Hello, all! I hope very much that you are enjoying my Shadtails fic, Puberty Sure Does Suck! I'm afraid I've hit a writer's block for that one, rather hard, so don't expect another update of that too soon, unfortunately... However! This fic will be updated quickly and easily, I'm sure! I'm not sure where I'm going with it, but I'll be going there quickly. Before we begin, however, I'd like to explain to you some of the elements I use in my writing:

Italicized words: This will either mean emphasis or someone's exact thoughts. Surely you are smart enough to figure out which is which, right?

(*!/0\!*): This will mean a skip in time. Isn't it pretty?

"...": I really shouldn't have to tell you this much.

"...'...'...": The apostrophes inside the quotation marks will symboloze someone quoting another in their speech. This is not used very often, but I think I'll be using it a few times.

ALL CAPS: Extremely loud speech. If it's italicized, that means it's earsplitting.

(page break: ...): Transitions between my pre- and post-chapter commentary, dialogue, etc. and the actual story. This might change to something different later on, but right now, it's what I'll do.

That... ought to cover it. If you have any questions, send me a private message, or if you don't use that, or don't have an account, leave a comment and I'll reply to it before the next chapter begins. Well, here we go!

NOTE: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfiction, except for Snowe and Scarlet. Aidan belongs to GivenAnythingButLove, and all other characters (unless notified by me) are under the ownership of SEGA and Sonic Team.

(page break: Yesterday I dropped pie on my living room floor! I had to clean it up with paper towels! I got another piece, though! PURPLE!)

Snowe the snow leopard sat behind the wheel of an old, purple, slightly beat-up Chevrolet, his bottom lip clamped between his teeth as he stared intently out the windshield.

"Alright, Snowe," the snow-white leopard said to himself with a rather distinct English accent, "you're not going to die. It's only your first day of college. You'll be okay. It's only... the most prestigious college in the middle east..." I'm not helping myself this way...!

"Goddamn it, just go!" Snowe suddenly screamed at himself. He shoved his key into the slot and quickly turned it, letting go of it as soon as the engine revved. He pulled out of his driveway and started to drive down the street, all the while focusing intently on the road. He kept a steady speed, the needle on his speedometer barely moving a millimeter from the sixty-five kilometers per hour mark.

After about half an hour of driving, Snowe finally pulled up at a large school campus. He found a good place to park his truck and then got out, beginning to walk to the front office.

"Hello," he said to the female coyote at the desk when he arrived.

"Yes, sir, what do you need?" she asked.

"Might you have my class schedule?"

"I do believe I do. May I have your name?"

"Snowe Flake."

The receptionist nodded before she began going through one of her filing cabinets. Snowe waited patiently as she looked through all of the tabs, the door opening behind him just as she found Snowe's file.

"Here you are," the receptionist said, holding out a small stack of papers to him.

"Thank you very much," Snowe said, taking the papers as a red-furred fox with bright blue eyes walked up beside him.

"Hello," she said to the receptionist as Snowe looked through his papers, absentmindedly walking out of the small office.

Snowe was gazing so intently enough at his map of the campus that he didn't notice the ebony black hedgehog in front of him until they had already collided and Snowe was sitting on the hard pavement.

"Oh, pardon me, I wasn't paying attention," he said as he looked up at the hedgehog's face. Once their eyes met, however, Snowe was speechless.

"Don't worry about it," the hedgehog said in a charmingly deep voice. He held out a muscular hand to the leopard, which was happily taken, the hedgehog pulling Snowe up from the ground.

"I-... er...," Snowe stammered nervously. "Thanks..."

"You're welcome," he said, beginning to walk off.

"Uh, wait!" Snowe cried out, making the hedgehog turn again.

"Yes?"

"Er... I'm Snowe." He held out his hand.

"Shadow." He did not shake the hand, which was quickly and embarrassedly brought back to the leopard's side. "If that's all you wanted..."

"Um... it was..."

Shadow walked away. Snowe stared after him stupidly.

Oh, my god, I've never seen anyone so gorgeous! Snowe thought. He stared at the fleeting hedgehog until he was no longer in sight, at which point he realized he had been frozen in place for a full four minutes. He mentally shook himself and then looked at his map of the campus again, finding the boys' dorm building. He walked back to the parking lot and got out his two suitcases before heading toward the dorms.

Once at the dorm building, Snowe set his suitcases down and looked through his papers for his dorm number. "Ah, dorm number... twenty-one A," he said aloud, picking up his suitcases again and walking down the long row of doors. He watched all the numbers on the doors intently. 13J... 14H... 15E... finally down to 20Z, followed directly by 21A. Snowe smiled at his lucky number before opening the door to the room. He set his suitcases down by the nearest bed and turned to leave the room, looking at his schedule. He noticed that his first class was Calculus 2 (he had taken his first course in his senior year of high school). "Heh... I get to show off in the early hours of the day...," he said to himself as he began to walk out of the building.

Snowe walked across campus to the main building, inside of which he found many a row of lockers, dozens upon dozens of hallways, and hundreds of classrooms.

"I... am definitely going to need to use my map for a few days...," Snowe thought aloud as he walked down the hall. He looked for room number 403 as he walked down the many hallways for what felt like hours. Once he finally found it, the final bell was just beginning to ring. He quickly found a seat near the middle of the room next to the red-furred fox he had seen in the front office earlier that morning.

"Hello," she whispered to Snowe in a friendly way. "My name is Aidan. What about you?"

"Snowe," he replied with an equal amount of friendliness. "It's nice to meet you."

She giggled a little. "I like your accent."

Snowe smiled a little. "Thank you."

"Alright, class," the racoon up front said, "let's begin."

(*!/0\!*)

Snowe trudged tiredly down the hall of the dorm building, his shoulder-length hair dripping with sweat.

"Damned Physical Education," he muttered to himself. "My hatred of it will never die down, I'm sure of it..."

He looked up at the door and saw that he had reached his room. He walked over to the door and opened it lazily.

"Why, hello again," a painfully familiar voice said, freezing Snowe in place. He looked up to see Shadow the hedgehog smiling crookedly at him, stunningly beautiful, just as before.

(page break: ! PSYCHIATRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! LANGUAGE ARRRRRRRRRRRRTS! THE AMAZING PURPLE NINJA!)

Alright, so there you have it! Chapter one completed! I do hope very much you enjoyed it! If I were you, I'd expect another installment before this weekend is over, but no promises... By the way, expect most of my updates to be on weekends. I DO have school, you know. Anyways, thanks to all of you for reading! I'll try my best to update as soon as possible! Goodbye to you all until next time!

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