Drive My Soul

- One -

I was already in the elevator by the time I remembered I had forgotten my textbooks. "Shit," I muttered to myself.

I pressed the button to go back to the ninth floor. At least I didn't have to do too much more walking. I had recently developed a deep hatred for walking... mostly because my leg was broken.

The elevator doors opened and I slowly made my way back to my apartment. I unlocked the door and grabbed my textbooks which where on the counter.. Where I had set them just under five minutes ago.

I headed back to the elevator, locking my door on the way out.

My phone suddenly buzzed. I took it out and read the text I had got from Shadow. Meet me at our corner at 8:30. Don't be late.

I looked at the time. It was already twenty minutes past eight. I cursed under my breath. I was going to miss the bus.

Once the elevator stopped, I rushed out of the apartment building as fast as my crutches allowed, only to see the bus turn the corner.

I sighed, fighting off the urge to hit the wall with one of my crutches. I took my phone out and called the only person who would ever consider given me a lift: Cosmo. She drove past the apartment building everyday, so hopefully it wouldn't be too much trouble.

"Hello?" Cosmo's voice said.

"Cosmo, hey, it's Amy. I missed the bus. Can you give me a ride to school?"

"Sure. I'll be a little late, though."

I held in a sigh. Shadow was not going to like this. "That's no problem!"

"Great, I'll be there soon." The line suddenly went dead.

"Bye," I rolled my eyes and put my phone back in my pocket. I walked over to the front steps of the building and sat down, waiting for Cosmo.

Ten minutes later, a green car stopped at the side of the road, just in front of me. Cosmo's green

car. I got up off the dirty steps and into her car. "Thank you so much Cosmo! I don't know what I would have done if you said no."

"Why can't you drive?"

"Look at my leg. Does it look like I can drive?"

She nodded without looking, "it's possible."

"Not for me. I'd probably get my foot stuck in the gas pedal and I wouldn't be able to stop. Then I'd drive off a cliff."

"I don't think there's any cliffs you can drive off of."

"I'd find one."

She raised an eyebrow at me. "How'd you break it?"

"I fell." Story of my life.

"Be more careful."

I nodded, "I can only try."

After a few more minutes of silence, Cosmo pulled up to the school. She stopped the car as close to the doors as she could. "After school, if you want, I can show you how to drive without driving off a cliff."

"Alright, thanks."

She nodded, "I'll pick you up here at three o'clock."

"Okay. See you then," I got out it the car and hobbled off into the school.

"You're late," a voice said from behind me.

I turned around to see Shadow. I smiled, but quickly wiped it off my face when I saw how angry he was. "I'm sorry. I forgot my textbooks, an missed the -"

"You wouldn't be able to show up on time if it would save your life," he growled.

I looked down at the ground. I hated it when he was mad. There was no way to prevent it, though. Even if I had shown up on time, he would have had a reason to yell at me.

"Well, come on. You've made us both late!"

I slowly followed behind him with my head bowed down, as he led the way to our class.

X

I sat down beside Shadow, who was sitting with all his usual friends, at their usual table in the cafeteria. I didn't bother to remember their names. None of them even liked me, and it wasn't like Shadow ever talked about them. We were just strangers who wanted to sit with Shadow, though they probably knew a lot about me.

"Damn, she's hot," Shadow said, checking out some girl.

I rolled my eyes, "you know I'm sitting right here, right?" What guy says something like that in front of his girlfriend?

"So?" he raised an eyebrow at me.

I shook my head, not wanting to get into it. He turned his head back towards the girl and continued to check her out.

"If you don't like it, you don't need to be here," one of his friends said.

I looked over at Shadow to see if he was with or against what his friend just said. He was clearly too busy undressing the girl with his eyes, so I got up. "Alright," I mumbled before turning to walk away.

Unfortunately, yet expected, I bumped into someone. Their drink spilled onto the both of us. I

gasped, "I'm so sorry!"

"Whatever!" the person nearly yelled. He walked off, looking quite pissed off.

I sighed and looked back over at Shadow. He was looking down at his table, shaking his head. His friends suddenly started to laugh, probably at something Shadow said, which was probably about me. I groaned and left.

X

"What's on your mind? You seem... down," I asked Shadow, as we walked out of the school.

"None of your business," he growled.

I frowned. "Alright, sorry for caring?"

He said nothing in response.

"Well... I heard this joke about penguins in Antarctica, want to hear it?" I paused, "wait... crap! I just gave it away."

He sighed.

"What?" I didn't want to know what was wrong, if he was going to lash out at me, but it was sort of my job to ask. Wether I did or didn't ask, he would get mad at me, as usual.

"You can't do anything right, can you?"'

I stopped walking. "Wh-what do you mean?"

"You're never on time. You forget everything. You're the clumsiest person I know. You can't even tell a damn joke!"

"I-I'm sorry."

"Whatever," he began to walk off in the opposite direction.

"Do you want to hang out later?" I called after him. I hated fighting with him. I wanted things to go back to how they were before he became so... mean.

"No."

"Why?"

"Busy."

"Doing what?"

"Chicks."

I felt my heart drop. Ouch. I watched him walk away until he was out of sight.

Something which sounded like a car honking from behind me nearly gave me a heart attack. I turned around to see Cosmo's car, with Cosmo waiting inside. I sighed and climbed in.

"That's your boyfriend?" she asked.

I nodded.

"Why?"

"What do you mean?"

"Did you not hear what he said to you?"

"Did you?"

She rolled her eyes as she started to head back to my place. "Amy, I don't know you that well, but you can't let anyone talk to you like that. That's just... wrong."

"It was just a fight. No big deal."

"It takes two to fight. He flat out put you down. That's kind of a big deal."

"It doesn't -"

"He's only going to get worse as time goes on. Leave him while you can."

I sighed, ending the conversation.

A few minutes later, we were back at my house.

I led Cosmo to where my pink car sat. "I don't think this is a good idea."

"Relax, Amy. The chances of your foot getting stuck are so slim. It's almost impossible," she opened my car for me.

"Almost. I can make that quite possible."

"Just focus on living, alright?"

I sighed ad got in the car, "alright."

"Now, just put your foot over here," she leaned in the car, and carefully moved my broken leg out of the way. "That doesn't hurt, does it?"

I shook my head.

"Good! If you don't move it, you should be good."

"Thanks. I think I'll stick to taking the bus for now, but I'd I need to use this, I guess, it's possible."

She nodded, "have some more faith in yourself. Don't let Shadow bring you down."

I sighed.

"I get it, sorry. I'll go now."

"Alright... Thanks for everything."

"Not a problem," she waved as she walked back to her car.

X

I looked at the clock hanging on my wall. It was only five o'clock. I sighed. Time was gong by so

slowly. I didn't know it was possible to be this bored.

If I could walk, I would go for walk in the park, but that wasn't exactly possible.

I looked back at the wall. Only one minute had passed. "Ugh!"

My leg was not about to cause me to die of boredom. I got up and headed to my car. If I couldn't go for a walk, I'd go for a drive. Maybe I'd end up somewhere interesting.

I got in my car and started driving slower than usual, and extra carefully. With my recent bad luck, I really would drive off a cliff.

I ended up at a park. It was completely empty, which was nice. There wouldn't be any unwanted noises or stupid people. I laid down on a bench and looked up at the clouds. They were so beautiful. They were moving pretty fast.

I tried to make out a shape in the clouds, but didn't have much luck. I managed to see one bunny ear, a long tail, and a long, thin body. It didn't look like anything, though.

Suddenly I heard a familiar voice. I sat up and looked around. In the middle of the park was Shadow and that girl he was checking out earlier. I didn't think he meant it when he said he was going to be 'doing chicks.'

"Shadow?" I called out, standing up.

Shadow turned around, looking like he had just been caught robbing a bank. He quickly covered it up with anger. He turned back around, ignoring me.

"Who's she?" the girl asked.

"I don't know," he muttered.

"Shadow," I repeated, walking over to them with my crutches.

He shot me a warning look. I knew I was pissing him off, possibly ruining his chances with the girl, but I didn't care. I would live if he did this stuff without me knowing, but not when I did know. That just wasn't okay.

"Why is she following us?" the girl stopped walking, looking at Shadow.

"What do you want!" he snapped at me.

"What are you doing?"

"We're on a date," the girl answered.

A million things ran through my mind as she said those words, but I was too focussed on separating them than anything else. "Why are you on a date with my boyfriend?"

"Boyfriend? Shadow, is this true?"

He growled at me in response.

"I can't believe this!" the girl threw her hands up in the air before walking off.

"What the hell, Amy!" Shadow yelled.

"You're on a date with another girl!"

"So what?"

"You're cheating! How would you like if it I dated another guy?"

Shadow took a step towards me so he was right in front of my face. "You will never date another guy."

"Then why can you?"

"No one owns me, that's why."

"You don't own me."

"We'll see about that," he turned around and began walking off, probably to go try and get that girl back. "And we're over!" he yelled.

I sighed. Just once I would like to win. Was that too much to ask?

I headed back to my car. So much for peace in the park.

About twenty minutes after I got home, my phone beeped. I picked it up from the table and read the text. Amy, we're back together.

I growled at my phone. Shadow had to stop doing this. I was tired of being on and off with him.

"Shadow, I just... I hate it here," I cried into his chest.
"It'll be okay, Amy," he held me tightly in his arms. "I'll make sure it is."
"What're we going to do?"
"Whatever it takes," he kissed my forehead.

I wiped a tear away from my eye, and sighed. What went so wrong?

A/N: Lalala, another story...

I'm a little insane.

Anyways, poor Amy.

Stupid Shadow, what an ass.

SonAmy will be happening soon... very soon[;

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