SonAdow High School Life

TGIF

My face brightened a deep red being filled with panic as I looked around the ruins of Sea Side Hill.

“Shadow! What are we doing!? Class is starting and we’ll be counted absent! I can’t cut class!!! My parents will KILL me!!!” I screamed visualizing my mom getting the call of school notifying her I’ve been skipping class. I’d walk in the door and would be so grounded that I’ll never see the light of day again! I couldn’t face my mother and father explaining to them what happened, hanging out with someone they already told me to stay away from in the first place and now letting him drag me out of school!! The place began to spin and my stomach dropped making me feel sick.

“Holy geez you worry too much!” Shadow hissed at me and gave a hard punch to my arm with his bony knuckles and slapped something on my chest.

I looked down at a pink slip of paper, one recognized as the hall pass.

“Hey… where’d you get this?” I asked.

“I was actually at school before everyone; I was in a class room being ‘tutored’, to catch up with everyone while I had been expelled. I nabbed it from the teacher’s desk when the idiot was talking to another teach who rudely interrupted us to give him some coffee.”

“You stole it!?” I cried, “I can’t give them a stolen hall pass!”

“Who’s gonna know?” He glared. Okay true no one’s going to know whether it was stolen or not… but still it feels so, wrong.

“So… what’s the whole point of this?” I asked tucking the stolen hall pass in a pocket of my back pack.

“Are you ready for next week?”

…What is he talking about??

“The trip to whale lagoon, its next week we leave on Monday. You didn’t forget did you?”

Oh crap! I had completely forgotten! How am I going to convince my parents to let me go!

Shadow didn’t seem to forgiving of my forgetfulness.

“I’m sorry!” I quickly pleaded, “It’s just that I was more focused on other things y’know! And then I had to make it through school without you being there.”

He rolled his eyes shaking his head slightly and turned his back to me not saying anything else. I hope I didn’t hurt his feelings for forgetting. Who am I kidding I’m sure it’d take a lot more than a slip of the mind to make a chip at his hard shell incasing the feelings he doesn’t show.

“I’ll try and convince my parents over the weekend!” I stepped towards him.

He turned back facing me quickly, “You better, I already paid your way, that means whether they say it’s okay or not, I’m taking you.”

He made my face get hot, isn’t that considered kidnapping? Why is he so fearless to consequences of his actions? It’s just as long as he gets his way that matters most to him.

“I’ll see what I can do, I swear.” I said bringing my ears back as he stared at me like I was supposed to agree with him just taking me with or without any permission.

“Hmph.” He grunted and crossed his arms, “Don’t forget.”

“I won’t!”

“Call me, over the weekend to let me know.”

I nodded, “Okay.”

We were then quiet for a moment feeling the tension grow.

“Was there something else?” I asked.

“Um…” he murmured he looked to be arguing with himself about saying something or not.

“I missed you while you were gone.” I said hoping to make him more comfortable, as he went into a silence of shyness. I’m sure he was trying to say something that to deal with emotional feelings but since he has trouble expressing them he’s hesitant on saying what he wanted, which in turn builds up and becomes anger until he explodes like a shaken up soda bottle.

He looked up at me surprise in his eyes.

“I was really depressed when I found out you got expelled, and I yelled at Amy because she was the one who got you into that fight… Even though you were a little frazzled anyway.” Maybe if I showed him it was okay to say these kinds of things he wouldn’t hold back so much, and he’d be a much happier hedgie.

“Yeah it was mainly my fault… I shouldn’t get so aggravated easily. But I can’t help it…” He sighed his ears twitched back for only a moment, “I really missed you too.” He finished quietly. I smiled even though it was hard for him to admit it was adorable how shy he was about letting me know, and they he let me know anyway! My stomach flew with butterflies tickling at my sides. “You were all I thought about when I was gone. I tried real hard to make it back earlier.”

“I know you tried.” I nodded, “it’s okay. Your back now and nothing else matters.” I put my arms around his neck hugging him tightly. Like his flame of emotions that burned from his inside kept him heated like Bunsen burner. Even though it was fall and closer to winter it wasn’t cold, but just the right temperature and gave a slight chill in the wind. Shadow felt like summer all the time, his warm wrapped around me pressing me closer to him and I wanted to squeal like a fan girl, but of course I didn’t. He laughed slightly; I couldn’t keep my tail from swishing back and forth.

“Well, let’s get back to prison.” He said pulling from the hug.

“Wha?”

“Oh I mean ‘school’.” He shrugged while muttering, “Same difference.”

“Right.” I smiled holding his hand filling the spaces between my fingers with his. We both looked at each other a light blush on our faces before he took out a chaos emerald and chaos controlled us back to school.

“If anyone has a problem with you coming in late with the hall pass, tell them to talk to me.” Shadow grunted dropping me off at my class. “And don’t forget about the trip next week.”

“I won’t!” I said again laughing, “I’ll see you at lunch.”

“If I can stay out of trouble until then.” He smirked turning and walked away.

I opened the door walking into class the awkward stairs walking in front of everyone to the teacher’s desk.

She looked up at me with a frown until I took out the pink slip from my back pack and handed it to her. She never bothered to read it, just took it and started clicking on her computer and then crinkled it up and tossed it in the waste basket.

“Take a seat.” She ordered plainly nodding to my usual spot I sat at.

Wow, that was easy. She didn’t even notice it was a blank hall pass, but just as Shadow said. We are all but a dollar sign, it doesn’t matter where I came from as long I was there to be counted for, and so they could get paid. This whole school thing is beginning to be even more of a bigger bummer than I already thought it was. But it’s Friday, so it’ll be over soon.