CHAPTER 12

CAN'T HELP TO LOVE

It was another Monday and ever since Tempest saw Spike kissing Lynn, Spike tried to avoid Tempest the best he could. Now that he was back in school, he had no choice but to confront him and prey that he wouldn't beat the living hell out of him. He saw Tempest gathering his books for his classes at his locker. He was scared to death about approaching him and begging him for forgiveness, but he had to do it. He walked towards him with a shy greeting, "Uh, Tempest." he called.

The hawk glanced over to him and back at his locker slamming it shut. He leaned his back against the locker and crossed his arms with annoyance. "What, asshole?" It was clear that he didn't lose an inch of his anger.

"What happened...I'm so sorry. I-I just got jealous when you and her were dating and I fell envious and wanted her. I just can't help to love her. She's so smart and beautiful. I needed her with me and besides she felt the same way for me. Please Tempest, I'm asking for your forgiveness."

He took his back away from the locker, grabbed Spike by his coat collar, and pushed him against the lockers making the frightened hedgehog look into his furious eyes. "I will never forgive you. Lynn was mine and you fucking jumped in the way of our relationship and took her away from me. All I wanted to do was beg her for forgiveness and was hoping that we could start over but instead I see you putting the moves on her, making her fall in love with you."

Spike glared and pushed him away from him, "I always loved her. You just have to face the fact that she doesn't love you anymore. She loves me. You just have to deal with it."

Tempest threw his backpack on the floor and walked towards Spike again. "Deal with it? After everything we've been through, you're just going to tell me to fucking deal with it?" He pushed the hedgehog to the lockers, "Why don't you fucking deal with it!" His yelling attracted other students around them making them stare at Spike and Tempest.

Spike took his body away from the lockers and threw his backpack on the floor as well, "I don't want to do this, Tempest."

"Well I do." He clenched his fist and tried to punch Spike.

Fortunate for Spike he moved, making Tempest punch the locker. As Tempest took his fist away from the locker, Spike noticed a huge dent in the metal locker. 'Whoa, he's strong.' When Tempest was about to send another punch at him, Spike took his hand and caught his fist. "You know I could just use my chaos powers and kill you right now."

Tempest struggled to get his fist out of Spike's grip, "Then do it you fucking pussy!"

Then Spike took his free hand and clenched it into a fist. Without hesitation, he punched Tempest directly in the stomach.

He kneeled to the floor while holding his stomach for a short time. He pretended to get over his pain easily and quickly took his foot and kicked Spike in his leg knocking him to the floor. Tempest got on top of him and punched him directly in the face causing him to have a bloody nose.

Spike tried his best to hit him back. He made one direct hit and that was in his mouth. He then heard a voice shouting out to them. It sounded like a woman.

"Stop it right now!"

Even though they both heard it, they never stopped hitting each other.

Then Tempest was pulled away from Spike by a huge male rhinoceros. Just when Tempest was about to pull away from him, he was held back by him.

"That's enough! Both of you!"

Now that Tempest was being held back by the gym teacher, Spike had his chance to get off the floor but he never attacked Tempest again afterwards.

Then a red female fox walked over to them with her usual sinister look, "What's this? Yet another fight takes place in this very spot for the second time. Why does that not please me?"

The rhinoceros let go of Tempest as Principal Fears continued.

She crossed her arms and glared at the exhausted hedgehog and bird, "Looks like I'll have to call your parents."

The end of the day came and everyone went home except for Tempest and Spike. They were sitting across from each other on a wooden bench outside of Principal Fear's office waiting for their parents to come out of the office.

In Principal Fear's office, Shadow was shouting at Jet thinking it was his fault for getting Spike in trouble. "That boy of yours was trouble from the start. Spike never gets into trouble like this. This is your fault, Jet."

"What! My fault? It was obviously Spike's. Your parenting skills suck!"

Rouge and Wave stood next to each other sighing and watched their husbands argue.

"This is ridiculous", Rouge said.

"No, this whole thing just sucks." Wave said.

Principal Fears sat in her chair waiting for Shadow and Jet to stop arguing but she had gotten way too impatient. "If you two don't shut up, I'll make sure you're kids don't ever go here again."

After hearing that, Shadow and Jet simmered down and began to listen to her.

"I'll have to agree with Mr. Hedgehog that Tempest can get into a load of trouble. Last year, he got expelled from school for having cigarettes in his pants pocket while we were doing a surprise drug search. You remember right, Mr. Hawk?"

Jet nodded slowly, "Yeah I remember."

"Ha! I knew he was a rotten little punk!" Shadow exclaimed.

The red fox turned to Shadow with a glare, "Shut up, Detective Hedgehog", she growled. She then looked back over to Jet.

Jet continued, "I know he's made mistakes in the past but he's changed this time. He told us he doesn't do that stuff anymore and he doesn't. We believe him."

"Well considering Tempest is a bit of a bad example to others, I guess I could cut your kids some slack." She hit her desk with her fist, "Ten days of detention for both of them."

"Ten days!" Shadow and Jet shouted.

"Wanna make it ten days of suspension?" She added.

Shadow and Jet shook their heads, "No, no that's good enough."

Outside of the office, Spike and Tempest still had their backs turned not wanting to look at each other.

Spike then thought that he couldn't be mad with Tempest forever. Just as he was about to apologize to him, Tempest said something first.

"Spike", he said. "I'm sorry. I never meant to start that fight with you. I was just so upset about losing Lynn, I just...lost it. I'm sorry if I hurt you. If you love Lynn that much...just to stand up to me, you deserve her."

Spike turned to him and smiled, "Really?"

He nodded, "Maybe she just wasn't the one for me after all."

"Thanks. Heh, I didn't know you were that strong. If I didn't move at all the right times, I would've been road kill."

Tempest couldn't help but to laugh, "Pretty much." He turned to him and held out his hand at him. "We're still cool aren't we?"

The hedgehog's smile grew wider as he shook his hand with happiness, "Yeah, we're cool."

N/A: Well Tempest is cool about Spike and Lynn after all and most of all their friendship is stronger than ever. Oh and by the way if you guys didn't already notice, on my profile I updated the character bios a bit. I did it because I was bored. Well make sure you leave a review. Later.