10 Days To Make Him Smile

Day 8

POV Sonic

I strangely woke up really early today, (why does that even happen?) I could tell because the sun wasn't even up. I squinted my eyes as the bright light on my phone almost blinded me because I wanted to check the time.

It was 5:00 in the morning.
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Are you kidding me? I stayed up so late fixing up my apartment, why did I wake up so early?

I did my quick math and found out I slept only 3 hours, which is not healthy for me. My body is used to at LEAST 6 hours of sleep. I groaned, I can already sense the bad dayyy.

After attempting to go back to sleep, (I couldn't) I walked out of my room and into the kitchen to get some coffee. Never thought I'd be like those people who live off of caffeine, but I need to be awake today, more than ever. I got another study sesh with Shadow, and my first day at work is this afternoon; I cannot fuck anything up today.

I took out my laptop, what to do with spare time. I open my email, nothing new, things from apps, games, then I froze.

A scholarship. Oh my gosh a scholarship. I clicked on the email for more details, it was a good scholarship for a good school, not my ideal college but my gosh was it a good school. I almost can't believe it. I have good grades and all, but I lack participation. Whatever! this is good news, my first scholarship. I thought it was over for me when I saw so many people in junior year receiving them while I had an empty mail box.

Now that I'm onto the subject of college, I need to list colleges to apply to when I get the money for it.

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All of my morning classes were so boring today, (I fell asleep in all of them) so at least I skipped to lunch, my favorite part of the school day. Ames, Tails, and Knuckles came with me to the gas station so I could grab some snacks for both me and Shad's while we study, we do have a 1 hour lunch period. I texted Shads real quick, asking him what he likes, and got it for him. (Tails, Ames, Knuckles, and I all caught up while we walked back to campus.)

When I made it to the library with Shadow, I passed him his coffee beans he asked for and some water. I just got a sandwich, candy, and an energy drink.

We sat in front of each other, silently, and sometimes accidentally making eye contact as we eat.

After we were done eating we pulled out the materials needed to study, like our laptops and pencils. "Oh, I forgot to mention, I got the job. I work from 5-11. And I got my very first scholarship this morning." He nodded. "I'm proud of you." I froze for a little. Gosh those words felt so good. I smiled widely.

"So why don't you ever express what you feel? It's kinda unusual." I randomly brought up, I'm curious about him. "It's hard to express when all that I've been taught is to suppress." He said quietly but firmly, kinda sounded catchy to say. "Who told you that bullshit" Suppress? Feeling emotions is what makes you a living being, a person. "I don't remember who, I just know that's how I was raised."

Knuckles was right, this boy is sad. And it's sad that he isn't aware of how unhealthy that mindset is. No wonder he never expresses anything, he was probably never shown an example.

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We continued our study session like normal, and soon we were back to our classes. I had life fit wellness class today so me and Shadow walked together to the gym since we both had that class.

The teacher was out sick today, so the substitute had to give us some laps around the track. We all went to the locker room, when we do laps, we're usually all shirtless but some wear tank tops. I don't like the feel of a sticky shirt so I just go shirtless.