-No Regrets- Chapter 1

-Gemini Mercedes-

SonicxTails, SonicxShadow, SilverxBlaze more as the story goes!

Tails grabbed his backpack and checked inside just to make sure he had everything.

"Okay, lined paper, pencils, pens, binder, lunch…where's my lunch?" He ran downstairs to the kitchen and grabbed his lunch off the counter. He yelled a quick thanks to his mom on the way out the door and started towards his school.

School had come back in the spring and the blonde fox was excited. He loved learning and studying – though he knew he was one of the only ones who did. He was in grade 11 along with the rest of his friends – so he knew he would at least have class with some of his companions, which he looked forward to.

Actually, he was looking forward to class with Sonic the most. After the fiasco at the hospital, the two had been seeing each other constantly and were hopelessly in love. Not everyone knew though. Actually, only Blaze knew. Silver kind of knew, but we all know how Silver is. (Not saying your dumb Silver, it's a hard concept to grasp for some.) It wasn't as if they wanted to keep it secret, it was just that Sonic didn't like all his business out there and this was also the reason why he hadn't asked Tails first to go to Rouge's Valentine's Day party.

Speaking of which, the Valentine's Party was a fabulous event. Everyone – even Sonic, had showed up. Sonic and Tails sat in the corner most of the time, due to Sonic's condition, but that was more than enough for Tails.

Tails came back to real life, his legs on autopilot as he walked down the sidewalk towards Guardian High Academy. He sighed to himself – to be honest, he wanted Sonic to come out about their relationship. He almost felt like the blue hedgehog was embarrassed to come out about their relationship. He knew the indigo hedgehog cared about him, and just because he didn't show it to the world didn't mean it wasn't there but…

The blonde fox was interrupted from his thoughts when he almost stumbled into his crimson coloured friend.

"Oh, sorry Knuckles!" The blonde fox said apologetically. His echidna friend, who was just about to cross the street, turned around and smiled at him.

"Hey Tails don't worry about it! Did you have a good weekend?" The two friends continued to talk as they crossed the street and eventually made it to school grounds. As they walked into the front entrance area they saw Sonic and Shadow talking.

"Sonic please, I never meant for you to…" Shadow trailed off as the fox and echidna walked over. Tails noticed Sonic was just looking down, rubbing his arm. What's going on here? The blonde fox thought to himself.

Shadow glared at Knuckles and Tails and then skated off, shortly getting scolded by a teacher down the hall for running in the halls. Sonic turned to his friends and gave them a small smile.

"Uh, hey guys!" Knuckles crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.

"What was that about Sonic? You and Shadow got a little secret?" The word secret made both Tails and Sonic flinch. Sonic just laughed awkwardly.

"I have no idea what your talking about Knuckles, anyways class is about to start. I'll see both of you later, bye Tails." Sonic sent them a wave before racing down the hall – eventually getting scolded by the same teacher.

"What was that about?" Knuckles shook his head confused. Tails just shrugged and sighed, now wondering what was going on with his secret lover. The two stood there for a minute before Knuckles cleared his throat.

"Anyways, what classes do you have? Maybe we have some together?" The two exchanged schedules and realized they had 1st period (Math) and 3rd period (History) together. The bell rang during their discussion and they headed to their math class.

"I wonder who we're going to have math with…" Tails thought out loud. The two walked into the classroom at the end of the 1st floor hall. They noticed a bunch of students they didn't recognize, but did see one that they did know. Someone Knuckles was particularly fond of.

"Hey Rouge! You have math as well?" The alabaster bat turned her eyes from her phone to the echidna that took a seat beside her.

"So Knuckie you have this class too? Great, I definitely need someone to help me out with these equations and all. Plus, it's nice to have my boyfriend in my first class of the day. By the way what other classes do you have?" As the two began to chat about their schedules, Tails took a seat behind Knuckles and stared at them sadly.

I wish my relationship with Sonic was that open and comfortable… He mentally corrected himself. He was comfortable with Sonic, more than he had ever been with anyone in his life. But, it was just the knowing that things could be even more comfortable if everyone knew about it and the two didn't need to sneak around. Yeah, there were going to be people who disliked their love but that was okay because as long as Tails was with his favourite hedgehog – that was all that mattered to him.

But through all this self reflection Tails felt as if there were eyes on him. He looked to his right where the rest of the class was screaming and catching up on each others breaks, but no one was even looking in his direction. He turned to his left and came face to face with crimson pupils.

"O-oh, umm…" Tails stuttered. Now realizing he was sitting right beside Shadow who was sitting behind Rouge, the blonde fox felt even more awkward. Shadow stopped staring at him after his little outburst, but smirked as he looked back at his phone which was sitting on the desk.

I'm sitting beside Shadow of all people? Of all possible students he could have sat beside, Tails wanted the least to sit beside the anti-social midnight hedgehog. But on a quick inspection of the rest of the room, he was sitting in the last free seat – and at least he was close to Knuckles here.

Turning back to the red echidna that was still wrapped up in his conversation with his girlfriend, Tails could only sigh and rest his head on the table. This was going to be a long semester.

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Blaze stepped into her first period and looked for a seat in the back. She was in the 2nd floor history class for first period and was just looking forward to getting the day over with. She sent a text message to Silver quickly just to wish him all the best on his first day back at school and then grabbed a seat in the back corner of the class room.

The teacher did role call and then began the mandatory speech which talked about the rules and regulations, upcoming school events, and the guidelines for the course. Blaze just closed her eyes and tried to just zone out everything. She hadn't gotten the best sleep the night before and just wanted to be left in her own world for the day. The teacher's voice continued to drag on until the door opened and a student walked in. Blaze opened one eye to inspect the tardy teenager.

"Sorry I'm late." A blue hedgehog muttered. Both of Blaze's eyes opened when she saw who it was.

So Sonic is in my history class? Interesting… She thought to herself. She heard a scream from someone a couple desks in front of her and rolled her eyes. Amy is in this class too? Someone save us. The violet cat just sighed and shook her head. She turned back to Sonic to see that he seemed sad, not like the usual upbeat Sonic she was used to. The teacher didn't seem to care though.

"Now you may not know this, Sonic. But just because you help the government and save the world every once in a while, doesn't mean you can just waltz into class whenever you feel like it okay?" But even when the hedgehog muttered an "okay", the teacher continued.

"The nerve of some of you students, thinking you can just do whatever you please! This may be high school but don't think for one second I won't treat you barbarians like pre-schoolers!"

The teacher was really going off. Blaze shook her head. She was surprised however, that Sonic never retaliated. He simply nodded, gave her his late slip and searched for a seat. When his eyes met with Blaze, she patted the seat beside her and his face lit up a bit.

"Thanks Blaze." He whispered as he sat down. She simply nodded and then rolled her eyes. When Sonic gave her a questioning glance she simply pointed to the space a few rows in front of them. Amy was turning around in her seat blowing kisses to Sonic – who just stared at her with repulsion.

"Amy! You turn around this instant!" The teacher screamed. Amy winked at Sonic before turning back to face the teacher and apologize.

"She'll never let up huh?" Sonic whispered to Blaze with a shrug. Blaze smiled and then shook her head.

"She probably won't. But what would help make her stop would be if you just, you know, came out about your relationship." Blaze whispered. Now Blaze of course, was on Tails' side. While she usually didn't mettle in other people's businesses, she had grown a close relationship with the blonde fox and felt a need to help him with some of the issues he was dealing with. Especially since he was deeply hurt with the fact that Sonic had chosen to keep everything in the dark. He didn't need to say it, she could tell.

"I don't know about that right now, school just started you know? And Shadow has been bugging me…" Before Blaze could as him why, the teacher shot both of them death glares. As the teacher turned to continue writing something on the board, the two began to speak quietly again.

"She is crazy huh?" Sonic giggled, Blaze smiled and nodded.

"I thought this was going to be a quiet, boring class. Guess I was wrong." She said. The hedgehog had to suppress another round of giggles.

"I'm glad you're in this class, I would have been stuck with Amy if it wasn't for you. Thanks Blaze." The violet feline waved off the thank you as it was something friends do for each other.

The two would have talked more if it hadn't been for the teacher sneaking glares in their direction every couple of minutes.

Okay, so not much of a cliffhanger this time but you get the point. This story is going to be similar to Love Potion with some links to it SO if you didn't read Love Potion you can just to get some background info – but overall this is a new story. I've never done the high school theme before but I'm glad I did because its something different and there are a lot of different elements I can add that I wasn't able to add when the story took place during a time when all the characters didn't have jobs/school/etc. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Make sure to review!

-GeminiMercedes-