(This is one of the memories I want to keep my whole life. I wanted my senpai to see that I wasn't a brainless high school girl. So, instead of sitting with the other girls in my grade after lunch, I sat on the front steps of the school, pressed my face against one of the handrails, and thought. And when it was sunny, the heat was absorbed by the bars and it felt so nice. Especially on windy, chilly fall days. What started as a cringy "I'm not like them!" became something I actually enjoyed doing, and it was much better than stalking somebody who was more of a concept than a physical person.)

(Anyway, enough of my pointless ranting. On to the chapter!)

Shadow and Honest walked to school one Monday morning on January 30, 2017. They met Rosy at the gate. "Hello!" she shouted when they were only a foot away.

"Hey!" Honest yelled back, waving. Rosy went on to complain about the cold and how Fiona stole her jacket and ran off with it a few moments before Honest and Shadow arrived. Shadow didn't want to talk to Rosy or something, so he pulled Honest to the front door which they stood against until the bell rang. Honest spotted Jet at his locker. He saw Honest coming and ducked into the nearest room.

Honest took this as a sign that today was going to be a good day, despite the fact that she was feeling sick.

In fact, lately Jet has been acting sort of strange. Thursday, he had stood eerily next to Honest watching something on his tablet. Honest stood the most still as she had in her whole life that moment. Then, Friday, he had followed Honest until she pushed through a crowd of people that he couldn't fit through and had to go around, not being able to catch up to her in time for the bell to ring. Why was Jet stalking her? Honest had no clue. Senpai are supposed to be kind, like kittens, and read books. Why was Jet the complete opposite of those things?

The thing was, Honest knew he was following her. It was very much plain to see. Once Honest had went down the stairs out of the cafeteria and hid behind the corner of the building. Sure enough, Jet the Hawk went down the same stairs only a few minutes later. There was a bus parked there by the stairs. He walked very slowly to the back of the bus, but didn't turn the corner. He just stood there. Then Honest's friends plus Shadow came down the stairs several moments later, and she walked with them. When they left, Jet followed after.

Honest was thinking these things during second period Entrepreneurship.

(Most of my sophomore year was just thinking, I realise. .-.)

Tuesday, the thirty-first, Honest was at home sick. Shadow stayed home with her and together they sat around Honest's computer and talked while Honest tried desperately to install a game she had bought online. She failed and now here she is at school the next day, worrying about if she will be able to install it when she gets home. The reason she was so worried about the game was because she had spent a good 3 big-ten rings on it, and it didn't seem to want to work. There were a lot of serial numbers and IDs to remember, plus most of the instructions were in another language.

Anyway, it was third period, 3D art, and Honest had missed the day when they had gotten clay and had started work on their miniature houses. Honest's house was going to be a traditional but modern house with lots of square rooms and poorly cut-out windows in weird places. Shadow's house looked like a small shed instead of a house. Sonic claimed his house was "modern", but it was so small no one could really tell for sure.

Fifth period, biology, Honest and Shadow had to take the pop quiz the teacher had the class take yesterday in the hallway while the rest of the class went over the answers inside the classroom. Funny enough, the cat and the hedgehog could clearly hear the answers being called out from outside the room, resulting in the both of them getting 100s.

Finally it was lunchtime, and Honest was worried for her safety. After all, one day Jet had stalked Honest when Honest was supposed to be stalking him, then the next day him and the Babylon Rogues stole Shadow's food and indirectly hurt Honest. Senpai weren't supposed to notice you, much less go out of their way to notice you.

Honest sat beside Shadow and quietly nibbled on her chicken sandwich. Sonic came over to sit on the other side of Honest. She looked up at him, interested as to why he was there. He usually sat with Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and occasionally Sticks at the table near the back wall.

"Hello, Honest, my dear friend," he told her, resting both his arms on the table.

Honest rolled her eyes. "What do you want?"

Sonic just chuckled and turned around in his seat, leaning backwards onto the table now. "I just wanted to come over and sit by my two favorite people."

It was Shadow's turn to roll his eyes. Unlike Honest, though, he decided to humor Sonic for a while. "How are you today, my dearest faker?"

Sonic then yawned real big. "I'm tired." He put his head down on the table and looked to be falling asleep almost instantly.

"How about we go sit in the sunlight outside?" Honest suggested. Of course she, being a cat, would want to sit in the sun. Shadow and Sonic nodded and the three put up their trays and walked out the door. Honest couldn't tell if Jet was following or not. In fact, he had probably left before them.

Honest led the two hedgies to the front steps of the school. There were metal rails along the sides of the two slopes. Honest sat down in the middle of one of the sections, and the two hedgehogs filled in the empty places. The sun cast a beam of sunlight directly towards that spot every day at 12:30 during the winter.

Honest let the sunlight warm her fur. "Isn't this relaxing?"

"Scoot, Honest. I'm stuck against the metal pole; it hurts!" Shadow exclaimed, shoving Honest to the right. "Hey!"

Sonic didn't move so Honest could move and instead just stuck his head through the bars. "Mn, toasty." Jet saw the three and ducked behind a building.

Honest eventually got situated in a way so that Shadow wouldn't be mushed against the pole and fell asleep in the sunlight. Sonic took this opportunity to pull Honest's 3DS out of her backpack. He began to play her Hatsune Miku rhythm game without permission like he had failed to do the other day.

On February 3rd, Honest was sitting in Spanish, bored out of her mind. She began to type random song titles into a webpage for reference later. ( /Songs) When she was bored of that, she decided to add a part to her fan fiction that she has been working on for almost two years. Shadow tapped her on her arm to get her attention. "Hey," he whispered.

"Hm?" Honest looked over at him as her document auto-saved.

"You should write about what you're going to do tonight."

"Oh, yeah! I almost forgot about that!"

Honest had finally got her 30 ring game to work and was going to play it that night. It was a game where you could make your very own academy and add any students and clubs you want. She was going to spend all night making students for her academy. Some students she was going to add included people in her own school like Shadow, herself, Sonic, Scourge, Amy, Mephiles, Rouge, Blaze, Honey, Akane, Silver, Rosy, and half a hundred other people she wished were in her school. She had played the game in the past, but it had only been a demo.

Honest admitted that most people reading her stories probably could care less what kind of games she bought and played. People that had read the rest of her book had already enjoyed reading every other detail of her life, though, so maybe it would be okay. (Yeah, maybe.)

Honest had said she would spend all night making students for her academy, but her computer was so slow she gave up after making one student, Rouge. Honest groaned as her cursor moved across the screen at the speed of a snail in quicksand. She looked at the small, green, wall clock above the painting of a watermelon she had made last year. It said that it was 10:00 pm. She had spent an entire hour on one character. Ugh.

Honest went to sleep in her own bed, waking up at six in the morning. She got on her computer and soon found out that the actual game was slow as well, and the timer ran out when she went to talk to people because she couldn't move her cursor quick enough to click on one of the dialog options. Honest gave up and went to wake Shadow up so they could have breakfast.

It was Saturday, February 4th, and Honest spent the whole day sleeping in the window sills and next to Shadow on the couch. Shadow just watched the episodes of Sonic Boom he had missed. Sonic was the only person in the house who had something to do. He went with Knuckles to have a fight outside of town, then he said he had a "date" with Amy, though no one knew why he would agree to something like that with someone he supposedly didn't like. Shadow had quoted himself from Sonic Heroes saying "It'll be a date to die for", and Sonic left for Rouge's cafe which apparently operated on the weekends without Honest and Shadow working there. (Maybe I'll end up writing about that in {Cafe Edition}. It's still in-progress unlike {w/Sonic} and this story.)

Rouge was always desperate for more money, though she had more than enough. After all, she had a club and a cafe right down the street from each other. She still lived in an apartment, though... Hm. Honest thought that there must be something seriously wrong with that bat.

The next day, Sunday, was nothing different. Snow had somehow set up a fishing adventure with Big and left early that morning, returning at 5 pm for dinner and for sleep. Going fishing with Big seemed like torture to Honest. Instead, Honest stayed in her room and munched on spicy chips while blowing her nose over and over and listening to Hatsune Miku (she was still sort of icky a week after her cold).

The whole time, Honest dreaded Monday. She didn't know how much of this "senpai is acting strange" business she could handle. And Sonic didn't make it any better. Plus, she was still in bad standing with Scourge for shipping him and Fleetway together and not him and Manic. Oh, did Honest wish she could just stay home like she had been that weekend and listen to Hatsune Miku music, eat spicy chips, and watch people play visual novels all day... :(

My life right now isn't quite as bad as Honest makes it out to be. I'm growing by leaps and bounds as a singer right now, and I'm gaining, keeping, and strengthening friendships as well. Please comment down below what you would like to see in the next chapter. Not that fishing with Big isn't fun or anything, but... well... Please (leave a review)!

UPDATE (Feb 9): Spelling errors fixed, minor edits, Big's fishing adventure hits store shelves, jk

(So boring... Even though I'm against "plots" in my stories, I still have a "goal" in my stories which is basically a plot. I mean that I'm against making up plots. I prefer focusing on my real goals in life, which involve this fan fiction. If the plot is something that means something to you, you'll be motivated to continue writing. At least that's how I see it.)