Ello, govnas! Back with another chapter for ya! Just a warning, after this chapter is up, I'm going to be changing my pen name to Symphony-of-the-Soul. You have been warned!
Oh, and I do realize that, while in High School and Figure Skating, Hannah's lackey's are named Anna and Montana, and in this one, they are Anna and Lanna. Sorry, there was a mix up when I first made this story! I'm going to stick with it for now, but I may fix it if I ever feel patient and bored enough at the same time to do a makeover for all of my stories.
All OC's belong to me or EchidnaGirl, except Danny the Echidna, who belongs to Sekunri.
I DO NOT OWN SONIC THE HEDGEHOG. :(
Chapter 7
When the bell rang for class to start, Mr. Blackston, a thin, athletic ferret with dark brown fur, stepped up and started to speak.
"Alright, class, the first day's over, let's get learning." The ferret said, not looking as enthusiastic as he tried sounding. "The papers that were on your desks when you came in are your assignment for this week. Memorize all the states and their capitols in the country. You'll have a test on it next week. This is basic. Have fun." With that, the teacher sat back down, and let the students do as they wished.
Most of the class just started going into their individual groups and talking to one another, about school, about the work they were just given, or whatever else they cared about.
As Peter and Hannah's groups converged, they officially started planning.
"So, this kiss dare… We're going to use it to our advantage." Peter said, so that only the group could hear. "Their group looks like it's about to be broken apart by the way high school works, anyway. Plus, being the dweebs they are, I don't think any of them have had their first kiss yet."
"Alright. So what are you going to do about the guys, then?" Hannah asked.
"I was getting there, Hannah, be quiet." Peter shushed her. "So, the first kiss thing is going to play in with the girls. And then, once we mess up the girls, we're going to push them to drive the guys of the group away. If they're not united, they won't be a problem."
They continued on with the plan, assigning who would be doing what, and when they would be doing it.
Cam just stared at her paper as Kevin pulled up a chair beside her. "This is way too much. How can he expect us to memorize all this in a week?"
"It's not that bad." Kevin said. "I learned this in elementary school."
"You lucky!" Cam said, slapping him in the arm.
Kevin gave her a sheepish grin. "Well, I'm going to spend the time I don't use on this to try to understand the notes we got in science…"
Cam looked up at him, confused. "Science? That stuff is easy. I didn't even need to take notes."
Kevin took his turn slapping Cam in the arm, using a mocking tone of voice. "You lucky!"
"How about this, then?" Cam proposed. "This whole year, you help me with Social Studies and Language arts, and I help you with math and science?"
"Who said I needed help with math?"
"Your report card. You showed it to me, remember?"
"Oh. "
"Then do we have a deal?"
"Yes… but… one more thing…"
"What?"
"Close your eyes. I have something for you."
Cam did as she was told. Then, she felt something warm on her lips. Her eyes snapped open. And just like that, the kiss was over.
"Kevin?" Cam put a hand to her lips. She appeared to be in shock.
"Sorry…" He said, now regretting what he had done.
"Sorry? You just kissed me!"
Mr. Blackston glanced up at the commotion, but soon brushed it off.
Kevin just winced.
"You could have given me a warning or something!"
"I'm sorry, Cam…"
Cam sighed, giving Kevin an annoyed look. "You know you're going to get payback for that. Close your eyes, this won't hurt… much."
This time Kevin closed his eyes, bracing himself. But the hit never came. Instead, he felt a somewhat similar sensation to what Cam had before. His eyes opened slightly- Cam was kissing him! His eyes closed again, and the kiss lasted for about 10 seconds before they split. Sonic let out a wolf whistle—right before Cam smacked Kevin upside the head.
"That's how you kiss someone. Jeez." Cam said, crossing her arms.
"Dammit." Peter cursed under his breath. "We're going to need a new plan for those two."
Hannah grinned. "I think I know something…" She whispered something into Peter's ear.
This time he grinned.
Hannah turned to Anna and Lanna. "Find out where she works her third job."
"Right!" Both of them said at the same time. They immediately pulled out their cell phones, texting people and asking who knew. It didn't take long until they got a text back with the address.
"Perfect." Hannah smirked.
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Later, it was drama class, also taught by Ms. Batson.
"Welcome back, class, for drama." She announced. "Now, this year, the play we will be presenting is Beauty and the Beast. Scripts for the different rolls will be on the music stands over there-" she directed the students' attention to the stands at the side of the room with sheets of paper on them. "-and after deciding which part you would like to play, you should practice for try-outs. Know that there will be some singing in this for some parts. Though I'm sure you all can handle it. You are in choir, after all."
Hannah raised her hand, but spoke out without waiting for Ms. Batson to notice or call on her. "What if, when the cast is decided on, we have a problem with someone that we have to have the scenes with?"
"Well, that would depend on the reason. We could rearrange the parts if that happens, though it would be more likely that your part would be changed rather than the other person's. Any other questions?"
There was silence from the class.
"Then get to it." Ms. Batson said.
After ending her announcements, the class went over to the scripts to pick parts. Hannah, of course, went straight for the part of Belle and nothing else. Peter, likewise, went straight for the part of Gaston. Anna and Lanna went for supporting roles, and Butch and Spike just picked up a stage crew request form.
Sonic also went for the part of Gaston.
"Really, Sonic?" Tails asked while picking up a Chip script.
"Yes, really. You get to be fawned over by girls in the part. Duh." Sonic said.
Kevin picked up the Lumiere part.
Cam took note of this. "Lumiere? You said you didn't like him, though."
"Well, he's a minor role that gets some lines. You know I'm not going to get a lead role." Kevin argued.
"You should at least try, though."
"Why? There's no point."
"You can't just roll over and let people have what they want just because they have power, Kevin."
"Fine, then, if I have to try out for a lead role, then you have to try out as Belle."
"Fine." Cam picked up a Belle script, much to Hannah's displeasure.
Kevin, in turn, picked up a Beast script and put the Lumiere one back.
None of the girls seemed to want the part of Mrs. Potts, so Amy ended up with a Babette script, Rouge, Wave and Blaze with chorus member parts. Some began rehearsing amongst each other, while others took the time to do homework.
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Later, the bell rang, and the students went to their dorms. Most of the class shared the same dorm area, other than Peter, Hannah, and crew, who had their own personal dorm, the size of two other dorms combined.
The dorm consisted of a living area, with doors to the rooms of either gender's dorms on either side. Within the living area, there were a couple of couches, a tv with satellite television and a dvd player, a kitchen, and a dining area with a large table to accommodate the students. They were gathered around the TV, where Sonic had claimed the remote, talking.
Cam was on the phone located in the dorm, slightly away from those on the couch.
"Yes, sir, I need to take the day off today… No, I just found out an hour and a half ago… I'm in school, how could I have called you? ...Yes, I know you were lucky to hire me in the first place. But if I skip out on this, I'll miss even more work… I know it's an inconvenience, I'm sorry. It's out of my hands. …yes, sir, I'll be there… bye." As she hung up, she sighed.
"Boss mad at you again, huh?" Kevin asked, waiting for her at the door.
"Always." She walked back over to him, and then they went out the door to go to detention.
After much debate, the group around the TV settled on the Extreme Gear racing channel. Knuckles, who was sitting next to Rouge on one of the couches, decided to put his plan into action then. Pretending to yawn, he stretched his arm out around to the back of the couch, behind Rouge. Then, he slowly lowered his arm onto her shoulder. Rouge looked over at him.
"What are you doing, Knucklehead?"
"Um… I'm… making a romantic gesture." Knuckles said, stating the obvious.
This got the attention from Amy and Blaze, who were sitting near enough to hear, and weren't immersed in the race that was on.
"Really, now? Then…" Rouge trailed off, getting up close to Knuckles' face, so their noses were just about to touch. "I'm going to have to make one back."
Knuckles looked flustered, trying to pull away, since his plan hadn't worked the way he thought it would. But, Rouge got to him first, kissing him on the lips. He froze in place for a split second, losing touch with everything else around him. He gave in, closing his eyes and kissing back. When they broke apart, they caught the very end of Amy's "Awwwwwwwwwww~!" This had gotten everyone's attention, and earned the two a lot of stares. Both, seeing that they were under surveillance, turned about as red as Knuckles' fur in the face.
Rouge was the first to snap out of it, the blush going away. "What? It was for the dare."
"Sure, Rouge. Don't lie. You liked it, didn't you?" Amy interrogated.
"I- well-" Rouge stuttered, the blush starting to creep back once again.
Now it was Knuckles' turn to snap out of it, his attention on Rouge.
"…I have to go study." Rouge said quickly, getting up and retreating to her room.
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"-and, once again, NO TALKING." The teacher in charge of detention stressed one last time before leaving the room.
Then, disregarding everything the teacher had just said, the two different groups in the room got up, started talking, and walked away their assigned seats to be near one another.
As soon as all of the echidnas were seated, Jazmin spoke up. "So, what's all this I hear about you two kissing?" She was looking directly at Cam and Kevin.
Danny did a spit take from the soda he had smuggled into the room. "What?" He also looked at Cam and Kevin, demanding an explanation just with his facial expression.
Knuckles sat by, watching the conversation. He was glad to not be interrogated, but at the same time was in no mood to talk about "feelings", when they were back around the very people they were just in a fight with.
"It was a dare." Cam explained.
"We had to pick the person we liked and kiss them." Kevin elaborated.
"So you guys have had a crush on one another for a while, then?" Felicia asked patiently.
Both of the younger Echidnas blushed.
"No, what Kevin left out was, that under the condition you didn't have feelings for someone, you would simply pick the person that you like the most." Cam explained more thoroughly.
"Answer the question." Jazmin demanded.
"No."
"No, Jazmin."
"Well, then, why did you pick each other?" She asked, never letting up.
"I don't know many other girls as well as I know Cam." Kevin said.
"Same. We've been best friends since elementary school. I was just worried the kiss was going to ruin that…" Cam agreed.
"So was I." Kevin nodded.
Felicia frowned. "That's too bad. You two would make such a cute couple…"
Three of the jocks, led by Eric the Bulldog, walked up to the group.
Jazmin glared up at them. "What do you want?"
Knuckles glared up as well, his fists subconsciously clenching.
"Hey, you know, Steve here-" Eric pointed to the jock at his left. "-is real interested in learning your language. He thinks he knows his stuff. Why don't you see if he has it down?"
"Excuse me? Our language?" Jazmin stood up.
Steve took this as a cue. "AGHPGINDFHAWEC BBGVAWHFDGLANDHAFSGHL VAHRJHTUREHTA!" He yelled. After he was done, he laughed, giving and receiving high fives from the other jocks.
"Why I oughta…" Jazmin started marching forward, but Danny stopped her.
"Don't." He said.
"Why not?" Jazmin snapped.
"I've got this." Cam said, standing up. She walked over and tapped the jock that had yelled the jibberish on the shoulder.
He turned around. "What?"
"Oei rujkuht! Xen tuho oei adjick mo vhaodtj udt mo cudwiuwo! A jxeict fidsx oei ad kxo vuso, rik ak ned'k te udokxadw ke bdesb jodjo adke oei, rosuijo oei doot u rhuad veh kxuk! We ke xocc, oei jed ev u raksx!" She yelled.
The jocks just stared at her, having no comprehension of what she just said. Jazmin, on the other hand, couldn't suppress a laugh from coming out.
Cam walked back to the group, sitting down. Jazmin followed suit.
After recovering from the yelling, Eric lead his fellow jocks over once again.
"What did you say?" He yelled.
Cam turned to him calmly. "Wouldn't you like to know?"
"Listen, freak!" Eric grabbed her by the collar of her shirt and pulled her up out of her chair. Just then, the teacher stormed in.
"Eric! Put her down at once!" The teacher yelled.
He dropped her, making her land on the floor hard.
"Cameron, Kevin, Felicia, Knuckles, Danny, Jazmin, you are free to go! As for the rest of you, you're going to be in detention for much longer than originally planned!" The teacher yelled.
The echidnas left the room quickly.
"Nice, freshmen." Jazmin patted Cam on the back.
"Believe me, I've been wanting to say that to some of those people for so long…" Cam admitted.
"We all have." Felicia admitted. She looked at one of the clocks in the hallway. "I've gotta run. See you tomorrow."
The group split off, everyone going to their separate dorms.
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Cam sighed, having just gotten out of the restaurant where she waitressed. She was now heading to the other, much fancier restaurant where she played piano. It was a fairly good part of the city. Not the best, but by far not the worst. She had been traveling in this part of town for quite a while, and nothing had ever happened. When she reached the building, she went in and changed, before going out to the piano located in the dining room and began to play. Not needing any music, she zoned out, simply letting the music take over. It wasn't until right before her shift was over, nearly an hour later, when she was broken out of this trance. There was a commotion with one of the customers who had gotten drunk. She continued playing, watching as some of the other employees tried getting him under control. Not that they had much, if any experience in dealing with drunken customers. That was rare. Soon, the man got angry at Cam. No doubt the piano ticked him off. He stormed up to her.
"SHHHHUT UUUUP!" He bellowed.
She did so, standing up. This got the other diners' attentions very quickly.
"Sir, I must ask you to leave immediately, or you will be thrown out." She said calmly.
"Like any of you LIMP NOODLES could!" He boasted. "I ain't leaving till I get another drink!"
"Fine." Cam grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back in a way that made it completely useless. With that, she walked him out of the restaurant and onto the sidewalk, while the waiters and waitresses watched in awe. The man was cursing at her the entire time, which she disregarded. Once he was out, she calmly walked back into the restaurant, leaving the other employees to watch the door.
Cam finished her shift and changed back into her normal clothes. She left the building the back way, heading back towards the school by foot. Then, she got the overwhelming sense that someone was watching or following her. She remained calm, and continued walking at the same pace, but focused more. She heard footsteps. Yes, someone was definitely following her. As she turned a corner, she took a glance at who it could be, but they were gone. She continued on, wondering if she was just paranoid.
When all of a sudden, something grabbed her from out of the alley she was just passing.
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MWAHAHAHA! Cliffie of doom! :D
What will happen to Cam? What is in store with the kiss dare? Who will make what in the musical? Find out, next time!
…and that was my cheesy TVish ad.
