So, I decided I wanted to not wait and leave you guys on a big cliffhanger so I will be updating again soon in the next couple of days.

So I'll leave anything important for the next update. Today just read ;D

Stuck on Stupid- Chris Brown

Chapter 9: Stupid

Amy had escaped from facing Sonic the next morning. She left home early that morning to see if she could find her lost notebook at school. If not, at least head to the library and get an early start on some math books. She was starting to hate this careless nature of hers. She wondered if Sonic would stop talking to her if he found out about the lost notebook.

No doubt about it, she thought ruefully

She searched her locker, but it wasn't there. She checked a few floors, but it wasn't around. Did she really drop it when she placed it inside her backpack? The urge to search her backpack again engulfed her thoughts, but it was her growing desperate. She'd check a bunch of times. She looked inside classroom's windows to check hoping she could see anything the color baby blue.

"Um, excuse me."

Amy turned around and met eye to eye with a yellow mongoose. Her purple curly hair had volume and her bright green eyes complimented her stunning complexions. She wore a cute black knife pleated skirt and lavender crop top. The girl was beautiful. Amy turned to her stiffly.

"Hello," Amy said awkwardly. And then there was her, who wore a white collar shirt with a plain black skirt with leggings. Her quills were messy due to rushing out of the house and she didn't wear make-up like this girl did.

"The teacher won't come until the bell rings." She stated with a half-giggle.

Amy didn't understand why she said that until she realized she was looking through the window off a classroom. She backed away and shook her head. "No, I'm not looking for the teacher."

The girl in front of her tilted her head in question. Amy then added, "I'm looking for something lost. A notebook! Have you seen a notebook?!" Her tone changed expeditiously.

"A notebook?" The girl parroted looking up as if in thought.

"Yea, it's a baby blue notebook, about this size," Amy raised both her hands in the air a few inches apart from each other showing it was a medium-sized.

The girl opened her mouth and let the bottom of her fist land on the palm of her other hand when she received a thought. "Yea, I've seen it!"

"You have!" Amy exclaimed.

The girl turned her bag from behind her shoulder, opened it, and took out the exact thing Amy mentioned. Amy could see stars revolving around it as it shined its way into her hands.

"I found it on the floor and carried it around just in case I heard mention of it." The girl explained.

Amy hugged the notebook and thanked the heavens for this wonderful girl who found it for her. "Thank you so much!"

The girl giggled and her hand extended out. "I'm Mina." She said a bit shy.

Amy shot out her hand and grabbed the girl's in a tight grip. "I-I'm Amy!"

"That's a cute name." Mina said delighted with the sound of Amy's name.

"Really!" Amy squealed. It was such an honor to be hearing that coming out of her beautiful self's mouth. "Yours is as well."

"Thank you!" Mina said. "Be careful with your notebook. Next time you might not be so lucky."

"Don't worry it won't happen again!" Amy said confidently. "I have to study for my math test which is today! I'm going to study right now."

"Good luck," Mina said with a giggle.

Amy turned around but stopped abruptly when Jet was waving at her in front of her. Jet was here! "Hey Amy. Oh Mina's here too."

Amy's eyes widened. "You know her?"

Jet reached her side and faced Mina with a smirk. "Course I do. She's one of my girls."

"As in dating?" Amy asked dumbfounded, which left Jet and Mina with eyelids fallen halfway down.

Jet shook his head to wipe the look away and with a grin said, "She's a friend."

Amy smiled warmly at the two seeing as how Jet does have friends other than her. Amy gave a goofy grin at both of them before turning her body. "I have to go before class starts. Sorry. Ah, but thank you again Mina. You really saved me."

"No problem. I'll see you around." Mina said cheerfully which brought a large smile on Amy's face. That same 'see you around' meant they were friends! She gave them a large wave across the air before running off. Jet smirk seeing her holding tightly onto the book and Mina's cheerful look reminded but her voice was when she spoke came out a bit off. "She is loopy."

"And lives off by her name. She's pretty stupid." Jet added. "We can get information out of that."

"They're up! They're up!" Someone yelled pointing at a billboard. The students all ran over and pushed and shoved to try to get a glance at their scores from Testing period. Many passed, others barely made it and then there was Sonic who stood at one of the highest.

"Oh! Dude! You're number two of the list!" Knuckles hooted punching Sonic's shoulder.

Sonic chuckled nervously looking over a yellow foxed rubbing his nose proudly next to him. Tails was the smartest kid at school and Sonic hadn't been able to beat his childhood friend since grade school. Sally appeared behind them jumped onto Tails and Sonic's shoulder hugging them both.

"One day you big bunch of nerds will start growing mushrooms out of your heads." She teased.

Sonic and Tails laughed, but it died away when the students around them began whispering. Getting their attentions they looked around. Nothing out of the ordinary was going on around them until someone muttered, "She's failed again."

A burst of gasps immersed among the groups. It didn't take a second for the Sonic and his friends to know whom they spoke of. Sonic's eyes slipped over at Sally.

Sally gave an ugly frowned from hearing a group of girls nearby using 'stupid' in their sentence. They were directing it to Amy.

Just by looking at Sally it was clear fury coursed through her. Watching Sally angry was something rare, and watching her boil with rage was something nobody liked seeing. Knuckles placed a hand on Sally's shoulder bringing her out of the glare she created on her face. "Ignore them. They don't know that she gave it her all."

Sally took a deep breath aiming to calm her tensed muscles. "I hope she won't let it get to her, though."

Sonic sighed and with a small smile appearing he said, "I'm sure it won't."

"Where did I go wrong?" Amy muttered turning to the next page. She stared down at Sonic's notes trying to figure it out herself, but the more she focused on the problem the more complicated it felt. Amy scratched her head and her head fell flat on her desk.

This was her punishment for losing the notebook in the first place. She wasn't able to get a passing 'C' or better. That was, only on the math portion. She passed her English, but the points added together weren't enough for her to get a passing grade. She lost a lot of points for every wrong answer she got.

But she didn't want to give up now.

A knock came from the door and Amy turned her head. Sonic's head appeared on the door of her room and she shot her head up lightly blushing. She'd forgotten about Sonic. The reason he lend her his books were for her to pass, but she'd fail. He was angry.

Sonic walked in looking around her room coolly. This was the first time he had step inside room since he'd move in. Her pink colored room was bright and there was a lot of furniture around. He focused back on her and stopped inches away from where she sat. She eyed the notes in front of her and his brows raised up. "You failed."

"I know," She muttered looking down at the floor. He didn't even bother with being light on his words, but she guessed she deserved it. He shouldn't have to hold back.

"Did my notes not help?"

His sudden question made her flinch back. It wasn't that it didn't help, but it was lost before it be of use to her. Then again she shouldn't have left the studying until last minute. Amy avoided eye contact. "It did. I did study…"

"Is that why you kept avoiding me yesterday too? Because you were so hurried to study?" Sonic questioned with a light smirk.

"I wasn't avoiding," Amy lied with a broken grin.

Sonic chuckled walking around the room looking at the other neat stuff she had around. "And you still failed."

Amy raised her head at him a little annoyed. "I know."

"That's sad," Sonic shook his head and finally sat down on her bed looking straight at her.

Amy made a face and stood up from her desk chair. "Y-You know if you came to make fun of me…" She trailed off lowering her sight down at the floor. Her cheeks flustered. It'd gotten harder for her to speak with him.

"No, actually, I came to see my notes." He said simply. Amy nodded and grabbed both of the notebooks, a salmon and baby blue one, and handed him. "Here."

But he didn't take it back. Instead, he stared at her with a light smile and raised an eyebrow. "What?" Amy asked her hand lowering in front of him.

"I never said I wanted it back. I came to see some problems so that I can review them with you." He said.

Amy's body went stiff from the shock that wormed its way to her stomach from hearing those words. Her eyes went round. The grip on the book loosened and Sonic's eyes bulged out and Sonic stood off the bed grabbing them to prevent it from getting damaged once it hit the floor. Why did she always do this when she was surprised?

"Are you going to do the same thing if it were a knife? Be careful." He chided, straightening up his back.

"Do you really mean you're going to help me study?" Her voice came out low, hope gleaming in her eyes.

Sonic's shook his head with a light smile. She really was surprised. "I wouldn't have said it otherwi-!"

Sonic was cut off by Amy's sudden screech. Sonic's wide eyes watched as Amy jumped up and down with a grand smile. She stopped jumping and with bright big eyes she said, "This is the nicest thing anyone's ever done for me."

Sonic threw a nervous smile and he lifted one finger up. "On one condition. You stay focus. You won't be texting, or taking long breaks, or skipping studying sessions anymore. You didn't study long enough to understand the material. That's why you failed."

"Actually," Amy began with a long ragged sigh. She avoided looking at him directly. "I couldn't study for the math part." Sonic's narrowed his eyes confused. Amy fidget with her shirt and moved her eyes around, anywhere, but where he was. "I lost the math notes yesterday, and since I spend almost all day looking for it that I couldn't study." She admitted, hoping her honesty with him would give a good start up, but the harrowed eyes he made directly at her told her she should have kept quiet.

"Then what's this?!" He questioned staring at the baby blue colored notebook as if it were something unknown sent from another world.

"Ah, but one of my new friends found it for me this morning, but by then it was too late to memorize anything really." Amy clarified her hands up in defense.

"New friend?" Sonic said in a questing tone.

A brilliant smile overtook her whole face and he thought for a second that it shined brightly just like the sun when it was on its high peak that it hurt his eyes. "Yea! My new friend Mina. She found it for me luckily, so I didn't lose it."

Just before she finished something flicker intensively inside Sonic's eyes, which she thought was flaring fire, but when she took another look, he was calm, hearing her. She blinked confused. Was she seeing things?

"Mina, huh?" He said in a low voice.

"Yea, do you know her?" Amy questioned.

"More or less."

"Guess that's not surprising. You know everyone." Amy said, with a light smile, but Sonic frowned.

"Are you sure it's smart hanging around with those two new so called friends?" Sonic suddenly asked.

Amy gave him a surprised glance. "You mean Jet and Mina? Why wouldn't it be smart. We're friends."

"Friendship isn't built right away. You need to get to know them before you consider them your friends." Sonic explained rising an eyebrow.

"Then the same would apply to Sally. I met her around that time too."

"You careless girl," He muttered with an eye roll. Even if he were to throw in white lies or warnings she'd walked right around his advice. She just wouldn't listen to reason when it came to having friends.

Amy pouted and tried to snatch the notes away from him, but Sonic was quick.

"Well! Are you going to help me or not!? Isn't that why you came?" Amy whined, not wanting to hear the nonsense he was telling her.

He walked over to the desk setting that topic aside and opened the math notebook. Amy followed behind and watched he point down at a few problems. "Alright listen, you've got some time before the final testing period starts again. You'll have the basics memorized within two days."

"Two days!? I need more time than that."

"It's two days or nothing."

"I'm sorry. Two days then…"

:xXx:

The air grew chilly and the skies turned dark with clouds either ready to snow or rain. In this cold weather it wouldn't surprise anyone if it started snowing. Amy rubbed her hands together and let hot air from her mouth warmed up her hands. It was sunny not too long ago, she thought distantly watching the dark clouds mount together.

"It's been cold lately," A voice said from behind her, but it didn't startle Amy. She was used to Jet popping out of nowhere and greeting her.

"I like the cold weather," Amy claimed, with a smile as Jet and Amy made their way inside the building and Amy was no longer able to see the sky.

Jet smirked and looked around the area. "I guess it's cool."

"I like it especially when it rains. That's when you see groups of friends huddling together under cover or pairs sharing an umbrella. It's wonderful." Amy said cheerfully glancing sidelong at Jet.

"It's not going to rain though. Everyone's saying it's going to snow later at night. That's when it gets real nice. Cuddling together," Jet said elbowing Amy, but she shoved him away chuckling.

Jet stopped Amy as he grabbed her shoulder and made her face him. Amy winced back, but his smile reassured her from any nervousness. "Speaking of night. Are you busy then?"

"Yea, I'm stuck studying." Amy said with no energy. She had been studying with Sonic every day after dinner, and they wouldn't stop till a few hours later. She'd grown sleep deprive and the lazy side of her was making its way back. Sonic, although, made sure she'd stay intact.

"Take a break from that. Mina asked me to invite you to her Christmas party later. We're gonna watch the snow fall and turn up." He said with a flashy grin.

The idea caught her interest. It was the first time she'd been invited to a student party. Other than Sally, Jet was her second friend to invite her anywhere, but she was busy to ever go out with him anywhere. Maybe a break would do.

Sonic flitted across her mind and a frown went upon her lips.

"My dad will get mad…" She lied wistfully.

"I'll even invite Sonic for you." Jet raised his eyebrows up and down knowingly at her.

Amy blushed furiously nervously laughing. "I don't think—"

"Please, we never hang out. I thought we were friends?"

Amy's throat became dry and she breathed heavily. She couldn't hold back what she didn't mean; she was unable to control her emotions. "Fine,"

"Perfect! It's at eight at night. Here, take out your phone." Jet said.

Amy took out her phone and Jet texted the address on her notes. He saved it and handed her back the phone. Amy looked at it and Jet rustled her quills. "See ya."

This was the worst position she could ever put herself in. She lowered her head and she set her jaw. She'd dug herself into a hole. She knew if she asked Sonic if she could go, he'd say no without a doubt.

She blew air out of her mouth and bit her lip hard, feeling pain. She wanted to go. Her mind and body screamed out overjoyed with the invite. Now, would it hurt to try to convince Sonic for her to let her go? She hit her forehead with the palm of her hand.

What was she doing?! Getting all worked up because Sonic wouldn't let her go. He wasn't her dad or anything. She didn't need to ask permission.

But then why did she feel so bad?

Because she liked him? Amy growled. No, that wasn't it.

Having fun and meeting new students who could potentially be her new friend tomorrow was what she need this one time at least. A break wasn't a bad thing. That thought pumped her up.

It was clear she couldn't let Sonic know, but now she needed an excuse for her father. One that could lead her escape from dinner. She continued to walk straight down the hall with her thoughts in the clouds.

Around the corner Sonic leaned against a wall with his eyes closed. Amy passed right passed him without her noticing and he opened his eyes gazing at the back of her head. He exhaled slowly uncrossing his arms.

:xXx:

Bernadette placed the last bowl of food on the table and waited for Eliot and Sonic to sit down. He watched as Sonic's eyes searched around without his head moving. She looked over at Eliot with a smile and closed her eyes saying, "Looking for Amy?"

"Yes," Sonic replied honestly to Eliot's surprise.

"She won't be joining us for dinner." Eliot said fixing his chair appropriately.

Sonic's eyebrows rose a notch. He took a fork into his hand. "Is she busy?"

"I believe so. She called earlier saying she was going to a friend's house to study." Eliot responded adding a polite 'thank you' to Bernadette who placed food in his plate.

Sonic, meanwhile, looked away with eyes lidded and mouth quirked. "Oh," He said faintly as Eliot laughed, proud that his daughter was enjoying friends' company. Sonic didn't say anything else, he twirled the fork in is hand watching his reflection on it.

He had expected that much of her. To make up a lie about having friends or studying…

Although, he hated to admit that he had a bit of faith in the choice she'd make.

As for her dad and lying. Testing Period was over her dad not know that?

He was served food. Pork chops with green beans on the side. He poked one of the beans with his fork and it got stuck on it and he lifted it up to his eyelevel. He released a short laugh and whispered, "Stupid girl,"

OOOOO~

Next chapter ya'll! Don't worry you won't have to wait long ;D But prepare. It's going to be one long ride!