The next Monday Amy approached Sonic. Sonic turned around to see her leaning on a locker next to his.

"Good evening Amy." Sonic greeted her but he didn't get a response from her. Amy just stared at him.

"Uh, hello?" Sonic waved his hand in front of her face. "You awake?"

"Hello Sonic." Amy finally replied. She blinked.

Sonic closed his locker. "Did you just space out for a minute?"

"Yeah, Sonic, I wanted to talk to you about the dance." She answered and asked him.

"Amy, I'm sorry about what Tails said at the graveyard the other night. I had no idea he would do that."

Amy sighed. "Sonic, tell me the truth. Do you say things like that when we're not around? Bad things, about vampires?"

Sonic put his hand on her shoulder and looked at the ground. "Amy don't mean to hurt your feelings but, I do say bad things sometimes, and maybe Tails picked up on them but I never mean any of it towards you."

"What's the difference? Sonic, Tails called Shadow a slur. I never would have thought that you used slurs."

Sonic cocked his head. "I don't. I think Tails must have got that from some of my older family members or the internet. It wasn't me he got that from. And I only say bad things because Shadow says bad things about werewolves sometimes."

Amy stood up straight on her does to get up to his eye level. "But I know you are better than him. You are a nice guy."

Sonic scratched his head. "Yeah, I am…"

"I need you to prove to me that you will not stoop to his level."

"What does this have to do with the dance?" He asked.

Amy stopped standing on her toes. "It has to do with the dance because, I'm having second thoughts about going with you."

Sonic frowned. "Amy, don't you want to go with me? It's all you've been talking about lately."

"I don't want to go with you if you bad mouth my kind. I don't care what Shadow does. I'll deal with him later, but this is just like going out with a vampire hunter to me."

"Amy."

"I have to go to class now, I'll see you later." She walked off.

Tails walked up beside him. "Hi Sonic, what's with Amy?" He asked.

Sonic glared at him. "She thinks that I'm bad mouthing vampires because of you."

"But you do." The fox replied.

"It's only because Shadow says bad stuff about werewolves…"

Tails frowned. "Sonic, are you mad at me?"

Sonic started to growl. "Yes, very. It's your fault that I'm in this mess in the first place. If you had just kept your mouth shut this wouldn't have happened." Sonic started to walk to class without his friend. Tails stood there in the hallway.

Shadow sat in his Home Economics class putting the finishing touches on his bat pillow. He put the thread in between his teeth and bit it off. He was done! The black and red hedgehog looked at his creation and smiled to himself. Amy was finishing an extra credit project and Kris was sitting reading a book. The teacher came around to mark Shadow's pillow as done and afterwards gave it back to him. He looked at Kris and to the pillow, he got up.

"Kris." He said when he walked up to her.

"Yeah?" Kris replied and put a piece of paper to bookmark her place.

Shadow took out the bat pillow from behind his back. "Here, I made this for you."

Kris put her hands to her heart. "Shadow! That's so sweet of you."

Shadow started to blush. "Not so loud."

"Sorry." The snow leopard ghost hugged the bat pillow and squeed.

"I even stitched your name on the back." He said quietly.

She turned the pillow over to see and smiled big. She gave him a big hug. "Thank you."

"You're welcome…"

Later at lunch Kris showed the pillow to everyone at the table.

"Look at what Shadow made me in Home Economics!"

Sonic took the pillow in his hands to get a closer look. "Wow, I didn't know that Shadow was crafty."

Amy nodded. "He's made some pretty nice stuff in class."

Sonic nodded back and gave the pillow back to its owner. "Hey Shadow, can I see some other stuff that you've made?" He asked.

Shadow took a bite of the steak he was eating. "Whatever."

Sonic looked around the cafeteria and spotted Silver who was talking to Blaze outside the doors where it was a little bit quieter. "Hey, I think Silver's gonna do it."

"Blaze, I've been meaning to give you this since I finished it last week." The zombie hedgehog held out the pastel chalk portrait of the witch cat. "I worked really hard on it to get everything proportionally correct."

The cat looked at the portrait of herself. "Silver, I don't know what to say! It's good, really good."

"Thank you, and I really would like to ask you if…You'd go to the dance with me on Halloween." He said while looking at her with his dead eyes.

Blaze looked at him, and then looked at the picture and back at him. She could see the nervousness on what was left of his face. "Um…" She started.

Silver stood up straight as he could. Please say yes. He thought.

"…Okay."

Silver smiled, though the cat couldn't tell. "Thank you Blaze! This means so much to me!" He gave her a hug and walked with her into the cafeteria.

"Woo! You go Silver!" Sonic's table cheered.

The zombie hedgehog waved to them and they both went to the food line to get their lunch.

"I'm really happy for him." Amy commented. "Silver has been so nervous about it lately."

"Yeah. It's good that she accepted." Sonic replied.

Tails sat down next to Sonic with his tray of food. "How's it going?" He asked.

Nobody spoke to him.

"Guys?"

Nothing.

"I'm sorry about what I said this weekend…"

Amy spoke. "Tails, what you said was hurtful."

The fox looked down at his legs. "I know…"

"Not all vampires are like what you see in TV shows or movies Tails."

"I told you I'm sorry."

"We're going to teach you that we're not all bad, it's just Hollywood likes to portray us as bloodsucking murderous monsters."

"Yeah?"

"Yes."

Jet wasn't at the table next to them.

Sonic was concerned. "I wonder where Jet is."

Shadow smirked. "I probably scared him so badly that he doesn't wanna come to school anymore."

Amy slammed her hands on the table. "Is that any way to start us teaching Tails that vampires aren't all bad?"

"I am not a part of that!"

"You should be!"

Kris held her pillow up. "Shadow made me this pillow."

Tails looked up at her. "I'm sorry I called you a dog."

"Thank you for apologizing."

"And that pillow is nice."

"Thank you."

Amy pounded her fist on the table. "See? Shadow can be sweet!"

The fox nodded. He had a lot to learn.