CHAPTER 10

DEEPER

After school, Spike ran around the entire school looking for Tempest until he finally found him outside leaning against the fence on the football field. He ran towards him and confronted him with exhaustion. He placed his hand on his chest trying to catch his breath, "Damn, where have you been all day?"

"Skipping classes. What's the emergency?"

"Man you missed it. You should've been there."

"What happened?"

"It's Lynn."

Then he had started to have deep concern for her all over again even though they were pretty much through. "What about Lynn? Did something happen?"

He nodded, "She and Veronica got in a fight. They really fucked each other up. Both of them went home already. They got suspended from school for ten fucking days."

"Ten days? But Lynn never gets in trouble. Why would she just go off like that?"

"She and I found out it was all a revenge plot. Leon and Veronica wanted revenge on us so they decided to try to break you up with Lynn."

Tempest was really pissed now. He couldn't imagine them planning their revenge like that. "What!" He shouted.

"It's true. I don't know what they're going to do with me but I hope it doesn't involve a fight."

Tempest punched his palm with his fist. "Assholes! Wait until I get my hands on them!" Just as he was about to storm off, he felt Spike's hand tug on his arm.

"Tempest, no there's enough chaos and confusion as there is. We can't...just can't."

"Spike..." As much as he was right, he couldn't. He would be just as bad as Leon and their fighting would never stop. He angrily jerked his arm away from Spike's grip and tried to take a deep breath in a calm manner. He leaned his back against the fence again and placed his hand on his forehead, "Oh god I need a cigarette."

Spike almost placed his hand on him until Tempest started to cough. He was really starting to get worried about him. The cough was way worse than last time. He finally had the urge to place his hand on his back, "Tempest, are you all right? You don't sound too good."

He removed his hands from his mouth and held his neck like it hurt. "Yes", he said in an exhausted voice. "Like I said before I'm fine."

Spike watched as he lifted his hands away from his neck. He removed his hand from him and looked to the ground not knowing what to say next until Tempest finally spoke up.

"Hey Spike, wanna have some fun?" He asked out of nowhere.

He shrugged his shoulders like he didn't care. "Sure why not." He didn't know what kind of fun he was talking about but right now he would do anything to take his mind off of Lynn.

Meanwhile, Lynn was sitting on her bed in her room trying not to listen to her parents yell at her for getting suspended from school.

"We are very disappointed with you, Lynn", Espio said in a firm voice while he had his arms crossed.

"What is wrong with you lately? Picking fights with other girls? That's not like you", Tonya added.

"Mind telling us what this whole thing is about?"

The young cat looked away with sadness, "Not really."

"Lynn, is this about that Tempest guy?" Tonya asked.

Lynn then fell back on her bed with her face dug deep in her pillow not wanting to even think about him and how he broke her heart. "He has nothing to do with me anymore. Got it? He's nothing to me", she sobbed.

Just as Espio was about to say something else, Tonya's hand fell on his shoulder. He looked over to her and watched her shake her head.

"Lets leave her alone", was the last words Lynn ever heard. Even after when they left, she never took her wet face away from her pillow.

Later, the night had approached and Tempest led Spike to a wide area full of young adults and teenagers giving each other money and small bags full of marijuana.

Spike nervously followed Tempest towards a couple of adults. He was thinking that they shouldn't be doing this with teenagers, it just didn't feel right. "Tempest, what are we doing here?" He asked in a frightened voice.

"Don't get so nervous, Spike. You should feel happy."

"Why would I feel happy?"

"Because..." he took out probably over a hundred dollars in cash from his pocket and placed it in Spike's hand. "You're going to buy your first bag of weed."

The hedgehog gasped with surprise and just stood there acting like he was about to throw up right then. "I don't think I should. It looks dangerous." He took another look at the adults laughing and smoking the marijuana they had.

Tempest placed his hand on his shoulder and started to push him towards the adults, "Don't worry, I'll be right there looking out for yea, bro."

"But what do I do?"

"Just give them the money and ask for the weed."

"But..." Before he could say anything else, he confronted a man that was giving him weird looks.

"What do you want, kid?" He asked.

He nervously held the roll of money up to him, "Could I buy a bag of weed?" He said in the most pathetic tone ever.

The man snatched the money from his hand and placed a small bag full of weed in his hand. He looked through the money that Spike gave him probably looking to see if it was real, and then looked back at Spike with a weird smile. "Nice doing business with you, kid."

Tempest pulled him away from the group before he said anything stupid to get them into trouble, "So how does it feel to have your very own baggy?"

"Sick." The hedgehog gave him the bag, fell to his knees, and bent his head towards the ground throwing up on the grass.