Heart pounding in his chest, fluttery butterflies made his stomach twist and turn upside down, a stupid smile tugged at his lips with the a pink blush on his light peach muzzle. Sonic was utterly enamored with a crush on a certain ebony hedgehog. Every time Shadow came around Sonic became a such a lovestruck fool, stumbling over his feet or stuttering with his words, he practically melts into a blue puddle when Shadow gives him attention.
But alas, Sonic was inexperienced in a romantic relationship type of love, was this even love or was it a mere crush? The hedgehog would wonder to himself if Shadow could ever like him more than a friendly rival, lately he has found himself lost in his thoughts and daydreaming often about the hedgehog which would result in him becoming shamefaced red and awkward at where his mind often drifted to.
Though Sonic didn't ever realize that Shadow held more than platonic feelings for the cobalt blur, however he hid his much better than Sonic. Shadow kept his gaze cool and blank but it would always soften when Sonic smiled cheekily at him, Shadow had warmed up to Sonic and was more open friendly. But Shadow was clueless at the signs Sonic threw at him that he wished for something more, and Sonic couldn't understand how much more intimate Shadow was with him and what said intimacy actually meant.
His friends certainly noticed Sonic's crush, it was kinda hard not to. He was like a lovesick puppy, or rather hedgehog, for Shadow it was pathetically cute. Sonic could be seen commonly daydreaming or beginning to become a flustered mess in the presence of the brooding ultimate lifeform.
Rouge the bat, one of the few people Shadow has allowed to get close to, knew instantly of Sonic's crush on Shadow and she fully supported the cobalt blue hero and wished for Shadow to stop being so dense, but it wasn't fault he didn't get or understand relationships as easily as a more normal person would what with his past living (being created) on the Space Colony ARK. Though even Knuckles the echidna (Rouge's sweetheart boyfriend), could see something was up with Sonic, don't get her wrong she loved Knuckles with all of her heart but the echidna guardian was bad at seeing another's intentions or feelings due to him living isolated on Angel Island almost all his life. In the end, if Knuckles could pick up on it the bat treasure hunting thief knew she had to do something to help give Sonic a push of confidence that he seemed to be thoroughly lacking.
Rouge knew of Sonic's crush just like the others who suspected that Sonic might have feelings for the ebony ultimate lifeform. Except only Rouge knew that Shadow reciprocated those feelings too. It was just that both hedgehogs for clearly idiots at holding normal conversations instead of wise remarks and sarcasm. But this is okay. Except that she was getting sick of seeing how clearly in love these two were.
Which is why she began to conspire and take things into her own hands because those two orbited around each other (that and Rouge could only watch Sonic slip and fall on ice in front of his rival/crush so many times) (or listen to Shadow speaking passionately about Sonic all night long which interrupted her beauty sleep yes, but she was always ready to be there for a friend), every year on Christmas Eve she threw a party in which all of the friends were invited to. This would be a perfect opportunity to get these blue and ebony hedgehogs together. Though Rouge wished she could do this on her own, she knew she should at least warn the others of her plan and to not get in the way.
Which is how she ended up here in with an echidna, a kitsune, a bunny, two hedgehogs, a cat and a partridge in a pear tree~ all in her home she owns, on the top floor is her actual home, the first and main floor is really her club she opened up two years ago under the lovely name Club Rouge. Such a wonderful original name right. That's what the ivory bat thinks and everybody knows she's right.
"Okay so what's the surprise plan then?" Asked Amy, who clapped her hands together with bright blue eyes sparkling with cheery excitement. She twirled her fingers through a few strands of her short pixie cut bubblegum pink hair. "This is for your Christmas party right?"
"Yes ma'am." Rouge began, her plum purple lips tugged into a playful smile. "I have a plan involving two of our good friends." A groan followed after her statement and Rouge's teal eyes were fixated onto her boyfriend. "Something on your mind hon?"
"Don't think I don't know what this is about, you're trying to come up with a plan with that fantasy of yours." Knuckles smirked, arms crossed over his chest as he leans back in further into the couch cushions to get himself comfortable. "You wanna get Sonic and Shadow together and for some reason you need us here." Huh, the bat had to give him credit, Knuckles paid more attention than she thought.
"No way, you need to get realistic Knuckles. Rouge wouldn't bring us here just for that." Amy scoffed, rolling her eyes at the echidna before turning back around to look at Rouge who laughed lightly.
"I think that's exactly why we're here." Cream, a polite young bunny with her chao sat babbling quietly in her lap. "Yes miss Rouge?"
"That's right kiddo. I brought you here for your expertise. Also~ to make sure during the party that we get those two alone under some special mistletoe. I'm fairly certain this will be simple and be enough for those two soft dorks." Rouge looked each occupant in the eye. "I dare any of you (not you Cream you're a sweetheart) to try me. Those two are literally fools swooning in love."
"What gives. I thought we were planning your party. Not planning on... er- getting Sonic to- um- you know- Shadow..." Tails meekly finished awkwardly, the eight year old may have been a whiz at equations, technology and many other things. But understanding adult relationships wasn't one of them, not by a long shot for many years. It's not that he doesn't accept Sonic for liking a guy like that, it's just that Tails could barely see anybody outside of a platonic relationship so he didn't understand it too well. Though the kitsune did throw himself into the internet and many different books on genders and sexualities because he loved and supported Sonic for who he is and he would do his dang best to get a hang of it. Knuckles reached over to ruffle Tails' sunshine yellow bangs to the kitsune's annoyance.
"Come on Tails, it's Rouge." Knuckles cast the bat a quick look after hearing her clear her throat, raise a brow and purse her lips. "Love you."
"I love you too dear, except I think tonight the couch will be your friend." Rouge hid her smile once the echidna started sputtering an apology, Cream giggled to herself and placed her hand to muffle the laughter. Amy looked put off at the idea of Sonic and Shadow only because she still held a torch for said blue hedgehog and Tails only rolled his eyes and laughed at his echidna friends reaction.
"Alright fine." Amy pouted, "I'll help."
"I will too miss Rouge." Cream piped up, her chao Cheese seemed to agree with a happy "Chao chao!"
"Well... I guess I'll help too since Cream and Cheese are." Tails added. Their eyes became fixated onto Knuckles who grumbled.
"Supposedly, how would we do this if I agree?" Knuckles asked, Rouge grinned like a Cheshire cat. Teal eyes lit up with mischievousness.
"Glad you asked Knuckie. For I came up with a grand master plan!" Rouge exclaimed, with one hand she pulled out from behind her was mistletoe, she dangled the leaves up in the air, she flew in front of Knuckles and placed the mistletoe above the bat and the echidna's heads before pecking Knuckles on the lips, stealing a kiss with a light laugh at how red his muzzle had turned. Cream giggled while Tails blanched. "Mistletoe!"
"How will that work? I guess Sonic would do the traditional mistletoe kisses but Shadow? No way will that stubborn hedgehog ever go for something fun like that." Amy pondered, Rouge rolled her eyes at Amy.
"That's what you think." The treasure hunting bat said with a mysterious voice. "Now!" She clapped her hands together. "I'll explain the plan."
"You do know guys." A male voice spoke.
"That we're here right?" A female finished. Nearly everybody but Rouge jumped up to see Blaze the cat and Silver the hedgehog on the other side of the room standing awkwardly.
"We knew you two were here the whole time." Rouge stated, Knuckles swiveled his head to look back from his girlfriend to the two from the future.
"We did? I didn't know you invited them too." Amy muttered.
"Of course. Everybody here is vital to this plan. It seems Blaze and Silver are just getting here a bit late."
"That would be Silver's fault." Blaze explained, her golden eyes met Silver's who looked very sheepish at the moment. "We went a little too backwards in time."
"I just got excited and pushed too much energy into a chaos emerald." Silver said, rubbing the back of his head and chuckling.
"No matter. You're both here now so we can get started on the plan!"
"Oh boy..." Knuckles laughed fondly to himself. Rouge could get a little overwhelming but she always meant well. He just hoped she wouldn't take things too far and ruin Sonic and Shadow's good steady friendship.
. . .
Sonic the hedgehog took a nice breath of air, breathing in the coolness which left him shivering. Wrapped around him was a baggy blue hoodie that he promised Tails he would wear when he left the house. Today Sonic was going to hang out with Shadow just as he did almost everyday, and speaking of Shadow. "Heya Shads- woAH!" Sonic cried out when the ground seemed to shift underneath him. The ice stuck to the sidewalk having been Sonic's new recent enemy this winter season made another strike as the cobalt blue blur was about to slip and fall backwards. Eyes widening and his arms flailing as his feet couldn't find any balance. "Oof!" Escaped Sonic's lips when ebony arms wrapped around his waist tightly and he was pressed into Shadow's chest.
Shadow smiled, a rare smile he saved only for Sonic the hedgehog. "And this would make this what? The 23rd time you've slipped on the ice already?"
"Excuse you, it's the 25th actually." Sonic huffed playfully. "Thanks for the save, I'd probably be ten times more battered and bruised if you hadn't saved me." Sonic winced at the reminders of his bruises he got when Shadow wasn't around to stop his falls.
"It's only December Faker, how are you going to survive this winter if you fall every time you take a step outdoors?" Shadow laughed lightly, his laughter was like pure music to Sonic's ears and he found himself grinning widely, emerald eyes filled with mischievousness and joy, and to finish it off was his little tail wagging almost like a dogs.
Behind several trees to cloak them were Silver, Knuckles and Blaze not more than a few yards away from Sonic's home. The trio had been given the task of observing the two hedgehogs (observing not stalking!) and so they did.
"You know Rouge was right. It seems like Sonic does slip on the ice almost every time." Blaze acknowledged. "That's a little too much of a coincidence than it should be." Knuckles looked at the cat.
"What are you insinuating? Sonic is just a little clumsy that's all. You know how that blue pincushion is." Knuckles said, Blaze shrugged her shoulders. The violet cat was clad in a dark purple coat with a golden scarf that matched her eyes wrapped around her neck. Silver wore a dark grey and simple hoodie that fit his body just right, and Knuckle's wore a dark maroon jacket that Rouge made him wear.
"I'm gonna have to agree with Blaze here Knux, Sonic is very agile and balanced as can be...er- when he wants to be." Silver finished after memories of Sonic tripping on his own feet came up. Or Sonic falling on his face many times.
"Come on, you don't think he's purposely falling on ice." The echidna spoke with disbelief.
"Well~ Yeah. We do." Silver laughed loudly, quickly Blaze pressed her hand against the ivory hedgehog's mouth to silence him. She peeked behind the trees she saw Sonic and Shadow alert and no longer close together anymore. The cat watched when the two hedgehog's seemed to forget about Silver's sudden burst of laughter. Blaze could no longer hear what they were saying anymore, Sonic said something inaudible to Shadow and surprisingly he laughed. 'It's nice to see such a closed off guy like him get relaxed and happy.'
"We're going to have to be more quiet." Blaze said pointedly, looking at Silver after removing her hand from his mouth much to Knuckles' amusement.
"Right. Right."
Hey! I wanted to make a Christmas winter sorta story for the holidays. I've been planning this one since the beginning of December and I'm ready to upload it. It's going to be about a two chapter story, maybe a third one if I get positive feedback.
So what'd ya think? What's Rouge's full plan? Is Knuckles being a grumpy grinch? What is Cream, Tails, and Amy up to? Where do you think Shadow and Sonic are off to today? Leave your thoughts in the comments please and I'll be sure to update on Saturday Evening. Bye!