-----------------------------------A couple of days later--------------------------------------------------------------

It turned out Cory and me had a bunch of classes together. Somehow we got stuck as Bio partners, though. Cory just said that he'd do all the work, which totally got me mad, but I couldn't stop noticing how much Cory looked like Shadow... Except his streaks were blue. And he never called Shadow Shadow. Just 'my brother'.

"Your getting behind." Cory said, as usual, tonelessly. He was looking over my shoulder at her Biology homework.

"Why do you care?" I asked flatly.

"Because if your grade goes down, then it counts for the both of us." Cory explained, grabbing my pencil and writing some notes.

"And that's all?" I said angrily. I got angrier when I noticed I blushed when Cory grabbed my pencil.

"Well, if you need help in Biology, then I can easily fix that." Cory got up and walked over to the teacher.

When the bell rang, the teacher called me over. "Miss Rose, due to your falling grade, I've selected a tutor for you. Mister Cory has generously offered." I glanced at Cory who was smirking.

"Why'd you volunteer to tutor me?" I demanded as we headed to History.

"Let's just say it's a favor to my brother. Come to dorm 27 after lunch." Cory walked into the class.

"He's so...annoying!" I muttered to myself. I looked over at Cory, who was three desks ahead, and got furious when I found myself blushing.

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"Come in." I said when someone knocked at the door. I put down my comic as Amy Rose walked in, looking determinedly blank. Fortunately, I could read people almost better than my brother, so i could tell she was still wondering why I had decided to tutor her.

"I'm not telling you why I owe my brother. Take out your biology books." I said.

"I wasn't going to ask why you owe Shadow!" Rose blinked, surprised. It was definitely what she was going to ask me.

"Good, because if you're going to bring up your Biology grade, you're gonna need a lot of work." I jumped down from the bed and walked over to the desk.

"Hey, Cory! I need the answers to the history test!" Sonic walked in. I glanced at Rose and saw that she was refusing to look at Sonic.

"I told you a million times, study." I glared at him as Knuckles walked in.

"Hey Amy, what are you doing here?" He asked.

"I'm tutoring her in Biology." I explained.

"Well I need tutoring in History!" Sonic yelled. "Or I'm gonna fail the test!"

"Then study, idiot." I rolled my eyes and started showing Rose the notes she missed.

---------------------------The next day, Biology, Amy's Pov----------------------------------------

"I totally do not understand this!" I sighed, looking at the homework.

"It's simple." Cory grabbed her pencil and started writing some notes down. I got angrier when I realized I was blushing. I think he noticed too.

"I suck at biology!" I groaned. Cory laughed and wrote some more notes down. When I had told Rouge about the whole Cory/blushing thing, she said the most impossible thing.

"You love him." Rouge had said simply, to which I had stuttered like an idiot and protested. I DO NOT love Cory. We're friends, sorta, since he started helping me with Biology, but he's still an idiot sometimes.

"Now do you get it?" Cory asked, shaking me out of my thoughts. I looked down at the notes he had written and surprisingly understood them. I nodded and grabbed my pencil, writing some of the answers in.

"Okay class, put down your pencils." Mrs. Lion said ominously.

"Well, we know what that means." Cory smirked at me. "Time for a Little Lecture."

"Good thing I brought my iPod." I grabbed her ear phones and stuck them in my ears. I could just barely hear Mrs. Lion over the music, but I wasn't paying attention-much.

"Okay, class, as part of the curriculum, you will be taking care of a chao with your desk partner." Mrs. Lion pulled out some chao eggs.

"What does that have to do with Biology?" I pulled out her earphones as Mrs. Lion started handing out the eggs.

"Well, this should be fun." Cory grabbed the egg and looked at it. It was black with red spots."You get egg duty first."

"Why me?" I asked. "And what should we name it?"

"Because I've got a ton of homework. Name it whatever you like." Cory replied.

"How about Shadow?" I asked. Cory looked at me strangely for a second and shrugged.

"You said you owed Shadow a favor why not name the chao after him?" I continued.

"And if it's a girl?" Cory asked, using the voice I had heard Shadow use on the ARK(Sonic adventure 2 tie in!).

"Then we'll name it Shandra!" I smiled really big at him, unconcerned about his ominous tone.