Again, I own the teachers, and the parents, but none of the kids.
To everyone who wants their characters inserted: As you all probably already know, I can't handle too many characters at once. So what I decided to do, was just keep to the ones I have for now, so I can get used to it, and then maybe add another character later, and do it very gradually. I hope you don't mind. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It was another beautiful morning.
In Emerald Town, there was a blue house with a red roof.
It was a Japanese styled house.
Sliding doors opened, and a grey cat walked into a room. She had pointed ears, a fuzzy head, and a cream coloured muzzle and dark brown eyes, and three black striped on her head. She had a long tail, and wore a purple and green kimono. Her ears twitched slightly, as she shuffled over to the pink bed and shook the small lump.
"Good morning, my little Cherry Blossom, it's a brand new day," she said warmly.
The small pink hedgehog emerged from under the covers and yawned and stretched.
She smiled, still half-asleep.
"Good morning, Mama," she said, slipping out of bed, as her 'mother' left the room.
Kira looked out of the window, absent minded, wondering about the day ahead of her.
It was her fourth day of school.
"What shall I do today?" she asked herself, then answered her question. "All of my favourite things!"
She was fully awake now, as she bounded to her walk-in wardrobe. "And what shall I wear today? All of my favourite clothes!" she picked up her yellow dress and red jacket, and shut the door.
She emerged seconds later, fully dressed, and she looked at herself in the mirror.
"And where shall I go today? All of my favourite places!"
As she bounded out of her room, she giggled. "And who shall I see today? All of my favourite friends!"
She skipped out of the house to the bus, which was outside.
Her mother followed her, holding a green lunchbox with yellow patterns on it.
"Hi Kira! I saved you a seat!" Sonic waved from inside the bus.
"Thanks Sonic!" she waved back and was about to step onto the bus, when her mother tapped her shoulder.
"Don't forget your lunch."
"What did you make me?"
"All of your favourite foods," Kira's mother giggled, and handed Kira the lunchbox, kissing her on the forehead. "Have a great day."
"I will Mama!" Kira ran onto the bus and sat next to Sonic by the window, she waved at her mother as the bus departed.
They soon reached school.
The students began to walk into the classroom, greeted by Mrs Fox.
"Hello Tails," she said, as he walked in.
"Hi!"
"Hello Cream, Knuckles, and Cosmo."
"Hi!"
"Hello…"
"Hi Mrs Fox!"
"Hello Amy, Ivo, and Rouge." Mrs Fox said to the running students, who ignored her and ran inside.
"Hi Mrs F!" Sonic scurried up to her, making her chuckle.
"Hello Sonic."
"Good morning, Mrs Fox," Kira bowed politely.
"Good morning, Kira." Mrs Fox showed her respect by bowing back.
The two walked inside, and then there was the sound of arguing brothers…
"Shadow and Light, class won't be the same without you!" she called.
"Hi Mrs F!" they called in unison, both holding a kite.
As they ran in, they could be heard arguing. "My kite!" "No, it's my kite!" etc.
The day went fast
After doing some art (in which Amy drew a rather cute picture of Sonic), playing dress up, and having a nap, it was lunch time.
Mrs Fox indicated this by ringing the bell.
"Get out your lunchboxes everyone, its lunch time!"
Everyone got out their lunchboxes and settled down to eat.
Sonic was going to sit on the same table with Shadow and Light, but Amy got there first, knocking him aside.
"Hey!"
"Hey, Sonic!" Kira called, waving at him. "I saved you a seat!"
"Thanks Kira!" he scrambled onto the seat in between her and Ivo.
He excitedly threw open the lid of his lunchbox and examined the contents.
There was yoghurt, grape juice, and sandwiches.
Egg salad.
His ears flattened, and then perked up.
"Who wants to trade!"
This triggered everyone off, all swapping things.
Tails broke his long sandwich in half.
"Who wants half?"
Cosmo raised her hand. "I do! …I kinda forgot my lunch…" she said nervously, as Tails slid her the sandwich. "Thanks!"
"Who wants to trade with me?" Kira asked, wanting to join in.
All of the young furies looked at her and silenced.
Kira frowned, her ears flattened.
"Who wants egg salad!" Sonic said, breaking the silence, making the other kids chatter again.
"Not me," Amy said, grabbing a tube and squeezing it, a yellow substance oozed out. "I have squeeze cheese!" she said happily.
"I have Swiss cheese and lettuce," Rouge said.
Ivo eyed Cream. "Hey Cream, I'll trade you your peanut butter and honey for my cheese and cucumber."
"Sure!"
They traded.
"Hey Sonic, look what I have!" Ivo said, waving his new sandwich in Sonic's face.
"Oh boy! Peanut butter and honey! My favourite! Trade ya!"
"Sure."
They swapped.
"Yum! Double trade egg salad! My favourite!" Ivo said, taking a large bite of his new sandwich.
Everyone was now happily eating, apart from one person…
"Sonic…" Kira said quietly. How come nobody wants to trade with me? It's all of my favourite foods…"
Sonic looked at her, frowning, and spoke with his mouth full. "The thing with your favourite food is that it's nobody else's favourite."
"I don't understand… nothing beats sushi," Kira opened her lunchbox and picked up a piece. "There's a tasty treasure inside every piece."
Shadow winced as he looked at her lunch. "Ick! It's green! It's seaweed!"
"Oh no…" Light sniffed it, and his ears fattened. "Please don't tell me it's raw fish!"
Amy hung over Kira's shoulder and pointed.
"Watch out! It's moving!" she teased.
"Yuck-o-rama!" Cream squeaked, covering hey eyes and bursting into giggles.
"Why can't your mom make you something normal?" Amy asked, rather rudely.
Kira's ears flattened.
Soon, lunch was over. Cream stuffed her apple juice carton back into her lunchbox, and Sonic finished up his sandwich.
"That was the best peanut butter and honey sandwich I ever tasted!" he exclaimed, licking his fingers.
"Ok, it's recess everyone!"
"YAY!" Everyone scurried outside, Mrs Fox was about to follow, but she heard small sobs.
"There's an unhappy sound in my classroom…" she said, walking over to the source of the sound. "Oh, Kira…"
Mrs Fox kneeled down to Kira's level. The small hedgehog was curled up leaning against the wall, sobbing into her knees, which she was hugging.
"What's wrong?" Mrs Fox asked kindly.
Kira sniffed. "Everyone laughed at my lunch…" she looked up, tears streaming from her eyes. "They think I'm weird."
"What did you bring for lunch?" she took the youngster's hand and walked her over to her lunchbox.
Kira lifted the lid off. "All of my favourite foods…"
"Oh, sushi. Don't worry, Kira, I'm sure everyone will have forgotten about it by snack time… tell you what…" Mrs Fox picked up a paper bag from her desk. "I haven't had my lunch yet, so if you don't mind the company, we can have a desk picnic together."
Kira picked up her lunchbox, smiled slightly, and joined Mrs Fox in having lunch.
Mrs Fox was at her piano and singing.
"Snack time, snack time
Come on everybody, it's snack time
When your tummy starts to rumble
You can make a cookie crumble
At snack time!"
Everyone got out their snacks and began to dig in.
Kira held a black pot and opened it, clutching a small spoon.
"What's that?" Amy asked.
"Ice cream," Kira replied. "Red bean ice cream," she tilted the pot, so Amy could see the red ice cream.
Amy winced. "Ew! Red bean ice cream is weird!"
"But everyone loves ice cream!"
Mrs Fox had a thoughtful expression on her face.
I must think of a way to help Kira… think… think… think…" she thought to herself. She looked around for inspiration, until her eyes rested on the globe. She smiled and began scribbling something down on a piece of paper.
At the end of the day, Mrs Fox handed an envelope to each of the students.
"Goodbye everyone, remember to give these to your parents."
"Bye Mrs Fox!" the kids chorused as they all leapt onto the bus.
Kira walked out of the classroom last, looking nervously up at Mrs Fox, who handed her the last envelope.
"Don't worry Kira, everything will turn out alright, you'll see."
Kira smiled.
Kira was fiddling with an origami bird as her mother read out the letter.
"Dear parents, tomorrow is International Food Day, everyone must bring something from another country, and the children must try a bite of everything. Happy cooking, signed Mrs Fox…" she smiled. "Oh Kira, we will have to do something extra special!"
Kira gasped and dropped her origami bird. "Extra special cheese burgers!"
"Oh, no, my little Cherry Blossom!" her mother walked into the kitchen. "We will make deluxe sushi for the whole class!"
Kira followed her, crestfallen.
"Don't worry, Cherry Blossom. Everyone will try the sushi, and everyone will love it."
Kira blinked, she had a nagging feeling that that wasn't the case.
"Children, what does International Food Day mean to us?" Mrs Fox asked.
"Try a piece of everything!" the kids cried as they run off to try all the different foods.
Sonic looked around, trying to decide what to eat first.
"I brought coconut crisps, what'd you bring, Kira?" he asked.
"Deluxe… sushi…" she said nervously, holding out the box out to Sonic, who backed away, looking disgusted.
He suddenly sniffed the air.
"Something smells good!"
"Really? You really think so?" Kira's tail wagged.
"Yeah…" Sonic said, his head snapping towards the direction of Knuckles, who was holding a tray with food on it. He was wearing a Mexican hat to match the style of food. "Enchiladas! Hey, Knuckles! Save some for me!" he scurried over.
Kira frowned.
Sonic shoved his way to the front of the queue.
"Be careful…" Knuckles said quietly. "Only have a little piece at a time, Mexican enchiladas are really spicy…"
"I like spicy!" Sonic said, and then he scurried off, at the sight of Rouge, who was serving drinks.
But before Rouge could pour him a drink, he had run over to Tails, who was about to give him some spaghetti and meatballs, before he run off over to Cosmo, who offered him some macaroni, but then he scurried over to Ivo, who was also serving drinks, but before he got any, he had run over to Shadow and Light, who were stuffing their faces with the baked beans they had brought.
"Beans please!" he said.
The two hedgehogs looked into their large pot.
"Uh-oh…" Shadow said. "We kinda…"
"Ate the whole pot. Sorry…" his brother finished.
Sonic's stomach growled, and he rubbed it, groaning.
He scurried over to Cream's last Swiss roll, but then he turned as Amy walked past holding food. "That looks good!"
While he wasn't looking, Knuckles had taken the last Swiss Roll.
"Hey, that's my Swiss Roll!" Sonic moaned. He plodded over to Kira, who was still holding her box of sushi, looking dejected. "How do you like International Food Day?" he asked.
"I don't…" she sighed. "How do you like International Food Day?"
"Hard to tell. I didn't get a chance to try anything!"
"And you did not try my deluxe sushi either! No one did! Not one little piece!"
Their conversation was cut short as everyone run outside to recess, including Sonic.
Mrs Fox walked over to Kira, who stood over her box unhappily.
"I'm sorry Kira… do you want to come outside and play?"
"No thank you…"
"I'll be right outside if you need me…" and Mrs Fox walked outside.
Kira sighed and curled up against the wall. "We should have just made cheese burgers…" she was about to cry, but she heard a small familiar tinkering noise.
Chopsticks!
She scurried over to find Sonic fiddling with the chopsticks, trying to pick up a piece of sushi.
"Sonic?" she asked, pleasantly surprised.
"I didn't get any lunch. I'm so hungry, I'll eat anything!"
Kira smiled. "Let me show you how to use chopsticks," she picked up the chopsticks between her fingers, picked up a piece of sushi and popped it into her mouth.
Sonic hesitated, then picked up a piece of sushi with his hand and nibbled on it.
"Yum! This is good! Wow, Kira! You were right! This is really good!" he swallowed and shoved the whole piece in his mouth. "Can we have sushi again tomorrow?"
"Sure," Kira said, beaming.
Mrs Fox, who was watching outside, smiled.
There was always a happy ending.
I hope you liked it.