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Chapter 1: The Acrobrat Lash
"So, like, Rouge, are you going to Shadow's Halloween Party?" asked a pink hedgehog who went by the name of Amy Rose.
"Duh, Ames. It's going to be the party of the year!" The ivory bat yelled in enthusiasm. "And do you know what the best part will be?"
The Acrobrats leaned in, in a circle, around their alpha.
"Shadow is defs going to kiss me!"
Amy shivered A purple cat, who was also a Acrobrat, rolled her shoulders and widened her eyes.
"What?" Snapped Rouge, obviosly annoyed.
"W-w-well..." Blaze stammered.
Rouge tilted her head to her right, slightly narrowed her eyes, and let her jaw set in a angry posistion. This was her Lash-Look, a look she gave her girls when they were hiding things from her and she knew it. "Tell me or else everyone will suddenly know who you kissed at last summer's FunFest."
Blaze shuddered. If they knew, her life would be over.
Amy giggled under her breath. "Rouge...Shadow already has a...a...a..."
"A what!" Rouge demanded.
"A girlfriend!" Blaze and Amy insisted at the same time. The reason they were so reluctant to tell her was that when she was mad, she took her anger out on them.
Rouge stared blankly at a locker across the halls. "I just cannot believe you guys didn't tell me sooner. Sluts." Rouge turned swiftly away from her clique.
"Wait, Rouge!" Blaze yelled for her leader. Without her she was...just another mindless cheerleader.
"Do you have a thermometer handy?"
What? What kind of question was that? "No..."
"Then why are you all up in my butt?" Rouge laughed, then turned away again. "You're my betas. It's your job to tell me EVERY little bit of gossip your minds can possibly find.
"I'm...sorry." Blaze stammered.
Rouge smiled. She knew the only real thing that made a beta was the fact that THEY were weak enough to apologize. And of course, Blaze would always be a beta at this rate.
Blaze laughed her quaint little laugh. Rouge, of course she thought she was a beta. That's why she kept apologizing. But, she didn't know she was a part of her own clique; The Betr Gurls. Blaze was their alpha, and Tikal and Cream were her betas. The only reason she was part of that hell of a clique, The Acrobrats, was because of their popularity. But someday, The Betr Gurls would be the leading clique of LakeWood; they would have all the boys, like Sonic, Shadow, all of them...and the only reason she had told Rouge the truth about Tikal dating Shadow was so she could slowly destroy her. She would do everything she could to frame the actual culprit (a.k.a. "girlfriend") as Amy. Sure, Ames knew that Shadow was dating some chic, but she didn't know who. After Rouge and Amy got in a major fight over the 'fact' that Amy was dating Shadzy, Rouge would dump Amy for a LBR (Loser Beyond Repair) Clique and run to Blaze. Blaze would slowly grow apart from Rouge, and once Ru-Ru was at the bottom of the LBR heap, then The Betr Gurls could claw their ways to the top. After all, Shadow WAS already dating Tikal.
The only problem...Rouge could hold that kissing-thing against her, because it was true.
Amy Rose was eating lunch in the LakeWood Cafeteria. The day had, so far, been awkward. She was pretty sure Shadow had been flirting with her when he "accidentally" brushed up against her in math. He wasn't perfect, but hey, he was better than that stupid track-star Sonic-guy crush she'd had in 6th grade. Shadow...with his ruby-red eyes...his manly white chest-fur...Sonic had those unsightly leaf-colored eyes and no chest fur. Well, maybe his weren't that unsightly...she still occasionally swooned when she saw them. He would still be a good crush-slash-boyfriend they were still in 6th grade...but Sonic wasn't alpha enough. Wasn't popular enough. If Amy was still that wimpy LBR that she'd been back then, in Elementary School, sure, Sonic would be the perfect BoFo. But they weren't in Elementary School anymore. They were Sophomores in High School.
Sonic would STILL be a awesome boyfriend, most likely. But...she just couldn't sacrifice her popularity for him. She was on the A-List, but he was on the B-List, with Knuckles, the weird-but-kind-of-cool school announcer-slash-rapper.
As if by magic, Knuckles, a.k.a. Knux or Butt-Kickin' Knux, appeared over the loudspeaker. "Yo, dis is Knuckles in da house!" he hollered. The students half-heartedly yelled back. "With the SAT tests coming up, y'all better get down and study-udy-udy!"
The students groaned at Knuckles cheesy rap verse. Amy giggled.
"Now on a hotta matta, we got the best platta, fishsticks are officially banned!" Everyone cheered, in a much more enthusisastic way.
"Aaaaaaand, we all know about our awesome benefit party at Shadow the Hedgehog's house!" Knuckles stopped rapping and started talking normally, but still hyperly.
Everyone looked at Shadow as he blushed his sexy deep red blush.
"Shadow is soooo going with me!" Rouge whispered hyperly to Blaze, pulling her black Ralph Lauren scarf slightly tighter around her neck. "Isn't he?"
"Um...yeah, he is, probably, Rouge."
"Probably?" Rouge raised a waxed eyebrow. "You're joking. I know he will. No matter what so-called-girlfriend he has. When I find who she is, I swear, I will rip that bit - "
"Watch your language, Mrs. Rouge," A lame 10th grade teacher cocked his head in Rouge's direction. Rouge rolled her eyes, turning away from him.
"Uh-huh. I am sure he'll date you. Just got to get them to break up first," Amy acknowleged, smacking her MAC lip gloss on her lips.
"Oh, that is nawt an issue." Rouge's eyes darkened. "I've heard he's the type to cheat anyways."
"Rouge! You don't want to do that."
Rouge glared at Blaze, giving her a don't-you-backsass-me-look.
"Um. Yeah. I do. And I will."
Blaze climbed on top of the table, her knee-high leather boots making a squiiiiiiish noise as she glared down at her betas, the cafeteria lights giving her face an eerie shadow from the angle she was standing.
"I always get what I want."