Negative Effects
Chapter Two: Secret Lover
Four years had passed since Tails and Trey had won the trophy for the Father and Son Race. Trey walked out of his hut as Tails waved goodbye. He was going to school as usual, but today wasn't a usual day. Today was Valentines Day. A day where two people of the opposite sex show their love for each other and try to make things sensual. Since Trey was only fourteen, he didn't even know what love meant. As he walked into the school, he saw his usual friends. "Hey Trey, what's up? Doing anything special for Valentines Day?" a grey husky asked. Trey just laughed at the question, "I don't have time to mess with that type of stuff Ben. I'm only fourteen, what could I do?" he asked.
Chad walked up to him and patted him on the back. They had been friends ever since the race that they competed in. "I know what you could do, just make a card for all the girls in the class. They would probably just die looking at it." he snickered. "I guess so." Trey said and began to wonder. Even though he didn't like to admit it, almost every girl in his class would try to ask him out. Suddenly the five-minute bell rang and they all ran to class. As Trey took his seat, he noticed once again that the girls were taking glances at him. He guessed that he got his handsome tribute from his father. An adult lioness walked into the room and sat down. "Good morning class." she said. "Good morning Mrs. Bracey." the class said in unison. "As you all well know, today is Valentines Day. Since I told you yesterday that today would be a free day, I have decided that I want you all to make cards." the teacher said. As one of the students raised their hands, the teacher rolled her eyes. "And not any gross ones ok?" the teacher stated. The student put down his hand and frowned.
Trey had decided to only make one Valentine's card for only one special person. 'This is really hard to do.' Trey thought as he looked around the classroom. He had met all of the girls in the classroom at one point in time. But he didn't know which one he could give the card to. He looked at the card he had and gave a cocky smile. He didn't make one like the teacher had asked him to. Instead, he had thought ahead and had bought one from a store. A message was written in golden letters saying 'Will you be my Valentine?' and it had little hearts around the card. He couldn't really think of anything, so he just put the card into his book bag and sat in a seat. Just as the bell was about to ring for the class to end, a pretty orange vixen with brown silky hair and velvet eyes walked next to him. She had on a blue shirt with regular jeans. She reached out her hand and smiled. "My name is Ashley Remington." she said. Trey shook her hand and couldn't help but stare into her velvet eyes. It was just something about them that he found, mysterious.
The vixen giggled and looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Aren't you going to tell me your name?" she asked. Trey snapped out of his trance and rubbed his head. "Oh, sorry about that. My name is Trey Prower." he said. "Well Mr. Prower, I have a question for you." Ashley asked. Trey looked at her and tried to figure out what she was thinking. "What is it?" he asked. "Would you…" she began to ask, but the bell rang for class to end. "I'll ask you later. Bye." she said and walked off. A grey fox walked to him and looked at Trey. "Dude, she is one of the hottest girls I have ever met. You are won lucky guy." he said. "I think so too Kevin." Trey said. He thought about the vixen as he was about to walk to his locker. He arrived at his locker and found a note on it that read, 'I would like to be your Valentine, only to one so cherish and noble. To one so caring and funny, and to one so handsome and strong.' Trey looked at the bottom of the note and it read, 'By your secret lover.'
Trey laughed uneasily. 'Who could that be?' he thought. As he walked home, he looked ahead of him only to see a coyote surrounded by a crowd of other kids. "I have the greatest stuff here and it all came from my father from the desert." the coyote said. Trey knew the coyote two years back. He had been a troublemaker from the beginning. Trey walked up to the coyote and saw what he was trying to dish out. It was none other than drugs. "C'mon Tony, we don't need that type of stuff here, if you won't stop selling that stuff, at least do it somewhere else out of the city." Trey said. The coyote looked at him with hatred. "Quite pretty boy, I don't listen to pushovers." he said. Unfortunately for Trey, not only did he pick up his father's looks, but his temper as well. "Obviously you don't know who you are talking to, because you would be on the other side of town by now running from me!" Trey yelled. The coyote flinched, but tried not to show his doubt.
"Listen, I don't know where you came from, but you should…" the coyote was about to say, but he saw the robotic tail and stared with wide eyes. "You! You're Desert Fox's son, your father tried to kill my dad." the coyote said. Of course Trey had heard the story, and from his own dad and mom. But he didn't know why the coyote didn't notice his robotic tail two years before. Then it hit him; he never had it attached unless he wanted to. "I don't know where you heard that from, but my dad took those coyotes out of the desert because they harassed a little girl." he said. The coyote became furious and jumped onto the fox. "Are you calling my dad a liar?" he asked, but it almost sounded like a command. Suddenly a foot hit the side of the coyote's ribs and he rolled off of the fox. Trey looked up to see the vixen he had seen earlier holding out her hand to pick him up. He gratefully took her hand and she pulled him to his feet. "Thanks for that Ashley." he said. She smiled, "No problem." she said.
The coyote got back up and charged at Ashley with a dagger. Trey knew that this was a whole new ball game and that he would have to act very serious on this. As the coyote was about to slash at Ashley, Trey grabbed the coyote's arm and twisted it behind him, causing the coyote to drop his dagger. Then he began to put the coyote into a sleeper hold. After a few minutes, the coyote was out cold and he fell to the ground as Trey let him go. "Thanks for that Trey." Ashley said. Now it was Trey's turn to smile, "All in a day's work." he said. "C'mon let's get out of here." Ashley said. Trey couldn't argue with that suggestion. "Fine by me." he said and walked with Ashley away from the scene. The other kids watched as they both walked off and treaded to Knothole. "Do you live in Knothole?" Trey asked. Ashley looked forward to the village. "Yeah, my family just moved there. They thought since they had heard that the evil scientist left, they could actually move back to Knothole." she said.
Trey stared at the vixen as they walked to Knothole. "You know, it isn't nice to stare at a lady. But I guess that means that I'm something to stare at, so I'll let it slide this time." Ashley said. Trey looked away and blushed. 'What's wrong with me today, I've always been smooth with the girls, why now do I have to seem so much like a screw up?' he thought. Then he thought of earlier when he first met her. "So what was that question you wanted to ask me?" Trey asked. Ashley looked up into the sky and then at Trey, "I wanted to ask you if you would like to come by sometime." Ashley said. Trey raised an eyebrow, trying to figure out what she meant by the question. Ashley looked at the expression on his face and said something quickly. "I mean would you come by my hut later on in the day." she said. "You make it seem like a date." Trey said. Ashley gave a seductive smile, "Who said it wasn't?" she asked. Before Trey could say anything else, she waved goodbye, ran off into her hut, and closed the door.
"Great, this leaves me something to think about." Trey said out loud. He walked into his hut and looked at his father cooking. "How was your day?" Tails asked. Trey smiled and put down his book bag. He thought of the day that he had. He met his usual friends, went to his usual class, had a usual lunch. But the part that had him thinking was the strange vixen that seemed to know almost every move to seduce a guy. He flopped onto his bed and looked at the ceiling. "My day was unusual." he said and thought about the vixen he was going to meet at the school the next day. 'I'll even give her the card that I bought.' he thought.
To Be Continued