Chapter Two: Dorms, Uniforms, and Quarrels
The next day eventually arrived, the students of Emerald Mobius High preparing themselves for school by going to their respective buildings and receiving their uniforms. The dorms assigned to the students were at random, so any student staying in the dorms are forced to live with a total stranger or with a close friend. They were separated by gender; the left building for the boys and the right building for the girls. The grades weren't intermixed with one another, instead, students of the same grade resided together. It was a very concise structure the school has decided to do, and it's been used ever since its beginnings as a school.
The lines were already formed early in the morning, several students wanting to obtain their uniforms and prepare themselves for a long school year. The uniforms they wished to pick up have their names on the plastic wrap holding them, with the proper measurements that the school received so they can give them their personalized uniform. The color scheme of the uniforms were the school's colors: green and brown. The upper half consisted of a white shirt with a plaid green tie for both genders, while the lower half was composed of a brown skirt for the females and dark brown slacks for the males. Considering there were several students waiting in line, it took a great deal of patience to go first wait and then wait for more when they ask for their names.
Amy didn't mind though, she was having a great time chatting with Rouge and Wave in the line. They were talking about their big plans for their final weekend before school starts, texts flying back and forth the previous night as to where they wanted to go. Blaze and Tikal wanted to go to the National Möbius Museum, Wave and Sonia eagerly wanted to go to the Möbius Memorial, while Rouge and Amy want to go to the pool one more time. They weren't making any progress with final decisions, however, all respected the others' opinions.
"All I'm saying is that the memorial shows history and passion; it's really great." Wave declared, facing her back away from the line and staring at her friends, "It's great for the final event before school."
"... If you are a total dweeb that is." Rouge commented, smirking slightly with her arms crossed and Amy nodding. It's not like they were trying to not go, they wanted to go somewhere that doesn't bore them. "The pool though, that's fun."
Wave rolled her eyes as the line began to progress and become shorter. Their turns were about to come, all the while they continued to chat about their latest dilemma.
"Maybe we could go to the movies and have a review about it," Amy suggested, actually liking this activity because they all share the same emotions and passion on the films they see.
"We already did that last weekend," Rouge said, sighing and shaking her head. "Man, this isn't easy as I thought it would be-"
"Your name and grade, miss?" The faculty asked Wave, who was first of the group to be in line. Wave was a little shocked first, but turned around to the faculty and gave them her full name.
"Wave the Swallow, ninth grade."
"Alrighty, we will give you your uniform once it is found on our storage." The faculty responded, a brown mongoose, going back to the storage room behind them to find the uniforms. Wave sighed and turned back to Rouge and Amy.
"I really hate having to wear those skirts, you know."
"I know!" Amy exclaimed, totally agreeing with the purple swallow, "Middle School was alright I guess, they weren't too short, but this? Why does it have to be so… revealing?" She scrunched up her nose at the thought of wearing a short skirt that leaves little to the imagination. Sure, she wears her red dresses once in awhile, but she has seen the uniforms given to the female students and they didn't seem too comfortable. This is the same for Wave too, it's far too embarrassing to wear a uniform with the skirt too short; she was more into the comfy sweatpants.
Rouge though found it nice. She wasn't ashamed of her body, nor was she arrogant about it. She knew that some of her friends would say otherwise, but she knew it would make them look cute. "Relax, guys." Rouge said, comforting them, "I don't think they're going to be that bad."
"Here you go, miss." The brown mongoose came back with the uniform, folded neatly and wrapped in plastic. Wave stared at it reluctantly but accepted it. She sighed again as she walked towards the side to wait for Rouge and Amy get their uniforms. "Next, please."
"Rouge the Bat, ninth grade." She said, glad that it's finally her turn. The faculty stared at the white bat, and they asked her a question.
"Did you mean eleventh grade?"
"No, I'm a Freshman." Rouge confirmed, "Confusing, I know." The faculty blinked and went back to the room to get her uniform. Rouge chuckled at the moment, totally aware that her mature appearance made her look older than the rest of her friends. Amy giggled and shoved her playfully.
"You are gonna get confused as an upperclassman."
"I say it makes me look more alluring."
Amy giggles lightly again while Wave rolled her eyes and began to play with the plastic wrap of her uniform. The faculty came back and handed Rouge her uniform. "Here you go, miss."
She happily grabbed her uniform and went to the side with Wave to wait for Amy. Finally, it was her turn! "Name and grade, please."
"Amy Rose, ninth grade." Amy gladly said, her arms behind her back and waiting for the person to go and get the uniform. The brown mongoose nodded and went back to the storage room, finally coming back after a short period of time to give her the uniform. Amy accepted it and was heading over to her friends, relieved that their errand was now out of the way. This could have ended into an easy task until someone tripped her over by sticking their leg out. She face-planted the concrete floor and was rubbing her nose from the pain. What the hell..?
"Nice fall." A conceited voice said, making Amy's ears twitch and making her turn her head ever so slightly to see who the prosecutor was. She really hoped it wasn't him, she really did hope it was not him, she really, really hoped it was not-
It was.
"You!" Amy shouted, getting up swiftly with her uniform in her hands. Sonic gave her a smirk, with Knuckles and Jet in line with him. This made Amy grit her teeth in irritation, hating how smug and proud he is starting their new school year once again with another one of his pranks. She wanted to smack that arrogant smile out of him with her hammer but she knew if she did that, it would be an early appointment with the school's principal for the both of them.
"Amy!" Rouge and Wave exclaimed in unison, going towards her and seeing her face tinted red from the smack of the hard concrete. They were about to ask her if she was alright, however, they saw the death glare that Amy uses whenever she sees a threat. That threat was Sonic, and he was staring at her back with a relaxed demeanor.
"Aww c'mon, is that a way to treat your pal?"
"We're not pals," Amy corrected him, "You are so inconsiderate at times! What gives you the right to harass me every single day?" Amy knew how this was going to end, and she just wanted to get it over with. It's not like it was going to be any different, either.
"Aw see," Sonic said, looking at both Knuckles and Jet, "This is what I'm talking about, she's unladylike and she's talking nonsense." His two friends chuckled lightly, making Amy angrier and made her hardened her stare at him. "Careful Hammer, you don't want your face stuck like that."
Amy knew that was the end of her tolerance and was about to summon her Piko Piko Hammer, despite the fact that Rouge and Wave had to calm her down by slowly backing her away from the blue hedgehog.
"Don't you have anything better to do, Sonic?" Rouge asked, wanting to be the sane one from this little quarrel between Sonic and Amy. Knuckles laughed and crossed his arms.
"I think we all know that she was asking for it."
"You guys are assholes, you know that?" Wave asked, grabbing Amy by her shoulders and pushing her away from the group of males. Jet scoffed and waved his hand at her.
"It's not our faults that she was in the way where Sonic was standing."
The girls were ticked off and began to walk away from them, totally bummed out that their morning was ruined by a bunch of high-rank bastards. Jet and Knuckles gave each other a high-five while Sonic was waiting in line to get his uniform, smug that he worsened his enemy's day and pissing her off.
"He's such a conceited jackass!" Amy exclaimed, calming down after leaving the uniform pickup area, "He just wants to make my days worse."
"Well, you do know what they say," Rouge mentioned, entering towards the dorms and walking towards Amy and Sonia's room, "If he picks on you, then that means he likes you."
"Nuh uh. No. Not in a million years." Amy retorted, shaking her head, a scowl already taking form. "It's nothing like that." They eventually arrived at their dorms, Sonia already unpacking, her uniform already in a hanger and ready for when school starts.
Amy rolled her eyes at how precise Sonia is and went towards her side of the room, placing her plastic wrap uniform in her bed and starting on unpacking her side of the room. Wave and Rouge checked out the room and were quite amazed at the color choices and furniture the two hedgehogs decided.
Their color schemes were almost the same; pink picture frames on their respective desks, Sonia's purple keyboard was placed nicely against the corner of the room, while Amy's polisher for her hammers was placed on her desk, all neatly arranged from most to least used. The posters weren't that bad either, Sonia had several about musicians in their prime time while Amy had a poster of abstract art with a small signature on the bottom right corner. All in all, their room was unique.
"Nice place." Rouge commented, "It looks like you guys know how to work together."
"Psh, of course." Sonia declared, placing her clothes on her side of the drawers. "We've been friends for, how many years? Like, our entire lifetime."
"We know what looks good in our place." Amy agreed, "We are so close, you have no idea. We're practically sisters."
"I see." Wave said, looking around the room once more, "I wonder how the final product of this will look like."
"We'll see. Thanks, guys, by the way. It was a good thing you guys were there when I met up with him." Amy thanked them, her face going sour when she finished her sentence. Based on context clues and the usual way Amy acts, Sonia eventually knew what she was talking about and cursed in her mind how inconsiderate her loaf of a brother is.
"No prob," Rouge reassured her, holding on to her uniform and looking up at the clock in their room, "Ah shoot. It's about to be noon. Hey, do we still have a plan on where to go?" The conversation started up once again after Rouge asked, Amy scratching her head while Sonia still sided with her idea.
"How about the mall?" Wave suggested, "We haven't gone to the mall in awhile and I know for sure that there were these new stores open." She wasn't thinking when she said this and was met with the three girls agreeing.
"Of course! I heard there was this new, cute bakery shop open now!" Sonia exclaimed, "Go tell Tikal and Blaze; hopefully we all agreed to this."
"Will do." Wave said, waving to them as she went towards the exit, "See ya!"
"Bye!" Rouge waved, going to her dorm along with Wave who was on the same floor.
"Bye, guys." Amy chimed in, both of them closing the door.
The two female hedgehogs began to unpack once more, both of them having side conversations to keep them from being bored from this chore they are forced to do. It's nice to have a companion, especially if that companion is your close friend since the start of your academic career.
Maybe this year won't be so bad after all.
Sonic finally had gotten his uniform, after almost half an hour waiting in line. He knew that it took this long, however, it would've been better if Amy was around so he could taunt her once again. He chuckled at the thought, aware the possible outcomes that would happen if he continued his antics. It's not like he likes her, no way. He just wants to show her that he knows her true colors and she isn't as sweet as everybody thinks she is.
She's not sweet at all. However, there are a few girls that showed him, for example, Sally. She was the most honest person he could think of, and that was for only a year since he first met her. She was always telling him the truth and didn't have a two-faced personality like someone he knows, so he has his personal reasons as to why picking on the pink hedgehog is so satisfying for him.
"So Sonic, Jet and I have decided to go and play video games." Knuckles chimed in, looking over to the preoccupied hedgehog. "You wanna come with us?"
Sonic looked up at his friends and saw that they were ready to just slack off like any other day and not worry about the mess they have left in their room. They were roomed together, and the room looks like a tornado is still passing by. Sonic chuckled and shook his head.
"Nah. I decided that I was going to hang out with Sal, actually."
"Of course you are." Knuckles muttered, rolling his eyes slightly. Sonic caught glimpse of this, raised his eyebrow and was about to ask what was that about, though Jet beat him to it and motioned the red echidna towards their dorm area.
"Alright, see ya then." Jet replied, grabbing hold of Knuckles' arm and dragging him towards their room. Knuckles was asking him what was that for. After an earshot away, their bickering could still be heard from where Sonic stood.
He chuckled lightly and decided to head to his and Tails' room. He was having a good day, and he wanted nobody to ruin his mood for when he meets Sally later today. He previously gave her a text earlier today if she wanted to hang out, which she gladly accepted and was wondering about the plans after she replied. Sonic didn't really give her any hints to as where they were going because he didn't know himself. He's new to the dating world, and he wants their dates to be special if they go out. It takes a while to find the perfect dating space, so it's only natural for him to delay on his texts for so long.
He entered towards his room, Tails nowhere in sight. He slumped towards his bed, and let the uniform fall on his bed, bouncing slightly. He sighed and look up towards the ceiling, smirking at the thought that this year was going to change for both him and his prior relationships. He just hopes that Sally feels the same way by the end of the year. He grabs his phone and goes through his contacts, seeing his girlfriend's name on the screen.
He tapped on the messaging icon and was debating whether to text her now or later. She was a busy girl, she's part of SGA just like his sister, Sonia. He groaned out and decided not to, he didn't want to push her and ask her what she's up to. He closed his eyes, thinking that a small nap would help and he did. He thought of the many misadventures he had as a child towards becoming a teenager, smirking because all of the memories have one thing in common:
Amy Rose.
Flashback
She was writing in her notebook, looking downwards and not paying attention to the class around her. It was recess time, but due to the rainy weather outside, the class had recess inside. Instead of playing with her friends, she was actually doing some school work. She was behind in some notes and she wanted to catch up before the bell rang.
Sonic noticed her in the corner of his eye, a sly smirk forming on his lips when he sees her finishing up the page she was working on. Just something about her made him really want to mess with her, Amy always countering back at him with her hammer (he gave her the rightful nickname this school year), and it was fun. They would argue later and Amy would make this annoyed pout and stomp away. Hey, they had a long history together.
He went towards her desk, acting all innocent like and waiting for Amy to notice him. She did, and she looked up, aware that her enemy was in front of her and wanted to torment her once again. She sighed, and closed her book and placed her pencil down gently, folding her arms together and looking up at the blue hedgehog.
They both stared at each other, their greens eyes not looking somewhere else until Amy was the first one to speak. "What do you want, Sonic?"
"Me? Nothing." Sonic replied, leaning against her desk. "I'm just wondering how Hammer's doing."
A vein popped up in Amy's head, pretty annoyed at the new nickname he gave her. Why couldn't he come up with something better? "Why do you need to know?"
"Because I worry sometimes." Sonic taunted, giving her a cocky grin, "We wouldn't want you to get brain fried from all that school work. Now do we, Hammer?"
She clicked her tongue, already annoyed by the blue hedgehog and wanted to end him then and there, however she can't have any more detention slips. "You win this round, idiot. My mom would be mad at me again if I hurt you again."
He smirked, aware that the mental tally was now two points higher than Amy. He bowed down to her, giving her a faux courtesy. "Thank you for losing, Lady Hammer."
He was met with a fist on his head, making him fall down on the floor and face planting him. He felt his jaw hurt and held it firmly to see if any teeth had gotten out. Nice punch.
"Think again, you idiot." Amy countered, smug with her win and seeing Sonic debating whether to hold his nose or his jaw. "Don't think you won just yet because of that."
End of Flashback
He chuckled at the thought, his eyes closed however still conscious. His arms rested behind his head, still waiting to fall asleep. Amy was a challenge for him, and he continues to want that because she makes his day better by making her mad at him. They both know that their feud won't end that easily and that it will be a very long time before they actually resolve any disputes with each other.
With that, he rolled to his side, debating whether or not to text Sally back. He has been procrastinating, and he didn't want to actually text her with no good ideas to take her somewhere. He'll just talk to Tails or someone else to actually help him with his relationship. He gave out a tired yawn and took a quick nap for the day. He still has plans to torment Amy when he sees her once again.
To be continued...
Author's Note: Omg thank you for such kind words, people! I am honestly really happy that several of you are interested in this idea, even after five years since I first wrote the original! Anyways, such kind words encouraged me to write more, so here is the second chapter of PnF! Slightly longer, and I incorporated more characters in this chapter. Also, do you like the nickname he gave to her? Loved it? Hate it? I tried being original instead of the generic 'Pinky' nickname.
Concerning the Sonally mentioned in this chapter and the one before, do not fret! This is a Sonamy fic, so I have decided to include Sally as an important character in this story and not change her personality for plain ol' Sonamy. She will obviously be Sonic's gf at the moment, but anything can change in the world of fanfics, am I right? I will see you soon with another update (which may or may not be delayed a little).
Next second chapter's title is: Vanilla Sweets
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