High School for the Freaks CHAPTER 11

Shadow wakes up on his couch, with Silver on the floor in front of him, still with no shirt on. He stands and walks toward his bedroom.

The girls are all sleeping in his bed. Shadow makes a fist. He goes to the side of the bed, and rips the blanket off of the girls. Amy is the only one to wake up.

"Shadow?" Amy sits up and rubs her eyes. She looks around and jolts out of the bed. "I'm so sorry Shadow!"

"It's alright, just get out of here." Shadow swats Amy away. She nods, and walks out of the room. "Guys wake up!" Shadow yells.

Blaze and Rouge open their eyes. "What?" They say in unison.

"Get out of my bed." Shadow points at the door. "The couch is open."

Blaze stands tiredly, and makes her way out the door. "Thank you," she mumbles.

Rouge looks at Shadow. Her expression changes to a weak smile, and she slowly leaves the room. She waits until she hears the mattress moan under Shadow's body, and walks back in to jump on the bed next to him. "I'm not sleeping on the floor,"

Shadow turns on his side, facing Rouge. "Alright," Shadow pulls Rouge closer to him, and cuddles her. The two fall back to sleep.

"Let's see what Shadow has to eat," Amy digs through Shadow's cabinets.

"It's probably full of junk food," Blaze stands next to Amy, looking through the bottom of the cabinets.

"Well is bacon considered junk food?" Amy says when she opens the freezer. She laughs to herself.

"Don't want to take any of his bacon; you don't know how he'll react." Blaze grabs the package from Amy's hands and hits her with it. She then stuffs it back in the freezer.

"I wonder if Rouge has told Shadow yet…" Amy leans against the counter in the small kitchen. She stares at the floor blankly.

"Oh, well," Blaze blinks at Amy. "I don't know, but she doesn't seem too worried about it at all… like its just not bothering her." Blaze leans next to Amy.

"Maybe we should give them some alone time today?"

"Yeah, they need to wake up alone. We should just leave soon, then."

"You can come to my house!" Amy beams with enthusiasm. "Silver too!"

"Heh," Blaze smiles. "Maybe."

"Ya' know, I feel kinda bad for Shadow," Amy says randomly.

"Hm?" Blaze gives Amy a confused look.

"I mean, he has no parents, no one to look up to, since Maria died… he lives all on his own."

"But that's just how Shadow likes it," Blaze giggles, "But yeah, Rouge told me how depressed he was when that happened. When she was with him, he just wasn't right." Blaze looks away. "It makes me think how stupid my problems are, how I'm complaining when I should be grateful." Blaze looks up at the ceiling, a tear running down her muzzle. "I mean, I'm all worried that I'll get screamed at by my parents, and you would think, Shadow has nothing to worry about, gets bad grades, whatever, he has no one he has to bother showing it to. You might think that's a good thing, but you know he doesn't like it, when there's no one here to support him, you know he doesn't like it! My problems are so stupid!" Blaze kicks the cabinet by her foot. "I have to go home; I'm going to have to deal with my consequences! I can't run away!"

"Blaze," Amy whispers, reaching for the cat's arm.

"No, no, I'm sorry," Blaze holds her head and leans over.

"Blaze you can come to my house if you want,"

"No, no, really I need to go home. I can't keep running away."

"Blaze," Silver appears in the kitchen, wrapping his arm around Blaze's shoulders, "you can't go home now."

"Any why is that?" Blaze turns her head and smiles at Silver.

"Because now you gave me an idea!"

"And what is that?"

"We need to play house!" Silver throws his hands in the air.

Amy and Blaze laugh. "Are you serious?"

"Yes! We can have someone pretend to be Shadow's parents! And-"

"Silver, that's ridiculous, we're not five!" Blaze nudges Silver.

"I think it's a good idea." Amy giggles, and lays her arm across Silver's shoulders. She gives Blaze a look.

"Fine!" Blaze laughs.

"I'm gonna call Sonic! He needs to be here, or it won't be as fun!" Amy pulls out her phone and dials Sonic's number.

…

"Okay so… who's waking Shadow up?" Sonic crosses his arms over his chest.

"I'm not dealing with him when he first wakes up!" Blaze holds her hands to her chest.

"Well, you two are the parents," Silver points a finger at Sonic and Amy. "So you do it!"

"It does make sense," Blaze nods.

"Ugh! Fine," Amy stomps her foot, grabs Sonic's hand and goes to Shadow's room.

"Rise and shine, son!" Sonic rips open the black curtains over the window, and pulls the blanket from him and Rouge. Shadow doesn't budge. "I said, RISE AND SHINE SON!" Sonic starts jumping on the bed.

"What the hell!" Shadow sits up and pushes Sonic off the bed. "Why are you calling me son?" Rouge shares the same look on Shadow's face: confusion. "And, why are you here?"

"Because I am your father! And you will do as I say!" Sonic flicks Shadow's nose.

"Get away!" Shadow swats Sonic's hand away.

"Don't treat your father like that, um, mister!" Amy says hesitantly.

"I'm gonna go now," Rouge stands and walks out of the room.

"Really, Sonic, what the hell are you doing?" Shadow raises an eyebrow at Sonic.

"We are playing house! Me and Amy are your parents and you have to play whether you like it or not!" Sonic attempts to pull Shadow's foot and get him out of bed, but falls backward when Shadow kicks him. "Father abuse! Father abuse!" Sonic yells and flails around on the floor.

"Stop acting so ridiculous!" Amy lightly kicks Sonic's arm. "You're a grown man! Act like it!"

"Err, well I'm going to go watch TV." Shadow steps over Sonic and heads out of the room.

Silver jumps on Shadow. "Oh, my brother!"

"Get off me!" Shadow wiggles out of Silver's grip.

"You can't escape my brotherly love!" Silver opens his arms again, but Shadow pushes him away.

"Everyone! On the couch now!" Sonic steps into the room and orders.

"Wha-" Shadow gets pulled on the couch by Silver.

"C'mere, kitty!" Silver pats the floor and looks at Blaze.

Blaze gives Silver an I'm-gonna-kill-you look and crawls to sit next to Silver's feet.

"Good kitty!" Silver smiles wide at Blaze and pats her head. Blaze makes a hiss and swats his hand away. "Ow! Mommy the kitty scratched me!"

"Blaze!" Amy tries not to laugh when giving a stern look at the cat.

"Yeah kitty, say you're sorry!" Silver sticks his tongue out at Blaze.

"Ugh, meow…"

"ANYWAY!" Sonic waves his arms. "Rouge, you are now Shadow's girlfriend that always tries to get in his pants, so we hate you,"

"Excuse me!?" Rouge crosses her arms and taps her foot.

"In the game!" Sonic informs.

"Wait, what's with this game!? Why are you doing this?" Shadow says irritatingly.

"Just to have some fun, and give you the family you never had." Sonic smiles at Shadow, and Shadow sinks into the couch.

"Cheer up, brother! We're just getting started!" Silver wraps his arm around Shadow's shoulders.

Sooooo sorry about the long update! This is the longest time it's been between updates. I have been pretty busy lately. I promise this will never happen again! I love you all! ^.^