``Well, Welcome to our school,'' Sonic said happily as they stood in the hallway. There were still some students putting away their study material in their lockers before heading out. Most were already outside enjoying the weather and a quiet afternoon since nobody got any homework on the first day of school. ``I will be your tour guide, Sonic the Hedgehog, so follow me,'' he spook excitedly.
Tails and Silver smiled as it was nice to meet an excited student like him. First off they went through the hallway and Sonic pointed to some empty classrooms and explained which lessons were taught there and by whom. Every now and then he also told some funny anecdotes. They entered the physics classroom where Tails got really excited. Sonic explained something about the safety, as there were all kinds of first aid equipment around.
``Funny story!'' Sonic said, ``During our first class our teacher taught us how to make an invisible flame, as ethanol was used to make sure that things like money don't burn immediately when you get near it with fire, but it is a highly flammable substance. So we got the assignment to try it out ourselves. We had to dip some paper in ethanol and then light in on fire,'' Sonic started to laugh, and continued, ``One of our students didn't see anything happening when putting it on fire, so he dipped the paper with the invisible flame back in to the ethanol.'' Tails and Silver winced a little but laughed as well, as they new what had happened. Sonic showed them a little scar on his arm which was obviously a burn mark.
``Ouch, that must have hurt!'' Tails commented.
``Oh well, sometimes accidents happen,'' Sonic shrugged, ``You can definitely learn from these mistakes, but you should have seen the student who did that, it's a good thing we have so many first aid materials around.'' Silver and Tails nodded.
They went on to some workshops and finally they reached the arts classroom.
``Wow! This looks amazing,'' Silver said while wandering around the arts classroom. The walls were covered with many drawings and paintings and there were shelves full of ceramics. There was also a tiny room in the back for screen printing. ``Oh I can't wait to start these classes!'' Silver's face was glowing of excitement.
``Yeah art classes were always fun, but most students quit after the first year. When their field of study starts demanding more of their time with extra homework and such most students drop art class because they don't find it as important. I've quit it as well.'' Sonic explained.
``Hmm, that's such a shame, so this will be one of the classes I will participate in without anyone I know yet.''
``You'll do fine Silver, you always were the best at high school,'' Tails said to comfort his friend. They walked out of the arts classroom back in the hallway.
``Oh, it will be fine, you will know many more students in no time! Which reminds me,'' Sonic said and walked over to one of the bulletin boards which could be found in almost any hallway. There were all kinds of colourful flyers pinned to it. Flyers from students who are looking for a dorm room, all sorts of clubs looking for new members, one from the art class looking for new nude models, people selling their secondhand school books and many more. Sonic took two of the bright coloured flyers from the pinboard and gave them to Silver and Tails. ``This Friday there will be a big party organised by students to kick-off the school year! You should totally come.''
Silver didn't feel so great about it but Tails was excited, ``It would indeed be good for us to go to the party, it'll be a good opportunity to get to know more students, don't you think Silver?'' Tails looked over at Silver.
``Yeah, I suppose,'' Silver replied holding up its hands. Silver didn't want to let Tails go on his own.
``But I should ask my parent for permission first,'' Tails said, awkwardly scratching the back of his head.
``Oh yeah of course, I almost forgot you are 2-3 years younger then us. I would say stay away from the booze,'' Sonic chuckled, ``Wouldn't want anything to happen to you at your first college party.''
``Sure, will do, but thank you for the invitation,'' Silver said while putting the flyer away in their backpack.
``It'll be fun, the school band will be playing as well, I'm the drummer.''
``That's so cool!'' Tails en Silver spook admiring.
They moved on to the rest of the school, Sonic showed them the gym and the electronics workshops. The tour ended with the library which was massive and very well organised. There was a big clock hanging above the doorway.
``Woops, look at the time!'' Sonic said looking at the clock. ``I really should go, I have to be at my work in half an hour.''
``You should go then!'' Tails said, ``Wouldn't want you to be late!''
``Thanks, I will see you two tomorrow at gym class, that will be the first class we have together tomorrow.''
``Okay, see you tomorrow Sonic!'' Tails and Silver waved as Sonic ran off in a blue blur.
``Wow, how did he do that!'' Silver said while blinking its eyes in disbelief.
``Being that fast should be physical impossible,'' Tails said a bit shocked. They paused for a bit as they stared into the hallway where Sonic disappeared. ``Well I should go home as well, you know my parents always want me to be home early before dinner.''
``That's okay, I will just stay for a while, I'm curious about the genres of books they have in here.''
``Really? You are going to stay and read while it's such nice weather outside.''
``Just for a bit, wouldn't take too long.''
``Well okay then, I will see you tomorrow morning, same place same time?'' Silver nodded and Tails turned around and left them alone in the library.
Silver sighed and took a deep breath inhaling the smell for old books. The ivory hedgehog passed the librarian who was taking a nap behind his desk. As it was the first day of school, nobody thought about going to the library, especially with such nice weather outside. Silver took some books from the philosophy section, as they were really looked forward to those classes but didn't know much about it yet. Silver took a seat near the window and started flipping through the pages. They felt a slight breeze on their face coming from the window which was slightly open. Sounds of the few students talking and laughing outside came in through the window.
Silver looked outside and suddenly froze in their chair. Quickly they opened some books and put them on the table to hide theirself from the students who were standing outside.
Shadows friends were sitting outside on top of a picnic bench, their motorcycles were standing next to them, blinking in the sun. Shadow just came over to them after his talk with Ms Tikal. He looked pretty grumpy but grinned when his friend greeted him.
``Hey Shadow, first day of school and already had detention,'' The green hedgehog laughed.
``Nah, it was nothing our mentor only wanted to have a little chat, that's all,'' Shadow took place on top of the picnic table, rising above his friends as he was the leader of the gang. He pulled his sunglasses out of the pocket of his leather jacket and put them on. The green hedgehog pulled out a cigarette case and let Shadow take one while Espio lit it for him. Shadow inhaled deeply and sighed out a big puff of smoke.
``Oh yeah, I needed that,'' The others also took a cigarette and soon blue coloured ribbons of smoke rose from the group.
``So Jet told me those two little sissies from this morning are in your class,'' the emerald hedgehog commented. Shadow raised an eyebrow and made an annoyed grunting noise.
Silver stopped breathing, its cheeks turned a bit red when they referred to Tails and theirself as `sissies'.
``Oh you should have seen the ass on that silvery girl, Scourge! Maybe she would be a good replacement for your last one,'' Jet said while laughing towards the emerald hedgehog.
`So that's that Scourge they talked about' Silver thought while peeking over its books. Scourge was wearing tight jeans and a black leather jackets, just like the rest of the gang, but his eyes, his blue eyes looked really evil. Silver shivered while thinking about what Jet said during class.
``I thought that it was a dude?'' Scourge asked.
``Well we don't know really, it's either just a really girly dude or a girly girl,'' they all laughed after Espio's remark.
Silver felt angry tears well up in its eyes.
``Who cares what it is,'' Scourge grinned evil, ``As long it can take all of me and does what I want. That last one was just whining all the time, saying it hurts.'' Scourge just shrugged nonchalantly as he really didn't care about the feelings of his last toy. ``Yeah so had to dump her. But it will be good to try someone new again and this one's probably still a virgin so it'll be nice and tight.''
Silver's face turned pale and they felt a bit nauseas of how the gang was talking about them. They tried their best to block out the voices from outside. They wanted to close the window but the gang would probably notice and Silver really didn't want that.
``Hold on a minute,'' Shadow came in between Scourge's monologue, ``I call dibs on this one, at least for the first time. You can have her afterwards.''
``That's a pity,'' Scourge said and smirked, ``well don't let me wait too long, you know I can't hold myself back when I want something.''
``Just be patient,'' Shadow growled.
``Yes boss,'' the emerald hedgehog quickly replied and went silent.
``NO SMOKING ON COLLEGE GROUNDS!'' a janitor shouted at them.
