Sonic's POV

It's been a week since I kissed Shadow. I'm in Math class and we're learning something about something that I probably should be listening to, but I'm not. All I can think right now is, Why did I kiss him? 

"Mr. Sonic Hedgehog!!" 

I jump at the sound of my name and shout, "42!" As I look around the room, I realize that '42' might not be the correct answer. I hear laughter coming from all around the room. I bury my head in my hands, trying to drown out the sound. It works! 

In fact, it works so well, I can barely hear the speaker system beeping to life and saying, "Sonic Hedgehog to the main office, Sonic Hedgehog to the main office."

I notice the quiet that fell when the office called me down. But, as I stand up, choruses of "OOH!! He's in TROUBLE!!", "Whatchu do, Sonic?", and "Don't forget to wash the blood off your hands!" follow me to the door. I roll my eyes and step outside. I close the door and feel the butterflies mounting in my stomach as I close in on the main office. I reach the door and decide to look confident, despite my nerves. I stand up straight, roll my shoulders back, raise my chin, and put a confidant\challenging look on my face. Then, I push the door open. I walk in and immediately see...

"SHADOW?!" I exclaim. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask the same of you." He replies coolly.

 He looks at my panicked expression and and says, "Hmph. Guess you haven't forgotten our little..." He breaks off to steal a glance at the secretary, and continues, "...dance."

"I-It...I...you...um..." I stammer, my face flushing as red as a tomato.

"I see...Faker."

"WHAT?!" I roar. "You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my fake!"

"Hmph. You're a horrible liar, Sonic." At this Shadow turns and starts walking toward the door, muttering, "I don't have time for this." under his breath.

"Well, you're a-a horrible..." I pause, than say the first thing that comes to mind, "kisser!" Shadow stops in his tracks and turns to look at me.

"I'm a WHAT?" I'm still angry at this whole situation so it took me a while to process what I just said.

"SH*T!" I say, throwing my hands over my mouth. Shadow, his face, just a second ago contorted with rage, now stares at me with something new. Fear. Then I realize that he's not looking at me, rather something-or someone- behind me. I turn around and see that I had just sworn in front of the principal.

"M-Mr. Johnson! I-I can explain!" Mr. Johnson fixed at me with a disapproving glare. But then smiles and says, "Don't worry! Everyone makes mistakes! Just...try not to let it happen again Sonic. Now. What was it that I heard about kissing?" Me and Shadow both went red. 

"N-Nothing! J-Just an incident that-" Shadow began.

"I'M NOT GAY!" I yelled, interrupting Shadow. As soon as I said it, I went even redder. Redder again when I saw Mr. Johnson trying to hold back laughter.

"I-I mean...um..." I stammer.

"Sonic! Let me explain!" Shadow interrupted. I felt myself nodding in agreement as Shadow started his story. 

"Me and Sonic went to one of Knuckles' parties. After a while, we both went to get some punch. It was tangy, but good. After 2 or 3 cups of the punch we were told by Manic that the punch had alcohol in it, as he was worried because we're both underage. We didn't realize it was part beer. (That's were the tang came from. Not that I know how beer tastes. I'm just guessing here.)"

When Shadow stopped, I was beginning to understand, so I picked it up.

"We got drunk on accident from the punch. Drunk enough for us to not know what we were doing, but sober enough to remember it all. Manic then got us to dance. But, 2 of Shadow's other buddies-Scourge and Infinite- thought it would be funny to push us into each other."

Shadow picked up on what I was going for and continued the story.

"So, they did. We ran into each other and Sonic fell on top of me. But Sonic wasn't able to catch himself in time, soo..."

Than, surprisingly, the principle continued our story.

"So...you Kissed?"

"Yea..." I said.

"Well! It's good to know you're already acquainted. Shadow just moved here, and is struggling to adjust. He's made quite a few friends, but he's still not used to Emerald City. That's were you come in, Sonic. I was wondering if you could help Shadow out for a few weeks." Without giving me a chance to respond he said, "Of course you could. The Hero of Mobius can do this, no sweat!" With that, Mr. Johnson stood up and left, clearly dismissing us. 

We walked out of the office together. Once the door closed behind us, I turned to face Shadow.

"Thanks for that story back there. It saved my butt!"

"Don't mention it!" This surprised me, as Shadow's almost NEVER happy.

"Just make sure it doesn't happen again, Blue Boy." Then Shadow yanked my head to his height and kissed me. Just a quick peck on the lips. He let me go, but I was to shocked to move. I just stood there, my head reeling at what just happened, watching Shadow walk down the hall to his classroom. Wow, I thought, smiling, Maybe he really DOES like me! Then, I turned on my heel to head back, up the stairs, to Math.