Finding Love in High School | Chapter 2

Finding Love in High School

After Blaze had been escorted to the principal's office to get her schema by Silver, she noticed that her first lesson was chemistry.

Once she arrived at her class, she noticed that the black hedgehog she saw earlier had the same lesson as her. He still look emotionless as before, but there was something over him that made Blaze curios about who he actually was and had a feeling that she wanted to get to know him. Just a little bit.

Again, Shadow felt like someone was staring at him and he realized it was the same purple cat from earlier and again, he gave her the same coldly, almost deadly, glare at her and crossed his arms once again.

Blaze gulped, turned away and sat at a table not too far from the blackboard but not too close to it either.

"Class, we have a new student today." The teacher said and motioned Blaze to stand beside her. She gulped again, took a deep breath and stood beside her chemistry teacher.

"Please say hello to Blaze, and take good care of her." She said.

Everybody then said something like "Hi!" or "Nice to meet you!" and so on. There was even one who made Blaze blush madly as he thought she looked hot.

The only one who didn't say anything was the black male hedgehog. He just sat alone at the table that was farthest away from the teacher, rolled his eyes as he had his head placed in his hand and looked absolutely uninterested in Blaze.

Blaze felt somewhat sorry for the boy. She didn't knew why but something told her that he always was alone. However, he always chose to be alone.

Once class started, Blaze listened in on what her teacher told them to do, always with the black hedgehog in her mind.

At lunch…

"Oh, hey Blaze!"

She turned around to see her first and new friend in this year.

"Oh. Hello Silver." She said shyly, feeling like she was heating up and smiled sheepishly as she was turning a soft pink for no reason.

"So, how is the new pretty student doing so far in her new school?" Silver teased her slightly and chuckled warmly once again.

Blaze's blushing was turning a darker pink and she looked down at her shuffling feet.

"I-I'm fine, thanks. H-How about y-you?" She asked very shyly, not looking up at Silver as she smiled sheepishly while staring at the ground.

'He thinks I am pretty?' She thought before she turned at her already good friend.

Silver shrugged and looked at Blaze's red face while he kept smiling.

"I'm doing okay. But what's with the blushing? You are all red." Silver chuckled half laughed at her.

Blaze blushed deeper, feeling a bit down at him laughing at her. Silver saw that she became sad and stopped laughing at her.

"Hey, I didn't mean it like that, Blaze. I am sorry. I shouldn't had laughed at you." He said guilty.

Blaze smiled once again, feeling some relief inside her as she sighed rather gladly.

"It's okay, I guess." She said in slight confusion.

"No, it's not okay. You were sad and it was my fault. I'm sorry." He said as he let his ears down. Blaze simply giggled at Silver's guilty and almost cute face, causing Silver himself to look confused at Blaze.

"Uh, did I say something funny?" He asked, still confused.

"Sorry. But you really are naïve." Blaze said and continued to giggle.

For the first time of this day, it was Silver's turn to blush and he scratched the back of his neck as he let a nervous laughter escape his throat.

"Yeah. I get that a lot."

For a moment it was quiet between them, until Blaze bite her lower lip and flushed slightly again.

"You think I am pretty?" She asked quietly in a very shy manner.

Silver blushed lightly again, still scratching his neck. "Y-Yeah. I mean… you're very nice and all." He said shyly too and looked at Blaze who was slight smiling as she was looking down at her trail of food with a nice smile upon his lips.

"Nobody has ever told me that I was nice, not even pretty." She said a little louder than before.

This made Silver confused as he took an empty trail and took some food from the cafeteria they were in and walked back to Blaze again.

"Why not? I mean, you are beautifully."

Blaze looked away and became somewhat gloomy yet blushed.

"It's… it's a long story, and I don't want to talk about it." She said quietly in sadness.

"Hey, cheer up. I'm not saying that you need to tell me. Look, do you wanna sit with me and my friends?" Silver said to cheer Blaze up.

Blaze looked up at Silver's smiling and caring face in surprise.

"Really?" She asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, why not? Come on, they're sitting right there!" He said and walked towards a table where a blue hedgehog was sitting along with a pink hedgehog, an orange echidna, a red echidna and a white bat.

"Are you sure that I am not just going to be a burden for you guys?" She quickly asked as she walked beside Silver.

"I'm sure you won't be any burden to us." He slight laughed as they walked closer towards Silver's friends.

Soon the blue hedgehog spotted him and Blaze and waved like a manic at Silver.

"Yo Silver! What took you so long? Who's that chick you have there?" He said loudly. This caused Blaze to walk a little slower as she blushed again.

"It's okay." Silver whispered to her as they both stopped in front of the table and as Silver placed his trail of food on it and placed his hand on Blaze's shoulder afterwards.

"Guys, this is Blaze. She is new here and we just became friends today." He said cheering while smiling and looked at Blaze.

"Well, nice to meet you, Blaze. I'm Amy, Amy Rose. And this is Sonic. He is my boyfriend!" She said and hugged the blue hedgehog tightly. Blaze raised her eyebrow in confusion and looked at Silver who shook his head.

"Not." He whispered. Blaze smiled and giggled afterwards.

"Amy, please! Let me go!" Sonic said, as he almost couldn't breathe from Amy's tight hug. Amy let go and looked with loving eyes at the cobalt blue hedgehog beside her.

"Not yet at least, Amy. Hi, I am Tikal." She said and shook her hand with Blaze.

'Well, it looks like I have already made some new friends, and it's only my first day!' She thought happily.

After some time of eating, talking and getting to know her new friends a little better, Blaze spots the mysteriously black hedgehog sitting alone at a table for himself, eating slowly his food while he looked completely lost in his own thoughts.

"Hey, Silver. I've been wondering who that guy is all day." She said to her friend.

Silver looked in the direction she was looking in and spotted who she meant.

"Oh, him. That's Shadow. He's the loner. Doesn't want to be with anybody really and keeps for himself all the time. I kinda feel bad for him for some odd reason." Silver answered totally honest.

'Just like I was before.' Blaze thought.

She looked over at him, sighing sadly, as her ears lowered. She wanted to know this mysterious hedgehog so badly. To be honest, Blaze found his mysterious, his look and his hidden personality somewhat attractive.

Blaze shook her head and turned to Silver once again.

For some reason, she found Silver also very attractive. His caring way to people, his look, and most definitely his naïve nature, was very cute and Blaze found that… sweet if you can say it like that. Silver has been, so far, the only person Blaze really felt nervous around and he was the only one that had ever made her flush.

"Have any of you tried to talk and be friends with him?" Blaze questioned the whole table.

Sonic, Amy, Silver, Tikal, Knuckles and Rouge stared at her in surprise.

Blaze felt somewhat corned and uncomfortable all of a sudden. She was never used to people staring at her as they did and she never liked being the centre for anything. At all.

"Well, I tried once. I just said hi and how his day was, but the only thing I got back from him was a huff and then rolled his eyes at me and walked off." Amy answered.

"The only he really talks to - and he talks rarely to anybody - is Rouge." Sonic said.

"He has a rough past and I know he lost somebody that meant very much to him once. I guess he either don't want the same thing to happen again, or it's because he just isn't good at making any friends in general. He once told me that he doesn't need anybody, that he can takes care of himself." Rouge told them.

Once again, Blaze turned her attention towards Shadow who was done eating his food and placed the empty and dirty trail on a table where a sign was on the wall over it where there stood "CLEANING."

"I guess I kind of I understand him." Blaze thought aloud.

"You do? How?" Knuckles asked her. Everybody stared at Blaze once again.

"W-Well, I-I mean… back on my previous school, I was teased because I was different and I felt like that since everybody teased me for who I am, I thought the same thing. That if nobody liked me then I didn't need anybody. I took care of myself because I didn't have any friends at all." Blaze said with her head down and her ears down too.

Silver placed his hand on Blaze's shoulder, smiling warmly at her as she looked up into his shining golden eyes.

"Hey, it's okay. You don't need to think that anymore. You have us. We're your friends now, Blaze." He said to cheer up his new friend.

"Really? You mean that?" Blaze asked, not believing her own ears.

"Sure we are." Tikal said with a big smile on her lips.

Blaze smiled and looked up to meet some smiling faces around her. Without realizing, she hugged the closest person to her tight, which happened to be Silver.

Silver flushed deeply at Blaze's unexpected move.

After a few seconds of hugging Silver, she released him.

"Thank you all. I never thought I could have friends." She said happily.

"No problemo!" Sonic said as he winked at her and gave her a thumb up.

Once they finished eating, Blaze still couldn't get her mind of the black hedgehog named Shadow. He was just too mysterious to let go off. She hoped that once she got home she wouldn't be thinking so much about Shadow. And speaking off getting home, Silver had asked her if he could walk her home and Blaze accepted it while she flushed in embarrassment.

After school…

"So, Blaze… How was your first day at school?" Silver asked her.

"It was better than I have even imagined. If I didn't bump into to you, I bet I wouldn't have got any friends today. I can't thank you enough, Silver." She said flushing.

"Hey, you're welcome. Blaze, why are you blushing all the time? I just don't get it!" Silver said loudly as he laughed warmly.

Blaze's blush became deeper and she looked at her feet while talking nervously.

"I-I don't know. I'm just not… used to hear nice comment from other people. Not to mention that I am not used to be around such nice people as you guys are. Especially you, Silver. You are the nicest person I have ever met." She said shyly and her blush became lighter while she smiled.

Silver laughed nervously while he scratched the back of his neck and flushed lightly the third time of this day.

"You're a nice person too, Blaze. You're very cute… and very pretty." He whispered the very last part under his breath.

Blaze heard it and flushed a little deeper as she bite her lower lip and looked at Silver who was looking down at the asphalt smiling, still scratching his neck.

Blaze sighed rather happily.

"Thank you, Silver. Nobody has ever told me that I was pretty or cute." She said and looked at the nervous hedgehog beside her.

"W-Well… uh… y-you're welcome." He said nervously and looked at Blaze with closed eyes and with a goofy and nervous smile on his lips.

He wasn't paying attention to where he was going that he walked straight into a lamp poster.

"Ow! Heh… I-I'm okay!" He said nervously as he rubbed his head in rather pain.

Blaze began laughing at Silver's stupidity. She actually found his stupidity rather cute.

Silver flushed a bit deeper at her laugh, which he found very cute and laughed nervously with her. The nervousness in his voice soon vanished and they both laughed for particular no reason. Silver's little accident before was gone long time ago, so they just enjoy laughing with each other.

"Oh, Silver. You…*gasp*... You're so naïve!" Blaze half laughed, half gasping for air said to Silver.

"Haha, I know!" Silver laughed himself, gasping for air too.

Soon, they arrived at Blaze's house. It was a normal to a little big two floors building that was a grey and red house. The front garden was filled with flowers of all kind.

"Wow. Your house is big and beautiful." Silver said in astonishment.

"It's mostly my mum's work. She's an architecture and a good designer, so she is buying all our furniture and stuff." Blaze answered as they neared the front door.

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then." Silver said as he stood outside and as Blaze stood in the doorway.

"Yeah. See you tomorrow, Silvy. Argh! I mean, Silver!" Blaze said before she quickly closed the door with a wide-eyed Silver standing on the other side.

Blaze slide down the door and sat on the floor. She pressed her hands against her face while muttering, "Oh my god, Blaze!"

Her face was all red in embarrassment.

'Why the heck did I say that!? Silvy!? Gosh, I'm so stupid!' She yelled inside her mind.

Slowly she peeked out of the window beside the door, seeing that he was already gone.

Blaze sighed deeply and walked up to her room, placed her bag next to her table and threw herself onto her bed.

"Easy, Blaze. It was an accident and Silver knows that… right?" She said to herself.

She took a deep breath to clear her thoughts. Inside herself, she felt a warm, weird feeling she haven't noticed was there before. It came when she thought about Silver.

Just as the picture of Silver popped into her head, a picture of Shadow replaced it. Another warm, weird feeling went through her body. Silver and Shadow are so different from each other. Silver was the cute and friendly person, while Shadow was the mysterious and bold type of person.

'Why do I feel this odd feeling for both of them? Do I like them? No! Me and Silver are just very good friends and I don't even know Shadow!' Blaze thought.

But something inside her struggled to tell that there was something about them she liked, but she shook it off.

"It's just my imagination. Just my imagination."




Thank you for reading this and remember to comment. It really helps me a ton.

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