Amy Rose tripped over a stack of in the middle of the living room, bumped her knee against corner of the coffee table, and dropped a two of the choa fruit on the floor. '' Ouch my leg! she howled. '' This place is a freakin' mess! Her two chaos, Haley and Bell, flied beneath the table.
Nancy, Amy's mother came out of her room carrying a small mirror and a briefcase. She peered at her reflection as she walked, carefully examining the lipstick she had just put on. '' Stop your whinin baby. Just straighten things up before you leave for school. I'm not going to be late for work.'' '' I'm not going to school today,'' Amy declared. She waited to see if her mother would get angry and insist that she go. Amy was a freshman at Station Square High School (S.S.H.S.) and even though it was only October, she had already missed several days of school. '' You better go to school, baby,'' her mother said, touching up on her eye make up. '' If you don't drop out, you'll end up like me a CEO's assisstant leading to something. This is the kinda life you wanna have, sweety. Believe me on that. By the way, if Scourge calls, tell him I'm off work at 9:30. Bye honey.''
Amy heard a thud as her mother closed the front door of their big house. Haley, a white flying type angel chao, flown warily from under the table, followed by Bell, a pink angel chao. Dust from under the table stuck to there delicately to each angel chao's head. Amy washed the girl chao's heads, picked up the fruits, and walked into the kitchen.
Haley and Bell flying quickly behind her.
'' Mom doesn't really care if I go to school,'' Amy pouted, grabbing the chao fruit '' All she cares about is Scrouge and whether or not she puts the right gunk on her face, right. The angel chao stared for a moment and hugged her with it's little hands around her leg. Haley and Bell were Amy's best friends. She told them everything. They were there for her whenever she was lonely or needed someone to talk to. It was more than she could say for Mom, Amy thought.
'' I ain't going anywhere today, Haley, I'm stayin' right here and watchin' talk shows all day. I don't care what Mom says,'' Amy said, giving the fruits to the chaos.
Just then the doorbell rang.'' Who is it ?,'' Amy cried, walking towards the door. '' It's me open up Amy,'' a familiar voice opened the door to find Blaze the Cat, another S.S.H. freshman, staring at her.'' Amy'' Blaze shouted. '' Girl, what're you doing in your pajamas ? It's time to go to school. '' Well I'm not going to school,'' Amy said firmly. '' Why don't you never cut ?'' '' Because it's wrong, Amy !,'' Blaze said. '' We can go to the mall, and we can go get pizza at '' Chester's Hut, we can choose-'' '' Amy ! Please, get it together !,'' Blaze said, walking into the house. '' You need to put on some clothes and come to school. Please, don't keep this up,you are gonna be so far behind that your not going to do nothing but fail.'' '' You don't understand-'', Amy replied, looking down at her orange slippers on her feet.
'' I understand you have to get back on track,'' Blaze replied. '' Remember in Darlington Middle School, said you were such a great singer you could be famous singer all around countries or states ? How are you gonna be a famous singer be a singer if you don't go to school ? '' Amy shrugged. '' I can't hang around around all day, Blaze. It gets boring. Who cares anyway. My mom wouldn't mind if I quit school. Were just wasting our years in school. None of us goin' anywhere.''
'' Amy, you are crazy,'' Blaze said,grabbing on Amy's arm. '' My older sister, Skylar, is already planning to go to college, her friend, Raven also. I'm starting to plan for college and so can you. But first you have to get up and change into some clean clothes and go to school.
'' Blaze please leave me alone,'' Amy insisted. '' Cut school with me today,'' Amy moaned. '' If you don't wanna go to the Mall, then we can go to Lizzie's music shop we can pick out some of our favorite music and-''
'' I'm gone,'' Blaze snapped. '' I'm not going to stay over and watch you waste your life away.'' Blaze stormed towards the doorway. '' When you want to do something with your life, call me,'' she said running out the door and slamming it behind loud slam of the was followed by quietness. Amy moved to the window and watched Blaze hopped into the car with few other S.S.H. students in there driving off. Part of her wanted to join them and go to school, but the other part of her wanted her to stay this way. Not like Blaze and her classmates, Amy felt foreign and out of place in school. Her teachers classmates often said she was '' beautiful and shy,'' but Amy knew she was different.
Walking away from the window, Amy grabbed the books on the floor from the living room and stackedthem neatly on the coffee table. Then she picked a pile of clean clothes she had left sitting on the living room love seat since yesterday. '' These smell like apple peach !'' As Amy rambled throw the pile of clothes and found something she wants to wear today after she took a shower and pull out light blue jeans and green tank top. Glancing around the living room, Amy focused on the portrait of her mother that sat on the coffee table. Scourge, her mother's boyfriend, was also in the portrait, his arm resting on her shoulder like a snake. Only three months old, the portrait captured her white flawless skin, quills, and great is pretty, Amy thought, and I took after her mother was long, curvy,attractive, and Amy is tall,beautiful, of her mother had always been jealous, but even notice how hotter she gets.
The only person who did not seem concerned with Amy's looks and feelings was Scourge. ''Are you sure she's your momma ?,''he asked Amy when he began dating her mother last Amy first met him, he was sitting at the living room couch, gold chains jangling around his neck, black leather jacket,and a evil smirk on his face. ''You nothin like ya momma,'' he had said.''She is what a guy would call one hot chick.'' Since then, Amy did her best to ignore Scourge, but it wasn't easy. Often he said things that made her feel worse about her good looks, but he always did it out of Mom's earshot, calling Amy '' Ugly Beast'' and flaring his nose to taunt her. Whenever Amy asked him to ask him to cut it out, he would in laugh in her face. Once, he even did an squeaky voice in a imitation of her soft voice. In August, Amy's mother announced that she and Scourge were '' serious '' and since then, she spent most of her free time with him. In the rare moments Mom was home, all she could talk about was Scourge. Amy cringed each time she heard his name. It seemed to her that Scourge was gradually taking over her mother's life. Worse, it appeared as if that was exactly was what Mom wanted.
Alone in the big house, Amy sat on her big bed watching her flat screen where was a PS3, Wii, XBox 360, nintendo 3dsi, and PSP, since her mom has a job that pays alot of money her mom can afford almost on the TV with the ever since her mom has been dating Scourge she spends less things on her and more dresses for herself to impress Scourge. Amy began flipping through the channels when she heard the doorbell ring. Annoyed, she walked out of her room and to the door. '' Who is it ?'' '' Mrs. Vanilla Rabbit, honey,'' came a familiar voice. Vanilla lives next 's the mother of Cream the Rabbit, one of Amy's friends since kindergarten, Amy over heard tell a neighbor that her father died in a car accident when Cream was 9 years old. Amy opened the door. '' Hi Mrs. Vanilla.''
'' Child, I heard your TV goin', so I figured you were home. I was worried about you. '' Are you supposed to be in school ?,'' Mrs. Vanilla asked,'' '' I got cramps,'' Amy lied, rubbing her stomach. '' Poor thing ! I'll make some tea that'll soothin for that, I will make some if you like,'' she offered. '' No thanks. Ijust taken something. I'll feel better soon,''Amy said,smiling. Vanilla stared at her for a moment. Amy braced herself for criticism about not being in school. But then the 34 year old women begin to smile.
'' Child you have the beautifuliest eyes Iever did see,'' she said '' Me ?'' Amy said, stunned.'' You must be thinkin' of my 's got prettier eyes than my-'' '' I never noticed before that you have beautifuliest jade green eyes, Amy,'' added.
''People say my eyes are not good.'' '' All boys say my eyes aren't beautiful just my looks.''Mrs. Vanilla grabbed hold of Amy's shoulders and looked into her eyes. Child, your eyes are beautiful, and don't you forget that. Pay no attention to what people say about daughter Cream tells me that some of those kids at that school can be downright nasty sometimes. It's like I tell her when they start talkin' it's nonsense, you just stop listenin'.Let them call you names. But it's you who's got the beautiful eyes around, not them. Remember that.'' '' Some people need to see their own beauty they can believe they got it,'' she said,smiling. Mrs. Vanilla said goodbye and headed back to her house.
Amy hurried to the living room and grabbed the small mirror and stared into it. She stood for a long time, moving her face in close for a better look. Her beautiful jade green eyes stared back at Vanilla mean what she said, or was she being nice? Amy wondered. Leaving the TV on, Amy jumped off her bed and taking the clothes from the couch into her dresser. Folding them in Amy found a pair of black jeans and tube tops, one black and the other dark purple.
'' Maybe i'll go to school wearing one of these tube tops tommorrow, she thought. Probably not, but if she felt like it in the would sometimes would seem to care what excuses Amy use to skip school, Amy practically dictated them, always remembering to vary the made up ailments. She used headaches until a mean nasty teacher started pushing to a doctor. She then stared cramps and fevers to her list of sicknesses. As Amy thought about going back, she again recalled what Mrs. Vanilla said about her having '' the beautifuliest eyes.'' '' I guess my eyes are beautiful,'' she said into the mirror.
On the Julie Jinson's show, two men who were married to the same women were yelling at each show kepted bleeping out bad words flying between them , and when they started fighting eachother, the audience went wild. Everybody was laughing and cheering. But Amy didn't pay attention to the show. She was still staring in the mirror, trying out different expressions to see how they changed the look of her eyes. Maybe she was all good looking,she thought. With almost every guy wanting her, she didn't think she looked ugly as Scourge said. And she had gorgeous face than any other girl in the school.
Suddenly the house phone rang. She put the mirror down,went into the livingroom, and answered it.
'' Hello,'' she said '' Yo, who's this?'' a familiar deep voice replied. '' It's me,'' Amy answered. ''Oh Ugly Beast,'' Scourge said.'' How come you home? You get suspended for messin' up at the school again.'' '' I never been suspended,'' Amy corrected him sharply. '' And stop calling me that.'' Scourge laughed. He always laughed when he upset could imagine him on the other end of the line smiling in satisfaction at how he managed to insult her.
'' C'mon, Ugly Beast. Where's your momma ?,'' he asked, still laughing. '' Itold you to quit calling me that,'' she wished she could reach into the telephone and wrapped the cord around his neck. '' Girl, your such an ugly beast,'' Scourge went on in between bursts of cackling laughter,'' when the doctor delivered you, he mistaken you for a monster.'' Amy slammed down the phone. In a matter of seconds the phone rang again. She went back to her room to turn up her TV volume to drown out the ringing. One of men on the Julie Jinson show had a knife, and he looked as if he was about to attack the other with it. Maybe it was all an act, but the hate in the boy's face seemed real. It was same hatred Amy felt for Scourge. Amy fantasized about being on the show with Scourge Hedgehog. She imagine herself grabbing the gold chains he hung around his neck and pulling it so tight his dark blue eyes bulged out. The kepted ringing. '' I ain't gonna answer you. You can't make me.'' Amy smiled because for once she had power. Scourge was fuming somewhere,and he could not do a thing about it. Ignoring the phone's periodic ringing, Amy picked up the mirror again and repeated the words that had said. '' Beautifuliest eyes...Beautiful jade green eyes.''
Mrs. Vanilla wasn't the one who thought she was special. Alot of guys felt one emotion towards her that's love.
End of chapter 1
