Chapter 11 of w/Sonic: The Senpai Effect

## **Summary:**

The chapter begins with Honest standing in a lunch line at school, feeling as if she's about to explode. Scourge is behind her in line, but she gets out and puts her bag at her future seat and when she returns, Scourge, as well as Fiona, are ahead of her. When Honest gets back in line, she is behind the Chaotix detectives and in front of Amy Rose and Cream the Rabbit. No one talks to her, so she feels alone. However, Shadow slips into the line beside her without any witnesses to him cutting, and Honest is saved. She says, excitedly, that she thought for sure that would be the end of her. Honest instinctually grabs his hands, but he immediately pulls them away and asks if it was Scourge and Fiona being there that bothered her. Honest acts as if she is nervous about telling him, rocking in her shoes before stopping and nodding. Apparently, lately, Honest has been freezing up every time she's near Scourge. She guessed it was due to them, despite supposedly being friends, not spending as much time around each other. She thinks that must mean they're not friends anymore, but she's unsure. She also mentions that Fiona doesn't particularly like Honest. She also says Sonic, Amy, and Tails all don't like Fiona that much, and they were all Honest's friends. Honest doesn't dislike Scourge, but she doesn't really know why, so she gives up trying to make sense of it for the time being. Once Honest and Shadow get to their seats with their lunches, Rosy is there talking about how Manic and Scourge are going out, and how she is "totally not okay with it". Rouge, Silver, and Blaze are there, and they are pretending to listen to her. However, Silver isn't doing the best job because he is scarfing down his meatloaf as if it's the best thing ever, which Honest notes is definitely not.

It is now the next morning, and Honest is eating breakfast while watching a guy build houses in Hedgecraft. Honest is getting pretty bored due to the house not being very interesting. Every time it looked like he was going to be finished, he would say "but what if we do this" and it would continue. Honest put the video on 2x speed and then went to get dressed. By the time Sonic had finally declared himself ready, it was time for school to begin. Him, Honest and Shadow rush to school and are greeted by Amy at the front gate. Honest tries to say hello, but the pink hedgehog cuts her off and asks if Honest got her "thing" done yesterday. Honest narrows her eyes and remembers what it is. Honest had agreed to develop her photo for her yesterday, but the teacher had mixed up the chemicals wrong. Honest tells Amy that it turned out to be completely black. When Amy appears to be very confused, Honest explains that everybody's turned out black. Before she can explain any further, however, the bell rings and everybody standing outside floods into the building. Honest goes inside, grabs her binder, and heads to her first period classroom. Since Honest had gotten all of her work done yesterday, Honest uses this time to write about the previous day's lunch (the beginning of this chapter) and this morning (this part).

It is now Monday of the next week and Honest is walking to her eighth period class when something unexpected happens. Jet the Hawk, the person Honest always loved to stalk, is outside the door. She freezes in place. When he turns around, however, Honest runs away at the speed of light, leaving nothing but a ring of flames where she had been standing. In the process of running away from him, she had only brushed his arm with her shirt sleeve, but it is in enough to send her into full panic mode. Once she gets to her eighth period class, she dives inside and crawls under one of the desks, clutching onto the legs for dear life. The desk is Blaze's desk, and she refuses to sit down until Mephiles pulls Honest out with three of his tentacles. He then sticks her to the ceiling of the room with black ooze so that she couldn't bring anyone else's mood down with her. She just hung up there and sobbed for the rest of the class. When it's time to go home, Sonic waits outside the building. Shadow carries what looks like a dead body out of the school as he gingerly picks his way down the stairs. Sonic zips over and asks when's the funeral. Shadow looks at Sonic disapprovingly and tells him that Honest said she bumped into Jet in the hallways while spying on him. Sonic doesn't believe that "that faker" got her like this. Honest's nose twitches at him calling her beloved Jet a faker. Shadow then says that he thinks it's called "the Senpai Effect," and the chapter ends.

## **Trivia:**

* It's funny how a change in setting can completely change the feel of a story
* This is the first mention of Fiona, Manic, Rouge, Blaze, Rosy, Jet, and Mephiles
* This is the beginning of Honest using what happens to her IRL to write her stories
	+ Certain characters in the story are there just to represent people in Honest's real life (ie. Jet being Honest's crush when before this, Honest could care less about Jet as a character)