First day of school
I wake up to the ringtone I put on my phone, the song I love the most out of my playlist that I gave it its place as my wake up alarm. 'The possibilities…' I get up to turn it off, stretching my back and legs before going to my curtains. Pushing them aside to let the sun shine through the window, I take a breather, letting it out slowly. "It's a good day today." I take myself out to the hallway walking in the bathroom to do my business, when I go back I find a note on my bed along with the close someone put out for me, I pick it up and read it.
'Dear Dark, when you wake up please make sure that you're wearing underwear first, sincerely Shadow.' I hear the door to the bathroom shut, I smile knowing that Shadow would always have my back. I go over to shut the door before getting dressed for the day ahead of me, Shadow had given me the best choice of clothes too. I put on the red shirt with blue stripes and the long blue jeans, even if it's supposed to be over 50 degrees today.
Grabbing my backpack I look in to see if I have all my supplies. "Paper, pencils, folders,...Yup, all set!" I fling it over my shoulders making my way downstairs when I remember something that makes me head back to my room to look under my pillow. "Aha, almost forgot my baby." I kiss my phone, continuing to head down the stairs where I could smell the lovely aroma of breakfast being made. I sit down at the dining table. "Good morning Mom!" My mother turns around with that gorgeous smile she always has.
"Good morning Dark, do you have all your stuff?" "Yes ma'am!" Footsteps are heard coming down, I look over to see my beloved brother Shadow walking down with his bag in hand, he sits down next to me. "Morning Shadow, thanks for putting my clothes out." "If I didn't we would never leave. Morning mother." "Morning Shadow, do you have what you need?" "Yes, except-" "Shadow." My mother walked over handing out our plates to us, we thank her. "We talked about this, you know you're not allowed to bring your gun to school after what happened last time."
"I know, but I think it's essential that I bring my gun for safety purposes." My mother puts her hands on her hips. "I'm pretty sure that there's not gonna be an invasion on the first day of school." "Not after the news." I say silently, she walks back to the oven flipping two more pancakes. "Well I can't now, but two more weeks from now I will." "Two more weeks Shadow, then you can." Another pair of footsteps come down the stairs, coming down is a man in a grey suit with a blue tie that gleams in the light. "Good morning Dad." He looks at me for sometime, that time where it's a look that speaks volumes to me but not others, a look of disappointment mixed with regret and tiredness.
But even when they speak he smiles at me, as if to cover his deception. "Good morning Dark." My real name he calls me by, "Hey Shadow, you're not gonna bring your gun taday right?" "Of course not, I'll keep my end of the agreement." "That's my son," But son he calls Shadow. "So I'm gonna be home late, be good at school, and I'll see you tonight." He says to us, he goes over to Mom and kisses her on the head before walking to the door and shutting it behind him. "You guys should go too, it's almost time for school to start." She was right, looking at the clock I see it's almost 7:30. "Well we're gonna hit the bricks now." I dash to put my plate in the sink after I kiss mom. "See you." Shadow follows behind me. "Have a nice day." "You too, and y'all better behave!" I giver her a thumbs up as I head out the door, Shadow locks it after and we dash for the school. "Dark we don't need to run to school yet, we won't be late." "Well I feel a lil' hyper today." A light bulb hovers over my head, I walk beside Shadow. "Hey Shads, let's race.~" "No, I don't want to be in a sweat puddle when we get there, and don't you-" "Come on, if you win I'll study this week." He puts his hand on his chin. "Make it this month." "Alright, but you have to do my homework if I win!" I get a head start. "You're on."
Sonic's View
I got up from not my alarm, but my brother and sister jumping on my bed yelling. "Wake up, wake up!" "Yeah wake up man!" "If we're late for school I'll give you a wet willie!" "If you do I'm gonna give you a nuggie." I say moving my cover , causing them to fall on me. Sonia climbs over my body sitting on my hip as Manic gets off the bed standing near my feet. "If you don't get up we'll pull you out of bed." I move the cover out of my face and look directly at Sonia. "You wouldn't, you better not." "Try us." She says before Manic grabs my feet and drags me to the floor in seconds. I try to get up but the covers pull me back down, I hear Mani and Sonia laughing as they run down the hall. I crawl out the covers and rest on the floor to catch my breath. "So much for 5 more minutes." I get up, going in my drawers to fish out some jeans and a black shirt.
When I do manage to find my shirt and jeans through the ocean of my drawer, I grab my bag and throw in all the stuff on my desk. I zip it up then go down stairs to find m brother and sister running circles around my mother, she smiles at me when I come down but I know when she does shes saying 'Get your brother and sister together before I go.' So to appease her I grab the both of them by the collar at the same time and pick them off the ground. "Hey what're you doin'?" "Put me down!" "Not until you guys stop acting like hounds." My mother nods her head, going toward the door. "I'm gonna start the car, get your shoes on so we can go." She closes the door after, I set them down and go by the stairs to pick my red and white striped kicks. "Why do you always wear those, it's been 2 years." "I can't believe their not even scratched." Sonia says, as she puts her pink boots on.
"T he same could be said about yours little sis." I say back, remembering how when Sonia first got the boots when she was 11, now she's 13 and hasn't stopped wearing them since. "Ha, gotcha." "You too Manic, you need to clean them." "Hey, I do try. They just don't come out as easy as the juice." "That didn't come out either." Sonia retorts, pointing towards the apple juice stain that he tries to hide away from mom, who til this day hasn't found it yet. "Well let's get a move on guys, unless you want to go out with those ridiculous clown shoes." Despite what my siblings say, my shoes never scuff even in the dirt because I ordered them to be stainless. So even if they're old I can still get away with them being fresh. Manic gives in and kicks his shoes off, going for the black ones we got him last month, Sonia follows by getting her sparkly ones that we also got last week. "Awesome, let's hurry before mom honks the horn." I say, walking past them and holding the door. Sonia's the first out followed by Manic, I grab the keys out the bowl near the door before heading out. After locking the door I hop in the passengers seat and buckle up.
Shadow's View
I slow myself down for Dark's sake, I could easily out run him since his calf is injured but I take it easy so I won't make him think his case is getting worse. "I never knew you could run this fast, you should join track, we could be unstoppable!" Dark jumped a little, almost falling down but regaining his balance. "Like I'd join some sweaty sport." "Mom said you used to play basketball, so what's wrong with running track?" "That was when I was young, they forced me to join." "That's not what the pictures and trophies say." "And doesn't that mean you're good at track too?" Dark pushed forward, slowing his pace down when they were about to walk on school property. "Dark, you know I don't like to have these confusing conversations." "Okay okay, but you owe me a race later." "Can't wait." I slow down to a walk so I can turn the corner to see the school, Ring high.
'What a weird name.' I can recall Dark saying awhile back when mom told us about the school we would be moving to to be closer to work, Dark wasn't really pleased with that but he got over it as time passed. "Still a weird name." He says beside me, walking casually as if he didn't run in the first place. "You good Shadow, you breathin' pretty hard there." "Thanks to you." "Aw don't say that Shads, I did you a favor with those noodle legs of yours." "Look whose talking." I his is thigh to get my point out. "Hey, this is pure muscle don't play with me like that." Dark hits my arm playfully, I push one of the double doors letting Dark pass through first. The halls were decorated poorly in my eyes, and a sign in the middle saying 'Welcome all students!' in bold letters. A line was forming at a table not too far from the entrance.
"So this is where we split huh?" "Why say that?" "Well the paper in big letters does say that sophomores need go upstairs so."Dark motions toward the paper on the poster board, saying exactly that. "Alright, if you're lucky I might have math class with you again." "I could only wish, see you later!" Dark went past the first table and up the stairs, I walk up to the table. "Hello young man, what's your last name?" "Ultium." "Excuse me?" She looks up to me, I clear my throat. "Ultium." She looks down at the papers until she pulls out one. "Here you go, and might I say you have a beautiful name?" "Thank you." I felt my face heat up, I looked away getting out of the and looking at the paper.
"At least my pathway's in this school year." The problem moving here was that one of us wouldn't be able to continue our pathway and have to go into a different one, because Ring high was the only school that was close enough of a walking distance. Sadly again, Dark wasn't able to go back to his pathway of being an architect but accepted to being in Animation. 'At least I can draw what I want on a computer.' He told me as an explanation, seeing the sadness in his eyes of losing the progress he made.
"I have history first, this should be good." "History is good!" A skunk shouted at me from my left, when I look at him he ran down the hall. I take sometime to absorb what just happened, I decide to ignore it for another day and go to my first class.
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