Me: Sorry about the LONG wait. This Chapter is so overdue I'm gonna write some more of them.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, unfortunately.

Chapter Eight

Shadow: Honey's Toxic

"Umm…Shadow." Honey shook me a bit, waking me from my sleep. I opened my eyes a bit and looked at the honey colored cat, hence the name.

"Hmm?" I responded, trying to sit up.

"We've got to get to school. My Mom's probably worried sick about me! Blaze probably lied for me back there, so the least I could do is meet her at school." I nodded but my eyes closed once again. "Shadow! I've never been late before, come on!" She whined and shook me again.

"Alright, alright! Hold on!" I stretched and put both of our bags on my back. Then I froze.

'Hold on a second. What's Honey even doing here in the first place?' I thought. She was so shy and so quiet. She'd never fall for a guy like me. So what was going on? Then I remembered. I stole her from her friends yesterday and charmed her with whatever it was I had said. Then she came to my house and read some of my comics, played some video games and we ordered some pizza.

"Shadow? You okay?" I snapped out of my thoughts and whirled around. There was Honey, a worried look on her face, walking towards me.

"Yeah just wondering if Blaze is going to kill me later on." I answered.

'Blaze…' Why did that name seem so familiar. I mean, I know I heard it a bunch of times yesterday but it felt like I heard it somewhere. Before school started. Like it was part of my past. Like it was the name of someone I needed to protect. I know this sounds strange, but I think me and Blaze met before. In the Future. A horrible Future. And we had to save it. Blaze, Silver, Sonic, Honey and me. All of us together would use the power of Chaos (told you it sounded crazy) to defeat some kind of alien army…

"You zoned out on me again." Honey flicked me in the head. "Did you forget we have somewhere to be?" I sheepishly smiled at her.

"Heh, sorry Hon. Let's go!" I opened the front door and as soon as we walked out the door I scooped her up in my arms. She blushed.

"Shadow! What are you doing? We're just friends!" She cried.

"I know. But your gonna want to hold on to me during this." I told her.

"What are you-" Before she could finish, I went zooming off down the sidewalk. I felt the adrenaline rush through my vanes as we neared traffic and I zigzagged through it. I hadn't realized Honey was screaming until now. I hadn't realized she had started to scream louder until we got out of the jam. I stopped right in front of the school with a skid and she jumped out of my arms.

"Sorry." I apologized, avoiding the glare I excepted her to give me.

"It's cool. Just warn me before doing that." She said as she dusted herself off. I was shocked at how calm she was. Anyone would've been pissed off at me for doing such a careless, but cool stunt like that. But Honey was just as chilled as could be.

"Hey! There's Honey!" I looked over my shoulder to see Silver the Hedgehog running towards us, Blaze not far behind. They both had smiles on their faces. Until they saw me of course.

"Oh…Shadow's here too…" Honey glared at the duo.

"Hey." I greeted them casually.

"Hi." Silver waved a bit. He elbowed Blaze, who simply raised an eyebrow. She sighed.

"Hello Shadow." I could here the hatred in her voice, but thought nothing of it. "More like hello friend stealer." I heard her whispered. Honey gave me an a apologetic look and I waved it off, not really affected.

"So Honey, are you okay? Your not hurt are you?" The silver hedgehog asked, examining her closely. I heard a sigh and I realized it was from me.

"Silver! I'm FINE!" Honey barked. She gave him a glare and then turned towards me. "Shadow you uhh…" She looked at her feet and blushed.

"What?" I asked, having no idea what was so embarrassing. Did I have something on my face?

"You still have my book bag." She answered, pointing to the red sack on my back. I took it off and handed it to her. "Thanks." She muttered as she slung it over her shoulder. "I'm gonna go inside now." The three of us watched her walk off, and that's when stuff got interesting. I grabbed Silver's arm.

"Alright punk! What was all that earlier about Honey being okay? You accusing me of abusing her or something?" I snarled.

"N-no! I just wanted to make sure she arrived safely!" He trembled as he talked to me. I opened my mouth to yell at him, but a sudden heat on my neck stopped me.

"Ah!" My hand flew to my neck, and behind me stood Blaze the Cat.

"Shame on you for messing with someone half your size!" She yelled.

"What are you? His mother?"

"No. But I am somebody who cares about my friends!" I scoffed at her and then walked into the building, clearly offended. How dare they accuse me of hurting Honey! We were friends! She said so herself!

' "Shadow! What are you doing? We're just friends!"' Wait…Just friends? Was that all she thought of my?

As a friend?