Hey guys! Sorry for the late(ish) update, I had to sort a few things out. I wrote a bit every day though, so yeah.

Anyways, no really big updates on how things are going with life right now. I'm currently looking for a full time job so that I actually have something to do with my time, but other than that, life's actually kind of boring.

Anyways,

Enjoy.

Walking into high school for the first time wasn't too fun for me, to tell the truth. It isn't necessarily a basket of roses for anybody else for that matter, but this is my story, so I am going to take this time to apologize in advance for my bitching about the first time I entered Station Square high. Anyway, I woke up like I would any other morning, except it was a lot earlier than when I normally wake up, and I actually had to prepare to go somewhere. Scratch that, it was very unlike any morning, but whatever. I woke up at around a quarter to six, due partly to school but mostly to the fact that I could not sleep very well the night before.

I got out of bed and stressed my sore muscles to release the tension caused by the lack of sleep. Letting out a long (and obnoxious, I had to note so that if I ever got a girlfriend I wouldn't gross her out) yawn, I walked into my washroom and started pampering myself, so that I would look nice and spiffy for when school started. After showering, washing my face (so that I wouldn't develop any extreme cases of acne,) and brushing my teeth multiple times, I walked out of the bathroom and started searching for some clothes to wear. After pondering my choices for a good half hour, I finally decided on a pair of loose tan shorts and a pink polo with a pocket on the breast. I opened my bed side table and pulled out my pair of reading glasses and put them on, knowing that I would need them if I were to be copying off of a black board today.

I checked my watch and realized that it was already half passed seven and that Knuckles would be picking me up shortly. I grabbed my backpack and slung it around my shoulders, tightening the straps. After one last glance at the mirror to make sure that I looked presentable and well mannered, I walked out of my room and down the stairs. Every good day starts with a well balanced and nutritious breakfast, so upon arriving in the kitchen, I popped some toast in the toaster and pulled out a pan to make some eggs on. When the eggs were ready, I placed them on the toast and made myself a nice breakfast sandwich to satisfy my hunger. Once I was finished, I downed half a carton of orange juice and put the dirty dishes and the pot in the sink to clean. However, before I had the chance to clean them, I heard a horn honk from outside, signalling that Knuckles was here. I decided that I would simply do the dishes later on that day when I got home.

I quickly unplugged my cell phone from its charging place in the kitchen. I threw on my shoes and walked out the front door, locking it afterwards. Knuckles lived close to my residence with his father, Locke, on Angel Island, so he had decided to come pick me up and drive me to school on most days. I threw my backpack in the back of his car and seated myself in the passenger seat, fastening my seatbelt.

"Excited for your first day of high school?" Knuckles asked, adjusting his rear view mirror and pressing his foot on to the gas pedal. I couldn't help but feel my stomach churn at the mention of high school; I was hoping not to think about it until I was there.

"If I said I wasn't nervous, it would be a lie," I responded, twiddling my fingers. I wasn't really the best at dealing with situations when not knowing what to do. Aside from the whole Amy thing, this had been the only situation that I was completely stumped on, and I really didn't know why. I mean, high school is just a normal thing that everyone ends up going through, right?

"Don't sweat it, kid," Knuckles said, giving me a pat on the back for good measure, "I'm sure you'll do fine. And if anyone gives you shit, tell Sonic and I. We'll definitely deal with them for you."

We arrived on campus a short fifteen minutes after the conversation. Following the exchange, Knuckles had put his music on, and I took the short ride on the way to school mentally prepping myself for the unknown territory. Teenagers were downright scary, and I had seen many programs while watching television that the teenage population meant only violence and drugs, and I was accustomed to neither of them. I had made a silent vow with myself that I would mind my own business and not converse with anyone unless it was the group of friends that I was currently in, or if I were with them while conversing.

I got out of Knuckles' car and stretched my still sore muscles from the sleepless night, throwing my backpack on nonchalantly and trying to play it cool. There were already many people on school grounds, even if the actual school day wouldn't start until half an hour from that point in time. Taking a few shaky breaths, I turned to Knuckles, who gave me a reassuring smile. I felt a bit more at ease after that, so I decided that I would continue to play it cool until the point where I couldn't handle it anymore.

After making that silent realization, I heard the sound system of a familiar blue Honda Civic blasting out rock music. Knuckles and I knew already who it was without seeing the car, and within seconds, it screeched to a halt in the parking space beside Knuckles' vehicle. Sonic stepped out of his car and locked it, shooting both of us a toothy grin.

"You guys ready for School?" He asked while leaning against his car and yawning, obviously an illusion to pretend that he was bored already. Knuckles and I both knew that he was as excited as we were about the whole ordeal. He couldn't fool his best friends that easily.

"Sure as hell, man," Knuckles answered, patting his shoulder. Sonic looked over at me and winked good naturedly to reassure me that everything was alright. If I were feeling a little bit better about the situation when Knuckles showed signs of comfort, I definitely felt one hundred percent about it now.

We chatted amongst ourselves for the last twenty minutes until the school day commenced. Sonic and Knuckles occasionally said a few words to a hand full of people that walked by, but most of the attention was on the fact that this year was going to be the 'best yet', compliments to the foresight of Sonic. When the school bell rung, the three of us walked into the doors of the building, and I was as ready as ever to start my high school career.

The hallways were very crowded and I had bumped into many different people while trying to get a hold on where I was supposed to go. Many different smells entered my nostrils, some good and some bad, and I made a mental note that I would have to practice ignoring the bad smells. If high school smelled like this on the first day, it would most likely smell like this every day. I excused myself from the hallway the second I found a washroom and pulled out my schedule from my backpack. Quickly looking it over, I realized that I was expected in the drama room for first period. I folded the sheet of paper and stuffed it in the pocket of my khaki shorts, walking out of the washroom afterwards.

When I found my way out of the washroom, the halls were much less crowded than before. I saw many students walking through doorways that led to classrooms, and for a second I grew worried that I would be late on my first day, but then I realized that it would not necessarily matter considering that I were new to the school. Stating that I was lost would be a variable excuse for the first week or so.

By the time that I had started to get accustomed to the hallway patterns of the school, there were almost no students wandering the hallways. I turned left at a certain turning point and noticed that there was a group of people loitering in the hallway that I did not recognize from the collage of faces that I had seen moments before entering the washroom. I decided to keep to myself and walk past them, but my own two feet betrayed me, and I started to feel as if I were walking funny.

"Haven't seen you wondering these halls before."

I turned roughly at the statement, both nervous and scared. The group of people that stood before me looked very intimidating, and due to my short stature, there were very few ways that I could scare them off if they decided to hurt me. The statement seemed to have come from the green hedgehog that stood in the group. He had a pair of ripped jeans and a leather jacket on, a white v-neck shirt underneath. A pair of aviator sun glasses rested on his head. He walked up to me, shooting me a smile that I could tell was fake, but I stood my ground, ignoring how intimidating these new faces were. If Knuckles and Sonic taught me one thing throughout the years, it would have been to stand up for myself and not show fear.

"Yeah, I'm new," I started, ignoring the slight quiver in my voice. I reached a hand out to shake his, all in common courtesy. The green hedgehog took my hand and shook it lightly, and I noticed that there was very little hostility in his eyes. I let myself calm down a bit, allowing me to recollect my thoughts. After a moment I was still holding his hand, and I realized that he was giving me a slightly awkward look. I cleared my throat and released his hand, "my name's Miles, but most people call me Tails anyways. And you are?"

The green hedgehog put his hands behind his head and looked down on me, a condescending smirk plastered across his face. I held my guard up, still not fully trusting these new faces.

"I'm Scourge. Those people back there are Fionna, Bark and Fang. Sorry to inform you, kid, but you're trespassing on our hallway right now."

I felt my heart drop into the pit of my stomach as the other three people walked up to me from behind Scourge. The four of them circled me and left no room for me to squeeze through and run away. Defensively, I threw my fists up and assumed fighting position, hoping that I could fend for myself until an authoritative figure happened to walk through this hallway. Scourge let out a deep chuckle, and turned to shoot the girl, Fionna, a glance.

Fionna looked over at me, her eyes showing aggression, but I swore that I saw some sorrow in them. She grabbed my collar and pinned me up against the wall, and for a moment I felt sort of stupid that I was about to get my ass kicked by a girl. Scourge walked over and raised a fist at me, and I braced myself mentally and physically for a beating. Clenching my eyes, I awaited the sure pain that would come from a blow by a guy that was so much bigger than me.

A moment after closing my eyes, I heard a sound similar to that of somebody falling to the ground. I opened my eyes to see what was happening and saw that the biggest one of the group, Bark, had fallen down and he was currently holding his stomach as if he had just taken a punch, and Scourge was being held up against the wall by his collar. A look of shrill fear was present on Scourge's face. Fionna dropped me and I was shaking, afraid that this affair would get me in trouble on the first day of school. Finally gaining the confidence to let my eyes trail up to who was holding my aggressor up by his shirt, I saw that the one who had saved me from an unjustified beating was a black and red hedgehog.

"Listen here, you punk," The darker hedgehog spat out to Scourge, "If I ever see you beating on a freshmen again, I will personally tenderize your face. You got that?"

"Who do you think you are, man?" At this point, Scourge started to regain his composure, and a snarky smile was starting to appear on his face, "You think that you can walk into my school and get all violent with me? The four of us should teach you a lesson about respecting the authorities."

I looked at the other three members of Scourge's crew and realized that they had backed away in fear of the new face in the conflict. I felt a strong sense of pride flow through me in realization that this guy who I had never seen before decided to be late for his class to come to my aid. The black and red hedgehog looked at the cowardly aggressors and shot them a death glare. After shooting me a quick red-eyed glance, the black and red hedgehog turned to Scourge, who was still being held up to the wall against his will.

"Your friends are obviously cowards," he stated, dropping Scourge and picking up his, turning his back and starting to casually walk away, "You're not worth my time. You coming, Miles?"

I turned to the black and red hedgehog and quickly jogged after him. I looked back at Scourge and his gang, who all had dumbfounded looks on their faces, and stuck my tongue out at them. It serves them right for messing with me.

We turned a corner and I walked over to the water fountain to take a few sips. I heard my new acquaintance stop and wait for me to finish with my drink. After I was done, I wiped my lips and leaned up against the wall, facing him.

"Thanks man," I started, taking a deep breath and carefully choosing my words, "For that. You didn't have to though."

"No problem," he stated, showing off a smile and brushing off my words, "Where were you heading? I have Drama this period. And you?"

"I've got the same class as well," I acknowledged. I gave the new guy a once over, realizing that he looked way too old to be in a beginner's drama class, "Why are you in grade nine drama?"

"Needed a credit in the arts," he stated as we continued to walk to our destination, "Decided that music would be too easy for me. So in the end, I chose dramatic arts."

"Cool," I said, keeping in pace with him, "So what's your name?"

The darker one chuckled, "Shadow. I'm Shadow."

I extended a hand to shake his. He took mine and shook it, and for the first time since entering the building, I felt at ease.

-x-

I hadn't gotten into too much trouble after walking into drama late with Shadow. He explained to the teacher that we had both gotten lost, and she understood completely. It happened to be Shadow's first day at this school as well; he had recently transferred over from Westopolis after moving out from his parents' house. He was eighteen years old and was on his victory lap, and he was an aspiring musician. He was a really cool guy, and he seemed to understand my nervousness about school when my other friends really didn't. I didn't blame my other friends, however. They had been in this school for quite some time and they had all enjoyed it, so yeah.

Anyways, after drama class was over, I left for my next class, which was English. I didn't see many faces that I knew except for Fang, the purple weasel that was in Scourge's gang. He didn't really seem to notice me though, so I kept to my own business and the class ended pretty quickly.

It was now lunch time, and I had started to grow hungry. I walked into the cafeteria, straining my eyes to see if I could recognize anybody that I knew over the many hundreds of faces. I saw Sonic waving over to me from one of the tables and I walked over to him.

"Hey buddy, you hungry?" Sonic asked, passing a chicken burger at me. I nodded in appreciation and quickly devoured it, enjoying the taste. Many people had told me that cafeteria food wasn't very good, but I begged to differ.

After swallowing down my chicken burger and taking a swig of Sonic's cola, he motioned me to follow him. We walked out of the front doors of the school and over to the bleachers, where I saw most of our group and a few other people sitting. We jogged over to them and sat down. The girls were laughing at a joke that Knuckles had told, and Sonic and I sat down with them.

Amy turned to me and gave me a hug. "Hey, Tails. How's the first day of school treating you?"

"It's going pretty smoothly, thanks," I answered. I decided to leave out the part about Scourge and his group, realizing that there was no need to alarm anybody. Amy nodded and smiled at me, and Sonic, who was sitting on the other side of her, held her hand. I felt a little bit defeated at this, but I let it slide. They were probably doing it out of friendship.

"Oh! This is Skye, and I believe you've met Mina before," Amy stated, gesturing to a sky blue hedgehog and a yellow and purple mongoose who were sitting on the top seats of the bleachers. I smiled and waved at them and they returned the gesture. We all sat there and chatted amongst ourselves for a while.

"Who's that?" Sonic pointed out. I looked over to where he was pointing and saw Shadow sitting alone on the bleachers.

"Oh, that's Shadow," Amy and I simultaneously replied. Amy looked over at me and giggled, but I waited for her to finish, "He's a pretty quiet guy, I met him in my second period class and he's new here. How do you know him, Tails?"

"I met him in the hallway," I lied. Well, it wasn't essentially a lie, but I left out the whole truth. By the time that I finished my sentence, Sonic had gotten up and strolled over to where Shadow was sitting. We saw them chatting and when they were done; Sonic extended a hand and helped him get up. They both strolled back to the rest of us.

"Guys, this is Shadow," Sonic said, restating what had already been mentioned. Shadow waved and flashed us all a half smile. Climbing up the bleachers, he ruffled my hair and then sat beside me. I laughed when he messed up my hair and swatted his hand away, and the rest of the group started talking amongst themselves again. Shadow opened his bag and pulled out an apple, biting into it thoughtfully.

"Did Scourge and his goons mess with you at all after we left?" Shadow asked quietly, not sure whether or not I wanted the rest of the group to know.

"Nah, I think they got the message, but thanks a lot, man. I really appreciate it." I replied. I felt the bleachers shift a bit as I realized that Skye got up from where she was sitting to sit on the other side of Shadow. The two of them started talking casually, and I caught on to how Shadow was flirting. I took the time to make some mental notes of how he was doing it, because she was most definitely getting swooned by his antics. I thought that maybe if I used the same approach on Amy, she would possibly grow interested in me, too...

"Yo guys, I gotta say somethin'," Sonic said, silencing us, "Just saying, Amy and I have been dating for the last little bit. We hadn't informed anyone yet, but I just wanted to let you all know now, alright?"

Skye squealed in happiness for her pink best friend after Sonic had come out with the truth. I felt my shoulders drop and turned up to look at Rouge, who was shooting me an apologetic look. I looked back at Sonic, who was looking at me, so I forced a smile on my face to show my best friend that I was happy for him (even though that was a lie) and that I supported him, regardless of his choices (which was also a lie if it had to do with Amy.) I then realized that I had been doing a lot of lying lately, so I decided to stop thinking about it.

The rest of the lunch went by uneventfully. Shadow, Sky and I held up a pretty cool conversation about random stuff in general, and I felt sort of glad, especially with the new found realization that Sonic and Amy were dating, that I had made some friends aside from my regular group.

-x-

School ended pretty quickly, and I had hitched a ride back home with Knuckles. He decided to stay for a while, and we just hung out and shot the shit for a while. At around five o'clock, he went home due to the fact that he needed to prepare dinner for his family. I told him I'd see him at school tomorrow and walked him to the door.

When he left, I decided to fix myself something to eat as well, considering that I hadn't eaten since the chicken burger at lunch. I ended up making a pretty lazy dinner, consisting of simply bread and soup. Once I was finished eating, I attended to the dishes that I had dirtied when preparing my meal, and the ones that I had left unclean at breakfast time. After finishing the dishes (I had to put a lot of muscle work out while scrubbing away the now dried pieces of egg that were stuck to the pan from breakfast,) I checked my phone for the time. It was ten to six.

After watching some television to pass the time, I decided that I would hit the sack early to catch up on the sleep that I had missed from not sleeping very well the night before. I walked up to my bedroom and stripped to my boxers, climbing into bed afterward.

I was still pretty bummed out, to say the least, about Amy's new relationship with Sonic. Why were they keeping it a secret from the rest of us? And if they were keeping it a secret, how long had they already been dating for? My mind was going bananas, so I tried to search for a bright side of the situation. Not too long after starting my quest for an answer to the dilemma at hand, I had found an answer.

Sonic had rejected Amy so many times up to that point. Eventually, they would hit a snag in their relationship and it would end, I realized. And at that point, I, Miles "Tails" Prower, would jump in and finally claim what I had wanted for the last few years of my life.

I smiled as my mind started to slow down with its thought processing. My mind had found a solution to the problem, so it seemed like less of a problem now. I folded my arms behind my head and let my eyes close, content with the way things were going at the moment. So what if she was with Sonic? I hadn't lost just yet.

So how was it, everyone? Did you enjoy reading it as much as I have enjoyed writing it or what? I'm not going to tell you guys to guess what's going to happen next, considering the fact that you all have read this before and even if you haven't, the original draft of this piece of fiction is still up on my profile, so you can all view it there.

So how's life, everyone? Treating you all well? You can answer that question in a review.

So, I have two questions of the day this time around:

What is your favourite modern TV show? And, have any of you guys seen the Japanese cartoon, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt?

My favourite modern TV show has to be Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, the characters are so fun and some of them you can actually relate to. Not only that, but the storyline to the show is so basic. A kid and his dog, going on adventures. It's the things that happen in the show that make it so worthwhile.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed! Leave a review , and actually tell me how you're liking the rewrite. I'd love to know.

Anyways,

Ciao!