Wake Up Sonic

Chapter 5

Sonic looked up at Shadow and for maybe the second time that day wondered if the world just hated him.
Shadow was the very last person he wanted to see right now in light of what was happening to him.
Why oh why did HE have to be here!
He forced a grin and grabbed Tails excusing themselves.
"I and Tail's will just go grab a table. Come on buddy!"
Before Tail's could reply he and Sonic were inside sitting at one of the tables.
'Damn it, Damn it, Damn it, damn it, damn it!' Sonic thought as he tapped the circular table with his finger and covered his face with the other hand with his elbow leaning against its surface.
Tails noted that Sonic's eye was twitching and felt a sudden wave of concern, but he couldn't comment because the rest of the group had come in.
As Shadow sat down carefully in a seat across from Sonic, the blue hedgehog jumped up to go with Knuckles and Amy to rent the bowling balls.
"Are you feeling okay Sonic?" Knuckles asked as they stood in line as he noted his anxious expression.
Sonic looked at him and waved it off.
"Yea I'm good. 3 please" He told the guy behind the counter; ignoring Knuckles' suspicious looks.
"Come on Shadow~, aren't you playing?" Amy asked the black hedgehog.
"No thank you. I'll just sit here."
"Aww! You're no fun!"
"I never pretended I was"
As the other went over to the bowling lane Shadow took out a book and waited.
As Sonic waited for his turn, his eye twitched constantly as he tried to resist the urge to look over his shoulder.
He glanced out of the corner of his eye barely moving his head and his expression normaled out as that weird foreign feeling started up again in his chest.
Shadow was sitting with one arm over the back of his chair and his left leg crossed over his other looking carelessly handsome as always.
Sonic slapped himself as he realized the road his mind was heading down.
'DAMN IT!'
He almost banged his head against the green bowling ball in him hand but the fear of looking like a complete fool kept him from it.
'Why me' He thought.
"Your turn blue"
Knuckle moved out of his way as he stood at the end of the lane.
He gave a small breath, stood up straight and brought his arm back, and with a large amount of power swung the ball and sent it rolling along to the pins quickly.
With a crash all of the pins dropped and Sonic gave a small cheer.
"Mwahaha! Strike!"
He gave a cocky grin and a thumb's up over his shoulder at the others, and felt a small twinge of disappointment when he realized Shadow wasn't even paying attention.
He gave a mental huff and went back over to the bench to watch the others.
It wasn't until Amy's 4th turn that Shadow came over with the rest of the group.
Sonic felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up as Shadow's deep voice came up behind him.
"Who's winning?"
Sonic looked up over his shoulder and shrugged.
"So far Knuckles and I are tied for first."
"Hmm"
Shadow walked around from behind the bench and sat down crossing his arms and legs as he watched.
Sonic felt edgy and anxious as he realized how close the other hedgehog was.
He stood up rigidly and his hair was standing on end.
He tried to keep his attention straight forward but he couldn't help but glance over at his teacher. He leaned forward leaning his face on his hand and adopted a bored look as his eyelids closed halfway, but out of the corner of his eye he was staring at Shadow.
As he looked at the dark hedgehog's arms that were crossed over his chest, he wondered idly what it would be like to feel them around him, and suddenly he felt his face grown hot and he snapped his eyes forward as the image burned in his brain.
'DAMN IT!'
"It's your turn Sonic" Shadow said, sending tremors down Sonic's spine as the blue hedgehog looked up at him confused.
"What?"
Shadow looked at him with an eyebrow raised from where he was watching the others, in a look that clearly said 'pay attention stupid'
"I said it's your turn"
"Oh!" Said Sonic jumping up "Opps"
Sonic ran over to the others and did his best for the rest of the game to keep his attention off Shadow at all costs.
On Monday Sonic woke up early feeling the strangest sort of feeling as he remembered the dream he'd just woken up from.
He'd done it again.
Disgusted with himself, Sonic push the 'damned' scarf away from himself and his face flushed as scattered vague images came to the front of him mind.
'Damn it!'
He buried his face in his pillow and his fists clenched.
What the heck was effing wrong with him?
What was up with this stupid friggin' obsession?
He gritted his teeth bitterly and rolled over, putting the back of his arm over his eyes.
'Don't think about it! Don't think about!' He told himself over and over, but to no avail.
The vision of that stupid damned hedgehog still popped up in his mind and he truly could not get it out for more then 5 minutes.
He sighed and sat up, his eyes down cast.
"Why?" He whispered desperately.
This wasn't like him.
Sonic had always been happy being single and independent.
He'd never been attracted to someone like THIS before.
Before it had only ever been a slight twinge, but then it would die maybe the next day.
But that wasn't happening now...
NOW he'd been having this problem for how long? Almost a week?
Sonic shook his head stubbornly.
It was just a faze, he told himself.
Just a simple little 'thing' that would go away any day now.
Or so he hoped...
Later on during class time Sonic found it hard to concentrate on what was going on in class, that is until Shadow came in with the announcement of a test.
The rest of the class groaned and Sonic put away his stuff as he got ready.
Maybe a test was what he needed; anything to keep Shadow off his mind.
As soon as he had his test paper he began.
'Well, at least SOME good came from tutoring with him' Sonic thought as he scanned it over.
The majority of the questions were familiar problems that he and Shadow had worked on before.
Sonic couldn't exactly remember the answers themselves, but at least he knew what to do.
He was very careful as he went from question to question, sometimes glancing up at the clock to make sure he wasn't rushing.
He was also unaware that he was being watched.
Shadow's eyes scanned the room every few minutes to make sure there was no talking of looking at other people's papers, and constantly out of the corner of his eye he found himself watching the blue hedgehog intently.
He probably shouldn't have cared very much, but he had to smirk to himself a little as he realized that Sonic was following his advice; or at least he'd stopped rushing through things.
If there was anything that a teacher loved, it was when a student actually learned something from them, and being that Sonic was his current pet project it was gratifying ti know he'd made some progress.
"Boy I'm beat!" Sonic said stretching as he and Tail's exited the class room.
"Yea; that stuff was pretty hard! How do you think you did?"
"I probably did alright. But what are YOU worrying about? You always ace every test don't cha?" He said as he ruffled Tail's hair affectionately.
Tails swatted his hand away childishly and whined.
"Hey! don't do that! People are laughing!"
"Ha, ha So? You didn't mind before"
"Yes but I was a kid back then~"
Sonic pretended to cry.
"My little brother is growing up!"
Tails punched Sonic on the arm playfully.
"Aw shut up!"
"It's true~"
"Aww what a cute little conversation"
The two boys looked up to see the unwanted figure of Scourge the hedgehog standing a few feet in front of them.
Sonic raised an eyebrow.
"What do you want Scourge"
The green hedgehog chuckles and reached into his pocket.
"I came to return this to you" He said smirking evilly.
He threw something to Sonic, who caught it and looked down surprised.
It was his wallet!
"Wait! That's why it was missing! You stole it, You little thief!"
Scourge pulled at his collar cockily.
"I prefer the term I 'borrowed it' actually. You have it back don't cha!"
"Yea, empty! You little bastard!"
That wiped the smirk of Scourges face. He snarled at the blue hedgehog and took fighting stance.
"What'd you just call me you little punk!"
"Oh I'm the punk? At least I don't go around stealing peoples lunch money like a little sniveling coward!"
"What ever, serves me right for trying to return it to yuh. Why don't you and your little boyfriend go back to making out instead of picking fights with your betters"
For one very short second Sonic's face paled as he realized what Scourge was implying, and even thought he had included the wrong person, he was somewhat right...
But that small moment didn't last for long;
In the next second Sonic and Scourge were on the floor brawling it out!
Tails attempted to break it up, grabbing Sonic's arm and yelling for him to stop, but it wasn't until they each felt themselves pulled away from each other did they stop.
"ALL THREE OF YOU BREAK IT UP NOW"
Sonic and Scourge winced as the dooming voice came crashing into their ear drums, as Shadow held them by the scruffs of their necks.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Scourge sneered up at him evilly.
"Oh nothing, we were just having a talk, that's all"
Shadow rolled his eyes and grabbed Scourge by the ear, walking him to the front door.
Over his shoulder he called,
"You two stay right there until I come back, and you'd better have not moved when I do"
Tails and Sonic looked at each other.
"I'm sorry buddy... now I've gotten you in trouble too..."
Tails shook his head.
"Nah it's okay... it was definitely worth it to see that left jab you gave him to nose" he said grimly.
Sonic laughed nervously.
As long as his dad didn't here about this, he'd be okay.
"Soo~" He said looking around and rubbing his knuckles to his palm. "Nice weather we're having~?"
Tails grinned up at his big brother.
That was Sonic; always doing his best to cheer someone up, even if they both were in the same situation.
"Anyway, I'll try and clear your name with Shadow; you were only trying to break it up, so it's not fair if you got in trouble for this!"
Shadow came around a few minutes later, followed by a wrinkled old man that everyone knew as Bob the janitor.
Sonic and tails looked in opposite directions guiltily as he started to mop up the Scourge's blood.
'I hope it hurt too' Sonic thought bitterly.
"We are going to my class room to discuss this. Come on"
As they got into his class room Shadow wasted no time in telling them their punishment.
"While Scourge is being suspended seeing as this is his second offense so far, you two will be assigned to helping out the various teachers with their various extra activities for the next few weeks, during your lunch time, starting tomorrow. Got it"
Sonic took a breath, and glanced at Tails, gaining a bit of confidence.
"Actually I don't"
Shadow raised an eyebrow.
"What is there not to get Sonic?" He said it in a tone that suggested that he was trying very, very hard not to hit Sonic at that moment.
"What I don't get is, why is it that Tail's is being punished? Scourge and I were the only one's fighting, and he was just trying to stop me and Scourge up. Even thought the stupid git deserved to get pummeled anyway."
He added for Tail's benefit.
Shadow gave a sort of frown that Sonic found hard to read before he turned to the kitzune.
"Is this true Tail's?"
Tails gave a start as he was acknowledged, and nodded.
Shadow gave an exasperated sigh and shooed him off.
"Fine, fine, you may go Tail's"
Tails hesitated and glanced at Sonic before he left the room leaving Sonic and Shadow alone.
Shadow eyed the blue hedgehog interestedly.
"That was noble of you."
Sonic shrugged trying to ignore the awkward feelings that were running through him at the moment.
"Well, it was the truth!"
"Yes, but a lot of people rather not tell the truth now do they? Anyway, seeing as we not material to cover yet, and I have so much work to grading these tests, I shall not be tutoring with you today." He said gesturing to the rather large pile on his desk.
"Oh, okay. See you later then" Sonic said trying to ignore the mild disappointment he felt.
Shadow came a noncommittal wave as he looked down to the papers on his desk, and Sonic left, torn between wanting to get out of there as fast as he could, and staying close to Shadow longer.
He could have smacked himself for want to stay, but he didn't want to seem any stranger than he already was...
Shadow stared at the paper in his hand as if he could not believe his eyes.
"Wow"
That was the only real way to describe this new development.
In his short time teaching, he'd never actually met a student who could improve so much in such a short amount of time.
He scanned the test over again, just to be sure.
But he knew he had been right the first time.
The very student who had failed to the bottom of the class last week had now managed to get into the top ten of his class.
But even with this start he had a bit for work to do.
Shadow leaned back against his couch, remembering his thoughts from earlier.
That Sonic was full of surprises wasn't he?"
The next morning after class Sonic waited anxiously for his teacher to give him what he assumed was bad news.
He must have failed again, he thought sadly.
And he thought he would have done well this time.
"Well then Sonic, here is the grade of the test you took last class." Shadow said as he handed the paper to Sonic carefully.
Sonic covered his eyes as he picked it up and after taking a slow breath, to shadow's amusement, he peeked from behind his hand...
His eyes widened and his jaw dropped.
"W...w... this... this is mine?" Sonic asked his eyes still wide as he pointed to the paper in his hand.
"Yes, yes it is; congratulations Sonic"
For a second there was silence and then Sonic exploded into a blur a movement as he ran around the room excitedly.
"OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG! I PASSEDD~! AH~!"
Shadow smirked behind the hands crossed in front of his face, and he watched Sonic celebrate. He had definitely earned that 89%.
Plus there was the small fact that Shadow actually enjoyed seeing Sonic happier than usually the way Sonic acted around him was either angry or ... what was the word...isolated? So seeing him relax was a bit refreshing.
He almost laughed out loud as Sonic continued his victory dance, doing a cross between eh cabbage patch and the moonwalk, but sooner or later he would have to blow Sonic's bubble. So why not do it now.
"Sorry to break up your little party; but remember? You still have some work to do."
Sonic paused in his dancing and he slumped his shoulders.
"Aww, man!"
Shadow gave a low chuckle as he stood up and gestured for Sonic to follow him.
After a few minutes Sonic realized that they were heading towards the track field not too far from the main building and wondered what he would have to do, right before they stopped in front of an old dilapidated shed.
Shadow took out the key and opened the door and turned on the light.
"Here we are."
Sonic looked over Shadow's shoulder at the mess that was obviously suppose to be sport supplies.
"Because the fall sports season shall be starting soon, you are going to be cleaning out the sports supply closet, so the equipment can be moved here instead of the general supply closet.
I need you to clear out the junk, sweep, scrub, and dust.
There's a bucket there, a sponge there, the water pipe over there and the soap and ammonia and rubbing alcohol there. Get to work"
As Shadow turned around sniggering to himself evilly Sonic closed his jaw that had dropped when he first saw the inside of the building, rolled up the sleeves of his jacket, and grabbed the bucket and want over to the water pipe to get to work.
This was going to be a very long day.