Summary: Amy is forced to leave most of her childhood friends at Emerald Beach Middle School to attend Station Square Middle/High School. She's afraid no one will accept her for who she is and afraid she'll fall in love with the wrong person again.

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog or all related characters...sadly. T-T I do own any characters that do not seem familiar of the Sonic World, unless I say they belong to someone else.

- Caitlynn is one of my characters. :)

Though Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters are not mine, I control them as I wish. I'm sorry in advance if they seem OOC.

A Few Pairings:

Shadow x Amy x Sonic (( Sonic has gained my respect for him. Thanks to Brawl! x3 ))
Knuckles x Rouge
Tails x Cream x Charmy

-- There will be a mix of pairings, since this is set in middle and high school. :) But these are a bit of the main pairings, I suppose.

MissChanDoII -- Okay, perhaps making another fanfiction would slow me down on typing up Sudden Change. Don't fret, my awesome readers, I need a break from SC until this Writer's Block passes. I have a few ideas for this new story, and it'd be better if I jot down my ideas and create this story. .-. (( That's a face...if you didn't know. xD )) On with the story!

Flashback

"W-What?"

"I'm sorry, hun, but I signed you up to go to Station Square Middle School for seventh grade until your Senior year."

"Since when?! Why didn't you tell me?!"

"I didn't want you to be sad during your stay at Emerald Beach, so I waited until sixth grade was over."

"N-No...Auntie, I want to stay at Emerald Beach until I'm in eighth grade! I don't want to leave my friends! I won't make any friends at that new school..." Amy cried, distraught.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry, but you have to. You were already accepted and we can't take it back. I'm truly sorry, Amelia."

End Flashback

Tears. All Amy could remember for the rest of that horrid day was tears. Especially when she broke the news to her best friend, Frannie.

XXX

Chapter 1 - New Everything.

"I don't know, Cream..."

"C'mon, Amy! You look amazing!"

Amy was staring at the outfit that Rouge bought for her in the mirror. A red t-shirt with a black rose patch sewn at the bottom right corner, black skinny jeans, and red ballet flats. For accessories, a red bangle clasped around her right wrist and a small black digital clock watch on her left wrist.

"Alright, it's okay, I guess."

"Heehee, now for your hair!"

"Damnit!"

After minutes of screaming, tears, and clumps of hair stuck in the hair straightener and hairbrush, Amy's quills we're now straight, her black tipped bangs covering her right eye slightly.

"Cream, I bet no one will like me. With the way I dress, I bet I'll drive them away."

"Gosh, stop thinking so negative! You'll gain more friends than back at Emerald Beach!"

"Mmfff..."

Amy's aunt (( The woman that broke the horrible news to Amy! T-T )) now lives in Metropolis, thanks to her boyfriend. Amy now lives with Cream and Rouge, friends from Station Square Elementary that were also going to SSMH. (( Station Square Middle/High, just in case. o.o ))

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"We're here!" Rouge yelled enthusiastically as they got off the school bus.

Amy remembered something and rummaged through her backpack, hysterical. "I-I don't have a report cover for my English paper!"

"Just quickly go get one from the Student Store! The orientation for us seventh graders is gonna start soon, Ames!" (( Everyone should be the same age in this fic. It's just a way to make things easier for me, okay? ))

"Oh, fine!"

Rouge sighed, "I'll meet you there, 'kay, girls?"

"Alright!" the pink hedgehog and light brown rabbit said in unison, both running towards the Student Store.

Amy finally purchased her report cover and the two quickly rushed to the Auditorium to find their seats. When they reached the entrance doors, they spotted a white head among the somewhat empty rows of wood seats. The girls made a beeline towards Rouge and sat down on either side of her. "What took you so long?!"

"Seniors were buying candy..."

"What the...Oh never mind. We weren't late after all, just ten more minutes."

Seventh graders began to fill in the auditorium seats in a matter of minutes once the orientation was about to start. The principal, who seemed to be in his mid-40s, walked onto the stage, holding a mike. "Welcome, students, to Station Square Middle and High School! If you noticed, you are all seated by homeroom, so recognize who is around you, they could be future friends." The principal took a good five minutes for everyone to look around themselves, though everyone just did it out of curiousity. Amy, on the other hand, didn't even take a second to look around, she was too scared to look someone, besides her friends, straight in the eye. The principal then continued on with the orientation, explaining everything they needed to know. After orientation, the seventh graders followed their homeroom teachers to their assigned classrooms so they could recieve their schedules. Amy, Cream, and Rouge's homeroom teacher was Ms. Graham. She began to call names and assign seats in their homeroom, "Shadow you sit behind Amy Rose..."

Silence.

"Do we have a Shadow here?"

"No." some random person said.

"Okay then, Rouge you sit next to Shadow, right behind Cream."

Rouge smiled widely and so did Amy and Cream. Moments later, everyone now had their assigned seats and were having conversations with old friends or new friends. Amy was facing both Cream and Rouge, needing only to turn slightly to talk to them. While everyone was busy talking, an ebony hedgehog walked in, looking stressed, and went to Ms. Graham, talking to her, nodding and smiling. He took a seat next to Rouge, who ignored him and kept chatting away. The ebony hedgehog turned around and began talking to a red echidna, who seemed like a good friend to the hedgehog. Amy noticed the presence of the newcomer and glanced for a second at him. She shrugged it off and turned to Cream, who was laughing her head off.

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Amy sighed. She was sitting alone in her first period, Study Skills, and the teacher, Ms. Lee, was explaining the first project that was due a week later. Amy was listening as she scanned the room carefully, hoping she wouldn't make eye contact with anyone but the teacher. Much to her dismay, a blue hedgehog caught her gaze, smiling at her. Amy blushed furiously and quickly brought her gaze down to her binder, which had a drawing of a girl on it, the girl having the haircut and outfit Amy desired. She gulped, now awaiting for the period to be over.

When the bell finally rang, Amy sighed, relieved that her next class, English, was with Rouge. She rushed over to a two-story bungalow and walked up the stairs, looking down so she was sure she wouldn't trip. As she reached the last step, someone grabbed Amy's shoulders from behind and pulled her back slightly, recieving a small scream from the pink hedgehog. "Heehee, relax, Ames, it's only me!"

Amy turned her head and cracked her eye open a little to find Rouge, smiling widely as she held onto the quivering hedgehog. "Rouge! You know I'm scared of heights!"

"Oops..." Rouge bit her lip, "Sorry, it kind of slipped my mind...It's just this cute red echidna in my Computer class...He's so dreamy..."

Amy waving her hand caused Rouge to snap out of her dream-like state. "Well, Rouge, if you want to keep your crush a secret from that 'cute red echidna' I suggest you shut up and get into the classroom because here he comes!" The pink hedgehog pointed at Rouge's crush as he stepped onto the staircase. Rouge simply squealed and ran into their English class, taking a random seat in the back, with Amy following in suit while laughing her head off.

When everyone was in their seats, panting from all the running around to find the class, their English teacher, Ms. Madrid, stood up from her desk and waited for the class to acknowledge her presence and quiet down. They settled down within seconds and she began to explain what they would learn and what they would be doing in her class for the semester. Once mentioning a seating chart, the class began to murmur excitedly, hoping they could gain new friends. Amy was awfully scared now. She knew Rouge would probably be too far away from her and she would be all alone, knowing she would be too frightened to talk to anybody around her. When Ms. Madrid finally had everyone seated according to her seating chart, Rouge was across the room, like Amy had predicted. She sighed and stared at her folded hands that were resting on her folder. The teacher announced they would be presenting the reports they had to do over the summer, resulting in the class groaning. Great. First, I'm seated far away from Rouge and now we have to present our reports?! She cursed silently.

Ms. Madrid sat down after saying that for the rest of the time they could talk with the people around them as she signed their schedules. When their schedules were passed back, that was when Amy was forced to break away from her thoughts as the mongoose in front of her swiveled around and placed her schedules next to Amy's. "I noticed we had a few classes together when I saw your schedule, but I guess we have all our classes together!"

Amy froze up slightly and just smiled, unwanting to say anything.

"Oh! My name's Mina, by the way!" she exclaimed softly as she smiled.

"My name's Amy..."

"Well, hello Amy! It's very nice to meet you!"

RIIING!

"Shoot. I guess I'll see you in Science!"

"Okay, bye Mina..."

"Bye Amy!" the yellow mongoose waved behind her while she ran out the door.

The pink hedgehog sighed again as she and Rouge walked to the cafeteria to meet up with Cream and perhaps more new friends.

XXX

Amy, Cream, Rouge, and Mina had Science together with Ms. Graham, but they were spread about the room, which deepened Amy's sadness. The pink hedgehog rested her forehead on the cool surface of her desk, hoping the period would end already. She lifted her head when she was handed her schedule back. "Please end already..." she mumbled. She scanned the room again to find her friends and realized she had English and Science with a few of the same people in her other classes. She glanced at the person next to her and found that ebony hedgehog that was late to homeroom. Shadow was his name, right? Amy's shoulders sagged when she noticed she was talking to herself. She then put her head back onto her desk.

Fourth period, or Math 7, was alright with Amy because Mina sat in front of her. They talked all period and got to know each other, figuring out they had some of the same likes and dislikes. I think I'll survive this class the most... Amy thought as she smiled at Mina's purple hair.

And with one ring of the bell, the classes were off to Lunch. Cream, Rouge, and Amy hung out at the cafeteria at an isolated table in the corner. Just as the three girls were about to dig into their lunches, Mina came by. "Hey girls! I thought meeting a few friends of mine would make you a bit more comfortable here at SSHS, so would you guys like to meet a few friends of mine? We hang out at the Quad," Mina was greeted by confused faces, "Y'know...that huge patch of grass thats surrounded by tables?" The girls exchanged glances and nodded, saying they were okay with meeting new friends. Mina simply smiled and motioned for them to stand and grab their things. They were giggling and talking about the cute boys they've seen around school as they made their way to Mina's hangout spot in the Quad. "So, Cream, do you like anybody yet?"

"Well, there's this guy named Tails...He's so cute and smart and sweet..." she answered.

"Oh! How cute!"

Cream turned to Rouge, "What about you, Rouge?"

Amy quickly butted in, "If you've seen a 'cute red echidna', I think you'd know who she likes!"

"AMY!"

"Hehe..."

Mina watched as the two bickered playfully about the guys they liked. Upon reaching their destination on the Quad, the girls set down their stuff and held onto their lunches. "Alright, girls, I want you to meet..." she quickly spotted a certain red echidna, "Correction! I want Rouge to meet Knuckles!"

Rouge's muscles tensed up as the red echidna walked over to the girls, giving them a sweet smile. "Knuckles meet Rouge, Cream, and Amy!"

"Hello, girls! It's nice to meet you."

Aside from her tense muscles, Rouge's heart began to beat uncontrollably, so she put a hand over her heart to calm it down. Mina snickered silently and turned to Knuckles, "Hey Knux, do you know where everyone is?"

"Uh, yeah." He began to point out whoever matched the name, "There's Tails with Espio, Charmy, and Vector by that table...There's Caitlynn and Honey by that tree over there...And..." Sonic passed by, "There's Sonic!"

Sonic stopped right in front of Amy, who began eating the apple in her hand and glued her gaze to the ground near her feet. "Uh, hi?"

"Yes, hi, Sonic." Mina said, "Meet Rouge, Cream, and Amy."

Sonic individually shook each of their hands, but took his time shaking Amy's. "Hey, aren't you in my Study Skills class?"

Amy found it hard to swallow the piece of apple she had just chewed, but she eventually got it to slide down her throat, "Y-Yeah..."

Sonic smiled, "It's nice to finally meet you, Amy."

Amy gulped as Sonic reluctantly let go of her hand. He nodded goodbye and walked away, taking a few glances behind him. Rouge waited for Sonic to be out of earshot. "Ooooooh, I think someone likes Amy and I think she likes him back!" the white bat taunted.

Amy pouted and glared at her childhood friend, but a smirk found it's way to her face, "Oooh, I think somebody likes Knuckles!"

What Amy had said caught Knuckles's attention, "Who?"

"Someoneee! You'll find out sooner or later!" Amy stared at Rouge throughout her whole sentence. Knuckles followed her gaze, in which his own ending up on a wide-eyed blushing Rouge that automatically shook her head. The echidna shrugged and said his own goodbye with a wave, walking off since the bell had rung, signaling for fifth period, or Gym for the girls.

Everyone was forced to sit in the bleachers inside the Boy's Gym. (( There is also a Girl's Gym, but theirs is smaller. The Boy's Gym is where basketball and volleyball matches are held and is where the boys dress for PE. - Girls dress in the Girl's Gym, of course. )) They were to choose from three classes: Swimming, Regular PE, and Dance class. The PE teachers that were to watch the classes present in the gym explained that seventh graders were required to take Swim class for at least once semester. Amy thought about it and decided to go to Swimming first, just to get it over with. Cream, Mina, and Rouge agreed, also taking Swimming so they, too, would get it over with. Everyone resorted to talking the whole period since the teachers didn't mind.

History class was okay, since Ms. Lee let the class hold conversations with each other because it was the first day of school. Cream was missing from the class as well as Rouge because they both had Algebra 1. Amy and Mina began to get to know each other again, and even Knuckles joined in on the conversation. The two girls had found out Knuckles also had a crush on Rouge, causing the girls to giggle their heads off since they knew she liked him back...a lot. As he and Mina had a conversation of their own, Amy began to think and smile. Okay, I guess you're right, Cream. I do have more friends than I did back at Emerald Beach... "Amy, you okay?"

She snapped out of her thoughts and smiled wider with a nod following right after.

"Alrighty then!" Knuckles and Mina returned the smile.

XXX

"Whoo! Finally! School's finally over!" Rouge yelled, her hands raised above her head.

Amy stepped up right beside Rouge, her hands raised above her own head, "And another ten months to go!"

"Hey! Don't kill the rest of my day!"

The pink hedgehog laughed all the way to the yellow school bus, where she rode now with old and new friends.

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