Thanks To You

Chapter 2

Something Different


The morning came really fast. The loud sound of some alarm woke the sleeping Amy up. The noise was so loud, it ended up in her dream.

"Huh?" Amy got up and looked around. The time was 6:30. Amy blinked a few times. She quickly reached for the clock and turned it off.

"Oh.. no! So that's what it was in my dream.. I dreamed that I was in some jungle and... someone kept saying, 'Amy! Amy! Wake up! Wake up! Amy! Amy! Wake up! Wake up!' Funny... that pattern was the sound of my alarm.." Amy said to herself, "Oh my gosh! I'm talking to myself!"

She got out of her bed and she looked out her slide glass door. The sun's early rays were coming out slowly.

Amy walked to her mirror and gave a confident look. She smiled at her reflection and said, "This is it! I'm sure I'm going to have fun! I'm a bit nervous... I'll be the new kid... it's almost October! I'll do just fine.."

Amy quickly got her face washed and her teeth. She got out some clothes. Finally after she was done, she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a striped cashmere long sweater tank with some light gray skinny jeans, along with, on her left hand, a bronze aeo carved bangle set. On her feet were a scrunched suede flat leather boots with a buckle strap and stud accents on each side. She got her light brown satchel next from her desk. The last thing she put on before getting out was her golden rose heart-shaped locket.

"Mother is coming with me..." She said to herself. Before leaving she went in out in the balcony and felt the morning cool and she shivered. Going back inside and this time closing the door tightly, she got out her hollister v-neck button up navy sweater, with elbow length sleeves. She didn't have time to button it up, so she just left like that.

She passed her grandmother's room and saw that she was still sleeping. Amy sighed as she went and grabbed an apple from the counter. She then got out her light brown beanie with a matching color bow on it and she placed it on.

She headed out the door and lock it. She went down the elevator and went out the big large glass doors. She was walking down the street with people walking alongside her. Finally she made it to the subway. She walked down the stairs and went to buy her ticket.

She sat down waiting for her train to arrive. She waited patiently... until someone else came in the same area she was.

She looked up and saw those familiar... eyes again.

He was there.

Shadow was going in the area when he saw that girl again.

'What the? What is SHE doing here?' Shadow thought quite shocked.

They both looked at each other, until Amy looked down to her lap. He continued to look at her then he went to the other side of the room and waited for the train.

'Why does he seem so familiar? Oh wait...' Amy thought, 'He's the one from yesterday... the one that said I had "dropped" my wallet. He looks like if he would be one that wouldn't care about my wallet being stolen. He looks like if... like if he's some "bad guy" or something. Well.. I should thank him personally. It's rude not to, and if he hadn't given it back, I don't know where I would have been right now..'

Amy snapped out of her thoughts when the train came by roaring and halted to a stop. Everyone that was in the same room as Amy, got up and started to go into the bright silver underground train.

Amy got up and started to get her stuff. Everyone was already in... including that guy.

It was crowded and Amy saw an empty seat and she quickly went to go there.

"Excuse me... oh, I'm sorry... excuse me... thank you... excuse me please..." Amy said and finally made it and sat down.

'Thank goodness there is a seat... I wonder wh-' Amy snapped out of her thinking when she noticed the person sitting next to.

It was that guy.

Shadow really didn't want to sit next to that girl. She had already brought him a bad start since yesterday. He was about to move when she said something.

"Hey. I-I um... I think I met you yesterday..." She said nervously.

The guy looked at her and turned his head.

"I just wanted to say... thank you for returning my wallet yesterday." She smiled at him.

He turned his head and looked at her for a second, and then he turned his head.

Amy frowned and then grinned as she said, "My name is Amy Rose. What's your name?"

"..."

Amy sighed and just decided to let it go. It was obvious that he didn't want to speak to her. The train started to stop and many people got out. This wasn't her stop, so she just decided to move to a different seat.

The guy looked at her.

'Ok... ok! I feel bad for not answering her question...' Shadow thought to himself.

And after another stop he went and sat next to her, "It's Shadow."

Amy looked up and said, "Excuse me?"

"That my name is Shadow. And you're... Amy Rose, right?"

Amy nodded slowly.

"Where.. are you going to?" He asked.

She looked down and said, "I'm going to this new school." She looked up and smiled at him, "I've never been to one. I've always been home schooled!"

Shadow raised an eyebrow, "You are? You know.. the name?"

Amy nodded and showed him the paper.

After he observed it, he said, "Guess what?"

"What?" Amy said looking at him.

"I go there."

Amy grinned and said, "That's good! Then, I won't be alone. At least I know someone."

"Yeah..." He said emotionless.

They sat there until their stop came. They both got up and started to walk out the door. Soon they walked out of the subway and into the school grounds.

"This is the place?" Amy asked.

"MmHmm." He said with his hands in his pockets.

"Oh..." Amy looked around and saw lots of different kinds of people walking and talking to each other.

Shadow suddenly started to speed up his pace. Amy noticed this and ran up to him, "Hey! Are you in a hurry?"

He looked at her and then stopped walking making her stop as well because... there were lots of people... whispering to each other and pointing them.

Amy looked around confused at why people were talking about her. 'Hm.. maybe 'cause I'm the new one..'

But instead they heard this:

"Oh my gosh! He's really gone soft!"

"I know, right? Like he's now dating?"

"OMG are they dating?"

"Who the heck is she?"

"Mina is going to get mad.. you know she has the hots for Shadow..."

"I'm tweetin' dis." (lame.)

Shadow was about to leave when... a yellow mongoose with long and wavy purple hair, some short khaki shorts, and some short black tank top came out.

She looked at Shadow with her arms crossed and a raised eyebrow.

Shadow gave an irritated sigh and said, "Aww shi-"

"Shadow! Heard you were going soft for some girl you met... You go soft for her and not me? Are you two dating or something!"

Amy's eyes grew wide and a small blush formed in her face, "A-Absolutely not! I was just talking to him, but I was just leaving, so you don't need to get pissed."

The girl glared at her, "Is that so? We'll see about that..." She was about to walk to Amy, when some hands grabbed Amy and they disappeared from the scene.

The girl shrugged and went back to Shadow. She then turned around and yelled, "What are ya'll lookin' at! Get a life!"

Everyone shrugged and left.

"Right.. As I was saying, Shadow..." The girl said while being inches away from him.

"Mina, get off! You know Ash is going to come if he find you doing this."

"Oh, who cares about Ash! I can break up with him! That way... we can be together..." She then giggled.

Shadow gave a disgusted face and pushed her away and walked away saying, "You disgust me..."

Mina gave out an irritated growl.

With Amy...

Amy was being pushed pass people. Suddenly, in a clearing, they stopped. Amy looked up and saw a white bat and a purple cat?

"You almost got killed there, Hun." The white one said.

"Me?" Asked Amy, "Why? I-I didn't do anything."

"You? You would have been humiliated!" The white one said again, "By the way, I like your outfit! It's cute!"

Amy smiled and said, "Thank you!"

"Anyways..." The purple one said, "Just... just don't mess with her. She's the school who-"

"Yeah..." Amy chuckled nervously.

"Well... are you new?" Asked the purple one.

Amy nodded and said, "My name is Amy Rose. It's nice to meet you."

The white bat smiled and said, "I'm Rouge the Bat. But just call me Rouge."

Amy smiled at her, and the purple said, "I'm Blaze... the Cat."

Amy giggled and said, "Ok!"

The three of them started to talk. School wouldn't start in a while, it started at 8:30 and they were pretty early.

They walked to the school and they helped Amy meet the school. Then the first bell rung. Amy had Algebra II.

Amy sighed as she went and into the classroom. The classroom was already filled with people talking, leaning on their chairs and laughing. She seriously did not know where to go, until the teacher came in.

"Ok class! What we's is doin' this day, iz da quiz ah promised."

Amy looked at him. He looked up and raised an eyebrow. He then looked at some papers and said, "Awww.. you. Yeah... take uh seat anywhere."

Amy nodded and did that. He spoke ghetto all class long.

"We's eliminate X an' then we's end up wif Y=4 squared"

But one boy raised his hand, "Mr. Gage, Isn't it suppose to be the other way?"

"Shut up! ah'm da teacher an' you not!"

"But-"

That is.. until the principle came in.

"Yes, Mr. Calvin? Do you need anything, sir?" Mr Gage asked politely.

Amy's eyes went open, how in the... world?

"Yes, Mr. Gage, I need you for a second if you don't mind."

Mr. Gage nodded.

They both headed out for a while and then Mr. Gage came back, he yelled to the class, "Dat homework best be done! Ah wuz out foh a good 5 minutes!"

After class was done, Amy went to her other classes, still surprised to her new "ghetto" teacher... The day went by fast up until Lunch time, where she could see her new friends. But, up until today, she could not stop thinking about... Shadow.

As lunch came in, she went to the cafeteria and saw Rouge and Blaze. She went to sit by them and she sat down. Then, after sitting down, the edge of her eye then saw Shadow with his "friends". And let's just say they weren't really good ones. They were.. erm let's just say it wasn't appropriate.

Amy turned her head and looked at her new friends who were just about to talk about her.

"So Amy... Where do you come from?" Asked Blaze

"Yeah! Where do you live?" Rouge asked as she took a sip from her water.

"Well.. I come from another city, not far away from here. I live with my grandmother in some apartment."

Rouge raised an eyebrow, "What about your parents?"

Amy looked down and said, "I... I never met them. I only know how my mother looks like because of this locket and about my grandmother telling me about her. She said she was the most beautiful thing in the world."

Blaze and Rouge smiled, "Of course! Look at you!"

Amy grinned, "Thanks."

Amy then got some courage to say something, "Hey... but... do you know about... erm, Shadow?"

Blaze and Rouge looked at each other and nodded.

"Yeah..." Rouge said, "Rumor has it that he killed his own parents, because they never liked him. It was like last year when that happened. He lives by himself... and he has the worst life ever. He went to jail while he was sophomore year."

Amy looked at her and then she slowly turned her head and saw that Shadow, who was with his 'friends' taunting some geeky guy, was looking at her.

She quickly turned her head and looked at Rouge, who continued, "He hates everyone that goes his way. His heart is filled with I dunno hate or something. He's lucky he has "friends"... they just use him so that he could 'Scare' away others... they are just a whole bunch of losers smoking some marijuana they find..."

"So..." Amy said, "He doesn't have any real friends... his parents are gone...he's gone to jail... and he is cold hearted?"

"Yep." Blaze said, "Hey Rouge... How do you know so much?"

Rouge looked shocked, "Me? Pfff girl, you're the one that told me!"

"Fine." Blaze said with her ears pointing towards her head.

"But~!" Rouge said, "He throws the greatest parties. That's another thing he's good at. But OMG is he super gorgeous, or what?"

Amy blushed and looked at her food, "Well..."

"C'mon, Amy!" Blaze said teasing her, "Admit it! Every girl has asked him out... but he always put some stupid excuse..."

"Have you asked him out?" Amy asked raising an eyebrow.

Blaze looked down and said, "Yeah... I wasted my time. B-But so did Rouge!"

"Did not!" Rouge said.

Amy looked at her in suspicion.

"Ugh!" Rouge said throwing her hands up in the air, "Fine! But that was back in freshman year!"

"Whatever. I know he also drinks, smokes, and does drugs... At least he isn't a player..." Blaze said.

Amy looked up and said, "He can't be too bad. He just needs help..."

"HUH?" Both Rouge and Blaze said in surprise.

"Heh heh," Rouge chuckled nervously, "That's impossible, yet risky..."

"Yeah, even the teachers gave up on him! The only class he's good at is gym... -.-"

"And what do you mean by risky...? He's also.. erm bad at his classes, too?" Amy asked.

"Pfff! Hun, all his friends are bad at it! They don't give a sh*t about anythi-" Rouge started but was cut off by Blaze.

"The risk is that one girl tried to do that in freshman year... she was getting some success.. when one day... she never came back. No one knew where she was or went. They say that Shadow killed her."

Amy looked at them in disbelief, "I know that's a lie... I know there's a warm side to his personality..."

"Yeah, to you!" Blaze said, "Didn't you say he 'gave' you back your wallet? And that all of the money was still in there?"

Amy nodded, "Yes... isn't that what you're suppose to do?"

"Amy." Rouge said looking at her, "He wouldn't even mention it to you! He would 'bump' into you and BAM! He has your money and everything. It's a miracle he gave it back."

Amy thought about it she looked up and said, "I still won't give up. I know there's someone... different in him. Something about him... it's really interesting. So.. he never talks about his life?"

Blaze and Rouge shook their heads.

"I'm going to prove that he isn't so bad like you all say." Amy said grinning.

Rouge sighed and said, "We... we're just warning you, Amy."

Then the bell rung, Amy looked back and saw Shadow through the crowd of people quickly getting up and going all around. They looked like if some sort of ants going from one place to another. Amy looked at the people for a second, then went to see Shadow... but he was gone.

Amy had some fear in her heart, but she knew all of that wasn't true. He.. he was different other than those bad rumors... he had to be.

The rest of the day went by really fast. As she was going outside, she met with Rouge and Blaze.

"Hey!" Amy waved to them.

They waved back. The wind was blowing and some of the papers from Amy's notebook. She let out a small gasp from her face as she quickly went to return them.

Rouge and Blaze went to help her. They had gotten all of the papers... but one.

"Oh no!" Amy said out loud, "I'm still missing one..."

"Phew..." Blaze said, "What is this anyway? Homework?"

Amy shook her head, "Nope. It's actually notes... So that it can help me with my work!"

"Nerd." Rouge said teasing her.

Amy giggled and said, "Am not!"

The three of them laughed a bit more until Amy saw her paper. She quickly wen to retreat it and then, she waved to her friends and she left to go home.

The evening was coming and the sky looked peaceful. There was a soft breeze... Amy went to the subway and took her train home. She really wanted to just walk outside. Then, when her stop was there, she got out. She went up the stairs and saw the sun slowly starting to set. The sky looked really beautiful. The clouds were slowly moving, with a slow speed.

Amy continued to walk and finally saw her apartment. As she entered the large glass doors, she saw a little rabbit with... a blue creature?

Amy saw that the rabbit looked lost, so she walked up to her.

"Hey!" Amy said smiling, "Are you lost?"

The little girl looked up to Amy. She looked like if she was six or something. She wore a red dress and a blue ribbon on her chest. Her ears were pulled back, and she had big brown eyes. But those eyes looked scared and worried.

"Yes, ma'am. I somehow don't know where my mother is!" She said with tears starting to show in her eyes.

Amy bent down, with her knees in front of her, and said, "It's ok! Do you live here?"

The little rabbit nodded while rubbing her eyes with both her hands.

"Do you know which apartment number you live in?"

Once again she nodded.

Amy smiled and said, "Don't worry! I'll help you!"

The little rabbit looked up and smiled while the tears went down her cheeks. She went up to Amy and hugged her.

Shocked, Amy was just there... but then she hugged back.

They let go when she started to speak, "My name is Cream the Rabbit. This is my friend, Cheese!"

Amy looked at the blue... erm... thing and smiled at it, "Oh! It's nice to meet you!"

"Chao! Chao!" Cheese said happily.

"Cheese is my Chao!" Cream said, now with the tears stopping coming from her eyes.

Cheese was baby blue color, the tips of its hands and feet were yellow, it had little wings on its back that were pink and it had a bright red bow on its chest.

Amy smiled both at them, but Cream asked, "What is your name?"

"Oh! My name is Amy Rose!" She said, "We should go and find your mother!

Cream nodded with Cheese. She said, "I live on the third to last floor!"

Amy looked at her, "Hey! That's where I live!"

Cream smiled and said, "Really Miss Amy?"

"Yep!"

They walked towards the elevator and went up.

"I live on room... Well.. I'll just show you Miss Amy!" She smiled.

Amy nodded.

"How old are you?" Cream asked

"I'm 17. How old are you?"

"I'm 6!"

"Really? Do you go to school?"

"Yep! Mother takes me there everyday! I have friends there!" Cream then looked around and motioned Amy to come closer to her.

Amy bent down, and Cream whispered, "I like this boy!"

Amy smiled and whispered, "Who?"

"He's a yellow fox! But there's something strange about him! He has two tails! That's why we call him Tails!"

"Hmm? Two tails? Why do you like him?"

Cream giggled and whispered, "Because he's cute! And he's really nice to me!" They made it to the right floor and Cream pointed to her left. "I live over there!"

They continued to walk when Cream said, "Do you have a boyfriend, Miss Amy? Is he cute?"

Amy blushed and said, "Um- I don't Cream."

Cream stopped walking and looked at her, "Why not, Miss Amy? You look really pretty!"

Amy smiled and said, "Oh.. yeah.. but not as pretty as you!"

Cream giggled and said, "Nuh-uh! You do!"

They soon ended up on the right door and Amy knocked at the door. Soon a very worried older rabbit came out.

"Oh, Cream!" she said as she hugged her child tightly.

"Mother!"

They both hugged for a while until they broke away, the older one said, "Oh! Thank you very much! Thank you! Would you please come in?"

Amy nodded and she walked in the apartment. Everything looked so... kawaii!*

The older one brought in a tray with a teapot, some tea cups, some sugar, and a plate of cookies.

"I know this isn't enough but, please accept them!" The older one smiled.

"It's alright! Thank you! My name is Amy Rose."

"Oh, how rude of me! I'm Vanilla. Cream's mother."

They all sat there and had a good time. Soon it was time for Amy to leave, they waved goodbye and they knew they were friends.

'Perhaps... this isn't such a bad place...' Thought Amy to herself as she went to her place.


BAM! A super long second chapter! 30 KB in my laptop.

Oh, and the ghetto teacher... yeah don't worry about that. I have one that acts JUST like him... trust me... I still don't know why they haven't found out about him.

Well.. see you next time! X)

AND~ super-duper huge thanks to "MagaValkria" for reviewing~! X3 And a HUGE thanks to those who added this to their favs/alters~! You make me smile~! X)

KONY2012

*(stared word): for those that don't know what that means its 'cute' in Japanese.