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Lose Control
On the next day, Amy is sitting by a tree in the school's front yard, reading her Literature book. For today's outfit, she's wearing a long sleeved black shrug-sweater, a dark pink shirt, jeans, and a pair of magenta-velvet ankle boots. Even her quills are styled differently today; it's tied into a ponytail and strands of her front quills are hanging loose.
While Amy is reading her book, she couldn't help but to feel some touching moments during the plotlines.
"Aw, I feel sorry for Catherine," she comments to herself.
Just when she turns a page, a large shadow has formed in front of her, blocking her sunlight.
"Hello again, Amy," Amy looks up and she sees Sally and her crew, glaring at her. Fear is beginning to increase for the innocent hedgehog. Sally continues, "Enjoying reading under the shade, I see."
Amy places a bookmark on her current page before she closes it. She looks at the cover. "Yeah, I really like how the themes in this literature piece focus on both infatuation and revenge. This is really for my English class. Have you—"
Sally and Fiona look already bored with her brief summary, but unbeknownst, Blaze seems intrigued.
"Yeah, yeah, we get it," Fiona cuts in, offending the Rose. "Enough with that. We actually have something for you."
Putting her book away into her black-and-pink bag, Amy carefully stood up from the grass as she hangs her bag over her shoulder.
"Oh, really?" she responds with a raised eyebrow in suspicion.
"Of course," Fiona gestures to Sally Acorn, "Tell her, Sal."
Sally persists, "Listen Amy honey. We felt really bad about how we have been behaving towards you lately ever since you first walked in to this school. And Kitty here is right," she points to Blaze, who is deeply offended by that nickname, "I do have some dislikes to new students. But, that's over now, and to make it up, we have a surprise for you." She smiles.
Feeling unreliable to her statement, Amy responds, "Really?"
"Yes, but you won't receive it until your lunch period, because it's not ready yet. We're still working on it, and to make sure, my friends here," Sally points to the bat, cat and mongoose, "Rouge, Blaze and Mina will come and pick you up and take you to the cafeteria. Isn't that right, girls?" the leader winks at the three.
In reluctance, the three positively responded.
Afterwards, Sally and Fiona gazes back at Amy. Fiona finishes off, "So, do we have a deal?" she smirks.
Amy takes a moment to think about it. She's not sure if it's really a trick or some kind of a serious apology. Then, she replies with a sigh, "Sure, I guess."
Sally folds her hands together, "Excellent. Well, that's all we have to say to you. See you around, Amy."
After the small talk, the five faces away from the Rose and they walk away together. She watches them stroll back inside the school's entrance.
"Huh, maybe this won't be so bad," Amy tells herself. She looks at the time.
With only fifteen minutes before the first bell rings, she immediately goes into the entrance to prepare herself for class.
Unlike the previous days—today feels different. As she strolls through the hallways, Amy notices something is strange going on towards to students. They're watching her—not like how they did when she first walked in, they're watching her like she has done something wrong—and they're whispering to one another behind her back.
"Oh, my God. It's her," one of the students, a female brown and ebony-haired lynx whispers to her friend, a blonde rabbit.
"Is that the one who…" the rabbit replies.
Amy has no idea what anyone is talking about. She tends to ignore the chattering and resumes her walk. Like any other students, she acts as if she couldn't hear them or as if she's nonchalant—for now.
Within yards away, Amy finally makes it to her locker. Unfortunately, while's she's undoing her lock and opening her storage, she still hears some whispering going on and it's starting to get aggravating. Apparently, ignoring is not working for her.
She begins to assemble her necessities for class. While doing so, a triad of students stood behind her, looking at her, and they remained persistent with the silent gossip. The three are all lynxes, two males and one female. One of the males stood closer to Amy, seemingly taking a glimpse at her façade—in a disturbing way.
Amy notices the feeling; she glances at the lynx trio with nuisance; she glares at the one who is staring at her and then she pulls herself away from him.
"What are you doing?!" she snaps at them.
The male backs off, "Crap," then, he turns to his friends, "I actually expected that she may have—" he gets cut off by the lynx female shushing him; she slightly smacks him in the upper arm.
"Don't say it in front of her, Jake," she urges him with a laugh.
"Say what?" Amy asks in confusion.
"Oh, nothing," the girl replies with a frivolous smirk. Afterwards, she leads her two friends out of the way. "Come on, guys," she informs them, "Let's leave before we catch something from her that we don't even want to know." The lynx triad let out a laugh as they leave the Rose.
Amy has never been this perplexed before. "What the hell are they talking about?"
At that moment, a purple swallow from earlier, named Wave, strolls by her.
"Hey, Amy." She greets her with obnoxiousness while still walking, "I heard that you're dating five guys at once. Don't even come near me or Jet—or else." Then, Wave coughs the word 'slut' before she's out of sight.
Now, the pink hedgehog is completely offended by the misunderstanding.
"What? But that's not even—"
"Amy!" a familiar feminine voice calls out as she runs to her. She turns to the direction and it's Tikal, looking urgent. The female orange echidna stood adjacent to her.
"Amy, there's something that you should see, and you're not going to like this," she informs while touching her arm.
"What is it? And can somebody please explain to me what's going on?"
"Just come with me to the computer lab," Tikal leads Amy to one of the school's computer rooms on the first floor.
When the two got there and entered through the doorway, Tikal points to Tails, Cream, and Knuckles all standing by the same monitor together; Tails is the one doing all the scrolling and typing. The two girls get closer to them.
"What's going on?" Amy asks the rest of the group. The preppy-girly bunny looks at her.
"Amy," Cream asks, "please tell me this isn't true."
"I don't even know what's going on," she replies with integrity.
Tails moves a little to the side while still on the office chair he's sitting on. He informs Amy, "There's this column on the school's website called 'Chaotic Chat'. It's where students anonymously post blogs, news, and even gossip around the school under their own aliases. It's very popular around here, but at the same time, it's extremely hurtful to those who have been mentioned and the staffs are trying their best to take the column down."
Amy asks again, "What's that have to do with—"
Knuckles instantly retorts as he points to the screen, "Someone by the name 'RascalBrat' has posted a gossip article—about you." Amy's heart is racing in anxiety.
Tails continues while showing her the article online, "Here, take a look."
Amy reads through the whole thing—and she can't believe her eyes.
The article read:
Most of you may have known our student Amy Rose as the school's new favorite one of a kind sweetheart. Well, there's something that you may haven't heard about the new girl. It is said that she is… not one… not two… but a five-timer!
That's right, Team Chaotic Emeralds! Amy Rose aka "Miss Perfect" is dating five different guys all at once. The Five happen to be:
Our all-star athlete, Sonic T. Hedgehog
Straight-A honor student, Silver T. Hedgehog
Our very own rock-star, Manic, also the brother of Sonic
Shadow 'The Mysterious' Hedgehog
And Scourge, our Mr. Rebel.
And to make matters worse in our own hands…
These five men already have their own sweethearts! Gasp!
Unbelievable you say? Talk about a Man-Stealer! Yikes.
Even Amy said it herself that "she's in 'love' with all and the decision is 'tough' to make".
Questions remains: Is this really love or lust? Did she go all the way with each and every one of them? Also, is there a sixth we should know about?
You should think twice about each and every one of the new students because you may never know what they have been hiding.
More evidence, coming soon.
For indication, there are photos of the six hedgehogs together. Most of them looked as if she is really dating all five.
Getting to the end, Amy is entirely shocked about this whole dilemma. She couldn't believe that a tiny misunderstanding can lead to a huge rumor. Just because she said she 'likes' them, doesn't really mean she's in love with them.
"No," she laments softly. "This can't be happening. It's not true at all."
Whilst the anxiety increases, Amy starts to repeatedly snap a rubber band, on her wrist, against her skin; she now has the urge to hurt herself.
The four notices her action, "Amy, are you okay?" Cream asks in concern.
She didn't answer for a moment. The sounds of the snapping rubber band are the only thing they hear from her.
"Amy?" Cream asks once more.
Finally, she stops and answers by impulse, "I'm sorry, guys. I have to go." Instantly, she exits out of the computer lab, leaving the four trustworthy friends completely worried about the Rose.
Knuckles broke the silence when he gazes at the rest, "Whoever this 'RascalBrat' is, he or she deserves a good punch in the face." They all nodded in agreement.
Back with Amy, while she's scurrying through the hallways in utter despair and pain until she runs into a nearby girls' bathroom…
Rosy can see her reaction as she leans against the wall, peaking over the corner. There's a black solemn look on her face, but it's quite unknown if she's feeling good or guilty. She has her phone in her hands and right on the screen shows a blog profile with the username—RascalBrat.
As time pass by, this day couldn't get any worse for Amy. Everywhere she goes, students accuse her for her 'promiscuity'. Even though she hasn't see any one of the Hedgehogs 5x today, she fears of they, too, have read the rumor online and she worries about their reactions.
Aside with all of this stress, Amy couldn't resist the urge to harm herself and the rubber band substitution isn't working anymore. Somewhere in between History and Trigonometry, she has already cut herself once. Fortunately for her, the school doesn't know about her self-injury online. At least that what she thinks.
It's lunchtime now and Amy remembers earlier this morning when Sally told her that three of her cronies will come pick her up. She stood outside by the doorway to wait and she uses her phone as a distraction while the rest of the class exits the classroom. She wonders why Sally couldn't just take her with her since they're previously in the same class. Presumably, she's still getting everything ready and making sure that everything is in order?
Just then, the pink hedgehog sees the three. They stood closer to her.
"Are you ready, Amy?" Rouge asks her.
"I guess," Amy meekly replies as she puts her phone away. Blaze carefully held onto Amy's right arm while Mina is on her left. Soon, they all head straight into the cafeteria.
A couple of minutes later, they made it to the double doors. Rouge glimpses through the door window and she sees Sally and Fiona doing some last minute touches. Afterwards, the bat glances back at the hedgehog.
"We'll wait outside," she tells her.
Soon, Amy walks straight through the doors, leaving them behind. The three suddenly watch her through the window when the doors closed. What they'll see—is something they'll regret for a long time.
Amy searches around the lunch area; the tension is starting to rise for she fears for the worse. All of a sudden, she spots Sally and Fiona standing by the table at the very end of the cafeteria. On the table top, there are a few courses. Taking a deep breath, Amy strolls to the two—unaware that something malevolent is going to happen to her.
The leader looks up to the Rose, with a seemingly innocent grin on her face, and Fiona did the same as well.
"Amy, I'm so glad that you finally made it, darling," Sally says. She pulls out a chair for her to sit, "Here, take a seat." She did as she is told and then she sets her bag beside the chair on the floor.
"So, Amy," Fiona resumes the conversation, "how's your day going so far?"
She lets out a melancholic frown when she answers, "Awful. I'm not sure if any of you heard, but there's this rumor going on around the school about me. Everyone hates me now and now they think that I'm a—" she cuts herself off, not wanting to say the word she despises so much. Amy carefully places her palms over her eyes to hide the morose.
Without letting her know, Sally and Fiona glance at each other, grinning malevolently.
"It's working," Fiona whispers to her. "And it's great to have Rosy to post that blog up." The chipmunk replies with a subtle nod.
They look back at Amy; Sally places her hand on her forearm, acting sympathetic. "Aw, don't worry." Amy then picks her head up and makes eye contact with the two. "I'm sure that it will die away soon enough. After all, rumors only last for like a day or two and after that, everyone will forget it all." Sally lies.
The little white lie has made Amy smile—just a little bit. She thinks that they decided to change their ways, from being naughty to nice. "Thanks."
Subsequently, Fiona shows Amy the courses on the table: a bowl of spaghetti, a plate of salad with vinaigrette dressing, some soda, and a box of store-brought chocolate cake. Aside with that, there are some paper plates and plastic utensils.
Fiona says, "Like we said earlier, this is the surprise we were telling you before. We wanted to have lunch with you."
"But what about Rouge, Mina, and Blaze?"
"Honestly, we don't know," Sally answers with a shrug, "but if they said they don't want to come, then it's their loss."
"So, it looks like it's just the three of us," The fox finishes.
Amy looks at the three course meal. She's slightly delighted at the sight, and no matter how hungry she is the self-pressure is telling her not to get near any of the food, despite how delicious it looks.
She also wonders, "How did you get all of this?"
Fiona lies, "We have our ways. Let's just say that we did some favors," she then winks at Sally. In reality, they actually stole the pasta and salad from the school's kitchen. It's unknown how they managed to get away with it.
Sally commences, "Shall we get started? Hope you're hungry, Amy."
"Well, actually," the nervous Rose answers, "I-I'm not feeling too hungry right now. Honest."
"What's wrong?" Sally mocks.
"Nothing's wrong," she lies again, "I just don't feel like eating, that's all."
Fiona joins in, "Come on, just one bite of each." Amy shook her head in decline.
This is where things are starting to get out of hand.
Sally is starting to become persuasive now. She glares at the hedgehog, "You know, we spent a lot of time preparing this lunch just for you as a token of being friends. Clearly, us two cannot really finish the entire dish ourselves, even with the others if they ever decide to show up. And now, you're letting it go to waste… all because you have no appetite?"
Amy sighs, "If I am, then I'm truly sorry, ok? You need to understand that—"
Fiona cuts her off again, "Understand what?" she snarls the last word. "Understand that—you worry you might get food somewhere inside of you… and make you look… fat?" she laughs more maliciously.
The Rose is entirely shocked. It's crystal clear that they knew something of her.
Meanwhile, the rest of Sally's cronies are still watching the whole thing through the door. They look away and make eye contact with one another. There's remorse in all three.
"Guys," Mina begins, "I really don't want to do this anymore. I really don't want to inflict pain on anyone, even if she did take our men."
"Me neither," Blaze replies, "What have we gotten ourselves into? We've let our jealousy get the best of us."
Rouge sighs, "I feel the same way as you, too. But you've heard what Sally said: if we refuse to help her, she will reveal our major secrets to the entire school. It's either this, or face the humiliation and pain." Blaze and Mina groans.
Suddenly, Tikal shows up. In her hands, she is carrying green bags of recycling.
"You guys are not trying to do anything that involves hurting Amy, are you?" The nature-loving echidna asks in concern.
"Uh, no." Mina replies.
"Good, because I really don't want to see her go through such heartache." Tikal resumes the talk, "You know, no one except for me, Knux, Tails and Cream know about this, but Amy has been going through a lot of difficulties throughout her life."
This caught their attention.
"Difficulties? What kind of difficulties?" Blaze asks.
"She'd rather not say much, but it was really painful for her. The poor girl has suffer a lot of abuse in the past and the more this happens, the worse she becomes." Tikal has given them a sympathetic facial expression.
"Abuse?" Mina repeats the word in fear.
"Unfortunately, yes," the echidna concludes. "And also, due to that false story about her that has been spread around the school, Amy went completely dishearten. She's really hurt badly and I just hope that Sally and Fiona won't do anything to worsen her pain. Otherwise—karma might strike." Finally, she turns around and walks away from them.
After hearing the informative speech from Tikal, they all glance at each other again, feeling more remorse. It has come to realization.
"What have we done?" They say together in total regret.
Back with the other three, Sally and Fiona are still persistent with their own abuse.
"Look," Amy laments, "I really can't talk about this. Can I please go?" she's about to leave the two, but Fiona stops her.
The fox glares at her, "Not until you tell us."
Sally joins in, "Just say the word and maybe we'll let you go."
Amy stammers meekly for a moment. "I'm not supposed to tell, it's too personal. You have to understand. Please, just let me go."
"Not even one word?"
Amy shook her head. Sally and Fiona make another malevolent eye contact.
The leader continues, "Well, then. I guess—we have no choice." She takes the spaghetti bowl while Fiona takes the salad in their hands. They then stood on both sides of Amy.
"Here, let us help feed you anyway." And then—together, Sally dumps the now-cold pasta all over Amy and Fiona spills the salad on top of her. The students in the entire lunchroom look at the action; many of them are aghast.
Amy is revolted, but it's not done yet. Sally takes the square cake out of its box; she smiles frivolously. "Don't forget dessert." Then, she shoves the cake to her face and chest.
With that, Fiona takes the soda and opens the cap. When the rest of the cake falls to the floor, she lifts the soft drink over Amy.
She, too, is grinning frivolously, "Let's wash that down for you." Finally, she pours the beverage all over her.
With everything done, Amy stood up from her seat, sweeping the food off her with her hands. She looks at them, "What are you doing?!" she cries out.
They gave her a harsh look, "This is what you get for stealing all of our guys." The fox growls at her.
"Sally! Fiona!" a voice calls out. There, they see Rouge, Mina, and Blaze running towards them, looking frantic.
"Call off the plan! This is going too far!" Blaze urges them.
"Too late," Fiona responds, "It's already done." The three sees the now-distressed hedgehog. They can see the sadness in her.
"Amy, look—" Mina tries to explain, but Amy instantly grabbed her bag and then ran away, sobbing. She exits through the double doors.
The cronies scolded. Sally glares at them, "Why are you three still standing here when you should be getting the next part done?"
"You all should be getting the guys." Fiona demands, "It's majorly important if they see—"
Rouge snaps back, "We want out!"
Blaze did the same, "What we're doing was wrong! Clearly, we're just making—"
Sally cuts her off in disdain, "Listen to me, remember the deal. If you're out, then Fi and I will have Rosy reveal your secrets to the entire school online."
"How would you feel if the school knows that we have," Fiona points to Rouge, "a compulsive thief," then she points to Blaze, "an academic cheater," and lastly Mina, "and a failed lip-syncing singer!"
They gasp and then there's silence.
"Well?" Sally demanded them. The followers glance at each other before they can answer.
With Amy, she's now in the girls' restroom, standing by the sinks and crying to the mirror. She has the water running and she's trying her best to get all the food off herself, but it's hard to do so. The miscellaneous smell of garlic, cake frosting, soda, and vinaigrette dressing is sickening her.
"Why me?" she laments as she washes through her quills, "Why does it always have to be me? What did I do wrong?"
Giving up after minutes of washing, Amy shuts off the faucet and then slams her hands against the edge of the sink. She continues to stare at herself in the mirror; she sees nothing but mayhem and sadness in the reflection.
Worst of all—the sounds of laughter are echoing inside her head. The pain and depression is kicking in. Now it's the time.
Amy rapidly goes through her bag to look for her—blades. But as she rummages through her things inside—they're not in sight! She already has dug through her bag twice, and they're still not present.
"No… where are they? I swore I had them sealed in there. How could they be gone?" Amy panicked. Her heart is racing.
"Oh, Amy," she hears someone calling her name in a sing-song tone. She quickly glances at the restroom door. It's Fiona and she's leaning against the doorway.
"Looking for—" the smirking rebel quickly takes out a bag of razor blades and shows it to her face. "This?!"
Amy gasps in distress. She must've taken it out from her bag back in the cafeteria when she isn't looking. "Give those back!" she shouts as she jumps closer to her.
The Rose tries to get the razors back from her, but Fiona kept it away from her.
"Please, give them back to me!" she pleads while trying to grab the plastic bag from her.
"You want them?" she asks maliciously. "Here, go get them!" She then throws them out in the hallway; the jingling sounds became audible and some even scattered over the floor.
Amy runs out of the bathroom to retrieve her blades. She got down on her knees and she finally got them back into her hands. She picked the fallen ones back up from the titled floor and reinserts them into the plastic bag.
"Amy?!" a male voice says her name in shock. She panics after hearing the familiar voice. She looks up and—it's Sonic. He's not alone; the rest of the Hedgehogs 5x are also there and they saw the sharp objects in her hands. They're pretty shocked as well. Along with them, there's Mina standing by Manic, Rouge is holding onto Shadow's arm, and Blaze is right next to Silver.
While getting up, a horrified Amy attempts to hide them in her messenger bag, but it's too late.
"Guys! I can explain!" she exclaims.
"Amy, why are you carrying razor blades?" Silver asks in concern.
The Rose is about to answer, "I—"
Sally, who happens to be standing by Sonic, interrupts her. "No need to tell, you've already showed enough." Then, the chipmunk stood right next to Amy. Fiona did the same also, but on the other side (Sally on her right and Fiona on her left).
"Sally, what is the meaning of this? And why's Amy like this?!" Sonic demands his ex-girlfriend.
"Fiona, what the hell is going on?!" Scourge did the same to his ex.
Both Sally and Fiona held onto Amy's arms, grasping her sleeves. The poor defenseless pink hedgehog is attempting to release herself from them. "Gentlemen," Sally commences, "prepare yourself to see the dark side of your so-called favorite Rose."
Lastly—they both yanked off the sleeves of her shrug sweater. Now, all of the ugly scars on her arms and wrists are revealing to the Hedgehogs 5x. The boys are even more appalled and the other three girls are feeling more repentance. Amy has her head down as everyone stares; she's emotionally paralyzed.
"Holy shit…" Manic says quietly while staring at the discolored marks.
"What happened, Rose?" Shadow asks.
Fiona instantly snarls, "Isn't it obvious?! She cuts! It's perfectly clear that this girl you're all falling for is insanely suicidal!"
There's a pause. Amy is finally released from the two's hold, though she's still numb. Tears begin to well up in her eyes and they glisten as they fall to the floor.
"Amy, is this true?" Sonic worriedly asks. She couldn't answer due to all of this pain.
"I'm sorry, everyone," Amy impulsively answers in despair. Right away, she grabs her things and then ran away from the group.
"Amy, wait! Come back!" Sonic calls out.
Everyone watches her leave until she's out of sight. Whilst everyone else is feeling apprehensive about her, Sally and Fiona are both smiling farcically at each other, knowing that their plan has worked.
The Hedgehogs 5x scolded at the two. Sally looks back at Sonic, who apparently is feeling disdain at their action.
"What the fuck did you do to her?" he growls.
"Honey, before I can explain, we're not the only ones." Sally retorts. She then points to the followers. "They were part of this, too."
This angers Shadow, Manic, and Silver. As they glare at them, they harshly pulled themselves away from Rouge, Mina, Blaze.
"What is wrong with you all?!" Shadow snaps at them.
"You were begrudging at first, and then you went into extremes to hurt a poor innocent new student?" Silver informs.
"Silver," Blaze remarks his statement, "It's not what you think. We were trying to stop them at first, but—"
"But what?"
She sighs as she quickly glances at Sally, "We can't say."
Mina persists, "But you were right, though. We were jealous at first, but we would never go that far into humiliating someone. I guess we didn't know until they decided to bring the plan up."
Manic raises his eyebrow, "Oh, really?"
Rouge pleads to Shadow, "And I may be conceited at times, but I would never hurt someone like that. I swear." The dark hedgehog didn't believe her.
"Listen, we're really sorry, okay?" Blaze concludes. "Will you forgive us?"
They gave the guys time to think. They whispered to each other for a moment. Afterwards, they look back at them.
"Sorry, but no. As the matter of fact, we just decided not to speak any of you again." Sonic informs sternly.
"Oh, come on!" Fiona complains, "Scourge, you did something like that to some of your teachers, didn't you?"
Scourge snarls, "Yeah, I did. But at least Rose didn't do anything to annoy, nag, or tell me what to do!"
After all of this commotion, the bell rings.
"We should all be getting to class," Silver says coldly.
Before walking away from them, Sonic informs them one last time, "Maybe it's best if you five stay away from us—and Amy too. That includes you, Sally Acorn."
Then, they were gone. This is the karma that Tikal implied before back at the cafeteria.
The bat, cat, and mongoose stare angrily at the malice dyad.
"Look, we may have lost our boyfriends, but isn't it worth it?" Sally asks. "I mean, don't you all find it funny how Amy reacted to the whole thing?" She and Fiona still think this situation is farcical.
They didn't answer. Instead, they just simply walk away from the duo.
"Fine! Then I guess we're going to tell the entire school about the truths about you!" Fiona shouts out to them.
"Looks like we will," Sally looks at her, "Fiona, go find Rosy."
And then she nodded.
Author's Note: Dear Haters, this is what happens when you hurt and abuse someone who is going through so much. You should think twice before judging someone by its cover.