CHAPTER 3

GUILTY PLEASURE

The next day, Spike and Tempest were in Science class about to do some kind of lab experiment dealing with different types of chemicals.

Tempest stared at the different colors of the liquids in the test tubes. He grabbed one of them, "I wonder if you can get high off these." When he was about to sniff it, Spike grabbed the test tube and took it away from him setting it back down on the table.

"Tempest, what are you doing? Mr. Smith said don't touch the chemicals."

"Aw come on Spike, stop being such a party pooper."

"I just don't want you to get in trouble that's all."

Tempest made a playful grin, "Oh Spike, you care?"

"No! Well maybe. I don't know." He scratched his head with his hand and his wristband with small spikes appearing from it had caught Tempest's eye.

He took Spike's hand and looked at the wristband he had around his wrist, "Cool wristband. It totally kicks ass."

"Yeah, it was the first thing given to me when I was a baby. That's why my parents named me Spike."

He let go of his hand and looked up at him, "I'm really proud of you, Spike. Yesterday when you took that first sip of booze..."

"Save it. I'm not doing it again. Never again got it? Besides I already feel guilty enough I'm hiding it from my parents."

"At least they won't suspect nothing unless you come home with your ass all drunked up."

"Okay students listen up. Today we're going to change clear water into red water with a little food coloring", a adult green male frog said to the class.

Tempest looked over to the test tube with some kind of blue liquid in it. He never really cared about the experiment they were about to do, 'Screw that shit.'

The teacher continued, "Take the red food coloring tube and simply add two drops into the water."

As Spike reached over to grab the food coloring, he saw Tempest dump more than two drops of other chemicals into the water. He practically yelled when he saw him doing it, "Ah! Tempest, no! You can't mix unknown chemicals together like that!"

The frog looked over to Spike while he was shouting, "Mr. Hedgehog, what's with all the-dear god! Mr Hawk, what on Mobius are you doing!" Before he could do anything, a load of black smoke had covered the entire room.

After when class was over and everything settled down, Spike and Tempest walked out the classroom with yellow pieces of paper in their hands.

Spike looked at his, "Warning letters? I expected for Mr. Smith to be way more angry."

"Oh well, it doesn't bother me if my parents don't have to come here."

Spike looked away from the paper and faced him, "Are you crazy? You just don't mix chemicals like that! You could create an explosion with that stuff! Probably enough to blow up the whole school."

He placed his finger on his chin, "Blow up the school huh?"

Then Lynn had walked up to them smelling the smoke from the experiment on their clothes, "Uh guys, what happened?"

"Don't ask", Spike said as he shoved the paper down in his coat pocket.

Lynn faced Tempest, "So what are we doing over your place today?"

He smirked, "A lot of cool shit for sure." He looked over to Spike, "You coming?"

"Well...I don't know."

The bird grabbed his shoulders and gave him an innocent smile, "Come on, Spike. You just have to and if you don't want to do anything, I completely understand."

"Well if you understand." Even though Tempest acted like he understood his feelings, he thought that he really didn't and would probably try to get him into doing more drugs.

When school was over, they all went over to Tempest's house again. They were all on the front porch.

Tempest and Lynn were sitting on a white bench trying to listen to Spike's conversation on his cell phone while he was standing on the other side of the porch looking in a different direction.

Spike had called Rouge to let her know that he was over Tempest's and he probably wouldn't be back until at least two hours. Now he was about to end his conversation with her, "Yeah mom, I love you too." He turned off his phone and placed it in his pocket. He looked over to Tempest and Lynn with cigarettes in their mouths. He made a confused look over to Tempest wondering why he was snickering in his direction.

He took the cigarette away from his mouth and laughed as he made fun of him, "I love you, mom. Ha, you're fuckin' hilarious, Spiky boy."

The hedgehog made a light blush with embarrassment and walked over to them sitting by Lynn, "Shut up! It's not funny!"

Lynn leaned on Tempest's strong body and looked up at him, "That's enough, Tempest. You're making him upset."

"No Lynn, it's all right. He just needs to quit calling me Spiky boy. It's pretty annoying."

The blue bird started to place the cigarette back in his mouth, "Whatever you say...Spiky boy."

He acted like he didn't hear his comment and moved on to a different subject, "Man am I nervous about tomorrow."

"Why? What's going on Saturday?" Tempest asked with curiosity.

Lynn gasped and realized what he was talking about, "That's right. Tomorrow's the first Saturday of the month."

"What's so special about it?"

She continued, "Well...the first Saturday of every month, Spike and his father trains."

"Trains? For what?"

"Deadly combat battles", Spike answered quietly.

The bird's eyes widened, "Whoa, heavy."

"He's been training me ever since I turned three years old."

"But there's no way you could fight him back right?" Tempest asked.

"Exactly, I couldn't fight back. So he just hits me until I bleed to death instead...to toughen me up."

Tempest couldn't believe that his dad would harm Spike that way while he was younger. "That's insane. Isn't that like child abuse or something?"

Spike looked down at the small spikes on his wristbands and continued on, "Sort of, but he has to do it...to make me stronger. You see when he dies, he wants me to take his place as the second ultimate being on Mobius."

His eyes widened as he began to think who his father was, "What a minute? Your dad...is he Shadow the Hedgehog?"

He made a slight nod while he still wasn't looking at him.

"Oh my fucking god! I knew you looked familiar! I saw that guy on the news so much. Lynn, why didn't you tell me?"

She shrugged and just took another puff from the cigarette in her mouth.

Tempest could imagine Shadow beating the living hell out of him in battle, "I'm sorry you have to go up against him like that. That's just cold."

"Yeah well there's nothing you can do."

He smiled, took out a small pack of cigarettes from his pocket and held them in front of Spike, "I think there is. Take one it'll make you feel better."

Spike glared at him and angrily snatched the pack of cigarettes from his hand, "What the fuck do you take me for? You said you-"

"I know, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to help you out."

"Well I don't do this kind of shit", he gave the pack of cigarettes back to him and leaned back on the bench looking in a different direction.

While he was looking, Tempest winked at Lynn and quickly slid a cigarette out of the box.

She smiled back catching his drift and took the cigarette from his hand. She turned to Spike still facing in a different direction. "Spike", she called in an innocent voice just enough for him to hear it.

The hedgehog quickly spun his head around and all of a sudden a cigarette was placed in his mouth. He gagged and spat it out of his mouth, "What the hell's your problem?"

Tempest bursted out laughing, "What's yours? It wasn't even lit dumbass."

He shook his head and stood from the bench with anger and stress, "That's it! I'm going home. I had enough of you."

Tempest quickly got off the bench and placed his hands on Spike's shoulders, "Spike please, I just..." While he tried to think of an excuse, his cigarette pack was snatched from his pants pocket. He looked up at Spike holding his cigarettes in his hand.

"Fine, I'll play your little game", he walked over to Lynn and sat beside her while he took out another cigarette from the box. He placed it in his mouth and turned to Lynn, "Light me."

While in thought, Lynn took out a lighter and lit the butt of the cigarette. 'Whoa, I had no idea Spike was like this. It actually makes him look attractive for a change.'

Several minutes passed and Tempest knew that his parents would be home any moment. He looked over to Spike laughing to himself which kinda made him puzzled about his actions. Then he saw him place both of his feet on Lynn's lap still laughing.

The cat let out a yell as his boots were on her skirt, "Spike, get your filthy boots off me! You're getting me dirty!"

All the hedgehog did was laugh again and take the cigarette out his mouth, "Yeah...you're always dirty. You dirty whore."

Lynn blushed in anger and crossed her arms.

Tempest just blinked at his actions, 'Is he stoned? What the hell happened? All he had was one measly cigarette.' He turned to Lynn while she still had her mind on Spike's unusual behavior. "Lynn, how many did he have?"

She shrugged, "Don't know, a few?"

Tempest looked down and saw the cigarette box on the porch laying there. He picked it up and looked inside. There was nothing in it. "Dear god, he smoked them all? That fast?"

The cat made a slow nod, "I guess so."

He stood from the bench and snatched last cigarette out of Spike's mouth. He threw it on the floor and stomped on it trying to put it out. He picked it off the floor and threw it under the porch where he usually places them.

Spike looked at him in a confused state, "What the fuck's your problem? I want my damn cigarette."

He shook his head feeling sorry for Spike's own behavior and took out a can of disinfect spraying it around the area, "My parent's will be here any moment. What will they say when they see him like this?"

She shrugged while putting her cigarette away as well, "Don't know. Make stuff up."

He put the can of disinfect away, now he had a bottle full of cologne in his hand, "You're a real help, Lynn", he said sarcastically.

Then they both heard a loud thump. They looked over to Spike laying on the floor laughing at himself yet again.

"I fell out my fucking chair."

Tempest shook his head yet again, "What am I going to do with you?" He helped him off the floor and started to spray the cologne all over his body.

Spike just stood there and watched as he did it, "What you doing?"

"Trying to cover the smell of cigarettes on your body."

"Your funny."

He had no idea what Spike was talking about but he just said something to keep him occupied at the moment. "Yeah, yeah." After that he looked over to Lynn while she was placing her perfume bottle back in her purse. "Got everything straight?"

She nodded and walked over to them.

"Keep Spike busy and make sure he doesn't do anything retarded." He went inside probably to make sure things were the way they were before his parents showed up.

Lynn looked into Spike's bloodshot eyes and studied the goofy way he was standing, "Spike, are you okay? You had a lot and..."

"You're hot", the hedgehog said out of nowhere.

Lynn was paralyzed for a moment not knowing what to say or do, "Wha-what did you just say?" Even though she already knew what he had said, she asked anyway.

"I loves you", he wrapped his arms around her and sniffed the perfume on her fur. "You smell pretty", he murmured in her ear.

She still stood there deeply blushing. 'I never seen him this way before? Could he really mean what he said?' "Spike, we..." Before she could speak, her lips were slammed into his. She enjoyed it but not completely, after all he was stoned at the time. He quickly pushed him away and panted a little with her chest heaving. She looked over to Spike and noticed that he looked like he had no clue what he just did. Before she could do anything else, Tempest had came back looking at them standing across from each other in a fine distance.

He looked over to Lynn then Spike, "Did I miss something?"

Before Spike could say anything, Lynn had, "No Tempest, everything's fine." She lied and it felt bad but she just didn't want to see Tempest harm Spike after he laid his lips on hers.

"Tempest, we're back!" A heavy voice shouted from inside.

"Shit! It's my parents!" He grabbed Spike's wrist and led him inside with Lynn slowly following. He walked into the kitchen and was greeted by a green hawk, purple swallow, and a grey albatross. "Mom, dad, Uncle Storm, this is Spike. The guy I was telling you about." He tried to act like nothing was wrong with him and lucky for him his parents didn't think so either.

The green hawk placed his finger on his chin, "Hmm? Something's strange about you. Have we met before?"

Spike chuckled a bit, "Oh you must mean my dad, Shadow the Hedgehog. I get that a lot around people like you."

"Oh you're his son", Wave thought it was obvious since they both almost looked alike. The only way they could tell them apart was Spike's pure black fur and green eyes.

"Yeah that's me, Spike the Hedgehog." He laughed more afterwards.

The others couldn't catch what was so funny, however they had no clue what was going on with him.

Tempest knew that they would figure it out sooner or later so he took Spike's wrist leading him out the door. "Well I'm gonna walk Spike home now. I'll be back in a couple of hours." He quickly ran out the door along with Lynn before his parents could object against his actions.

The green hawk turned to his wife in confusion, "I wonder if that hedgehog has a laughing problem or it's just normal."

Storm figured something was wrong. Somehow he knew that Tempest was doing something very bad and the results of it would probably end in disaster.

N/A: If I get anything wrong with the effects of the drugs that I mention, please let me know. I've never did drugs like these and I don't know what it's like. So please let me know if I'm doing something wrong. Thankies!