Pitcher (Sonic High School AU)

First Game

3rd POV

They all were friends. An odd group of people but the seven of them were inseparable. Amy and Sonic have been friends since middle school. He lives right around the corner from Amy and so they have always been able to hang out freely. This also goes with Tails and Cream. The two of them were close friends as well and Tails more specifically was Sonic's best friend. The two were always beside each other.

Amy and Sonic's freshman year, they met Knuckles who got along with them too easily. It was uncanny how well Sonic and Knuckles bonded. Shortly after, Amy met Rouge who intrigued the pink hedgehog with her fashionable looks. The bat was a chill girl who sometimes had an attitude but Amy liked it. Ever since then, the four of them have been friends.

Sophomore year, Tails and Cream are finally in High School and are able to meet the other members of their squad. Sonic and Knuckles the year before were in different sports. Sonic being Track and Knuckles being in Football. Tails ran a tech club after school for people who wanted to build machines out of scraps during their freetime. Amy wasn't interested in doing anything, but joined her Sophomore class representatives in order to help set up their year.

Junior year is when High School life starts to get interesting. Sonic and Knuckles never drifted off from their group, but they definitely expanded their horizons with other people. They became some of the most well known sports players in the grade. Sonic was accepted as Track team leader for his record setting speeds and Knuckles wasn't too far behind with Football. In her classes, Amy was introduced to a new girl names Sally who constantly bragged about her expensive clothes and her expensive car and the fact her father was a billionaire who lived up the city. Amy didn't like her because of her ego. Rouge admired her outfits, and so did Sally, but when Sally asked Rouge to start hanging out with her instead of Amy, the bat declined. "No offence, but i'd rather hang out with genuine people rather than a rich-snoot like you, Hon." is what Rouge said, and embarrassed Sally had continued her business elsewhere. Junior year was the year the last member of their group came and joined. His name was Shadow, and he had relocated to their High School from another. He was already the Baseball captain there and after trying out at their school was formally accepted to replace their current one. Sonic and Knuckles liked the dark hedgehog immediately. They would always talk about how good Shadow was at pitching and how he should go check out their sports games. Amy never got to know Shadow as well that year, but Rouge did. She would tell Amy about him when they skyped or went out shopping over the weekend. Amy would've spent more time with Cream, but Junior year for Amy was a quiet time between them. What she didn't know was that Cream and Tails had been dating since their freshman year. So when Cream would state she was busy with work or other activities, it was because her and Tails were together.

Finally, it is Senior year and the group of friends, how diverse they are, are closer than ever. The first week of school, they all went to watch Sonic compete against their rival school (Shadow's former School) in the Track meet. Sonic won first, helping their school beat the other team and afterwards they all went to Waffle House to get pancakes.

"I swear one of the guys ate, like, ten bugs." Rouge says mid bite. They all laugh.

"Yeah! I saw that guy!" Sonic chuckles, sitting next to Amy with an arm resting above her shoulders on the back of the seat. "When i was running past him, he totally choked a little."

Amy laughs, spitting her orange juice back into her glass and they all laugh harder. People in the diner were giving them side glances but none of them cared about how loud they were being. Some other students were in the Waffle House as well.

"It's crazy how fast you were this match though," Knuckles says across from them, "I bet you hit a new record."

"I won't know until tomorrow, Knux." The blue hedgehog stuffs his face in more pancakes.