.
The school bell rang letting all the students and teachers know it was time to go back to class. Students sighed loudly as they started to move through the hallways to their classrooms.
``Ouch!'' Silver yelled as students didn't see them and bumped into them when walking by.
``Oh sorry I didn't see you there buddy,'' a blue hedgehog quickly apologised and looked down at them, ``Hey! You're the new kids in my class! Come on let me help you.'' He took Silvers hand to help the ivory hedgehog up from the ground.
``T-thank you sir,'' Silver said rubbing their cheek where an elbow had hit them a moment earlier when they were struggling to get through the mass of students.
``Haha, oh don't call me sir, we?re class mates now! I'm Sonic and you are Silver and Tails right?'' They both nodded. ``Well come let's get to class before we're late.''
During their little chat the hallway already got much more quiet as more students reached their classrooms. Tails and Silver followed the azure hedgehog to the classroom and they all took their seats.
The door closed and Ms. Tikal took her place in front of the class, ``Good to see you all back again. We will keep it short this afternoon as we don't want to numb your brains on your first day.'' Silver noticed that the three seats of the dark gang were still empty, which made them feel relieved but...
The door slammed open and the ebony hedgehog and two of his pals stood in the doorway.
``Seriously Jet, Espio and Shadow! You were also late this morning, don?t make a habit of this!'' The three of them rolled their eyes.
``I wouldn't dare,'' Shadow said with obvious sarcasm in his voice while he grinned.
``Go to your seats! And Shadow, I will see you after class.''
``Whatever,'' He replied.
Ms. Tikal continued while the three of them walked passed desks to get to their place. When they passed the fox and the snowy hedgehog they knocked over their pencil cases, obviously on purpose.
``Hey!'' Silver exclaimed a bit shocked. But their teacher hadn't noticed.
``What you gonna do about it?'' Shadow said while he shrugged his shoulders and they took their places at the back of the class. Silver's cheeks turned a bit red as Shadow's presence started to annoy them. Silver bent over to pick up their pencil cases and put everything back in there.
``Wow she does have a fine ass,'' Jet the Hawk whispered softly, so only his friends could hear. Silver turned even redder as the ivory hedgehog had a really sharp hearing. They quickly sat down again. ``Maybe she?s something for Scourge now that he?s done with his previous girl.''
Silver's red face turned pale quickly `These guys are just disgusting'.
``Are you alright?'' Tails asked softly, ``You don't look so good?''
``I-it's nothing, just a bit dizzy, think I stood up too fast,'' Silver lied. Tails nodded and turned back to face the front of the class again.
Silver rested their head on their hand and started looking out of the window, while listening to Ms. Tikal and still writing down everything she said. It was such nice weather outside, the sky was blue and the sun still shone bright. Some birds flew by the window, Silver smiled softly. The sun shone into the classroom and the snowy hedgehog closed their eyes as they enjoyed feeling the warm rays of sunlight on their face. But never did Silver stop writing.
After a while Silver had a strange feeling, as if someone was constantly staring at them. Silver opened their eyes and looked over at Tails, out of the corner of their eye he noticed the ebony hedgehog was smirking at them. Their eyes met for just a moment. Silver gulped a bit nervous and quickly turned their attention back to the front of the classroom and continued writing down what Ms Tikal said. Silver felt Shadow?s continuing glare at the back of their head. They looked a bit to their right again and saw Shadow staring. He bit his lip at the ivory hedgehog and moved his eyebrows in a way to say `What's up'. Silver's cheeks turned a slight pink of discomfort.
Silver quickly turned back to their notebook. `Ugh, why is this guy doing this' Silver thought to theirself. The whole situation made Silver's hands shake a little nervously while writing. Suddenly their pen dropped and rolled off. The ivory hedgehog sighed as the pen rolled closer towards Shadow's desk. Silver let out a loud sigh of frustration.
``Is something wrong?'' Tails asked softly as he saw Silver's expressions of distress.
``I-i don't know,'' Silver whispered back, ``I-I can't concentrate properly, that S-Shadow guy is constantly l-looking at me. I just dropped my pen and roller near his desk b-but well...'' Silver went silent, from the corner of their eye they could see Shadow picking up the pen. He grinned at Silver while putting the pen on his desk. Tails also looked over at Shadow now to see what Silver was talking about.
`Come and get it, if you dare' he mouthed silently at Silver.
Tails turned back again, ``Don't let him get to you, remember. Here...'' He said as he took an extra pen out of his pencil case. ``Just use mine''
``Thank you Tails.'' Silver admired Tails' bravery and felt more strength from his words.
During the rest of the class Silver didn't look back at the ebony hedgehog, but they still felt his stare at the back of their head. Even though Silver was ignoring Shadows stare it was pretty difficult to keep their attention on the class. In their head Silver was just shouting `Stop looking at me, damnit. I am so going to sit somewhere else the next time I have the same class as him.'
Silver sighed relieved when the school bell rang again which meant the first day of school was over. All the students stood up.
``Oh Tails, Silver and Sonic could you please stay for a moment,'' Ms Tikal quickly said before they could leave the classroom.
``I'll see you guys later, outside,'' Shadow said to his buddies as Ms Tikal also wanted to see him after class.
Sonic, Tails and Silver stood in front of her desk. ``Tails, Silver I would like you to meet Sonic.'' Silver and Tails smiled at him.
``We already met in the hallway,'' Tails replied.
``Ah good, did he mention he's the class president?'' she asked. They both shook their heads and Sonic looked proud. ``Well he is, and it is his job, as class president, to welcome you to our school.'' She turned to Sonic, ``I wanted to ask if you could give them a tour through the school, so they know where they can find everything.''
``Oh yeah sure, not a problem,'' Sonic answered. He looked over at Tails and Silver, ``Come on, let's go,'' he gestured to the door. Silver and Tails thanked Ms Tikal for the first school day and followed Sonic into the hallway.
``Well what am I going to do with you?'' They heard Ms Tikal say towards Shadow before closing the door.
