Here's another story in which I decided to be cruel to Amy...anyways, I don't own Amy, Sonic, Cream, Vanilla, Rouge, the Chaotiz etc... Enjoy!

Well, here it was, Amy's big recital and she couldn't have been happier, all her friends were there, even Sonic managed to show up, the whole gang, the Chaotix, Cream, Cheese, Vanilla, the Babylon Rouges, Rouge, everyone she knew. She may have been happy, but she was also nervous, she looked down at the keys and thought for a second, the notes left her mind as she looked at the music. She couldn't think about what key it was in, was it D major...? Or maybe G major...no, there were flats in the key signature...there were 3...um...was that A flat or E flat? Could it be B flat...? (For those that are curious, it's A flat.) Amy couldn't remember, and then she thought about what words she was supposed to sing if she ever started playing the piano, the words were jumbled in her head and before she knew it all eyes were staring at her in confusion. Soon everyone started laughing at her stage-fright and she couldn't stop herself from looking to see if Sonic was laughing, he was...but the worst part was that...she couldn't hear any of them...

"NO!" Amy shouted sitting up abruptly in bed and sighing, she checked her clock, 3:47 A.M. Cream burst through the door looking as worried as ever.

"Are you okay?" she asked her friend. "Are you okay?" she signed when Amy looked confused and though it was particularly dark she still managed to see her hands. Amy nodded and sighed running her fingers through her quills, it had been 2 years since she last heard anything, even her own voice. "Are you sure?" she asked, Amy now able to see well enough in the dark to read her lips.

"Yes..." she said. Amy may have been deaf, but she could still talk. She sighed again and looked around the room, she was tired but she didn't want to go back to sleep. Once everyone woke up she would go and stay the night at another friend's house, probably Sonic and Tails' house, but she didn't really want to see Sonic for once, now that she couldn't hear, she'd forgotten what his voice sounded like, now that she thought about it, she couldn't even remember what she sounded like... "Who am I staying with tomorrow? Well, today..." she asked Cream looking at her.

"Sonic," she said. Amy groaned and flopped down on her bed.

"What about Tails, will he at least be there?" she asked looking over at Cream who was shaking her head.

"He has work somewhere else," she signed to her friend.

"Why? Why did I have to get stuck with the most stubborn hedgehog on Mobius?" she asked herself.

"I thought you liked him...?" Cream said confused, making sure she was where Amy could see her.

"I do, but what's the point if he doesn't like me back?" she asked. She really did still like Sonic but since she was now deaf, he never talked to her because he thought, since she couldn't hear, what was the point in saying anything? Little did she know he'd been trying to learn sign language so he could talk to her when she stayed with Tails and him. "Plus, he never even talks to me..." she said.

Cream sighed, she was worried for her friend, since she'd lost her hearing she hadn't been the same. She never went to the movies, she never went to the music store, and worst of all, she never played the piano. It used to be that Amy could play anything perfectly even with sound proof ear-plugs in but when she became deaf she had just let the dust start piling onto it. She never even watched T.V. "Well, a little birdie told me that Sonic's been going to every sign-class he can find in the area so he can talk to you..." she said looking over at her friend.

"You're lying..." Amy said sitting up slightly. "There's no way on Mobius he would..." she trailed off.

"You mean there's no way on Mobius he wouldn't, he really likes you Amy," she said.

"Whatever..." Amy rolled her eyes and flopped back down on the bed. "You should get back to sleep, besides, I need to get packed to stay with Sonic for the next 3 days..." Amy said standing up to lead her friend out the door.

"Okay..." Cream said before closing the door. Once the door was shut Amy flopped on the bed and pulled the pillow over her face. She groaned into it before sitting back up and deciding to actually get her essentials together like she'd told Cream she would. The first thing she did was pull out her small suitcase she used to carry her things, she didn't live by herself nowadays, since she couldn't hear the doctor and everyone else guessed it'd be best if she lived with someone that could in case of emergency. She pulled the case open and laid it on her bed-side table so she could put her sheets and pillow inside. Once her sheet was folded and put away she left the pillow out and left to get her things from the bathroom. As she walked in and turned on the night she realized something, she hadn't really ever looked around Cream's bathroom before since she'd moved, she wasn't even sure where she'd put her toothbrush, she decided she'd just buy a new one when she got the chance. She headed back to her room to round up her relatively small wardrobe and put her clothes in the bag. She put the pillow she'd left out on top of all her things and zipped the case easily. She looked around the empty room, then to the clock. 5:01, Cream wouldn't be up for a while and she wasn't supposed to leave for Sonic's till 8.

"Well...now what...?" she said aloud. She walked over to the window with a sigh and looked out. She opened it and sat on the sill looking out over the forest near Cream's house, then she saw a slight movement to her left and looked to she her blue hero sitting next to her looking out in the same direction. "You couldn't sleep either?" she asked giving the hedgehog a puzzled look.

"Nope..." he said looking away from her. "Oh, sorry, I said no," he said looking back at her when he remembered that she couldn't hear. "Whoa..." he whispered taking in her appearance for the first time that night.

"Wh-what? Did I spill something on myself while I was packing?" she asked nervously.

He shook his head and slowly thought of the hand gestures to sign 'You look beautiful.' Amy blushed and looked away murmuring a 'You don't mean that...' before staring down at the forest below. "Of course I mean it..." he said once she'd looked back at him. "Why wouldn't I?" he asked.

Amy shrugged, not quite sure how to respond. Sonic reached to grab her hand but was scared off of the sill when he heard Cream's doorbell ringing from the front door, considering it rung through the house and the fact that Sonic had very sensitive ears.

"Are you okay?" she asked pulling him back through the window into her room. "What happened?" she asked after he had nodded.

"The doorbell..." he said still shaking the last of the ringing from his ears.

"Oh!" she shouted while running down the stairs and opening the door to see a 17 year old fox with two tails standing at the door.

"Hi, Amy, um, is Sonic here, I needed to let him know that you were staying with us this weekend, well him actually since I'm leaving right after this." he said looking up at her.

"I got it, I'll let him know, and yes, he's here, he kinda almost fell out my window when you rang the doorbell..." she said.

"But...how'd you know...?" he trailed off.

"Sonic told me, now go before your late for your meeting or whatever it is..." she said shoving him towards the Tornado. "And don't worry, I'll tell Cream you said hi," she said smiling and answering his un-stated question.

"Thanks," he said before running towards the plane at full speed.

"Who was that?" Sonic asked coming down the stairs once Amy had turned around.

"Tails, he said to remind you that you're stuck with me for the next 3 days and vice-versa...he has work, Cream is visiting Vanilla and, yadda, yadda, yadda..." she trailed off flopping down on the couch with a sigh while putting one hand over her face. She moved her hand and stared up at the ceiling thinking.

"What's wrong?" Sonic asked. He sighed though kept the small strand of patience and tapped Amy on the shoulder. "What's wrong?" he asked again. She just shook her head and sighed again.

"I just feel like a huge pain in the neck to everyone...like I'm just some sort of pet that everyone takes turns taking care of..." she said quietly. It was true, she felt like some sort of toy that got handed off every 3 or 4 days to another friend that never seemed to really want to keep up a conversation with her.

"Don't say that!" Sonic said. "It's not true, I love having you over, you always make everything so clean!" he joked. "But seriously," he said when she giggled, "you're still you, don't let the fact that you can't hear change that." he said. "Now come on so we can get your stuff to my house," he said standing up and offering her a hand to help her up.

"I haven't eaten yet..." she said taking his hand and standing up from the couch and heading towards the kitchen with Sonic in tow. "And plus Cream will be worried sick if I'm not here when she wakes up and she won't leave to see her mom."

"Well then, you'll just have to leave a note after you eat and put it somewhere you know she'll see it," he said grabbing a bowl. He hadn't eaten either and frankly, it took a LOT of food to get him running as fast as he did...

"Fine..." she said grabbing a box of cereal and a bowl for herself as Sonic grabbed the carton of milk from the fridge. Amy grabbed a slip of paper and wrote 'Sonic came this morning really early and we ate before heading off to his house, Tails also came by to see if Sonic was here to remind him that I was staying with him this weekend. Tails also says hi, see ya next week. -Amy' before heading up the stairs. She taped the note on the door to the room she had been staying in and grabbed her suitcase out of it before heading back downstairs. She set her things on the couch and went to pour cereal into her bowl. None left... "Sonic did you...?" she looked at her blue hero who stared back sheepishly.

"Sorry..." he said.

"It's fine...I'm not that hungry anyways..." she said. "Are you ready to go?" she asked heading into the living room to get her suitcase.

"Yup!" he said once she'd turned back to him. He opened the door for her once she had grabbed her things. He closed the door after she had stepped out onto the porch and stopped her before she walked away. "Wait...I have something I wanna show you, close your eyes," he said. She did. He grabbed her hands and thought, C'mon, this is your chance... and while her eyes were still closed, he leaned forward and kissed her. He poured his feelings into the kiss, as did she though she was in complete shock. Electricity seemed to course through the both of them, but in a good way. When they pulled apart Amy kept her eyes closed and her forehead pressed against Sonic's. "I love you..." he whispered, and she actually heard it. Her eyes flew open.

"Wh-what did you just say?" she asked, not believing what she thought might be true.

"I love you..." he said, and she still heard it.

"I...I..." she couldn't say anything. "I can...I...you...I heard you..." she whispered.

"Wait, what?" he said confused.

"I can hear you!" she laughed with tears streaming down her face. "I can hear me! I can hear!" she shouted hugging Sonic. She abruptly stopped and looked back up at him. "I love you too," she said and kissed him deeply as the electricity coursed through them once again.

For the moment this is a one-shot but if I get enough reviews I'll make another one where I'm not torturing Amy... R&R!