Hey everyone! I am back in the swing of things now.

Okay so this chapter is going to bring you a little more into what Kairy is thinking about everyone around her. Also this chapter gives you the first introduction to who Kairy is going to be paired with…..((if you really wanna know go check out my profile – all of my main pairings are in there))

Also I apologize for the shortness - it's been a long week!

Anyways, enjoy!

Chapter 5

Kairy's POV

Another day, another quiz I forgot to study for the night before.

It was the fourth week of school and I had really gotten into a routine:

Wake up

Get ready for school

Get to school

Study for tests and/or quizzes in homeroom

Go to classes

See friends for a few minutes after school

Go home

Homework

Talk to friends

Sleep

Day in, day out.

It wasn't a bad routine. I had gotten used to it.

Today I had a chem quiz on basic periodic table info, but I had to review a little in homeroom. Amy came into homeroom glowing.

"What is up with you?" I asked.

"Tomorrow marks the first football game of the year!" She replied, squealing. I cringed but still managed to put on somewhat of a happy face.

"That's exciting. Where is it?" I realized after it came out of my mouth that it was a stupid question. I slapped my forehead, "Don't even answer that, I know it's on the field. Here at school. Because we have a football team and a football field."

Amy laughed and plopped down in the seat next to me.

"So I'm assuming this is an event I should attend?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"Um, YES. You have to go. It's actually so much fun even if you aren't into football I promise!" She smiled.

"I suppose I can go tomorrow. It's not like I have anywhere else to go." I replied.

"Well I guess that's the spirit, haha." She laughed.

I turned focused on my chem stuff until the bell rang. I grabbed my belongings and sped off to the chem room. Once I got there, I rushed to my seat to continue looking over things. I thought I was the only one in the room until I felt someone breathing down my neck. I whipped around to see the black hedgehog behind me. I always forgot he sat there because he was so freaking quiet. This time he was peeping over my shoulder to look at my notes.

"Forget to study?" I asked. He gave me a look. Good lord sorry I asked, I thought to myself.

The quiz turned out to be a piece of cake, and the teacher had us start preparing another pre-lab. I turned to Tikal, who sat next to me, as we started. She and I had become pretty good friends. She was fun to talk to and her down-to-earthiness was sometimes a happy medium between Amy's energy and Blaze's flatness. And although I didn't usually hang out with her and Nicole, she always welcomed my company.

Chemistry was definitely my favorite class so far this year. I loved working with chemical equations, both on paper and in labs. I was pretty nerdy with science things.

This lab was small, it was really just lighting strips of Manganese to see how brightly it burned as the first part. The second part was us using the lighting spectrum scopes to see the light spectrum in different lights around the school. But we wouldn't be able to start the lab until the next time class met because pre-labs took forever.

When the bell rang, I closed my lab book and packed up my things. As I stood up I accidentally bumped into the hedgehog from the beginning of class and he gave me a look more angry than the one before.

"My apologies for interrupting your way." I said sassily at him. There was no way I was gonna take his pissy looks. He just turned and kept going, ignoring me.

"Don't bother – he doesn't really talk to anyone." Tikal told me.

"What the hell is his deal?" I asked, annoyed at how rude he was.

"Well his name is Shadow, and he really doesn't like anybody in the school. Sometimes he looks excited when he is competing against others at track meets, and I know his family knows Rouge's, but that's it. I don't think I've ever really seen him smile." Tikal replied.

"Whatever. He isn't going to make anyone smile anytime soon either with that attitude about life." I said.

I walked with Tikal to my next class, history. It was easily the most boring class in the universe, but somehow I had managed to stay awake every time I went. It was beginning to get harder and harder to achieve staying awake as time went on, though.

Tikal walked by me and went to her next class, and I entered the history classroom and took my seat next to Espio. I had grown really friendly with the purple chameleon. He was pretty quiet, but he sounded so wise when he spoke. He was a very worldly guy. I had actually sat with him, Tikal, Nicole and a small bee named Charmy at lunch a few times. Charmy was a grade below, but he was Espio's adopted brother and was kind of funny to hang out with. He had a lot of energy to burn and was never empty of corny jokes. Nicole was pretty shy herself, but really sweet. She was also really good with technology. Not as good as Tails, but certainly nothing to balk at.

As I sat down, I took out my notebook and studied the minimal notes I had taken on my homework the night before to prepare myself for the daily quiz.

Espio chuckled, "Are you ever going to prepare ahead of time?"

I gave him a look, "Are you kidding? I would never prepare ahead of time for this crap."

The quizzes were always 5 questions about the homework and were really easy. Most of them were usually multiple choice. I hadn't had a problem yet, so there was no way I would be putting in more effort to study.

"So just to let you know, I'm having a few friends over Friday night if you would like to come. Nothing crazy, just a little get together." Espio said to me after class.

"Sure! I'd love to go. Just text me your address." I replied. Score! More chances to hang out with these guys after school meant closer friends.

Later that afternoon I was on my way out to my car when I noticed the hedgehog from chem class standing next to it.

"Can I help you?" I shot at him as I approached.

He gave me the same annoyed look and shot back, "I have a freaking car too." He pointed at the brown sedan next to him.

I tried to hide my red face as I angrily threw my books into my car's passenger seat and climbed into the front seat. There was no way I was letting him win by seeing my embarrassment.

As I backed out, I took one last quick look at him, and he was smirking ever so slightly.

What an ass.

I was pissed off the whole ride home. Nothing got to me more than people one-upping me to make me look like an idiot.

I texted Blaze what was up and she told me to come over. My mom surprisingly agreed, as she usually did not want me to go out on school nights, and I drove a few minutes down the road to Blaze's.

Her parents were really quiet. They did not say much and mostly kept to themselves. Blaze brought me up to her room and we just sat on the floor. I told her about my less than pleasant encounters with Shadow and she laughed a little.

"He's kind of an ass. He's smart, sneaky and athletic, but clearly not a people person. The most I know about him is that his family, I believe, knows Rouge's, which is why they are together a lot. He walks to and from school every day – I don't think I've ever seen his parents." Blaze stated.

I wondered why his parents never picked him up. He must've lived close to the school or – wait, if he didn't drive, why had he been near my car and said the sedan was his?

I kept that thought to myself.

I sat on my phone while Blaze finished her homework and then I brought up Espio's.

"Oh I'm glad he invited you. It's probably just going to be myself, Silver, Tikal, Marine, Nicole and Charmy. He isn't one for huge crowds." Blaze said.

"Cool. Sounds like a good group." I replied. She nodded, "It is."

"So tell me about this group. I want to know everyone." I asked lazily, laying back on her bedroom floor and looking at the vaulted ceiling. Her room was huge, along with the rest of her house. I knew her family came from a long line of wealthy people, which was probably why her parents seemed so regal. Blaze didn't act like she was a rich snob, though. She was actually really quiet about it. Besides her nice car, you really couldn't tell.

"Well you know Tikal, and do you talk to Nicole often?" Blaze inquired.

"No, I really haven't had the chance."

"Well, she usually keeps to herself. I know you know about her tech-savvy-ness, but because of that, she's pretty friendly with this guy Shard. He's a mecha-hedgehog. I don't interact with him much. He has a cousin named Metal. They both attend the school, but again I don't know them well. Nicole and Espio have known each other for a while, so I think that's why they always hangout. Charmy is Espio's adopted younger brother. The thing with Espio that you probably don't know is that he never met his real parents – he has a foster dad who took really good care of him and Charmy as younger kids, and I think that the dad is actually in a serious relationship with Cream's mom. So now that I think of it, she'll probably be there too because she's close with Charmy." Blaze paused, in thought.

"What do you mean by mecha-hedgehog?" I asked.

"Well…they aren't necessarily entirely skin and bone, as in they have a lot of prosthetic parts." She explained. I nodded, interested.

We talked some more about mindless things, and then I had to go home. I spent the rest of the evening wondering what I should wear to the football game the following evening, considering wearing my uniform would probably be a bit of a dumb thing to do.

I eventually gave up and headed to bed, slowly drifting off as I wondered again why the Shadow guy lied about his car.

AH I apologize again for how short and uninteresting this is. I wanted to establish everything.

The next chapter will be more fun!

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Thanks for reading! :3

~K