Hey!
Just as a disclaimer; this story is pretty much a way for me to release creativity. I'm not that involved in the fanbase anymore, but I know enough to pretty much write a story about some of the characters, heh.

Anyway, this is an AU, if the characters played out the same lives as the characters on the TV show "Friends". This first chapter will have pretty much the same dialogue, but the chapters after this one will have a different storyline and different dialogue. I might include references here and there so sorry about that. :) Enjoy

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'Wait... so you turned him down why?'

A bunch of friends, four to be exact, were sitting in a simple coffee house on a simple New York City day. Very common customers just chatting about the events of their life, like any normal person in the city.

'Well, we were having a nice time, he seemed alright. I mean, he wasn't that attractive, but he was funny. But then he told me he's been divorced,'

The three others sighed at this simple reason made by the girl in her twenties, pushing back her short hair.

'oh, but that's not all, he also said he has a daughter.' the girl blurted out drinking her coffee while her friends sighed with a more irritated tone.

'You know,' one of her friends said, wearing a denim jacket and long but frizzled straight hair, 'that reminds of the time I said I had a child at 16 to get out of a date.'

'What!... Tikal, you never told me that!' she exclaimed, 'I mean, that's just the worst thing to do!' the girl said with a shocked expression on her face.

'Ok then Blaze, tell me. Was it you who got out of a date by using a key ring as an engagement ring?'

Blaze gave Tikal a cold stare while the two other guys laughed, picturing Blaze getting out of a date the way it was described.

'Har Har, laugh all you want.' Blaze rolled her eyes.

'You gotta admit, that's hilarious!' one of her male friends chuckled, 'I mean, what sane human would ever give you a ring where he once put his house keys on?'

'Really Shadow? It's not as bad as you not remembering almost every girl you've slept with?'

Now in this situation, you'd think everyone would be surprised by this, however it was usually how he went. After the night he could barely recall the name, only describing what she looked like.

'Silver, that may be horrible to you, but at least I can do it right!' Shadow exclaimed. Once again, no shocked face in sight.

'Ya know, I would retaliate but I agree with you there my friend.' Silver said, without any emotion in his tone.

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It had been several minutes after that conversation. The four just sitting, coffee cups in a hand and a bunch of conversational gestures in the other. It was a rather wet day, the worst sort of day for a sad, depressed man to be in, which is exactly happened to the sad man who walked towards the four friends in the coffee house.

'Hi…' he said in a low, faint tone.

'This guy says hi and I wanna kill myself.' Shadow exclaimed.

'Sally moved her stuff out of the apartment today' Blaze informed the rest, before an empathetic sigh from the group.

'I hate this so much!' the sad man said, holding his umbrella. 'It feels like my heart has been taken out of my body, chopped and diced and squished back together using gasoline!' he said, saddest expression you will ever see that day.

'I still can't believe you didn't know she was a lesbian!' Shadow blurted out.

'Um… no! Why is everyone so fixated on that!' he said, sitting down with a grunt.

'Sometimes I wish I was a lesbian,' Silver said out loud, getting the usual confused sort of stare, 'Did I just say that out loud?'

Tikal was making rather strange grabbing motions above his head with a disgusted look on her face.

'Can you stop cleansing my aura please!' He said, irritated.

'Can I just…'

'No! Just stop!' he exclaimed cutting her off. 'No cleansing my auras, okay?' he said, looking quite irritated. 'I'm fine, everything Is going to be ok I mean it, I'm quite happy for her.'

'No you aren't.' Blaze replied in an instant.

'To hell with her she left me!'

The five of them now sitting down, staring at their coffee cups while the man just wrapping his umbrella up.

'I'll go get you some coffee.' Blaze said standing up, away from… well what just happened.

'Ok you're feeling down,' Shadow started speaking to him, 'you're single and you're hurting, wanna know what will help?' This seemed to get his attention. 'Strip club!'

The man rolled his eyes at the answer he was given. 'Yeah, be single again!' Shadow said.

'But that's the thing, I don't want to be single anymore, I… I just want to be married again.'

The group suddenly heard the door of the coffee house fling open with a girl in a gorgeous, beautiful wedding dress running through. It was a strange coincidence indeed, one not seen by many, at all. She too also seemed to be running through the rain, however no umbrella was seen on her.

"And I just want a million dollars!" Silver shouted, standing up as if he was a cast member in his own play.

Blaze, who was still up ordering a cup of coffee, or at least waiting to, turned around and she crazily felt like she knew the runaway bride from somewhere. Actually, she did know her, face, name, everything.

'Oh my god, Amy?' she said, still questioning her memory.

'Oh! Blaze hi!' she said, hugging blaze tightly. 'I went up to your apartment but you weren't there but this woman with a big hammer said you would be here and you are!' she spit out, so fast you couldn't imagine why that was, along with why she was wearing a wedding dress in New York city after 3pm.

'Would you two like some coffee?' A coffee barista said behind the two.

'She'll have decaf.' Blaze said, guiding "Amy" to her group of friends, who were just as confused as she was.

'Well, everyone this is Amy, another friend from my high school,' she said, introducing her friends to her, 'Amy this is Silver, Shadow, Tikal, oh and you remember my brother Sonic?'

'Sure!' Amy exclaimed, wanted to say hi to him just at that moment his umbrella went loose and opened, catching her off guard. She just decided to plop herself in the middle of the sofa.

'So Amy, you wanna tell us now or are we waiting for the groom to arrive?'

'Or wife!' Tikal said, chiming in. 'You never know these days.' She said, looking directly at Sonic.

'I believe we are discussing someone else's problems now.' He said, more irritated than before.

'Well,' Amy started, 'first of all, husband. I was standing in the changing room, about to go out to the alter when I saw this candle! This beautiful candle, and then after a while of staring at the unlit candle, I realised I was more turned on by this candle than I was of Thomas! And that's when it hit me, I didn't want to be married, to Thomas at least,' She took a pause, taking a sip out of her coffee cup, 'And so I ran out, and I know you and I drifted apart but you were the only one I knew who lived in the city so I wanted to go to you.'

'Yet I didn't get invited to the wedding?' Blaze said, pretty disappointed face.

'Oh crap, I was hoping that wouldn't be a problem.

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The now group of six found themselves in a situation where its too strange to see a bride in the middle of a coffee house in the middle of the city. They all went back to Blaze's apartment, which wasn't far away, only across the street.

They all usually hang out at her apartment. Every day, you'd see them there, hanging out, and it was a very convenient spot to be in, and a very cosy and nice place to be. Purple paint and brick walls filled the room, the usual lounge with every chair pointing towards a television against the wall. The apartment also came equipped with a large slanted window showing a view. Not a spectacular one to be fair, but one where you could spy on the rooms in the building across the street.

'I'm sorry Dad… I just don't love him…' Amy started speaking on the phone, still in her wedding dress, to what we should assume is her father, '…huh, well it matters to me!'

While Amy was doing the dirty work over the phone, the five friends were watching a Latin drama. Of course, it was only 4pm, so nothing particularly interesting was on TV. It was the usual drama, characters shouting about something so little.

'She's going to dump her isn't he?' Shadow exclaimed.

'A man buys you a piano and you aren't happy? C'mon lady!' Tikal also exclaiming at the TV.

'Well I don't know guys, if I were her, I would be stressing out over where to put that thing!' Blaze, also joining in the "conversation".

'Could he be any more stupid?' Silver exclaimed too, 'I mean, just imagine what you could've bought with that piano money!'

The five of them overheard what Amy was saying over the phone and decided to lower the TV volume and eavesdrop, without any protest about that decision surprisingly.

'All my life people have told me Amy you're a shoe, you're a shoe, you're a shoe, you're a shoe!' her voice started to become higher pitched than usual. 'But what if I don't want to be a shoe, what if I wanna be a purse, or a hat? No I don't want you to buy me a hat, it's a metaphor!'

The five friends were looking at her, not in shock or with any empathy, just confused and bewildered. It was funny for them to hear.

'Well, maybe I don't want to come back, maybe I'll just stay in the city with Blaze.'

Everyone looked at Blaze, of course she hadn't even thought of that yet.

'So I guess now she's staying in the city with Blaze.' She said, not thinking at all, just caught off-guard.

'Well, maybe I don't need your money either. Wait, I said maybe!' Amy shouts while hanging up the phone.

'Well, I guess the saying money can't buy you happiness is true then' Silver chuckled.

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I know Blaze and Sonic being related is a strange take, but I think it can work in this context.