The power inside me [Silver the Hedgehog FF]

~Chapter 14~

Time passed. It felt like hours Silver sat on the floor wishing that the pain would finally go away.

The tears were flowing down his face. His life was going downhill and there was nothing he could do about it.

Silver knew that he just had to confess everything, but how was he going to do that, when even the slightest thought of it made him so afraid?

He was so afraid of not being accepted. What if they all thought he was a monster if he told them about his powers? What if those he loved so much, suddenly hated him?

His friends were not forced to remain friends with him. They could just go and leave the gray hedgehog.
And exactly this thought gave him stomach ache.

He didn't want to lose his friends. Neither did he want to lose his family.

What if his family didn't accept him anymore? They could just...give him away, right? After all, theoretically, he didn't belong in her family. They had adopted him, but he was not related by blood. So who said they had to keep taking care of him?

More tears appeared in his eyes and they blurred his vision even further. He just wanted this to stop.

Why did he have to have been born with a power? His life was great, Scourge excluded, even without the ability that just destroyed everything he had build up.

Slowly he was feeling better, so he carefully got up and turned to the mirror behind him.

His look in the mirror frightened the gray hedgehog terribly. The fur dull from the stress, that exerted on the young hedgehog, hiseyes had lost their shine and were red from the tears he had already shed today.

Silver sighed heavily and looked at the door. Before he disappeared, however, he turned on the tap and splashed a load of cold water on his face. It made him think more clearly, at least a little, but didn't stop him from living out his idea and just leaving school.

After checking on himself in the mirror again, Silver turned and headed for the door. He opened it carefully. First he peeked out to make sure no one was walking down the corridor.

Since he couldn't see anyone, the gray hedgehog stepped out of the boys' restroom and hurried down the hall. Always on the lookout that he was all alone.

Just before he reached the main entrance, Silver stopped and hid behind a pillar.

Sonic and Shadow sat on a bench in front of the main entrance, both completely fixated on their phones. But not even Silver was naive enough to believe, that the two of them would not notice if he snuck past them.

Why, for chaos sake, weren't they in class? Were they skipping?

The gray hedgehog shook his head. No, they would never do that. Shadow wasn't the type and Sonic? Even if he tried, the black hedgehog would stop his friend and force him to come to class.

It was all the more dangerous for Silver. He couldn't sneak past the two teenagers, as they would notice him immediately.

So it was time to turn around and use the side entrance. He could only be lucky if nobody saw him.

So the gray hedgehog turned and crept away. But not without bumping into the garbage can, which had once again been carelessly kicked around in the hallway.

Upon hearing the loud noise, the two hedgehogs looked up immediately, so Silver had to act quickly and hid behind another pillar.

He prayed that the two of them hadn't seen him and just stared at their phones again like nothing had happened. Basically, it was none of their business who was walking through the school building and why.