Shadow decides to go see what James is up too, not trusting the fact that he hasn't come back, and it is after 10 am. The fact that Knuckles was still asleep, and Rouge hadn't come to find them didn't help not set his nerves more on edge then they already were.

Shadow wandered around the school and found James in a random hall way. "How's Sonic?" James asked as he appeared to be cleaning. "He's been better. I think right now he, Solver and I are wondering why you haven't come to get us to train?"

James looked at his student. "What, does Knuckles not care?" James teased. "Actually, he is still asleep." James smiled faltered. "That's okay, there's no class today. You all need more time to rest. There's food in the cafeteria when you guys want it." James said and got back to cleaning. "When you're all up and done eating, meet me in the room Silver usually trains in." Shadow nodded to his teacher and walked back to the room.

Knuckles was stayed fast asleep when Shadow left. "Do you think he's okay?" Silver asked. "Silv, I don't think any of us are okay." Silver tilted his head like a confused puppy. "Silv?" He asked. "Well, I have a nickname for the other two, didn't want to leave you out." Silver smiled at his friend. "Silv, I like it." Sonic smiled brighter, glad he could make Silver smile a little more too. He hadn't liked all the frowning faces, but he didn't say anything because he was frowning too. "What should we talk about until Shadow gets back?" Sonic thought about the question for a minute. "We could talk about our families?" Silver flinched. "Hey, we don't have to touch on a sore subject. Do you not like your family or something?"

"My parents died a few years ago. My brother and I don't really get along."

"That must be really difficult." Sonic grew sad thinking about what it would be like to not get along with his siblings. Sure, he and Amy fought all the time, but he wouldn't say that they don't get along. "I learned to deal. Besides, Blaze and I are in the same boat, so we just grew closer because of it."

"What do you mean?"

"Sonic, could we talk about something else?"

"Yeah, sure. Sorry." Silver took a second to respond. "It's okay. Maybe I'll talk about it later. Just, I'm too drained to talk about him right now."

"Want to talk about Blaze?" Sonic says, suddenly getting an idea. "What about her?" Silver tilts his head like a confused puppy again. "That you like her." Silver squints. "Why would I not like her, she is my friend." Sonic face palms. "You are dense."

"I am genuinely confused!"

"He meant that you have a crush on her." Knuckles says, the new voice startling the other two boys and causing them to scream. Then Shadow slams the door open, chaos spear at the ready, and for the second time, Silver and Sonic let out shrieks of terror. "Would you two stop that." Knuckles says. Shadow sighs and lets the spear fade. "I thought someone broke in." He admits when his boyfriend gives him a questioning look. "We fine physically, but I got so startled by the two of you that I think my soul temporarily left my body." Silver says and clutches his heart.

"James said there's food." Shadow tells them. "Just a sec Shads, we were just about to talk about..." Sonic is interrupted. "Oh, look at the time. I'm hungry, are you hungry. I certainly am. Let's go get breakfast." Silver jumps off his bed and runs out of the room. "What the hell was that?" Shadow asks. "I think he was tired of Sonic's personal questions." Knuckles replies. Sonic dashes out of the room and comes to a stop in front of Silver, who skids to a stop and falls on the ground. "Why are you avoiding this?" Sonic asked. "Cause maybe I don't want to talk about it."

"I feel like you are avoiding this on purpose." Silver glared at Sonic. "That is exactly what one does when they don't want to talk about something."

"You've only not answer two of my questions, ever, and I want to know why."

"I can have secrets."

"It doesn't make sense."

"It makes sense. It makes perfect sense. I don't want to talk about it because reasons and you keep pestering me when I'm not ready to talk about it." Sonic softened his gaze. "Maybe pushing wasn't the right way to go about this." Sonic thought to himself (yeah no duh). Sonic let out a sigh. "You're right. I'm sorry." Sonic extended his hand to help Silver off the ground. Silver accepted the hand. "I'm sorry Silv." Silver smiled at Sonic. "I accept your apology Sonic, and I forgive you." Sonic smiled. Knuckles and Shadow caught up to them. "Let's go get some food." Sonic told them and started walking. "Last one there is a rotten egg." He shouted and booked it. Shadow quickly racing after him in another blur of color. Silver and Knuckles looked at each other. "Well I don't want to be a rotten egg." Silver said and started running. Knuckles rolled his eyes but ran too.

Blaze got up to a note from her teacher. It told her that they had the day off, that they could go down to breakfast when they were ready. Blaze looked over to find Rouge still asleep. Blaze saw that it was 10:30 and didn't dare let Rouge sleep much longer. She got up and got herself dressed. Then went over to Rouge and tapped her shoulder. Rouge immediately opened her eyes. "What time is it?" She asked. "It is 10:37." Rouge looked at her friend. "You and Shadow." She rolled her eyes. "I don't understand." She said. "You both say the exact time. You could have just said that it was like 10:40." Blaze rolled her eyes. "So you are a light sleeper." Rouge stretched her wings and arms. "Well, someone in my family had to be."

"What do you mean?" Blaze asked. "Trying to wake my sister is like trying to wake the dead." Blaze hummed in understanding. "Why?"

"Don't know." She replied. "She's just a really heavy sleeper."

"Do you have a good relationship with your sister?" She asked. Rouge looked suspiciously at Blaze. "I would say for the most part yes. We fight sometimes, we yell at each other, we do stuff to piss the other off, but in the end, we have that bond of sisterhood, I guess. I mean, I know that the moment I tell her about Knuckles she'll get all up in his face and declare that if he hurts me, she'll hunt him down and kill him, and she'll mean it too." Blaze smiled. "That must be nice."

"You have an older sibling right, I mean, obviously since you're hear as the second born. But what are they like?"

"I have a sister. We do not have that same relationship. We do not get along. Much like how Silver and his brother do not get along." Rouge looked at her friend sadly. "Well, maybe we aren't sisters by blood, but we could be like sisters." Blaze looked confused. "Starting with that juicy gossip about you and Silver."

"What about me and Silver?"

"Well, how you feel about him." Blaze narrowed her gaze. "He is my friend."

"And..." Rouge encouraged. "That's it. He is my friend." Rouge facepalmed. "I need food." Blaze extended her hand and helped Rouge up. "Then let's go get food."

The boys ate their food in silence. Knuckles was particularly grumpy at being named the 'rotten egg'. The girls walked in and grabbed some food as well and sat to eat with them. "You know what I didn't think about?" Silver finally said after a while of silence. "In three days at that party for Amy, when James is letting us go away for a few days, there's probably going to be a lot of important guests there."

"Well sure." Sonic said. "She will be recoronated, as is tradition in our kingdom until she turns 18, so it's an important party. Lots of pompous dignitaries, stuffy advisors,"

"And heirs?" Blaze asked, finally realizing where Silver was going with this. "Oh yeah! I bet all of your siblings will be there. It'll be nice to meet them all." Sonic said smiling. Not realizing the panic that went through Blaze and Silver. "Will there be, I don't know, things of extreme monetary value?" Blaze asked. "Maybe. There's the crown I guess." He said and took a bite of food. Blaze and Silver shared a look. "I don't see why that's important, though." Sonic finished with food in his mouth. "Sonic, don't talk with food in your mouth." Knuckles scolded. "Do I need to tell your sister that you were bossing me around again."

"Well, what would Amy do if I told her that you just threatened to tattle-tell and spoke with food in your mouth." Sonic immediately shut up. "Is there something the two of you aren't telling us?" Shadow asked, giving them his signature glare. Silver was about to crack when Blaze answered. "It is nothing you should concern yourself with." And ate more of her food. No one was convinced, but they let the subject drop. "Wait, Knuckles, I should warn you about my sister." Rouge said. "I guarantee you that there is nothing that she could say that will make me fear her."

"You do realize she is a future queen, right?" Shadow asked. "As is my sister. And yet she is a gentle and kind soul, one that chooses to not resort to violence. The most she will do is tell you to be nice to me."

"Yeah, well, my sister is very seriously petty." Rouge said, very seriously. Shadow snorted. "What's so funny?" Sonic asked. "The fact that that's exactly how Bee would describe herself." Shadow told him. "Bee?"

"Rouge's sister." He clarified. Knuckles snorted. "I am not afraid. What can she do, fight me?" Shadow and Rouge shared a look. "She probably would." Rouge shrugged. Sonic laughed. "But Knuckles would win, huh Knux." He shrugged. "I probably could if I was willing to fight her."

"Please don't." Rouge said. "I would pay money to see that." Shadow said. Rouge flicked Shadow's ear and he rubbed the spot while glaring at her. Sonic just laughed. "I do have to say though, I am excited to meet your sister." Sonic told his boyfriend. "She'll love you." He smiled, and Sonic returned it. "So sappy." Rouge teased her friends. Shadow flicked her ear in return. "Okay, but Rouge, exactly how petty is your sister?" Sonic asked. "One time while Shadow and Maria were over, Maria and I noticed that they both make the same face when they glare."

"We don't." Shadow insisted. "And in retaliation she took a marker and gave him a unibrow, then proceeded to do the same to me. She did nothing to Maria because she could never touch her." Sonic giggled imagining his boyfriend with a unibrow drawn on his face. "Yeah, well, I beat her at chess ten times that same day."

"And she flipped the board." Sonic couldn't stop laughing, as well as Silver and Blaze. "So, those are exactly as you said, petty." Knuckles said. "Those don't do any harm." Shadow glared. "That thing didn't come off for like a week."

"Small, petty crimes." Knuckles insisted. "Those are what involved her, I never said what she did involving me."

"I must hear more! These are hilarious." Sonic said. "Once walking through the kingdom, people didn't realize who we were and so a group of girls started insulting my clothes, so she threw mud at all of them. She was in so much trouble." Rouge smiled. "Or that time when Shadow kissed me, she got really, really mad at him,"

"Why are giving all the stories that involve me?" Shadow asked. "Because they're the best ones. Anyway, she got so made that spray painted his whole motorcycle pink."

"And yet she still insists that it wasn't her."

"You have a motorcycle?" Sonic asked Shadow. "Yeah." He said. "You have got to take me for a ride sometime." Sonic excitedly insisted. Shadow nodded. "It was totally her." Rouge says. "What about you Knux, got any fun stories to share of your sister?" Sonic asked. He thought for a second. "She is a wonderful storyteller. She once told me a story of a fast heroic blue hedgehog who was able to tame perfect chaos." He said. "Why blue?" Silver asked. "And why hedgehog?" Blaze asked. Knuckles shrugged. "It was a story I really enjoyed listening to growing up. She is also very caring. One time she found out that these business owners had taken some Chao from their garden to study. She stormed in there, saved all the chao, and brought them back to the tribe. Those chao haven't left her side since."

"Those guys are cute." Sonic said. "What are chao?" Rouge asked. "They are these little creatures that live on Angel Island. Maybe I can show you some sometime." Knuckles smiled, blushing a little. "I'd love to see them. And maybe see that precious gem Sonic mentioned some time ago." She smirked. Knuckles glared at her. "Don't even think about it."

"What? Me? I have no idea what you're implying." Her smirk grew larger. "You know what I'm implying." He said. And that is how they continued to spend the day. Swapping stories of childhood in the cafeteria.

Shadow looked a the clock and saw that it was 4 pm. "I totally forgot!" Shadow said. "Forgot what?" Sonic asked. "James asked us to meet him in the room where Silver trains when we were done with our food."

"Well, maybe we should go then." Rouge says and stands. "Don't want to keep James waiting any longer." Silver leads the way to his training room. They find James standing in the middle of the room with a box. "Took you long enough." He says. "Sorry." They all mutter. "What in the box?" Sonic asks. James takes out a phone. "Though you guys might want to have these back for a couple hours." Everyone grabs their phone. "What's with the sleeping bags?" Silver asks when he notices them. "Thought you guys could have a sleep over. Make it a better night. You have to have had at least one good night's sleep before that party." The small group murmurs in agreement. So, the group grabbed a sleeping bag each and rolled them out. They each laid on their sleeping bag and started scrolling through their phones to see what they missed.

Around 9, James walked back in with some water bottles, some pillows, and a bottle. "What's in the bottle?" Sonic asked. "Over the counter sleep meds." He said. The kids all voiced their protests. "Don't deny that none of you have been sleeping. You have all been walking up in the middle of the night with nightmares. This is just to help you stay asleep." Knuckles stood up. 'Might as well set an example as the strong one.' He thought as he took the sleep aid with a gulp of water. "Come on Sonic, you've been sleeping horribly." Shadow said. "I've been sleeping fine."

"Sonic." Shadow said, voice dangerously low. Sonic couldn't even look at Shadow. Shadow decided to pull out his best weapon. He put his hand on Sonic's shoulder, causing him to turn his head and look. "Please?" Shadow said. Sonic felt like putty at this moment. "Alright." He says. "But only because you said please." He said as he accepted the sleep aid and a bottle of water from James. "You're turn." Sonic said. "No." Shadow said, ever stubborn and refusing to accept help. "I'll make you a deal. Arm wrestle. I win, you take the meds. You win, I let it drop." Shadow thought for a second. He thought his chances were pretty good. They found a table. "Knux, you referee." Sonic says. He stands and watches them. "No tickling." Knuckles says. They both nod. "Don't lift your elbows off the table, and no outside help." They nod again. Good thing Sonic's plan would still work. "GO!" Knuckles says and Shadow has the lead on Sonic. Sonic just smirks. Shadow doesn't understand because he is about to lose. Sonic quickly leans over and give Shadow a peck on the lips, leaving Shadow stunned and allowing for Sonic to win. A very red Shadow looks at Knuckles. "Isn't that cheating." Knuckles thinks back to his rule. "No, he kept all the rules." Sonic handed Shadow a pill and a bottle of water. Knowing he lost, albeit not fair or square, he takes the pill he was given.

Blaze and Silver appear to argue. Rouge, not wanting to be bested by her crush or her friends, grabs the pill willingly and takes it. Silver and Blaze both extend their hands to James, who hands them the items. And with that, everyone has taken their medication. "Goodnight." James tells them. Theirs a chorus of goodnights. The group all lays in their sleeping bags and prepare for sleep.