"Sonic and Amy told me about her last class. Just ignore her Tails," I whispered to him. He just nodded his head and turned back around to face away from Fiona. I turned around too, but apparently Fiona likes to talk to new people.

"Hey. Who's your friend there Tails?" Fiona was now standing behind us.

Before Tails could turn around to respond I say," my name is Cosmo. We would like to be left alone thank you very much."

"Awwwww are you Tails' new girlfriend? Tails I'm starting to get jealous," Fiona cooed.

"Go away Fiona," Tails said without turning around.

"Aren't you going to let me stay and chat with your girl?" Fiona was now starting to get on my nerves, which is extremely hard to do.

"Please, Fiona. Can't you see you've hurt him enough?" I stood up and made a barrier between her and Tails.

"Look at that, his girlfriend's protecting him. Better man up Tails," the class started laughing.

"Shut up Fiona!" Tails was now out of his seat too. His hands were clenched into a fist and his eyes held anger. I did not like this side of him.

"Make me," she winked then walked to her seat. The teacher walked in.

"You two, sit down!"

"Yes ma'am," we said at the same time, then took our seats. The assignment for today was to make 5 cupcakes. I thought it would be easy... Until I found out that the whole class only has ONE oven.

"Tails, how are we gonna finish the assignment if we only have one oven?" I ask. This class has over the standard of 21 students, it must have double that.

"Wait for the crowd to die down or make the cupcake mixes faster than everyone else," Tails responded.

"I'll get the eggs if you get the flour," I said. Tails and I were the first to jump out of our seats to get the ingredients because everyone else was searching for recipes. Lucky for me I know a recipe for vanilla cupcakes. I ran to the fridge and grabbed a carton of eggs and took out two and put the carton back in the fridge.

"How much do we need?" Tails asked with the flour bin opened.

"One cup," I responded. He measured the flour and then put the one cup on the table.

"Now what?" He asked.

"Softened butter, sugar, vanilla extract, baking powder, salt, and milk," I said," I'm gonna preheat the oven." I turned the oven on to 350*F. Tails got the butter and milk, I got the sugar, vanilla, baking powder and salt. "First we have to measure this." I tried to recall how much we needed."1/2 cup of the butter." Tails measured it. "1 cup of sugar. 2 tsp. of vinilla. 1/2 tsp. of baking powder. 1/4 tsp. of salt. 2/3 cup of milk." I think that's right.

"Do we mix in the butter, milk and sugar together first?" Tails asked.

"Not the milk and we have to add the eggs one at a time and stir in the vanilla," I said as I got out the mixer.

"Hey we were using that," a familiar voice said behind me. Fiona.

"No you weren't," I turned and walked back toward Tails. She must have turned back to her clan because she didn't say anything back.

"You know she's gonna ruin your life, right?" Tails said as soon as I got back to him.

"Oh well. She can't make my life any worse than it already is," I responded while plugging in the mixer.

"What do you mean?" Tails asked with concern.

"I... I don't want to talk about it," and really I didn't. My dad and mom got a divorce when I was a baby and then my mom died a year later, so now I live with my older sister who is off in college. To make it worse she's dating a guy that stays at the house all the time and abuses us. None of my other sisters or my brother know this. I don't want them to find out.

"Ok," Tails replied still with a look of concern. We mixed the ingredients together and put it in the oven. Lucky for us we were the first ones to it and got the whole shelf. We sat down at our table since the cupcakes would take about 20 minutes. We were both releived to find out that Fiona had messed up and added 2 cups of vanillia instead 2 tsp. "Who did you meet so far today?" Tails asked.

"Hmmmm let's see... Cream, Amy, Sonic and you," I replied.

"Cool! Did they tell you that we all sit together at lunch?"

"Yes."

"And did Amy go on about Sonic being her boyfriend?"

"Yeah she went a bit coocoo," I held up my hand to my head and made the crazy motion.

"Haha! She does that with everybody, don't worry," Tails laughed. The timer went off. We both got the cupcakes and checked to see if they were done. They looked like they were done so we had the teacher check.

"100% for both of you. Your reward is getting to eat your cupcakes... As long as you give me one," she said. We nodded and gave her two since we were sharing the assignment.

"These cupcakes are really good Cosmo. Where did you learn to make these?" Tails asked after taking a bite of one.

"My sister and I used to bake cupcakes all the time," I responded then took a bite of my own. It tasted just like the ones my sister and I baked before she went off to college and left me with her boyfriend. It reminded me of good times.

"I've never really told anyone this but I love to bake cakes," Tails leaned in and whispered.

I leaned in too and said,"Aren't cupcakes and cakes the same thing?"

"No they are not. Cakes are bigger," Tails said overdramatically like he was really offended. I laughed. The bell rang. "See you later?"

"Yep," I smiled and walked the opposite direction in the hallway. The next class I had was language arts. Great. I'm lost in the hallway again.