The Big Dance
Chapter One
Man, I'm starting new stories a lot now...Jayln belongs to Sil, Gahlik belongs to Gahlik, Kai is owned by Kai, and I own Vinny.
Man...no boy ever asks a girl to the dance until a few days beforehand...I mean, it gets a little embarrassing asking a girl, knowing how you feel about her...I'll probably go alone or something this year, last year was really embarrassing. I asked a girl, and she screamed, shouted 'HELLO NO!', kicked me between the legs, and ran off! It can't get much worse then that...but now that I'm in a gang with Shadow, Knuckles, Espio, Kai, and Jayln, this should be very interesting...especially if Sonic's gang of Sonic, Tails, Charmy, and Amy help embarrass us all the more...
Vinny's thoughts regarding the school dance coming up...
It was a cold, dark, rainy day. All of the students at Station Square High were inside, for none of them wanted to get wet. Everyone was inside the big auditorium, sitting. Or, almost everyone. A green hedgehog was leaning back against a wall towards the front of the room on the left side. He was listening to music that was coming from the camouflage iPod that he hid in his long, black cloak. Next to him was a black hedgehog who was leaning back on the wall as well, his crimson eyes looking at the ceiling.
"Can you feel life, slippin' through your mind? Oooooh, but you came back for more, yea-ea-eah! Can you feel time, slippin' down your spine? Oooooh, but you came back for more! But you can hardly swallow!..." sang Vinny quietly. Shadow was bored, and secretly wished that Kai, or Jayln, or Espio, the other members of his gang, were there as well. That way, he didn't have to put up with Vinny's annoying singing, even if he was a good singer.
"Live and Learn! Hangin' on the edge of tomorrow! Live and Learn! Looks like the words of yesterday-a-ay. Live and Learn! You'll feel better if you follow! Live and Learn! You may never find your wa-ay-ay... Hey Shadow, looks like the others are here, coming from the entrance." Vinny said, finally stopping his singing. Sure enough, an onyx hedgehog was entering the auditorium, holding the door open for a whitish-blondish hedgehog behind her. Jayln had her hair in a ponytail, as usual, and her eyes were searching the room.
"Hey Shadsie, Vinny!" Jayln exclaimed. She ran over to them, Kai right behind her. Shadow was slightly embarrassed from being called 'Shadsie' I front of the rival gang, but he got over it. Sonic, sporting a pair of black shades, was leaning against the far wall. His blue fur shone in the sunlight, and next to him, Tails was sitting on the ground. Charmy was flying near the ceiling of the room, with Amy watching him, annoyed.
"Let's just hope that Gahlik joins our gang and not Sonic's..." Kai said, pointing at a black echidna with yellow streaks who was sitting in the middle of the crowd in his own personal seat. Vinny saw a poster that was plastered on the far wall, and he gasped.
"They're having a dance next week, the End-of-the-Year dance? But everyone goes to those, and odds are something weird will happen to me like last year..." Vinny said. Shadow looked at the poster, and shivered when he remembered last year's dance...
"This is the worst day of my life...and trust me, I've had pretty bad days..." Shadow mumbled to himself. He was at the dance, and was actually dancing...somewhat. His partner, Jayln, was actually guiding him, but he didn't care. Just so long as he could get away, and Vinny paid him the five bucks for doing this, he'd be alright...
Shadow's memory of last year...
"Hey Vinny, you still owe me five bucks from last year!" Shadow exclaimed. Vinny shrugged. Espio suddenly appeared right above Shadow, and fell on top of him.
"Ouch...that was weird..." Espio said as he stood up, wiping dust off of himself. Shadow stood up, and glared at Espio.
"Well, this should be interesting...I bet either Sonic or Gahlik will go with Amy to the dance...Rouge'll probably ask Knuckles, if she didn't already, and both Kai and Jayln'll ask you, Shadow. That just leaves Espio, that sugar-high weirdo Charmy, that flying fox Tails, and myself. This'll be a long week..." Vinny said. Espio nodded in agreement.
"Hey it could turn out different. Maybe Kai'll ask you instead of me, Vinny." Shadow said, smirking.
"Heh heh, uh, no. She's too obsessed with you anyways." Vinny said. Espio looked at the two of them.
"Why does it matter to you so much? A real ninja doesn't care about dances or anything like that..." Espio said.
"Reality check, they're not ninja." Kai said. Jayln nodded, and the two of them left to find a plan to get Shadow to go to the dance with them.
"Ten bucks says they're finding a way to get you to dance with them, Shadow." Vinny said. Shadow nodded, and Vinny turned the iPod back on.
"He should sing that song for the talent show...he's not half bad." Espio said. Shadow looked at Espio, his right eye twitching.
"We all dance in fire under this machine! Don't know how long we've waited as the Eggman watche-e-e-e we all dance in fire under this machine! Don't know how long we've waited as the Eggman watches..." Vinny sang.
"Okay, that does it." Shadow said, attempting to grab the iPod. Espio stopped him with a simple kunai knife.
"C'mon, it's not like he's singing something weird..." Espio said. Shadow sighed, and withdrew his hand.
"Team Chaotix, sworn detectives you want on your si-i-ide. Team Chaotix..." Vinny trailed on. Espio's right eye started twitching.
"Okay, now that's the last straw." Espio said, before slitting the wire that connects the headphones to the iPod. Vinny kept on singing.
"He memorized it? That's sad. That's really, really sad." Espio said, before walking away. Shadow rolled his eyes before elbowing Vinny. He stopped singing abruptly.
"Shadow, who do you plan on going to the dance with?" Vinny asked sassily, raising his right eyebrow. Shadow looked around, before whispering something into his ear. A look of deep surprise crossed Vinny's face.
Outside of the school, in their house that they shared, both Kai and Jayln were devising schemes to make Shadow theirs.
"WHHAAAAAAT? YOU'RE PLANNING ON ASKING HER?" they heard Vinny exclaim from the school. It was so loud, all the windows shattered, deer stopped to look at the school, the rain froze, and some old man opening a syrup jar went deaf.
"It's times like this I feel surrounded by idiots, which I usually am. Yes, I plan on asking her." Shadow said. Vinny shrugged, and Sonic rolled over. He was now wearing a black, jean jacket and his quills were slicked back.
"You look like a gangster from the 1970's" Vinny said. Sonic shrugged, before glaring.
"You better keep that friend of yours, Gahlik, from asking Amy to go to the dance. If you don't, there's going to be biiiiiig trouble." Sonic said in a fake gangster accent, before walking back over to Tails. Finally, the rain stopped, and everyone started exiting the school. Gahlik pulled Amy over to a wall, and whispered to her. She nodded, and Gahlik whooped.
"See you at 6 o'clock next Friday then!" Gahlik exclaimed. Shadow and Vinny froze. Gahlik walked over, and grinned.
"Please tell me that you did not just ask Amy out to the dance." Vinny said. Gahlik nodded, and Vinny started banging his head on one of the chairs.
"Sonic was planning on asking her, and now he'll go and start a fight against you or something!" Shadow exclaimed. Gahlik shrugged, and walked off.
"He really is weird!" Shadow exclaimed. Vinny looked at Shadow with mock astonishment.
"You figured that out all by yourself?" Vinny said sarcastically. There was a loud bang, and Shadow walked away, angrily. Vinny was struggling to get his head out of the floor before all the blood rushed to his head.
"How to ask her, how to ask her..." Shadow whispered to himself as he walked home.
"How to ask him, how to ask him..." Both Kai and Jayln were muttering to themselves as they waited outside Shadow's house.
Yeah, that's Chapter One. Kai, Sil, you're going to have to tell me who you want to go to the dance with, and more likely then not who gets Shadow, unless it's another girl he's talking about...
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