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Amy's POV:

Let it never be said that I never liked introducing myself to cute guys. But this…I don't think my muzzle was the right color at the moment.

"Amy…you can let go now…" Cosmo quietly says to me, pulling me away.

"Wha- Oh! My bad!" I pulled away quickly from Sonic's hand. "I didn't mean to shake long, that was defiantly not in my intentions to do that! I wasn't paying-"

"It's okay, Amy!" Sonic says gently to me.

I glanced away and nodded slightly. "Sorry, I got out of hand."

"Yeah, and we are running out of time, so let's get out of here!" Jet says, getting one more look at me. "It will be a pleasure seeing you on Monday, Amy."

"Wait, will you be a freshman in our school?" Sonic asks, his smile disappearing.

"A sophomore." I responded, my smile disappearing as well. "And you?"

"I'm a Junior, like this girl named Rouge…" He counted on his finger. Then he turned around, facing his friends. "And these guys over here too!"

"You know Rouge? Me too, she's my friend!" I exploded, totally forgetting that these were people I just met. I didn't care anyways; a friend of one of my closes friends is a soon-to-be friend of mine.

"I wouldn't call her my friend, but I get along with her in some of my classes I have with her, like Mathematics and Health & Physical class." He started to smile at me again, and I lit up inside. "But I'm glad she's your friend though because it's hard to become her friend so quickly!"

"What do you mean-?" I ask, stopping myself. I was so close to saying 'Sonic' at the end of my question, but I wasn't comfortable of doing that, considering I didn't know him that much.

"She's popular, I'm surprised you didn't know that." Shadow joined in. "And since she hangs out with popular girls, such as that fox, Fiona, she's changed when she reached the 3rd year of high school."

"She did tell me that she was going to hang with Fiona while the 4 of us go shopping." I said to myself, and then I looked Shadow. "But I didn't know she changed…she seemed fine when I moved back here."

"So that's what she wants you to think…" Jet smirked. I rolled my eyes, having enough of his jokes today.

"Oh yeah, how much she changed?" I folded my arms, eyeing the bird.

"Don't listen to him, Manuela! He's a jerk who's jealous that you're friends with a popular girl!" Mina confronted, pushing me aside. "I think it's time for us to go now…"

"Yeah, I think it's time for us to go, too!" Jet mocked at us, walking the opposite way.

What a Jerk!

"Wait!" I heard Sonic call, touching my arm. I started to blush madly. "I still have a lot of questions to ask about you…"

I turned around to look at him, still blushing like an idiot. "Oh. Uh, I guess I can stay-"

"Amy, it's getting fuller than before in here, we have to get where we need to go! Now!" Blaze says, pulling me away. I tugged away from her hands.

"But, Sonic wants to know more about me," I say, feeling my blush disappear again. I turned to Sonic. "Don't you?"

"Yeah, I do!"

"See?" I looked at Blaze. She gave me one more look before rolling her eyes at me. "Fine! We can stay a little while longer."

"What? I want to go back to what we were doing! I don't want to stay here all day!" Jet says, stomping his foot on the ground.

"We can walk along with you guys, only if the pigeon doesn't explode to death?" Mina laughs. "The Music Shop can wait for another time anyways. I bet they didn't release the CD I wanted to buy yet."

I heard Cosmo giving a big huff, and stood next to me, "Well, do you guys mind?"

"Not at all, we were just heading to the Sports Club store." Silver says.

I kept smiling, maybe because Sonic was still holding on to my arm. "Uh- my arm?" I whispered to him, couldn't help but giggle.

"Oops! My bad!" He said, smiling warmly. I just stared up at him; he was not the same height as me, but just an inch taller. His fur was a bit ruffled up, but in a cute way. He didn't wear any clothing, like most of the boys I knew. But I did notice that his left ear was bent slightly then his right. Was it broken?

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All of us started to walk back to where Silver and his friends came from. I was walking in the middle between Mina and Sonic. "So, why did you move here?" Sonic asked, looking at me. "I mean, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Because she's poor…" Jet coughed out. I gave him a hard stare, wishing I had my hammer. I would so clobber him into pieces right about now.

"Because, she had financial problems." Mina answered for me. I elbowed her in the ribs.

"Mina!" I scolded. "That's none of their business!"

"Sorry…" She says, rubbing her arm again and looking down. "I didn't catch on to what I said."

"You don't seem to catch on to anything, do you?" I tell her with an attitude. I was getting angry from Jet's stupidity, but now I'm getting pissed even more for what Mina just blurted out.

"I just said I'm sorry- and what's that's supposed to mean?"

"It means, you don't think!" I respond harshly, but I didn't care though.

"Hey! No fighting, alright?" Silver got between us. Then he turns his head to Mina "You didn't need to answer for her, she has a voice."

"Sorry!" Mina says once again. "I wasn't thinking when I said that."

"Whatever." I swallowed hard. Now I really wanted to go home after what just happened. And it's bad enough that these guys, beside Silver, don't even know me well enough to know everything about me. I just kept my head forward, not wanting to say anything more.

In fact, there was silence in the group. I'm even surprised Jet didn't say anything else that was 'smart' to me. We just kept walking until we got to the store Silver was next to earlier; the Sports Club.

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"So, I guess we'll wait here then?" Cosmo asked the guys. We're just standing next to the store, watching people, mostly boys and men, coming in and getting out.

"I think that'll be smart…" Shadow replies, looking at me. He probably didn't think that I was looking at him too. "You can stay here too, Sonic, and maybe calm down the girl." He said, looking at Sonic now.

"I have a name you-" I started to say, but Cosmo just Shh'd me.

"Sounds good to me, don't take forever in there though." Sonic says, waving bye to his friends going inside.

"It'll be quick, just want to see what's in there." Shadow opened up the door and went inside with Jet and Silver.

When they disappeared, I looked away from the girls and Sonic. "So…now what…?" I said, looking at the brick-painted wall.

I heard Sonic sigh and felt a hand on my shoulder. "Look, I don't want you to be mad at me. I didn't mean to ask that question to make you feel-"

"Sonic-" I paused for a second, looking at him, trying to act serious without me blushing. "It wasn't you that made me feel bad," I cocked my head a bit to the side of Sonic where Mina was standing. "You had nothing to do with this." I eyed her, trying to catch her attention on purpose.

I guess Mina caught what I said to him, because she left Cosmo and Blaze to come over next to where Sonic and I was at. "Are you trying to hint something?"

"Yes. It's your fault I'm angry!" I said, tapping my right foot. "You're the one who told my business to people I barely know!"

"Can you forgive me then, as a friend?" she pleaded. I looked down, wondering if I should or shouldn't.

"I think you should. I don't think she meant to tell any of your business." I heard Blaze say. I looked up at her quickly.

"Okay." Was all I said to Blaze. But I felt a smile forming on my muzzle when I looked at Mina. "Blaze's right. But next time think before you say things to people, Mina."

Mina starts to smile her famous Sparkly smile."I will!" I don't think its Mina's fault, entirely. I was kind of used to Mina or the other girls talking for me in my younger days, so I shouldn't be mad at her for something she's been doing for a long time for me.

Suddenly, the door slams wide open, almost causing a scene to the other people coming in, and out. Jet seemed mad for whatever reason. "This place sucks, they barely have what we wanted!" Jet ranted, coming next to us with Silver and Shadow. "And to top it, they said that we have to have an "adult" with us…are you kidding me?"

Sonic went to the guys while I stayed with the girls. "Sorry to hear that." Sonic says back. "But don't worry about it, we have the whole afternoon to go to different other places in here!"

"Sorry…I don't have the whole afternoon though." I giggled lightly, trying not to sound rude. "I have to get back home unfortunately."

"Are you sure, Amy?" Mina asks me. I nodded my head, not wanting to get into details.

"Yeah, sorry about the late info."

Blaze patted my back. "Okay, let's go then. I've wanted to go home earlier anyways since-"

"Ahem!" Silver coughed like he was trying to get our attention. Everyone, including me, just looked at him like he was insane.

"What's your problem, man?" Shadow asked suspiciously. I was suspicious myself into why he made that sudden sound. I knew he wasn't sick, he was fine earlier when I was talking to him.

Cosmo started to laugh. "Got the flu, Snow-white?"

"I hate when you call me that, Cosmo! And no I don't have the flu…I had something in my throat, was all." Silver made glances at us. No one seemed to believe that according to their expressions, aside from Blaze. But I didn't believe him either, I knew him better than that.

"Right…" I say lowly. I just shook my head at him, and I turned back to Blaze, who seemed to be in a daze. "Uh, Blaze? What were you saying before?"

"Oh, right! Never mind what I said, let's just go." Now it was Blaze's turn to rush us away from the boys, just like how I did when my parents came home yesterday.

"If you…say so?" I say, raising one of my eyebrows up. I didn't believe either one of them, and I knew something was up, but they just didn't want to spill it.

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Aside from what happened this afternoon, I'm kind of disappointed when I get home for not saying bye to Sonic. Even if I didn't know him all that well yet, I still knew that he seemed like a caring person to be around. It kind of reminded me of Tails. What Blaze did, rushing us out like that, was the reason I didn't get to say bye to him, but that's probably what I get for rushing everyone out of my place when my parents came home.

Déjà vu, huh?