Chapter 1

Amy sighed. "Another school day," she stood there looking at Emerald Hill High as the other students walked past her. She was not looking forward to going in, but why should she be? It would be another day of being ignored by everybody except Rouge who was mean to her, and Tikal, her only friend besides the woman she babysat for and her daughter. She sighed again before slowly walking toward the school.

"Hey Pinky," said an all too familiar voice. Rouge was standing with her hands on her hips and a smug smile on her face, with the rest of the cheer squad standing behind her. "What are you going to be doing this summer? Oh that's right, you'll probably be babysitting," the other cheerleaders snickered.

Amy rolled her eyes at them and attempted to walk past them but they moved to block her path.

"Unlike me," Rouge continued. "I'll be spending the summer with the girls, and the team, Silver, Knuckles…" her smug smile grew bigger. "Sonic." The cheerleaders laughed.

Amy clenched her teeth and tried not to look mad as she pushed past the cheerleaders.

The cheerleaders continued to laugh at her as she ran away.

When she got to the door she saw Tikal standing there waiting for her. "I can't believe this, I haven't even gotten in the school yet and I already ran into Rouge the rat!"

Tikal laughed on hearing Rouge's nickname. She then saw how mad Amy looked and stopped. "Amy? Are you OK?" she asked, concerned.

"Why does she pick on me for everything I do? What's wrong with babysitting?" she yelled. "And why must she always remind me of… of… him?"

She looked at her friend sympathetically and put her hands on her shoulders. "Don't worry about her she's just another bully. Just take a deep breath."

Amy did as she was told and felt a little better. "What's her problem with me anyway?"

About a month ago when Rouge and Sonic were dating, Amy thought there was no better way to get Sonic to notice her then to join the cheer squad. Of course Rouge wasn't going to let competition anywhere near Sonic, but she didn't want to admit that that was the reason she wouldn't let Amy on the team, so she hid her expensive jacket in Amy's locker and said she stole it. Later Sonic found out that she lied on someone and he dumped her. Rouge has been mad at Amy ever since.

"She's jealous," said Tikal.

"Why would she be jealous of me?"

"Never mind. Come on we wouldn't want to be late for class."

Sonic snuck down the hall. "So far, so good."

"Hey Sonic!"

"Aah!" he jumped. He turned and saw a girl standing there. "H-hey!"

She stepped closer to him and he stepped back getting backed into a corner.

"I saw your game the other day, you did awesome!" she said stepping closer to him.

He ducked and rolled under her arm. "I-I got to go to class!" he ran down the hall.

"But class doesn't start till ten minutes," she said confused.

"What's wrong with you?" Knuckles asked when he met up with Sonic outside the classroom.

"Girls are everywhere, and they won't leave me alone! They've been after me ever since I broke up with Rouge."

"You should have thought of that before you dumped me," Rouge said as she walked past them into the classroom.

Sonic scowled. "Why did I ever go out with her?"

"I don't know," said Knuckles. "How do you get so many girls anyway?"

Sonic shrugged and smirked. "Watch and learn my friend, watch and learn," he said as the two walked into the class room and sat down in the front.

Amy and Tikal came in and sat in the back.

When everyone was seated they heard something blast over the intercom. "Muahuahuahua! Err sorry, I didn't realize that was on yet."

Everyone exchanged glances.

"Ahem. Hello! I am your new principal, Principal Eggman!" he talked over excitedly. "Principal Mannerly was injured and is now in the hospital."

"I hope she's alright!" said Tikal.

"So I have took over as principal, I should tell you that robotics in your science class has been postponed to next school year. Well I hope we all have fun!" The intercom went off and everyone exchanged confused looks.

"Well that was…" Amy tried to think of the word that best describe what had just happened. "Weird."