Black Misery

Welcome to Owlford

      Amy was excited. And nervous. But excited! It was her very first day of school after transferring. She just couldn't wait to make so many new friends!

Humming some incredibly upbeat cheesy song, she happily marched down the sidewalk towards the building. Even from this distance, she could see it was painted a bright orange with blue accents. It was surprisingly pretty for a high school building.

She glanced down, adjusting the white buttoned shirt upon her dark navy blue skirt. It had come with a blazer jacket, but it was much too hot to start wearing it just yet. She had to admit, her old uniform was nicer, but it wasn't like this one was bad, by any means.

"Class, this is Amy Rose. She's a transfer student. Everyone say hi".

Amy stood next to the teacher, in front of the whole class. She hadn't realized she had a shy side until now.

"Hi, Amy", the class chorused.

"Uh, hi..."

"Welcome to Owlford high. Why don't you introduce yourself?", the teacher smiled.

"Oh, um, Okay. I'm Amy Rose. I'm transferring here from Armvard high. I'm very excited to meet you all", she replied.

"That's nice! We have an empty desk waiting for you right here", the teacher beamed, gesturing to the seat, "I'm Mrs. Lullaby. Feel free to ask me for help with anything".

"Okay...!".

Glancing to her right –to her left was only a wall- she saw that the student seated next to her was an almost white male hedgehog with five oddly placed locks of quills atop his head, and a pair of attention grabbing golden rings around his wrists. Of course, gold rings were nothing to write home about, they were quite common, she herself was currently sporting a pair, but these were much thicker and wider, and had a neon turquoise line making its way along their center. Come to think of it, he had a strange mark on his hands of a similar color.

She was about to say hi, when Mrs. Lullaby began the lesson, and he seemed quite invested in it.

Lunch break. The absolute nightmare of all nightmares.

It was too bad she was transferring in the middle of the semester like this. Everyone already knew each other. She would hate to intrude upon an already existing friend group, or worse, feel like an outsider among them.

Glancing around, she scanned the cafeteria for an empty table. Locating her objective, she began making a beeline towards it, carefully balancing her tray as she walked.

She had only been seated for a few minutes when another tray was aggressively smashed onto the table, accompanied by a far too loud for her liking bang of metal against metal. She winced at the sound.

"Mind if I sit here?", came an enthusiastic inquiry, delivered by an equally excited looking lemur. She was black and white, with a large floof of fur atop her head acting as bangs. The navy blue strings around her collar that were meant to be tied together into a loose bow were left dangling on her torso, and only half her shirt was tucked in, which could have been intentional, but it lacked execution. Her ear splitting grin was bright enough to put the sun to shame.

"Oh! Sure!", she replied, more than happy to have some company.

"I'm Tangle! What's your name?", the lemur beamed, seating herself opposite her.

"I'm Amy Rose. I'm new here", she giggled.

"Nice t'meet you, Amy!"

"I like your bangs!", Amy complemented.

"Thanks, I like your hair! How did you get it to go down like that? Don't hedgehog quills usually stick out of the back of your head?", Tangle gestured wildly to emphasis her point.

"Oh, it just does that on its own. I'm not sure why", she laughed, feeling the quills as she spoke.

"By the way, do you know where I could find a twelve story ladder?"

"Haha, what?". Amy felt her brain stop working.

"I need one for my science project"

"Do I wanna know?"

So it turned out Tangle was a sophomore, which made her a year older than her. Although, Amy didn't think she'd ever seen someone hang from a lamppost by their tail before. She certainly hoped they could become close friends.

Chapter one... 

A/N: heheh...Owlford...