CHAPTER 2

THE KIND OF FUN FOR IDIOTS

When Spike finally arrived home from school, he walked into the living room to watch TV but he saw that the room was already taken by his parents fucking each other. His eyes widened as he saw Shadow pinning Rouge to the wall fucking her, though he shouldn't be surprised to see that they looked kinda beat up probably after the fight. When he heard Rouge screaming louder and louder with every thrust, he quickly turned away and quietly walked upstairs into his room without them noticing. When he got into his room, he shut the door behind him and dropped his backpack to the floor. He walked towards his bed and laid on it trying to go to sleep but he couldn't. He reached in his pocket and found the paper that Tempest gave him. He looked at the address directions and thought about if he really wanted to go over to Tempest's house. 'I guess I should...if he insists.' He placed the paper on the table beside him and stared at his black ceiling.

The next morning, Spike came downstairs and saw Rouge cooking again.

The white bat spun around and smiled at him, "Good morning, Spike. We didn't hear you come home from school at all yesterday. You sure were quiet."

"And you sure were loud", he muttered as he sat down at the table even though Rouge had heard him anyway.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing."

Shadow had came downstairs and wrapped his arms around his wife's body while kissing down her neck making her moan.

Spike covered his eyes and looked away, "Dad, do that in the bedroom not here!"

Shadow seemed annoyed by Spike's remarks and decided to leave Rouge alone...for now.

Rouge turned to him before he sat at the table, "Want some breakfast?"

"Smells good but no." He sat at the table with Spike.

"What about you, Spike?" She asked.

"Hell no! Keep it away!" He shouted.

"My food's not that bad", she looked away from them and had her mind on her disgusting food.

Shadow looked over to Spike with a serious look, "Just a reminder, Spike. You didn't forget about Saturday didn't you?"

"No, dad I didn't."

"Good."

Spike looked down at the floor with a melancholy look knowing what they both had to do on Saturday. He looked up at Shadow again with a slight smile, "Uh dad, I'll be back from school late today."

"Why is that?" He hoped he didn't get in trouble already.

"I met this guy that hangs out with Lynn and he wants me to come over to his house today."

Somehow Shadow knew it would be a bad idea, "Who is 'this guy?'"

"His name is Tempest and he's Lynn's boyfriend."

The hedgehog raised an eyebrow, "Lynn has a boyfriend? Espio never said anything about her having a boyfriend."

The young hedgehog shrugged in confusion, 'Hmm, why didn't Espio tell anyone about this?' He looked at his wristwatch and quickly picked his backpack off the floor, "I gotta go. I'll see you guys later." He ran out the door before Shadow and Rouge could say goodbye to him.

Rouge crossed her arms, "Tempest? The name sounds familiar in someway." She looked over to Shadow to see if he knew anything about it, but he never said a word.

Later, Spike was in Math class with Lynn sitting next to him looking interested in the lesson.

A brown bear which was the teacher, wrote a really complicated problem on the board. It terribly confused Spike and to make it worse the teacher had called on him to solve it.

The bear pointed the white chalk at Spike, "Spike, you can solve the problem can't you?"

Spike looked yet again at the problem and back at the teacher, "Are you crazy? It would take a genius to crack that and I'm no genius, Mr. Anderson I'll tell you that."

"I'll do it", Lynn had said as she got out of her chair and walked towards the chalkboard.

Spike watched as she aced the problem without a sweat. He felt pretty embarrassed by it.

Lynn placed the chalk down and faced Mr. Anderson, "How was that?"

He glanced at it and looked back at Lynn with a smile, "Very good, Lynn. I see great things in your future." He faced Spike with a serious look, "As for you Spike, I think you would want to partner up with Lynn during group activities. Who knows, it might even raise your grade if you put a little effort in your work."

Spike crossed his arms in frustration when he heard some of the students snickering. 'Fuckers.'

When class was over, Spike and Lynn were walking down the hallway hoping to find Tempest.

Lynn faced Spike with a gloomy look on his face, "Sorry if I made you look bad, Spike."

"Hey it's not your fault that you're smarter than me."

She made a small smile towards him after his funny remark.

When school was over, Spike and Lynn were leaning against a white fence waiting for Tempest to arrive. They then saw Tempest running up to them with his books in his hands.

"Hey guys sorry I'm late. Those teachers don't joke around. Okay Spike, you ready to go?"

The hedgehog nodded with a smile.

Later, Tempest led Spike and Lynn to his house which was actually an airship setting on the ground.

"Well this is it", Tempest said.

Spike's mouth had hung open, "What? This is it? This is where you live?"

The bird nodded, "You got it. Come on", he led them into the airship and dropped his backpack in the middle of the kitchen floor running to the refrigerator. "Thank god my parents aren't coming back for a good while", he said while he was searching through the refrigerator. "You guys can have a seat on the sofa. I'll be in there in a minute."

Spike sat down on the white comfortable sofa beside Lynn. He looked at her then when she looked in his direction he quickly looked away.

Lynn took her mind off of Spike's behavior and had her attention on Tempest when he sat beside her with three beer bottles in his hands.

He gave one to Lynn, Spike, and himself. He and Lynn took the top off the bottles and started to drink the beer inside them.

Spike mindless stared at Lynn drinking the alcohol until he finally had the courage to say something about it, "Lynn, what are you doing? You don't drink."

Lynn took the rim of the bottle away from her lips and faced Spike with a small smile, "I do now."

"But, it's wrong. We're not supposed to be doing this."

"Who says so? Our parents?" Tempest had said with a joking attitude.

"Come on, Spike. It's all right. It won't kill us or nothing." She turned to Tempest, "Besides, Tempest said so." She leaned on his body and playfully kissed his chest.

He stared at the bottle full of alcohol thinking that Tempest couldn't be right about that, 'Yeah well he could be wrong.' He looked away from it, "I-I can't. I just can't." He looked over to Tempest once more with a smile on his face that encouraged him to drink it.

Spike looked back at the bottle and wrapped his hands around it tightly. He slowly took the top off the bottle and quickly placed the rim of the bottle to his lips consuming the alcohol.