Rose Petals in the Wind

By: Cutegirlmayra1

(I got obsessed with this couple again XP lol, now I'm like, need a break from Zelda….)

Amy rose stood on the right side of the road,… again. It was almost afternoon, Sonic, if this was one of the three out of five times he actually showed some kind of pattern in his running, was going to dash by at lightening speeds.

Amy, having been preparing for this moment, had a perfect plan for making him stop this time. She gently, but trying to be attractive(failing, may I add), moved her leg up slightly next to her other one. Then placed one hand on her hip, and the other on her head. "All I have to do now is wink, and Sonic will be mine~" she chimed. She stood there and waited for what seemed like forever… but nothing happened. "Ohhh..!" she broke formation, growing impatient and unhappy. "WHERE IS HE?! SOOONIICCC!" in her fit of rage, she screamed out his name. "You can't just leave me here all alone…" she started to calm down, and sighed in disappointment. Putting both hands to her hips, she pouted, "Now Amy, what have we learned about giving up on Sonic?" "Not too? That's a girl." she suddenly responded to herself. "Good pep talk." she resumed position. "I must always be ready."

"…Amy..? What are you..uh.. Doing?"

Amy didn't move from her position of what she supposed was attractive, but she did move her eyes and head slightly, seeing a familiar yellow fox. She looked upset, she must of hoped it was Sonic. "Hmph, I'm waiting for Sonic!" she stated openingly. "And you?"

"Ha, I figured." the boy placed on hand on his head and scratched it awkwardly. "However, the pose looks a bit mature for you. Is that what your going for? Oh, and I was just going to Station Square to get some stuff. Groceries, tools, oil for the Xtornado, you know, a list of sorts." Tails smiled and looked to Amy then, as if he knew something she didn't. "You know.. You could come too… if you want?" he offered.

"…hmm…NOPE." she closed her eyes and stubbornly lifted her nose in the air. "I can't miss Sonic, who knows if he'll be coming soon. And what do you mean trying!? I am mature! I've always acted mature.." she turned around to scold him, and then broke formation. "Besides… what if I go and don't see him today…" she sounded awfully lonely.

"…." Tails looked at her with pitty, and then sighed. "Alright, you made me worry enough about you for one day. Sonic's off at Eggman's base, beating up his new batch of robots. How about I treat you to ice cream, then you can come back and pose for Sonic's arrival all you want. Deal?" he was such a good friend, Amy almost teared up thinking about how nice he was being to her right now.

"Why didn't you tell me?" she turned around with chibi tears in her eyes. "Can't you see I've been waiting forever?!" she ran up to him, wiping her tears away. "Your younger than me, sniff, but you always act like my older brother…Ohh~" she embraced him, catching him off guard.

"U-uh, Amy? I can't…gasp, breathe!" Tails struggled in her sudden show of affection. "Air…"

"Oh! Sorry! Hehe, I tend to be stronger than I think sometimes…" she let go of him, and he gasped for air, but then smiled again to her, this time with a sweat drop on the side of his face.

"It's okay, Amy. And I'm happy to be there for you. Someone's got to take care of you when Sonic's not around." he wagged his tails, apparently, that statement made him very happy. "So..? Shall we go?"

"Sure!" Amy skipped along, walking with Tails to the train station.

Back in the city, Amy was licking her ice cream, strawberry of course, while Tails was looking over his list of things to buy. "Let's see… Amy.. Could you carry some stuff for me..?" he asked, seeming to have already decided in his head that that would be her job.

"Sure, I mean, you bought me ice cream after all!" Amy happily chimed, jumping on a bench, swinging around a lamp post, and then skipping back down to Tail's side again.

"Gee, Amy. You sure are cheery. What's your secret?" Tails inquired.

"What do you mean..? I'm always positively happy." Amy said, looking back to Tails in confusion.

"Well… I mean.. don't take this wrong or anything… but even when Sonic's gone off somewhere.. Your always so disappointed… but you never look really depressed for long." Tails explained, putting his list down and looking at Amy for her response.

Amy's quick steps slowly lingered into a steady walk, "….." she then halted, her eyes covered in shadows, making Tails walk by her and slowly turned around,

"…Amy..?"

How could she tell him..? How much her heart really did ache, whenever Sonic wasn't by her side, whenever he wasn't in her sight, whenever she couldn't hear his laughter or cocky words, or see his amazing and daring fleets to save the world? There is no way to explain it, to express it even. And she knew she couldn't really express how much she loved Sonic, because she had no fathom of how she could ever even go about doing it. How can you show someone the real measure of how much you loved them? Or how could anyone even measure the love someone had for another?

Amy took a deep breath, and looked up to Tails with a closed-eyed smile, "I simply dream." she stated, "and my dreams carry me to wherever Sonic may be." she looked off into the sky, seeing the clouds moving slowly, and the birds in there arrow like formation flying over them.

Tails looked at her dumbfounded, almost not able to even speak back to her. He looked down and then back at his list. "….Amy… what if I told you… I could help you stop dreaming..?"

Amy looked at him with surprised curiosity, "Stop dreaming? What do you mean Tails?"

Tails looked up at her, then with confliction, looked away. "I've known Sonic a lot longer than you… I might be able to… in a since at least,.. Help you express your love for him in a different… more controlled way. That way, Sonic would spend time with you…" he then muttered a fainted whisper behind his shoulder, "and not be so scared to death of you.."

"Tails… you would do that? Teach me how to flirt?" she was serious and heart felt on the first line, but on the second she broke into a humorous giggle, holding her hand up in a fist to hide her smile at his suggestion.

"W-Well-!" Tails became flustered. He turned red and starting failing his arms around, "I mean..! It wouldn't hurt right?" (/-/)

Amy looked at him earnestly, and then lowered her fist a little, looking at him with sincerity in her eyes, almost to the point of sorrow. "Tails… would it really help.. Sonic to spend time with me..? Or even like me..?"

Tails looked back up, pouting, but then noticed her expression and kinda lost his embarrassment. "Amy… Sonic wouldn't call you his friend if he didn't like you. He shows you affection… just not the way you tend to want it…" he tried to again, explain. "Let's start by working on your confidence. It's good to be confident, but not so much to where you make it sound like Sonic's got no choice in it. And maybe a bit on self control, you can't just run up and hug people to death, Amy. It's not very lady like.. Oh! And then there's that anger of yours, no piko-piko smashing. And another thing-" Tails walked off with Amy by his side, explaining this and that about what she should do. All the while, Amy took mental notes, listening intently to each word Tails spoke to her about.

'I will get better….I will make Sonic fall helplessly in love with me! And then,… I'll never be alone again… and Sonic will never want to leave my side again! Never!'

"Let's stop here for a moment, I have to go to the tools shop and pick up some new supplies, will you be okay here, Amy?" Tails had set his bags down at an outdoor restaurant's table with three chairs and a cute, big umbrella with red and white stripes. There were quite a few people out today, and it was a pretty warm day for so many people to be out. Amy nodded, and sat down in the white and decoratively designed metal chair, smiling. "Hmhmm. I'll wait right here!" she said happily, and waved to Tails as he ran off. But then her waving slowed… as she looked depressingly lonely again. She quickly, in a fluid moment, placed her hand under her chin, and her elbow forcefully down on the table, her face having such a solemn pout on her lips. Then…

"Out of my way, Losers!" Jet streamed by on his Gear, forcing passerby's to quickly get out of his way or face a very dangerous machine run by a very dangerous competitor.

"Jet, hold up!" Wave came in flying right by him, and tapped his shoulder as he whipped up some wind to halt himself, almost blasting away some people as he turned to stop.

"This better be important, Wave! I'm training here, beating my high score!" He held up a fist, he seemed to be confident as ever in his abilities on that Gear.

"It's Storm… he's gotten.. 'distracted' again.." Waved moved her hand up to her face, and turned it to it's backside, whispering to him, and used her other hand's thumb to indirectly point at Amy.

"What?! It's that pink hedgehog! Sonic's friend! What's she doing around-EHM!" Wave had clamped her hand over Jet's mouth.

"SHHHH! She'll hear you!" Wave warned him.

"EHEMEM-SO..?!" Jet furiously stated through muffled noise.

It wasn't helping them, they we're only a few distances away from Amy, she could hear they as loudly as if she was next to them. But where was Storm..?

"Uhh…hehe..duh… how's it going, little miss?"

Amy, quickly in her distressed surprised, turned around to see Storm looking over her. His frame was huge compared to her small being, and he held his Gear to the side of him with both arms, looking squeamish and blushing slightly. "Uh! Storm?" Amy said, responding but looking a bit creeped out. "When did you..?"

"Ah-ha… I um.. Saw you all alone and I..uh… was just wondering what you were doin'… if you don't mind me asking." he was being polite as always, and Amy smiled.

"I was just waiting for Tails to come back.. He's suppose to be teaching me how to express my feelings 'positively' to Sonic without scaring him away.." she openly stated, moving back around and placing her arm on the table and holding her head up again with the other.

"Positively?" Storm looked confused. "Scared..? Why would anyone think your way of love.. was.. Uh.. Well.. Wrong?"

Amy looked back at him, intrigued. "What..?"

"Well…I mean..um.." he fidgeted, moving his Board over himself, and then back to the side, looking around everywhere and avoiding eye contact as much as possible. "If you want some more advice.. Um.. I think, though I'm no expert." he waved his hands out in front of him. "I mean, in my humble opinion, you should just tell him in a different way than before how much you love him. If you really want to change the way you deliver your sweet affection… uh! Not saying that I think your affections are sweet or anything! I just.. uh.. um.." he fidgeted from leg to leg, hopping a bit and still not looking at her. He looked up and scratched his beak. "I mean.. having someone like you show such devoted affection for someone… with all your might and strength too… or heart and will… whatever it is, it's still amazing.. Ya know?" he looked down at her, showing no sign of being fake in his words at all.

Amy's eyes shook in wonder, his words had made her feel good about herself, unlike some people she knew… who kept telling her that her way wasn't the right way at all. "T-thank you, Storm. I really appreciate that comment. Really," she took his hand and smiled warmly to him. "I do."

Storm's face got redder and redder, until it exploded in fumes of red. His eyes got hazy and spinny, and his kept laughing weirdly. "N-no-no problem, little lady…da-haha." he stumbled away, and Wave and Jet had to help him from falling over on people. They ended up having to co-pilot as he fell on both their Gear, and they awkwardly waved to Amy.

"heh heh…" they both had sweat drops on there faces, and Amy just looked worried, but then smiled. "What's she smiling at? Whatever she did, it just made Storm even MORE useless than before!" Complained Jet, not seeming to understand the situation.

"Oh, shut up, Jet. Can't you see he's trying?" Wave glared at Jet.

"Trying what? To kill us and die!? He's heavy you know! My Gear's not able to take this much weight, it's a light type of board!" he aggressively tried to lift Storm off of his board and more on to Wave's but it failed miserably and it ended up making both their Gears wobble again.

"Ugh! Your such a bird brain! Just help me get him home on the blimp!"

"Whatever! Humph."

They all dashed off, leaving Amy to wonder what Wave meant too. "Storm's so nice." she finally concluded.

Then a gust of wind rushed by her,

she didn't even notice the chilidog stand only a little bit of distance away from her. She gasped, as the image of blue blur slowed to a figure of a hedgehog, who stood in front of it. Back facing her, she got up slowly, walking with unsteady steps toward the stand.

"What'll be, Mr. Sonic?"

"Your usual, good sir. Something hot, spicy, and…" Sonic rolled his eyes slowly up to the chilidog seller. "Surprise me." he teased.

"Haha! This one's on the house then, Sonic! A new topping, especially designed for my favorite customer!" the chilidog man moved down into his stand. "No peeking!" he demanded humorously, pointing a finger warningly at Sonic.

Sonic was already leaning over, tail wagging uncontrollably, his mouth opening and drooling like a dog until the man gave him the warning. He slide back over the counter and folded his noodle like arms, huffing cutely at not being able to look.

"Here you are! I call, the supreme delight! Take a gander at the smell, friend." he held the chilidog over to Sonic waved it around his nose a bit. Sonic's nose wiggled widely as he looked in almost ecstasy at wanting to try it.

"Stop tempting me with her already and give her here!" he quickly, as fast as lightening itself, zipped up to the stand and climbed slightly over it, holding his hand out to take the chilidog.

"Haha!" the man had instinctively pulled back, but then slowly lowered the chilidog into Sonic's hand. "Take care of her, Sonic." he bowed.

"I will." Sonic played along and took a bite. "Woah! I don't know what you did, but you just made me the happiest man around!"

"Your to kind, haha. Oh? And what will you have, little lady?" The chilidog manager looked down to Amy, and Sonic slowly turned around too.

Suddenly, he began to sweat profusely.

"Um… hmm.." Amy walked up to the stand, placing both hands on the stand. It made a slamming noise, and Sonic jumped at it, looking as if he was prepared to dash away at any given moment.

This was Amy's chance to give both Tail's and Storm's ideas a test run, a small pop-quiz if you will. "Let's see…" she looked over the menu. 'Tails said that Sonic likes to be in control of situations… then maybe…' "Hmmm…HMMMM…" she looked down at the menu, about to point to something, "Ah…no no…" she pulled her finger away. Then slyly, looked up to Sonic, and then back down.

At this point, Sonic was confused. He slowly returned to his natural posture, putting his guard down slightly. It was the first time Amy hadn't rammed into him with a killer death hug, and he wasn't to sure what she was planning or playing at. He nibbled on his chilidog, waiting to see what she did. When he noticed her game, he didn't take his eyes off of her, but lifted his finger and pointed to an option on the menu. This was, of course, quite a while after Amy keep 'um-ing' and 'hmm-ing' at it for quite a while.

"THAT ONE!" the minute Sonic choice something for her, she slammed down hard her finger on it. Breathing heavily, happy he caught on to her play.

"Ah, the sudden surprise, eh? Coming right up." the food cart vender began to go back down into his cart of goodies, splashing on the ripe chili and all that, and then handed her the chilidog. "Don't worry about charge, ma'am. Any friend of Sonic's is free on my watch." he winked to her in a friendly gestured and tipped his hat.

Amy smiled cutely to him, "Thanks! Gee, it's swell I know you, Sonic." she bit lightly into the chilidog, she had a diet after all, but she couldn't waste an opportunity like this one.

"….Did Tails teach you that?…"

Amy twitched violently for a moment, the fresh chilidog almost falling out of her hands. "Eh…Eh…EHHHH!?" she screamed in shocked horror. "wha..? What ever do you mean, Sonic?…haha… maybe he just.. Might of.. Helped a little is all.." she looked away, embarrassed. "Ohh.. Why can't I just lie to you!?" she suddenly blurted out.

"Heh, well. That's a bit of betrayal, Tails…" he looked away from Amy, and shook his head. "So..? Let me just guess, if I may. Umm… Don't look threatening to him with a great big hug the first time you see him?"

"…." Amy looked away.

"I'm right on aren't I? Let's see…. Don't act all love struck, but more over, try to control yourself and take deep breathes before approaching him, right? I'm right aren't I?" Sonic moved to one side of her, than when he noticed she wasn't looking at him, he moved speedily to the next. "Ha! I'm so right." he scratched under his nose. "Hehe, figured you out in a heart beat, huh?" he teased. "Nice play though, if I didn't figure it out way before, it might of actually got me. Good one, Tails… good one." he took another bite of his chilidog.

Amy suddenly looked fiercely up to him, and he flinched in fear. "I DESIDED ON APPROACHING YOU AT THE CHILIDOG STAND! NOT TAILS! AND FURTHER MORE, THAT WAS REALLY HARD TO DO! SO AS REWARD, YOUR GOING TO SIT DOWN WITH ME AND WERE GONNA TALK!" she suddenly screamed out, he bent down slightly and bended his ears back in submission. "…Uh.. I mean.. it doesn't have to be a date or anything…" she remembered Tails telling her not to lose her cool if Sonic didn't say the right thing to her. But she couldn't help it, you can't completely change in one day…

"Well.. Gee Amy… you don't have to yell. I was just having fun is all…" Sonic shaped up a bit and stood straight again, looking at Amy to the side of his face and eating his chilidog slowly again.

The chilidog seller looked dumbstruck with confusion as he looked with white circled eyes and an open mouth at the scene in front of him. "Uhh….Wow, did that bring back memories of young love." he suddenly spoke out, but quietly to himself.

The two sat in awkward silence, however, Sonic didn't seem to look like it was very awkward at all. He ate his chilidog rather contently, having his legs crossed and kicked up on the table, leaning the chair back slightly as he had one arm behind his head.

"Um.. Sorry about yelling at you like that, Sonic…I really was trying hard though.. You could have been considerate.." she was looking down, obviously uncomfortable. Trying to hold in the urge to just reach over the table and snuggle in his chest with adoring words of love and fawning over being with him like this. She also had her arms straight down in front of her, her fist trembling and gripping her red dress. Her knees on her legs joined tightly together, but her legs split apart, her face a huge embarrassed blush mark on them.

"…?" Sonic looked up to her, "Hmm?" he noticed her state of being and smiled with the chilidog in his mouth. "Awh, wewll. I dwon't wmind reawly. I'wm wsed to wit." he spoke with his chilidog in his mouth, and Amy twitched at how rude that was. She took a deep breathe. 'Alright, I tried what Tails told me. And it got me this far, let's try Storm's way…'

"…um… There once was a Rose… and it was stuck to the ground deeply by it's roots…and was very lonely cause no other flowers were around…" she suddenly began. Sonic poked his head back up from just relaxing it back.

"Hwuh? Whewred thwat cowme frwom?"

"It stayed there, through hot days, cold weather, blistering storms, and so forth." she continued, keeping her eyes closed shut the entire time.

Sonic looked side to side, being really confused and not understanding her motives with this random story time thing. But he chewed his chilidog and just watched her, slightly dozing off a bit too.

"Well, one day, the rose bloomed. And it had beautiful petals that grew and moved gently with the pleasant and gentle wind." she slowly smiled, her uneasiness suddenly going away slightly.

Sonic noticed her sudden change, and wondered where this was going.

"Suddenly, on this very day, a gust of powerful wind flew by the rose. She wondered, "What was that?" and all of a sudden, her petals flew off after it! One by one. At first, she didn't know what to think of it, then she noticed, she was in the wind."

Sonic suddenly opening his eyes, and looked to Amy slowly. Tilting his head to the side, he placed his feet back on the ground to get a better look at her.

"She was flying! She was soaring over mountains, streams, and shores. She was literally being lifted to new lands and going on adventures here and there! She was so happy, she danced in the wind, almost like thanking it for letting her be taken with it on this freedom voyage. But then…" Amy opened her eyes slightly, and looked down and to the side at the ground near her. "The wind suddenly stopped… near a park where peopled walked daily in the sunshine. But today was gloomy, and no one was there."

Sonic suddenly finished his chilidog, and placed both arms on the table, resting on his arms he listened more intently to this odd story of hers.

"The rose petals suddenly floated uneasily to the ground, as the wind became gentler, and let them fall…" Amy closed her eyes again and moved her head back in front of her. "She called to the wind, "What happened? Where are you going? What have I done?" but the wind carried on. And so the petals remained there, as it began to rain. The wind seemed to pick up again, but by then, the rose petals we're already to stuck to the ground to fly again. The wind moved on, and the rose petals were left to dream of the next day, when the wind would carry them away again, and not leave them stuck there forever."

Sonic suddenly saw where this was going, and glared slightly, suddenly not liking this story very much anymore.

"But the next day was a warm, summers day. And people began to return on their usual routes around the park, trampling the rose petals, to where some were torn, others we're buried in the ground and dirt of the roads, some were carried by birds into nests and squished by eggs. Some of the rose petals wanted to just give up home on the Wind, it was to wild and free, it would never carry them away and give them dreams to ride on again. They began to believed it had abandoned them-" suddenly, Amy was cut off as Sonic reached across the table and placed a finger on her lips.

With a cocky grin, he continued the story, "And so the Rose's petals felt they would wilt away, forever waiting for there precious wind to return for them, however, not knowing when."

Amy looked flustered and shocked. She tried to understand what he was doing, he wasn't gonna let her finish? Try and explain how she felt to him? What was he doing..? Was he even trying to understand?

"Some never stopped hoping though, while others would doubt, saying they could never be flown across the world again to find adventures or perilous wonders ever again. But one little petal remembered something, the feeling of flight."

Amy looked intently into Sonic's eyes.

"The petal felt a bit of wind in a person's step, in a bird's flight, in a leaf's gently fall. It realized it didn't need the wind to fly. If these beings could control the wind, why not she? So, she took it upon herself to fly, to command the wind. And she-"

"Couldn't!" Amy stood up, slamming her hands to the table. "She already was torn up enough! She realized, how could she control the wind? It wasn't something that could be controlled! It just was. And it would never give her the right to be free in it like the other beings! All because it loved it's freedom so much-"

"AND SO-" Sonic rose up too, staring Amy down, face to face, "On that day, while the petal felt this way. The wind suddenly looked behind him for the first time. He thought, "Gee… where's those petals that used to follow me so much? Could they have learned to fly off on there own? Or did they find a place to land?" either way, the wind didn't feel lonely, more concerned about where his little friends had gone."

"So he forgot them..?" Amy suddenly moved back, her eyes filled with sorrow and unbelief.

"The wind never concerns itself with the things that flow through it, it never knew it's worth to such things, just that it was loved and praised by them." Sonic spoke very calmly, but the intensity in his eyes never left. He was trying to tell her something too, but Amy couldn't figure out what.

"As the wind went on his daily course, he noticed the petals had fallen in the park. He told them, "Fly with me!" but they didn't believe they could without him. They begged, "Lift us up into you! So that we can fly-""

"With you." they all replied, "We don't want to fly on our own. It's to lonely, what adventure is there if we become wind ourselves? You are our wind. You are our life… our pleasures, are dreams, are inspirations… I just want to be with you."" Amy finally butted in with her heart's words. And Sonic stopped his story telling to look at her. She was almost on the verge of tears, "Do you really think that Rose couldn't have flown on her own? She didn't know she want to! Until she was carried off by a sudden gust of wind, that caressed her and taught her the joys of flight…" she started to cry. "She wanted to be everything for the wind… but it let her fall…. it ran from her! How do you think it felt? Why would it fly again if the memories of her first flight remained in her heart always?"

Sonic didn't respond, in fact maybe he couldn't respond. His hand slowly slid off the table, his face looking at her with no expression, did he really understand what she was saying..?

"Sonic, you fool! How could I love another, or even try to move past my wants and dreams just because you refuse to believe that your not what made me strong? That your not what made me, ME. Sonic.. You're a cruel jerk! How could you say you forgot I was there by your side? How could you say you don't concern yourself with me or others when I see you saving the them every day?! I want to love you, Sonic! I want to be with you!" she suddenly dashed off, holding an arm up to her face, and blasting off as far away from Sonic as possible. 'How could he say that? How could he… How could he…'

Tails suddenly flew around the corner with more bags, holding them in both arms and landing with a huge grin and humming happily as he walked up to where Sonic was. "Hey, Amy. Sorry to keep you waiting, I-…huh? Sonic? Oh, good you're here!" he ran up to Sonic, and then looked around, "….Where's Amy?"

"Gone without the wind." Sonic softly stated, and walked away.(and I mean, WALKED, not ran, BUT WALKED away.)