After juice and cookies all the seniors broke off and headed for their own individual classes, all excused from tardy's of course. As Fara, Miyu and Fay all walked side by side just in the same general direction as all of them would break off eventually. Here they were about to begin another year, their final year of mandatory schooling. And it would come and go faster then they would ever imagine.

"Hey Fay what's that on your finger?" Miyu pointed out to the ring that specifically took its place on the canine's left middle finger. The finger usually left reserved for wedding bands. "That better no be what I think it is."

"No of course not." Fay laughed causing the other two to giggle in reassurance. After regaining their posture the poodle could do nothing but smile as she explained. "It's a promise ring from Bill."

"A promise ring?" Fara's curiosity couldn't help but want to know more, "What is it exactly?"

"Well it's keeping a promise to someone but in stronger means." The two didn't quite understand as they paused near the lockers reserved for the senior class. Fay tried to sum it up for the two as she entered her combo and put her things away. "Let me try and clear it up." Fay thought as though the talk was important so she didn't start until her bag was over her shoulders again, and had the undivided attention of Miyu and Fara.

"Bill and I love each other; we've been together for over two years, ever since sophomore year and we've talked about getting married one day." Each of her words carried such passion, such emotion. The same kind of emphasis and feeling she held for Bill, she was just making sure Fara and Miyu were aware of that.

"Right." Fara followed along easily.

"But we both know that were still way to young to get married and things like that. Even after we graduate I told him I don't want to be married until I'm at least half way through college."

"Okay." Miyu made sure to keep up.

"So last Christmas he got me this." Fay presented her hand to let the two girls get a closer look on it, the ring was smaller then your average wedding band for the bride, but still held the same kind of meaning. "He told me that through this ring, he promised me that one day we would get married." Fay's words; although making herself blush melted the other two girls' hearts. It was so sweet and romantic…not at all something you would expect from teenagers in high school. Bill and Fay were truly your definition of high school sweethearts.

"That's so sweet." Fara admitted openly in a voice quiet from feeling. It sounded almost like a dream come true for some school girls, to find who you are meant to be with at such a young age. But for Fay it was no dream, it was reality.

"It really is." Miyu usually wasn't one for romantic things, but even she couldn't deny the love Bill and Fay shared for one another. It was enlightening in a way; Fay's explanation behind the promise ring raised their spirits and made their first day back that much better.

X

"You don't really seem like the weightlifting type Luna." Fox pointed out as the two headed down for their first class of the day, and with no surprise to the she-wolf it was obviously weights class with Fox. Truth be told she only took it because she didn't know what else to take, thanks to recent budget cuts in the school's network system many classes and even teachers had to be cut, thus creating larger body count in learning environment and students taking classes they normally wouldn't.

"You're more or less right." She admitted as they walked up the stairs heading toward the separate building of the school's newer gym. The older gym was actually attached to the main building and was used for the lower classmen's sporting event games, the newer gym for the upper classmen's as well as the football locker room right next to the turf field.

"It's not like I've never lifted weights before, almost everyone does now these days. I just haven't since freshman year. So I'm probably a lot weaker then I use to be." As they entered the new gym from where they had senior pictures just this morning there wasn't much point in actually dressing down today. More like just getting their locks for the lockers from Coach Hedrick and relax for the first day. At least for Luna that is, Fox being an athlete had his own personal locker within the football locker room. As they came toward the weight room did they see the younger classmen going at it as the Great Dane coach, teacher and mentor was taking attendance.

He looked up with a sincere smile to see the two students walking up toward him. "Good morning Fox, Luna."

"Hey coach." The two stepped up and leaned over the front counter as Hedrick kept on going down the list. "No point dressing down today right?"

"No not really, only about fifteen minutes left of class. Most of the students already knew what to do so I just let them at it, not so many first lifters in this class surprisingly."

"Well that's good to hear." Fox smiled as he addressed Luna's issue. "Luna needs a lock if you would coach."

"Well certainly." Hedrick put down the pen and reached underneath of his work station, pulling out a small metal cage just filled with locks and the combo's to them. After grabbing one, making sure it was good and secure he placed it into her palm. "There you go miss. Why don't you go and make sure it works now before class gets out so you don't have to do it later."

"Thanks coach." Luna departed on her own heading for the girl's locker room on the right-hand side of the weight room. She hadn't had much with her knowing that today was going to be an easy day, just classroom introduction's and papers needing parent signatures. She breathed easy as she walked into the newly remodeled women's locker room. A few other girls were in there, all seniors who had gotten in late just like she had.

Oh god… Luna didn't meet eye contact with any of them as she minded her own business, looking for an empty locker that was particularly far away from the rest. She did her best to avoid her, the same vixen Jessie who gave her the death stare just this morning. She sat in the way corner chatting with whoever the hell she had friends with, a jungle cat and another white furred vixen.

"Hey look." Tasha pointed out to the girl who just entered the locker room. "Isn't that-"

"Yea that's Luna, Fox's new girlfriend." Narine confirmed as Jessie merely looked over, at least she wasn't blue and completely stood out. Luna finally found a locker in the upper right hand corner of the top row for her; it was empty and kept clean but most importantly far away from Jessie and the others. Not like it made that big of a difference considering they all had to share the same locker room. Luna merely threw in her duffle bag and closed the door, not wanting to deal with it now but mainly just wanted to get out of here. After testing out her new lock and ripping off the combination to memorize later, she was just about to head out the door until something stopped her.

"Hi." She turned around to see that same grey vixen from earlier calling out to her, "I'm Jessie, you're new here right?" She sounded so sweet and innocent; just who did she think she was fooling? Luna didn't buy it at all, not that it wasn't convincing, but Jessie probably wasn't the smartest girl ever. You'd figure if a girl is dating your ex, they're going to here at least a little bit about you. Because girls love to fight over guys, and guys fighting over girls, it never gets old.

"Hey; yea kind of I came here near the end of last year."

"That's cool, what's your name?" She asked politely still trying to keep on the charade, Tasha and Narine only watched from the back as the two girls merely chatted with one another.

"Luna, maybe you heard my name being called this morning."

"Oh I think I did." She smiled kindly wrapping her arms over her stomach, "right behind Fox I think."

"Yea." The she-wolf knew there was something up. Jessie wasn't talking to her because she merely wanted to, she wanted to try and get something out of her. Luna let out a shallow breath as she undid her tight hair band that kept it all bundled up. Without even trying her hair flowed down perfectly, she had quite the long hair that went down all the way even past her knee caps a bit. You'd think with that amount of hair it would get annoying after a while, she didn't seem to mind at all.

"Wow." Jessie merely stated as she took a step back, "Your hair's really long I love it."

"Thanks, I just don't like cutting it." Luna straightened in a little bit as she looked back to Jessie.

"What are you exactly? Are you a vixen?"

"Arctic wolf." She said plainly as Luna began walking away, "It was nice meeting you."

"You too." Jessie gave a friendly wave and nice smile as Luna went out of sight. The moment she did however the vixen's expression drastically changed to one of anger and irritation. "Can you believe that girl?"

"Honestly, her and Fox? Please…" Tasha agreed as Jessie turned to face them.

"They won't last the first six weeks!"

"Fox deserves someone better then her, much better. She's not even that pretty."

"Flat out disgusting." Jessie sounded as though just what she was making out, disgusted. "Did you see how long her hair is? Who could ever put up with it when it's that long?"

"What are you going to do Jessie?" Narine questioned as the mentioned vixen thought about it. Just what could she do? She was barely lucky enough to even come back to the school in the first place, anymore incidents such as the one last year and she would never be allowed re-entry. For now…there was just nothing she could do.

"I can't do anything about it right now." She retook her seat, leaning back as she crossed her legs unleashing her sinister smile, "But I'll find a way to break them up, this I promise you."

X

The day had nearly met its end, as easy as any first day of school could be. Fox and Slippy walked together throughout the halls as the release bell for the day had rung and the halls were filled with beings all rushing either home, practice, or various after school activities. They chatted briefly about their past experiences in each other's absence, what's new, what's not, and plans for the future.

"That sounds incredible Slippy, working with your dad on the latest tech for Corneria and all of Lylat, sounds like a hell of a career."

"Yea it does, what about you Fox? Thought about what you want to be after high school?" The toad's curiosity struck Fox strangely; he never really had given it much thought.

"Not at all honestly. I've been busy as you can imagine, it just hasn't struck me."

"Well it's alright; you still got plenty of time to figure it out."

"Not that much time though. I should have a deep thinking about it sometime real soon."

"Well that's good to hear." He gave a friendly smiled that reassured Fox's weary; "We need to hangout sometime soon Fox. It's just been way to long."

"Yea I hear ya dude, real soon promise." With a slap on the hands and 'pounding' the fists they broke away. Slippy had some after school science club to attend and Fox had a baby girl waiting for him.

Promise… That word struck Fox in such a weird way as he didn't know why. Promises…were always hard to keep, but you should never make a promise if you know you can't keep it. Hanging out with Slippy sometime soon didn't sound so hard. But other promises he failed to keep in the past…Never hurting Krystal, the spike with Fara…It takes its toll on a person after so many times.

But Fox shook it off, what's done is done and there isn't changing it. It was his final year here in the halls of Shooting Star High, and he would make sure nothing would get him down. It was a promise to himself, but it still ate at his mind…

Promises were important; they show one's true character. Don't make a promise if you know you can't keep it…

Author's Notes

Sorry this is so late. I've been busy and I'm almost about to graduate.

Feel like this chapter sucks, and the 2nd chapter REALLY sucked…Heh we'll see what's up, it's still early in the story ;)